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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 left-struck »

For years I dabbled with Linux and I tried switching from windows to Linux many times. There were always compatibility issues with some software and games that made me return to windows. Earlier this year I got so fed up with Microsoft’s relentless invasion of my privacy, annoying nudges and other enshitification efforts in Windows that I decided that not only is windows dead to me, but any software I can’t run Linux is dead to me as well. That was months ago and my only regret is that I didn’t do this sooner.

I understand people need certain apps for work and maybe those need windows. Others have absolutely no power over the machines their work gives them, I’ve been there, no judgement. This is just my experience.

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

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Post by jarjar2_ »

DarkByte wrote: post #10
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.

Likely installed the Battle.net client as a non-steam game and launched it from there. It’s what I’ve done with Battle.net

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

#13

Post by cheschire »

lispisok wrote: post #8

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

Are you running your games from your NTFS partition/drive still?

Try running them locally off your Linux filesystem instead.

Otherwise I would suggest installing Claude code and running it from the terminal and telling it to investigate for you…

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

#14

Post by drnick1 »

cheschire wrote: post #13
lispisok wrote: post #8

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

Are you running your games from your NTFS partition/drive still? Try running them locally off your Linux filesystem instead. Otherwise I would suggest installing Claude code and running it from the terminal and telling it to investigate for you…

I second this. Your experience is highly unusual, most of my games run very well on Linux (framerates within 10% of Windows). And that's with an Nvidia GPU.

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

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Post by drnick1 »

I think the inflection point for mass adoption will between 5-10% market share. Then Linux will be too big to ignore and game studios will have to make their games work without kernel level anti-cheat or other restrictions or lose a very significant amount of sales relative to the cost of implementing the required changes.

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

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Post by vablings »

lispisok wrote: post #8

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

It's probably a GPU issue. Either you have the wrong drivers, or they are not working correctly

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

#17

Post by foxyv »

devwastaken wrote: post #3

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

We're starting to see more and more reports about this occurring on Windows 11. Especially in the VR community. Windows has pushed a ton of updates that break or even brick drivers. Also I've seen games have to be modified to run on it.

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

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Post by bibimsz »

jarjar2_ wrote: post #12
DarkByte wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last I checked WoW is only available from Blizzard directly.

Likely installed the Battle.net client as a non-steam game and launched it from there. It’s what I’ve done with Battle.net

correct

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

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Post by devwastaken »

cpburns2009 wrote: post #9
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.

monitor issue, not windows.

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

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Post by devwastaken »

foxyv wrote: post #17
devwastaken wrote: post #3

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

We're starting to see more and more reports about this occurring on Windows 11. Especially in the VR community. Windows has pushed a ton of updates that break or even brick drivers. Also I've seen games have to be modified to run on it.

which if applied to linux desktop with the same userbase would be 1000x worse.
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