Our user statistics page has been updated again, and it should now happen at the end of every month automatically.
Here we can see that Ubuntu, is clearly the most popular Linux distribution amongst our Linux gaming visitors, with Arch coming in second place again (out of 1645 users):
This time, as requested, I added in a gamepad selector along with the graph to go with it, which clearly shows right now the "Steam Controller" being the most popular. I imagine that will change with more people inputting their preference, as we only had 271 people answer it so far:
What I am most surprised about, is out of 924 users, KDE Plasma is the most popular desktop environment. I never seem to be able to personally get along with it, but it's cool to see how popular it is:
For those, and more visit the statistics page.
As always, if you have suggestions on how to make it all more interesting, fire away in the comments. I want to make the page useful, and it has grown quite a bit since the initial release of it.
What I would like feedback on, is how often to remind users to make sure their details are up to date, and what the preferred method would be? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Here we can see that Ubuntu, is clearly the most popular Linux distribution amongst our Linux gaming visitors, with Arch coming in second place again (out of 1645 users):
This time, as requested, I added in a gamepad selector along with the graph to go with it, which clearly shows right now the "Steam Controller" being the most popular. I imagine that will change with more people inputting their preference, as we only had 271 people answer it so far:
What I am most surprised about, is out of 924 users, KDE Plasma is the most popular desktop environment. I never seem to be able to personally get along with it, but it's cool to see how popular it is:
For those, and more visit the statistics page.
As always, if you have suggestions on how to make it all more interesting, fire away in the comments. I want to make the page useful, and it has grown quite a bit since the initial release of it.
What I would like feedback on, is how often to remind users to make sure their details are up to date, and what the preferred method would be? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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ElectricPrism 1 Nov 2016
I just went through lots of research & testing & arrived at the conclusion that Xbox 360 is the best for us.
PlayStation 4 thumbtacks crater rings were annoying & the dual stick circles were too small to use in First Person Shooters. The touchpad was difficult to get working (I didn't). And running ds4drv to map it to X360 was a pain because on Bluetooth disconnect it would just add another Xbox Controller # and forget the last. Bluetooth range was terrible @ 4ft but maybe my controller was the cause. Input lag was behind X360 -- critical to FPS games.
Design wise PS4 is symmetrical, ergonomic, and very attractive but for some reason the plastic sweats in the hands.
XBone Bumpers are a joke and break off. The colored letters on black buttons is a downgrade. The bottom of the controller wings are linear instead of dynamic making it feel worse in your hand. The joysticks suck and lack resistance. Flush mount battery is nice & Bluetooth with model S is a step in the right direction.
Steam Controller is a Headcrab grafted upon a X360 host. Except instead of being one controller it's two controllers mashed together. You have to choose to completely ignore the top half or the bottom half to hold it where it feels meant to be.
Having one left joystick is a huge disappointment for FPS gaming. It fails as a FPS console controller to provide equal utility to my 15 years of playing FPS skill. The bumpers are awesome. The indentation on the left track pad sucks. It should have been raised or left out to feel like a DPad at all.
The right & left pads should have been unscrewable to replace with joysticks. The shell should come in more colors. Sticker Skins is retardedly ugly.
X360 admittedly is dated but supported in the most games. The kernel supports it has the free. The wings on the bottom are ergonomic. The triggers quality enough. The joysticks last 10 years and the button colors are really nice. The Wireless receiver is a pain and mess but can be mounted inside the case at least. It's limited to 4 controllers I imagine. The range is great and input lag minimal. The joysticks are wide enough to allow for more FPS precision. The joysticks are a ugly grey & bottom plastic too. The battery compartment is ackward but at least out of the way if you hards are small or mid size.
On and the steam controller batteries -- how the fuck are you supposed to pry those out of the wings without a knife & slashing your hand. Fuck those batteries hold super tight & never come out.
So in the end ice completed my quest & personally declared X360 the least expensive & best for FPS, ease of installation, design & real gaming use. Sometimes R1 and L1 don't work but overall its the best experience for me + 3 to play local split screen with.
PlayStation 4 thumbtacks crater rings were annoying & the dual stick circles were too small to use in First Person Shooters. The touchpad was difficult to get working (I didn't). And running ds4drv to map it to X360 was a pain because on Bluetooth disconnect it would just add another Xbox Controller # and forget the last. Bluetooth range was terrible @ 4ft but maybe my controller was the cause. Input lag was behind X360 -- critical to FPS games.
