All values are taken from the Steam Hardware and Software Survey.

Linux Dec24 -> Dec25:

• +1.29%P
• +56.33%

Windows Dec24 -> Dec25:

• -1.87%P
• -1.95%

OSX Dec24 -> Dec25:

• +0.57%P
• +35.40%

%P = percentage points

Note: The Linux and OSX charts lowest Y-value is 0 while the Windows chart lowest Y-value is 92 for better visualization of the change during the year.

submitted by /u/_mergey_
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Install Richard Burns Rally RSF on Bazzite linux with Faugus Launcher

1 Download the torrent for the game folder (and download it) and download Rallysimfans_Installer.exe from the website

https://www.rallysimfans.hu/rbr/download.php?download=rsfrbr

2 Open the Rallysimfans_Installer.exe in Faugus with proton version set to GE latest

3 Inside the installer navigate to the game folder you torrented and select it

4 Install the game

5 Right click the now installed game in faugus launcher and click edit and change the directory from the Rallysimfans_Installer.exe you got from website and set the location to /Faugus/RBR(or whatever you named game)/drive_c/Richard Burns Rally/rsf_laucher/rsf_launcher.exe

1. Change the proton version to GE 8.25

2. Click on tools at the top right and click on Winecfg and select the libraries tab and add in each of the following one at a time

mfc70

mfc71

msvci70

msvcp70

msvcp71

Msvcr71

1. Open Oversteer (G29) or boxflat (Moza) or whatever you use for your steering wheel

2. If you are using a usb handbrake and its not being recognized in game (i am using Moza handbrake) then open input_mapper(Should already be installed in bazzite) and select your handbrake create a preset. Click add and record, go to advanced turn on “use as analog”, set input type to gamepad, on right side set output to analog axis, set target to gamepad, choose an output axis for your handbrake, set deadzone to 0. Apply your settings

10 WIth oversteer/boxflat open and input_mapper open start the game

1. I use this website for settings in rsf launcher (for g29 at least)

https://www.briankoponen.com/richard-burns-rally-logitech-g29-g920-settings/

1. I change graphics mode setting to vulkan 1.3

2. There are 2 sets of control settings in game, I set navigation stuff in the first game control settings (this is not needed if using keyboard: With game launched hit escape>plugin>rbr controls enable joy-here i bind my dpad on my g29 the enter key, the escape key, and the delete key, then save changes at the top,

Next press escape and go to controls>control setup>control setup: delete all the pre set controls and bind my wheel, throttle, brake, clutch, handbrake, gear up, gear down (not the secondary ones) pause, and camera change, and nothing else. I only have paddle shifters on my g29 so I can only speak to that. I found that if I mapped reversed to a button it would not let me use my paddles.

You should be good to play

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If you are using Proton GE or Proton-cachyos you can now force the new 2nd gen tranformer model on ANY game that support DLSS.

Force lastest SDK: PROTON_DLSS_UPGRADE=1

Use PROTON_DLSS_INDICATOR=1 to verify version upgrade: 310.5.0

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Hello all,

I have downloaded need for speed rivals game from the steam store, and then I clicked on launch, then it prompted me to sign in to EA and start downloading the EA application.

However, by mistake I closed this window because I was in the game mode which made the EA window very unusable. Now every time I try to launch the game it doesn't launch and doesn't show this window that it showed the first time. What shall I do? Can anyone help?

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Everything works fucking great (relative to my expectations), games from the second disk were recognized by Steam without any problems, there are stutterers, but that's normal as far as I understand, because of the compilation of shaders. The video lags a little when I stream in Discord browser. I chose CachyOS and I'm not afraid of messing around in the console a little, because I used Antergos (if anyone remembers that distro) on an old computer about 10 years ago. So, what should I do now to get optimal performance? I have an RTX 3060.

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So recently swapped my nVidia card for an AMD, switched to Cachy (like so far btw), and inadvertently learned a hardware lesson. At least for my widescreen monitor (ASUS VG34VQL1B) you really want to use DisplayPort. I've had this monitor for a few years, and had sworn it was supposed to go to 165 Mhz, forgot about that fact, and thought nothing of it only going to 99Mhz. Used it that way without much complaint. But recently I decided to go ahead, spend a little money to swap my card, and give Linux another go. Was of course impressed with how well my games performed, but was appalled by popping sounds I heard through my monitors audio (I plug monitor into my external speakers so I can easily share my setup with my work laptop). So anyway, that led me on a internet search path where I discovered that open source AMD drivers are blocked from supported HDMI 2.1. So I grabbed an extra Display port and yup no popping sounds. But what made me embarrassed was, all the sudden KDE display settings are letting me to go 165 MHz. So yeah, TLDR, even under Windows I was doing it wrong.

