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LinuxLinux breaks the 5% threshold for the Hardware survey first time ever on @steam@lemmy.ml
Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45783520?sort=Top
There are dozens or us, dozens!
Even if you don’t use Linux, this is now an un ignorable fraction of the userbase. This will force more companies to support it!
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Great to see linux finally getting some notice in the gaming world. It is about time :)
@frodololo @mesamunefire I absolutely love it! It’s funny but native Windows games actually perform better on Linux because Linux is vastly more resource efficient than Windows. Windows suffers from huge code bloat. Plus Linux is more fun and satisfying. 😉
Well, ofc it does better, no telemetry built-in so you ain't waiting for your PC to spy on you
Proton is such a good tool. I play Windrose on my windows pc but it also runs well.on my steamdeck. I'm prepping a new pc for the kid and i think it will be linux out of the box, just to see how far it can go.
Tbh, another reason is that you can't change the boot logo anymore. That was one of the earliest "hacks" and i still have fond memories of the XP Pirated Edition Logo. It also sparked my fascination with tinkering with the OS - and with Win 11 that is all gone
@jagermo Smart move! The more people we can get on Linux, the better. My finacee is not an IT pro by any means and she really likes Linux when compared to Windows. One of my missions is to get everyone I can on a Linux distro.
Interesting but the absolute figures are not helpful due to the way the survey is conducted. But the macro trend over a long period is clearly up; we just don't know where is actually lies as a true %.
Valve will have far more accurate idea of actual numbers as they will be able to correct the raw survey data using other information and data they hold and collect. But they'll never release that as it's a commercial advantage to them to know so much about the PC games market.
What's an example of something they could do with more data than what we see?
Determine if sample set is representative. And if people switch. Valve know which user change setup but not release because privacy.
I guess it would be more precise, and they could sell it to game developers.
Damn just got my new linux desktop going like last week. Its my headcanon that I was the very last one in to push that (I most definitely wasn't)
Thank you Sanctus!
You will go down in history Sanctus, we all thank you oh great Linux convert
Guys its finally the year of the linux desktop
::: spoiler spoiler
And it should be anything but GNOME
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This is why we can't have nice things. You brought a knife to a celebration.
Let's just be happy for the platform, also fuck Arch.
Let's just be happy for the platform, also fuck Arch.
Lol! It's the year of the Linux desktop! Let's celebrate!
::: spoiler and then... focus on converting everyone to the Vim editor. :::
::: spoiler spoiler GNOME is fine I will die on this hill. It's not for Windows refugees, though. :::
::: spoiler spoiler my issue with gnome is that it's not api staple enough to trust the plugins you install will keep working :::
::: spoiler spoiler Just apt-mark hold gnome /s :::
::: spoiler spoiler That's a fair criticism. I imagine as it matures more this might become less of an issue (yes it's been around for ages but desktop Linux is only recently gaining some traction, so I give them some slack there), but currently it's absolutely GNOME's biggest downfall.
It's also partially why I don't recommend it for Windows refugees, if you have any expectations of how it should function there's a good chance it just won't work that way, and the extensions that make it work how you want it to are unreliable.
I personally have a cursed setup with GNOME and hyprland installed. I retreat to GNOME whenever my hyprland setup is borked, which is most of the time. :::
