Quoting: Liam DaweFor example, right now there's currently around 125 people who haven't updated since 2017 and we only keep people in the statistics if they've updated within two years after that they're wiped for privacy.

It actually makes sense not only due to privacy, but because stale data becomes obsolete. It makes sense to purge it if it's not updated, or at least ignore for current values. I.e. in reality those users could have changed their hardware several times already, while their profile if not purged, would still reflect their setup years ago, messing up aggregated values and trends.

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Quoting: SamsaiThe overall marketshare still favours Nvidia of course (62.28% vs 32.91%) but it's good to finally see some variety in the GPU model specific rankings.

The trend however, for AMD is positive, while Nvidia is dropping. Hopefully that will continue.

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Some notable points:

* KDE almost caught up to Gnome, after the later got a boost a while ago from the former Unity users.
* Dual booting keeps being replaced by Wine / Proton usage.
* AMD is now at 32.91% for GPUs and 36.67% for CPUs (and keeps growing).

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I second the session stat as well (i.e. "What desktop session are you using?" Wayland / X11).

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I've noticed the total number of GOL users has been dropping for a while, month after month. Less people are using "Click here to continue to be included"?

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What's going on with GOG release? First they listed Linux and now it vanished from the game card:
https://www.gog.com/game/crossroads_inn [External Link]

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According to this, it's for support of Nvidia's ray tracing ASICs: http://www.cgchannel.com/2019/10/nvidia-backs-blender-development/ [External Link]

The backend enables hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia’s RTX graphics cards, with Blender’s benchmark scenes rendering 30-100% faster on a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti than using Nvidia’s older CUDA API.

Still lock-in though, until such extensions become portable. For Nvidia, it's trying to lock the 3D creators market.

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Then it would be good to know exactly what they are sponsoring.

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So, Nvidia sponsored Blender to support CUDA lock-in, and AMD sponsored it to support portable Vulkan? Or that funding goes to any work Blender developers see fit?

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In other news, radv/aco started working with Navi a lot better due to mitigation of various GPU hazards (basically doesn't hang anymore for the most part). Performance wasn't the focus yet, so it's even behind llvm at the moment. But ACO developers are going to focus on it next.

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