Spotify currently failing almost 8.43 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS! Improve Native Linux Performance!

[NateSmith42]

Considering the recent retirement of Windows 10, I decided it was time to transition to Linux. I decided on a distro that I felt comfortable enough with (Ubuntu Studio 25.10) and I proceeded to set everything up to my liking until I installed Spotify. When I installed the client, I noticed listening to music became sluggish, slow to start, and had inconsistent performance. 

It was then I discovered that Spotify publicly acknowledges that "Spotify for Linux is a labor of love from our engineers" who "work in their spare time" and is "currently not a platform that we actively support."

This was truly a disappointment to me as a new Linux user who as a paying customer, and a Premium subscriber since 2017 expected Spotify of all companies would prioritize development for such a massive, growing community and platform like Linux. Especially considering that while the percentage of Linux desktop users is relatively small it is continuing to grow currently sitting at around 3 or 4% of PC users. 

As of the third quarter of 2025, Spotify currently has around 281 million premium subscribers. If we were to assume 3% of those subscribers were Linux users that would equal to be around eight million four-hundred and thirty thousand subscribers. 

Unfortunately at this present moment, due to the low priority of Linux client optimization by Spotify, I am having to run the Windows version in a VirtualMachine on my system. Considering my hardware specifications, I am able to do this relatively quickly, however, it should not be something I have to do in the first place. 

It is time for Spotify for Linux to receive development resources which optimize the native client's responsiveness, especially concerning startup time and general UI fluidity.

WE WILL NOT BE IGNORED! 

[padangmerahs]

adas

[WalterGinsberg]

I absolutely agree and yet it pains me to inform you that we have already been ignored for quite some years.

See this for example:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Return-expanded-queue-view-not-only-sidebar-for-desktop-...

As of now there are 31 page of comments.

All of them have been completely ignored and Spotify even found a way to bury the post.

They simply do not **bleep** about us.

[WalterGinsberg]

ARGH and we're not even allowed to say "give a s***"! 💩