Design wise PS4 is symmetrical, ergonomic, and very attractive but for some reason the plastic sweats in the hands.
XBone Bumpers are a joke and break off. The colored letters on black buttons is a downgrade. The bottom of the controller wings are linear instead of dynamic making it feel worse in your hand. The joysticks suck and lack resistance. Flush mount battery is nice & Bluetooth with model S is a step in the right direction.
Steam Controller is a Headcrab grafted upon a X360 host. Except instead of being one controller it's two controllers mashed together. You have to choose to completely ignore the top half or the bottom half to hold it where it feels meant to be.
Having one left joystick is a huge disappointment for FPS gaming. It fails as a FPS console controller to provide equal utility to my 15 years of playing FPS skill. The bumpers are awesome. The indentation on the left track pad sucks. It should have been raised or left out to feel like a DPad at all.
The right & left pads should have been unscrewable to replace with joysticks. The shell should come in more colors. Sticker Skins is retardedly ugly.
X360 admittedly is dated but supported in the most games. The kernel supports it has the free. The wings on the bottom are ergonomic. The triggers quality enough. The joysticks last 10 years and the button colors are really nice. The Wireless receiver is a pain and mess but can be mounted inside the case at least. It's limited to 4 controllers I imagine. The range is great and input lag minimal. The joysticks are wide enough to allow for more FPS precision. The joysticks are a ugly grey & bottom plastic too. The battery compartment is ackward but at least out of the way if you hards are small or mid size.
On and the steam controller batteries -- how the fuck are you supposed to pry those out of the wings without a knife & slashing your hand. Fuck those batteries hold super tight & never come out.
So in the end ice completed my quest & personally declared X360 the least expensive & best for FPS, ease of installation, design & real gaming use. Sometimes R1 and L1 don't work but overall its the best experience for me + 3 to play local split screen with.
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Having one left joystick is a huge disappointment for FPS gaming. It fails as a FPS console controller to provide equal utility to my 15 years of playing FPS skill. The bumpers are awesome. The indentation on the left track pad sucks. It should have been raised or left out to feel like a DPad at all.
We're all allowed our opinions, and when it comes to controllers it almost entirely ubjective, but you prefering joysticks to trackpads is just amazing to me.
In my opinion ftp with trackpads is the steam controllers greatest feature over legacy controllers besides the fact that you can actually possible to play mouse games.
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Steam Controller is a Headcrab grafted upon a X360 host. Except instead of being one controller it's two controllers mashed together. You have to choose to completely ignore the top half or the bottom half to hold it where it feels meant to be.
Having one left joystick is a huge disappointment for FPS gaming. It fails as a FPS console controller to provide equal utility to my 15 years of playing FPS skill. The bumpers are awesome. The indentation on the left track pad sucks. It should have been raised or left out to feel like a DPad at all.
It is interesting how different feeling I have for steam controller. I think it is best controller especially for FPS games by far. I really hate Xbox/PS controllers in any FPS style games because they are so inaccurate and need lots of aiming help to ease up aiming. With Steam controller, I can play FPS games pretty well.
On and the steam controller batteries -- how the fuck are you supposed to pry those out of the wings without a knife & slashing your hand. Fuck those batteries hold super tight & never come out.
It is super easy to take out batteries - just press the little hinges to up, and batteries will pop out automatically?
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The right & left pads should have been unscrewable to replace with joysticks.Look, replacing the pads will results in ending up with something similar with a PS3/4/XBox/etc controller, and we already have that.
Why would I buy a Steam Controller in the first place only to transform it in a Xbox controller?
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cRaZy-bisCuiT 1 Nov 2016
Maybe not as many people as expected use a Xbox controller because it's ugly as hell?
<<< Dual Shock 4.
<<< Dual Shock 4.
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Personally I never got warm with KDE. It is too Windows-esque for my taste. I really like Unity, because it gave me the best out of the box experience so far. And then there is Unity tweak tool, to make Unity even more tasteful, with little effort. But the great thing about the Linux ecosystem is that there are multiple DE's with all their pros and cons, which gives everyone a choice.
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[email protected] 1 Nov 2016
GNOME 3 in 3.22 is pretty clean and useable. Use it daily. It's customizability is decent but for users who prefer a more traditional approach to desktop computing, KDE might be better. Or Cinnamon/Mate.
