Nice work, Liam.

While you're at it, could you please consider putting he resolution graph in the same order as the drop down, or sorting it by pixel count, essentially doing the same as for the RAM graphics?

I think that releasing the raw information would be nice, that way developers could conduct their own statistics :-)

I can't remember, was it planned to put some graphs to picture the evolution of system config with time ?
Maybe you should consider open sourcing the whole (under AGPL). That way, we could just send you PRs instead of comments ;-)
Plus, transparency (looking at you, steam...).

Edit : regarding privacy, maybe keep it the current way, but add a "customize" link to allow customization of every setting. Then, display an icon next to each setting showing the individual settings (along with a warning that administrators are able to see it anyway). It doesn't seem too complicated to implement, provides added value, and distribution visibility can default to true unless customized. Everyone happy I
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Quoting: GuestI’d rather get a simple .tgz than an annoying installer.

You can extract those just like a regular archive, as far as I remember ????
Edit: writing on a smartphone, emojis don't seem to be supported (hence the "????" ). Here you have it: :-)

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It has been a while since the last survey I got on Linux. Then, maybe I am not that lucky :)

About the new survey, I find it nice, maybe the time-based graphs are missing, but I guess this will come after a few months of data. I didn't see the arch (32 vs 64) stats, though. Did I miss it? Or is the proportion of users running 32 bit distros really negligible?

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Thanks a lot for these benchmarks !
I might upgrade my aging 6870 for a polaris card next year, given the state of the driver. AMD's press conference starts in about 5 hours, I wonder what they will announce?

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Ou

Quoting: mattsturgeon

Quoting: edounless you use haswell, in which case nothing changes, not until the release after this one

Are you saying this is only for broadwell and newer? (I've got a sandy bridge (i5-2450M) laptop)

I was under the impression mesa was the userspace side and device specific drivers were in the kernel (not that I've actually looked into it!)

Well, there are of course device specific drivers in the kernel, but in userspace too, because you need to generate machine code tailored to the one you will be running it on. Drivers that use Gallium 3D, which acts as an abstraction layer for device functionality, can be used to share some common code between drivers, thus sometimes enabling features for multiple drivers as a time (think about syntax evolutions,for example, like array of arrays. Once you did the code to handle it, which is based on previous driver code, it enables it in multiple drivers). Intel is not using Gallium, though, so they have to do their their own thing in i965.

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Quoting: TheRiddickYes good news for laptops and low power usage consumers. However 5.5TFOPS is almost half of what the 1080 card will offer, so be aware of that. (performance per watt, I think NVIDIA win in that respect, but at 180TDP)

Keep in mind that, if the article is correct, this is a mobility-class GPU, not a desktop one. That sounds impressive to me.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: MyeulCDon't forget to also export LC_ALL=C

I'd argue that this should only be done when necessary. Game developers should learn to make use of the locale settings instead of ignoring and stumbling on them.

While that's true, I still see a lot of games (particularly Unity ones) that seem to trip over this issue. XDG does are also somewhat of a locale issue, and there is a lot of games that confuse scancodes and keycodes, or more generally, that have strange defaults on non-qwerty keyboards.

So, I would say that overall, developers have a problem with internationalization (or, at least, foreign configurations), and should also do some QA outside of their country (ie. on the net, not only internally).

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Don't forget to also export LC_ALL=C
It sometimes confuses engines if not set. And I second the XDG_* suggestion. I hate apps that create their own .hidden_directory right in my home directory.

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Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: MyeulC

Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: MyeulCLooks really nice and sturdy. And way cheaper than the other ones I saw, too.
Would you mind adding a closeup picture of the clamp, to get an idea of how it if attached, please?
I am now seriously considering buying one :)

Yeah I can try and get a good picture of it.

Thank you very much. This is what I have been unhappy with in the other stands I have seen. This one looks quite sturdy, but I can't really see it in the first picture, while in the second one, the arm is right in front of it :-/
If you could just move the arm to the left and take the second picture again, it would be great :)

The Amazon page has some pretty detailed pictures of the clamp, if that helps.

Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: MyeulC

Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: MyeulCLooks really nice and sturdy. And way cheaper than the other ones I saw, too.
Would you mind adding a closeup picture of the clamp, to get an idea of how it if attached, please?
I am now seriously considering buying one :)

Yeah I can try and get a good picture of it.

Thank you very much. This is what I have been unhappy with in the other stands I have seen. This one looks quite sturdy, but I can't really see it in the first picture, while in the second one, the arm is right in front of it :-/
If you could just move the arm to the left and take the second picture again, it would be great :)

The Amazon page has some pretty detailed pictures of the clamp, if that helps.

Oh, sure! I didn't think about this. Thanks :)

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Quoting: TheBoss

Quoting: MyeulCLooks really nice and sturdy. And way cheaper than the other ones I saw, too.
Would you mind adding a closeup picture of the clamp, to get an idea of how it if attached, please?
I am now seriously considering buying one :)

Yeah I can try and get a good picture of it.

Thank you very much. This is what I have been unhappy with in the other stands I have seen. This one looks quite sturdy, but I can't really see it in the first picture, while in the second one, the arm is right in front of it :-/
If you could just move the arm to the left and take the second picture again, it would be great :)

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