The Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out for October 2024, and the Linux user share has gone back up again to exactly 2%.
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And just to let people know, you are not limited to Linux games only. You can play windows games on Linux. Took me a while to figure this out.

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Proton for the win. (dows)

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Just wanted to add to this for those who don’t know, windows games work through a comparability later called Proton, it usually works great, but some games don’t work well with it. (Mostly anticheat and stuff like that causing issues IIRC) I would always recommend checking ProtonDB before purchasing any game without explicit Linux support

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Valve needs to enable Proton by default.

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I just installed Bazzite, it’s all baked in.

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I have bazzite on my daughter’s machine. I still had to enable compatibility for other titles. It’s not a huge deal if you know it’s there, but it can be a stumbling block for someone testing the waters.

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Didn’t they make the change recently?

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