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Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high
6 Jan 2026 at 11:20 pm UTC Likes: 1
They're two very, very different worlds.
Linux is mostly driven by chip strength and price in the sense that every new use case for computers uses Linux by default and places new strains on vendors to support it and that computational potential is directly related to chip power.
Linux gaming is not driven by new potential, discoveries and/or research, but market politics. The fear of others drives one to free software, since if everybody is super(user) nobody is.
Valve sacrifices games for API and market access certainty.
Microsoft sacrifices customers to get stronger IP(Intellectual Property) guarantees in the wider sense.
Apple knows that anti-trust concerns only stop Microsoft from retracting killer app access as long Linux stays insignificant, so they backed the Wine project. Even fear for Linux can drive one to contribute to it, since open source lifts all boats.
Microsoft multiple times tried to sacrifice the game market to rid themselves of Intel's hold on their business.
Yet NVIDIA improves Linux not out of fear, but reward through the AI bubble.
Google throws considerable weight behind it, because of Android.
Printer vendors introduced wireless printing for mobile.
Most virus scanner support comes from the cloud.
The best example are though containerized packages(such as snap, Flatpak, etc.).
The Cloud drove demand for binary formats(packages) and saw the value of a standard(appimage), mobile drove containerization, but mostly after a direct compile and fear for sketchy games and production software drove Canonical to Snap, but nobody trusted it, which drove the community to Flatpak, which does the same, but federalized.
This's where we're now.
The next step would probably be government pressure on repos, which would drive it to decentralization(think torrenting, but with peerage based trust metrics).
6 Jan 2026 at 11:20 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Saracen26I've been using Linux on and off for 19 years. Primarily for curiosity and the last decade for the Emulation side of things. My 2020 Gaming PC still recently ran on Windows 10 for convenience. I then the purchased a Legion GO S (SteamOS) and it proved incredible. So I was looking for a brand new rig to install CachyOS on. Now the RAM crisis has hit, I can't afford a new build so I stripped Windows on my current rig and went to CachyOS anyway. I wish I'd done this sooner, especially since I don't do multiplayer gaming. I don't think I realised how good Linux Gaming has gotten.As you, so nicely display. It's easy to know Linux without knowing the quality of Linux gaming.
They're two very, very different worlds.
Linux is mostly driven by chip strength and price in the sense that every new use case for computers uses Linux by default and places new strains on vendors to support it and that computational potential is directly related to chip power.
Linux gaming is not driven by new potential, discoveries and/or research, but market politics. The fear of others drives one to free software, since if everybody is super(user) nobody is.
Valve sacrifices games for API and market access certainty.
Microsoft sacrifices customers to get stronger IP(Intellectual Property) guarantees in the wider sense.
Apple knows that anti-trust concerns only stop Microsoft from retracting killer app access as long Linux stays insignificant, so they backed the Wine project. Even fear for Linux can drive one to contribute to it, since open source lifts all boats.
Microsoft multiple times tried to sacrifice the game market to rid themselves of Intel's hold on their business.
Yet NVIDIA improves Linux not out of fear, but reward through the AI bubble.
Google throws considerable weight behind it, because of Android.
Printer vendors introduced wireless printing for mobile.
Most virus scanner support comes from the cloud.
The best example are though containerized packages(such as snap, Flatpak, etc.).
The Cloud drove demand for binary formats(packages) and saw the value of a standard(appimage), mobile drove containerization, but mostly after a direct compile and fear for sketchy games and production software drove Canonical to Snap, but nobody trusted it, which drove the community to Flatpak, which does the same, but federalized.
This's where we're now.
The next step would probably be government pressure on repos, which would drive it to decentralization(think torrenting, but with peerage based trust metrics).
Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high
6 Jan 2026 at 10:17 pm UTC
Yes, individual coins sometimes go up and sometimes down. If it was stable it would be unsuited for rug pool scams and illegal trade.
Nobody is buying large amounts of mining hardware anymore, because scamming poor smugs out of their money is more profitable.