Xbox 360 controller is by far the best out of box experience. Only game that didn't support it initially was Jotun but the developer got it working after I reported it. Kudos to them.
When steam adds DS4 support, some devs may choose to use it but if you use GOG for gaming extensively, might be better to stick to Xbox 360 controller.
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Xbox 360 controller is by far the best out of box experience. Only game that didn't support it initially was Jotun but the developer got it working after I reported it. Kudos to them.
When steam adds DS4 support, some devs may choose to use it but if you use GOG for gaming extensively, might be better to stick to Xbox 360 controller.
Last edited by [email protected] on 1 Nov 2016 at 8:49 am UTC
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On and the steam controller batteries -- how the fuck are you supposed to pry those out of the wings without a knife & slashing your hand. Fuck those batteries hold super tight & never come out.
It is super easy to take out batteries - just press the little hinges to up, and batteries will pop out automatically?
Yes, there's basically a button.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaVJmHmtuAE
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My take on the Steamcontroller thing is that when it is well supported (either by the developer directly, such as the case for example "Neuro Voider" or by an awesome community config), than it beats all other controllers easily and sometimes even a mouse+keyboard combo. However many games are not well supported, and unless I want to spend a lot of time creating my own config (which I honestly didn't bother so far), I end up switching back to either my Xbox360 controller or the mouse+keyboard combo.
So overall I can see why people voted it as their favorite controller, but if you are on the edge and don't want to buy two controllers, nor are especially interested is playing games originally not meant for controller input at all, then I would rather go for a cheaper USB cable Xbox360 controller which works great under Linux.
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So overall I can see why people voted it as their favorite controller, but if you are on the edge and don't want to buy two controllers, nor are especially interested is playing games originally not meant for controller input at all, then I would rather go for a cheaper USB cable Xbox360 controller which works great under Linux.
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Xbox 360 controller is by far the best out of box experience.The Logitech controllers are pretty much straight up clones with a slightly different design. Don't know about relative quality as I've never tried an Xbox controller, and my F310 is barely working after a couple of years of use (had to fix a broken cable and remove a mystery piece of plastic that was jamming one of the triggers), but at least they're just as compatible.
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Incandescent 1 Nov 2016
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I also have a F310, and after experiencing an Xbox 360, PS3, and Steam controller, I can safely say the logitech is easily and by far the worst of the bunch.
The triggers have far too much spring pressure, making them uncomfortable to use for any length of time, and the right trigger is now flaking out after only 1 year of serious use. The top right bumper's plastic leaf-spring spring snapped (you mystery plastic, perhaps?), making it loose. The joysticks are acceptable, but also require much more force to move around compared to other controllers. And the way the grips sink in so much toward the front means it's more comfortable to use the bumpers than it is the triggers, which require a more awkward grip angle.
The best part about the F310 is the D-pad, which is the best I've used since the Genesis controller. The diamond face buttons are also rather nice.
Even with the excellent D-pad, I would not recommend Logitech controllers to anyone :\
But that's just my 0.02 cents :)
Don't know about relative quality as I've never tried an Xbox controller, and my F310 is barely working after a couple of years of use (had to fix a broken cable and remove a mystery piece of plastic that was jamming one of the triggers), but at least they're just as compatible.
I also have a F310, and after experiencing an Xbox 360, PS3, and Steam controller, I can safely say the logitech is easily and by far the worst of the bunch.
The triggers have far too much spring pressure, making them uncomfortable to use for any length of time, and the right trigger is now flaking out after only 1 year of serious use. The top right bumper's plastic leaf-spring spring snapped (you mystery plastic, perhaps?), making it loose. The joysticks are acceptable, but also require much more force to move around compared to other controllers. And the way the grips sink in so much toward the front means it's more comfortable to use the bumpers than it is the triggers, which require a more awkward grip angle.
The best part about the F310 is the D-pad, which is the best I've used since the Genesis controller. The diamond face buttons are also rather nice.
Even with the excellent D-pad, I would not recommend Logitech controllers to anyone :\
But that's just my 0.02 cents :)
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I am an OpenSUSE user and did not put any information related to my system. I am a little bit surprised that Plasma / KDE 5 is the top-leading DM here while so few use OpenSUSE.
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The triggers have far too much spring pressure, making them uncomfortable to use for any length of time, and the right trigger is now flaking out after only 1 year of serious use.True, it took several months for the trigger springs to loosen a bit (or my fingers to adjust?) so that I'm not in agony after a longer racing game session. Although I'm so used to them now that a Dual Shock 3's triggers felt too small and loose for comfort when I tried one a while back.
