A moment I've no doubt many Linux fans have been waiting to see. The Linux user share on Steam has smashed through the 2% barrier.

A moment I’ve no doubt many Linux fans have been waiting to see. The Linux user share on Steam has smashed through the 2% barrier.

Not actually for the first time though, it did initially rise up above 2% in March 2013, shortly after the original Steam for Linux release when it left Beta. Part of the reason it had higher numbers at the start, was that Valve added a special Tux item into Team Fortress 2 only on Linux but it quickly dropped in the following months.

  • modifierEnglish
    1333·
    6 months ago

    Only dimly related, but since I’m in this 2%, I can’t help reflecting that in the 11 months since joining Lemmy, I have:

    • Canceled all of my streaming subscriptions

    • Built a massive Plex Server

    • Rekindled my love of Unix building said server

    • Began pirating movies, TV, music, and software like a fucking syphilitic pegleg

    • Began experiencing Star Trek TNG for the first time, pirated, on my Plex Server, running Linux

    • Bought a steam deck and began experimenting with Arch

    Don’t ever let anyone tell you your feed doesn’t influence you, no matter how media literate you are.

      • modifierEnglish
        16·
        6 months ago

        I omitted to mention that the number of thigh highs in my wardrobe have remained largely unchanged, so far anyway, and that I managed to avoid letting jeans-mania spill over into whatever passes for my real life.

    • Bronzie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      28·
      6 months ago

      Fuuuuuuuck, you made have the same realization.

      • Ditched W10 for Mint

      • Bought a NAS and set up all .arrs and cancelled all my subscriptions (- Spotify)

      • Home media server with Jellyfin

      • Shared said server with friends and family via Tailscale

      • Set up my very first server on a low end device running headless Debian, all from scratch with docker and Portainer. Currently running a Valheim server

      All this with 0 previous Linux experience. Reddit beeing cunts made me learn a lot of cool new things these part 12 months!

      • cRazi_man@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        6 months ago

        For me:

        • OpenSUSE Tumbleweed PC
        • Synology NAS
        • Steam Deck
        • Plex shared with the family
        • Cancelled Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime.
        • Got a VPN docker container on the NAS with qBt

        Feelsgoodman.jpg

    • kaiserZak@lemmy.worldEnglish
      261·
      6 months ago

      You are truly reborn my child 🥹 welcome to our family 🫡 love you, being here :* <3

    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.funEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Arch. Not even once.

      For reals though, it’s my favorite distro because it taught me a bunch and also, once I understood that bit, it really is the only one that just worked on all my machines at the time, 15 years ago.

    • bricklove@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      I’m on a similar journey and have started self-hosting as many services as I can. I’ve got Jellyfin (open source Plex alternative), a WebDAV server to replace google drive, a Valheim server, and a git server to host the code. I’m doing this with kubernetes on an old mini PC I picked up for 50 bucks on eBay. I plan to put more mini PCs in my friends’ and family’s homes to build a cloud for us with backups of everything stored in multiple locations. It’d be cool to pass it down to the next generation and have our family memories preserved in a medium we own completely.