Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025
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I use Debian. Does this mean I'm in the top 0.05% of Steam users?
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Yeah, just much easier to install, which is what I want from it, I never got the argument that by installing arch manually you "learn" what's on your pc, idgaf, even as a software developer let alone a normie, I want a working system, that just works
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I think that once one goes into software development professionally, mucking about with Linux configuration stops being something one does as a fun learning hobby and becomes something one does for work and hence can't be arsed to also do at home during one's free time.
Certainly that's how it goes for me: all I want from my Linux machine at home is that it delivers the least hindrance possible to my web-browsing, gaming, 3D printing and so on, whilst still protecting my privacy and letting me to a little bit of playing around with its more powerful features but only when I feel like it, not as a requirement to use it.
The same also applies to other techie stuff, by the way: I'm no early adopted of latest and greatest because I don't want to be somebody's beta tester, since I have enough hassle already testing and fixing my own code (were I can actually deploy good practices to reduce the amounts of bugs and hence frustration, unlike the vast amounts of amateur-hour crap out there being shipped as final products that are just beta tests that never end).
/RANT
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You could still wonder why endeavour in particular is so great though, in the end it's all linux.
I just installed Mint and picked the nvidia drivers in the manager. Am I doing something wrong?
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they offer some optimisations to the kernel and the packages that are supposed to yield a tiny bit better performance.
an incredibly small thing that rubs me the wrong way more than it probably should about their setup is that they set Plasma animation speeds to much higher values than the stock Plasma desktop uses. sure, it could be just a part of their customisation tweaks the same way using
fishas the default shell is, but it feels like a cheap trick to reel in the "I installed it on my desktop and it's soooo much snappier" review kind of people. like, if your work is as good as you claim, you shouldn't need to artificially make the improvements seem bigger than they really are.If it feels snappier, it is snappier.
It's like saying it's cheating to use instanced rendering to display millions of asteroids when it's not even real draw calls
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My prediction: Ten percent increase for Windows 11 with 25 percent still on 10 and barely an increase for Linux.
I hope I'm wrong.
I don’t know. Most of the increase above appears to be win 10 users. Win 10 lost 1.09% and the percentage gain was close to evenly split between linux and win11 with a little going to MacOS.
I could see a bunch of people paying $15 to keep win 10 going , but not that much.
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I don’t know. Most of the increase above appears to be win 10 users. Win 10 lost 1.09% and the percentage gain was close to evenly split between linux and win11 with a little going to MacOS.
I could see a bunch of people paying $15 to keep win 10 going , but not that much.
I'm not expecting anyone to pay to keep getting updates. Most of them will just keep using Windows 10. There are still people refusing to leave Windows 7.
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Why are some in quotes?
Because that's people not using Arch Linux but "Arch Linux".
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If it feels snappier, it is snappier.
It's like saying it's cheating to use instanced rendering to display millions of asteroids when it's not even real draw calls
it's like making the car audio play wind whooshing noises when accelerating to make it feel faster.
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I just installed Mint and picked the nvidia drivers in the manager. Am I doing something wrong?
I wouldn't say so, for most people what you have done is good enough. However there may come a time where you have to do something janky, at that point you'll probably wish you were on a different distro, but for 95% of people, they will never run into any issues with mint.
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No thanks. I'd like to keep full control over my operating system and only accidentally ruin it every few years.
Lol someone hasn't actually worked with immutable distros. What precisely can't be layered on bazzite with rpm-ostree?
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Yeah arch! We are legion!
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I’ll just sit quietly over here with my Fedora machines…
Slide over a bit, I'll join you.....
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I bet that most of the steam flatpaks are on the Debian distros, specifically Mint. So if it wasn't for steamos, Mint would probably be the first on the list.
Ubuntu has snap.
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Because that's people not using Arch Linux but "Arch Linux".
I use (pause) "Arch" btw.
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How do you use steam on Ubuntu core?
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How do you use steam on Ubuntu core?
You install a snap or something idk
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I just installed Mint and picked the nvidia drivers in the manager. Am I doing something wrong?
Sounds fine to me. What i meant to say was that since it's all linux, the distro you pick is just customized for a certain usecase, but you can pretty much do whatever you want to do with any distro, but if you don't want to bother setting it up yourself, a distro that is already configured a certain way is more convenient, but which one is "best" in that case purely depends on what you want to do with it, but there isn't really an absolute "best" distro that everyone should use.
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Not sure wtf those 97% are thinking
They did not use their brains enough.
Just use linux, it can do literally everything (via VMs) linux can; but better, faster and more customizable.
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Tumbleweed users RISE UP!
I’m here, and I’m proud! :-]
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I use (pause) "Arch" btw.
It's actually Ubuntu with the default Arch wallpaper.