The top right bumper's plastic leaf-spring spring snapped (you mystery plastic, perhaps?), making it loose.It was just a tiny black fragment of plastic rattling inside the controller. I couldn't see any place it could have broken off, hence the mystery.
I bought the F310 for about 20 € when it was on sale at a local supermarket. The quality is what I'd expect for a cheap controller, so I'm not too bothered by it. I wouldn't buy MS hardware even if I had the cash and I've never liked Sony's gamepads since the original PS, so the Steam Controller would be pretty much my only real choice.
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Mountain Man 1 Nov 2016
Used an Xbox 360 gamepad for years (I have two of them, actually) but once I got a Steam Controller, I have pretty much abandoned them. The Steam Controller, in my opinion, is the best gamepad ever made. The touchpads are so vastly superior to an analog stick that it's not even a contest. And the customization that allows it to support literally any game ever, even ones designed without controller support, is amazing. It is the first controller ever that gives mouse and keyboard a run for its money. I would have never considered trying to play a game like Stellaris with a gamepad, but with the with Steam Controller, it's actually a viable option.
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Last edited by Mountain Man on 1 Nov 2016 at 10:24 am UTC
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Now, I'm sure that much of what I'm used to could be replicated in other WMs/DEs with enough configuration work, but it's difficult to argue with the ability to just keep on using essentially the same config I've been using since 2000/2001 or so.Well, that's the case, at least for KDE. But I'll grant you the second part.
When steam adds DS4 support, some devs may choose to use it but if you use GOG for gaming extensively, might be better to stick to Xbox 360 controller.
The DS4 will be supported exactly the same way the Steam Controller is. So every game with steam controller support should support the DS4 (except for missing in-game icons, maybe?)
Question, Liam: Why using some png images and not the svg ones in the article? For some compatibility reason?
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i updated my information, so one more xbox360 user here..
I bought this mainly so that I can play some local co-ops with my daughter (battleblock theatre, rocket league..) ... but I've tried some gaming with it myself too...
it's quite nice for some games, but I have a question: do people really play there 1st person rpgs and shooter with it?
many of them seem like "controller optimized" but when I tried, it's all wobbly aiming and not smooth turning/looking around at all.. so how do you people do it? I still play mostly with keyboard and mouse these types of games..
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I bought this mainly so that I can play some local co-ops with my daughter (battleblock theatre, rocket league..) ... but I've tried some gaming with it myself too...
it's quite nice for some games, but I have a question: do people really play there 1st person rpgs and shooter with it?
many of them seem like "controller optimized" but when I tried, it's all wobbly aiming and not smooth turning/looking around at all.. so how do you people do it? I still play mostly with keyboard and mouse these types of games..
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i updated my information, so one more xbox360 user here..
Same here. I had to choose between Xbox 360 and Steam Controller as the favorite one.
For the only game I'm playing with controller, Rocket League, I'm using the Xbox gamepad, so that is it...
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KDE 2016. Can't do vsync.
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Mohandevir 1 Nov 2016
Steam Controller is a Headcrab grafted upon a X360 host. Except instead of being one controller it's two controllers mashed together. You have to choose to completely ignore the top half or the bottom half to hold it where it feels meant to be.
Having one left joystick is a huge disappointment for FPS gaming. It fails as a FPS console controller to provide equal utility to my 15 years of playing FPS skill. The bumpers are awesome. The indentation on the left track pad sucks. It should have been raised or left out to feel like a DPad at all.
It is interesting how different feeling I have for steam controller. I think it is best controller especially for FPS games by far. I really hate Xbox/PS controllers in any FPS style games because they are so inaccurate and need lots of aiming help to ease up aiming. With Steam controller, I can play FPS games pretty well.
On and the steam controller batteries -- how the fuck are you supposed to pry those out of the wings without a knife & slashing your hand. Fuck those batteries hold super tight & never come out.
It is super easy to take out batteries - just press the little hinges to up, and batteries will pop out automatically?
And nobody is mentionning the Steam Controller's gyroscope that's awesome for precise aiming while in sniper mode or middle to long range shots (it acts like a mouse dps reducer). I use it too in Grid Autosports so that it plays the role of a Steering wheel. It needs a little tweaking but the experience is great too.
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