Year of Transition Windows 11 Up the Top Gaming OS Pedestal 🍋
The November 2025 Steam Hardware & Software Survey reveals that the number of Windows 11 users has increased by about 2% within a month, reaching 69.2% as the main operating system of gamers on Steam, completely replacing Windows 10, while Windows 10 has continued to decline to just 29.06%.
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The Linux side also set a new record. The user share rose to 3.2%, the highest ever. Partly due to the popularity of Steam Deck and the continued development of Proton / SteamOS, a group of users began to move from Windows 10 to Linux. The macOS side was 2.02%, a slight drop, but the overall picture has not changed much.
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In hardware, there was a significant change when the NVIDIA RTX 4060 Laptop first became the number one most popular screen card on Steam, with a 4.22% share, overtaking the long-held RTX 3060 Desktop. The RTX 3050 continued to follow in third place, while the GPU integrated market also overwhelmingly belonged to NVIDIA, with a high proportion of 73.83%, followed by AMD 18.05% and Intel 7.74%.
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New generation GPU groups like the Blackwell series are starting to have more names coming onto the table, with the RTX 5070 coming up at number 11 with a 2.23% share, overtaking the RTX 4070 with 2.16%. Despite still trailing the RTX 3070 at 2.34%, this is a sign that the new series is starting to be used more and more.
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The overall specs of players on Steam remain among the "value for money" as before, such as 16GB RAM and six-core CPUs, which popular specs such as the i5-12400 or Ryzen 5 5600X, as well as GPUs with 8GB VRAM and 1080p resolution displays, which also occupy more than 50% of the share. Clearly, most gamers also choose intermediate specs that provide good frames, play new games, and easy access prices.
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In conclusion, the end of Windows 10 support is a major impetus to significantly increase the global gamer's move to Windows 11, reflecting the constantly changing direction of the PC gaming market in 2025.
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Source: Steam


































































































































