Quoting: F.UltraWhat I did find however was on the Wiki on Metal that Apple announced in 2017 that 148k apps used Metal which is only 9% of the number of apps they have in their app store, so it wasn't like people where rushing out to implement it.

I'm not sure this is a useful percentage. Most apps don't need any 3D API in the first place, right?

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Quoting: BumadarBoth lovely games if you like adventures, going to search for my old cdroms :grin:

I do love adventures, from Infocom and Level 9 over Lucasarts and Sierra, over Daedalic to Wadjet Eye and beyond...

... but not having played Syberia back in the times, I wasn't able to get into it nowadays.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyJolly good!
I do wonder if the gaming side has fed into this--if people aren't finding themselves more able to switch because the answer to "But can I play my games?" is now basically "Yes."
In my case that's actually one of the primary reasons I started following GoL--I concluded that the gaming side was a really key strategic issue for desktop growth more generally.

So you're only here for strategic reasons? ;)

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Quoting: GuestIt's unlikely the small form factor of a steam machine will include better hardware. If you want a beefy console to game at the TV - install arch with the steam-minicompositor so that only steam launches at bootup and then you can play games as if its a console.

I'd consider a machine ten times the size (height) of the Steam Deck still "small form factor". This should be able to contain beefier hardware quite well.

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Quoting: EikeDid you fetch all of that manually from the website? It sometimes took like half a minute for it to display the link(s) for a certain day for me...

I did. I've done data hunting for Liam's tracker before. The trick is to load the results into new tabs so that they can be getting on with loading while you wait for the next link to appear. And to make a cup of tea if it's getting too tedious, of course.

I was opening in tabs as well... but I don't drink tea, so obviously, I couldn't do all of it.

Ah, on the semi-serious side: Where would the trend lines meet?

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Quoting: CatKillerI went back as far as Liam's Steam Tracker does (since some subset of data before then is hinky):

Thanks!
August 2021 was a bad date for my cutoff. :D
Did you fetch all of that manually from the website? It sometimes took like half a minute for it to display the link(s) for a certain day for me...

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: EikeAnother question, does somebody have survey results of the last months or years stored? Would be interesting to draw the Mac line as well. :D

Wayback Machine.

Well, that did work!



If it's a trend, it's a new one it seems.
Or I need to dig further down the timeline.

*edit* Fetched some more data, and I don't see a Mac decline between August 2021 (oldest number fetched) and May 2023. Wayback Machine is slow. It must be reading the data from tape. X)

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There's another interesting number.
While we always consider China to nearly not use Linux, simplified Chinese is the second most used language by Linux Steam users. :D

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Quoting: LoftyI have to thank nvidia for enabling me to game on linux at a time when it was impossible otherwise many, many years ago when i had zero success on the terrible fglrx AMD. it's what kept me going until AMDGPU was up and running. Now however im on AMD and its amazing honestly in comparison how much better it is than nvidia, no contest. Your kneecapping yourself running nvidia on linux, it's like choosing to have a lower quality experience on purpose.

Why do you think so? I'm using Nvidia on Linux, and I don't see problems.

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Quoting: 14

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: 14These changes sound really good, really promising. I have to assume the real-time reaction to reporting must be AI empowered. I just can't imagine an employee staring at a screen, sweat running down their face, trying to cast judgment on as many reports as possible per minute.

There's a lot between AI and humans, though. Like, algorithms.

Sure. What's your point though?

The point is we don't have to assume the real-time reaction to reporting must be AI empowered.

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