It's also interesting to see that german continues to increase its Linux share, currently at 3.18% with Russian only at 1.96%.
@Liam might be time to include it in the Steam Tracker, since it continues to outperform Russian, Spanish and Simplified Chinese on Linux.

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Quoting: officerniceDoes anybody know of an alternative to something like Big Screen Mode? I have not tried it since I use XFCE, but I am putting up a raspberry pi soon. I would like some kind of program akin to what Big Screen Mode does, but I just want to be able add the applications I WANT, not what KDE detects.

Not sure, but you can probably force KDE to use what you want or to just use manual selections.
If not maybe you can check if there is already an issue about it.

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There are also some promising scaling changes for Wayland(whether the application or Wayland scales the window to prevent drawing of blurry windows).
Might bring me finally to Wayland.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: LamdarerCould be that Arch actually dominates with other derivatives like Endevour etc on the other side there is also Linux Mint or POP!_OS which are Ubuntu Based as well.

Arch derivates have their own /etc/os-release (or whatever) and don't appear as Arch.

Exactly, even though one could argue that e.g. Endevour is closer to Arch than Ubuntu LTS to non LTS etc (not to mention Mint), and with ~40% other I would be very carefully with statements about which Linux Distro is "the most widely used"(even more so when you consider the other factors I mentioned), still it is a good indicator in general and I would love to see developers adding "Most modern Distros", "most Ubuntu 22.x. and Arch based Distros" or "ubuntu or SteamOS or Simular" to the System requirements section instead of just Ubuntu.

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The statistics should always be taken with a grain of salt.
We dont really know what the conditions for the survey selection is, how many devices where surveyed in which month and what the bottom 37.89% as well as the 4.34% Flatpak runtime users are.
Could be that Arch actually dominates with other derivatives like Endevour etc on the other side there is also Linux Mint or POP!_OS which are Ubuntu Based as well.
But I think the trends matter, with so many more Decks shiped this month I thought that we would only see significant increases next month for Deck users looks like there is more to come.
Also about OSX "growing faster" than Linux, I thought that while it got a .76 increase this month thats more or less the amount it regressed last month.

But what bugs me the most is that while SteamOS Holo has 13.69% for Linux, the AMD Custom GPU has more 13.72%. Wouldnt that mean that there is a significant portion of Deck users who installed another Linux Distro on it :huh: and even more so if you consider that the Community Holo iso which can be installed anywhere also counts toward SteamDeckOS™.

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Quoting: Cyril

Quoting: Lamdarer

Quoting: CyrilSorry guys, but the only real good alternative out there is Peertube.

Biggest downside is that there is not really a PeerTube Player for Desktop not to mention one which bundles YT and PeerTube. Thats why I mostly watch YT with FreeTube on Desktop maybe I should try setting up NewPipe for Linux.
PS: There is TubeFeeder but it doesnt really work and is mainly designed for Linux Phones.

Hmm, what do you mean by "PeerTube Player for Desktop"? NewPipe/Freetube exist only for Youtube because the site is "shit" for many reasons.
There is no need for this kind of player on Desktop for Peertube seriously... For Android maybe, but you could use anything you want, Peertube is not Youtube, it doesn't restrict you...
Plus, I think the use of "apps" for everything is just a bad practice from the mobile world...

I find it difficult to be subscribed and keep track of so many PeerTube channels just from Mastodon, sure I could create a PeerTube account but than there is the think with settings or blocked instances etc and also the combined Feed from NewPipe is just beautiful and something I really miss on desktop. It just isnt convenient to watch PeerTube videos or to simply keep track of the good ones and the nice to have ones just within the Browser from Mastodon alone(I had a PeerTube account in the past but also didnt like it there).

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Quoting: CyrilSorry guys, but the only real good alternative out there is Peertube.

Biggest downside is that there is not really a PeerTube Player for Desktop not to mention one which bundles YT and PeerTube. Thats why I mostly watch YT with FreeTube on Desktop maybe I should try setting up NewPipe for Linux.
PS: There is TubeFeeder but it doesnt really work and is mainly designed for Linux Phones.

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Quoting: ShabbyXWhile this was obviously a bug in their algorithm, said algorithm is also preventing brainwash videos from turning your child into a terrorist, racist etc.

Would you have rathered such an algorithm not exist? People should bear in mind the terrible complexity that such an algorithm entails. Can *you* code such an algorithm? If not, you can't expect it all to work flawlessly.

If your child can get of trail just by watching some videos than there are clearly some other issues. Also in that case rating the video as "not qualified for kids" would be enough.
There would be plenty of options for YouTube to do a better job(let creators rate their videos them self, have different levels of visibility, hire more moderators, have a better reporting system etc), also there are other issues with the algorithm like hiding content from subscribed viewers and promoting content that YouTube finds for some reason more promotable.
Yes no system is perfect but YouTube clearly isnt doing enough, this isnt a new issue but an old one.

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No trouble on Manjaro Testing for me, could even play Warhammer: Vermintide 2

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Maybe you could assemble a list or report about good Minetest Games such as MineClone5 etc, because playing just Minetest doesnt really cuts it, also MineClone is nice but it kinda doesnt catch up to Minecraft while just being a clone instead of trying to achieve more.
So if you happen to stumble across some good or interesting Minetest Projects/Games I would be happy if you would write about them.

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