I'm definitely looking forward to Cosmic. The CosmicShell for GnomeShell had a couple tiling WM things I just couldn't live with. Hoping those are fixed with CosmicDE.

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Can't wait to not buy it.

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I would never buy a Windows handheld. Every time you buy one, you put another sale on the list for Microsoft. All the vendors go, okay I guess we need to make Windows handheld. Microsoft gives deals to all of it's partners for cheaper Windows licenses as long as they always sell a Windows licences with their machines. With few exceptions of course. Buying devices with Windows licences are just reinforcing to these companies that their deal with Microsoft is the right choice and no money gets spent on support for any alternative operating systems.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: Purple Library GuyGood news! I'm still wondering what's up with the increasingly strong difference between the apparent growth speed of desktop Linux on the web (as noted here ), and the relatively slow growth of desktop Linux on Steam.

Do you wonder about the difference between Mac's 14.9% on browser stats and 1.5% on Steam stats? It's the same thing.

Yeah, I think it's this exactly. People have just been conditioned to use Windows or a console for gaming. If you do play games on Linux or Mac, you are conditioned to play games from a select group of games. At least up until recently with Proton and Linux.

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Quoting: hardpenguin

SteamOS Holo 64 bit 45.34% +3.01%

Now how do we convince the game developers that the other 55% are people using regular Linux distros ☺️

(So they should support us too)

We're the same target audience. Nothing to worry about.

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An interesting take on Copilot+Recall [External Link]

Guess I'll get my big'Ol'bucket of popcorn ready.

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Nintendo Switch 4568 [External Link]
Sony PS5 660 + 3350(PS4) [External Link]
Microsoft Xbox Series X/S 424 + 2781(Xbox One) [External Link]

For reference.

edit: I forgot to mention. The games I have been playing are, HellDeivers2, DiabloIV (through battle.net launcher), and Deep Rock Galactic.

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Does everybody remember the SETI project? Lots of projects like it but, they sliced up the data into chunks and then had several computers checkout and process the data. One of the first real distributed computing projects. I'm sure it saved the SETI project a boat load of money. I wonder if MSFT will be doing the same thing. Imagine MSFT casually downloading chunks of training data to your computer for processing. Surely under the guise of updating the local language model. If MSFT could harness the power of all the desktop windows machines, they would be saving a crap-ton of money.

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This is just going to be Shazam for your Computer. Same way Google parses your emails to determine what ads to show you. The same way your SmartTV Shazam's what your viewing and sells the data off to advertisers. Sure, MSFT might say they don't sell the data off for now. The "suggested" ads in the start menu could quickly become a suggested ad from a bunch of possible ads where Recall suggests an ad based on what it has learned about you. Every thing would be local. Right now they are just preparing users for the idea of this happening. It makes sense that MSFT would want to do this. How many countries does MSFT encourage piracy of Windows because it is better for MSFT to have someone steal Windows than to find a cheaper alternative? Seems like the advertisements could become a source of revenue for MSFT where previously there was none.

Also, could you imagine uploading all the images to MSFT and running the AI processing on the images to learn what ads to send the user? Would be really expensive. Much cheaper to just download a massive block of potential ads to their computer and let the AI locally process the images and learn what ads to suggest.

lol @msft. "You might want to go back in time to see what you were doing, this is totally a feature that people would want." hahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahhahaha hahahahahaha

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I just tried this. Makes the process easy. One draw back though, when accessing the Big Picture menus, all your inputs will be passed through to the game you are in.

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