• survivalmachine@beehaw.org
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      5 months ago

      Is Arch the most popular Linux distro at 0.15% of 1.95%? What’s missing here? Steam OS?

      A couple of things – yes, SteamOS is by far the most popular Linux distro and it was left off this part of the list, and also Arch is the most popular because it’s a rolling release distro, so we’re all running “Arch Linux” no matter how far behind we are on patching our system. Ubuntu would probably come out on top if you bundled every other version besides 22.04.3 LTS together into one line item.

      Here’s a screenshot of the Linux breakdown with a few more entries (though most are still bucketed under Other). SteamOS alkone is almost half of Linux deployments.

  • Jess@midwest.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    “I use ‘Arch Linux’” she said sarcastically. Why are Arch and Manjaro in quotes, but Ubuntu LTS and Linux Mint aren’t?

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      And why is Arch more popular than Ubuntu? Surely SteamOS counts as something different, so it’s probably not that.

      I’m not a fan of Ubuntu, but it’s a very popular beginner OS, and I’d assume a lot of Linux gamers are lazy and use the thing that gets them into a game the fastest.

    • survivalmachine@beehaw.org
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      5 months ago

      Why are Arch and Manjaro in quotes, but Ubuntu LTS and Linux Mint aren’t?

      They’re probably putting the rolling releases in quotation marks – I’m guessing they’re pulling the Description field from “lsb_release -a”, where “Arch Linux” says just that, while each Ubuntu/Debian/Mint/etc distro will show specific version numbers (and that would explain why Arch shows up as a higher share than Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS) – I’m sure there are several more Ubuntu entries in their list that would total more than Arch’s percentage. I’m not sure why they arbitrarily truncated the Linux list at 4 while showing 5 Windows/Mac releases, though.

      EDIT: Found another screenshot where they list “SteamOS Holo” in quotes, too. So I guess they just include quotes for every distro that doesn’t show a version number in that field.

  • samc@feddit.ukEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I do wonder what percentage of Linux users reject the survey compared to Windows users. Not that it’s changed much, but every little helps right?

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      I’m not sure, on one hand Linux users are quite privacy oriented but on the other hand “I use arch btw”

    • caesaravgvstvs@feddit.de
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      5 months ago

      I rejected it on my steam deck, on my aging windows computer and on my Linux laptop.

      I’m not going out of my way to give data to a private corporation

      (Even if it’s a kawaii “good for consumer” corporation)

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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        5 months ago

        Fair enough, each try their own

        I don’t mind anonymous data going out that will serve to potentially improve my experience gaming on Linux

        The problem in my eyes is the non anonymous data that goes out that is used to design horrible addiction machines

        • scutiger@lemmy.world
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          5 months ago

          At least a survey is them asking for information, not just quietly gathering it behind our backs.

            • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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              5 months ago

              You know it’s not really an actual survey right? It can get all the info it needs on its own it just asks for permission

  • Scio@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    Yesterday was the first time I got the survey on my Deck.

    I got it on the desktop (as I often am during the day as I do so my work on it), and noticed that while it reported the device as Valve manufactured and the OS correctly, a whole bunch of other data was wrong, like it said the device didn’t support touch, etc.

    Should I have taken the survey on Game Mode? Is it even possible to get the survey in Game Mode?

  • excitingburp@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    At the very least we can call BS on developers who claim they don’t support Linux because it’s niche, while they support MacOS.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        5 months ago

        I almost never play on macOS since it’s my work computer, but sometimes I’ll look something up on it. Something like 80-90% of my gaming is on my Steam Deck, with the rest on my Linux desktop, though sometimes I’ll play a game on my work computer when on a break (usually just watch videos instead).

  • Kaity@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Just jumped to linux after a long time of windows, I was very surprised to see my games running better at higher settings through proton. it’s been at least a decade since I’ve used linux and played native tux games. I’m fed up with corpos and I like having full control of everything on my computer. There’s only 1 program I use that I’m not sure will run properly but I haven’t made attempts to get wine up yet cause it’s just been a few days. That said… feels really good to be using EndeavorOS.

    • BaelfireNightshd@beehaw.org
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      5 months ago

      You can theoretically run the other program with Proton as well. Just if that helps get your other software up and running. =)

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I was wondering how in the world my beloved Arch beat the popular Ubuntu, but then I remembered Steam Deck runs on Arch. So over half of the Linux users are probably actually Steam Deck users.

  • NotJustForMe@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I’ve been using steam since Half Life 2 released and had the survey pop up twice. And both times major data-points were completely wrong. Like resolution (it apparently used my second screen) and HDD space.

    That data is about as relevant as a once a lifetime epidemiologic study about diet preferences.