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ProtonDB, the unofficial tracker for checking the status of Windows games played on Linux through Steam Play has another data-dump available. Here's a look for April 2019. Note: The data dumps often include a few reports past the end of the month, which aren't counted as we cover them in the next set of reports as we cut-off what we look over at the end of April.

Firstly, ProtonDB has hit a bit of a milestone recently with it hitting well over forty thousand reports from users. That's crazy but it goes to show just how popular Steam Play is becoming in what's a relatively short amount of time. Steam Play isn't even a year old yet!

As usual, let's start with a quick look at how many reports have been coming in per month:

Interesting to see quite the reversal there, with it starting to fall-off from November and now we're seeing a nice up-tick in the reports once again. Likely due to new releases of Steam Play's Proton and new game releases recently.

That only tells us the amount of reports though, what about the status of the reports being sent to ProtonDB through April? Here's a look at that too:

That's a pretty nice picture, tons of Platinum reports continuing to show how well Steam Play as a whole seems to be doing. Let's look in a bit more detail now, what actual games have seen the most reports in April, to give us an idea of what Windows games played on Linux are currently of interest.

No real surprises there, Risk of Rain 2 being a recent release that I also covered in early April. Some of the usual suspects remain popular titles people are re-testing often like Grand Theft Auto 5 and Sekiro continues to be very popular. However, that's only the number of reports. Let's take a dive into what games are getting Platinum reports, so these games should be click and play on Linux with Steam Play:

Now a quick look at computer information from the reports for those interesting, starting with the distribution used:

Usual note about "Other": lots of the reports don't include a specific distribution name. Where we're unable to properly identify them when scraping the data dump, we (GOL) bundle them together into Other. This can be caused by multiple things, so hopefully in future ProtonDB can make this clearer.

Now a little hardware info for you from the reports, looking over CPU and GPU vendor popularity:

That's all for this month in regards to the reports, will take another look next month with the next data dump from ProtonDB.

How have you been finding Steam Play? Are there specific games you're waiting on working? Were you recently surprised by a game that works? Let's have a chat about it all in the comments.

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Liam Dawe May 2, 2019
Quoting: F.Ultra
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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAnd, at the same time, Linux has lost 1% of market share in the Steam Hardware Survey of April.
It went from 0.82 to 0.81, that's 0.01% comparatively not 1%. Like Valve themselves confirmed before, Linux is growing.

Well going from 0.82% to 0.81% is a decline by 1.22%, then we are probably growing as you say since the Survey does not count every single user as well as the total pool is growing so even a 1% decline can be an increase in actual users.
I know what you're saying but my point was more about saying 1% difference, to a lot of people might be quite alarming when our total market share before was only 0.82%. I'm just trying to make it crystal clear :)
Tuxee May 2, 2019
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoAnd, at the same time, Linux has lost 1% of market share in the Steam Hardware Survey of April.

So we are at minus something. Right? Since we only had a market share of 0.8%...
Maath May 2, 2019
I would be curious to know the percentage of Windows games over time which have received platinum, gold, etc., ratings. So, we can see the trend of compatibility, and possibly how much farther we would have to go. I would be happy to see 80% compatibility, considering the 80/20 rule.
kokoko3k May 2, 2019
Quoting: devnullWould be interesting if someone from Valve could comment on what it means but regarding the survey you can check when your last report was with

grep -i survey ~/.steam/steam/config/config.vdf

I get

"SurveyDateVersion" "-8455477975071795344"
"SurveyDate" "2018-06-10"
"SurveyDateType" "2"


Which looks quite odd not only because of the version but I don't get popups about it. Maybe 2 means opted out?

Nope...
                                "SurveyDate"            "2019-04-08"
                                "SurveyDateVersion"             "6397896252699296968"
                                "SurveyDateType"                "2"
                                "SurveyID"              ***HIDDEN***



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tuubi May 2, 2019
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Quoting: devnullWhich looks quite odd not only because of the version but I don't get popups about it. Maybe 2 means opted out? Considering I don't use windows at all that could be at least a year of not being counted.
I got it just yesterday. I tend to get it maybe one to three times per year.

"SurveyDate" "2019-05-01"
"SurveyDateType" "3"

No idea what the different types mean.

By the way, I'm not convinced our using Linux has anything to do with how often we're selected to participate. I know it seems so from all the anecdotal evidence we hear on GOL, but that could be confirmation bias. I don't see why Valve would want to intentionally skew the results, especially to make the Linux user base seem smaller than it is. We'll just have to accept that we're a small minority on steam.
riusma May 2, 2019
Quoting: devnullWould be interesting if someone from Valve could comment on what it means but regarding the survey you can check when your last report was with

grep -i survey ~/.steam/steam/config/config.vdf

I get

"SurveyDateVersion" "-8455477975071795344"
"SurveyDate" "2018-06-10"
"SurveyDateType" "2"


Which looks quite odd not only because of the version but I don't get popups about it. Maybe 2 means opted out? Considering I don't use windows at all that could be at least a year of not being counted.

Aaaaah thx! :)

"SurveyDateVersion"     "-6503779413840319068"
"SurveyDate"            "2018-11-01"
"SurveyDateType"        "2"


My previous one was 2017-11-01, so at least the survey seems to pop up one time a year... :|


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Scoopta May 2, 2019
As always I find it a little disappointing to see so many people with Nvidia cards, oh well. Tbh right now the only thing I use proton for is SkyrimSE and I don't even play it all that often. I've mostly just been playing MC recently.
Purple Library Guy May 2, 2019
Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: devnullWhich looks quite odd not only because of the version but I don't get popups about it. Maybe 2 means opted out? Considering I don't use windows at all that could be at least a year of not being counted.
I got it just yesterday. I tend to get it maybe one to three times per year.
I believe I've gotten it once since Steam came to Linux. Perhaps twice.
tuubi May 2, 2019
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Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: devnullWhich looks quite odd not only because of the version but I don't get popups about it. Maybe 2 means opted out? Considering I don't use windows at all that could be at least a year of not being counted.
I got it just yesterday. I tend to get it maybe one to three times per year.
I believe I've gotten it once since Steam came to Linux. Perhaps twice.
Maybe every geographical area gets a set amount, relative to the population user base. Maybe you don't often happen to run Steam when the survey is being conducted during the first few days of any given month? (I've only ever gotten it on the first day of a month.) Maybe you're just unlucky? Could be anything.


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ZombieBarricades May 2, 2019
Does anyone on here play Prominence Poker? I've been playing loads lately but can't get into a tournament.
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