Skip to content
0
  • Home
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
  • Home
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (Sketchy)
  • No Skin
Collapse

Wandering Adventure Party

  1. Home
  2. PC Gaming
  3. Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux

Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved PC Gaming
pcgaming
294 Posts 145 Posters 12 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • D dil

    I’m on cachyos, thought arch was the most bleeding edge

    H This user is from outside of this forum
    H This user is from outside of this forum
    Horsey
    wrote on last edited by
    #209

    Arch is above my skill level at the moment. If CachyOS is an Arch distro, it could be related to Arch configuration issues.

    1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • nuko147@lemmy.worldN nuko147@lemmy.world

      Well, screen is running at 4k, so i think its normal.

      S This user is from outside of this forum
      S This user is from outside of this forum
      sorryquick@lemmy.ca
      wrote on last edited by
      #210

      Ah, yeah that changes things a bit.

      1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • nuko147@lemmy.worldN nuko147@lemmy.world

        How is your idle VRAM (video RAM) holding? For some reason i have 1GB usage in Mint with Cinnamon without anything running, while on windows i have 400MB (although i have optimised them a lot).

        P This user is from outside of this forum
        P This user is from outside of this forum
        pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        wrote on last edited by
        #211

        Why do you care?

        If I had to guess, VRAM is probably holding stuff as a cache.

        VRAM doesn’t use a lot of power and as long as you aren’t seeing out of memory issues, it doesn’t really matter.

        nuko147@lemmy.worldN 1 Reply Last reply
        1
        • B bronzebeard@lemmy.zip

          People buying Steam decks are likely the majority of those numbers. They probably ALSO have a Windows machine

          BombOmOmB This user is from outside of this forum
          BombOmOmB This user is from outside of this forum
          BombOmOm
          wrote on last edited by bombomom@lemmy.world
          #212

          People buying Steam decks are likely the majority of those numbers.

          The Steam Deck shows up as Arch Linux in the steam numbers; Arch is only 10.7% of the Linux user-base on Steam. And this is on top of the fact desktop Arch Linux is a thing as well sharing space in that line-item.

          The Steam Deck (and Microsoft tomfoolery) certainly was the catalyst for the current wave of adoption, but it is barely a notable percentage of Linux installs on Steam.

          T 1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • P pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com

            Why do you care?

            If I had to guess, VRAM is probably holding stuff as a cache.

            VRAM doesn’t use a lot of power and as long as you aren’t seeing out of memory issues, it doesn’t really matter.

            nuko147@lemmy.worldN This user is from outside of this forum
            nuko147@lemmy.worldN This user is from outside of this forum
            nuko147@lemmy.world
            wrote on last edited by
            #213

            I’m gaming with an NVIDIA GPU, so my VRAM is kind of limited. I’m at my limits in games because the company cheaped out on VRAM in their GPUs after the 10 series.

            1 Reply Last reply
            1
            • R roopappy@lemmy.world

              I’ve been running Bazzite OS on my living room big screen gaming PC since May. It’s a really slick fedora-based distro that installs out of the box with Steam, proton, and graphics drivers ready-to-launch for gaming. It was really easy to use, and my games worked perfectly.

              My high school age son got a new AMD proc/mb for his birthday, and I was surprised when he said he wanted to try dual booting Bazzite and Windows when we set it up. 2 weeks later, and he decided to kill the Windows boot and just use Bazzite full time. He has no linux experience and just figures it out.

              Windows 11 is shit and Linux alternatives are prettier, easier to use, don’t shove AI down your throat, and don’t steal your data for profit. The time has come.

              A This user is from outside of this forum
              A This user is from outside of this forum
              andrewzabar@lemmy.world
              wrote on last edited by
              #214

              Good on your son! Glad he sees the light. Windows is shittier and shittier all the time. I migrated away from it years ago. It’s absolute poison now.

              1 Reply Last reply
              4
              • L lost_faith

                For flat games this is true, there is still work to be done for the VR side of things, even that has advanced by leaps and bounds in just the last 2 or 3 years

                B This user is from outside of this forum
                B This user is from outside of this forum
                blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com
                wrote on last edited by
                #215

                Are there really people playing VR stuff regularly? I only know 2 people in my circles that bought equipment for it, and both of them got sick of it after a couple weeks.

                I don’t know, what I’ve tried was fun for about 10 minutes, but that’s about all I could take before the headache starts.

