Lots of PC customers aren’t eager to transition to Home windows 11, and players appear to be one of many greatest teams of holdouts. However based on the newest Steam survey outcomes, extra Steam gamers at the moment are utilizing Home windows 11 than every other working system.

Particularly, 49.17 % of the put in Steam person base is on Home windows 11 versus 47.09 % for Home windows 10 (as of August 2024). All variations of Home windows mix for nearly 97 % of the market, with Linux installations (presumably together with SteamOS on the Steam Deck) accounting for 1.92 % and macOS trailing at 1.3 %.

Getting over the Steam hump is likely to be a much bigger deal than it first seems for Microsoft. Primarily based on this information, we will’t break down which customers are voluntarily updating older Home windows 10 machines to Home windows 11 versus shopping for new PCs with Home windows 11 pre-installed. However as PCGamer factors out, it took Home windows 11 virtually three years to hit this milestone whereas Home windows 10 crossed the identical level in beneath one yr.

In reality, we’re now solely a yr and alter away from Home windows 10’s official end-of-service date — one thing tells me it’ll take loads longer for Home windows 10 to fade from these statistics, as Home windows 8 (0.07 %) and Home windows 7 (0.37 %) have.

Maybe that’s not an apples-to-apples comparability, although, as Home windows 10 was coming off an unpopular launch with customers keen to leap to a extra snug working system, whereas Home windows 11 is kind of the other with a number of customers sticking with Home windows 10 for a wide range of causes. However no matter folks’s motivations, Microsoft is feeling stress to get customers onto Home windows 11 ASAP. Perhaps rushing out these updates that enhance the efficiency of the newest processors will assist.