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Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 39 points 9 months ago* (9 children)

If we all got together as a team and each put Linux and Steam on 5 old/cheap/e-waste/whatever PCs for the next survey we'd pump those numbers up to ~20% and freak Microsoft out.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Does Microsoft care about steam numbers?

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    So just put steam on all those computers we're already refurbishing into linux servers anyway?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I will be replacing windows on all five of my home computers with Linux

    I'll leave a couple as a dual boot, but the media server, laptop, primary desktop, and two media/'console' PCs (connected to TVs) will be swapped over. hopefully it will be easy to get the same setup on all of them and run reliably.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Just a suggestion but for the two htpcs I'd recommend using bazzite or steamos. Both are stable and hard to break and booting into a console likr interface is great. Use anything else for the rest of your machines. They lock both down a bit too much to be practical every day machines.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Having been daily driving Bazzite for a bit, as long as you're willing to work with it it's perfectly fine as a daily driver. Sure I've had to pop in to distro box a couple of times to run a specific utility that's not in the immutable build but that's just a couple of extra clicks plus I can pick whatever distro userland I want which is convenient for better compatibility with whatever GitHub script I've decided to blindly trust this week!

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