ProtonDB, the unofficial tracker for checking the status of Windows games played on Linux through Steam Play has another data-dump available. Here's a look for April 2019. Note: The data dumps often include a few reports past the end of the month, which aren't counted as we cover them in the next set of reports as we cut-off what we look over at the end of April.
Firstly, ProtonDB has hit a bit of a milestone recently with it hitting well over forty thousand reports from users. That's crazy but it goes to show just how popular Steam Play is becoming in what's a relatively short amount of time. Steam Play isn't even a year old yet!
As usual, let's start with a quick look at how many reports have been coming in per month:
Interesting to see quite the reversal there, with it starting to fall-off from November and now we're seeing a nice up-tick in the reports once again. Likely due to new releases of Steam Play's Proton and new game releases recently.
That only tells us the amount of reports though, what about the status of the reports being sent to ProtonDB through April? Here's a look at that too:
That's a pretty nice picture, tons of Platinum reports continuing to show how well Steam Play as a whole seems to be doing. Let's look in a bit more detail now, what actual games have seen the most reports in April, to give us an idea of what Windows games played on Linux are currently of interest.
No real surprises there, Risk of Rain 2 being a recent release that I also covered in early April. Some of the usual suspects remain popular titles people are re-testing often like Grand Theft Auto 5 and Sekiro continues to be very popular. However, that's only the number of reports. Let's take a dive into what games are getting Platinum reports, so these games should be click and play on Linux with Steam Play:
Now a quick look at computer information from the reports for those interesting, starting with the distribution used:
Usual note about "Other": lots of the reports don't include a specific distribution name. Where we're unable to properly identify them when scraping the data dump, we (GOL) bundle them together into Other. This can be caused by multiple things, so hopefully in future ProtonDB can make this clearer.
Now a little hardware info for you from the reports, looking over CPU and GPU vendor popularity:
That's all for this month in regards to the reports, will take another look next month with the next data dump from ProtonDB.
How have you been finding Steam Play? Are there specific games you're waiting on working? Were you recently surprised by a game that works? Let's have a chat about it all in the comments.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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ElectricPrism May 2, 2019
Yeah if we could start measuring success as having great apps, drivers and working out of box pretty good instead of numerically comparing things that would be great. There are so many numerical statistical comparisons that are malnourished of actual useful meaning.
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Quoting: tuubiIndeed it could. Pity we don't know the methodology.Quoting: Purple Library GuyMaybe every geographical area gets a set amount, relative to theQuoting: tuubiI believe I've gotten it once since Steam came to Linux. Perhaps twice.Quoting: devnullWhich looks quite odd not only because of the version but I don't get popups about it. Maybe 2 means opted out? Considering I don't use windows at all that could be at least a year of not being counted.I got it just yesterday. I tend to get it maybe one to three times per year.
populationuser base. Maybe you don't often happen to run Steam when the survey is being conducted during the first few days of any given month? (I've only ever gotten it on the first day of a month.) Maybe you're just unlucky? Could be anything.
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Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: F.UltraI know what you're saying but my point was more about saying 1% difference, to a lot of people might be quite alarming when our total market share before was only 0.82%. I'm just trying to make it crystal clear :)Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAnd, at the same time, Linux has lost 1% of market share in the Steam Hardware Survey of April.It went from 0.82 to 0.81, that's 0.01% comparatively not 1%. Like Valve themselves confirmed before, Linux is growing.
Well going from 0.82% to 0.81% is a decline by 1.22%, then we are probably growing as you say since the Survey does not count every single user as well as the total pool is growing so even a 1% decline can be an increase in actual users.
Yeah, I hear what you say. Just being anal when it comes to math :-). I do however see that even Steam does this wrong since they show Linux usage as -0.01% in their survey so they calc points but shows it as percent..
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Quoting: devnullWould be interesting if someone from Valve could comment on what it means but regarding the survey you can check when your last report was with
grep -i survey ~/.steam/steam/config/config.vdf
I get...
I get nothing! :D
I run Steam about 4 or 5 days a week even if I don't play anything.
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Quoting: ScooptaAs always I find it a little disappointing to see so many people with Nvidia cards, oh well. Tbh right now the only thing I use proton for is SkyrimSE and I don't even play it all that often. I've mostly just been playing MC recently.
