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You know, the bible depicts its fair share of incest, bestiality, mutilations, rape and pretty much all other forms of violence.
Why is this filthy pulp still sold?

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4% this year?

The trendline does not fit. Maybe only take the last 3 years for a linear fit.

Maybe add a point when the Steam OS 3 was releaed for other devices.

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The stats are pretty interesting:

India ( 8.46% )

US ( 5.24% )
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america

Europe ( 4.31% )
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/europe

World ( 3.9% )

We're on the right path, much thanks to everyone who has laid stones on this roadway to bliss.

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av1 would be nice

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I've been dual booting from 1998 to 2014.

I went cold turkey in 2014 and ran Linux Mint exclusively for about 2 years after my HDD failed and the Windows backup wouldn't install (part of the backup was stored on the failed HDD -- brilliant idea, M$). I eventually had to reinstall Windows in a dual-boot after my preferred tax software stopped supporting WinXP on my old netbook. I maintain dual-boots on all my systems now but only use Windows for software that will not run on Linux.

Linux Mint 13 & LibreOffice showed me that Linux had become a serious contender against the M$ Windows behemoth. Linux has been my primary O/S ever since.

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@Mohandevir

I'm just wondering how many of these new Linux users are running old pcs that will be left unsupported by Win11, when Win10 will have been buried by Microsoft.

Ah, but M$ is just discontinuing free support, not burying Win10. Win10 will be continuing, but you will have to pay for the support instead.

I keep getting these notifications on the Win10Pro systems at work telling me this.

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@edo

Why is he not using flatpacks? that should solve the issue

Apparently, the dev does not like flatpak for a number of reasons. Cyril provided a detailed explanation behind a click to view long quote toggle at the bottom of the comment, six comments above yours.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/developer-of-playstation-1-emulator-duckstation-threatens-removing-linux-support-entirely-but-not-yet/?comment_id=281690

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I've been dual booting from 1998 to 2014.

i STOPPED dual booting in 98 and went fulltime linux after that code red fiasco.

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"So, what would be the "recommended way"? I'm on Ubuntu..."<snip>

sudo apt install steam.

it doesn't install a snap(as of 25.04(just did a fresh install of it last weekend)). i purged snap/snapd and steam runs fine...

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Yet all the actual porn sites that are available are still functioning fine?

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you basically had to go to a specific Steam folder and paste your image file in there, with a specific name such as [APPID].png

There was a way to change it in Steam, the same way you change the normal cover, by right clicking on a game on the Library Home tab. The issue is, the wide cover only appears when a game is your most recently played or if Steam's algorithms manage to make it appear at the top of Play Next so it's very hidden, you have to launch a game just to change it's wide cover

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As others already mentioned on various places on social media, the series Game of Thrones contains "images of nonconsensual sexual behavior, sexual exploitation of a minor, nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part" and also incest (the only thing it doesn't feature is, IIRC, bestiality). And yet, you can buy the Blurays without any problem everywhere.

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The real problem behind all this is that banks control what we can do with our money. There are increasingly more restrictions to what we can do with it, including cash withdrawal, while banks have increasing control.

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Thanks, I will take a better look at them.

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Citing page 122 of the mastercard-rules PDF (with bold added by me), Mastercard considers violation of the rules:

The sale of a product or service, including an image, which is patently offensive and lacks
serious artistic value (such as, by way of example and not limitation, images of
nonconsensual sexual behavior, sexual exploitation of a minor, nonconsensual mutilation of a
person or body part, and bestiality), or any other material that the Corporation deems
unacceptable to sell in connection with a Mark.

With "nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part" I understand that chopping of an arm of an NPC should violate the rule. This is a mechanic present in A LOT of games, even AAA games like the witcher 3. It is interesting they are attacking only indipendent developers and not multinational colossus publishing AAA games .

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I've been dual booting from 1998 to 2014.