Crypto won't die. It fulfills some pretty important functions for those in power. Criminals and intelligence agencies profit at the cost of law enforcement. Members of volatile state managed economies have a relative "safe haven" for their assets(remember after the rug pull many crypto assets have an acceptably stable price development).
AI replaced it and instead of attracting wealth from the powerful who have to hide their faces in fear, it spoke to a higher class, which knows it's above the law and thus doesn't have to hide anymore. They buy the same things in the same order.
CPUS->GPUS->ASICS->RAM->Customers.
There is one difference this time the start wasn't open source, so they managed to get themselves trapped in a vendor lock in.
Tip if you have an ancient computer science problem you think you can make less hard with unending amounts of computational resources, just follow the playbook and get rich.
Edit:
Might I suggest software proving(by exhaustion).
6 Jan 2026 at 10:17 pm UTC
Quoting: Purple Library GuyCrypto already popped this's its stable state: infinite rug pulls.Quoting: EssojeI'd love to appreciate these small victories for Linux, but together with the RAM crisis and the news lately, all I can see here is the gruesome death of consumer PC hardware.I wouldn't worry too much about that. The AI bubble is getting rickety . . . and when it pops, it will probably take a whole lot else with it, including crypto. At that point all the computer stuff will get cheap again. With the massive recession nobody will have any money so we still won't be able to afford it, but it will be cheap.
Yes, individual coins sometimes go up and sometimes down. If it was stable it would be unsuited for rug pool scams and illegal trade.
Nobody is buying large amounts of mining hardware anymore, because scamming poor smugs out of their money is more profitable.
Crypto won't die. It fulfills some pretty important functions for those in power. Criminals and intelligence agencies profit at the cost of law enforcement. Members of volatile state managed economies have a relative "safe haven" for their assets(remember after the rug pull many crypto assets have an acceptably stable price development).
AI replaced it and instead of attracting wealth from the powerful who have to hide their faces in fear, it spoke to a higher class, which knows it's above the law and thus doesn't have to hide anymore. They buy the same things in the same order.
CPUS->GPUS->ASICS->RAM->Customers.
There is one difference this time the start wasn't open source, so they managed to get themselves trapped in a vendor lock in.
Tip if you have an ancient computer science problem you think you can make less hard with unending amounts of computational resources, just follow the playbook and get rich.
Edit:
Might I suggest software proving(by exhaustion).
Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit
22 Dec 2025 at 3:14 pm UTC Likes: 4
B. Proton doesn't seem to use the WoW build [External Link]. This could be for backwards compatibility(reconfiguring all existing Wine prefixes without triggering anti-cheat blocks) and OpenGL preformance [External Link].
22 Dec 2025 at 3:14 pm UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: tuubiA. My excuses you were right about the WoW build and I also misunderstood your claim.(I thought WoW was just some creative abbreviation for wine.)Quoting: LoudTechieThat's because your package is not a pure WOW64 build. That's up to the package maintainer. 32bit Windows software runs on 64bit (WOW64) Wine without 32bit libraries. You can keep claiming otherwise, but I'd rather you just looked into it if you don't want to believe a random person on a forum.Quoting: tuubiIf I install Wine on 64bits system it requires me manipulate my repos to also allow installing 32 bit libraries and then it installs 32 bit wine libraries.Quoting: LoudTechie32bit libraries or wine binaries are not needed in WOW64 mode. That's the whole point. Although I suppose Steam will have to ship them for older Proton builds.Quoting: tuubiBy providing 64bit and 32bit libraries(a.k.a 64 and 32 bit wine).Quoting: LoudTechie64 Bit wine can't launch 32 bit applications.Proton has included support for Wine's WOW64 mode for a while now. This shouldn't be a blocker anymore.
Those 32bit libraries make it a 32bit client.
EDIT: If I want to run 32bit or 32 bit reliant software(its technically optional, but the 32 bit stuff won't work, just like vulcan integration is optional)
B. Proton doesn't seem to use the WoW build [External Link]. This could be for backwards compatibility(reconfiguring all existing Wine prefixes without triggering anti-cheat blocks) and OpenGL preformance [External Link].
