Windows 11 is crowned the most used operating system for playing video games for the first time, according to Steam

September 3 (Portaltic/EP) –

Windows 11 has been recognized as the operating system most used by users when playing video games on PCdethroning the previous version Windows 10 for the first time since the launch of Windows 11 in 2021, according to Steam.

When it comes to playing video games on a computer, users have different operating system options to run their titles. Thus, Although the operating system may vary depending on user preferences and equipment used in question, Windows is often used.

In fact, for the past few years, the preferred operating system for PC gamers has been Windows 10, despite the release of Windows 11, which Microsoft officially launched in October 2021. Now, Three years later, Windows 11 has been registered for the first time as the most used operating system by users when playing video games on PC.

This is what the data has revealed collected by Valve-owned gaming platform Steam, in his last August 2024 monthly survey, which collects data on the type of hardware and software used by players with accounts on this service.

Specifically, the survey details that the use of Windows 11 reaches 49 percent of surveyed users, which is 3 percent more than the data collected in July. Following this line, the use of Windows 10 is down 3 percent reaching 47 percent of users.

Other operating systems such as macOS and Linux have seen virtually no changes during the month of August, so they remain at 0.44 percent of users for the Apple operating system and 0.16 percent for the Linux operating system.

However, it should be noted that Microsoft Windows, regardless of version, continues to lead the industry to play video games on PC, with a total of 96.7 percent of users. In contrast, macOS and Linux only reach 1.30 and 1.92 percent of users, respectively.

With all this, this change in the use of Windows 10 to its later version Windows 11 highlights how users are updating their computers, thus adapting to the new features offered by Microsoft in its latest iteration of ‘software’.

Besides, Regarding the hardwarethe survey indicates that graphics cards continue to be led by Nvidia with 76.57 percent presence in computers. Specifically, with the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card. Likewise, it also leads Intel at the processor level, with 65.86 percent of users who come to this brand.