Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025
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It has a dedicated steam deck ISO, is the most well put together preset up arch distro there is for gamers. Period, there are no real good faith arguments here. It's like if someone took an endevour install and spent over 50 hours doing nothing but making every possiable part of it as easy as possible for gamers to just play games.
Its what Bazzite is functionally a knock off of. Anyone whos using Bazzite is litterally using an objectively worse option then cachy is their first and only goal is gaming. Which is bazzites entire gimmick basically.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I agreed with everything in your first paragraph but your second one just seems like needless 'holier than though' drivel. Bazzite has it's own unique pros, and both are great options for gamers.* However, when it comes to having a OEM-like experience on a Legion Go under Linux, Bazzite, Nobara or Chimera are a better fit. That's my usecase and why I chose Bazzite, I wanted a Steam Deck experience with a better screen and more powerful chip. It was also well before SteamOS had any support for other devices.
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bazzite bitches
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I worked with a guy who ran PopOS and loved it. He said the UI was really good. I've seen it get some love in social places. Figured I'd give it a shot some time.
I'm pretty happy with Mint. It's comfortable and the conventions feel more familiar than even my work MacBook—like I don't even know what the desktop is for except my screenshots show up there for some reason. I don't think corporate would let me run Linux, but if they would I'd be happy with Mint or Ubuntu. They probably don't want to support a million flavors of Linux desktop.
Personally I prefer Kubuntu.
I find Mint's or Cinnamon's look and feel a little too outdated. Reminds me too much of Gnome 2.
And Gnome changed their whole desktop paradigm since Gnome 3. I find Gnome 4 more suitable for a tablet. I feel too constrained and limited by it on a desktop PC. It's awesome on my Surface Pro tablet though!
KDE Plasma kept the classic desktop paradigm like Windows, with a fresh modern look and tons of customizations. (Though I try to limit those as much as possible) You can configure it to your liking and add tons of really practical shortcuts. Its applications are also very powerful. Much more so than Gnome's I find, which are more minimalistic.
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Tumbleweed users RISE UP!
I'm on Slowroll though.
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I've not heard of CachyOS, but to capture 2.54% of the steam linux market feels significant. It jumped right past other established Arch-based distros like Endeavor and Manjaro.
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. -
I'm one of those I got a steam hardware survey for the first time in a long time.... Been on mint for awhile now
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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.I'm not familiar with it, but I think that that could be a reasonable UI tweak. I disable virtually all animation in software where possible because I want it to be as responsive as possible and don't care about the animation. Simply reducing the time in animation is a middle ground---one still gets animations, but cuts out some of the time.
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I've not heard of CachyOS, but to capture 2.54% of the steam linux market feels significant. It jumped right past other established Arch-based distros like Endeavor and Manjaro.
I use the cachyos kernel on an otherwise plain arch setup. I don't game much, but I tried it out and just stuck with it.
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More people should use EndeavourOS. It's fantastic for gaming.
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Nice, I'm part of that .05% Debian 12 crowd.
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I'd guess that desktop Linux users are statistically using their PC in summer more than the normal PC user (using windows).
What? I can definitely say that that's true for literally all of my friends and especially me.
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where is fedora?
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Not sure wtf those 97% are thinking
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More people should use EndeavourOS. It's fantastic for gaming.
I've been thinking of switching back to Arch. Currently using Nobara, and its moved to rolling release anyway.
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Odd that SteamOS only show up in the Linux only view.
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Nice, I'm part of that .05% Debian 12 crowd.
We’re doing our part!
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I'm just glad that I'm not the only one running steam on Debian.
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where is fedora?
In other
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More people should use EndeavourOS. It's fantastic for gaming.
It is. The switch last year, coming from windows, was a bit rough but that's also partly due to the nvidia drivers. They got way better in the mean time. And then it's just learning how things work and how to troubleshoot if I do something stupid.
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More people should use EndeavourOS. It's fantastic for gaming.
I mean, that's basically the same as Arch.
