Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025
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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.
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Why are some in quotes?
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I mean, that's basically the same as Arch.
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
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I'm somewhat surprised there isn't a Fedora there, it's a pretty great and up-to-date distro.
I'm also somewhat surprised Flatpak isn't higher!
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For all the valve bootlickers here: while it is good that they are now supporting linux remember that if the shares still look favorable to windows it's thanks to company like valve who for decades promoted proprietary software.
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Why are some in quotes?
Just a guess, maybe those don't have explicitly set distribution names and are basically named by Valve themselves.
