Steam on Linux Use Easily Hits an All-Time High in November

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Post by TMWNN » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 9:09 PM UTC

Steam on Linux Use Easily Hits an All-Time High in November
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Re: Steam on Linux Use Easily Hits an All-Time High in November

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Post by jp191919 » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 9:43 PM UTC

I just made the jump in November. Gaming pc was the last computer in the house with windows. Now it's an all Linux household, well minus the router on FreeBSD.

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Post by devwastaken » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 9:49 PM UTC

Its going up and then back down when users cant fix one of a thousand experience breaking issues.

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Post by freedomben » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 10:15 PM UTC

jp191919 wrote: post #2

I just made the jump in November. Gaming pc was the last computer in the house with windows. Now it's an all Linux household, well minus the router on FreeBSD.

Similar. We haven't booted the Windows computer in almost 2 years at this point. It's truly incredible how good gaming is on Linux now!

In related news, Bazzite is absolutely kicking ass, and I'm super happy to see it

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Post by bibimsz » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC

I play world of warcraft and baldur's gate 3. installed cachyos yesterday and downloaded both games through Steam

i was expecting the games to be laggy or glitchy, but they run smooth as butter. 240fps on WoW, I think it might perform better than Windows 11 but at least as good.

im sure something about linux will annoy me eventually and I'll switch back to Windows, but I don't want to.

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Post by vablings » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 10:26 PM UTC

devwastaken wrote: post #3

Its going up and then back down when users cant fix one of a thousand experience breaking issues.

One of the thousands of issues I have yet to encounter on Linux Mint, it has been unironically more stable than Windows 11 :)

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Post by encyclopedism » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 11:00 PM UTC

Amazing! Steam could finally drag the Linux Desktop mainstream.

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Post by lispisok » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 11:41 PM UTC

On linux mint I can get games to run but they run horribly. I wish I could figure out the issue because running most of my games on linux would be awesome

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Post by cpburns2009 » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 12:08 AM UTC

devwastaken wrote: post #3

Its going up and then back down when users cant fix one of a thousand experience breaking issues.

I have an obnoxious issue on Windows 11 that I cannot fix. I have an RTX 5060 and the monitor will not receive a signal after the computer wakes from sleep.

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Post by DarkByte » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 12:31 AM UTC

bibimsz wrote: post #5

I play world of warcraft and baldur's gate 3. installed cachyos yesterday and downloaded both games through Steam i was expecting the games to be laggy or glitchy, but they run smooth as butter. 240fps on WoW, I think it might perform better than Windows 11 but at least as good. im sure something about linux will annoy me eventually and I'll switch back to Windows, but I don't want to.

Last I checked WoW is only available from Blizzard directly.