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According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That's a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months... It's also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2% marketshare but at that time the Steam customer size in absolute numbers was much smaller a decade ago than it is now. So if the percentage numbers are accurate, this is likely the largest in absolute terms that the Linux gaming marketshare has ever been.

Data from Valve: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=combined

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[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I'm doing my part, I have installed Steam on two new Ubuntu installs recently, lol.

[–] Mandy@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn this zer0 really has it out for people enjoying things today I hope whoever pissed into your chereos stops soon

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[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

Hardly surprising, especially with SteamDeck's popularity. Great news regardless! Steam is really making a difference here.

[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, I'm certainly helping with that.

Running Garuda, and I can play so many of my favorite games.

I also have GOG games, they usually run great too. I have Fallout New Vegas and runs incridibly well on just wine.

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[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would fully switch to linux - I have done some dabbling with it, including setting up a media PC w/ steam on it - but I cannot run any of my business or productivity apps.

Specifically, Autocad, Revit, and VR software do not work. So wahwah

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[–] featherfurl@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NixOS on steam deck is currently my daily driver because it's dedicated, portable linux hardware with better than iGPU performance I can actually afford. Having said that I'm only about a week in, but adding Jovian NixOS modules to my previous configs has been enough to make it a pretty solid experience so far. Amazing portable gaming is a nice bonus.

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[–] Mandy@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I feel like such an outsider cause for me proton is such a piece of shit that it barely if ever works even if the title is rated platinum

No matter the district either

[–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol that's the funny thing about linux right? and with all the various distros and setups it can be rather hard to diagnose what the issue is.

[–] Mandy@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The inability to use proton correctly is a constant over 3 wildly different distros

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[–] lemillionsocks@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wonder if it's a software or hardware issue on your end that might be causing it.

Been using proton since it started and it's definitely not always as seamless and requires tweaking or going to protondb and checking bug reports, changing your proton version, and etc, but generally it has worked with me on multiple iterations of hardware.

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[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I'm one of these statistics. I got a cheap SSD on Prime Day and installed Pop!_OS. The first thing I did was install Steam.

I still boot to Windows the majority of my time because of other apps or games that I need but I'm trying to get away from Windows.

That's an almost 25% increase, that's huge!

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