Gamers' discontent with Windows 11 is also starting to show, despite recent reports that the operating system has nearly reached 75% market share . At least with Steam gamers, Windows 11 has declined by 10.43% in February 2026. On the other hand, Windows 10 grew by 12.46%, suggesting that gamers are flocking back to Microsoft's previous operating system despite the company ending support for it in October 2025 .
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thestryker Yet another Steam survey dataset which is obviously inaccurate. This seems to be happening more often as it has grown which would indicate that their methodology is flawed. Of course the complete lack of transparency means we can all. only hypothesize. It's a shame because it's the single largest source of available system data and should be a fairly consistent insight into what people are using. Reply
vinay2070 I think at this point EPIC should come with thier own survey. Pretty sure they have captured enough people with thier free games. Most comments on youtube, every article on sales, even forums contents all indicate a lot of people buying AMD cards. Reply
PEnns Very strange indeed. We went from Steam surveys a few months ago where cards almost 3-5 years old (1050, 1660, with 3060s being "the high end") being the vast majority in those surveys. And now out of nowhere, all those are gone and replaced by 5070s which wasn't even on the horizon in the latest surveys?? And all this in a market where GPUs are out of stock, overpriced or both!! Reply
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