Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for March 2025, and as expected with the Simplified Chinese language dropping the Linux stats have shot back up.
  • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I did my part, I declined the survey because I was temporarily on a Windows partition when it asked.

  • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    16 days ago

    The only thing stopping me from migrating is 90% of my Steam library isn’t available on Linux. I’m stuck on Windows for my main

    Edit: Thank you everyone! Last time I checked was about 6 months ago, I didn’t give Proton a proper shot and I will be glad to migrate fully!

    • KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      16 days ago

      How is that much of your library not functional? I have a library of 4200 games (some from family library) and over 90% are just fine thanks to proton.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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        16 days ago

        How is that much of your library not functional?

        I assume they’re like a lot of people that only play competitive multiplayer games that don’t have support for Linux for whatever reason. Or they’re using a Nvidia GPU.

            • bundes_sheep@lemmy.oneEnglish
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              10 days ago

              I would characterize it as “hit or miss”. It works great for me on Ubuntu and I can’t remember any problems I’ve had in the last few years anyway. I’m not on Wayland yet, though. I would recommend AMD GPUs to people though myself to avoid them hitting the “miss” part of “hit and miss” phrase.

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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    16 days ago

    as expected with the Simplified Chinese language dropping the Linux stats have shot back up.

    Am I an idiot? I don’t understand what this means. Why would they drop Chinese from their languages? And why would dropping Chinese make people switch to Linux?