Quoting: LinuxerSteam snap works greatt including all the goodies inside fo gamer by default too but the flatpak of Steam is still a mess cos of access restrictions etc and cant be recommended just sayin

My distro packages Steam, so it's kind of a non-issue. IMO Flatpak is for things the distro isn't already packaging and for commercial things the distro can't package. And Snap is, um, for if you're using Ubuntu I guess.

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Quoting: dannielloAnd in the near future - Steam Pocket. The first true Linux phone with decent performance! (of course advertised as only for gaming, so Google should be OK with it... In the same sense like Steam Machine is just Linux PC so Sony and Microsoft also should be OK with it;)

That's already available, it's called the FuriPhone <https://furilabs.com/>.

The . . . Furry Phone?

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Surely no one would ever do that, especially not one of the most ubiquitous high-fidelity game engines out there in their widely-adopted ray-traced global illumination solution...

That's some great snark there.

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Quoting: Marlockthe percentage of linux machines with Deck-exclusive GPUs is now smaller (iirc it reached ~50% for a while) so linux growth is now driven by actual linux distros installed on PCs, laptops, etc, not a niche console that happens to have linux in it but you might never realize it, if seen as just a console

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I'm going to hazard a guess that in Feb 2025, the Steam Survey showed a great big surge in Simplified Chinese. 😁

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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.

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The fact is that as far as I can tell, most distros are pretty good. Linux technology has matured a lot, and with open source if a problem has been solved, the solution probably went upstream and most distros inherited the solution. Even the distros going "No, I actively want it to be hard because noobs have cooties, I mean, it's good to understand how things work" are generally good at what they're trying to do.

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This is getting freaky. I expect progress to be spiky--a zig or two up, then a zag down, but overall the zigs bigger. This is crazy . . . the progress since September is about equal to our whole share at a low point a few years ago!

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I expect Mint is not the best gaming Linux. It is, however, about the best "general desktop" Linux, and has not caused me any real problems with gaming, so since I spend more time doing everything else than I do gaming I remain fairly pleased to use Mint.

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Quoting: eggroleMy question to those cheering for the mass adoption of linux boils down to: if I am right and linux gets watered down

What the hell does "watered down" even mean in this context, and why should I mind?

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Quoting: Linux_RocksBaba is me? I'm not Baba, this is Baba:

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I have no proof you don't look like that.

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