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Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS
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Who are all these sick people using Manjaro
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Steam Deck is based on Arch Linux & folks are trying to get as close as possible on their other PCs I assume.
I daily manjaro, what's wrong with it?
Stability mostly
After having distro hopped for over 10 years ive settled on manjaro xfce and been happily running it for roughly five years now. It works very well out of the box, comes with working support for nvidia and steam being preinstalled. It strikes a very good balance between latest bleeding edge and just works, a position where it is bound to sometimes make some mistakes. But I've never noticed any issues. I can fully recommend it, it seems like most people that give it hate comes from memes or have never tried it themselves
I used it for a while, never had an issue. im on base arch now but ngl manjaro had the best gnome implementation I've ever seen
I use Manjaro, what's the problem?
If you’re happy with it there isn’t one.
Lots of people see it as a handful of config options of Arch with its own less stable package repository
It has massive stability options and the support from the devs is poor, one of them openly said that if users can't fix their broken systems they shouldn't update them.
It was an often-recommended distro a couple of years ago. When SteamOS 3 was on the horizon, some people recommended it as probably the closest to SteamOS 3 on the market. Now, I haven’t bothered uninstalling it on my old computer yet.
People who Googled arch linux for dummies and realized even that was too complicated and then proceeded to install an arch based distro just to get AUR.
Aur is probably the worst bit about arch.
Probably more and more people buying Steam Deck lately. That’s the nr. 1 purchase I’ve made last year for me.
Just switched to Pop OS from Windows. I've been doing this since Red Hat 5.1 and I finally think all the things that kept pulling me back to windows have been solved and for edge cases Windows in Virtual box seems to just run faster anyway
Too bad that there isn't any reasonable way to get virtual box to run modern games. I've thought about a pcie pass through but then I question why even have Linux in the first place if I am just going to install windows over it?
I might multiboot windows if anything doesn't like virtual box but every game I play works fine on linux so far
Let's goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! :)
I wouldn’t be surprised if Mac usage is slumping hugely.
I’m a Mac user and previously used Steam quite a bit. But can’t since upgrading to an M1 as Valve hasn’t compiled any of its games to be 64-bit compatible
FYI you can run the Windows version of Steam through Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit (or crossover-wine). I do that on my M2, works pretty well. It’s just like the old Linux days haha
Thanks for the head up. I use Parallels at the moment, which works well enough. Haven’t looked into the toolkit, but will do.
"According to these new numbers from Valve"
That means the numbers are fake, just like Elon followers. People please do your research and not trust sources that control the numbers.
That means the numbers are fake,
What? Them (phoronix) disclosing the source or valve releasing any numbers at all?
People please do your research and not trust sources that control the numbers.
How would that even work? Where would I get the numbers?
Valve blocked API access to their database. We can not confirm anything anymore: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/04/steam-spy-announces-its-shutting-down-blames-valves-new-privacy-settings/
The numbers are by Valve, there is no other way, Valve wants to control the numbers. We can not know if they are real or made up.
Deliver fake data would be an insanely dangerous game from Valve: that data is what all their partner to make strategic choices... if there's any proof of that, all their partner would drop the ball and Valve would lose it's multi billion business in just few weeks.
- fake that data is plain stupid too: Valve has all the interest to know and share where is the bigger pie piece... so Capcom, Sega, Blizzard etc. can tune their product. For example, let's say Valve goes crazy and say that the GPU Nvidia RTX 5090Ti got 50% of market share... and all their partner follow this fake data and deliver all their products with no optimizations: results for their customers? (and, before any one mention it: yes, this apply the opposite: if Valve say 50% of GPU market share are shitty old Intel iGPU... all future games on PC will overly tuned towards the lowest end and big publisher won't even bother trying with next gen videogames).
Thats a very specific event that doesnt apply to cheap companies who overwork their employees and are using Unreal Engine most of the time.