Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey

Oh, that was me. I installed it on my desktop Linux computer the other day.

You're welcome.

2%

Linux users: 👐 it's happening! 👐

And just to let people know, you are not limited to Linux games only. You can play windows games on Linux. Took me a while to figure this out.

There are dozens of us!

Year of the Linux desktop is nigh.

I got rid of my dual boot arch/windows, and installed single boot draugerOS this week end.

That number is going to go way up in 2025. I have a bunch of Windows 10 PCs that are perfectly capable that I manage that aren't going to Windows 11. I'm not alone.

How do I take the survey? I never seem to get the popup.

Surprised it's not higher. I would have thought more than 2% of people on Steam were using Steam Deck.

I gave Linux another shot this past month. It was a lot better than I remembered, but still not good enough, basically in the reliability areas. I wish the experience was “it all just works” like so many have said.

I may not mind giving it another try when Windows Recall goes live.

I'd love to make the move, but there's a one-two punch of: I play Warzone with family. I think anti-cheat there is only going to get worse. Second? I already get caught with the fiddly bits of errors on Windows sometimes and spend too long searching for answers. Any time I see that on Linux it looks like I'd need years more of active learning new problem solving to reach my current level of comfort.

I'm at that "is it worth planting the apple tree now that I didn't plant 20 years ago?" thinking.

Coincidentally last month I got the survey for the first time since I switched to Linux a decade ago.

Converted one of my gaming PC SSDs to a Linux disk. and I'm so amazed how well it just works with proton.

When a have some time I'm going to fully convert it to Linux, with a small Windows VM for the 1-2 tools I sometimes need

I just converted my other brother the other day. atomic distros are great when you are the family tech support guy. Made an ssh only user on all the family computers so I can remotely deal with most of their problems without having to actually touch it or remember their login details.

YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

Seriously i hope it stays like that, i don't want to bother with viruses in the future

Whelp, I ain't helping the cause. I might be running Fedora on both my computers, but I can't be bothered to game.

FreeDoom isn't a game, it's a lifestyle

Still no anti cheat support