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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 months ago (11 children)

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

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 6 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (6 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.

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

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

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