Windows 10 dominates PC gaming: steam data

The gaming community has always been very receptive to new technologies and software, always pioneers in adopting them if that brings them a benefit when it comes to video games. The new data provided by Valve for its Steam platform does nothing but confirm these sayings, Windows 10 is dominating the panorama of players on this platform.

Windows 10 exceeds 40% use on Steam

At the beginning of this year Steam exceeded 142 million users with active accounts, there is currently no such extensive gaming platform, so the data that Valve can provide is most reliable to see the general situation.

The adoption of Windows 10 within Steam is growing rapidly in recent months, during June the 64-bit version of Windows 10 increased 3.26% compared to the previous month and is by far the most widely used operating system with 42.94%. In fact, it is the only Windows system that is growing, Windows 7 64-bit under 1.64% and is second with a 30.61% share of use on Steam. In third position is Windows 8 64-bit with 10.07%.

Windows 10 adoption continues to grow month by month

As for Mac OS computers , these represent only 1.38% but only in June rises 1.13%, although they are a minority, this represents an increase of 70 or 80% in just one month. The Linux distro that dominates on Steam is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit with 0.24% use among more than 140 million players.

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The rapid adoption of Windows 10 among PC Gamers is due to the improvements that Microsoft has implemented in this system, with DirectX 12 support being decisive, something that will surely accelerate its share as more video games that use it begin to arrive.