Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025
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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.
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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.
Lol someone hasn't actually worked with immutable distros. What precisely can't be layered on bazzite with rpm-ostree?
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Yeah arch! We are legion!
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I’ll just sit quietly over here with my Fedora machines…
Slide over a bit, I'll join you.....
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I bet that most of the steam flatpaks are on the Debian distros, specifically Mint. So if it wasn't for steamos, Mint would probably be the first on the list.
Ubuntu has snap.
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Because that's people not using Arch Linux but "Arch Linux".
I use (pause) "Arch" btw.
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How do you use steam on Ubuntu core?
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How do you use steam on Ubuntu core?
You install a snap or something idk
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I just installed Mint and picked the nvidia drivers in the manager. Am I doing something wrong?
Sounds fine to me. What i meant to say was that since it's all linux, the distro you pick is just customized for a certain usecase, but you can pretty much do whatever you want to do with any distro, but if you don't want to bother setting it up yourself, a distro that is already configured a certain way is more convenient, but which one is "best" in that case purely depends on what you want to do with it, but there isn't really an absolute "best" distro that everyone should use.
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Not sure wtf those 97% are thinking
They did not use their brains enough.
Just use linux, it can do literally everything (via VMs) linux can; but better, faster and more customizable.
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Tumbleweed users RISE UP!
I’m here, and I’m proud! :-]
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I use (pause) "Arch" btw.
It's actually Ubuntu with the default Arch wallpaper.
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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 set plasma animations to instant every arch install anyway so personally I don’t care
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What kind of out of the box things?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]A big one IMO is it defaults to building aur packages for the native CPU, which base arch and endeavorOS do not. There isn’t really any benefit to not doing so, as aur packages are going to be installed locally anyway.
Also fish is the default shell and I love fish
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Signed out of windows and into Mint when steam went to ask this time, the last 2 I said "sure" while playing cod on windows so it wasn't tracking me
So I'm now doing my part
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where is fedora?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Definitely surprised to see it's such a low percentage that it was swept under the Other category.
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How's Cachy for NVIDIA support?
Excellent, although any distro that packages the latest driver version these days is going to be, NVIDIA has improved their linux driver integration a lot fairly recently. (no esoteric kernel cmdline args, and KMS/SimpleDRM support, woot!)
