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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 year ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That's a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months... It's also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2% marketshare but at that time the Steam customer size in absolute numbers was much smaller a decade ago than it is now. So if the percentage numbers are accurate, this is likely the largest in absolute terms that the Linux gaming marketshare has ever been.

Data from Valve: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=combined

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[–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol that's the funny thing about linux right? and with all the various distros and setups it can be rather hard to diagnose what the issue is.

[–] Mandy@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The inability to use proton correctly is a constant over 3 wildly different distros

[–] phar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not sure how you can mess up using proton but somehow this seems like user error. Every distro I have tried it on, with multiple DEs...it just works.

[–] Mandy@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The classic Linux moment, when it doesn't work, blame the user

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of the time, it's the user. And when it isn't, it's the user

[–] Mandy@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

fair enough lmao

[–] phar@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seeing as you are the only person who really has this issue, it's either your hardware or it's you. If you try it on other hardware and it still happens, it's you.

[–] Mandy@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh yeah its totally me when this happens on a stock distro, it cant possible be that the software isnt the problem, it must always be the user even if its what you claim a rare problem

[–] phar@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Umm...yes? It works for the rest of us on different distros across all different machines. So either it's your machine, or you are doing something wrong. That's it, there really isn't much else to it.