guess the hardware survey really was bugged
It's going to be a huge snowball effect. The more users they get, the more stuff Linux is going to support and the more industries start catering to it.I seriously hope that Windows gets so completely fucked that the situation with Linux in a decade looks like what happened with AMD and Intel.
>>107787370its going to hit 10% of english speaking steam users by may at the latest at the rate this trends going, its already at 7.6%
I feel I'm from Bizarro world when I run Linux on my laptop because the wifi card doesn't work on Windows 10 or 11.
the survey has always been skewed towards very specific configurations anyway, there are thousands upon thousands of netcafes out there and all of them contribute to the steam survey just as well as anybody else
>>107787424A while ago I was dual booting win10 and Ubuntu. I was working interstate and took my desktop with me, so I bought a wifi USB adaptor. On windows, it wanted me to install drivers from the included CD but I haven't had a CD drive for 10 years. On Ubuntu, it just werked
>>107787573This one doesn't even work, only shows code 10 error in Driver Manager and Intel dropped drivers/support for it in 2019.
HAIL TO THE KINGHAIL TO THE ONEKNEEL TO THE CROWNSTAND IN THE SUNHAIL TO THE KINGHail!Hail!Hail!The King...
>>107787424I had a similar issue where my motherboard manufacturer is distributing broken drivers for the wifi card and you have to get the drivers from elsewhere but even then it is extremely buggy and you can't get full speed. Then I installed some other drivers and they had bloatware that causes audio crashes so I just gave up and switched to Linux.
>>107787600use case for this when immutable Fedora already exists?
>>107787424I have a Toshiba laptop I had to use a USB Wi-Fi receiver for 6 years on and the second I installed linux it worked. Fucking so glad to kick windows to the curb
>>107787341that's just gaymers(trannies) too, now add in all the regular users. winjeets and ijeets BTFO
Happy for my Linux Niggas
>>107788865Has all of the things you want on it for gaming preconfigured.
>>107787424Part of what got me to stick with Linux was my favorite classic VN no longer working after "upgrading" to W11. Worked perfectly in Wine with some minor tweaking. How an OS with so much focus on legacy shit in can't run a VN from the 2000s remains a mystery to me.
>>107788865use case for an immutable OS on a real computer?
>>107788964use case for computers?
>>107788969computing. now spoonfeed me please
>>107787370>industries start catering to it.Can't wait for it to get ruined just like anything else that normalfags touch!
>>107787600>KING*QING
>>107787600HAIL TO THE MEME
>indians managed to fumble one of the longest standing and biggest monopolies in historyamazing honestly, how do they do it?
>>107789015time to become a BSDchad
>>107789719>cuck license
>>107787370On one hand I hope Windows gets fucked, but on the other I hope it's not that people run to Linux. Then there'd have to be worries about shit like security as careless sorts start using it more often.
>>107789735>Windows 11 at 75% marketshare on Steamnormies will stay with Microslop no matter what
>>107787424For some reason, out of the box linux usually has support for a ton of random hardware the moment you plug it in. I've had usb headphones that would complete seize up windows because of audio driver conflicts, but justwerked on linux.Realtek is a shit.
>>107788972lowering the chance of system failure. easy downgrades. the tradeoff is a clunky customization. most of the times you can just build what you need in a podman container and symlink in your bin directory. from the perspective of a normal user this is a smoother experience. everything will start falling apart the moment the user watches a youtube video telling him to paste commands in the console
>>107787600I considered this to stop worrying about the usual distro. I'm not sure if I should switch to something atomic. I have enough storage for a lot of flatpaks. But I'm afraid of anything that would make me waste a lot more time just to try to fix. I've seen people with Bazzite have problems trying to update the thing at some given point.
>>107787341>all time high>3.58%LMFAO do lintroons really?
>>107792725
>>107787573When I tried to use my mobile Internet adapter I had similar problem - Win10 just refused to install the driver that came with the dongle because hurr durr unsupported, potentially dangerous hardware and apparently there's no easy way to tell Windows defender to eat an dick an die, Meanwhile it just ran flawlessly on Linux's own drivers.
>>107787600Can I just delete the wallet thing? It's annoying to punch in my password every time I want to do something and it's annoying to turn it off for every app
>>107792758i can calculate 3.58% of various number all by myself lil bro
>>107792725>winjeet does not understand growth percentages>winjeet does not understand the significance of a 200% increase in 2 yearsChecks out.
>>107792758>basedbot please help I cannot open my bottle, my strength wanes
>>107793281I keep forgetting /g/ has word filters..
