Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: michaInterestingly, it seems the upward change solely comes from Ukraine:

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/ukraine [External Link]

Hmm estonia also
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/estonia [External Link]

but ofc estonia has tiny population compared.

hoyly crap, wtf is happening on estona that we didnt knew about?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI note ChromeOS is at 4%. If only it ran, you know, programs.

looks like google will transform chromeOS into an real distro, less chrome and more linux on it

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Quoting: SolarwingApparently the "birds" have flown around the globe and spread the word of free OS. I think Valve is somehow behind this increase as Linux gaming has been going up for sometime. It cannot be coincidence.I can say only this:fly Tux fly!The 4% is next!!!:smile:

there are 2 ads for flying penguins, one is made by BBC and other had the same visuals and was about linux, im not sure if both had an licence to use the images

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: GuestI wonder how many "Linux Deck" users would use Linux outside of the Deck.

Probably not as many at the start, but when I've looked at the Steam Deck reddit, there were many people that said that they were scared at first and then it was easier than they expected. That is exactly what we need. There is a lot of false knowledge and fear spread around by MS and lets call them influencers.

to be fair, part of their fear is... justified, just not updated.
linux had many issues back in the days, windows had even more, but they know about the issues that windows had that were solved and they dont know about the linux evolution

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Quoting: minidouThey've done it.

Valve has made every publisher consider the Linux audience. This is only going to get better now.

too soon, we are talking about just a few big publishers, not to mention even nintendo and sony had trouble geting support from thirdy parties in the past.

at the best we can secure the next 5~7 years of games working/being relased on linux and all old games that we already have.
but even if we get that, there is no guarantee of what we will have afterwards. (i mean when the next console gen start)

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BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle - Basic Edition

arc system works games are great!

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i liked the sakuga at the begining and the character design reminds me of swat cats (or maybe samurai pizza cats?)
but they need to show more gameplay, changing the level all the time didnt did any favor for this trailer.

looks cool

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Quoting: Romlok

Quoting: BloomberyWhat is "unknown", Linux?

Given that a large jump in "unknown"s apparently happened at the same time as a large dip in "Windows" (April), my guess is that Microsoft changed something privacy-wise in Edge which made Statcounter not be able to identify them as Windows.

Then, that the subsequent drop in "unknown"s in June resulted in a fairly proportional increase in all the platforms, suggests to me that Statcounter (likely driven by the increase in "unknown"s in their data) found a way to identify (or guess/assume) a browser's platform in spite of some common cross-platform privacy feature.

Edit: This effect seems especially stark in India! https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india [External Link]
(also, 13.8% Desktop Linux in India!)

wow linux marketshare in india is impressive! at the same time it make me depressing to think that a few other countries must have an minuscule marketshare to compensate (after all the average world wide is 3%, if one countrie its much higher than 3 other might be lower)

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: elmapulwhat is next, rockstar will make an patch so you cant kill any one anymore in GTA? and you will say that is not censorship?

yes that would not be censorship. You playing a video game is not you expressing your right to free speech. Rockstar changing their game so that you can't kill any one any more is actually Rockstar expressing their right to free speech.

Now Rockstar being forced to do this by a 3d party like the Government, now that would have been censorship by that 3d party. But this rarely if ever happens in our western democracies, yes the alt-right is crying loud about companies doing this do appease to "a different audience" but that is just them crying about it, as normal zero points of evidence is ever presented (which they see as proof that it is a conspiracy). Nor would it follow any forms of logic since this "other audience" is a very small group of people that would never buy the game anyway (which the companies knows full well) so that is not why they are doing changes like this (and there is also not a lot of cases of companies doing this either, I mean Skull Girls is not an example of a company even doing this and yet it will still be an a list somehwere of a situation where it happened).

you are defining the artist as an company not the individuals who work at it.
sure i dont expect nintendo to allow an creator to kill mario or anything like that, but i dont expect then to launch an game and change it for different regions, or change it after launch.
they gave their artists some creative constraints, the artists wrote, draw etc in that limitations their design goals and philosopy might be completely different if they had other constraints.

for example, if you know you cant kill an character you might try to find other ways to create an emotional impact on your art, if you writing thinking you can do that, then someone else remove that from the story, then your story might end up without any scenes of emotional impact as an result of that change.
if an company hired me to write an story and i didnt agree with the creative freedoms they gave me i could simply not help then with their project, they would be able to relase it anyway, but not slap my name in the credits with something like "from creator of X,Y,Z book/movie/game" (assuming i was famous), that is completely different from they leting me write what i want, then changing a lot of things without informing me and keeping my name in the credits.
hell the gaming industry was infamous for ghost writing in the past anyway.

and speaking on censorhsip vs freedom of expression:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWqvaMEFIdI [External Link]

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Quoting: MetallinatusWe are running in circles with this discussion.

that is stupid, of course translations arent changing, and while dubing change how the anime "feel" it still wouldnt count as censorship, we cant have an 1:1 experience, if the new audience have to read subtitles then they will have a different experience and that is specially bad for kids who are learning how to read (or dont know) if it remain unstranslated it still an different experience because you have no idea what they are saying, if its dubbed then the different voices, voice acting and sound of sylabes is different.

yet, i dont count any of those as "censoring" and i dont think anyone would.
the best experience for people is the original, followed by subs if they can read and then dubs, but even then im not saying im against the pratice of dubing and some people prefer the dubbed version.

the issue is when they completely change what the character said, i dont pay cable for that.

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