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Steam Hardware & Software Survey for June 2025 is out - here's the latest for Linux and SteamOS
3 Jul 2025 at 10:02 am UTC Likes: 7

Fun fact: I got the survey twice yesterday. First on my laptop, then on my desktop. I suppose Linux market share gonna blow up in July...

It's a hardware survey, not a user survey. Two machines both being sampled is intended behaviour, regardless of who's using them.

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Steam Hardware & Software Survey for June 2025 is out - here's the latest for Linux and SteamOS
3 Jul 2025 at 9:23 am UTC Likes: 2

Nearly 6% of English-using Steam users is pretty good. It would be nice to make inroads with gamers in China, too, but that's an uphill struggle.

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Nexus Mods to get Age Verification in UK / EU for adult content, plus a new cross-platform app upgrade
2 Jul 2025 at 3:56 pm UTC Likes: 3

I hope I am wrong, but a change in ownership of a popular platform never ended well as far as I can tell/remember.

PayPal is doing better than it would have under Thiel and Musk. Minecraft is doing better than it would have under Notch.

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Mecha BREAK is out now on Steam - works on Steam Deck but blocks Desktop Linux
2 Jul 2025 at 10:28 am UTC Likes: 3

Valve are probably going to have to do better testing since this

SteamOS:
This game runs successfully on SteamOS

isn't really true. Only Deck. And potentially only LCD Deck if it's like the others that use this anti-cheat.

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NVIDIA confirm upcoming driver will be the last for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta
1 Jul 2025 at 6:14 pm UTC Likes: 2

Does the 1650 series not count as Pascal?

When Turing came out there was market demand for chips on the new architecture but without ray tracing capability so the price could be lower; that's the 1600 series.

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NVIDIA confirm upcoming driver will be the last for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta
1 Jul 2025 at 5:24 pm UTC Likes: 3

They still do get the next driver. The next driver series. So I think it sounds more dangerous than it is at the moment.

And the 580 branch will be carried in distro repositories for a very long time, just like all the other legacy branches.

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Here are the most played games on Steam Deck for June 2025
1 Jul 2025 at 3:50 pm UTC

Does streaming from my main PC count?

It does as far as I'm concerned, but doesn't for Steam's year-end stats.

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Here are the most played games on Steam Deck for June 2025
1 Jul 2025 at 2:03 pm UTC

What have you been playing recently?

I played through Old Skies, the Wolfenstein games, and Planet of Lana, with a little bit of Tempopo. The little one's played Spyro and Jelly Car Worlds.

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Space physics puzzler Voyager 2 adds Linux and Steam Deck support
30 Jun 2025 at 12:23 pm UTC Likes: 3

They do give this caveat:

What We Haven’t Tested (Yet)

Desktop Linux distributions other than SteamOS (Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, etc.)

If you play on a non-Deck Linux PC, we’d love to hear about performance, input quirks, or crashes. Share your feedback using the in-game socials (Gear Icon > Options > Email) or in the Community Hub.

Given that they've only had 7 reviews, this GOL article could make Linux users their majority customer base. It looks pretty cool.

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Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
27 Jun 2025 at 5:01 pm UTC Likes: 6

I think what they really want is to get the discussion going along the lines of "in order to reduce the maintenance burden of 32-bit stuff without losing too much functionality, what would we need to do?"

"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

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