If you have one, it would be somewhere on your Year in Review page on Steam. Even though it says devices, it seems to only split it by Linux/Windows/MacOS/Steam Deck. So unless you use a Steam Deck it most likely won’t be on there. I’ve used five devices including my Deck within the last year, and it only split it two ways.
My Steam Deck was on my chart at 2%. Pretty sure my VR time this year was higher than my Steam Deck time. Clearly there's some criteria it's using to decide what's shown since you see it and I don't, but I don't think it's percent playtime. Dunno--could also be that the VR games I was playing didn't trigger the VR category for whatever reason. It was mostly Beat Saber.
I don’t get the graph either but I play on Windows and Linux. But dual boot on the same machine. It must be grabbing an id off of something. Mac address or GPU or…??
I’m only surprised I don’t have 50%+ on controller vs m+kb. Idk if steam got it wrong, but I’m sure I havent used them for more than a half of my time. Although I wasn’t any inspired fot a gamepad gaming coming from competitive shooters, it feels so right with racing games, fightings and rpgs I’m enjoying rn.
Pretty happy to have 80% on Linux tho. After all these terrible stories of how games don’t work there, it’s a wonder that all I wanted, licensed or pirated, worked out of the box with only minor exclusions. If not for Adobe bastards, there’s no need to have Windows even as a virtual or dual-boot platform. And even them can be replaced with tools like Krita.
If it’s not the year of a Linux desktop, I’m sure 2025 would be.
The controller vs keyboard and mouse was messed up for me apparently, because it didn’t show up this year. And I know I spent 60+ hours using a DualSense on American and Euro Truck Simulator, plus all of my time on the Deck!
Glad to hear Linux gaming is working out for you as well! I started doing some basic gaming on Linux some years back, but I didn’t really start running it on my main gaming computer until a couple of years ago. Then this past year I decided to not boot into Windows to game unless I couldn’t do it on Linux. Then all year it worked just fine! With the push by Valve in recent years it’s made it so easy, as long as the game devs don’t throw roadblocks into it!
My only worry, as I said, are specific programs, but as long as Linux is so good, I’d be better finding workatound from there than trying to emulate windows for them.
That’s my thought on programs like that. Unless you absolutely have to run some extremely esoteric software or something from a company that just hates Linux, it’s usually going to work just fine. It was completely worthwhile to deal with learning a new workflow on a few things to get all of the benefits. I found native replacements that work just as well if not better for every program that I used, except for my music player. I can’t find anything that works quite as well as Aimp, so I just run it through Wine.
My viewpoint on a lot of things is to use what works for you. In my case, Windows didn’t cut it anymore, so I switched to what did!
A few games that could support it with the flick of a switch (or quite literally a checkbox) such as Rust and Fortnite do not, but EAC itself does support Linux and quite well. VRChat uses EAC and it runs just fine (thousands of hours with it working), just as one example.
At this point, if a game doesn’t work on Linux with EAC, it is 100% pure unadulterated laziness on the company’s part. They can literally enable it and say “We officially don’t support Linux, don’t ask us for help if you play on it.”
While I don’t play Apex I have put way too much time into Battlebit Remastered which also uses EAC and I’ve never had an issue being kicked.
Other games I’ve tried with EAC are Ironsight, Killing Floor 2 and Elden Ring, and they all worked fine. Rust being the only one I had to give up after switching (tho that’s probably a good thing for my mental health)
After every patch I can play 1 match. Then I get kicked because some random file has a version mismatch. From there on the game will not let me back into the lobby screen because of version mismatches.
I’ve tried deleting the proton prefix, reinstalls on various ssds and hdds, different proton versions…
And it’s definitely an Apex issue since a ton of other EAC games work just fine for me.
The only thing that actually works reliably is booting to Windows and playing it from there for me.
Sorry but multiboxing with a compatibility layer is pure cancer, for some reason proton just keeps gobbling up resources until the clients eventually become unplayable and need to be restarted.
alt tab doesn't work for switching and also MINIMIZE ON FOCUS LOSS? fuck you linux, absolutely fuck you.
Just Linux for me…I haven’t used windows since windows 7. I’m probably going to sell my steam deck though because it mostly just sits in the case on top of my computer (where I usually play since my computer is plugged into my 50 inch bedroom TV. But the stream deck is nice and fun to play with.
I think I've read somewhere that FSR3 has trouble when there is a too low base of "real" frames it has to work with. So don't expect it to do miracles in every scenario.
Hopefully something like this can be included in a future version of Wine/Proton/Proton-GE. Proton-GE doesn't have an issue page. I think one would have to reach out via Discord. I don't use Discord though.
Phoronix is going to be flooded with almost identical headlines like this if they make an article every time the (brand-new) NVK Mesa driver gets a commit that improves performance somewhere
Funny thing is that the game would probably work close to perfect if the devs just switched on the linux support in EAC. Sadly, it’s just isn’t worth for the devs. Linux user pool is too small and those who would play would generate new bug reports due to unconventional setup running through a compatibility layer.
Same as you friend, in fact the Deck helped me to realise that the vast majority of my games play fine on Linux doing nothing but enabling Steam Play for all other titles in Settings. That’s literally all I had to do.
I know it’s definitely not the same experience for others but I’m glad I could make the 100% jump to Linux. Especially with Cosmic on the way for PopOS!
I think it’s a lot of the same game on both, but some I only played on the deck. Some I switched back to desktop for sections where inconsistent frame rate was wrecking me like GoW Valkyries. Dave the diver was entirely deck. Also have a laptop but vulkan support is incomplete on haswell so some games were launched and crashed if they didn’t have opengl.
Next year should be 100% Linux for me. Steam is dropping support for Windows 7 at the end of this year, and I don’t have any other newer Windows PC to run Steam on.
Nor do you want them. Windows 10 was pretty amazing when it was released, but now it’s essentially just adware and spyware. They’ve added no new features for the benefit of the consumer, and have added thousands of changes for their snooping and ad-serving.
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