The Steam {Hardware} & Software program Survey for September 2026 is right here, displaying one other swing for Simplified Chinese language as a language on Steam.
We have seen two months of Simplified Chinese language rising now, so it is totally potential there’s a problem there – we’ll keep watch over it and replace our stats if Valve do any corrections. We very often see Linux drop when Simplified Chinese language rises.
For the information proper now the general working system stats are:
- Home windows 95.03% +1.08%
- Linux 3.05% -0.85%
- macOS 1.92% -0.22%
This is a contemporary snapshot from our dedicated Steam Tracker:
Yesterday, I additionally up to date the WebP export obtain on the Steam Tracker, so it ought to look higher now and never take the window dimension under consideration (woops). It is now a static set dimension – for anybody who needed to make use of the information.
And the preferred Linux distributions:
- CachyOS 64 bit — 18.12% (+2.65%).
- SteamOS Holo 64 bit — 17.37% (-3.70%).
- Different — 17.37% (+4.26%).
- Arch Linux 64 bit — 10.67% (+1.89%).
- Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit — 8.74% (+0.36%).
- Bazzite 64 bit — 6.97% (-0.79%).
- Freedesktop SDK 25.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit — 4.68% (-0.58%).
- Ubuntu Core 24 64 bit — 3.00% (+0.25%).
- Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS 64 bit — 2.85% (+2.85%).
- Fedora Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Version) 64 bit — 2.81% (-0.36%).
- Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS 64 bit — 2.15% (-0.49%).
- EndeavourOS Linux 64 bit — 1.86% (+0.21%).
- Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) 64 bit — 1.71% (-0.27%).
- Nobara Linux 44 (KDE Plasma Desktop Version) 64 bit — 1.69% (+0.03%).

