the survey of Steam corresponding to the month of December 2022 yields results in which it can be seen that Windows 11 continues to gradually scratch ground over its predecessorand it can even be said that the sector of gaming It is one of the few, if not the only one, in which Microsoft’s next-generation operating system manages to shine in terms of user share, despite the fact that performance is rather even.
Windows, monopolizes 96.15% share among Steam users by adding all its versions. Within said percentage (if we count it if it were 100%), the 65.42% use Windows 10 64-bit, which decreased by 0.04%, compared to the 28.42% of Windows 11 64-bit, which is up 0.44%. The adoption of Windows 11 is still slow, and the reason mainly centers on the fact that most of the PCs that are working, including the ones that are not gamersThey are not compatible.
Gaming is a sector in which Windows 11 is doing better, quite possibly due to the fact that hardware is updated more frequently, despite the fact that that itself has experienced a significant slowdown in the last six or seven years. Due, the most used graphics adding all the systems are the GTX 1650 (5.99%), the GTX 1060 (5.46%) and the RTX 2060 (4.50%).
The most used graphics are in line with the resolution most used by Steam users regardless of the system, 1080p, which has garnered 64.60% share in the December 2022 survey. The second most common resolution is 1440p with the 11.80%, followed by 1,366×768 with 5.88% and 4K with 2.64%.
Changing the third, this time it can be seen that Linux is used, according to the results of the survey, by 1.38% of Steam users, which represents a decrease of 0.06% compared to the results of the survey. month of November 2022. Going deeper into this segment, it can be highlighted the 1.70% share loss experienced by SteamOS Holo, the operating system pre-installed on the Steam Deck. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS consolidates as the second option after more users have migrated from version 20.04 LTS.
However, possibly the highlight within Linux is that “Freedesktop.org SDK 22.08 (Flatpak runtime) 64 bit”, which is the Flatpak packaging of the Steam client available on Flathub. Quietly, this “universal” version for Linux has been gaining popularity. While counting it as a system is a bit of a cheat, it does provide the same framework regardless of distribution.
In short, Windows is still the absolute dominator when it comes to gaming, with a macOS that retains a 2.48% share and that, unlike Linux, has risen, although only 0.03%. For the rest, the panorama is not that it is radically different from what has been seen on previous occasions, with an NVIDIA that dominates forcefully at the graphics level (although in a less exaggerated way than in other indicators) and an AMD that scratches very little at little share to Intel in processors.
