Quoting: LoudTechie

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: PoliticsOfStarvingIs it even an accurate way to measure Linux gaming? For the last two years or so, I don't even bother installing steam, I just go straight to heroic.

There is no accurate measure.
The Steam survey is one of the most accurate.
Steam dominates pc gaming enough to be considered a monopolist by the courts and for it to hold coercive power over Apple.
The survey provides enough extra information to see interesting trends including misleading ones(say variations in simplified Chinese. It's clear that if one considers Steam's global market Linux would probably not cross the 3% line, but that the Great Firewall of China distorts the picture).
Interesting here is that there isn't a clear variation visible for any of India's official languages.
With a 16% adoption rate [External Link], >1.4billion residents and a government with a track record of fast and hard decisions one would expect an easily spotted trend.
Nothing of the kind.

How well are these Indian languages supported on Linux? There might be other explanations for it as mentioned before, but with Linux(English only) being at 11% one could argue that that is significant.

It could be, but I'm not seeing significant fluctuations, which is what surprises me.
I would expect Indian Steam access to fluctuate comparable, but with a different rhythm, to Chinese Steam access.
Simplified chinese spikes are easy too see, yet there're no visible english and/or Hindi spikes.

Yes, I agree. We don't see fluctuations with anything other than China. I think with India the 16% Linux adoption rate is mostly among non-gamers; maybe there are some local Indian companies that manufacture cheap Linux laptops for daily use, but they are cheap low power machines that won't run Steam in order to fluctuate its statistics. We also don't see fluctuations with other large communities, like the US itself with its population of over 400 millions, or the over 1 billion Muslims who also don't fluctuate the statistics when Ramadan happens for example. So, I think overall the ratio of Linux gamers are similar throughout the world with China being the only exception. For some odd reason, Chinese gamers are very pro-Windows; contrary to what you might expect from a country like China.

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Quoting: Nickname

Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: PoliticsOfStarvingIs it even an accurate way to measure Linux gaming? For the last two years or so, I don't even bother installing steam, I just go straight to heroic.

There is no accurate measure.
The Steam survey is one of the most accurate.
Steam dominates pc gaming enough to be considered a monopolist by the courts and for it to hold coercive power over Apple.
The survey provides enough extra information to see interesting trends including misleading ones(say variations in simplified Chinese. It's clear that if one considers Steam's global market Linux would probably not cross the 3% line, but that the Great Firewall of China distorts the picture).
Interesting here is that there isn't a clear variation visible for any of India's official languages.
With a 16% adoption rate [External Link], >1.4billion residents and a government with a track record of fast and hard decisions one would expect an easily spotted trend.
Nothing of the kind.

How well are these Indian languages supported on Linux? There might be other explanations for it as mentioned before, but with Linux(English only) being at 11% one could argue that that is significant.

India has a wide diversity in languages with no real dominant language. Hindi, which is the official language, is the mother tongue of only around 180 millions, which is less than 15% of the total population of India. Hindi is also spoken by another 300 millions as a second language, so that's a total of around 480 millions, which is still less than half of the population. I'm not Indian myself, so can't tell, but I would imagine with 16% adoption rate at least Hindi should be very well supported on Linux.

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Quoting: kaktuspalmeI wonder how the System76 sales have been going since Framework is in the market. I have the feeling they are taking away a lot of their sales.

My feeling is that their lighter specced laptops took some heavy hit, not just by Framework, but also by AMD Windows laptops which often tend to be cheaper, better built, and work just as good. However, the higher specced laptops are probably not much affected as there isn't much competition there other than Framework which doesn't fit all tastes.

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I wonder what it could be. I mean, Framework is already great with Linux, so what else could they be bringing to Linux fans?

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This 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.

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Quoting: sarmadGnome 50 has a serious regression in graphics performance, so stay away from Ubuntu 26.04 until it's fixed.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-595-kde-gnome

It wasn't clear from the article whether it's a regression, some major improvement in KDE, or something else. Would be nice if he compared with GNOME 49 and/or some other desktop environments to give a better idea. If it *is* a regression, hopefully they can track it down quickly. The differences were pretty large in some cases.

Yes, not clear from that article, but this other article compares PopOS to Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 26.04, which shows the regression clearly in some of the benchmarks, like the Xonotic one, where Ubuntu 24.04 is almost double the performance of Ubuntu 26.04.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/popos-2404-ubuntu-2604 [External Link]

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Gnome 50 has a serious regression in graphics performance, so stay away from Ubuntu 26.04 until it's fixed.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-595-kde-gnome

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Thanks for remaining a human.

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Very nice. Didn't expect that given the massive success of Proton.

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Why would someone play CSGO when we have CS2? Is there anything that CSGO provides and CS2 doesn't?

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