All fields expanded, very long screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/steam-hardware-software-survey-linux-september-2025-azOM8GS

Note, the source will change every month. That’s why I made a screenshot, so the discussion in this thread makes sense in the future. Source: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux

Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit got +3.34% from previously 0%, while Linux Mint 22.1 64 bit lost -2.71%. So the rest of the 0.65% are either new users or upgraders from even older Linux Mint versions. Whatever the reason is, these two entries should have been a single one as Linux Mint 22 with 8.84%.

Also what is the category “Other”? It’s almost 20% big, so this is not something to wave over. Bazzite got a good start, hopefully it will grow further. I’m surprised that CachyOS is this popular, much more than Ubuntu and Bazzite.

OC text by @thingsiplay@beehaw.org

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    Because GNOME is the default, which any new user is likely to pick and then gain the impression that the desktop experience on Linux is subpar (more likely for former windows users imo).

    This is basically what happend to me and I missed out on using Linux for several years because I thought it wasn’t ready, when it turns out stuff like Compiz already figured out excellent UX design more than a decade ago.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      Gnome is not the default. Windows is the default. People go out of their way to install Linux, they choose what they want to install. Nobody forces Gnome. People choose it.

      The only distro that Valve seriously supports is SteamOS which… doesn’t use Gnome.

      Besides, you thinking Gnome UX is bad is just an opinion. I think it’s far better than any of the clunky Win95-like UXes I see. But I don’t go around shitting on people for preferring a windows-like UX. It’s their machine and they should use whatever they like.

      • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I chose what I was told was easiest which was Ubuntu and that has GNOME. A year later when I had enough of GNOME (which I still much preferred over Windows) I decided I was up to installing what I actually wanted and only because it came with an installer.