The Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out for October 2024, and the Linux user share has gone back up again to exactly 2%.
  • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    437·
    2 months ago

    The whole of those 2% are on Lemmy.

    How do I know? Because they really like to tell you about it.

      • Comment105@lemm.eeEnglish
        64·
        2 months ago

        If they’re anything like vegans, they’ll make FOSS a topic as unpopular as vegans made animal rights.

          • Comment105@lemm.eeEnglish
            11·
            1 month ago

            Look at the reality of what has happened to animal rights progress after the animal rights movement was effectively replaced.

            It has flatlined entirely.

    • Comment105@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Don’t do two weird things at once, the combo isn’t getting taken care of.

      • Pissman2020@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yeah I got the arc card ages ago before I thought I would ever go to linux, then a buddy of mine started daily driving linux, so I got a resource to to go to for help lol. I’m just waiting on black friday to switch back to amd now

        • Comment105@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I’d definitely ditch the OS before the hardware, but it’s your PC and I’m not usually a good guru for this stuff either way.

    • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I was tempted by Arc. Intel drivers always “just worked”, but they are just slow. Arc didn’t address the problem like I’d hoped, and AMD really got their shit together in the last 5 years or so.

      • Pissman2020@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I’m all for competition in the market and knew enough to be able to fix any problems I ran into on windows, but linux is a whole different beast. It’s the first intel product I’ve bought since my first CPU in 2012

      • misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        I’m not surprised. Very few people can afford hardware to drive such displays at native resolution so 1440p is usually though of as a good balance. The other issue would be that it’d have to either kinda big or you’ll have to deal with display scaling which is not great on Windows.

  • misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    111·
    2 months ago

    I just contributed to this. My gf bought her old work laptop for cheap (an employee perk) for simple survivors-like games. It should have been perfectly capable machine (i5-8350u, 16GB of RAM, fast NVMe drive) and it’s compatible with Windows 11 so I went with that. I’m a Mac guy these days and but use Windows at work so I’m only familiar with LTSC versions. I wasn’t ready for how much of a shitshow it is.

    Couple of hours later I had debloated it and disabled Defender yet it was still running dog slow. The laptop had trouble with Thunderbolt 3 docking station, not recognising anything beyond connected displays. Intel graphics drivers were so unstable games kept crashing left and right.

    I got tired of fighting it and installed vanilla Ubuntu (didn’t want to disable Secure Boot). I’m not a Linux newbie by any means but these days it’s home server stuff and the like. I stumbled on Bitlocker protection that I’m 100% sure is there to discourage people from switching. Microsoft set it up so that when you look at it funny you have to find unlock keys at your account page. Funny thing about that - when my gf was typing the address for that page in Safari with Google search on her phone the first autocompleting result was a scam page. I’m fairly sure Google does this to spite Microsoft. Fuck big tech but I digress.

    After that it took an hour to install including figuring out that I had to add DisplayLink drivers for the dock myself. The process wasn’t great but I guess it’s a real niche case. Either way, this machine is now flying and Steam+Proton handle everything pretty well.

    Last time I used Windows on desktop was around W8 and it wasn’t half that bad. Microsoft is doomed if they offer this kind of experience. I was critical of Proton before but I need to acknowledge that some working solution had to be created ASAP to get people off this dumpster fire.

    • Trollception@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      42·
      2 months ago

      Literally never had the need to disable defender or change anything about my Windows install. Driver support is far better on Windows than Linux.

      • misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        51·
        2 months ago

        Literally never had the need to disable defender or change anything about my Windows install.

        This doesn’t mean anything if you’re not saying what hardware are you running. I saw what was happening in task manager no matter how much time I gave it. I don’t have time to debug a product I paid for, especially if the free alternative „just works”.

        Driver support is far better on Windows than Linux.

        For things that Linux supports (which is most of it and the older the better) it’s a much better experience since everything just works out of the box. You might have trouble with bleeding edge hardware but in year or two stuff gets done and keeps working. You might encounter issues on some cheapo laptops with broken ACPI implementations but those are just trouble in general.

    • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      2 months ago

      Yup, that’s how niche the Steam Deck is at the moment. It’s ~37% of 2% of all Steam users.

      Then again the user numbers on Steam are insane. Would be nice to compare it per region.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I switched to linux because windows 10 is going end-of-life, and I can’t upgrade to windows 11 even if I wanted to.

    It’s been fine, other than some trouble getting mint to dual boot the first time.