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Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

For stability? A missing feature or software you need I get, but stability? Which distro/DE are you using? Please don't say you're running Gentoo and some crazy TWM setup or something like that lol

Stability to me was one of the biggest reasons to use Linux - it does exactly what I expect it to do, never breaks, updates never break shit.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    LOL never beaks. Most Linux distros are chock full of bugs that the end user has to work around

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I've not had a single breakage in the past ~4 years I've been on Fedora Workstation, despite me often moving to the beta channel. Pretty nice for an up-to-date distro.

    Granted, I've also been on some less stable distros/DEs (in my case, it used to be Manjaro's KDE version). Perhaps yours is similar, since you claim to have extreme stability problems?

    I cannot say the same for Windows, where things randomly stop working, I still occasionally get bluescreens, it shits the bed when I change hardware, etc. the last time I booted into Windows my audio stopped working entirely, and no matter how many times I reinstalled audio drivers or did a system restore, nothing would fix it. I ended up having to buy an external DAC.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago

    I'm was talking about game stability. This is a gaming related topic right? Linux is stable but games had some issues.

    Truthfully nothing major that stopped me from playing but I had to mess with proton in steam from time to time. Most recently the Last of Us crashes on start, not sure why it was fine previously. Also, there were some games anti cheat did not work and I needed to play in Windows.

    Also, I have consistently had issues streaming to my steam Deck. Windows isn't perfect either but it's more likely to work the with windows. Sure maybe it's my Nvidia GPU, but saying switch to amd does make my setup more stable.

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