{"id":263699,"date":"2026-06-04T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/steam-survey-for-may-2026-is-out-linux-down-at-3-99-but-still-above-macos\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:00:23","slug":"steam-survey-for-may-2026-is-out-linux-down-at-3-99-but-still-above-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/steam-survey-for-may-2026-is-out-linux-down-at-3-99-but-still-above-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam Survey for May 2026 is out &#8211; Linux down at 3.99% but still above macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/steam-survey-for-may-2026-is-out-linux-down-at-3-99-percent-but-still-above-macos\/\">Steam Survey for May 2026 is out &#8211; Linux down at 3.99% but still above macOS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/steam-survey-for-may-2026-is-out-linux-down-at-3-99-percent-but-still-above-macos\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/steam-survey-for-may-2026-is-out-linux-down-at-3-99-percent-but-still-above-macos\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 04:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Valve released the data for the Steam Hardware &#038; Software Survey for May 2026, showing a dip in the overall Linux user share.<\/p>\n<p>The overall operating system stats for May 2026 show:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows = 93.85% +0.38%<\/li>\n<li>Linux = 3.99% -0.53%<\/li>\n<li>macOS = 2.16% +0.15%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a snapshot from our dedicated Steam Tracker for the trends over time:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Check out the dedicated page linked above for the proper interactive charts.<\/p>\n<p>And the bundled trends of distributions:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uploads.golmedia.net\/uploads\/articles\/article_media\/4368233291780561685gol2.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As for the most popular surveyed Linux distributions for May 2026:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SteamOS Holo 64 bit 23.34% +0.29%<\/li>\n<li>CachyOS 64 bit 13.36% +4.99%<\/li>\n<li>Arch Linux 64 bit 8.70% -0.08%<\/li>\n<li>Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 7.65% +0.18%<\/li>\n<li>Bazzite 64 bit 7.28% +2.54%<\/li>\n<li>Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit 5.49% +1.33%<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit 3.44% -0.14%<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS 64 bit 2.84% +0.48%<\/li>\n<li>Nobara Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit 2.02% +2.02%<\/li>\n<li>Debian GNU\/Linux 13 (trixie) 64 bit 1.86% +0.46%<\/li>\n<li>EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit 1.86% +1.86%<\/li>\n<li>Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 64 bit 1.70% +1.70%<\/li>\n<li>Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit 1.57% +1.57%<\/li>\n<li>Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS 64 bit 1.56% +1.56%<\/li>\n<li>Fedora Linux 43 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) 64 bit 1.42% -0.30%<\/li>\n<li>Manjaro Linux 64 bit 1.26% -0.16%<\/li>\n<li>Other 14.66% -5.99%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The overall reduction in Linux is pretty much to be expected. It flickers up and down a fair bit but this looks like the sharpest drop we&#8217;ve seen for a while. Likely not helped by the Steam Deck going out of stock (and then coming back with a much higher price) and the Steam Machine and Steam Frame which both use SteamOS Linux currently missing in action.<\/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\/06\/steam-survey-for-may-2026-is-out-linux-down-at-3-99-percent-but-still-above-macos\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam Survey for May 2026 is out &#8211; Linux down at 3.99% but still above&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/tagline_gallery\/defaulttagline.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,91,97,71,110,133,79],"class_list":["post-263699","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\/263699"}],"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=263699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263701,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263699\/revisions\/263701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}