Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux

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Post by otreblan » Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 2:14 PM UTC

Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux
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Re: Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux

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Post by bryanrasmussen » Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 2:19 PM UTC

I've reported bugs to FF and Chrome several times because they were in things I cared about. Developers tend to care more, know that there will be a place to report bugs, know how to do it and so forth. Obviously Linux gets more bug reports.

(I use mac, the m1 is just great, but I would never go through the effort of reporting a bug to mac [unless serious security hole] because I don't care about them, and because I have the impression from having tried at one time some years ago that mac bug reporting sucks.)

Re: Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux

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Post by Procedural » Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 2:20 PM UTC

There is no such OS as Linux, Linux is the kernel. Support Linux-based OSs you want to support and no other OSs you don't support.

Re: Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux

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Post by WalterGR » Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 2:23 PM UTC

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #2

I've reported bugs to FF and Chrome several times because they were in things I cared about. Developers tend to care more, know that there will be a place to report bugs, know how to do it and so forth. Obviously Linux gets more bug reports. (I use mac, the m1 is just great, but I would never go through the effort of reporting a bug to mac [unless serious security hole] because I don't care about them, and because I…

FTA:

"Do you know how many of these 400 bug reports were actually platform-specific? 3. Literally only 3 things were problems that came out just on Linux. The rest of them were affecting everyone - the thing is, the Linux community is exceptionally well trained in reporting bugs."

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Post by FastEatSlow » Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 2:24 PM UTC

Procedural wrote: post #3

There is no such OS as Linux, Linux is the kernel. Support Linux-based OSs you want to support and no other OSs you don't support.

The point is that people who choose an OS other than Windows or Mac tend to choose something based on Linux, and are usually technically skilled and submit much higher quality bug reports, more often. Linux users just care more about the experience of using a computer, otherwise most wouldn't have jumped ship.

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Post by AdmiralAsshat » Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 2:30 PM UTC

Glad to see that it was a positive view of the Linux bug reporters, rather than "Bah, I spend all my time fixing packaging issues from entitled Linux users who scream at me that the game doesn't work with their obscure, home-spun distro."

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Post by wly_cdgr » Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 2:42 PM UTC

I don't know about you - you might be insane for all I know - but I'm MUCH more likely to report a bug if I think there's any chance of it being fixed

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 2:51 PM UTC

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Post by roofwellhams » Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 2:56 PM UTC

WalterGR wrote: post #4

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #2

I've reported bugs to FF and Chrome several times because they were in things I cared about. Developers tend to care more, know that there will be a place to report bugs, know how to do it and so forth. Obviously Linux gets more bug reports. (I use mac, the m1 is just great, but I would never go through the effort of reporting a bug to mac [unless serious security hole] because I don't care about them, and because I…

FTA: "Do you know how many of these 400 bug reports were actually platform-specific? 3. Literally only 3 things were problems that came out just on Linux. The rest of them were affecting everyone - the thing is, the Linux community is exceptionally well trained in reporting bugs."

That indicates that Linux it's very far away from being mainstream

Re: Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux

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Post by gpm » Sun, Oct 24, 2021, 2:58 PM UTC

Procedural wrote: post #3

There is no such OS as Linux, Linux is the kernel. Support Linux-based OSs you want to support and no other OSs you don't support.

There is for all practical purposes a singluar linux.

Why? Because you can bundle your own "userspace" to support your game, and that's what steam does for you with it's runtime: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime

It has to pick up a few things from the surrounding environment, but steam entirely standardizes the vast majority of it, and the rest of it is really really similar between every linux-running OS.