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Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 30 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Well I would like to see something on lunar lake too it very cool CPU Intel made by failed by advertising

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I would like more from Intel as well. Not because of a CPU structure or anything, but just because competition is good for the consumer.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I'm releasing a new chipset structure. It's not Intel. It's not AMD. It's BUTTS BUTTS BOOTYS.

    So now all the best games will run on BUTTS BUTTS BOOTYS, and journalists will have to call it that.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Imagine if they just pulled out of the market like crucial ram.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I don't really think it's the same.

    Micron just became like Samsung. Samsung also doesn't have a consumer DIY market brand. Companies like Kingston or G.Skill can still buy Samsung/SK-Hynix/Micron's RAM, there's been no actual reduction in supply.

    If Intel did the same as Micron did, it'd be more like third parties could sell the consumer stuff, and Intel only sold Xeons directly.

    The anger for the RAM shortage should squarely be on OpenAI - they're the ones who bought 40% of the world's RAM supply (and not even from Micron, mind you, just Samsung and SK-Hynix) and kicked off panic buying. Maybe throw Nvidia in there for handing them the money to do it.

    I feel like people are for some reason unwilling to blame OpenAI for this.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Yeah? Seems like the only thing currently released handheld wise is the MSI Claw AI+ 7 and 8. At $800-$900 it was a very hard sell.

    The CPU itself might be strong for efficiency but it's not like the claw crushed the competition. I feel like the number to meet or beat for a handheld is under $500.

    Intel seems deemed too big to fail so I don't doubt we'll see a resurgence from them if they can manage to scrap most of the MBAs and focus on engineers.

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    • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I thought about buying a framework 12 for kicks but it's Intel only and for that reason I'm oooout.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Intel's laptop CPUs were never bad tho? Is it just a solidarity thing because of the 13th and 14th gen processors frying themselves?

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago*

    AMD fucks Intel hard since the birth of Ryzen CPUs, AMD Ryzen CPUs are more power efficient than intel which is ideal for laptops and Ryzen CPUs are a bit cheaper than with intel, also Ryzen iGPUs are more powerful than intel which is bonus

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Buying anything that isn't an x3D CPU at this point is abject stupidity.

    Intel CPUs might as well be worthless piles of sand. Hotter slower and higher battery usage.

    As far as laptops are concerned Intel has not a single sku worth the sand it's made of.

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    • [–] 20 points 9 months ago* (10 children)

    AMD marches "against Intel"? Is there some sort of confrontation going on between the 2? Or does this just mean AMD makes good processors and sells better?

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  • [+] 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)
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    • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    "EndeavourOS 0.07%"

    Let's goooo! There are dozens of us!!

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Recently tried CachyOS on my HTPC. Couldn't get Sunshine to run. It looked beautiful though and the docs seemed really in-depth. Endeavour (thanks to Arch, I know) is just so stable and fast. Just the right amount of pre-installed stuff like Reflector, yay, the firewall-config app for firewalld with sane defaults, nice BTRFS subvolume layout, correct NVidia drivers. Would be nice to have Limine (for BTRFS snapshots) as an option besides SystemD boot and Grub in Calamares but I installed it in addition to SystemD boot. Gaming works tremendously good. Everything else too.

    I really can't recall the last time an update went wrong. On both of my machines (one Intel, one AMD, both NVidia).

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Sunshine was pretty effortless on cachyos for me, did you install it using pacman?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Yes AFAIK it is in the extra repo, which I'd always prefer to the AUR. Thing is, I tried Apollo beforehand, as I wanted clipboard support, which was probably only available in the AUR. Maybe that borked something with the install. I could install Sunshine though but Moonlight from my main Endeavor install couldn't make any connection even with opening all the wanted ports in the firewall.

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    [–] 11 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    I'm not much of a gamer, not because I don't like to game, but because I'm old and have little time for it. That has made Fedora Workstation my preferred desktop/laptop OS for the last 6 years or so. Maybe that's the reason why I just can't understand why people keep putting up with Microsoft's bullshit.

    I have tried Endeavour about 4 times over the years, but in trying to 'make it my own' I always end up breaking it badly and come back to Fedora for a stable few months before going on a distro-hop riot all over again. Linux certainly is a lovely drug to be hooked on 😁

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    I tried Ubuntu first, because I had heard of it, and too many things didn't work. At the time I was still on that other link aggregator platform and the Linux nerds there told me to try Mint and they were right. It just worked and I have happily run that ever since. It does what I do and isn't Microsoft or the overpriced fruit company. I have no urge to distro hop at all. Fussing with my computer isn't fun for me, I just want to use it sometimes. I agree, though, Linux is good and there's something for everyone.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I feel you. Ive been going through this loop over and pver again. Ive landed on the fedora based Universal Blue for this reason. Bluefin for my desktop and bazzite for my gaming PCs. Sometimes you just want your system to be stable and get out of your way and i really appreciate thay about fedora.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    That was the one Distro that appealed to my wife enough for her to allow me to switch her Windows in her work PC. Now she hates to have to go to her windows laptop to do some taxes shit in our country every month because they only allow excel.

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    • [+] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (16 children)
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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Closing in on 8% if you filter it by "English language only". Chinese speakers overwhelmingly (almost exclusively) use Windows and make up about 30% of all Steam users, which skews the rest-of-world results. And I wouldn't consider 8% of all prospective sales to be a joke, especially since that number only keeps on rising and by the time you've spent a few years writing a game it's likely to be quite a bit more.

    https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Massaging the data to meet your desired stats. Like a politician.

    Why not exclude even more countries that mostly use windows and then say "99% of steam users are using Linux*"

    *based on users in Afghanistan only

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    [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Full survey with some historical charts here

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    [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I'm doing my part!

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    [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I’ve been putting off switching because of everything I have setup for work, but next week I have a new laptop arriving and I’ll be wiping the pre-installed  windows and chucking probably fedora on it.

    Once I have that first one done, I’ll be able to start moving all my others. I have a bunch of Hyper-V VMs that I need to migrate which has been the main cause of my hesitation. 

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    • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Sweet, I contributed to both those categories.

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