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Я скачал амонг ас на линукс, но у меня ре работала кирилица ( сначала были знаки вопроса, потом вместо кирилицы английские буквы ) я поставил на второе место русскую раскладку а на первую английскую, и все заработало. Не гарантирую что это может всем помочь, но по крайней мере мне помогло

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I recently built a tool to view and manage Steam Cloud files directly.

GitHub: https://github.com/Fldicoahkiin/SteamCloudFileManager

Steam's official cloud storage page only shows a usage bar. You can't see what files are actually stored, where they are on your disk, or download them individually.

What this tool does:

- Tree view of all cloud files with size and sync status

- Download/upload/delete individual files

- Shows the actual local path for each file (Documents, AppData, install dir, etc.)

- Hash comparison between local and cloud versions

How it works:

- Parses remotecache.vdf to get file metadata and Root IDs

- Uses CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol) to get download URLs from Steam's built-in browser

- Calls ISteamRemoteStorage API for file operations

Platforms: Windows, macOS (Intel/Apple Silicon), Linux

Installation:

- GitHub Releases: https://github.com/Fldicoahkiin/SteamCloudFileManager/releases

- macOS: brew tap Fldicoahkiin/tap && brew install steam-cloud-file-manager

- Arch: yay -S steam-cloud-file-manager-bin

Note: Requires Steam debug mode (-cef-enable-debugging). The app has a one-click button to restart Steam with this flag.

Built with Rust + egui. Fully open source (GPL-3.0).

Feedback and contributions welcome!

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Average FPS came: Linux (109.7) Windows (112.4)
credits: NJTechBenchmark

Edit: my apologize, it's 39% less RAM usage. My bad.

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Ubuntu 25.10 Steam .deb install (NOT Snap) Latest stable version (have also tried Steam Beta, see ** asterisk below)

Using a Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra Xbox Series style controller. Affects both wired and wireless. Wireless enabled through "xone" firmware driver.

Steam Input enabled for Xbox and generic controllers. Disabled for everything else. Have also tried disabling Xbox and generics independently.

Controller settings menu lets me pick a Community profile or a Premade Template, alongside any of the Default Layouts for various controllers/Steam Deck.

However, clicking on "Your Layouts" and choosing one of my own custom layouts simply doesn't apply.

Works fine in Windows.

Googling showed some others with this issue and they have tried several different things to no avail. Custom udev rules, clearing the Steam local cache, using Big Picture Mode, setting the layout from within the game instead of outside it in Steam, etc. All to no avail.

Don't know if this is a known bug in Steam**, or if there's something I've overlooked, or if anyone savvy knows a way around this.

Game I'm really needing my custom layout to work on is American Truck Simulator, since there are a lot of controls and not enough buttons. Steam Input allows you to set multiple functions to a single button, depending on if you tap it, double tap it, tap and hold, etc. In game mapping does not allow this.

**I did see a recent Steam Beta from December 2025 addressed some controller config bugs but I updated to Beta and it didn't help. The changeling also doesn't talk about Steam Input layouts, only things like "edits not showing as saved although they are." That's not my problem. Other templates work, but not personal layouts.

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If you look at GitHub if you download open source software you should know there is usually a sponsor button in those repositories.

If you use their software regularly and you enjoy it and hope to keep using their software then learn to tip.

If the developer hasn’t added a sponsor link to their repo but you want them to keep working on it ask them to add the link so you can sponsor them.

No one should work for free… streamers get tipped so should developers.

Notice the bottom right

https://preview.redd.it/qyl9ousw6sbg1.png?width=1331&format=png&auto=webp&s=7cf70067a975cd8a643242ebaeb91144dd225401

submitted by /u/helpprogram2
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https://github.com/CachyOS/wine-cachyos/pull/1

Genshin - one of most popular games in the world - with many people playing it from Linux. Now - it works on Linux only because individual who put their time and effort to fix this.

If you need - full instruction how Genshin work now in Linux.

This deserve attention.

And now they trying to bring this fix to wine:

Genshin Impact requires ntdll threadpool handling dead workers to not hang on exit - https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59178

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TL:DR: Almost no difference.

The reason for the test was that i was bored and I know the tests are bad and poorly done but I thought i would share the results anyways.

