Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm going to hazard a guess that in Feb 2025, the Steam Survey showed a great big surge in Simplified Chinese. 😁

+20.88%.

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Quoting: Phlebiac1) Steam Deck usage has stayed relatively flat - or more accurately, has scaled at the same rate as total Steam usage.

In particular, the proportion is staying flat at around the same level as total Linux was for years, but the release of that high profile Linux gaming demonstration device has changed the conversation; which has led to game devs paying much more attention to that device than they did to the rest of us before, and to the subsequent growth of desktop Linux.

Quoting: Phlebiac2) macOS usage declined for years, but in recent times it has scaled at nearly the same rate as desktop Linux. I wonder what factors are involved with that; I don't think Valve has done anything major on that front, and to my knowledge Apple hasn't done anything to improve things for gaming (they are actively hostile to it in some ways).

I expect that growth is from people leaving Windows 10. If Microsoft are going to make you buy a new machine anyway, do you really want that machine to be a Windows machine? For a chunk of people it seems that the answer is "no." Especially with how well-regarded Apple's Arm chips have been - I think the bump before the decline in Mac share was from the sentiment around the M1 chip.

I'm pleased that Mac is growing again. The bigger the non-Windows market, the more incentive there is for game devs to avoid single-platform tooling. Although it is a shame that Apple makes it hard to use one solution (like Vulkan, say) for all platforms. Apple having Vulkan on Macs and Sony having Vulkan on the PS6 would make multiplatform game dev much more straightforward.

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Quoting: Marlockthe percentage of linux machines with Deck-exclusive GPUs is now smaller (iirc it reached ~50% for a while) so linux growth is now driven by actual linux distros installed on PCs, laptops, etc, not a niche console that happens to have linux in it but you might never realize it, if seen as just a console

In case you'd like a graph:

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It would definitely be a good thing if Intel could get their shizz together... but I'm not optimistic that they will.

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An annoying downside to Fedora — Installing NVIDIA GPU drivers on Fedora still needs more steps than it should.

Given that most people in need of a "which distro to pick" article are going to be on Nvidia, that's reason enough to not pick Fedora.

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What are you looking forward to this year?

Adventures of a Cat in Space [External Link]

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Is there specific bug you're waiting on being solved?

Remote Play audio playing on the host even when you've turned off the "play audio on host" option remains super annoying.

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Quoting: tpauGeforce below 20xx series... are stuck on 1.1.

That's also incorrect. Kepler supports 1.2. Maxwell and up supports 1.4.

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Quoting: SkullVonBonesI would imagine that somewhere long the upward trajectory, that MS would've started to become a little worried, but seems they are just too pigheaded.

Microsoft were worried before there was even Steam, let alone Steam with a Linux user base to keep track of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents [External Link]

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Quoting: elmapulanyone knows the name for the steamdeck GPU and steam deck oled gpu on the hardware survey?

Deck LCD: AMD Custom GPU 0405

Deck OLED: AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH)

Knowing those lets you do this:

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