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I just converted my other brother the other day. atomic distros are great when you are the family tech support guy. Made an ssh only user on all the family computers so I can remotely deal with most of their problems without having to actually touch it or remember their login details.
Surprised it's not higher. I would have thought more than 2% of people on Steam were using Steam Deck.
Steam is a massive worldwide market, and the Steam Deck isn't offered everywhere. Chinese users for example have to import it, so not many are used there.
Well maybe Linux most likely to hit ~7% global OS market share and total 5%+ Steam Survey user share next 10 years (its just prediction)
thought more than 2%
What confuses me is a survey earlier this year was 2.32%, so why the actual regression?
I'd have expected it to go up with more time to sell steam decks and whatnot, not regress by 15%.
It goes up and down as people accept to fill the survey or don't
I got the hardware survey on my Windows PC, but not on my Steamdeck. So I wonder if there is only 1 survey per user, and most people don't use a steamdeck exclusively?
Oh, that was me. I installed it on my desktop Linux computer the other day.
You're welcome.
I got rid of my dual boot arch/windows, and installed single boot draugerOS this week end.
2%
Linux users: 👐 it's happening! 👐
Year 👏 of 👏 the 👏 Linux 👏 Desktop!
How do I take the survey? I never seem to get the popup.
Random users are asked each month. If you get chosen you'll get a popup in the Steam client asking if you'd like to participate.
Weird that it'd be random when they could just ask every user. Would give a more accurate breakdown on certain categories.
That might bias the results towards gaming cafes and people building test machines. Cases where an account is used but a single snapshot doesn't necessarily reflect what they normally use or that would capture the same machine multiple times.
Year of the Linux desktop is nigh.
And just to let people know, you are not limited to Linux games only. You can play windows games on Linux. Took me a while to figure this out.
There are dozens of us!
I'd love to make the move, but there's a one-two punch of: I play Warzone with family. I think anti-cheat there is only going to get worse. Second? I already get caught with the fiddly bits of errors on Windows sometimes and spend too long searching for answers. Any time I see that on Linux it looks like I'd need years more of active learning new problem solving to reach my current level of comfort.
I'm at that "is it worth planting the apple tree now that I didn't plant 20 years ago?" thinking.
I'm not really a tech guy at all and I let these nerds talk me into trying Linux Mint, I haven't bothered with Windows 10 for several months now. There was some frustrating troubleshooting at first but once the settings are tweaked how you like them, the updates don't negate your tweaks like with Microsoft. I'm sure there's a lot of functionality I'm not maximizing but I don't feel the need to. I got my productivity stuff figured out, my game stuff figured out, the last thing I really need to get sorted is why my printer is being such a wiener but I use it so sparingly that there's not much motivation to mess with that. I did dual boot for a while so I wouldn't feel overwhelmingly stupid when it came to Linux, so I was able to familiarize myself with the new setup at my pace and that helped quite a bit I think. No harm in going that route, then you can see what happens with Warzone before fully taking the plunge
If it’s within your budget, grab a Steam Deck and use it in docked Desktop mode. It’s a pretty great introduction into Linux IMO, especially due to the fact that Valve themselves are maintaining the OS, and since it’s running on a fixed hardware platform - most online solutions should be applicable to any problems you may encounter.
Worst case, you don’t like it you can always eBay it off to recoup most of your costs?
Converted one of my gaming PC SSDs to a Linux disk. and I'm so amazed how well it just works with proton.
When a have some time I'm going to fully convert it to Linux, with a small Windows VM for the 1-2 tools I sometimes need
and I’m so amazed how well it just works with proton.
Yeah dude!
I'm relatively new to Linux, so I don't really have any experience pre-proton. But I get the feeling that there are TONS of people who haven't tried it in years, that truly do not understand how far it has come. I'm sure they've heard that before, etc., but I can say that it's 100% true this time.
If you haven't tried gaming on Linux since before the Steam Deck came out, I implore you to give it another shot. Even better if you use a gaming-oriented distro (I'm on Bazzite now, and it has been wonderful).
Coincidentally last month I got the survey for the first time since I switched to Linux a decade ago.
I gave Linux another shot this past month. It was a lot better than I remembered, but still not good enough, basically in the reliability areas. I wish the experience was “it all just works” like so many have said.
I may not mind giving it another try when Windows Recall goes live.
Sounds like you're willing to forgive a mountain of bullshit for windows but nothing for a non corporate os
Priority one is having a working computer. Priority two is evading future spyware.
Priority three is using an OS where seeking support for issues doesn’t produce the reply “Sounds like you fucked something up, idiot, because it works perfectly for me!”
Just randomly wondering, which distro did you use on what hardware?
I used Linux Mint 21 first, which didn't (correctly) support my ancient wi-fi card or graphics driver. I then tried 22, which was much better, but failed to run a number of games, exhibiting a variety of issues not listed on ProtonDB.
I then switched to Bazzite, which ran those same games correctly, but its OS-integrated file explorer was oversimplified far past what Windows does, it failed to install several Linux-native applications, alt-tab behavior was frequently glitchy around games, and often I would come back from sleep mode with bizarre graphical glitches forcing me to restart.
I'm not even highlighting the poor usability, or the stuff I might be able to reconfigure. I'm okay with taking time to tweak my OS how I want it, but not when that's just a matter of having it work correctly.
That sucks it didn't work well for you. Hopefully the useability is more improved the next time you may be willing to try again.
YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP
I got rid of my dual boot arch/windows, and installed single boot draugerOS this week end.