Well, people usually prefer to buy products that offer the better quality than vice versa. Seriously, who cares about your disappointment? Everybody has complete freedom to use whatever he/she wants.
I would never buy an AMD product, ever! Why? That's because I know a little more about electronics than you and most of other people as I've been working as a C programmer for STM ARM microcontrollers during 9 years in a company that's producing devices that need to work in very difficult conditions in heavy branches of industry. And, the one thing I learned from guys who work with electronic components, design circuits etc. was that they are always choosing parts with smallest temperature dissipation and the best ratio of power consumption and what a component is giving. And they always had a very bad opinion about AMD during years. But, when Rysen CPU get released, I thought that AMD really changed significantly now and I wanted to hear some of opinions, they all ware "meh...". Also, when I shown benchmark results from Phoronix from some recent AMD cards to one of guys who is a real genius for electronics I could see on his face that he was thinking worse things than just a "meh...". He said that if that's the best what AMD can offer, they are not any close to make a descent graphic card any time soon.
That was of course a highly critical opinion of a professional who is sensible to quality in his sphere of interest, but I reserve the right to choose what product I will use in my computer.
It should not be forgotten that without the continuous support from nVidia, Linux as an operating system would be close to non existing today. It would be just an OS like FreeBSD. Also, gaming on Linux would not exist at all. You would not be on this site to comment. Our world would be a total domination of Windows that would be a lot worse system than it is now. Linux simply wouldn't exist in form that we know it now. I'm pretty sure that even on servers, Windows would be dominant. There would be no Android. Android would probably be a system with a completely different kernel. Without good graphic drivers nVidia always had that have been making Linux a complete usable OS, there would be no interest in Linux at all during the key moments that made software world as it's today. As a someone who started using Linux in early 2000 (that was a real pain. Anyway, Windows wasn't any better), I can guarantee that.
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Quoting: pingvinI would never buy an AMD product, ever! Why? That's because I know a little more about electronics than you and most of other people...
That is a very biased point of view in my humble opinion. There is more to purchasing decision than just getting the top of the line components. Price and price to performance ratio is also very important, as well as driver support.
I built my gaming computer (see my profile) exclusively with AMD components, and am extremely happy with it. Everything just works out of the box without me having to worry about kernel upgrades or installing drivers manually.
NVIDIA, on the other hand, almost always breaks with new kernels, switchable graphics is a hacky mess, no Wayland support, etc.
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Quoting: pingvinLol, no need to get butt hurt, I'm just stating my opinion. Also you know more about computers than me? Really? Nice assumption. I do x86 kernel development, and haven written an OpenGL game engine. Please do not make assumptions when talking to random people on the internet. Yes you know more than most and I'm sure in some areas you know more than I do but I can say the reverse too. I'm not just a gamer, I'm a programmer, I write kernel space C. AMD hardware is very good. Their GPUs aren't quite as powerful as nVidia's on the very very high end but I mean like the top end card. A Radeon VII is pretty close to an RTX 2080. It's really only the 2080 Ti they don't have an answer for. You also mentioned nVidia supporting Linux. nVidia? Support? Do I need to send you the infamous quote of Linus Torvalds saying nVidia does literally fuck all for Linux? Where he gives them the middle finger. He's said in recent times that's largely changed but my point is they're not as important to the Linux ecosystem as you make them out to be. Not to mention even if they have changed their driver still goes against the grain in the Linux world. No KMS without a kernel flag, no GBM, and it's proprietary and doesn't ship with the kernel like all drivers on Linux should. nVidia did not make Linux successful, being FOSS did, that's an ideal that nVidia can't even fathom. nVidia is the most proprietary locked down company I know of and they're toxic to a FOSS community.Quoting: ScooptaAs always I find it a little disappointing to see so many people with Nvidia cards, oh well. Tbh right now the only thing I use proton for is SkyrimSE and I don't even play it all that often. I've mostly just been playing MC recently.
Well, people usually prefer to buy products that offer the better quality than vice versa. Seriously, who cares about your disappointment? Everybody has complete freedom to use whatever he/she wants.
