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Linux players on Steam hit an all-time high for November 2025 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Valve released the statistics from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for November 2025, which shows once again that Linux use is trending nicely upwards.

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[–] 51 points 11 months ago

I love how diverse the Linux distros breakdown is. SteamOS of course, but also Arch, Mint, CachyOS, Bazzite and so on. Choice. And because this is open source software work done by one community potentially helps all others. It's fucking beautiful 🥲

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    [–] 87 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Hey that's me! I switched about a week ago. Still slowly going through my library and getting them all working, but I've got Elden Ring and Balatro so far and that's more than enough for now.

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  • [–] 53 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Linux users on Lemmy hit an all-time high

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It'll be you the next time you click allow for a steam hardware survey. Mine will be part of december's for the first time since I switched, so I'm helping next month's number increase.

    Though kinda funny how for a steam survey, I'm all for it, but any other attempt to get usage data gets a fuck no from me. I hope all future valve owners understand the value of that trust and don't try to cash in on it like some MBA that who thinks thinking of the future means extrapolating the current quarter's increase in earnings indefinitely into the future.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    A lifetime of not completely shitting the bed helps. I am also deeply deeply distrustful of most info gathering too. It's half the reason I switched. I don't usually like the newest windows on launch because they ratchet up the surveillance every time. The other half is my hardware isn't good enough for windows 11 and I'm not upgrading.

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    • [–] 55 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I think from now on Linux will be hitting all time highs every time you check

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    • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    2026 year of the Linux desktop?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    If it isn't, it never will be.

    Linux has everything going for it in '26, people pissed with Microsoft, Apple still not doing anything in the space, no one cares about CoD any more, and Valve have their computer coming out.

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    • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    A graph that goes up constantly (even if it's slowly) is always at an all time high.

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    • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Got the survey the other day on my OpenSUSE laptop and my OpenSUSE Steam Deck. I'm doing my part!

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    • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    The only thing stopping me is I can't figure out how to remap the side buttons on my razer MMO mouse in Linux.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Have you tried this?

    https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper

    It's the only thing that's worked for my mouse. There's also Piper if your mouse is supported.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (3 children)

    libratbag and Piper don't support my mouse (or any razer mice), unfortunately. I've also tried input remapper... couldn't get it working right on Bazzite, but maybe I was just doing something very wrong. Will give it another try!

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I've been using input-remapper with my Naga for a long time, so it should work (Tumbleweed with Wayland). But the software is quite quirky and can be a bit of a pain to setup and learn. Hope you manage to figure it out!

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I think I figured out the problem... It has onboard memory for one profile, whichever is selected in the UI. My default profile has a bunch of buttons mapped that do not register as key presses when booted into Linux, so input remapper doesn't pick those up when the mouse button is pressed.

    My solution was to create a profile that had all of the side buttons mapped as regular keyboard keys, and activate that profile before booting into Linux.

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    • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

    Also new here. So from what I can tell. You really shouldn't mix a windows steam library with the Linux steam library? Correct? I mean to avoid all issues. I have it running in a separate space.

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  • [–] 27 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    It's best practice to keep it separate, and that mostly just has to do with how the different file systems are handled.

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  • [+] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    There is an installable btrfs driver for Windows. No idea how trustworthy it is, though.

    And yeah, accessing Steam games on an NTFS partition from Linux is a recipe for permission issues. Just don't.

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    • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    2026 is definitely the year

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    [–] 16 points 11 months ago*

    Ready Player GNU.

    For November 2025 the overall operating system share is:

    Windows - 94.79%

    Linux - 3.20%

    macOS - 2.02%

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    [–] 3 points 11 months ago*

    It'll be interesting to see how the Steam Machine in January affects this.

    It might not be a huge immediate boost. I have friends who want to buy a Steam Machine on day one - but they already use a SteamDeck as their primary gaming rig.

    I expect the Steam Machine to catch on the same way the SteamDeck seems to have - word of mouth.

    I know I bought my SteamDeck after a friend demoed theirs to me, and it kind of sold itself.

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    [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    1000002926

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