I'm currently dual booting Debian 13 with backports and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and thought I would do a little bit of testing with Mangohud. Here is a system fastfetch:

https://preview.redd.it/2qg8ruom0sbg1.png?width=799&format=png&auto=webp&s=cad6ade6043e5e4210195bf074e5c83577fcc6cf

Disclaimer is that these are very simple tests where I just tried to "run" or "swing" the same route on a 45-60 second timer then take the top, average and lows of each distro. I did three run each, three on Debian and three on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and yes i took picture of my monitor with my phone. Here are the results:

Debian:

The averages on Debian over the three runs was:
AVG fps 116

1% lows 81.56

0.1% 68.4

1.

2.

3.

SUSE:

The averages on SUSE over the three runs was:
AVG fps 116,56

1% lows 84.6

0.1% 70.1

1.

2.

3.

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This is a very niche issue that I noticed after switching to CachyOS and I haven’t been able to find anything on this issue.

The in-game sound effects are lower quality, almost seeming like the original 8-bit sound rather than the updated 16-bit sound. The game updated to 16-bit some time ago and it was not platform-specific. (https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Update:Behind_the_Scenes:_16-bit_Audio)

I am using the Bolt launcher (https://github.com/Adamcake/Bolt) and RuneLite client.

All other sounds on my system seem to be perfectly fine and I have tested side-by-side with my Windows desktop.

It’s honestly not a big deal and I can live with it, but I’m curious if anyone has any ideas.

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I've been playing Left 4 Dead 2 for quite some time now, and I'd say that until recently I hadn't experienced any significant problems with Steam mods. But lately, for some reason, the mods have stopped working.

It all started when I switched my operating system. Before, I used Zorin OS Lite and the mods worked normally. I switched to another distribution whose name I don't remember now, but I wanted to test it on my computer (which was also Linux), and when I installed L4D2, the mods stopped working. After I went back to Zorin OS Lite, the mods still didn't work.

Apparently, neither the mods installed through Steam nor the manually installed mods work. I tried installing a collection of mods through Steam that replaced the weapon animations with the animations from MW2019 and RoN, but it didn't work.

After that, I tried installing the Google Drive version of the Nightmare Collection (manual installation), but I was also unsuccessful – it's important to note that I hadn't tried installing this mod on Linux until that point; when I played it, I was using Windows.

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

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For reference, this is a gaming mouse. This mouse is not supported by libratbg or piper, and the utility tool does not work on linux. Is there any way for me to access the features of this mouse on linux that I don't know of?

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Hi guys! I'm Tibor Udvari, and I'm working on HexLands, my roguelike deckbuilder, medieval city builder, which is heavily inspired by Slay the Spire and it's open for public playtesting! :)

Recently I finished its new trailer, though the capsule art is still work in progress. Soon there will be treasure islands where you must race with treasure hunters!

Here's a quick summary to save you some time:

• HexLands is a roguelike deckbuilder and city builder set across procedural medieval islands.
• Craft powerful decks, collect game-changing relics, complete quests, and build synergies!
• Gather resources and expand your empire across three unique regions!
• Can you rise above the king who banished you?

If you'd like to know more, just visit HexLands’ Steam page and join the playtest, I'd love to hear your feedback! Thanks in advance! :)

Happy new year and have a great weekend,

Tibor

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Hello! I've been playing UT2004 in Pop OS since I switched operating systems a few days ago. Right now I'm having a problem with UT2004 not saving the resolutions settings properly.

I have to enter the command setres 1920x1080 and set to fullscreen everytime I play.

The *.ini files also have the correct XFullscreenview and Y commands as well. It's not really a big deal but it would be great if the game runs as its supposed to.

I'd appreciate any help I can get. Thank you!

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Currently dual-booting Windows and CachyOS on my Lenovo Legion Go.

In Windows, there's this folder for the game in Local App Data or something, I set up this Engine.ini file there to improve performance by disabling RT fully, but on Linux I can't get it to work. Steam should generate these folders in a steamcompatibility directory, and it did for other games, but not for E33. I tried manually creating that series of folders, and copying the Engine.ini file there, but it doesn't affect performance so I guess it's not working.

Where should I put this file?

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Switched to Linux recently and the only thing keeping my from using it exclusively is every game having significantly worse performance compared to windows. I'm getting half the fps with constant stuttering if it runs at all. My specs are i9-14900 integrated graphics (pls don't ask) 32gb ram.

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