I would never buy an AMD product, ever! Why? That's because I know a little more about electronics than you and most of other people as I've been working as a C programmer for STM ARM microcontrollers during 9 years in a company that's producing devices that need to work in very difficult conditions in heavy branches of industry. And, the one thing I learned from guys who work with electronic components, design circuits etc. was that they are always choosing parts with smallest temperature dissipation and the best ratio of power consumption and what a component is giving. And they always had a very bad opinion about AMD during years. But, when Rysen CPU get released, I thought that AMD really changed significantly now and I wanted to hear some of opinions, they all ware "meh...". Also, when I shown benchmark results from Phoronix from some recent AMD cards to one of guys who is a real genius for electronics I could see on his face that he was thinking worse things than just a "meh...". He said that if that's the best what AMD can offer, they are not any close to make a descent graphic card any time soon.
That was of course a highly critical opinion of a professional who is sensible to quality in his sphere of interest, but I reserve the right to choose what product I will use in my computer.
It should not be forgotten that without the continuous support from nVidia, Linux as an operating system would be close to non existing today. It would be just an OS like FreeBSD. Also, gaming on Linux would not exist at all. You would not be on this site to comment. Our world would be a total domination of Windows that would be a lot worse system than it is now. Linux simply wouldn't exist in form that we know it now. I'm pretty sure that even on servers, Windows would be dominant. There would be no Android. Android would probably be a system with a completely different kernel. Without good graphic drivers nVidia always had that have been making Linux a complete usable OS, there would be no interest in Linux at all during the key moments that made software world as it's today. As a someone who started using Linux in early 2000 (that was a real pain. Anyway, Windows wasn't any better), I can guarantee that.
Last edited by Scoopta on 3 May 2019 at 9:08 pm UTC
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Quoting: ScooptaLol, no need to get butt hurt, I'm just stating my opinion......
Butt-hurt? Really? Who is butt-hurt every time when benchmark results and GPU statistics are shown?
The only thing I want when commenting about nVidia or AMD is to show that opinion of AMD fanboys doesn't need to be understood as the true. After reading comments on Linux gaming forums, some people can decide that buying AMD is better choice and it's doing a lot of damage to Linux OS. I would like if there was a choice, but right now there isn't and it doesn't look that there will be soon.
Well, even if you was a Kernel developer, I don't see a reason why anybody would ask a Kernel developer about the choice of graphic card? Majority of people will check the tests and make their own decision. You can complain about that as much as you want. Your opinion doesn't mater the slightest.
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Quoting: pingvinThe only thing I want when commenting about nVidia or AMD is to show that opinion ofFixed it for you. Well, not the grammar but the fact that anyone's opinion is nothing but an opinion. Having owned both AMD and Nvidia hardware recently, my own opinion is that both are perfectly fine for a Linux gamer these days. AMD obviously wins on the driver support / Linux-friendliness front simply because of their investment in Mesa and the FOSS drivers, but Nvidia's hardware does still offer more performance per watt/buck, if that's your main concern. In day-to-day desktop/gaming use there's very little difference for most Linux users. New games tend to work with both, and keeping the drivers updated is just about as easy on both sides of the fence.AMDfanboys doesn't need to be understood as the true.
Quoting: pingvinAfter reading comments on Linux gaming forums, some people can decide that buying AMD is better choice and it's doing a lot of damage to Linux OS.Buying AMD hardware is a perfectly sensible choice for a Linux gamer these days. As a nice bonus it shows that we are willing to support companies that play nice and participate in the open source process.
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Quoting: pingvinThat was rude.Quoting: ScooptaLol, no need to get butt hurt, I'm just stating my opinion......
Butt-hurt? Really? Who is butt-hurt every time when benchmark results and GPU statistics are shown?
The only thing I want when commenting about nVidia or AMD is to show that opinion of AMD fanboys doesn't need to be understood as the true. After reading comments on Linux gaming forums, some people can decide that buying AMD is better choice and it's doing a lot of damage to Linux OS. I would like if there was a choice, but right now there isn't and it doesn't look that there will be soon.
Well, even if you was a Kernel developer, I don't see a reason why anybody would ask a Kernel developer about the choice of graphic card? Majority of people will check the tests and make their own decision. You can complain about that as much as you want. Your opinion doesn't mater the slightest.
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