>>107787341at 10% probably we will start to see some efforts to make anti-cheats work for some sort of 'trusted' kernel/distro configuration. 20% we will probably have a solution that everyone is using that just works and from then on windows is completely fucked
>>107787341I switched the last of my devices over to Linux last month after those several weeks in a row where it was just bug after bug after bug from Microsoft.The final nail in the coffin was when that CEO fuck began pissing himself impotent when people kept calling AI "slop". He offered no way and showed no interest in actually, y'know, improving AI or providing a use case for it.He just really cried on the internet saying "stop bullying meeeee ;n; This was supposed to make me rich!" and I fucking had enough.
>>107787341The Steam Machine is going to boost this even further
>>107793411How do people like Sadistic Nutella manage to sleep? There's a point where "I want money and fuck everyone else" turns to sickness. You see there's nothing good, even normal day to day non-internet obsessed people have had enough of this crap, but the denial is outstanding.
>>107787370>The more users they get, the more stuff Linux is going to support and the more industries start catering to it.If distro committees aren't leaning hard into Steam and basically supporting everything Valve asks for, they're morons.Steam could easily be the killer-app for Linux as a mainstream OS.
>>107793461In his stupid pissbaby blogpost he admits to using AI to sum up all forms of media he would ordinarily consume and have it spoonfeed it to him in little baby bites.I get the feeling that he is genuinely mentally ill and that most CEOs have either legitimate mental health issues/brain damage. He doesn't seem to have the capacity to understand anything or formulate his own thoughts or opinions without someone breaking out the hand puppets and telling him /how/ to feel and /what/ to think.
>>107793291hehe who is laughing now..
>>107793347>for some sort of 'trusted' kernel/distro configurationWhitelisting specific distros wouldn't be a good thing, nor would it be sustainable with how things change.Most anticheat is already compatible with linux, devs just have to enable it. The ones that can't are simply badly made.User-side anticheat will always be possible to defeat, and only serves to stop casual cheating after all. If it's not viable to infiltrate system security anymore, so be it. Even microsoft wants to go back to it working that way in the future.
>>107793532>Steam could easily be the killer-app for Linux as a mainstream OS.I don't know if you want Steam to pull Adobe in. But for some people to consider Linux as a mainstream OS, you're going to have production tools available, and a lot of people are tired of the usual FOSS alternatives (with a few exceptions like Blender and Davinci Resolve). In basic terms it might end up with Linux being the gaming centric OS, macOS being the production centric one and Microsoft not knowing what to do because they're a hybrid that has only the worst aspects of both.
>>107793730The same benefits Linux brings for gaming in terms of being performant and lightweight are also there for productivity software like CAD, simulation, 3D modeling/rendering etc. Linux has superior potential compared to Windows and Mac thanks to its open nature which allows you to trim down a lot of the bloat that is bundled with other OSes.
>>107793799I don't disagree, but it'll take a while until you can convince these developers to offer software without being worried about damaging their brand reputation and not being able to greatly profit from their customers who would rather pay X bucks a month than learn how to use anything new "because time is money". I feel that it worked a lot better with Steam and gaming because Valve already put their dick on the table a long time ago, they already attempted multiple times to sell their own hardware with Linux (Steam machines were being poorly sold over a decade ago, but they did try), whereas you don't see much of that elsewhere. There's a lot more fragmentation when it comes to productivity software.At least for now, Canva, the horrible and evil Canva, is considering linux as a viable platform for the new "pay me for AI slop" Affinity, which some people might feel is bad because they try to sell AI bullshit, but this is a step into that "bringing people to linux" direction. Let's see how things are handled, but these corporations are very worried about the macbabies.
>>107788865gaymer bloatware and an lgbt mascot
Buy cachyDoomp arch
>>1077873412026 confirmed YOTLD
ANY DAY NOW!!! LOONIX DESKTOP !!!! THIS TIME FOR REAL!!!
>>107793869I dunno I don't know how it could work even if they wanted to support linux. What environment do you test in?Steam has its linux runtime which allows games to target known versions of libraries and even then, Proton works better a lot of the time. For a desktop app you need more integration with the DE than even that provides.At best you could have someone like KDE create a runtime with a stable ABI that the apps could target but I don't know how much interest there is in doing that. OSS apps like blender will always work better though because they don't need that.
