Windows 11 becomes the most popular operating system for PC gaming

If Microsoft is taking some big steps with the Copilot+ PCs, to have very specific features for gaming, you can now be more than happy to make Windows 11 the most popular operating system and thus surpasses Windows 10 in number of users on Steam for the first time since its launch in 2021.

Steam is the benchmark for gaming from a PC and its numbers are able to show if any of the new games have a large audience, besides being a huge platform to enjoy thousands of games, betas and offers every few months.

The curious thing about Windows 10 is that it has remained at the top during these years and even more so when Microsoft wants to end support in October 2025. And that now the adoption of Windows 11 is greater when switching to Windows 10 on Steam in terms of the number of users using it, the American company will have sufficient justification to focus on this given date.

Data provided by Steam for the month of August They put Windows 11 with 49% usagewhich is an increase of more than 3 percent over the previous June figure, which was 46 percent. Now comes the best part, as Windows 10 usage dropped by about 3 percent to remain at 47 percent, while macOS and Linux posted similar figures for August.

And the use of Windows 11 via the web has been growing steadily since last year. As of July 2023, Windows 11 had a market share of around 23% and has now grown to reaching 32 percent last monthas maintained by StatCounter.

Windows 11 didn’t have it easy and if Windows 10 succeeded in one year, reach the figure of 400 million active devicesIt took two years to reach the same figure. This is all due to the hardware requirements to install Windows 11, the TMP security chip is the culprit.

Due to this requirement, millions of Windows 10 users were unable to upgrade their PCs to Windows 11, unlike Windows 10, which was a free upgrade for anyone who had an official license for Windows 7 and Windows 8; which allowed it to reach this incredible record of 400 million devices in a single year according to The Verge.