                L retrograde@lemmy.worldR Y 3 Replies Last reply
                0
                • I inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
                  This post did not contain any content.
                  anunusualrelic@lemmy.worldA This user is from outside of this forum
                  anunusualrelic@lemmy.worldA This user is from outside of this forum
                  anunusualrelic@lemmy.world
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #216

                  I’ve been running Linux on my desktop for more than 30 years, so I’ve switched for a while. And while I’d certainly like to see it become more commonplace, I’m not sure a few decimal points are really going to change anything. It’s nice that it’s making progress, of course, but all in all, it’s rather insignificant.
                  While it’s under 10, or more likely 15%, nobody will care about it.

                  K ☂️-U 2 Replies Last reply
                  7
                  • B blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com

                    Are there really people playing VR stuff regularly? I only know 2 people in my circles that bought equipment for it, and both of them got sick of it after a couple weeks.

                    I don’t know, what I’ve tried was fun for about 10 minutes, but that’s about all I could take before the headache starts.

                    L This user is from outside of this forum
                    L This user is from outside of this forum
                    lost_faith
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #217

                    I have put over 9k hours of play time since i got my vive in 2018. usually play for about 2h at a stretch 7 times a week. VR has destroyed my ability to play flat games, I just can’t put more than a half hour into them these days. Usually load a game, look at the main menu, may start the game then in a few mins, turn it off.

                    I play mil sim, zombie shooter, vr mods of flat games I have enjoyed in the past like raft and The Forest.

                    When I first started there was a time i couldn’t play long but after a month 2h was no issue except for tiredness.

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    3
                    • R roopappy@lemmy.world

                      I’ve been running Bazzite OS on my living room big screen gaming PC since May. It’s a really slick fedora-based distro that installs out of the box with Steam, proton, and graphics drivers ready-to-launch for gaming. It was really easy to use, and my games worked perfectly.

                      My high school age son got a new AMD proc/mb for his birthday, and I was surprised when he said he wanted to try dual booting Bazzite and Windows when we set it up. 2 weeks later, and he decided to kill the Windows boot and just use Bazzite full time. He has no linux experience and just figures it out.

                      Windows 11 is shit and Linux alternatives are prettier, easier to use, don’t shove AI down your throat, and don’t steal your data for profit. The time has come.

                      BakkodaB This user is from outside of this forum
                      BakkodaB This user is from outside of this forum
                      Bakkoda
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #218

                      I’m too old to tinker anymore. Bazzite has been a blessing. Rock solid.

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      1
                      • ultrafastsloth@lemmy.worldU ultrafastsloth@lemmy.world

                        I did the same with AMD+ NVidia gpu combo but it is not without problems. Do you play through Steam/proton db or are you using something else like Lutris?

                        S This user is from outside of this forum
                        S This user is from outside of this forum
                        sl00k@programming.dev
                        wrote on last edited by
                        #219

                        I use steam, I do check protonDB but I’ve never had to tinker with much.

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        1
                        • R roopappy@lemmy.world

                          I’ve been running Bazzite OS on my living room big screen gaming PC since May. It’s a really slick fedora-based distro that installs out of the box with Steam, proton, and graphics drivers ready-to-launch for gaming. It was really easy to use, and my games worked perfectly.

                          My high school age son got a new AMD proc/mb for his birthday, and I was surprised when he said he wanted to try dual booting Bazzite and Windows when we set it up. 2 weeks later, and he decided to kill the Windows boot and just use Bazzite full time. He has no linux experience and just figures it out.

                          Windows 11 is shit and Linux alternatives are prettier, easier to use, don’t shove AI down your throat, and don’t steal your data for profit. The time has come.

                          J This user is from outside of this forum
                          J This user is from outside of this forum
                          joeffect@lemmy.world
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #220

                          Linux really is in a good place I’ve been on it for some months now. It feels like win 7, it doesn’t get in your way, it does what you want it to do when you want it to. And if you fuck something up its because you fucked it up… go fix it…

                          Bilb!B 1 Reply Last reply
                          8
                          • anunusualrelic@lemmy.worldA anunusualrelic@lemmy.world

                            I’ve been running Linux on my desktop for more than 30 years, so I’ve switched for a while. And while I’d certainly like to see it become more commonplace, I’m not sure a few decimal points are really going to change anything. It’s nice that it’s making progress, of course, but all in all, it’s rather insignificant.
                            While it’s under 10, or more likely 15%, nobody will care about it.

                            K This user is from outside of this forum
                            K This user is from outside of this forum
                            KubeRoot
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #221

                            Developers already care about it. Not all of them, not all the way, but many are aiming for steam deck compatibility via proton. It’s not perfect, and some devs are vehemently holding out, but it’s progress!

