As of March, Linux-based operating systems were running Steam on 5.33% of all polled systems. This represents an impressive 3.10% increase over February’s data, which showed a dip in Linux market share from January’s 3.5%.
seems very weird that it jumped that much in two months, i would not trust it blindly for now
With a 24.48% share, the use of SteamOS grew by 0.65% last month alone
that’s nice though, it’s not only valve thingy growing
something seldomly mentioned these days is how much things improved over the last decade.
10 years ago i needed to recompile the kernel with cherrypicked patches or to run custom versions of mesa with experimental stuff in them to run the latest games.
now all you need is at the very most is swapping proton versions with a dropdown or adding a launch option. no performance hit, no fuss.
desktop environments are much more refined in every way too. it really came a long way.
Year of the Linux desktop
Likelihood of me converting to Linux growing exponentially.
DO EET
Wild increases like these tend to be at least a bit wrong, so the skepticism is good here.
But,
i got no mans sky on sale on steam a month or so ago. i saw that it plays great on linux desktop. (i do bazzite KDE style, and it worked with zero fiddling).
after reading that security article about anti-cheat kernel access, I have never been more contented with my decision to obliterate windoze from all my personal devices and “confine” myself to the Linux garden of earthly delights.
I have had very good results on desktop and on the Steam Deck. My worst gripe is AMD doesn’t make Adrenaline for Linux. You need CoreCtrl to keep the card from not going 100% balls-to-the-wall all the time on desktop. AMD drivers are native to the kernels which is really nice, but the tinkering and customizing is not nearly as good as WinDoze.
The overhead in both processing and RAM usage is much better in Linux and I think they do multi-threading better than Micro$uck.
Wine/proton just got some improvements related to multithreading and process scheduling that has shown some significant performance gains in some cases vs windoze. Being computer savvy and using windoze is starting to be highly sus behavior. Linux can do pretty much everything most folks need, and it isn’t actively hostile to its users.
but the tinkering and customizing is not nearly as good as WinDoze.
This is true. However, my computer runs fine without changing GPU clocks or anything, so I just run it on defaults and stop worrying about not being able to change it.
with Wine 11, the games play SO much better now. Used to be there would be some slight framerate stuttering and things like that in some games… it was tolerable, but you noticed it. Now I can’t tell at all that I’m even playing games on Linux and even better my DS5 controller seems to work better than it did on Windows where I often had to run shitty little apps for games to even see it sometimes.
!! Steam on Linux finally qualifies for federal funding in the next election!!
