Linux reaches new peak of 2.69% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: May 2025
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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!)
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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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]As I just migrated from windows this year it's just wild to me that "comes with x pre-packaged" is an argument at all. That sounds like having a windows version that already has, say, steam preinstalled, which takes 2-5 minutes to do myself (in Windows or Linux). I wouldn't specifically pick that to save the 2-5 minutes. Researching it would take longer.
Now, if we're talking about things that are actually hard to integrate into some distros that's a different question, but I clearly am not informed enough to imagine what that could be.
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You install a snap or something idk
Well, and I hadn't thought of this, but maybe Ubuntu core is used to run game servers.
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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
Then arch is not a good choice. If you don’t know how your arch distro works, it will break at some point and you won’t know how to fix it. That’s the issue.
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Well, and I hadn't thought of this, but maybe Ubuntu core is used to run game servers.
That's not how the data is collected
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We still have a long way to go but we've already come so far!
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Man, if only Linux would be adopted by the masses for gaming...
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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!
Fedora or Bazzite (Fedora-based) are my top recommendations for new Linux users. I’m constantly surprised at Mint’s general popularity, especially for gaming. Even openSUSE Tumbleweed is a better option when it comes to gaming.
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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.
You still have full control. It’s just that you need to use ostree to create layers since the underlying system is immutable. It’s a different way of thinking about Linux, but means you can easily roll-back when you break something.
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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.
Kubuntu is the way to go. KDE Plasma is such a great desktop. Just be sure to do the “Minimal” install so you can avoid Snaps like the disease they are.
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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!
Also surprised about that. I use Nobara and that too is based Off Fedora.
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Man, if only Linux would be adopted by the masses for gaming...
Yeah, it is the most popular consumer OS
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Yeah arch! We are legion!
I take it, you use arch?
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That's not how the data is collected
I stand corrected.
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]
#YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP
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Man, if only Linux would be adopted by the masses for gaming...
Then VR games will work at better than min specs. Trying hard to get off windows, mostly there. Except when streaming VR games, Kubuntu is my daily driver. All my flat games (like 8 of them) work flawlessly now that cloud is syncing. Just need drivers for one device and software for another but may just have to deal with the loss of a left hand kb, and 2 buttons on trackball.
I did get some useful looking apps recommended not long ago, not 1 will compile on my os and I am way to tired at the end of the work day to read read and read some more(I used to do more complex stuff 20 yrs ago but, well, I forgot most of what I knew. Why is "make" looking to github instead of the directory I am in?
Proton is is coming along great, I used to support Cedega to play win games before.
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I finally made the switch recently. Been dual booting for a while. I use arch on my laptop for fun and Linux Mint Debian Edition on my desktop for stability.
