I use Debian. Does this mean I’m in the top 0.05% of Steam users?
yes
Odd that SteamOS only show up in the Linux only view.
Not sure wtf those 97% are thinking
They did not use their brains enough.
Just use linux, it can do literally everything (via VMs) linux can; but better, faster and more customizable.
Just use linux, it can do literally everything (via VMs) linux can
Hmm, Linux is better than Linux? What a world!
Man, if only Linux would be adopted by the masses for gaming…
Android uses the Linux kernel but none of the familiar “Linux” stack: GNU, X or Wayland, GTK or Qt, GNOME or KDE or other DEs, PulseAudio or PipeWire, APT or YUM or other package managers, and many others that define the Linux experience. Google could replace the Linux kernel with something else tomorrow without touching the rest of Android and most users won’t tell, and many apps will run as-is.
Isn’t that why pedants call it “GNU/Linux” for those? Lol.
Google tried that once, they developed Fuchsia with the intention of replacing Android and ChromeOS and realized the investment to develop a replacement is not worth it and decided to layoff all the secondary development team to find the budget for the AI people that they pay to not work in competitors.
Hoping for the AI bubble to burst any time now. I’m fucking tired of the management stuffing AI everywhere. Heck even the CEO now outsources Slack replies from ChatGPT.
Then VR games will work at better than min specs. Trying hard to get off windows, mostly there. Except when streaming VR games, Kubuntu is my daily driver. All my flat games (like 8 of them) work flawlessly now that cloud is syncing. Just need drivers for one device and software for another but may just have to deal with the loss of a left hand kb, and 2 buttons on trackball.
I did get some useful looking apps recommended not long ago, not 1 will compile on my os and I am way to tired at the end of the work day to read read and read some more(I used to do more complex stuff 20 yrs ago but, well, I forgot most of what I knew. Why is “make” looking to github instead of the directory I am in?
Proton is is coming along great, I used to support Cedega to play win games before.
I would be shocked if Linux VR support isn’t massively improved prior to Valve releasing the Deckard.
So far, with the 2 games I have had a chance to try, other than having to lower the settings to bottom, they load and play if a little stuttery. With how Proton has improved by leaps and bounds I have no reason to believe it won’t keep improving at near the same pace. It is just that darn translation layer combined with the very high requirements of VR that needs to be overcome. If enough linux users go on the vr games and lament there is no linux native option we may get movement on that end. The flat games run so smooth right now I forget which OS I am using, compared to 2 years ago. I even have the disadvantage of an Nvidia card, at least the official driver is better meeting our requirements, shoulda gone AMD…
have you tried envision? it usually runs better than steamvr
I just saw that suggestion from someone else, will try that if wlx doesn’t work out, ty
I’m using NVIDIA also, the only real problem I had was that HDR was annoying to get work because gamescope doesn’t play too well with NVIDIA. Now that I can just use native Wayland HDR I don’t have any real problems with my graphics card.
I don’t think Linux VR is particularly bad if you’re using steamvr things. Unfortunately WMR on the other hand is much worse (they have to write custom drivers for tracking, and especially controllers are not that far along yet)
Steam/SteamVR is where all my games are located, I like to have 1 launcher. Tho I cannot interact with the monitors from inside steamvr, yet, if i click on the window it closes unlike in windows where I control OBS and other stuff, also only shows 1 of my 2 monitors. BUT, when I get a chance the creator of Desktop+ that I use on windows suggested a linux app that does most of what his app does so that may give me the pc control I need since I do most everything in vr for streaming.
edit: I think some of my issue may be the poor old Ryzen 7 3800 I am using vs the RTX 4070ti super. The Ryzen 7 is having issues with a few games now, especially the VR mod ones like Satisfactory
you should try envision and wlx-overlay-s
Wlx, that’s the one he suggested. I have it in a folder in steam and will be testing sometime soon. Will check out envision as well, ty
You have vr games working on linux? Im surprised
Yeah, make sure you get steam from the steam site not flat pack and if you use Nvidia, use the official Nvidia driver, also make sure you select compatibility in steam. Sometimes you need a different Proton version. Turn settings down and the fps will normalize.
Yeah, it is the most popular consumer OS
I’m just glad that I’m not the only one running steam on Debian.
I’m sorry for your drivers
It’s okay, it’s AMD, so it mostly works. I had trouble with my Bluetooth, but then remembered that I don’t really care enough to fix it.
Signed out of windows and into Mint when steam went to ask this time, the last 2 I said “sure” while playing cod on windows so it wasn’t tracking me
So I’m now doing my part
I’m somewhat surprised there isn’t a Fedora there, it’s a pretty great and up-to-date distro.
I’m also somewhat surprised Flatpak isn’t higher!
Fedora or Bazzite (Fedora-based) are my top recommendations for new Linux users. I’m constantly surprised at Mint’s general popularity, especially for gaming. Even openSUSE Tumbleweed is a better option when it comes to gaming.
Wanted to try bazzite but on my 13 year old cpu and mobo it wouldn’t boot. Mint ran perfectly.
I’m not a new Linux user but am a new Linux gamer. I landed on endeavorOS a few months ago and like it enough I converted my other two desktops over. Whether it’s just dumb luck or not it has been noticeably more snappy on all three of the workstations I put it on than anything else I was using. It’s honestly kind of eerie, after putting my work laptop (windows11) away for the day and jumping on one of my systems they are so responsive now that sometimes it feels like it’s predicting what I want to do before I do it.
There’s a reason it’s not up there and cachy is, bazzite is in basically just a worse version of what cachy is setting out to do.
Also surprised about that. I use Nobara and that too is based Off Fedora.
Yeah, it seems there’s something going on with what’s listed here. It doesn’t match any other measurement.
Nearly a third are coming from the Steam Deck and other Steam OS handhelds. Impressive.
Why are some in quotes?
Just a guess, maybe those don’t have explicitly set distribution names and are basically named by Valve themselves.
$ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Arch Linux" PRETTY_NAME="Arch Linux" (...)Because this is how distributions declare their names
Because that’s people not using Arch Linux but “Arch Linux”.
I use (pause) “Arch” btw.
It’s actually Ubuntu with the default Arch wallpaper.
Every part of this sentence makes me sad.
I bet that most of the steam flatpaks are on the Debian distros, specifically Mint. So if it wasn’t for steamos, Mint would probably be the first on the list.
Ubuntu has snap.
Debian is understandable since its packages are frozen for 2 Years
How do you use steam on Ubuntu core?
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Well, and I hadn’t thought of this, but maybe Ubuntu core is used to run game servers.
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I stand corrected.
Its because the Snap version of Steam Displays itself as Ubuntu Core to the Steam Client
One day it will reach 5%.
For all the valve bootlickers here: while it is good that they are now supporting linux remember that if the shares still look favorable to windows it’s thanks to company like valve who for decades promoted proprietary software.
Doing my part
