Yeah, indeed. Steam language breakdown is about 40% English, 30% Chinese, 10% Russian, 5% Spanish, 15% other. Chinese speakers overwhelmingly use Windows rather than Linux, so choosing 'English only' basically doubles the Linux percentage.

I'd be interested to know why Linux has such bad update in Chinese-speaking regions. (It's the lingua franca for much of Asia, so not just China, just largely China.) Obviously, inertia plays a part - easier to move to Linux if you know someone else that can help you, which if there's no-one then you might be a bit stuck. Are the fonts crappy? Are the input methods greatly superior in Windows?

I have doubts that Valve will officially support SteamOS on anything but their own hardware (and maybe some partners'), in which case unless you plan on buying a Steam Machine you're going to be stuck for a very, very long time.

I respect that. Tho do remember this is opensource instead of a traditional system.

Any improvement to steamos will improve bazzite and any improvement to bazzite will improve steamos.

I'm part of that 0.15%. I had been dual booting Windows for years and finally made the full switch with win10 EOL

Please try memtest86. I had issues that almost looked like this.

All of the major gaming youtubers have made at least a couple videos featuring Linux over the last couple months, which is definitely a big change from the windows-only (except sometimes servers) content of years past.

Probably not in the mood of dealing with stuff like having to turn Secure Boot off to get my laptop's Nvidia (Optimus based) card to work in Performance Mode, as the drivers delivered by Mint aren't signed.

Or fighting with Wine and Lutris to get Battle.net to install, as I just want to play the Diablo II remaster. Only to find the Battle.net interface does not render most of the time, even after following advice like turning Hardware Acceleration off. Or having the launcher freeze completely when trying to use Proton, no matter if it is version 8,9,10, Experimental or Hotfix. Or finding out that after spending way too much time on getting Battle.net to work that the game I wanted to play actually crashes immediately to the desktop on start.

Or trying to get Bazzite to install, which it won't because it keeps throwing a useless 'exit code 1' error during install. Which can't be solved by following the online guides, as none seems applicable to my situation (no previous Fedora installation, no Fedora folder on my EFI drive, tried multiple drives, image checksum is OK).

That was my gaming experience of the last week and hardly the first time that I had to jump through hoops getting stuff to work. Getting Skyve to work for Cities Skylines II was also such a fun time.

I'm crazy enough to keep trying and debugging on my laptop. But my gaming PC is definitely not going to get converted to Linux anytime soon, for those cases where I just want to play a game without any problems. And unfortunately my debloated/detelemetried Windows 11 has so far provided a stable and trouble free gaming experience.

It amounts to several million converts in the past 4 years, at least.