Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

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Post by bemmu » Mon, Aug 02, 2021, 9:23 AM UTC

Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%
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Post by Taek » Mon, Aug 02, 2021, 9:59 AM UTC

I've been gaming on linux for almost a year now and I've had no issues at all. I've mainly been playing popular titles but Proton makes every game feel like it's a linux native game.

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Post by yosito » Mon, Aug 02, 2021, 10:01 AM UTC

I'm not a gamer, but annecdotally, the pandemic has given me enough screentime that I've finally been able to switch to Linux as my primary OS. I wonder how many others are in the same boat.

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Post by vardump » Mon, Aug 02, 2021, 10:01 AM UTC

Nowadays OS matters pretty little.

Personally, on some level, I don't even notice difference working macOS, Linux and Windows. Other than platform specific development work, it doesn't really matter in the big picture.

Other than that, only Linux allows me true visibility to its innards. Fast to fix almost any issues, should they happen. And I say this as someone who has for example no problem debugging Windows kernel remotely. Or reverse engineering using Ghidra etc.

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Post by dtx1 » Mon, Aug 02, 2021, 10:03 AM UTC

I'm so thankful that Valve is embracing Linux. They obviously have commercial interests behind it and fear the Windows Store [1] and vendor lock-in by Microsoft, but they have made gaming on linux better, even for non-steam games and embraced the open source ideals of linux, at least for their work on steam os and proton. I'm happy I don't have to have any windows systems for gaming anymore and I pretty much have valve to thank for that (and all the other great people working on wine, lutris and co of course)

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18996377

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Post by quijoteuniv » Mon, Aug 02, 2021, 10:04 AM UTC

vardump wrote: post #4

Nowadays OS matters pretty little. Personally, on some level, I don't even notice difference working macOS, Linux and Windows. Other than platform specific development work, it doesn't really matter in the big picture. Other than that, only Linux allows me true visibility to its innards. Fast to fix almost any issues, should they happen. And I say this as someone who has for example no problem debugging Windows kerne…

I think it matters a lot, specially on machines that are not that new, with modest resources

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Post by xxs » Mon, Aug 02, 2021, 10:04 AM UTC

vardump wrote: post #4

Nowadays OS matters pretty little. Personally, on some level, I don't even notice difference working macOS, Linux and Windows. Other than platform specific development work, it doesn't really matter in the big picture. Other than that, only Linux allows me true visibility to its innards. Fast to fix almost any issues, should they happen. And I say this as someone who has for example no problem debugging Windows kerne…

Windows has no epoll(), but of course that doesn't matter for games.

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Post by tapland » Mon, Aug 02, 2021, 10:05 AM UTC

Taek wrote: post #2

I've been gaming on linux for almost a year now and I've had no issues at all. I've mainly been playing popular titles but Proton makes every game feel like it's a linux native game.

And sometimes better (like Classic Wow).

I only ran into issues with Rust(which is getting support) and pubg because of anti-cheat and the fivem mods for gta5 (something about lack of support for shared resources).

But it's working so well and so much less weird stuff going on compared to windows and osx.

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Post by encryptluks2 » Mon, Aug 02, 2021, 10:06 AM UTC

vardump wrote: post #4

Nowadays OS matters pretty little. Personally, on some level, I don't even notice difference working macOS, Linux and Windows. Other than platform specific development work, it doesn't really matter in the big picture. Other than that, only Linux allows me true visibility to its innards. Fast to fix almost any issues, should they happen. And I say this as someone who has for example no problem debugging Windows kerne…

> Nowadays OS matters pretty little.

> Other than platform specific development work, it doesn't really matter in the big picture.

Yes it does. It just doesn't matter to you.

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Post by lucian1900 » Mon, Aug 02, 2021, 10:07 AM UTC

xxs wrote: post #7

vardump wrote: post #4

Nowadays OS matters pretty little. Personally, on some level, I don't even notice difference working macOS, Linux and Windows. Other than platform specific development work, it doesn't really matter in the big picture. Other than that, only Linux allows me true visibility to its innards. Fast to fix almost any issues, should they happen. And I say this as someone who has for example no problem debugging Windows kerne…

Windows has no epoll(), but of course that doesn't matter for games.

Windows has completion ports (IOCP), which are much better.

At least finally Linux is also getting completion based IO with io_uring.