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Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
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Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#62That's possibly the first time that "skyrocketed" and "5%" have been used together in one sentence.
Of total users 5% is a substantial number of consumers and some would argue a non-trivial amount of market share to ignore when making a product.
This also goes without saying that the more adoption we see, the better these alternatives will get as we see consumers and businesses view Linux as worth the investment.
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#63When Windows 11 was force-installed on my main game development desktop, I was skeptical, but kept using it. I was annoyed at having to turn off all the tracking and noise (like news articles) When it updated and started shoving AI down my throat, with no easy way to turn it off and suddenly lots of data I don't consent to sharing getting used, 11 became the last Windows OS I'll ever use. Whenever the next version co…
I will warn you, Ubuntu is basically dead now. Canonical announced that they are no longer using Debian as a base, but the unvetted packages compiled and uploaded by random people on Snap. Please switch to Linux, but find a distro that actually wants you as a user.
> Canonical announced that they are no longer using Debian as a base, but the unvetted packages compiled and uploaded by random people on Snap.
Citation very much needed for this claim.
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#64When playing eve online on Linux (via Proton), the moment any other window gets focus, or the mouse slights off the game screen onto the second monitor on the side, game minimizes.
I have a feeling it's just wine things. Can anybody understand what happens and maybe explain it a little?
I remember that 13 years ago I did everything on Linux and only switched to Windows to play eve online. Now the game works beautifully (graphics and all) on Linux with just one slight modification in the "run command" in Steam.
This is nothing, as anybody who tried to play games on Linux using wine can attest. It used to be a hell of modifications, dependency hunting and obscure hacks to get any windows game to work.
Proton and Vulcan are Awesome.
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#65I've been happy with my Bazzite setup for play and work. Took a little time to get used to fedora atomic and the changes in installing and running stuff but used to it now.
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#66When playing eve online on Linux (via Proton), the moment any other window gets focus, or the mouse slights off the game screen onto the second monitor on the side, game minimizes. I have a feeling it's just wine things. Can anybody understand what happens and maybe explain it a little? I remember that 13 years ago I did everything on Linux and only switched to Windows to play eve online. Now the game works beautiful…
Vulcan is the home planet of Spock, the 3D API is Vulkan ;) (sorry for nitpicking)
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#67When Windows 11 was force-installed on my main game development desktop, I was skeptical, but kept using it. I was annoyed at having to turn off all the tracking and noise (like news articles) When it updated and started shoving AI down my throat, with no easy way to turn it off and suddenly lots of data I don't consent to sharing getting used, 11 became the last Windows OS I'll ever use. Whenever the next version co…
If you have any unusual set-up going on personally I'd recommend a rolling release distro like manjaro (arch) or fedora, so you get latest drivers and whatnot fast. Modern releases of these distros come bundled with the same desktop environment options as Ubuntu and good, easy to use package install and update GUIs. IMO it's more noob friendly than Ubuntu because your stuff is more likely to work without weird workarounds.
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#68When Windows 11 was force-installed on my main game development desktop, I was skeptical, but kept using it. I was annoyed at having to turn off all the tracking and noise (like news articles) When it updated and started shoving AI down my throat, with no easy way to turn it off and suddenly lots of data I don't consent to sharing getting used, 11 became the last Windows OS I'll ever use. Whenever the next version co…
I will warn you, Ubuntu is basically dead now. Canonical announced that they are no longer using Debian as a base, but the unvetted packages compiled and uploaded by random people on Snap. Please switch to Linux, but find a distro that actually wants you as a user.
If that means that package versions for commonly used tools are less than a decade old in the future that's probably a good thing though ;)
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#69Gaming is more than viable on a Linux PC these days. I'm using CachyOS with a PS2 controller or mouse and keyboard. I had to do virtually zero tinkering.
Let me know how rainvow 6 runs for you :) I wish you were right, though
We're entering a world where developers are going to need to start implementing anti cheat that works on Linux. It's clearly possible, and as we break past 5% it's no longer economically viable to ignore Linux. Especially once the GabeCube comes out...
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#70That's possibly the first time that "skyrocketed" and "5%" have been used together in one sentence.
The first 5% is the hardest. It won’t take 35 years to reach 10%.