When this reaches 10%, that’s a critical mass and things will start ramping up a lot. We’ll see more native ports and compatibility will increase. Software companies care about 10% a lot more than twice as much as 5%
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Games will just work these days, its amazing. Except when they want to run anti-cheat as a kernel module… And I dont want those games anyway.
I got my not-quite-as-techy friend to switch, and they’re like a week in and already so pissed off about how bad windows was.
I do most of my gaming on Linux now.
It’s better than macOS has ever been, and I’m playing less PlayStation than I used to.
There’s a lot of smaller games I’m enjoying, like Esoteric Ebb or Slay the Spire 2
Same. I just don’t bother with games that don’t run on Linux anymore. I’ve got so many games, it’s not a big deal if I can’t play some even if I did pay for them.
I do all my gaming on linux now. I consciously stopped playing online competitive games several years ago already, because I found that they stressed me out more than they entertained me, so I have no problem with most of those not working on linux.
Getting away from those felt as much of a relief as getting away from Windows was, so literally win-win for me.
Other than first-party Nintendo games, I do all my gaming on Linux
Going to add one more PC in day or 2. The courier company is holding my PSU. GIVE ME MY PSU!!!
You bought a PC? In this economy?
I guess now is as good as time as ever, because they are only going to become more rare and expensive going forward. If you have the money for it of course.
Maybe, maybe not. I wonder if after the AI bubble pops (whenever that happens - crosses fingers) data centers will close and suddenly have to liquidate a bunch of assets. Kinda like what happened after the NFT crash.
It will crash but we don’t know when. It could be 2-3 years from now for all we know or it can be tomorrow. And when it crashes a lot of people are going to lose their incomes and I don’t want to be in a position when everything is cheap but I still can’t afford.
The NFT crash was more digital assets with no other use-case. I can imagine there is a slight drop in adjustment pricing but if large resellers and producers want continued massive profits they will just keep the prices inflated like we’ve seen with so many other money grabs after the covid-pandemic.
Actually, at least RAM prices are currently dropping.
I don’t stuff’s gonna get cheaper anytime soon (I hope I am wrong) so might as well just get it now than later (when the world has been more unpredictable than ever)
No more Chinese New Year, back to year of Linux!
I bet whoever at Valve that looks over this data was very confused because I got prompted for the hardware survey on my M1 MacBook Pro running Asahi. They probably looked at the reported hardware and scratched their head
Edit: actually, two of my systems probably made them scratch their heads. My main rig has a 7800XT as a main GPU and a 3090 as a secondary (video encoding/local LLM usage) and they both show up in my system info lol
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Might be the new beta for the 64 bit Steam client
Steam client is not listed as a Linux operating system. There are two entries, 64 bit and 0 64 bit.
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You have to choose “Linux only” from this list, otherwise the bare link has different results:
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We don’t know, but Windows market share went from around 96% to 92% which is definitely a reliable stat. It could be because they have missing entries for Nobara, Bazzite, Fedora and Zorin which are all popular with people migrating from Windows. Worth mentioning that Flatpak will be under Ubuntu Core.
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yeah that’s sus
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I dream about the times when all software and games are made for Linux first and have Windows users use Wine lol.
Slowly but surely 👀 Proton and Steam Deck really changed the game for Linux gaming.
Yeah, my steam deck was a gateway drug to Linux for me, I know a couple of other people who had the same experience.
Non-Windows systems fucking doubled. I’m going to have to say it: THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP
Every year will be that year from now on, but unironically!
I’ve been running games that advertise they run in linux for a few years, but only within the last 6 months or so started trying out made-for-Windows games, and it’s really incredible just how good the Proton compatibility layer is now. All of the games I’ve tried are at least playable - most run perfectly, a few are a bit slow, and some you have to tweak settings but there’s a big database of how to get different games to work at appdb.winehq.org. Not one of the games in my library don’t run on linux at all, other than a couple with kernel anti-cheats that I don’t play any more anyway.
I was dual-booting but a couple months ago I deleted my Windows partition and now I just run linux full time. If a game only runs on Windows, I just won’t buy it.
oh, proton and how it integrates has been that good for at least 2 years now
Looks like an error.
There’s ‘0 64bit’ and ‘64bit’ along with huge number of ‘others’
There’s not a single Fedora based distro on the list, looks like they have problem identifying it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it got counted multiple times in this mess.
My bet is once they sort it out, Linux will be back to 2.5%
I spent most of my gaming days well below <1%. Now that I don’t have time for gaming, Linux usage decides to surge? 😡
Such a huge increase compared to previous months, with most of it coming from ‘64 bit’ and ‘0 64 bit’ seems suspicious. Don’t give me false hope…
