According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months… It’s also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2% marketshare but at that time the Steam customer size in absolute numbers was much smaller a decade ago than it is now. So if the percentage numbers are accurate, this is likely the largest in absolute terms that the Linux gaming marketshare has ever been.

Data from Valve: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=combined

  • @Mandy@beehaw.org
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    611 months ago

    I feel like such an outsider cause for me proton is such a piece of shit that it barely if ever works even if the title is rated platinum

    No matter the district either

    • @BearJCC
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      1711 months ago

      I have yet to have any issues with the 50ish games I have played on Proton.

      • @Mandy@beehaw.org
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        911 months ago

        Im genuinely happy for you to have things actually work out

        I wish it would be the same for me

        I even had shit break after restarting it 5 minutes after closing it

    • Bri Guy
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      511 months ago

      lol that’s the funny thing about linux right? and with all the various distros and setups it can be rather hard to diagnose what the issue is.

      • @Mandy@beehaw.org
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        311 months ago

        The inability to use proton correctly is a constant over 3 wildly different distros

        • @phar@lemmy.ml
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          111 months ago

          I am not sure how you can mess up using proton but somehow this seems like user error. Every distro I have tried it on, with multiple DEs…it just works.

            • @phar@lemmy.ml
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              211 months ago

              Seeing as you are the only person who really has this issue, it’s either your hardware or it’s you. If you try it on other hardware and it still happens, it’s you.

              • @Mandy@beehaw.org
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                111 months ago

                oh yeah its totally me when this happens on a stock distro, it cant possible be that the software isnt the problem, it must always be the user even if its what you claim a rare problem

                • @phar@lemmy.ml
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                  111 months ago

                  Umm…yes? It works for the rest of us on different distros across all different machines. So either it’s your machine, or you are doing something wrong. That’s it, there really isn’t much else to it.

    • @lemillionsocks@beehaw.org
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      411 months ago

      I wonder if it’s a software or hardware issue on your end that might be causing it.

      Been using proton since it started and it’s definitely not always as seamless and requires tweaking or going to protondb and checking bug reports, changing your proton version, and etc, but generally it has worked with me on multiple iterations of hardware.

    • @scorpiosrevenge@lemmy.ml
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      Try XanMod kernel and ProtonGE - I’ve had great performance and stability and been using those for couple years now with steam Linux gaming

      • @Mandy@beehaw.org
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        If it doesn’t work on stock Idk if I trust a random what I assume is a kernel mod

        Protonge was only marginably better and it only worked like that through lutris