

a dude that likes gaming and tech (especially Linux) aro/ace


Frankly if people are petitioning the government en masse to allow babies to smoke, I think the government should at least seriously consider it. Democracy isn’t just for when ideas are good.
By that I mean that such petitions shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand, I don’t think that babies should be allowed to smoke, unless they can make cool smoke rings.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/08/germany_chat_control_opposition/
The law would have to get through the courts and parliament too, even if the commission passes it


it sounds like we’re assuming English usage translates to Western usage?
that might be what OP is saying, since English users outnumber every other european language, since most people in western countries/regions that are non-english speaking set their steam to english (I would know, all my (francophone) friends do that).
But realistically most other languages have linux usage not dissimilar to english, and china stands out by being very different and a huge percentage of the total users. So that’s what they’re saying.
Idk man


not op.
basically, there is a hardware survey that valve does, they randomly pick something like 1/10 pc’s with steam, save a bunch of info about them (visible at https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey).
Because of the randomly picked pc’s different demographics can grow or shrink randomly, creating noise, this is particularly visible for simplified chinese, which shrinks and grows by a couple % every time, and is overwhelmingly windows users. This affects the linux percentage too. So if simplified chinese is on a larger percentage of steam pc’s, the percentage of pc’s with linux on them shrinks.
If you are more interested in how linux is doing in western countries, this is annoying noise.
That’s my best explanation, please ask if you have any other questions.






If you want to make a review, I could recommend straftat, it’s a pretty simple game, but there’s enough interesting that I think it’d make for an interesting review!