Is the Steam Linux usage inferred from the hardware survey? Because in that case it's likely to underestimate the number of Linux users: in my case the survey never showed up while I was playing on Linux though I spent at least half of my playing time on it.
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Originally posted by xpander View Post
its the new beta that segfaults on Arch for me also. I just run steam-native for now, which uses system libraries. Works fine that way
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Originally posted by AndyChow View PostLet's be real. Linux has problems scrolling down webpages.
FYI: I'm on ArchLinux and use Firefox in Gnome-Shell/X11 with a Radeon R470.
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Originally posted by oleid View Post
Has it? I didn't notice that, so far. Even watching HD video in a web page (Amazon Prime) works flicker-free and fine here. Maybe you have bad/old drivers?
FYI: I'm on ArchLinux and use Firefox in Gnome-Shell/X11 with a Radeon R470.
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Originally posted by tiwake View PostI'm curious, does Valve tell the game producers what operating system the games are being sold on?
If you are a regular visitor of this site, you probably want your Steam purchase to be counted as a Linux sale. But how does Steam actually consider you to be a Linux buyer? It's trickier than you think.
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Originally posted by tiwake View PostI'm curious, does Valve tell the game producers what operating system the games are being sold on?
Even then, the figures may not be that helpful. Telling producers of Linux games is somewhat preaching to the converted. It's the other producers who need to know that we have a sizeable user base. Also if a Linux port is so bad that users opt to play it under Windows/Wine instead then that would send out the wrong message.
Speaking of which, I saw the survey for the second time yesterday. Unfortunately I was using Steam under Wine and I doubted that would help the Linux figures so I declined.
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I've been playing Steam games on Linux pretty much since the Linux client came out and I don't remember filling it once on Linux. Interestingly, for the once every 3 months I log in, I do get the survey prompt on Windows pretty much every time. If this is general, I wouldn't be surprised if the Linux market share was actually bigger than the OS X one.
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Linux is not good for closed source software like games.
Almost every time I want to play a native game (steam or otherwise) there's always a catch. I'm very good with Linux and a programmer so I can usually find a workaround to get things going but my expectation for "native" linux closed-source games is "probably won't start on first try".
The reasons for this are:
1. Non standard library management accross distroes (old packaged libs might not work with new base layer on OS for example)
2. Out-of-library dependency hell (e.g. dbus being incompatible to itself over certain versions, some games/engines use to communicate with window manager etc.)
3. Glibc crap (mostly older stuff tbh. didn't see this pop up lately)
4. Driver issues (ongoing, both nvidia and amd)
Everything except #4 is not present for open-source games as those just get recompiled.
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Originally posted by oleid View Post
Has it? I didn't notice that, so far. Even watching HD video in a web page (Amazon Prime) works flicker-free and fine here. Maybe you have bad/old drivers?
FYI: I'm on ArchLinux and use Firefox in Gnome-Shell/X11 with a Radeon R470.
The quicker I can jump back to AMD and use the oss driver the better.
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