Valve discontinuing the last Steam Deck LCD model
22 Dec 2025 at 12:31 pm UTC Likes: 1
It has been deprecated for a long time they were just selling old stock.
22 Dec 2025 at 12:31 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: NonjuffoValve probably ran out of stock on the old APU and it's more cost effective to just concentrate on the newer 6nm one.This.
It has been deprecated for a long time they were just selling old stock.
Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit
22 Dec 2025 at 12:26 pm UTC
EDIT: If I want to run 32bit or 32 bit reliant software(its technically optional, but the 32 bit stuff won't work, just like vulcan integration is optional)
22 Dec 2025 at 12:26 pm UTC
Quoting: tuubiIf I install Wine on 64bits system it requires me manipulate my repos to also allow installing 32 bit libraries and then it installs 32 bit wine libraries.Quoting: LoudTechie32bit libraries or wine binaries are not needed in WOW64 mode. That's the whole point. Although I suppose Steam will have to ship them for older Proton builds.Quoting: tuubiBy providing 64bit and 32bit libraries(a.k.a 64 and 32 bit wine).Quoting: LoudTechie64 Bit wine can't launch 32 bit applications.Proton has included support for Wine's WOW64 mode for a while now. This shouldn't be a blocker anymore.
Those 32bit libraries make it a 32bit client.
EDIT: If I want to run 32bit or 32 bit reliant software(its technically optional, but the 32 bit stuff won't work, just like vulcan integration is optional)
Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit
21 Dec 2025 at 5:53 pm UTC Likes: 1
Those 32bit libraries make it a 32bit client.
21 Dec 2025 at 5:53 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: tuubiBy providing 64bit and 32bit libraries(a.k.a 64 and 32 bit wine).Quoting: LoudTechie64 Bit wine can't launch 32 bit applications.Proton has included support for Wine's WOW64 mode for a while now. This shouldn't be a blocker anymore.
Those 32bit libraries make it a 32bit client.
Latest Steam stable update is live as Windows gets 64-bit
20 Dec 2025 at 10:43 pm UTC Likes: 1
I think they calculate proton to be part of the Steam client(with which I agree), while the 32 bit trickery of the windows api did come build in with Windows(Win 11 is trying to change this, but thanks to legacy applications like Steam this is currently being maintained)
20 Dec 2025 at 10:43 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Eike64 Bit wine can't launch 32 bit applications.Quoting: StellaI thought I read something somewhere about the 64-bit client being unable to launch 32-bit games?I wouldn't think so. Your 64 bit environment is able to start 32 bit Steam, why would the chain break if one more application is 64 bit?
PCGamingwiki says this about the Linux client:
User requests for a native 64-bit client have been denied by Valve on numerous occasions since 2014, purportedly since such a client would be unable to launch 32-bit games.
I think they calculate proton to be part of the Steam client(with which I agree), while the 32 bit trickery of the windows api did come build in with Windows(Win 11 is trying to change this, but thanks to legacy applications like Steam this is currently being maintained)
Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
20 Dec 2025 at 1:03 pm UTC
I treat AI as equivalent to ML, but they're different words.
Wikipedia defines AI as
If we take these definitions.
Aimbots are AI by this definition, but is translation AI.
It's an application of Machine Learning, but that wasn't the question.
Do we typically associate translation with human intelligence and problem solving.
Is someone appear more intelligent when they can successfully translate a sentence or would we say that communication through a matching language is the intelligent part and thus using a matching a language to the one used toward you is AI.
I would argue the first, because people tend to think that people who use complicated text are more intelligent, meaning that understanding of language is more intelligent than the capacity to communicate. I disagree with my preceived majority, but that doesn't change that it's commonly associated with human intelligence.
20 Dec 2025 at 1:03 pm UTC
Quoting: emphyThis could be my fault.Quoting: LoudTechie...Haven't got the time to search for the source, but I understood mozilla uses open datasets for their models, i.e. permission was granted or copyrights expired.
Like all ML it's trained on data produced by people and thus at least subject to copyright.
Whether or not they've permission from the copyright holders to train their model with it I'm uncertain.
