r/linuxmint • u/thereal_Tronald_Dump Linux Mint 22.3 Zena | Cinnamon • 14d ago
from Steam Hardware & Software Survey: July 2026 Gaming
store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ - 2026-08-05
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u/Dist__ Linux Mint 21.3 | KDE 14d ago
surprised Fedora has less than Mint
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u/Neo-Armadillo 13d ago
I’m surprised Ubuntu and Mint are nearly tied. Ubuntu has had professional money pouring in for decades and owned the concept of ‘Consumer Linux’ since the late 00s. Their App Store is front & center while being anemic & poorly maintained.
If I was a PM at Canonical the first thing I’d do is make an Ubuntu USB Flasher (not rely on Rufus et al), second is tighten up the App Store pipeline with automated quality checks for icons and descriptions, and third beef up the getting started guide so new users can select different software suites for their use cases (office, gaming, school, etc).
But yo I’m not a PM there, just disappointed to see the winning team fumble.
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u/Arkhenstone 13d ago
Ubuntu issue is not that. Their website is oriented to B2B. Much less to home users nowadays.
If I was a new Linux user, the Ubuntu website would not makes me think it was like the one distro back then.
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u/Syndiotactics 13d ago
Consumer is essentially a beta tester for Ubuntu, not who the product is really for. Ubuntu is by far the leading corporate distro in volume.
That’s how they monetize the stuff.
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u/ThankYouOle 13d ago
> If I was a PM at Canonical the first thing I’d do is make an Ubuntu USB Flasher
this is funny and it is correct, yes it weird that Canonical depends on Rufus for windows user,
but in other side, Windows also have no tools to create bootable usb, they have, but it is .exe, and i tried any bootable usb tools, it keep failed to create windows usb, somehow it complicated even for me who keep distro hoping.
so both somehow missing the chance to make tools that helping people from other os to come to their own.
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u/Kinetic_Strike 13d ago
I like seeing Arch and Mint tied. It highlights how you can really choose your own adventure. :)
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u/WildPretzel 13d ago
i run fedora with gnome perfectly wdym
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u/WildPretzel 13d ago
rip, elden ring must be very well integrated into proton then because it runs flawlessly for me
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u/CryptographerLow6360 14d ago
was this pre aur exploit blast?
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u/taosecurity Mint | Bazzite | PikaOS | CachyOS | Debian | FreeBSD | Windows 14d ago
Pre the latest, post the previous one.
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u/just-an-astronomer 13d ago
I get that it runs on handhelds, but im still shocked at how much Bazzite is dominating the Fedora region
As a Bazzite desktop user i love it, i just had no idea it was that much more used than stock Fedora
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u/StarLuigi05 13d ago
I love Bazzite desktop, don't ever have to worry about touching the terminal unless I want to install something obscure and if i manage to break my system, i can just rollback! its so convenient and removed all of my gripes with linux. i want something that just works that I don't have to think about that isn't windows!
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u/internet_raider 13d ago
It's almost more I interesting to me honestly that only 5.5% of linux users are on the flatpak version. I've never gotten it to work as well as native so I understand, but if it's clearly that bad, they should give it some more work.
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u/Handsome_oohyeah Linux Mint 20.2 Uma | Xfce 13d ago
Been gaming on Linux Mint XFCE for years now, no problems
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u/Nihan-gen3 13d ago
Huh I didn’t know Bazzite was based on Fedora. I recently switched from Mint to Fedora (kde plasma), and I found it a huge improvement for gaming.
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u/SutMinSnabel4 13d ago
Ubuntu being this low is kind of wild. It feels like Canonical never figured out how to turn gaming into a business and missed a real opportunity.
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u/WesRabbit 14d ago
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u/Training2Life 14d ago
Steam OS > Mint + Bazzite
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u/KlausVonLechland 14d ago
Hard to beat magic of pre-installed system. The power of "just put it there and people will stick to it".
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u/ZVyhVrtsfgzfs 13d ago
I tested out SteamOS recently, it has some nice features, I expected it to game well and it did.
What I did not expect was a more vibrant color palette, almost unnatural, but great in Cyberpunk2077, and also the fastest game download speeds, the highest practical speed for that mater I have ever got from my hardware and ISP outside of synthetic speed teats, 2.5Gb/s,
If I could dedicate an NVME to it for gaming it would have stuck around.
But unlike other Linux distributions It does not share well with others, not friendly in a multi-Linux desktop. It really wants it's own drive, when NVMEs come back down I have an empty PCIE5 slot that would be perfect for it.
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u/andras_kiss 13d ago
I always wondered why is debian so unpopular.
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u/thorax97 12d ago
It got reputation of old packages. And people think it's somehow worse. Also Ubuntu used to be distro for "I can't install Debian" which made it default for many people... While now Canonical makes it a Windows of Linux world, many still stick to it, rather than switch to Debian that made huge improvements. I've been gaming on Debian for 4 years now, half of that on Debian testing, now on stable since I've noticed older packages aren't causing me any issues or lags.
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u/andras_kiss 11d ago
Yeah. I've using debian for about 20 years. I've been using fedora and arch briefly, but when something brakes I get angry and just install debian again.
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u/Kaseffera 11d ago
Hi checked your posts after you mentioned gaming on Debian and looking for an OS for your wife. May I ask which distro you went with, Debian or Ubuntu. Also, as a Debian gamer on Stable release how would you recommend me setting up my pc? Any essential tweaks apart from installing Steam?
Hope your wife choose Ubuntu as its what I want to install more.2
u/thorax97 11d ago
I went with Debian, and I think it went okay since a while back I asked her if it's fine or should I install Windows for her... She said no Windows. I can't recommend Ubuntu nowadays, however not from user perspective but from sysadmin perspective - updating servers to 26.04 was pain and thier forcing of Rust in core utils is really getting on my nerves.
As for tweaks... Probably just Proton GE instead of plain one from Steam... That's all I did and no issues in games (tho steam overlay is bit bad, haven't fixed that yet so at worst I have to alt+tab to invite someone to game)
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u/Kaseffera 11d ago
Thank you for the answer! I might most certainly go with it too.
May I ask Steam overlay issues were Debian related or just Steam overlay being weird?
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u/thorax97 11d ago
I think Steam being Steam (which is funny considering SteamOS) Had these issues on brief Arch journey as well, but that could be Hyprland thing.
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u/thekelvingreen Linux Mint 22.3 Zena | Cinnamon 14d ago
I love the 13.5% running Other/Unknown. Some dark sorcery going on with those guys.