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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I think Valve needs to come out with two devices. A new mobile Steam Deck 2 for sure. Then Valve needs to have a face melting console for under the TV.

I haven't kept up much with AMD's big.LITTLE cpu design, but imagine a Steam Deck with power sipping little cores that give crazy good battery life for low end games and BIG cores for latest AAA titles. Add some controls to the power profile feature of SteamOS to customize power and performance of the big and LITTLE cores would be a huge win. The big cores can be prioritized when plugged-in/docked or when the user isn't really concerned about battery life. If I remember correctly, the AMD big.LITTLE compute unit also had the ability to determine the work load size and assign the work to either big or little cores. A hybrid big or little mode might be all you need.

I think a console would be great. I dock my Steam Deck all the time. But I still want a power house for under the TV. Plus, I'm big on, "right tool for the right job". Not to say that the Steam Deck shouldn't be docked, but I think if there were a dedicated Steam console, then less people would think of their Steam Decks as aging. When folks dock their Steam Deck 1/2, they would have different expectations/wishes. Right now my Steam Deck plays all my games way better than I ever hoped for when I first heard about the Steam Deck. I mean, playing HD2 and DiableIV on my Steam Deck??? Shut the front door, I would of thought you were getting ready to sell me snake oil. I can and will build my own Steam Console but, I'm thinking for the people who aren't going to want to build their own custom gaming rig or really know how, nor want to learn. I mean, the Steam Deck 2 is going to be leaps ahead of the Steam Deck. But a Steam Console could be designed and use hardware that is purpose built for high FPS and higher resolutions.

Around 2026 or 2027, I'm sure the big.LITTLE AMD architecture will have gone through a few iterations.

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Updated from 23.10 to 24.04. Running great. Just the run of the mill boring LTS update, no exciting new features. Everything works well except a manual package I installed (Wezterm) and one gnome extension that's not Gnome 46 ready. Switched to similar extension that was 46 ready, and also switched over to the Wezterm ppa. I look forward to another stable boring 6 months.

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Quoting: liamdI doubt all that many browse the web regularly on Deck. However, indirectly? Possible, I've seen lots and lots of posts about people enjoying Linux thanks to the Desktop Mode on the Steam Deck.

That's a good point. The overlap is probably quite small.

I really think all of the growth with Linux will come from the spill over. Tech dad installs Linux, sees it works just fine. Kids computers don't support Win11 and require hardware upgrade. Doesn't want to replace perfectly working hardware for Win11 support. Installs Linux on kidos computers. For every 1 tech dad, you get an average of 2-3 bonus Linux installs. Normally tech dad would have had to stick with Windows on the kids computers so they can play games or they needed Windows for school. But that's been flipped on its head.

The question I have, how long will the spill over last. Once the machines have to be replaced, then what happens?

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If you read the Community Game forums on Steam, you can see people getting help with switching to Linux. Not even the Steam Linux forum. I mean, the actual game specific forum. Essentially, someone playing your game is using Linux. I don't think I would have seen that 1 year ago, people would have had to wonder if their game played on Linux.

Since most Windows gamers are Nvidia owners, this new NVK open source driver that dropped a few days ago will make a huge impact. That Nvidia pain point I think has been a turn off for many. I remember back in the day, you just installed the headers and ran the Nvidia binary. That was it. I helped a buddy of mine switch a month ago, and he had to update his kernel for some NVME controller bug and after that, installed the Nvidia package, that's it. But from the forums it seems like there are some configurations, laptop configurations, that are a little trickier. So hopefully the NVK driver will mature quickly and alleviate the various issues around Nvidia cards.

Anyways, now my buddy switched all his family computers to Linux. A little anecdotal but sort of explains the desktop growth seen in the statscounter vs Steam Linux growth. Maybe the Steam Deck sales aren't directly responsible for the overall Linux growth. But the work Valve and others have done in support of Steam Deck has paid in dividends to Linux. The rising tide lifts all ships. Eventually there will be enough Linux gamers out there, it'd be like the late 90's where your gamer friend helps you get an OS installed on your computer, except it wont be Windows.

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