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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

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Post by Atlas26 »

malbs wrote: post #187
seaal wrote: post #33

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NVIDIA driver progress has been massive over the past year, I wouldn’t consider it much less stable/supported than AMD cards.

dude, the whole Linus sticking his finger up at nvidia meme? Its still real in 2026. The opensource ABI whatever the fuck they call it is trash. I'm absolutely ready to purchase an AMD card next GPU I buy. I don't want to give nvidia anymore money, I'm done. It'll be AMD GPUs from now on no matter the performance diff, purely because they've got a better attitude to supporting non MS deployments. There's too much TPM…

Nah, nvidia drivers on Linux 2026 is hands down just as easy as AMD. I’ve had no more issues than running an AMD card and everything works flawlessly. They’re 100% right at the absolutely generational improvement in nvidia drivers since they’ve released the open drivers. Linus himself straight up said anyone trying to say this stuff in current year is being super disingenuous twisting his words from ages ago and that he considers nvidia a fantastic partner nowadays. And frankly, anyone unironically trying to use X in 2026 deserves the pain, it’s been officially deprecated for a while now and they maintainers were ultra clear that the only reason to use it now is for compatibility reasons and that you should expect issues if you do. Wayland is so far ahead of X now that anyone still trying to use X is being purposefully obstinate.

Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

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Post by Atlas26 »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #203
mchinen wrote: post #134

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This is similar to my experience. I find many people on the forums that can't resolve the crashes in Red Dead Redemption 2, so I suspect a lot of it depends on the specific games you've picked. It is clearly getting better globally, so I expect in 3 years or so things will be ready for me to try again.

Maybe I didn't emphasize sufficiently just how many games don't work for me on GNU/Linux. Out of 100 games, I estimate that I get 3-5 games that work, while many people in my circles are proclaiming how great the support now is, that so many games just run fine. I actually have more luck getting games to run when I myself make WINE prefixes using WINE and try running games that way, than running any games on Steam. O…

That’s absolutely not a normal or expected experience whatever. A standard, normal Linux install (not any weird experimental stuff like trying to install stuff to ntfs drives or running super arcane or unusual setups), just your normal standard out of the box setup on Fedora/ubuntu/arch etc should run about 95% of your library assuming you don’t have a bunch of anticheat multiplayer games which have purposefully blacklisted Linux. I’d wipe your entire drive (including windows) and start from fresh with a standard install and you should have no issues.

Protondb is the definitive guide to what works and what doesn’t and the numbers will align with the above.

Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

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Post by snvzz »

mikkupikku wrote: post #252
ehnto wrote: post #233

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I haven't used GIMP in a while but I had great experience with Krita, even with my display tablet it all "just worked".

Yes, Krita is definitely my preference, and aseprite for pixel art work (not open source, but source available and free of cost if you choose to build it yourself.)

>aseprite

grafx2 provides a decent alternative

Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

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Post by vintermann »

keyringlight wrote: post #146
HDBaseT wrote: post #25

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The key word in the article is "again" 'Valve correcting again the Steam China numbers.' This seemingly is a common problem with the Steam Hardware Report, with Chinese users being erroneously represented. It constantly gets fixed, although takes a bit. It could be the hardware surveys are sent out at a different time compared to the rest of the world, then combined in the following month. This is proven by "Ended 20…

The other aspect I find interesting is the February spike in win10 usage, presumably from Chinese users. Where will they migrate to over the coming years as support goes away. They seem to be both resisting win11 and resisting linux perhaps as either it's not suitable for the games (online?) they play or not great for Chinese users, or perhaps along with the nvidia spike because of getting more out of those GPUs on w…

Why are Chinese users such big Windows fans in the first place?

Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

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Post by ThatPlayer »

deafpolygon wrote: post #175
petu wrote: post #133

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If you're asking how it's setup/configured, then Valve ships "Steam Input" that can do a lot of things and one of them is translating gyro data to mouse events. Some games support gyro directly, but even then AFAIK people prefer Steam Input due to how configurable it is.

More like, how does gyro help you play some games?

Another method for gyro aim is flick stick, using the right stick to control the direction of your aim (on the left/right axis) and gyro for fine tuning and also up/down axis.

https://youtu.be/CiSS5OsNCNU from the creator explains it (and older gyro controls).

Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

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Post by fsflover »

drnick1 wrote: post #332
fsflover wrote: post #307

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Debian, if you need a rock-stable system; Fedora for cutting edge.

These are good choices, also consider Arch if you want the most agency over what goes into your system. That being said, you can also build a very minimal system with Debian from the command line with the arch-install-scripts. It's just that Debian stable will freeze relatively old packages for the sake of avoiding breaking updates, such as changes in configuration files that require manual intervention. On a gaming…

For the most agency over my system I prefer Qubes OS. I use Debian and Fedora inside VMs. Their mnimized versions are available from the Qubes repositories.

Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

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Post by DanielHB »

matja wrote: post #129
simmanian wrote: post #10

A few weeks ago, I installed linux (Nobara, if you're curious) on my PC and hooked it up to the living room TV to use as a gaming console. I have absolutely no regret. I did it initially because apparently playing games on a shared screen is better for my kid. But I was pleasantly surprised by how smoothly Windows only games run on Linux. The whole experience has been great, and I don't think I'll ever go back. I hav…

The "Nvidia on Linux compatibility" issues are something I wonder if I have side-stepped somehow either by lucky choice of GPUs, or lucky choice of Linux distros. Was/is this a distro thing, or an actual issue? Every Nvidia I've used [1] has worked perfectly, from the change for Xfree86 to Xorg, through the Compiz desktop wobbly window craze, to the introduction of GPGPU APIs like CUDA/OpenCL and recently Vulkan. I d…

I just migrated to linux (Bazzite) in March, I have a RTX 3080. The only issue I ran into was that video stream compression is not supported on linux so I can't run 1440p 165hz with HDR on because my monitor doesn't support HDMI 2.1. Either I need to turn off HDR or lower refresh rate to 120hz.

Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

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Post by scheeseman486 »

lunar_rover wrote: post #309
shevy-java wrote: post #183

Considering how awful Microslop's Win11 is, Linux could really gain some traction if it were to begin to consider the desktop environment as a useful target. Server is already dominated, top 500 supercomputers running linux (since 2017; https://www.top500.org/statistics/details/osfam/1/ ) - yet the desktop area is one where I don't feel there is really a lot of real improvement. I know, I know, GNOME and KDE keep on…

> Why does Linux not consider the desktop system a priority? No company big enough has decided to heavily invest in Linux desktop for end users yet. The community is composed of techies and they make products for techies. Valve's solution is to use their own semi proprietary Steam Big Screen as the default interface of SteamOS.

Valve are the primary financiers of Techpaladin, a team of over a dozen developers that work specifically on KDE Plasma and Qt.

Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March

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Post by scheeseman486 »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #340
akimbostrawman wrote: post #81

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>completely different beast from desktop Linux Absolutely not. If you ever actually used it you would know that the only difference is a custom big picture mode like interface. Anything else is literally the same code.

Have a SteamDeck. Have shipped games for Linux.

SteamOS is Arch with atomic updates and some custom patches here and there. The system stack is pretty standard; Mesa drivers, Steam Linux Runtime, Proton, it's all what ships on every other distro. The only significant difference is that games run in gamescope-session by default, but that isn't exclusive to SteamOS either and doesn't meaningfully affect the execution of software, it's just a different window manager.

In all your posts I haven't seen you actually explain what it is that's so different about it.

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Post by MiddleEndian »

fullstop wrote: post #280
Gigachad wrote: post #29

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There is value in the gaming specific distros since they already include all the stuff like controller drivers. I installed Bazzite on my desktop which I have plugged in to the TV and it's been every bit as seamless as the steamdeck. It boots up direct in to steam big picture mode and I can do everything with my xbox controller. Bazzite is an immutible os which is absolutely the future of linux. Your install will nev…

I've been using an immutable Linux for the last year or so, and it's gone quite well, but not without pain points. There's a lot of stuff that I do which does not have a flatpak or package baked in. To get around this, I've been using distrobox to run these things in Ubuntu containers. So I will do "distrobox enter sdr" to have a terminal open up in that environment. You can export applications so that they show up i…

I agree that development sometimes takes extra steps, but honestly setting up dev environments almost always takes too many steps anyway lol. Overall it's worth it for the stability.
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