Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025
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Fedora or Bazzite (Fedora-based) are my top recommendations for new Linux users. Iโm constantly surprised at Mintโs general popularity, especially for gaming. Even openSUSE Tumbleweed is a better option when it comes to gaming.
Wanted to try bazzite but on my 13 year old cpu and mobo it wouldn't boot. Mint ran perfectly.
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Yay!
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God I wish someone would port AHK to linux. I literally depend on it to make software accessible.
Same here, for some reason my covid hobby was learning a new keyboard layout and while I now prefer using Dvorak, my attempts at remapping key bindings like cut/copy/paste on linux has has been unreliable at best, and then switching between Dvorak and QWERTY for games that don't support layout-agnostic controls usually doesn't even register (at least on the steam deck it doesn't seem to)
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I finally made the switch recently. Been dual booting for a while. I use arch on my laptop for fun and Linux Mint Debian Edition on my desktop for stability.
I hope you enjoy your time here in Linux land.
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You have vr games working on linux? Im surprised
Yeah, make sure you get steam from the steam site not flat pack and if you use Nvidia, use the official Nvidia driver, also make sure you select compatibility in steam. Sometimes you need a different Proton version. Turn settings down and the fps will normalize.
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I'm using NVIDIA also, the only real problem I had was that HDR was annoying to get work because gamescope doesn't play too well with NVIDIA. Now that I can just use native Wayland HDR I don't have any real problems with my graphics card.
I don't expect NVIDIA to improve anytime soon since they still have a chokehold on the data center market. IIRC the reason NVIDIA became quite stable relatively is because Valve assigned several of their engineers to work on NVIDIA drivers full time.
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I hope you enjoy your time here in Linux land.
Thanks. I've been running Linux servers for over 5 years and a few Linux laptops for 2-3 years. I just never moved my gaming PC over. I was like the third wave of Steam Deck owners. That proved to me that gaming on Linux is possible now. I just give up on any game that has kernel level anti-cheat for now. But, the amount of cheaters pulled me from most of those games a while ago...
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Now I wish we could permanently move from Android for all Android devices to something like lineage.
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God I wish someone would port AHK to linux. I literally depend on it to make software accessible.
AutoKey might be what you are looking for
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I wonder where my Steam on Fedora 42 KDE lands
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AutoKey might be what you are looking for
It works for the most basic scripts but unfortunately its features pale in comparison
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"There's dozens of us! Dozens!"
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Same here, for some reason my covid hobby was learning a new keyboard layout and while I now prefer using Dvorak, my attempts at remapping key bindings like cut/copy/paste on linux has has been unreliable at best, and then switching between Dvorak and QWERTY for games that don't support layout-agnostic controls usually doesn't even register (at least on the steam deck it doesn't seem to)
have you tried keyd? I only use it for a few very simple remaps, but it's got tons of nooks and crannies to lose yourself in.
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It works for the most basic scripts but unfortunately its features pale in comparison
Fair point
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Debian, stable as usual.
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Now I wish we could permanently move from Android for all Android devices to something like lineage.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]There are phone vendors like murena (not a manufacturer i think) who have some privacy OS preinstalled so you dont have a rooted phone that gets blocked for "privacy concerns"
If you are unsure if the apps you need work you can install waydroid on linux
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have you tried keyd? I only use it for a few very simple remaps, but it's got tons of nooks and crannies to lose yourself in.
Woah, I have not! I will definitely be checking that out. Thank you!
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Tumbleweed users RISE UP!
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God I wish someone would port AHK to linux. I literally depend on it to make software accessible.
I wonder if it works on WINE i never tried it
