Steam Linux Use Dips For January 2025 Amid Odd Survey Numbers [Phoronix, 1 February 2025]

[therealcharleseames@lemm.ee]

My bad, both my Linux pcs on different distros black screened after updating so I had to go back to using windows.

[thingsiplay@beehaw.org]

That usually don't happen. Hopefully you did not lose any personal data. What distributions were you using? I wonder what happened there, that both of your different distributions had a black screen after an update.

[therealcharleseames@lemm.ee]

First bazzite then Ubuntu 3 months later. Tried troubleshooting but gave up and started over. I don't bother backing up my steam machines, but I appreciate the concern.

[kusivittula@sopuli.xyz]

nvidia user? there's been issues between nvidia drivers and kernel 6.12, i experienced that too. fixed by going back to an older kernel.

[dicksteele@lemm.ee]

Try fedora. More stability than any other os I’ve ever tried. Have had it running on all my machines for maybe 6 years now and not one issue, including with gaming (csgo/cs2 for 5k+ hours).

[hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz]

I don’t understand the hype with Bazzite. I mean, any linux is better than windows and Bazzite is just linux with bloat and a bad one at that.

my experience with Bazzite: install, use LACT to attemp a small overclock, crash, reboot, lots of packagers missing from distro, uninstall, went back to vanilla Arch.

immutable distros are just a hype and nothing more.

[obelix@feddit.org]

Since every language seems to be dropping percentage-wise: What is the market Steam is growing so much in? India?

[kusivittula@sopuli.xyz]

for me the biggest dealbreaker is that only flatpaks are available

[danitos@reddthat.com]

The last time (some 7 months ago) something like happened it ended up being that the Steam survey had a bug that oversampled Chinesse machines. Maybe something similar happened.

[neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

You can layer packages using rpm-ostree install $pkgname. It uses fedora repos. You can also (preferably) use a distrobox or toolbox container with a non-atomic distro and then install the desired package..