According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or so in either direction most months… It’s also near an all-time high on a percentage basis going back to the early days of Steam on Linux when it had around a 2% marketshare but at that time the Steam customer size in absolute numbers was much smaller a decade ago than it is now. So if the percentage numbers are accurate, this is likely the largest in absolute terms that the Linux gaming marketshare has ever been.

Data from Valve: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam?platform=combined

  • AnonTwo@kbin.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    I think it’s basically the recommendation if you use Nvidia cards, since I think they have the most up to date Nvidia drivers? Could be wrong but that was the spiel last time I tried it.

    • Stillhart@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      I am using it specifically because of the hybrid Nvidia graphics on my laptop. Because they sell laptops with this setup, their OS supports it flawlessly. I’ll be honest, I’d rather be using something like Nobara, but there were games that weren’t working and I don’t have the patience to figure out how to get them working. Pop just works. That’s what I need.

    • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
      11·
      1 year ago

      Why is Pop OS required? Can’t you simply use their nVidia drivers in other Linux distributions?

      • AnonTwo@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        The process is less streamlined. There isn’t some universal installer that works on all distributions. Especially not for drivers.

        Basically when you install Pop OS it’s just available. It’s usually…not on a lot of Linux distributions.

        • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
          37·
          1 year ago

          I will bet money it’s not a proprietary driver and simply copied from another project. Where can I see the source code?

          Edit: yep, it’s actually the stock Nvidia drivers that you can build and install on literally any Linux OS (and easier on Arch if you use paru by typing “paru nvidia”). So Pop OS implementation is nothing special.

          • maxbossing@feddit.de
            8·
            1 year ago

            Well yeah, the point is that they provide the driver from the beginning by including it in the ISO, meaning you dont need to set up the driver after installation and it just works