I joined the Linux team like six months ago. Fuck windows ai garbage and spyware
I’ve been considering doing the same recently for the reasons you listed but I’m fairly technologically stunted. How did the process go for you? How smooth was the transition? I’m fed up with windows and need a change but I’m not tech savvy at all.
I use Linux Mint Cinnamon and the installation process was exceptionally easy and the desktop environment is very straightforward.
You might want to try to install Linux on like an old laptop or something first just to get the hang of it. I installed it on my main desktop first and it went well, but now all my computers run it.
I even recently purchased a new Linux tablet that I can’t wait to get.
I installed bazzite recently and installation, setups, updating etc is easier than windows. Everything is easier. It’s not perfect but yeah, I am never looking back to windows even if I keep it installed as a dual boot… For now.
Good to know. Thanks. I’ll look into that one.
Damn, that is a solid upward trend.
I’m a part of that percentage!
Ay, moved over to Arch 3 months ago! It’s been fantastic and nearly every game has worked out of the box, protondb solved most other issues.
Fedora did not break the top 10. Is it not good for gaming? Genuinely curious as I was thinking of hopping to Fedora.
im using fedora and its nice, but i installed bazzite on a mates laptop recently, and when it comes to nvidia, and especially hybrid graphics (laptops with nvidia gpus), it’s so much easier to use bazzite with their preconfigured nvidia stuff than anything else. so, bazzite is really nice to use and based on fedora, but for my main machine i’ll probably stick to fedora for now.
Fedora is fine for gaming. The biggest issue I had with it was that if i had an issue with it, I had to do a web search for fedora + issue and I got a lot of unrelated hits for hats.
That said, gloriouseggroll made their own Fedora based gaming distro called Nobara. However I don’t know if they would have based their distro off of fedora if they didn’t work for Redhat.
Personally, I prefer rolling releases which is why I no longer use Fedora.
I’m on Fedora and it’s great. I think I had a GNOME-related performance issue the other day, so I’m trying Plasma KDE
I’m on Fedora and I always use the flatpak version of steam, which is listed as 4th. If you redistributed the flatpaks to the actual distro, I wouldn’t be surprised if Fedora was in the top 10. Probably above CachyOS. Fedora encompasses all the immutable child distros like Silverblue, Kiniote, and Bazzite.
People are still choosing Ubuntu too much which feels annoying to me considering how much better the alternatives are, including mint which is second highest.
I guess more likely Fedora being an RPM distro with its own set of system standards keeps people from switching.
I would think Bazzite and Nobara would have boosted the usage, but I guess not as much as I think.
2 months in. Linux Mint. I am doing my part!
THERE ARE DOZENS OF US
I switched to Linux mint a year ago and play most of my games on it. However, i still need a windows installation for those games that refuse to work on Steam (I play Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2 coop and I can’t get expedition 33 to run on Linux. But besides that, i spend most of my time on mint (mainly Monster Train 2 and Mechabellum)
i still need a windows installation for those games that refuse to work on Steam (I play Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2 coop and I can’t get expedition 33 to run on Linux
All three of those have a gold or higher rating on Linux, meaning they run fine on linux with little to no effort. Helldivers 2, Space Marine 2, Expedition 33. If you are having specific issues, check out the linked pages where people share their fixes.
Thank you, i‘ll give it another try
I do wonder if there’s any selection bias in the hardware survey steam does. I’m sure they sample randomly, but I think a user on Linux might be much more eager to participate in the survey than a Windows user, simply because Linux users tend to have a desire to be more vocal about their OS use than Windows users.
Linux users are also more likely to be private people and not willing to share info about their system. Both of those two effects are probably pretty small and cancel eachother for this survey.
I just built a new machine, for a time I’ll try some Steam on Linux. For the latest version of Ubuntu and an Intel 570. No idea what I’m doing, lol. (Normally just use Linux server).
Just don’t install Steam with snap. Many have had issues in the past with it. Either flatpak or grabbing the deb file from Steam
Ok, so re-install Steam! 😆 Pretty sure what I got was Snap. I was presented an App installer thing that kinda reminded me of the Microsoft Store (except, way less laggy). I think I remember seeing the word Snap.
Is there a way to verify that I have the right drivers for the video card? When it comes to GUI, I have a very Windows mindset, where I need to install the proper drivers, else I get the basic “well it works” drivers which aren’t good for gaming.
Yeah, just remove and grab the deb file instead.
I was under the impression that intel dgpu drivers were in the kernel and part of the mesa library. Not sure what kernel Ubuntu is using but you may want to grab a more recent kernel.
Quick search shows people are using kernel 6.12 and mesa 25 with decent success but not in all games. Could also swap to distro with more recent kernel.
I installed Bazzite earlier this year and it’s working great for me!
My dad installed Steam OS on one of his secondary PC’s not too long ago.
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