I would guess they've, because it's public which data they use and they've yet to be sued into oblivion.
It's the most auditable model I've encountered in quite some time, but you still can't usefully attach a debugger to it [External Link]
It's translations certainly aren't perfect, does mistranslated information count as misinformation?
I find it amusing, by the way, that the single "ai" browser feature that is actually useful to me is rarely advertised as being such. Even the "anti-ai" vivaldi incudes it without it raising a single eyebrow.
I treat AI as equivalent to ML, but they're different words.
Wikipedia defines AI as
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence [External Link]and ML as
Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data, and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions. [External Link].
If we take these definitions.
Aimbots are AI by this definition, but is translation AI.
It's an application of Machine Learning, but that wasn't the question.
Do we typically associate translation with human intelligence and problem solving.
Is someone appear more intelligent when they can successfully translate a sentence or would we say that communication through a matching language is the intelligent part and thus using a matching a language to the one used toward you is AI.
I would argue the first, because people tend to think that people who use complicated text are more intelligent, meaning that understanding of language is more intelligent than the capacity to communicate. I disagree with my preceived majority, but that doesn't change that it's commonly associated with human intelligence.
Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
19 Dec 2025 at 3:37 pm UTC
My understanding of the training methods of Mozilla are insufficient to classify it, it as a LLM, but it certainly is an LM(language model).
I would guess based on their github and budget that it's not(LLM requires self-reinforcement learning, which costs a lot).
Copyright wise all translation is the creation of derivative works although many nations tend to have personal use exceptions(in this case this matters, because I'm talking about the act of translating the webpage not the act of training the model).
Like all ML it's trained on data produced by people and thus at least subject to copyright.
Whether or not they've permission from the copyright holders to train their model with it I'm uncertain.
I would guess they've, because it's public which data they use and they've yet to be sued into oblivion.
It's the most auditable model I've encountered in quite some time, but you still can't usefully attach a debugger to it [External Link]
It's translations certainly aren't perfect, does mistranslated information count as misinformation?
19 Dec 2025 at 3:37 pm UTC
Quoting: NezchanMachine learning is the base category. LLM is a subcategory of machine learning.Quoting: LoudTechieI don't think more chatbots and such will make Firefox better, but there is one recent AI feature of Firefox that although I don't use it I think is very good.As far as I'm aware, and I am no expert so I could easily be wrong, but translation is generally Machine Learning (ML), rather than Large Language Model (LLM), which the chatbots and generative AI are built on. It does fall under the "AI" umbrella, but doesn't have the same issues as LLMs such as rampant plagiarism, enormous energy use, black box processing that cannot be audited, generating misinformation, etc. So therefore not really a big issue despite both being under the same umbrella.
The build in translation capability. I had to download all kinds of sketchy extensions to get that to work right for my uncle and now I can just flip a setting.
My understanding of the training methods of Mozilla are insufficient to classify it, it as a LLM, but it certainly is an LM(language model).
I would guess based on their github and budget that it's not(LLM requires self-reinforcement learning, which costs a lot).
Copyright wise all translation is the creation of derivative works although many nations tend to have personal use exceptions(in this case this matters, because I'm talking about the act of translating the webpage not the act of training the model).
Like all ML it's trained on data produced by people and thus at least subject to copyright.
Whether or not they've permission from the copyright holders to train their model with it I'm uncertain.
I would guess they've, because it's public which data they use and they've yet to be sued into oblivion.
It's the most auditable model I've encountered in quite some time, but you still can't usefully attach a debugger to it [External Link]
It's translations certainly aren't perfect, does mistranslated information count as misinformation?
Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
19 Dec 2025 at 1:06 pm UTC Likes: 1
19 Dec 2025 at 1:06 pm UTC Likes: 1
I don't think more chatbots and such will make Firefox better, but there is one recent AI feature of Firefox that although I don't use it I think is very good.
The build in translation capability. I had to download all kinds of sketchy extensions to get that to work right for my uncle and now I can just flip a setting.
The build in translation capability. I had to download all kinds of sketchy extensions to get that to work right for my uncle and now I can just flip a setting.