Welcome to Windows 11, gamers. It’s, uh, fine?
More Steam users have made the switch to Windows 11 in the past month. Just a few weeks before the death of Windows 10. You have to respect it; that’s years of holding out for improvements to the new OS before finally taking the plunge.
The latest Steam Hardware Survey is out now, and in it we can see that the share of users on Windows 11 has increased by 2.65%. Windows 11 is run by 63.04% of those surveyed, up from 60.39% last month.
Windows 10, on the other hand, has dropped by 2.9%. You’ll notice that’s not the same number of users that have jumped to Windows 11, which maybe would suggest some have switched to other OS platforms, primarily Linux, for their gaming machines. However, Linux only saw a small 0.04% increase in the past month, so that’s not exactly popping off.
It’s more likely we’re just seeing the imperfect methods of the Steam Hardware Survey. The survey is far from a perfect representation of the userbase of Valve’s platform—it’s more akin to “guidelines” than actual data, to loosely quote Captain Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean.
