Quoting: GuestThat's it, the Steam survey is definitely skewed against Linux users: out of the ~120 million monthly active users on Steam, 7 (seven) of them commented on gamingonlinux.com lamenting they never, or very rarely, received a survey.
Clearly, this should be a priority for Valve and fixed ASAP!

6 of them. I gave instructions for making sure a survey would occur. No need for "lamenting" when you are the one finding the solution.

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Quoting: t3gI haven’t gotten a Steam survey in over 2 years. Maybe Valve should use the actual login and playtime data vs some random survey.

I say this because every month these stats come out and gaming sites use them as gospel in the state of Linux gaming.

If you close steam
run this command  
sed -i -e '/SurveyDate/ s/"[0-9].*"/"'$(date +%Y-%m-%d -d "1 year ago")'"/' ~/.steam/steam/config/config.vdf
Then reopen steam
You will get a steam survey.

I would prefer the login and playtime data as well. Hit me up Valve; I can make this happen for you.

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I can't take the Ubuntu Budgie version seriously. All I can think of is that it is Ubuntu, the budgie smuggler edition.

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What a time to be alive, games from Sony releasing on Steam and being verified on a Linux gaming device. Still quite hard to believe but amazing to see.

Agreed, blows me away every time. I don't follow the release of games. But I think it would be interesting to see a graph of games released, steam deck verified, over time or something like that. Maybe one of you SteamDB wizards can already do something like this.

Crazy awesome though.

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Quoting: ssj17vegetaThat's very good news. 8 millions seem like a big number !

Can't wait to put my fingers on Godot 4 :)

Works great now since alpha13. Only reason to wait, is if you rely on GDNative.

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Quoting: KuduzkehpanTransgaming with (proton wine cedega qemu etc..) is not the real gaming way in linux and shouldn't be.
but transgaming boosting linux popularity more than any other stuff on linux too.
İts a double agent thing as Trending "proton compatible" trick by game developers. Build for windows but earny money from linux users just because Linux users found a way to run that software on their linux system.
and still transgaming is just like rolling dice. For example i got new AMDGPU now lutris games not working anymore. But Steam proton works like a charm.

I'm 100% on board with transgaming. I know a lot of Linux users are "built for Linux" or nothing. But things are so easy with transgaming now using Proton. I remember how hard everything was with Wine/Everquest and Cedega/World of Warcraft. Granted Cedega made things much easier but so much stuff wasn't supported. I used Cedega until Transgaming started working on Cider and it seemed like Transgaming had completely dropped support of Linux and they were just taking the monthly subscription fee. Honestly it really felt like Transgaming just made a decent UI for wine, enough to call it a product and get people excited and pay a subscription fee, then immediately put all their developers on Cider for Mac.

With the recent push by Valve and proton. Suddenly most of my games have become 1 click installs and poof the game works just fine with zero tinkering. And I've bought more games this year and played them through transgaming then I have in the last ten years. I stopped buying specialized gaming video cards because what was the point. Now I have a steam deck and buy what ever video game that I want. I feel almost 100% the game I buy will just work with transgaming. If it doesn't I'm sure it will work soon enough. And I'm sure as game devs see the sales on Linux go up and up and up, they will want to make sure their game works via transgaming and soon every game will work through transgaming. As linux gamers increase, then game devs will likely just target Linux as a platform and transgaming will be needed less and less. It's a very exciting time for Linux gamers.

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Quoting: M@GOidIf SteamOS is 7.6% of ~1,623,600 million Linux users, it is safe to say Valve delivered about 123,000 units so far?

I think you can say, at least 123K units. If you've participated in the Steam survey on a different computer already, it's unlikely the steam client would have offered you a chance to take the suvey on your steam deck. I just got my Steam Deck a week ago and I never got the survey. So I would say, that 123k is a mix of gamers who haven't take the survey in over a year, the few who forced the survey, and those who've never taken the survey, i.e. console only gamers.

 
sed -i -e '/"SurveyDate"/ s/"[0-9].*"/"'$(date +%Y-%m-%d -d "1 year ago")'"/' .steam/debian-installation/config/config.vdf
Just in case anybody needs it.

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