Quoting: benstor214They no longer seem to sneak a newsletter subscription through the backdoor when claiming one of their giveaways. That’s refreshing.
I was always wondering in what world 'I want this free game' meant 'Yes, I DID change my mind: I now DO want to receive spam'.

ngl, I've never bought anything from gog, but I've gotten many free games from them over the years that are drm-free...particularly if i have that game in a locked down format from say steam or another game seller...i don't mind the getting the "spam" from them.

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thanks for the heads up about denuvo. completely lost interest in this now.

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Well, yeah. No shit Sherlock. However, it doesn't install Steam either, since the package is called "steam-installer".

And it doesn't explain, why this is in any way "preferred" - unless you want to "just avoid snaps", which doesn't make a lot of sense when you are on Ubuntu (pick another distro then).
And as I already stated: The apt way will install another 169 packages. 169. This might be a different story, if Steam was a 64-bit application, but it isn't. And for me that's one of those situations where container solutions like flatpak or snap really shine. And since Steam is proprietary (just as most of my other snap packages) it is an even more fitting solution.
(And no, I apparently don't have a single i386 package installed, since my wine things are handled with bottles which again is a tidy flatpak.)

have you conssidered less caffeine in your diet? big deal...169 packages...have you thought about getting off that 3 decade old 5GB HDD? when my steam Library is just shy of 4TB installed, the last thing i'm worried about is an additional 169 packages....

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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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the voice of John Cleese absolutely went through my head reading that title....

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"This happened twice to me. First time was a 24.10 to 25.04 beta upgrade on my main machine and recently a 24.10 to final 25.04 on a family machine. Each time when I logged in, I got this broken login screen.

I ended up fixing it by selecting Advanced Options in GRUB and then Recovery for the recent kernel. I enabled Networking and then went to the Root prompt and ran:

apt update && apt install --reinstall kubuntu-desktop

After that (I am on ethernet), I restarted the machine and worked."

this is the method i wanted to use but for some odd reason my grub "splash" is black and i can't be arsed enough to fiddle with it right now. this would have been a more optimal method than the chroot solution i posted previously.

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@iwantlinuxgames I know this sounds very wrong but you can use arch-chroot to automate the chroot steps. Basically `sudo apt install arch-install-scripts` then `sudo arch-chroot /mnt/`, no need to mount /dev etc.

i have never heard of this tool! thank you so much for bringing it to my attention!!!!

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I had to boot from a Live USB and do a chroot into the root of my install. lost network connectivity upon finishing the upgrade. so, for any adventurous early adopters:

boot from a live USB. once at a desktop open a Konsole terminal.

mkdir target
sudo su
mount -o bind /dev target/dev
mount -o bind /proc target/proc
mount -o bind /sys target/sys
cp /etc/resolv.conf target/etc/
chroot target

once you're in the chroot at the propmpt you can run

sudo apt install plasma-desktop

let it do it's thing and reboot.

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Quoting: numasan

Quoting: iwantlinuxgames

Quoting: StellaI'm confused. Is that the LTS release? Does this mean I can now get Plasma 6 with Kubuntu 24? I tHought it always took longer for things to arrive in the LTS branch

April releases(the XX.04 releases) are usually the LTS releases and receive stable updates and are supported for 5 years. October releases (the XX.10) releases are sorta like mostly stable testing/dev releases which often bring updates to be used in the next April release.

Ubuntu LTS releases are every 2. even year, so next LTS is 26.04 - unless Canonical has changed the release schedule?

you are correct however that wasn't the question...

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