For dummies like me, is the +3.1% of the total or just the subtotal of Linux machines?
To put it less crazy, is that a more than doubling of Linux since last time or lower, but still respectable 3% growth of Linux machines?
One is amazing and a beautiful omen, other is cool.
Last month was 2.23%, but the only reason why it was so low was because of the Chinese New Year
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/#linuxonlyanchor
I think it’s percentage increase, not percentage points.
For example, an increase from 10% market share to 15% would be a 50% increase but 5 percentage points increase. People mix these up pretty often
Yes it’s more than double.
I have a theory: Windows users don’t have the skill to fix their broken PCs, and now they don’t have the money to replace them.
Hell I don’t have the skill to fix that shit, it’s garbage and the only solution is installing Linux
Windows users can’t even install Windows.
I play all kinds of games and they just work. Sometimes you have to adjust the settings a bit, but to be honest, that is rarely the case. At first I had problems because I wanted mod support for Cyberpunk 2077 and I tried to get the Nexus apps to work (any of them) and it just would not work. But then, someone suggested the native Linux app Limo which works very well for me for installing and administrating mods. For installing and starting the games, I used to use Lutris a long time ago, but now I rely on Heroic Games Launcher, and unlike Lutris, it has not let me down so far.
I use Bazzite btw.
I find that I don’t have to tinker with settings anymore than I did on Windows — which is to say that it’s pretty occasional
But what I like about Linux is that in the rare instances of struggling to make stuff work (like when I found out how to run mods in Baldur’s Gate 3 — big love to the random person who made an excellent Steam Community guide on how to mod Bg3 on the steam deck), at least at the end of it, I come away from the process with some additional knowledge that’ll be useful beyond the problem I was dealing with.
The OS is just way more transparent and communicative in a way that facilitates learning (once you learn the basics of how to communicate with it, such as not being terrified of the terminal)
The OS is just way more transparent and communicative in a way that facilitates learning (once you learn the basics of how to communicate with it, such as not being terrified of the terminal)
I could not agree more. Linux is not perfect in any way, but at least it tells you what the problem is. Windows? Oh sure, you can probably get that information somehow, somewhere, in some event log that is only recorded if you sacrifice a chicken at midnight and dance around a campfire on one foot.
The only settings I ever change are Linux Native to Proton 9 because it’s just SO much better for games more than 5 minutes old.
I would have installed linux on my system, but my mouse/keyboard are wireless and wouldnt work during the installation process of bazzite.
Same thing happens with Windows installer, the workaround is to temporarily use a wired keyboard & mouse, or just a keyboard and TAB around.
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 dream about the times when all software and games are made for Linux first and have Windows users use Wine lol.
I mean, cross compiling is a thing. It has never been easier to build an agnostic game and compile it for different OS.
I spent most of my gaming days well below <1%. Now that I don’t have time for gaming, Linux usage decides to surge? 😡
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.
While that page is great I think for proton https://www.protondb.com/ is a lot easier as you don’t have to be aware of how proton wraps wine to apply the fixes from winehq.
oh, proton and how it integrates has been that good for at least 2 years now
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?
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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.
Actually, at least RAM prices are currently dropping.
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 AI bubble bursting will probably cause a shitload of tech companies to go bankrupt and cause divestment in data centres, but it’ll be enterprise hardware mainly I think. Prices likely will fall as a second order effect. And the economy will probably also collapse as bad or worse than 2008. Lots to look forward to.
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)
I’m bringing three more people home in the coming weeks.
Looks sus. Probably a fluke.
There has been a disproportionate amount of “fuck windows” chatter on social media recently. It could be real.
I wish that was it, but what are those unnamed 64 bit Linuxes supposed to be?
And those channels have been talking about Linux for months. Why now such a sharp increase?
The Chinese New Year screwed up the stats for last month which makes this month look like a bigger jump than it really is
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
I made a rough trendline from Win10 EoL
You can also look at the bottom of the website where it focuses specifically on English users. It’s 8.27% to 11.28%, still a big jump but nowhere near doubling.
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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…
“massive”
Linux users on Steam used to be a rounding error. It is relatively massive.
No more Chinese New Year, back to year of Linux!
