Linux Mint 22.3 64 bit 6.62% +4.29%
Linux Mint 22.2 64 bit 2.59% -3.98%

Anyone else notice that these two numbers combined place Linux Mint 22.x at 9.21%? And that doesn't factor for users still on 22.0 or 22.1.

SteamOS Holo 64 bit 23.83% +23.83%
Arch Linux 64 bit 9.07% +9.07%

That places Linux Mint 22 ahead of Arch Linux, in second place. Way to go, Linux Mint!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut individually, they're trying to maximize profit, and there are two basic ways to do that--maximizing revenue, and minimizing expenses. Probably the biggest component of minimizing expenses is not paying workers more than you absolutely have to.

I can confirm this. You know those freelance consultants they bring in to help you make your business more "efficient"? The first thing these so-called "experts" tell you is that wages are the largest and most easily controlled expense of your business. (This is also pushed by books & websites as well.) I dislike the mentality because it treats your employees as if they are resources (like office supplies) instead of unique and valuable individuals contributing to the success of your business. The less you pay your employees, the more turnover you will see. There is a high cost to that as well.

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Never fails. Wait about a week and you will see a hotfix patch come out.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: eggroleI DO blame over consumption.

Sure. Why blame the system when you can blame the ones with no power. You're blaming the addicts, not the pushers. You're blaming the players, not the ones writing and enforcing the rules.

Another way to look at it is that Industrialism needs Consumerism in order to move all the products the factories are manufacturing. Capitalism is just the economic means being used to do this. Are there other ways to distribute Industrialism's production? Certainly, but Capitalism suits the Western elite.

Most of us have been conditioned from early childhood to do our part in keeping this flawed economic system functioning. We are trained to be good, replaceable factory cogs and kept in a perpetual state of childhood through poor education. The goal is to keep us consuming, so that the system keeps functioning and the wealth continues to trickle upwards. It's gotten so bad that we are now actively encouraged to go deeply in debt just to keep this Consumerism ball rolling.

Advertising and propaganda are the primary evils in this system. Thanks to a nephew of Freud, Freud's therapeutic techniques are being employed to manipulate us into being good consumers (and obedient citizens). It encourages this almost child-like tendency @eggrole described of "not long after you purchase something, the newness wears off and you are back to longing for the next thing." The key to breaking out of this system is to avoid the advertising(*). This is why advertising has become so pernicious and can be found almost everywhere. The system that benefits the elite needs the rest of us to consume or it cannot survive. The flipside is that we common folk do not actually need the system to survive or thrive. With a change in mindset, we can manage quite well without it. The propaganda is just designed to manipulate us into believing that Consumerism is the only alternative.

(*) Getting out of debt also helps.

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Pass. The TV series was just a long, badly written commercial targeted at children. I have no desire to relive it.

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Quoting: WorMzyI hardly think Valve's lootboxes are to blame for the US' unhealthy obsession with guns, but I'd agree that they encourage gambling. In the same way that e.g. Pokemon card booster packs do, at least.

Quoting: scaineSure, go after loot boxes, they're rotten to the core, mostly. Although as someone has already pointed out, it would be nice to see some consistency - also get rid of Magic the Gathering packs, Pokemon packs, Pannini packs, or anything else that's marketed to kids that is a lottery.

This is what I find so absurd about this lawsuit. Back in the earlier nineties, I was working at a comic book shop when the collector card craze started to heat up (which attracted the speculators). Both adults and kids where buying up packs of sports cards and other collector cards, hoping to get one of the deliberately-made-rare cards in that randomly purchased pack of cards. Often times, if they did get lucky, they would immediately offer to sell it to the store they bought the pack from. It was no different than the lootbox phenomenon -- with the stores selling the card packs and serving as the marketplace to sell the rare ones.

No effort was made by any level of government to control this on moral grounds. I find New York State's stance on lootboxes to be hypocritical.

Keep in mind that this was before the early days of the World Wide Web revolutionizing the Internet. Magic the Gathering entered into this market at the height of the card speculation craze. In a small city with a population of just under a million, we had nearly 100 collector card retailers. When the speculation bubble crashed, it crashed hard. Businesses went under. The speculators then moved on to collecting toys. And so it goes ...

Don't get me wrong, I kind of hope that the lawsuit does shutdown the lootboxes. I wasn't all that impressed with these early analog equivalents either. They left a swath of destruction behind them when they inevitably broke.

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Quoting: WORM

Quoting: tmtvlHow big is Myrient in total? I could maybe spare a couple hundred gigs of storage but I suspect that'd be far too little (and I couldn't distribute anything before its copyright expires anyway).

over 390 terabytes according to this article: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-video-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down-in-march/

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Quoting: TarosWhat is a sniper runtime?

"Sniper" is Valve's codename for Steam Linux Runtime 3. Linux Runtimes help with running Native Linux games, by providing particular versions of Linux libraries that might be missing.

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Quoting: memvirusI have a problem with nvidia-driver-580 after it has been automatically upgraded via sudo apt upgrade
but it seems like I just cannot install anything else anymore, if I do sudo apt install nvidia-driver-565 (which was working amazing for me) it just installs 580.........

This happened to me as well. I commented about it here on GoL. @CatKiller kindly answered:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/nvidia-driver-580-105-08-out-now-for-linux-as-the-new-recommended-version/?comment_id=285291

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Quoting: _wojtekAlso: all those Firefox "forks" would probably cease to exist once Firefox is gone so keep that in mind…

Of course, but I'd say the odds Firefox being gone are pretty slim. Plus, there will always be other options. I'm glad you're happy with Firefox. That doesn't mean others can't disagree with the way Mozilla does things. That is the reason for forks. Linux Mint exists because not all users agree with Ubuntu's focus or direction. Vivaldi exists because there are those that don't like Google's focus on advertising and data-harvesting. There are (and should be) options for everyone.

Keep in mind that Firefox won't be around once Firefox is gone, either... 😏

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