Valve's latest Steam survey highlights Arch's popularity among Linux gamers, with EndeavourOS joining the list.
  • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9133·
    2 days ago

    It’s because SteamOS identifies itself as Arch. Omitting this information is either dishonest or uninformed.

    • patatahooligan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      1 day ago

      This is very obviously false. With the default filters with all OSs shown, Arch has 0.20% marketshare and Linux has a total of 2.29%. That means Arch is about 8.73% of all Linux systems in the survey. If you select the Linux only results, then SteamOS appears as its own entry, alongside a few others like Flatpak. We can see two things here:

      • SteamOS Holo is 36.47%. This was very clearly not counted as a part of Arch Linux in the all OSs tab.
      • Under these filters, Arch is even higher at 9.7%.

      What’s impressive here is not just the confidence with which you called the article dishonest and uninformed while not spending half a minute to check your false assumption, but also how many people upvoted you. This was trivial to prove wrong and in fact people have already done that below. Why are people so eager to believe the article is wrong that they will jump to agree with a blatantly wrong comment while having no knowledge of the situation themselves?

      • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        1 day ago

        I’ll take the L on this one. It’s a combination of the article only using the screenshot of the first view as evidence and me late night posting on Lemmy while falling asleep via NyQuil.

      • rooster_butt@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        Am I missing something or is 36.47% not greater than 9.7%? Why is SteamOS not shown as the most popular Linux distro without the Linux only filters?

        This contradicts the article claiming Arch dominates the Linux gaming scene and not SteamOS.

    • Voyajer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      58·
      2 days ago

      Steamos identifies itself as “SteamOS Holo”.

      Also, that article isn’t measuring SteamOS in the first place. When you look at the steam survey with the default filters it won’t list SteamOS. If you switch it to Linux only it will show SteamOS as 36.47% of Linux installs (0.84% of all steam installs) so it’s clearly not feeding into the Arch percentages.

    • Virkkunen@fedia.io
      16·
      2 days ago

      The only uninformed here is you, since SteamOS does not identify itself as Arch, but rather as SteamOS Holo and it does show separately from Arch on the stats.

      • Elgenzay@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Because you hear “Arch” and it gives the impression that they’re being played on a Linux desktop, not a Steam Deck

        • hellofriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          While that may be true, I still use my Steam Deck in desktop mode for a bunch of stuff besides gaming. Writing, job applications and interviews, using reddit because it’s the only device I have that isn’t detected for ban evasion, watching shows/Youtube. Maybe I’m atypical, but I don’t see why the Deck would offer a desktop mode if it wasn’t meant to be used.

  • Waffle@infosec.pubEnglish
    48·
    2 days ago

    Exciting to see endeavoros making the list. I’m one of the 0.06%! There’s dozens of us!!

    • hakase@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      6 hours of Monster Hunter: World today on my Mint desktop while my wife hunted with me on her Steam Deck!

      If Mint would just implement HDR now, it would be my perfect system.

    • ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth
      1·
      2 days ago

      I do most of my gaming on mint, but not for much longer as I am going to move my new configs and change to the same distro as my laptop at some point

  • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    I’ve been considering these: Crystal, Archcraft, Arco, Exodia. Are these any good?

    • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I’ve looked at Archcraft (not any of the others), and the only thing that seems unique about it is that it’s riced (themed) out of the box and offers several DE options. Otherwise, there’s not really anything that sets it apart from, say, EndeavorOS (which has a handful of DEs and a great install process) or CachyOS (which has a nice install process, an optimized kernel and packages, and as many or more DE options as Archcraft).

      The other thing that gives me pause with Archcraft is the fact that it’s maintained by only one person. What happens if/when they get burned out?

      • kekmacska@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Theming is already an advantage, i tried theming in VM and broke the system with it. If the maintainer stops it, i’ll just switch to an another one. Also, what is Cachy based on?

  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    I feel underrepresented as a Void user.

    Although the absurd number of hours I’ve played a certain popular gacha under Lutris might not trigger the Steam metrics, I demand credit for dumping 45 hours into a poorly translated RPG Maker looking project!