Windows 11 continues to rise in popularity among gamers on the Steam platform, but is progressing much more slowly for the rest of PC users.
Four years after its release, Windows 11 surpassed Windows 11 last September among Steam users surveyed during the platform's monthly hardware survey.
In November, Microsoft's latest OS further progressed to reach its highest level ever. However, it seems that Windows 11 cannot convince the rest of PC users.
53% of Steam users are on Windows 11
In the now traditional monthly Steam Survey, the platform details the hardware configuration of its users thanks to the participation of a large sample of members selected at random.
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Windows 11 reached almost 53% in November, its highest usage rate since its release. Windows 10 logically loses more than 4% in the ranking with 43.3% of users on the previous version.
Despite numerous bugs since the release of Windows 11 24H2, the OS seems to be gradually convincing the PC gaming community. And this despite the performance concerns of the latest Intel and AMD chips when they were released, gradually corrected by the two manufacturers.
macOS is still struggling to make its mark with 1.41% of users on Apple's OS while Linux is slightly ahead at more than 2%, notably thanks to players on Steam Deck.
Windows 10 still dominates elsewhere
If Windows 11 has also progressed for all PC users in recent months, its usage rate remains around 35% in November, according to figures from Statcounter.
Microsoft will cease all support for Windows 10 in less than a year, on October 14, 2025. The firm still has a very large portion of its users to convince. It already does this with invasive advertisements for Windows 11 within Windows 10 and even by advising you to buy a new PC.
2025 will therefore be a pivotal year, both for the PC market as a whole, and particularly for Microsoft which will have to redouble its efforts to initiate this transition to Windows 11.
