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r/linux_gaming

438.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.7K upvotes, which works out to 4 per 1,000 members.

4peak upvotes per 1,000 members
438.6Kmembers
1.7Kbest post
456most comments
302posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

46% 21% 14% 8% 8%
Text 46% Question 21% Link 14% Image 8% Video 8% Gallery 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

tech support wanted 92 guide 18 wine/proton 17 steam/steam deck 11 hardware 9 tool/utility 8 graphics/kernel/drivers 5 answered! 4 new native/FLOSS game 4 benchmark 3

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

8BitDo announce 'Ultimate Software Online' to update controllers in your browser to help Linux gamers

↑ 1.7K 💬 151 link 2026

an algorithm/diagram to choose where to play a game

↑ 1.6K 💬 281 image 2026

Steam declined my For Honor refund twice. Game removes Linux access on Sept 10

↑ 1.5K 💬 397 gallery 2026

Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux on September 10

↑ 990 💬 379 link 2026

made a wallhack for detroit: become human that runs as a vulkan layer under proton

↑ 665 💬 141 video 2026

Linux is 35 years old

↑ 441 💬 21 image 2026

Let's make Gaming a KDE Goal for the next two years!

↑ 430 💬 87 text 2026

R6 Siege no longer working on linux

↑ 337 💬 44 image 2026

Based in this video, It looks like Linux is catching up to Windows in DX12 games on Nvidia (RTX 3060)

↑ 331 💬 100 video 2026

A Faster Merge Sort For Mesa 26.3 Vulkan Drivers To Benefit Ray-Tracing

↑ 315 💬 21 link 2026

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/linux_gaming, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.