That'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%.
"You know whats alot harder? The first 50%" - windows
Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
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Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#72I've probably said this a bunch of times already, but based on my past experience, any analysis built on month-to-month changes in the Steam Hardware Survey should be taken with a very large grain of salt, if not considered outright useless for any serious conclusions. The clue is already in the article itself. The author notes that "part of the jump at least appears to be explained by Valve correcting again the Stea…
Overall agreed. I think a more interesting look at this is the tracker which GamingOnLinux keeps (not yet updated with the new numbers as of writing), where they also have one graph that shows usage among only English speaking users. Overall it is trending upwards, and English Linux Steam users are approaching 9%.
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#73SteamDeck should be excluded from “Linux use” imho. Especially when it comes to click bait headlines. Like yes it is Linux. But SteamDeck is a completely different beast from desktop Linux. They might as well be entirely different OS’s. Especially if the SteamDeck is being used to play Win32 binaries!
you can just navigate to the full linux desktop on the steamdeck?
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#74Phoronix lost the plot in the last year with their click bait garbage headlines and articles. February/March user data is always skewed because of the Chinese holidays. They know it, we know it, they even write about it in the article but still a dumbass hype bait headline and article. Just fucking stop it, the quality of your reviews took a dive as well. Go ahead and produce more garbage and you have lost all value as a news site by the end of the year.
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#75SteamDeck should be excluded from “Linux use” imho. Especially when it comes to click bait headlines. Like yes it is Linux. But SteamDeck is a completely different beast from desktop Linux. They might as well be entirely different OS’s. Especially if the SteamDeck is being used to play Win32 binaries!
> Like yes it is Linux. But SteamDeck is a completely different beast from desktop Linux. They might as well be entirely different OS’s. It's really not; SteamOS is just another GNU/Linux, and pretty close to vanilla Arch Linux for that matter. > Especially if the SteamDeck is being used to play Win32 binaries! Proton works fine on other distros.
> SteamOS is just another GNU/Linux
if you are a gamedev considering support for SteamOS and considering support for generic Linux desktop they really really really REALLY are not the same. At all.
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#76When 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…
Try running it in gamescope. Or the "always capture mouse in fullscreen windows" setting in winecfg.
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean you make good points and all, but on the other hand I really want this to be the year of the Linux desktop, so I'm gonna go with the other interpretation anyway!
to give you a single data point, I've finally committed to linux on my desktop machine at home (I posted in another comment on this thread regarding my sim setup, thats another issue), but on the desktop machine, I installed steam, proton, downloaded a few games from my library, and they just worked on install, no stuffing around at all, no searching the web for fixes to get it going. It's probably been 6 years since…
> I needed to get xone and compile it and install the driver, a minor inconvenience,
Call me nitpicky, but this is why Linux desktop is not ready yet. If anything, I'm a firm believer that SteamOS will be Linux Desktop
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was not the case when I wanted to use a GameCube controller via Wii U adaptor without a lot of extra lag. Yeah that's a niche, but it works fine in Windows and even Mac.
I believe most of those work with controller drivers in the application (Dolphin Emulator or Steam/SDL) rather than the OS level. That's why the Windows solution requires Zadig to replace the HID driver. On Linux instead of replacing the driver, you have to add an udev rule that allows applications to communicate with the USB device directly: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-devices/blob/master/6... And you can…
I did add that rule, which if I remember correctly was needed for it to work at all. But then the problem is input lag. Many recommend https://github.com/hannesmann/gcadapter-oc-kmod which the author only tested in Arch, and for whatever reason it didn't work on Ubuntu. Was printing that "Failed to acquire lock for USB device" line and then I think "Could not reset device", don't remember. Anyway seems like a hack.
This was for Slippi Melee, so even though I'm not super good at the game, the lag was too annoying.
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let me know how rainvow 6 runs for you :) I wish you were right, though
yes games with kernel anticheat won't work. And those games are easily ignored, as they should be.
>yes games with kernel anticheat won't work.
*unless the developers explicitly enabled linux userspace support which some do
Re: Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March
#80When 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…
Check your mouse focus settings in your desktop environment (gnome/KDE/whatever).
There may be an option called mouse stealing prevention or something, but if you have a look you should hopefully see it. On xfce it's in its own tab in the mouse menu