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.
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:
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Canceled all of my streaming subscriptions
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Built a massive Plex Server
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Rekindled my love of Unix building said server
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Began pirating movies, TV, music, and software like a fucking syphilitic pegleg
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Began experiencing Star Trek TNG for the first time, pirated, on my Plex Server, running Linux
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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.
You forgot mentioning the chokers and thigh highs you have bought since then.
Fuuuuuuuck, you made have the same realization.
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Ditched W10 for Mint
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Bought a NAS and set up all .arrs and cancelled all my subscriptions (- Spotify)
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Home media server with Jellyfin
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Shared said server with friends and family via Tailscale
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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!
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.
