Monday, September 2nd 2024
Steam Survey August 2024 Update: Windows 11 Crosses 50% Share, Blows Past Windows 10
The latest Steam hardware and software survey reveals a significant shift in the gamer's operating system landscape, with Windows 11 gaining 3.36% among Windows OSes and finally surpassing the 50% mark in August 2024, now standing at 50.81%. This milestone is a notable achievement, considering the OS had been experiencing a decline in popularity just a month prior. The sudden surge in Windows 11 adoption can be attributed to users transitioning from Windows 10, which lost 3.29% of its user base in the same period. Additionally, a few users on older Windows versions, such as 8.1 and 7, have also switched to Windows 11.
Despite Windows 11's growing popularity, Windows 10 remains a formidable presence, with 48.66% of Steam users still preferring the older OS. Its success can be attributed to its stability and compatibility with a wide range of games and hardware. Many users have expressed concerns over Windows 11's performance and its stringent hardware requirements, which have made it less accessible for some gamers, especially those without the TPM 2.0-enhanced system. However, with Microsoft set to discontinue security updates and technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, users will need to consider upgrading to Windows 11 or another supported OS in the near future. The periodical resurgence of Windows 10 suggests that some users are hesitant to give up the older OS, but the writing is on the wall. As the deadline for Windows 10 support approaches, more users will likely make the transition to Windows 11.
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via Tom's Hardware
Despite Windows 11's growing popularity, Windows 10 remains a formidable presence, with 48.66% of Steam users still preferring the older OS. Its success can be attributed to its stability and compatibility with a wide range of games and hardware. Many users have expressed concerns over Windows 11's performance and its stringent hardware requirements, which have made it less accessible for some gamers, especially those without the TPM 2.0-enhanced system. However, with Microsoft set to discontinue security updates and technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, users will need to consider upgrading to Windows 11 or another supported OS in the near future. The periodical resurgence of Windows 10 suggests that some users are hesitant to give up the older OS, but the writing is on the wall. As the deadline for Windows 10 support approaches, more users will likely make the transition to Windows 11.
74 Comments on Steam Survey August 2024 Update: Windows 11 Crosses 50% Share, Blows Past Windows 10
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You can have an 11 that by default comes without Defender, Cortana, Edge, MS Store and all the other (Cr)apps and telemetry. Depending on your skills it can take around a couple hours to set up the installation the way you like but afterwards you'll have a squeaky clean 11 with none of the cancer remaining.
Those little spikes in the GPU and CPU graphs are each accompanied by a spike in Simplified Chinese of the exact same percentage.
This is not news worthy.
This leads to having to install Windows 11 more than general users.
I don't think this indicates increased adoption of Windows 11.
In my mind it indicates hardware upgrades and that's it.
BlowsCreeps Past Windows 10It's inevitable. Gamers will move to Windows 11 because next year they will have no choice but if they had a choice? MS will glow with happiness about the success of Win 11 and we will begin the march towards being forced off Win 11 onto the next Windows whatever in the hell they cook up next.
Because it was crap.
11 is a downgrade to 10. There is nothing worth switching for, even if it has a bigger number.
I know : I have both.
It is most likely because win11 is now the default OS preinstalled in all prebuilt PCs. People just have no choice or knowledge about how to change OS. A lot just don't care what they get.
Here the things I did for anyone doing a clean install of Win11:
- Right click on taskbar, settings, hide/disable the 4 junk items at the top
- Install all Windows updates, reboot
- Install chipset drivers, reboot
- Install GPU drivers, reboot
- If you game, disable memory integrity as per: support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/options-to-optimize-gaming-performance-in-windows-11-a255f612-2949-4373-a566-ff6f3f474613
- Regedit, add key: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer DisableSearchBoxSuggestions 1
Done, great overall OS with that. I dualboot Linux too btw but that's another convo.My hardware will hardly be found in a steam survey. There are plenty of "free games" or games with AMD hardware to choose from.
I do play games on computer at least for 35 years. I hardly ever used Steam. I use Windows 11 Pro, before 10 Pro, steam and epic games Launcher when I am forced to because of free "garbage" games like the last of us Part I, star conflict. Steam just annoys me since forever I can think about it. Just bloatware, mass advertisement, and watching a stupid update window everytime I run that software. Most software like webbrowser can be opened, the update thing can be disabled, the software still runs. Steam enforces updates and mass pop up windows. I think I usually got at least 3 big pop up windows since ages whenever I opened steam in average
edit: My 6700K is also "incompatible" but with a TPM module it installs and works perfectly fine on that system.