Quoting: LinuxwarperI really dont think W10 EOL had as much to do with this.

Don't you see the graph of the article? It has a lot to do.

You are totally right about all the work, but EOL is the final push many people required. At the end everything works together: software development, W11 sloperating system, hardware support, the increased user base over the last 5 years and finally the media that jumped on board last year to push Linux. Still, without W10 EOL we would be around 3.x% in best case scenario, I am pretty sure (which would also be 300% of 5 years ago, so the trend is present with or without EOL).

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"optimizations to reduce the amount of data being transmitted between the GPU and CPU over the PCIe bus interface"

Or in other words, they made a horrible job in first place and now they're fixing their drawcall issues that shouldn't be any issue from begin on. At least they are fixing it. It is the most important thing to optimize on any game before releasing it, no matter what content it has.

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Quoting: ROllerozxabut what got my attention was the firstmost line, Wine running on Android? 👀

The least I am interested in since I left the smartphone ecosystem in favor of Linux phones. With FEX Windows games should run on these pocketcomputers just as on Linux desktops. The only remaining key is powerful hardware, which may comes with Liberux Nexx. But older games or low resource eating indie games could probably run on my device. So the DLL stuff is indeed more interesting to me.

But well, nothing against the Android driver.

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Yes, it was just for EU.

Quoting: CaldathrasWith the free year of extended support, Win10 EOL is really a bit of a fiction.

And not having a MS account (which was one of the many reasons not to use W11) still makes W10 EOL for EU citizens, too. I know, it's a weird situation where W10 is end of life and kinda not. But this is also the reason some people delay the switch to Linux another year.

When I speak "because of W10 EOL" I include all the reasons people may don't want to switch to W11 as online account, Copilot, broken features, advertisement on desktop, bloatware, trackers, "feature" updates and so on. To me the EOL is the term that indirectly speaks about all these problems.

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Quoting: sarmadThis rise is very suspicious; it's too big to be happening over a single month. I'd wait till next month to see if the gain is sustained.

If this data is close to be the truth it is more likely a growth of 3 months. Chinese new year begins in January and ends in February, so both months are weak for Linux. January has not such a big impact as February. Look into past, every January is a weak month for Linux followed by the even weaker February. If you look into the last year from Win10 EOL and follow the trend until December, the March numbers could be true.

However, I fully agree with "wait till next month" to verify any data.

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Quoting: elmapulnon gaming pcs dont matter for the gaming market.

It matters, because someone working with Linux is more likely to adopt Linux on private PC, too. And someone who already owns a Linux PC is more likely to try out games on Linux instead of dual-booting all the day along. It also matters, because it shows the trend is not just gamers, but an overall success, which leads companies to bring their software to Linux at some point, which leads other gamers to switch, too. I am working with Unreal Engine and can use it on Linux on the same machine I am playing. A friend is creating music on his gaming machine and since his software does not run on Linux he is not switching (but would like). Everything is somehow connected.

not everyone knows about stuff like heroic/lutris and thoses dont support all windows stores just the most popular ones.

Not everyone has to know it. It is enough if some people do it this way. Btw I don't care about "store support", I just want to install and config games easily and never touch these "launcher" to launch a game. I want to launch games as quick as starting a program and launchers as Steam/heroic/slopris/bottles/... are just bloatware that slows down my game-start (if I would use them this way).

not to mention if an console took 30 years to reach 6.5 millions of users, it wont be seeing as an success, but its good in an specific meassure: trend

More like around 600% increase in 5 years - from 0.9% to above 5.3% and it seems to accelerate. Some businesses wasting millions for over 10 years before they start to earn money. And they would also call it huge success.

Quoting: JohnLambrechtsis the year of linux desktop here?

The year of Linux was 2025, because it became a talking point outside the Linux bubble and because it reached over 2.5%-3% for gaming, which is required to bring a political movement to their success. It was also the year of Win10 EOL. 2026 was always just meant to continue the breakthrough success and every further year just builds on top of 2025.

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Quoting: elmapulan console with 6,5M units sold would be called an flop.

That depends where you came from. A console trade-mark that arrives for the first time with 6.5M is a victory. A Playstation that loses "just" 6.5M (PS5 has sold 92M until 2 months ago) is also a flop. Linux comes from the bottom, so 6.5M is a true victory (and I think you agree).

But don't forget, we are only speaking about Steam-data. I am playing most of the time without Steam titles as Horizon Zero Dawn or Path of Exile 1/2 or indie games. So sometimes I am part of the monthly-players, sometimes I am not while playing every month some sort of games. PCs of governments or companies running desktop Linux are not included, too. India has a market-share of 20% Linux computers all together. Europe and North-America reached 5% last year before Win10 EOL. The real desktop Linux user number is far above and trends as "Europe governments moves to Linux" is not included here.

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Quoting: Liam DaweI thought it might have been the new container 64bit client, but the system info tool managed to grab my distribution just fine when running it for testing.

The info tool could be handled differently to the hardware survey tools. It even could be distro related. Ubuntu and Arch are listed just fine, other common distros are not visible.

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I don't think it will drop below 4% next month. The graph actually looks even not so odd with Win10 EOL than I thought through when I read the numbers a hour ago on Steam. Next month it will be interesting if it confirms the numbers or if it corrects them.

About 0 64Bit and 64Bit (together 25.61%) I think it is the new 64bit Steam client that finally arrives on Linux (just few months after Windows). It seems the client cannot read the distros correctly for the moment. But even if it would be broken data, Linux would be around 4%, which would also be a all-time-high.

Whatever is true, the media will talk about 5% for sure, which brings new users to Linux. So at this point I don't really care about the real number and I am happy to see the good kind of advertisement for free.

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Quoting: CalinouWatercooling takes less space in the buiild, but is overall more prone to failures (not just leaking, but pump failures and air bubbles leading to increased noise). It's a reason I've stuck to aircooling until now, even on a 13900K and now a 9950X3D.

Absolutely agree with. I am even using a Top-Down cooler on 5950X with no throttling at all (some undervolting done), which also cools my memory and voltage transformers. This is also necessary, because I want to use my Zen1 motherboard for further 7 years and cooler temperatures leads to better durability.

Currently I have no interest in buying new AMD or NVidia products, since both work together with Palantir. For now I hope my PC lasts a decade without issues and I hope the PC situation is kinda better then. In best case open hardware RiscV become become an alternative, which I would buy if the CPU is just better than Zen4 CPUs. And Intel hopefully becomes somehow good enough to that date, so there is a GPU manufacturer more to choose.

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