Steam on Linux Use Easily Hits an All-Time High in November • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by devwastaken » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 6:20 PM UTC

vablings wrote: post #6

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 :)

thats great, and it is a significant minority of users.

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

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Post by foxyv » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 6:29 PM UTC

devwastaken wrote: post #20

foxyv wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Why? I've heard pretty good things about Framework laptops running perfectly with factory installed operating systems. Also the Steam deck seems to work better than my Windows laptop.

A lot of the issues that Linux users run into these days are running hardware and software designed specifically for Windows. With the advent of hardware and software designed for Linux it's not surprising we are seeing stability improvements.

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

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Post by KetoManx64 » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 10:20 PM UTC

devwastaken wrote: post #3

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

You can have a the pain points with Linux or you can have the pain points of Windows and have tiktok and facebook added to your start memu, AI force added to your taskbar, your searches in the start menu sent off to microsoft, AI forced into your browser and notepad, have file explorer take multiple seconds to start up, Edge block downloads of .exe files with DANGEROUS FILE warnings, and I can go on and on.

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

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Post by cpburns2009 » Tue, Dec 09, 2025, 2:20 PM UTC

devwastaken wrote: post #19

cpburns2009 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I didn't have this problem on Windows 10.