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On one hand there's bound to be a lot of people coming into Linux who are confused with how Linux works overall with 3rd party packages that don't come with the distro out of the box, which is why I feel if Linux overall is going to try to keep gaining new users, there needs to be a good and easy to use 'appstore', which is what I was hoping Discover was going to be, but that thing... Needs more improvement.
But aside from a frustrated user base hounding the poor software developer with issues... Yah... I would just avoid dealing with that guy, if he doesn't like Linux users, fine, let him just develop for Windows only then, I mean what the hell, does the windows version of his emulator work under Wine? Long time Linux users will always prefer a Linux version of their favorite software, but hell between vanilla Wine and Proton, things are perfectly fine with running windows app through Wine and Proton now.
And besides as others have mentioned, there Are Other Playstation 1 emulators out there, so whatever. Someone creates drama where it's not needed? Ignore them and go somewhere else for what you need.

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Like the Chinese would care about that, they do not play by the rules of the Western world, they brute force almost everything, and since Western companies are so happy to outsource a lot of development to "sweat shops" in China, at one point or another it would come back to bite their buts.

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Well – screw you, EA.
I haven't bought an EA game since BFBC2 (and I am still pissed that they shut down the servers for that), but I would have tried BF6 just to take a look at the editor implementation and have a little fun with that. But I guess they'll just have to stay on my blacklist...

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Whoa, this look neat. I am going to take a closer look at it next weekend.

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I dual booted as well but Windows lasted only for like 2 years before I realized the SSD space would be better used differently :) So, a whole decade of dual booting sounds like a lot to me. But I understand it, it's normal relatable human behavior. I think everyone has left the cheese too long in the fridge at least once in their lives and only threw it out when it went really, really bad.

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Interesting. GOG did this:

https://freedomtobuy.games

or

https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

Thanks for posting that. Sadly the button to claim the games doesn't seem to work, I always get "An error occurred. Please try again later or contact support if the issue persists."...

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The three I went for are:

1. The Invincible
2. Star Wars Bounty Hunter
3. Bionic Bay

The first is an absolutely beautiful walking simulator with a hard-scifi (meaning: the science tries to be realistic) story. Great voice acting, and some nice interactive elements to break the illusion of being a walking sim.

The second I haven't played yet, but it's a Star Wars FPS shooter and gets good reviews.

The last I started last night. It's a side-scrolling puzzle and action adventure, in the style of Limbo, Inside, Planet of Lana, or Planet Alpha. Really enjoying it so far - excellent graphics, smooth animation and clever puzzles that aren't too mind-bending.

And yeah, there's Skyrim and Fallout 4, but I've done those to death.

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... and I can now finally be part of those 3% after having installed Linux on my new computer instead of using it in a VM like I did for the last 20 years. Well, that is, once Valve asks me to participate in the survey again.

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Impressive. It natively uses vulkan for drawing meaning it should stay fast and portable (as opposed to approach taken by paint.net which also is written in dotnet)

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I think I am slowly seeing a more logistical or exponential growth instead of linear growth for the first time, but it is too early to say based just on the graph. Anecdotally, it does line up though. Let's hope it is the case.

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Some brilliant gems in this list!

I only know of (and have played) Fallout 4, Skyrim and Tomb Raider (it's just a remaster), which are really old games and I suppose everyone beyond an age has played them or already owns them, what are the other brilliant gems?

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@Joom: Why not just run pure Wayland? In my experience, most games seem to be working fine with Proton GE, at least on an AMDGPU+KDE multimon setup. Just need to set PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

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You'll get any updates quickest that way too, as you don't have to wait for Canonical to update the snap after a new Steam release.

You really don't know how Steam works, do you?

It makes absolutely no difference if you've installed it via the distributions package, Flatpak or snap because the package is irrelevant for Steam updates (in its core, it's still a bad Windows software).

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Games containing Nazi swastikas are region blocked or region adapted in Germany and Austria.

That's not necessary the case anymore. Nowadays, games can contain Nazi symbols. As far as I know Austria never had this limitation & were only affected because there was usually only one German version (the German version of the Wolfenstein games are still censored even though one can buy the international uncensored versions).

Steam basically blocks all 18+ games

That's not correct, there are plenty of 18+ games on Steam (with USK-18 & the new simplified rating system). The limitation you describe only affects games which are unrated / indexed / banned or "problematic" content (e.g. porn games). But I'd expect age verification to happen in the coming years (with all the porn hysteria that's currently happening).

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