New Linux Gaming Survey For April

As somebody brightly said before we are not the aim for the steam machines.
The real aim are those in the console market.

Most PC gamers already have a decent machine to play with, and Steam Link seems to be more than enough to bring us to the living room.

So, I really doubt we'll see massive Steam Machine adoption amid PC gamers.

I really like that the post about the new survey is separated from the post detailing the results of the old survey. This makes it easier to locate the link and send it to others. Also, looking at the amount of answers - I think it worked! Already almost 2000 responses! Compare this to the January survey which in total had 926 respondents...

Someone nicely posted it to reddit (thanks antdude), so that's why we are getting such a good turn out :)

You can also see how it's progressing here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ed8os_t_OmbqqdhuEqSn9diStc5RGXtIZooACX1cKuw/viewanalytics (I only know this as it was commented on the reddit post, I didn't see a link on the form).

why is nobody using openSUSE/suse-based, it's such a great powerfull, yet easy to use distro

The SteamOS / Steam Machine question was interesting... I was running Xubuntu 14.10 before, backed up my home folder and Steam library, etc., and then gave SteamOS a brief try. It's actually pretty slick, how they've done the dual accounts, full-screen Steam Big Picture mode on its own VT... but then I realised that like they have been insisting, it's really not a 'desktop' OS.

It is Debian-with-tweaks, but you can't simply Alt-Tab from your Steam game to your desktop to check a browser or messages - I have a dual-screen setup, and that took a bit of tweaking to fix the Steam mode (adding xrandr commands to the startup script to force one screen off; otherwise Steam was trying to centre itself across the middle of both displays)... but that means you couldn't, for example, have a browser on one screen while you're gaming away on the other.

If I were to get a big-screen TV, though, SteamOS actually seems fairly viable if your primary thing is gaming, with maybe a bit of YouTube using their built-in browser. I'd be tempted to try hacking together some sort of Kodi(XBMC) / SteamOS kludge and make a hybrid HTPC / gaming rig for the living room... I'd almost go as far as to say that's how Valve should be going. If you've got a decent gaming rig for Steam, it's more than enough to replace a Slingbox/AppleTV/Chromecast/etc. and there's some decent open source projects doing just that that they could try and integrate. One box to rule them all, sort of thing.

Of course, the community can always figure out how to do it ourselves, and I'm sure someone already has. :) The joys of open source!

Since I actually use that machine as my main desktop, though, I ended up switching back to Xubuntu, but rolling forward to 15.04 beta 2 since that's out this month anyway. Copied my home folder back across, and pretty much everything 'just worked'. I love that. All my settings, configs, profiles, just... dropped right back in as if nothing ever happened.

Unrelated: Though I'm running Intel + nVidia at the moment, in my heart I'm still rooting for AMD to come up with something awesome, particularly because they're working on (almost) fully open source video drivers for their upcoming cards. Being able to drop the proprietary blobs and still be fully supported like the Intel guys sounds pretty sweet, particularly with all this talk of Vulkan. AMD could do some real good for Linux gaming with that.

Would be neat if the form could remember my earlier submission, cause it's kinda tiresome to answer the same questions month after month.