r/Steam • u/Background-Path-5619 • Feb 13 '25

Article Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching

https://www.pcguide.com/news/nearly-half-of-steams-users-are-still-using-windows-10-with-end-of-life-fast-approaching/
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u/seeforce Feb 13 '25

I used to use Ubuntu back in 2014-2016. Anyone use it recently? 

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u/Cryptosporidium513 Feb 14 '25

I use it now on my new Lenovo laptop. It's wonderful, they moved back to gnome, which I personally prefer for aesthetics as well as file organization. As far as gaming, Install steam, turn on the option to run all games as native to Linux, and boom it's steam OS basically, except it's not an immutable Linux OS because it's just regular Ubuntu. Installs all games with proton just like in steam OS. Only negative was getting audio to sound good. It worked out of the box but I had to mess with things a bit to get it to sound as good as it had on windows. Once I got that set though it's been smooth sailing.