>>107793532>Steam could easily be the killer-app for Linux as a mainstream OS.Linux is already mainstream you fucking muppet. Linux powers a fuck ton of backend server workloads and more. Just because Linux isn't used for desktops doesn't mean it's not mainstream. Holy fuck gaymers are actually braindead. The world does not revolve around you. The server market is so much more impactful for Linux than gayming ever will be.
December survey is trash data, it's literally wrong.
>>107796422You wrote out that whole fucking rant, because you're a faggot, instead of just charitably interpreting his remark in context which is AS A DESKTOP OPERATING SYSTEM. Steam does not have any use on servers, and servers are not a "mainstream" use of any operating system, therefore you are a fucking RETARD for responding without considering context. Only FAGGOTS do this. Hold this constructive critique.
>>107787424On Christmas I bought my brother and myself Halo infinite and we were gonna try out some co-op.I run arch, the game booted up and ran perfectly with zero tinkeringMy brother uses Win10 LTSC. The game failed to launch and just kept spooling up a million instances of the .exe until it maxed out his 32gb of ram and forced the PC to chug. We tried fucking around with njudea drivers and whatnot but were never able to get it to workNow he's switching over to linux
>>107796110Bazzite or Cachy for first Linux distro? I want to get off Mr. Nutella wild ride.
>>107787600Bazzite screams indians.
>>107796471If you're going to run Arch as a gaymer you might as well run Cachy. But if you need your hand held, Bazzite is decent
>>107796453why? explain in detail
>>107787424Yeah, I have the same problem. It fucking sucks man. I just boot into Ubuntu whenever I want to transfer large files at this point
>>107793559You need to be a very special type of cunt to actually make it big in business. Corporations cultivate a special breed of people - selfish, amoral, narcissistic, arrogant and servile. Someone like this is usually a hardass for those lower in hierarchy and kissass for those perceived as being higher on the corporate totem pole.
>>107796462>Microsoft game can't run on Microsoft OSsad but true!
>>107796528Open the data, it's full of errors.Expand GPU stats, every single GPU percentage "increased" from prev. month. Most stats add up to more than 100%.Only the press, gullible retards and /g/ doesn't catch obvious things. But with /g/ I understad, this is a consumer board, no one reads code, no one verifies data, no one clicks links.
>>107796481It's mostly one fat white guy.
>>107796471just install opensuse tumbleweed, it offers everything CrappyOS does (x86-64-v3) but isnt a meme distro>b-but yast is being deprecatedand being replaced with cockpit which does all of the same shit but better>b-but muh politicswho gives a shit
>>107796471Fedora.
>>107789077Indians have a long and proud history of turning anything into shit and dumping it on everyone else.
>>107796620kinda weird that you would edit the webpage just to lie...
>>107787341>Linux is dying Dyi-ACK They may as well be with there small user bases kek
>>107787370>I seriously hope that Windows gets so completely fucked that the situation with Linux in a decade looks like what happened with AMD and Intel.It's pretty near. We just need a good distro with actually good, user-friendly and good designed DE. Maybe Google or Valve cooking something like that.
>>107798432No it's different. Turns out they've updated the data today or yesterday. You can check old threads where people complained about it.The tech press did report on the fake that so it was pathethic.
>>107787341Year of Linux desktop?
>>107798435>Nearly doubles from Windows 11 backlash.>"Small number mean nothing!"Very thirdie and brown type of take.It'll keep going up, and settle around 10%. Calling it here.
>>107777777
>>107798435>small user baseGood. Develop retard-proof technology and you will attract retards.YotLD fanboys should be careful with what they wish for.
>>107800041There's faggots on this daily board that use old style units because they hate an autistic German guy. Having a Linux for retards won't stop people from ripping out the child safety bumpers on all the cabinets and making a barely usable system.
>>107798573Valve already picked their championArch and its derivatives with KDEPoogle would just give you another Ubuntu
>>107787341>>107787409>>107787370>>107787600>>107799010>Only Valve has data>Valve controls the dataIt’s not reliable anon
>>107787341After Valve's steam frame announcement I'm convinced that the future is x86 Linux desktops and arm Linux for laptops, handhelds, tablets, etc all the pieces are there for platform agnostic gaming and maybe productivity apps later down the line.
>>107800699KDE sucks though. As a consumer I don't want to use something that ugly. It looks old, not new.
>>107801744>waaahh I don't like the lookInstall any one of the bajillion themes/rices then.
>>107801771It's the very first thing you see on a brand new OS. If it looks as unpolished in terms of design it won't help with growing it's user base. I haven't seen any good riced KDE setup. There's always strange sizes, typefaces and spacings around the elements. It needs some professional designer's touch.
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