                            anunusualrelic@lemmy.worldA 1 Reply Last reply
                            13
                            • anunusualrelic@lemmy.worldA anunusualrelic@lemmy.world

                              I’ve been running Linux on my desktop for more than 30 years, so I’ve switched for a while. And while I’d certainly like to see it become more commonplace, I’m not sure a few decimal points are really going to change anything. It’s nice that it’s making progress, of course, but all in all, it’s rather insignificant.
                              While it’s under 10, or more likely 15%, nobody will care about it.

                              ☂️-U This user is from outside of this forum
                              ☂️-U This user is from outside of this forum
                              ☂️-
                              wrote on last edited by umbrella@lemmy.ml
                              #222

                              .

                              K 1 Reply Last reply
                              2
                              • B bronzebeard@lemmy.zip

                                Sure, but even using that absurd growth rate continuously it would still take an ADDITIONAL 18 months from what you originally said to hit 50%

                                A This user is from outside of this forum
                                A This user is from outside of this forum
                                alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
                                wrote on last edited by alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
                                #223

                                log_1.11 (50/2.89) = 27.32

                                log_1.11 (100/2.89) = 33.96

                                1 Reply Last reply
                                0
                                • ☂️-U ☂️-

                                  .

                                  K This user is from outside of this forum
                                  K This user is from outside of this forum
                                  kadup
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #224

                                  People care a lot about macOS because you can charge users $15 for a GUI wrapper around a terminal command and they will pay and even recommend your app. I’m not even joking, there are a thousand examples of apps like this. If your app actually does anything, you can charge $30 and they will pay.

                                  Now on Linux you could release the cure for cancer for $0.99 and you’d get screamed at. And I say that as a Linux user. Which means you need significantly higher numbers than macOS to achieve the same revenue, which also means the companies developing the commercial software that holds back adoption of Linux will take a long while before starting to care.

                                  A B 2 Replies Last reply
                                  10
                                  • J joeffect@lemmy.world

                                    Linux really is in a good place I’ve been on it for some months now. It feels like win 7, it doesn’t get in your way, it does what you want it to do when you want it to. And if you fuck something up its because you fucked it up… go fix it…

                                    Bilb!B This user is from outside of this forum
                                    Bilb!B This user is from outside of this forum
                                    Bilb!
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #225

                                    “Fixing it” has been a lot easier to do lately as well. Most distros set up a rollback feature of some kind these days.

                                    J 1 Reply Last reply
                                    3
                                    • V voodooattack@lemmy.world

                                      They don’t. The survey pops up on one device only. Statistically speaking though, it’s more likely to show up on the OS you spend most of your time using, so it doesn’t make that much of a difference.

                                      frozenF This user is from outside of this forum
                                      frozenF This user is from outside of this forum
                                      frozen
                                      wrote on last edited by
                                      #226

                                      This is usually true, in my experience, but I experienced an anomaly a couple of weeks ago when the survey popped up on my desktop twice (Arch and Win11) and my laptop twice (CachyOS and Win11) in the same day. I was very surprised.

                                      V 1 Reply Last reply
                                      0
                                      • B blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com

                                        Are there really people playing VR stuff regularly? I only know 2 people in my circles that bought equipment for it, and both of them got sick of it after a couple weeks.

                                        I don’t know, what I’ve tried was fun for about 10 minutes, but that’s about all I could take before the headache starts.

                                        retrograde@lemmy.worldR This user is from outside of this forum
                                        retrograde@lemmy.worldR This user is from outside of this forum
                                        retrograde@lemmy.world
                                        wrote on last edited by
                                        #227

                                        Your brain acclimates to being in VR the more you play so the headaches should disappear after a few sessions.

                                        I’d say the issue these days is there aren’t enough fresh VR titles coming out.

                                        1 Reply Last reply
                                        3
                                        • Z zurohki@aussie.zone

                                          Microsoft is moving away from allowing anything to run with those low level permissions after that CrowdStrike incident where rogue security software bricked millions of Windows PCs, so that might take out kernel anticheat as collateral damage.

                                          T This user is from outside of this forum
                                          T This user is from outside of this forum
                                          trainguyrom@reddthat.com
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #228

                                          While I’d love to see this, they also walked that back following lobbying by Antivirus vendors. So shit will continue to roll

                                          1 Reply Last reply
                                          0

                                          Reply
                                          • Reply as topic
                                          Log in to reply
                                          • Oldest to Newest
                                          • Newest to Oldest
                                          • Most Votes


                                          • Login

                                          • Login or register to search.
                                          Powered by NodeBB Contributors
                                          • First post
                                            Last post