Linux user share hits a multi-year high on Steam for May 2025

I use Linux Mint Cinnamon and the installation process was exceptionally easy and the desktop environment is very straightforward.

You might want to try to install Linux on like an old laptop or something first just to get the hang of it. I installed it on my main desktop first and it went well, but now all my computers run it.

I even recently purchased a new Linux tablet that I can’t wait to get.

I installed bazzite recently and installation, setups, updating etc is easier than windows. Everything is easier. It's not perfect but yeah, I am never looking back to windows even if I keep it installed as a dual boot... For now.

Well that comes under point #3 but yeah

I think most of us have experience of the concept of something being said ironically, as a joke, at first but then being increasingly serious. It's like magic really does exist and if you say words often enough they start affecting reality, like a spell. Freedom of speech is a right but it's also a profound responsibility.

As a liberal in most ways (except on guns), and as a pro 2nd Amendment LGBT American, I'm sorry.

Many of us have "evil fatigue" and "ignorance fatigue" and are just exhausted from how many people in our country are total shitheads.

The list of people for me to apologize to: -dead people in Gaza -alive people in Gaza -all Latinos -all transgender people -Canada -all scientists -intellectuals at Harvard -Ukrainians -Women who were killed due to abortion policies -Anyone in a country killed due to a sudden lack of aid without much warning to even prepare

As a mostly liberal American, I just don't know where to begin. I also think bad environmental policies are going to destroy the planet, and when I look at conservative middle America and how intolerant and racist their values are, I am sort of like "well, maybe total planetary extinction isn't that bad"

I just don't know if I could change it at this point, if there's anything I could do.

The constant horror of the policies being enacted in this country is so terrible, that it's hard to really continue to say "sorry, we don't all believe this!" Some people protest, some don't, but really many liberals are also just treading water psychologically. It's quite possible that the fatigue being felt is being intentionally induced.

There may be a way to get past the fatigue, but it's being combined with financial stress, and for me, apologizing to Canada, standing up for Canada, is just not on the top of the list.

I really do not see what is happening as a conservative revolution. I see this as the self-centered wealthy class realizing they can exploit white trash and technology to destroy the middle class and create a permanent underclass and them. I do not think JD Vance Trump Thiel etc are actually religious, I think it is this final push towards neofeudalism.

It feels like it will unfortunately lead to either communism/socialism or neofeudalism, that there isn't a middle groud.

The neo-feudalists have made a bet: the white trash class is so numerous and so hateful towards transgenders and Latinos and "the other," that they can simultaneously eliminate many jobs using tech, reduce social services for poverty, and create a new Chinese-style of quasi-authoritarianism in America based on technology ans biometric information... And they can do this as long as they distract the white trash class with tricks and diversions: oh! Look! Mexican criminals! Look over here! Oh no! Transgenders in bathrooms! Look over there!

And so far, the magicians seem to be right. The yokel white trash of middle America, well over 60 percent of the country, is too stupid to realize they are being tricked by a magician.

So, many middle class people, and lower middle class people, especially technological enthusiasts, see what is happening. But what now? I'm exhausted. I do not know how to reason with idiots. I am just trying to brace myself for impact.

Yeah I agree, snap sucks big time. It's so sad that Ubuntu decided to go all in on that shit

Ok, so re-install Steam! 😆 Pretty sure what I got was Snap. I was presented an App installer thing that kinda reminded me of the Microsoft Store (except, way less laggy). I think I remember seeing the word Snap.

Is there a way to verify that I have the right drivers for the video card? When it comes to GUI, I have a very Windows mindset, where I need to install the proper drivers, else I get the basic "well it works" drivers which aren't good for gaming.

I'd argue that for Nvidia and their drivers management there are better choices, such as Manjaro.

Although on desktop I didn't have any problems, laptop with AMD iGPU and Nvidia dGpu, prime etc. It's really a PITA on Fedora.

AMD 9070 on Wayland and Plasma isn't perfect neither.

There's the bias between users willing to share that data and those not willing. All sorts of correlations could be hiding there.

I can't find out what the rate of refusals are, but I'd guess them to be rather low, maybe 10% at most. The survey is incredibly easy to perform and very transparent about colleted data.

The important thing to realise is that the survey is very consistent, so while the baseline may have some bias, the trends are very representative.

Thanks. I was hoping there was some way to voluntarily help those stats along. It's a known phenomenon in the linux community how much we hate leaving a crumb trail of any kind, but it would be nice to send a signal to game developers to start taking us seriously, and that might just be through steam stats after all.