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Steam On Linux Gaming Finally Cracks 3% For October 2025 (www.phoronix.com)
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Steam on Linux use has hit an all-time high! With the Steam Survey results for October 2025 coming out this evening, Steam on Linux has finally cracked the 3% threshold! A few months back Steam on Linux was close to 3% before stumbling a bit but now it's above that elusive threshold. The only time Steam on Linux use was close to the 3% mark was when Steam on Linux initially debuted a decade ago and at that time the overall Steam user-base was much smaller than it is today. Long story short, thanks to the ongoing success of Valve's Steam Deck and other handhelds plus Steam Play (Proton) working out so well, these October numbers are the best yet.

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[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I can't get the damn thing to load on my machine -_-

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did you try with Proton-GE? Regular Proton would not load for me for some reason.

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I did, I tried multiple Proton versions, tried experimental and tried it with the bleeding edge beta option.

None of them acted differently, all if them loaded the black screen with the loading icon bottom right and then crashed and gave no details on why it crashed at all.

[–] qweertz@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Proton-GE is a 3rd party tool I always use when a game doesn't start with a Valve Proton version

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah OK. I have refunded it now so can't try as I spent nearly 2 hours "in game" time trying to get the thing working and didn't want to go past that 2 hour threshold and then be stuck with an expensive game I couldn't play.

[–] qweertz@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I would really recommend you take a look at ProtonDB when it comes to troubleshooting like that, it is one of if not the best resources for that kind of stuff

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the recommendation :)

[–] ne0phyte@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

What does the log say? PROTON_LOG=1 launch parameter and then check your home directory.

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 1 points 2 days ago

for some reason mine crashes if i tab out while it's loading into a map. fwiw.

[–] bagelberger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I had a problem loading it during the playtest (black screen, forever loading icon) and had to install Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime for it to start up properly. Never had a problem launching the playtest or full game after that!

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the suggestion, that is one of the things I tried that did not work though :(

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Did you report it on the proton github issue thread (if there's one already open)? Just to get the conversation going