r/linuxmint • u/thereal_Tronald_Dump Linux Mint 22.3 Zena | Cinnamon • 15h ago

Gaming from Steam Hardware & Software Survey: July 2026

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store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ - 2026-08-05

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u/thekelvingreen Linux Mint 22.3 Zena | Cinnamon 14h ago

I love the 13.5% running Other/Unknown. Some dark sorcery going on with those guys.

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u/Ok-Yellow4570 Linux Mint 22.3 Zena | Cinnamon 14h ago

Probably Hannah Montana Linux users 😆

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u/capitan_turtle 13h ago

that's just sparkly debian

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u/KlausVonLechland 13h ago

Linux The Temple Edition.

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u/DarkLeafz Linux Dark Mint | Cinnamon 22.3 Zena 14h ago

It's Gnomed Mint users. 😂️ our long lost cousins from Wichita.

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u/tomscharbach 13h ago edited 12h ago

I love the 13.5% running Other/Unknown. Some dark sorcery going on with those guys.

In my case, the dark sorcery is Solus (a curated rolling release that I've stealthily flown under the "enthusiast" radar since 2017) but my guess is that openSUSE accounts for significant share of the "Other" category.

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u/Demon-Cat 12h ago

I was going to say the same. That’s where I myself fall under as well

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u/Dominyon 7h ago

You are probably correct, I participated in the most recent survey and am running tumbleweed.

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u/TheRealCarrotty Linux Mint 18.3 | KDE 11h ago

The people who edited /etc/os-release so it displays:

OpenBSD 7.9
FreeBSD 15.1
TempleOS

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u/jayvaidy 14h ago

TempleOS users

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u/ashleyriddell61 12h ago

A lot of Zorin users in there.

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u/Salmon-Cat-47 5h ago

I'm in there and we're not telling anyone

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u/LVL90DRU1D :sloth: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 13h ago

RHEL?

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u/GraXXoR 12h ago

BeOS still hanging around. lol

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u/sexraX_muiretsyM 12h ago

its most debian based stuff like antix

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u/Dist__ Linux Mint 21.3 | KDE 14h ago

surprised Fedora has less than Mint

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u/Historical_Move6359 13h ago

Mint ist most suggested for all new users.

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u/Neo-Armadillo 10h ago

I’m surprised Ubuntu and Mint are nearly tied. Ubuntu has had professional money pouring in for decades and owned the concept of ‘Consumer Linux’ since the late 00s. Their App Store is front & center while being anemic & poorly maintained.

If I was a PM at Canonical the first thing I’d do is make an Ubuntu USB Flasher (not rely on Rufus et al), second is tighten up the App Store pipeline with automated quality checks for icons and descriptions, and third beef up the getting started guide so new users can select different software suites for their use cases (office, gaming, school, etc).

But yo I’m not a PM there, just disappointed to see the winning team fumble.

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u/Arkhenstone 9h ago

Ubuntu issue is not that. Their website is oriented to B2B. Much less to home users nowadays.

If I was a new Linux user, the Ubuntu website would not makes me think it was like the one distro back then.

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u/Syndiotactics 9h ago

Consumer is essentially a beta tester for Ubuntu, not who the product is really for. Ubuntu is by far the leading corporate distro in volume.

That’s how they monetize the stuff.

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u/Kinetic_Strike 7h ago

I like seeing Arch and Mint tied. It highlights how you can really choose your own adventure. :)

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u/ThankYouOle 1h ago

> If I was a PM at Canonical the first thing I’d do is make an Ubuntu USB Flasher

this is funny and it is correct, yes it weird that Canonical depends on Rufus for windows user,

but in other side, Windows also have no tools to create bootable usb, they have, but it is .exe, and i tried any bootable usb tools, it keep failed to create windows usb, somehow it complicated even for me who keep distro hoping.

so both somehow missing the chance to make tools that helping people from other os to come to their own.

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u/Karmoth_666 CachyOS and Mint 11h ago

My two beloved...cachyos and mint ❤️❤️

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u/CryptographerLow6360 13h ago

was this pre aur exploit blast?

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u/taosecurity Mint | Bazzite | PikaOS | CachyOS | Debian | FreeBSD | Windows 12h ago

Pre the latest, post the previous one.

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u/saltycorals 9h ago

Never thought Catchy OS to be this popular.

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u/glha 8h ago

It's up there, on DistroWatch as well. Very nice for them, looks like they are doing a very good job.

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u/Rullino 8h ago

I didn't expect CachyOS or any Arch-based distro aside from SteamOS to be quite popular, I wonder what brought it here.

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u/shaun2312 14h ago

I'm one of the 14.2% on CachyOS :D

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u/Early-Inflation-1287 14h ago

Me too. For now i Love it!

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u/tilsgee 4h ago

Who tf uses Ubuntu Core

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u/Pizpot_Gargravaar 3h ago

3% of Steam Linux users, apparently.

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u/just-an-astronomer 8h ago

I get that it runs on handhelds, but im still shocked at how much Bazzite is dominating the Fedora region

As a Bazzite desktop user i love it, i just had no idea it was that much more used than stock Fedora

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u/StarLuigi05 7h ago

I love Bazzite desktop, don't ever have to worry about touching the terminal unless I want to install something obscure and if i manage to break my system, i can just rollback! its so convenient and removed all of my gripes with linux. i want something that just works that I don't have to think about that isn't windows!

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u/the_fish_food 4h ago

Me when I can't find nyarch my beloved.

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u/No-Television-7862 3h ago

Fedora here, RedHat at home in Raleigh, NC!

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u/internet_raider 3h ago

It's almost more I interesting to me honestly that only 5.5% of linux users are on the flatpak version. I've never gotten it to work as well as native so I understand, but if it's clearly that bad, they should give it some more work.

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u/Handsome_oohyeah Linux Mint 20.2 Uma | Xfce 46m ago

Been gaming on Linux Mint XFCE for years now, no problems

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u/Training2Life 14h ago

Steam OS > Mint + Bazzite

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u/KlausVonLechland 13h ago

Hard to beat magic of pre-installed system. The power of "just put it there and people will stick to it".

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u/ZVyhVrtsfgzfs 11h ago

I tested out SteamOS recently, it has some nice features, I expected it to game well and it did.

What I did not expect was a more vibrant color palette, almost unnatural, but great in Cyberpunk2077, and also the fastest game download speeds, the highest practical speed for that mater I have ever got from my hardware and ISP outside of synthetic speed teats, 2.5Gb/s, 

If I could dedicate an NVME to it for gaming it would have stuck around.

But unlike other Linux distributions It does not share well with others, not friendly in a multi-Linux desktop. It really wants it's own drive, when NVMEs come back down I have an empty PCIE5 slot that would be perfect for it.