Dryadxon
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valve-amended-the-steam-survey-for-december-2025-linux-actually-hit-another-all-time-high/
excited for the mastodon rise@gamingonlinux Heh, saw this and briefly thought "Maybe I should give arch a try...can't be that annoying if it's that popular" but...nah. Ubuntu fades into the background and I don't have to think about it, which is exactly what I want from an OS.
2xfo@qkslvrwolf @gamingonlinux
That's awesome! I have had similar results with Jellyfin on Mint.
I run Steam on Fedora and it works now, but i wouldn't set it up like that again.
So far i think Mint and Ubuntu are great for dedicated set top boxes (and Fedora may be ok if you want to interact with a desktop first)
@RnDanger @gamingonlinux I mean most of it is just familiarity; I've been running ubuntu as my primary desktop since '12, and I've been running nothing but ubuntu since '18 after windows dis-respected my partition table on an update and blew my linux install away.
I just don't have any reasons to try other distros anymore, and haven't for a long time.
Proton obviously has been amazing for gaming but a big part of the reason I was able to switch in '18 was war thunder.
@qkslvrwolf @gamingonlinux
Oh yeah, Windows is disrespectful for sure. They really hate that we would consider not giving them our computer data, and they've pulled some famous dirty tricks to convince people in the past
That's why i don't trust Windows with Linux, it has to have a separate machine 🫠
Ketakater@gamingonlinux I love my #SteamOS handheld (#LenovoLegionGo), I just don't like that you can't play some Win-Only games on it. But this survey hints, that future game developments will support more and more SteamOS
Fabrizio P. 🐧@gamingonlinux and the trend line continues to look like exponential rather than linear... 🎉🎉
fcalva@gamingonlinux 13.37% decks ? Nice.
contrasocialSomeone actually made a Linux version with more than Linux nerds in mind and it did well. I'm absolutely shocked.
Pēteris Krišjānis@gamingonlinux interesting turn, what led to this miscount