Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025
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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.
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bazzite bitches
No thanks. I'd like to keep full control over my operating system and only accidentally ruin it every few years.
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Tumbleweed users RISE UP!
I'm even running it on my Steam Deck.
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Awesome. Will be interesting to see the November December numbers with unpaid Win10 support ending.
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.
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Why are some in quotes?
$ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Arch Linux" PRETTY_NAME="Arch Linux" (...)Because this is how distributions declare their names
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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.
15 years ago installed Ubuntu to run as a server and had to reinstall and config everything like 10 times to get it to work and since then have been very vary of Linux but had to return since said installation broke like 2 years ago, installed Mint and my eyes opened how easy everything is now compared to then.
I got tired of Microsoft bullshit so I switched to bazzite about 2 months ago and I have no problems. There have been a couple of times that it said "you can do this but it is probably not a good idea" but otherwise everything just works. I appreciate this because from my earliest experiences with Linux I wasn't happy.
I use my computer for gaming and web stuff and that's pretty much it. What do you guys who feel you can't do what you want really do with your computer? -
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.
once during summer i just stuck my pc out the window in a screened off porch, shoved the cables through the window, boom... no more heat :3
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I'm just glad that I'm not the only one running steam on Debian.
I'm sorry for your drivers
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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.
How's Cachy for NVIDIA support?
