{"id":238222,"date":"2026-05-02T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/steam-survey-for-april-2026-shows-linux-still-trending-well\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:00:08","slug":"steam-survey-for-april-2026-shows-linux-still-trending-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/steam-survey-for-april-2026-shows-linux-still-trending-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Survey for April 2026 shows Linux still trending well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/steam-survey-for-april-2026-shows-linux-still-trending-well\/\">Steam Survey for April 2026 shows Linux still trending well<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/steam-survey-for-april-2026-shows-linux-still-trending-well\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/steam-survey-for-april-2026-shows-linux-still-trending-well\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-02 09:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the Steam Hardware &#038; Software Survey for April 2026 now live, we&#8217;ve seen a decrease compared with the all-time high from last month but still a good trend.<\/p>\n<p>The overall operating system stats are now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows: 93.47%<\/li>\n<li>Linux: 4.52%<\/li>\n<li>macOS: 2.01%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ve done a little upgrade to our dedicated Steam Tracker page for the trends over time today. The old original trend line has been removed, and replaced with two trend lines: Linear and Exponential (so we satisfy everyone). They&#8217;re also added as actual labelled data sets, so on the main page they can be individually toggled. Here&#8217;s a snapshot:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">According to the data these were the most popular Linux distributions for April 2026:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">SteamOS Holo 64 bit 23.05% -1.43%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Arch Linux 64 bit 8.78% 0.00%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">CachyOS 64 bit 8.37% +8.37%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 7.47% +0.57%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">0 64 bit 5.94% -11.66%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Bazzite 64 bit 4.74% +4.74%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 4.16% +4.16%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 3.58% 0.00%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS 64 bit 2.36% +2.36%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">64 bit 1.90% -6.11%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit 1.72% +1.72%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Ubuntu 25.10 64 bit 1.53% -0.14%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 1.51% -0.39%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition) 64 bit 1.43% +1.43%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Debian GNU\/Linux 13 (trixie) 64 bit 1.40% +1.40%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Manjaro Linux 64 bit 1.42% -0.03%<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Other 20.65% -4.99%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There&#8217;s still a bit of weirdness going on, as two distributions show up that aren&#8217;t actually named.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Valve<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"hidden_message\">Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/steam-survey-for-april-2026-shows-linux-still-trending-well\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam Survey for April 2026 shows Linux still trending well https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/05\/steam-survey-for-april-2026-shows-linux-still-trending-well\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-02 09:41:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/articles\/tagline_images\/164162558id28945gol.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,91,97,71,110,133,79],"class_list":["post-238222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-debian","tag-fedora","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint","tag-manjaro","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238224,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238222\/revisions\/238224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}