I'm on Linux and the past 10-15 releases have all been perfectly fine for me. Currently I'm on 0.5.22b; are you?
When you say the game 'gets stuck on 41%', what does that mean, exactly? My game loads more or less instantly and I don't see any progress bars. Or perhaps my hard disk is faster than yours...
Here are my SHA1 hashes of files in question -- do these match for you?
88ef5ebfefa1444cb53f25b44a9fa4d7be15a8ef Strive.x86_64 5076e06a82402d44b45a50e93fc0aba3fbde4dcc files/interactionpanel.tscn bb7b00ce4f6fa3463bb469d45c215ddc2804c273 files/scripts/LoadScreen.gd