Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025
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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?
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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.
Yeah, that's not Bazzite's "only gimmick"
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Where are all the Ubuntu Core 22 installs coming from? Is there some large device or distro that uses it?
TF2 bots
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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
You could still wonder why endeavour in particular is so great though, in the end it's all linux.
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One day it will reach 5%.
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Doing my part
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I use Debian. Does this mean I'm in the top 0.05% of Steam users?
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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
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I think that once one goes into software development professionally, mucking about with Linux configuration stops being something one does as a fun learning hobby and becomes something one does for work and hence can't be arsed to also do at home during one's free time.
Certainly that's how it goes for me: all I want from my Linux machine at home is that it delivers the least hindrance possible to my web-browsing, gaming, 3D printing and so on, whilst still protecting my privacy and letting me to a little bit of playing around with its more powerful features but only when I feel like it, not as a requirement to use it.
The same also applies to other techie stuff, by the way: I'm no early adopted of latest and greatest because I don't want to be somebody's beta tester, since I have enough hassle already testing and fixing my own code (were I can actually deploy good practices to reduce the amounts of bugs and hence frustration, unlike the vast amounts of amateur-hour crap out there being shipped as final products that are just beta tests that never end).
/RANT
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You could still wonder why endeavour in particular is so great though, in the end it's all linux.
I just installed Mint and picked the nvidia drivers in the manager. Am I doing something wrong?
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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.If it feels snappier, it is snappier.
It's like saying it's cheating to use instanced rendering to display millions of asteroids when it's not even real draw calls
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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.
I don’t know. Most of the increase above appears to be win 10 users. Win 10 lost 1.09% and the percentage gain was close to evenly split between linux and win11 with a little going to MacOS.
I could see a bunch of people paying $15 to keep win 10 going , but not that much.
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I don’t know. Most of the increase above appears to be win 10 users. Win 10 lost 1.09% and the percentage gain was close to evenly split between linux and win11 with a little going to MacOS.
I could see a bunch of people paying $15 to keep win 10 going , but not that much.
I'm not expecting anyone to pay to keep getting updates. Most of them will just keep using Windows 10. There are still people refusing to leave Windows 7.
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Why are some in quotes?
Because that's people not using Arch Linux but "Arch Linux".
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If it feels snappier, it is snappier.
It's like saying it's cheating to use instanced rendering to display millions of asteroids when it's not even real draw calls
it's like making the car audio play wind whooshing noises when accelerating to make it feel faster.
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I just installed Mint and picked the nvidia drivers in the manager. Am I doing something wrong?
I wouldn't say so, for most people what you have done is good enough. However there may come a time where you have to do something janky, at that point you'll probably wish you were on a different distro, but for 95% of people, they will never run into any issues with mint.
