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calm down, valve did some mistakes in their counting in the past, calm down, calm down, calm down...
ok, i cant

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Quoting: devland

Quoting: fenglengshun

Quoting: devlandLutris forces you to configure each game from scratch while bottles gives you one prefix aka bottle in which you can run things however you want.

Uh, no? I myself just uses the same prefix (and the same system Proton CachyOS) for Lutris, Heroic, and Faugus.

Lutris forces you to configure each game from scratch as in changing the lutris settings and not the prefix itself.

Lutris has, for each game or program you run through it, a different set of settings which you have to manually set.

In Lutris you can set default options for games on the Wine runner. You don't have to tweak them manually for every game. You can also reuse a prefix for games you install by selecting the same prefix path in a game's configuration. It's not as simple and intuitive as in some of the other launchers, but it works just fine.

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I do like the idea they sort of use Steam to promote GOG but it probably doesn't mean much to people who don't already have an idea of what GOG is

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I'm going to quote a couple of my own old comments on this website from the far far distant year of 2020.

The thing which gives me hope every time I see Linux marketshare go up, is the thought that more marketshare makes further growth even easier.

It's hard to gain marketshare when your platform has no organic third party support. But if you can achieve it, and bring users to your platform, then organic third party support will always follow. Developers and manufacturers of software and hardware always follow users. So if we get more users, we get more support.

At 0.91%, we're not exactly commanding a noticeable portion of the marketshare yet. But every little bit of growth means a bit more organic third party support. Which only makes it easier for more users to make the switch to Linux, as more of the stuff they want is already here.

It's really a feedback loop in both ways. No users means no developers. No developers means no users. The chicken and egg problem that has haunted Linux for years. But it goes the other way too, more users means more developers. More developers means more users.

The analogy I'd use is ... imagine that Linux gaming is like a 100m diameter ball of lead, on a flat plateau of land on top of a hill.

We're been trying to get the ball rolling. Once it does build up speed and start going down the hill, it will become an unstoppable force. We've been trying to get it rolling for years, but it's a 100m diameter ball of lead and we're just a dozen people pushing at the side, having no impact. The stubborn bastard wouldn't shift.

Valve's efforts with Steam, Proton, DXVK, ACO, Pressure Vessel, etc, is like bringing 4 giant trucks up to the top of the hill to help us out, they've strapped them up to the ball and are gunning the engines with the tires screeching. The ball is shifting a little, starting to move, a few inches at least, it's working but it's slow. If they keep at it for the long haul and the tires don't pop, eventually it will build up momentum and it'll work.

If it works, Valve is best positioned to benefit from the success. A new mainstream gaming platform will emerge and Valve will be the centre of it's universe.

I feel like... the ball is definitely off the top of the hill now and is starting to roll. Hang onto your butts!

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Quoting: fenglengshun

Quoting: devlandLutris forces you to configure each game from scratch while bottles gives you one prefix aka bottle in which you can run things however you want.

Uh, no? I myself just uses the same prefix (and the same system Proton CachyOS) for Lutris, Heroic, and Faugus.

Lutris forces you to configure each game from scratch as in changing the lutris settings and not the prefix itself.

Lutris has, for each game or program you run through it, a different set of settings which you have to manually set.

In bottles the settings are the same for each bottle including the prefix. That makes it way easier for me when I want to run a new game through it by simply adding a new shortcut within the bottle to the game exe file without having to redo the other settings like how you do in Lutris.

Anyway, you're free to use whatever you want. Just wanted to clarify what we're talking about. :)

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Really happy for their success. Is this the biggest release yet for a Godot title? It must be right?

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There is like 130M players by month, so 6,5M linux users. How can publishers afford to ignore such an enormous market share? Few businesses ever get the chance to reach such a vast potential audience.

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Implausible. But I'm still a happy hip... penguin if it get's corrected to a three dot something.

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I am looking at hwsurvey stats again, and considering MacOS also got its share almost doubled, it is not error in counting linux share, but most likely the surveyed set of machines just happend to have lower share of windows.

