Home windows 11 is rapidly catching as much as its predecessor, and it’s on observe to grow to be the preferred Home windows model worldwide (in some nations, it already is). On the gaming facet, Home windows 11 is already the dominant working system, and in April 2025, it elevated its place with extra customers switching from Home windows 10.

Valve’s newest Steam {Hardware} and Software program survey outcomes for April 2025 present a small improve in Home windows 11’s gaming market share. Home windows 11 at the moment holds 57.84% of all Home windows machines that participated within the survey (do not forget that participation is optionally available, so the ultimate information doesn’t characterize 100% of all customers). In a single month, the working system elevated its share by 2.5 factors.

Home windows 10 is now beneath the 40% mark. It misplaced almost the identical variety of customers as Home windows 11 gained, and it at the moment holds 38.09% (-2.49 factors). Whereas Home windows 10 will maintain dropping its clients, particularly after the top of help in October 2025, it is going to stick round for some time since builders, together with Valve, don’t plan to drop it within the close to future.

General, Home windows holds 96.1% on Steam (no adjustments in April 2025). Linux is second with 2.27% (-0.06 factors), and macOS is third with 1.62% (+0.04 factors).

As for {hardware} preferences, the Nvidia RTX 3060 was dethroned by the laptop computer variant of the RTX 4060. This GPU is now the preferred selection, with 4.8% of members reporting enjoying video games with it. The RTX 3060 is second with 4.57%, and the desktop RTX 4060 is third with 4.35%. Different {hardware} picks embody 16GB of RAM (43.86%), a 6-core processor (30.26%), 8 GB of video reminiscence (34.25%), as much as 250 GB on the first drive, and a 1080p show (55.27%).

You could find extra data on the official Steam web site.