I don't understand why Valve picks random users for survey, instead of gathering data from every pc connected to Steam automatically. Random sampling is representative only if a set of samples is homogenic, but as we can see, it is not. China has high Windows share, for some reasons. Is there any legal issue with automatic data gathering?

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Quoting: StalePopcornIt's what I was thinking too. That's almost an Epic Games Store-level move if so

Epic Games pays other game publishers to exclusively release on EGS for a time, that's the complete opposite of having a GOG-codeveloped game (with the publisher being Capcom) being released on Steam.

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Simplified Chinese 22.75% -31.85%
English 39.09% +16.82%

No wonder we are %5 now

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Two unnamed distributions, both with quite high percentages.

My fault!

You see
I've been to the installfest with a distro with no name
It felt good to rid Windows users of their pain
La, la, la lala la la la, la, la

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If we're not niche any more, I'm going to need switching to FreeBSD! /s

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The numbers were certainly far greater than what even I could expect. Seeing the +3.10% growth is wild, even considering the usual Chinese New Year shake up, as that's +2% net since Jan. Sure, the numbers might get adjusted, but as they stand right now? Absolutely wild. I was freaking out seeing how the tracker would need to add another percent and some change to show the new number. We finally broke the 10% barrier for English as well. March has set records beyond my wildest expectations, and it feels so great.

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I genuinely have a hard time believing this is not some kind of mistake.

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I know steam surveys like this are also heavily influenced by chinese holidays for example. We had a dip a short while ago because they had a national holiday.

Although I haven't done thorough investigation myself, this user on reddit seems to have his doubt about the correctness of these statistics at the moment. [reddit-user-comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1sa2s6y/comment/odtgmcq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

Happy to say that I am part of the linux-gamerbase!

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Quoting: gemaI genuinely cannot FATHOM how people are still regularly doing anything having to do with Epic Games.

I imagine it's all the stuff like exclusivity deals and the loads of freebies. Just give everyone stuff constantly so they don't lose interest in your uncompetitive-by-merit storefront.

How many users redeeming a free game is equal to the pay of 1000 employees? 🤔

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It will probably go down a bit again.
But can we talk about the 11% for English only? Holy moly.
All those YouTubers and stuff talking about switching to Linux must have really moved the needle after the W10 EoL.

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Quoting: pbI see a convoluted marketing ploy here...

GOG modernised the games and is listed as a developer, explicitly as GOG.com...
They themselves carry DRM-free versions of the games...
The Steam releases have an intrusive DRM...
Therefore they hope that people who learn of the re-releases only because they got listed on Steam, see that they have DRM, but also see the GOG.com badge, jump over to GOG and buy them there...

...but maybe it's just me. ;-)

It's what I was thinking too. That's almost an Epic Games Store-level move if so

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Finally got the survey on my main computer. I've always gotten it on the one time I boot steam on my windows computer to check something which always annoyed me.

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I noticed the missing tray icon. I cared. Otherwise I've had zero problems with RT3 client betas so far.

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It all sounds super exciting, i just wished they would publish releases in a more human readable format lol

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Quoting: RTherenThe one that surprises me is Ubuntu Core, unless that's what Snap version is reporting.

That's the Snap, yeah.

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Quoting: The_Real_BittermanSince flatpak is missing it is probably that.

This is my guess as well. Flatpak is not displayed as a distro in the survey.

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I see a convoluted marketing ploy here...

GOG modernised the games and is listed as a developer, explicitly as GOG.com...
They themselves carry DRM-free versions of the games...
The Steam releases have an intrusive DRM...
Therefore they hope that people who learn of the re-releases only because they got listed on Steam, see that they have DRM, but also see the GOG.com badge, jump over to GOG and buy them there...

...but maybe it's just me. ;-)

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The one that surprises me is Ubuntu Core, unless that's what Snap version is reporting.

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Quoting: Liam DaweI thought it might have been the new container 64bit client, but the system info tool managed to grab my distribution just fine when running it for testing.

The info tool could be handled differently to the hardware survey tools. It even could be distro related. Ubuntu and Arch are listed just fine, other common distros are not visible.

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to the moon!

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I had noticed the missing tray icon, but honestly did not care...

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Or could this be people joining Linus' (LTT Linus) Linux Challenge?

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