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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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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago (2 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 😁

[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (2 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.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 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.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't one of the office alternatives do .xlsx? Or at least use the web version of excel?

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only Office and LibreOffice do, I but the macros used by our tax authority completely break there, so she's left with the excel option alone.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Go figure, but the web version of excel should work.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

According to her, it didn't work. I have no idea what macros those are, and in all honesty, I don't care either, as I don't have to do it (I know that's a douche comment, but here we are). As long as I'm not the one hack g to deal with that crap, I'm not even asking. At the end of the day, that's all she uses that laptop for, the rest is either company hosted or self hosted and she can use it all on her phone or tablet when she's out and about or in her PC when I get home the office.

[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, I've been experimenting with different Linux distros since 2008 and I was pretty skeptical about "Atomic" distros when they first started buzzing around a few years ago.

However, this past year we've had to make the jump to Linux due to windows 11 shenanigans. But let me tell you. She's got Bazzite and I've had to distro hop different arch distros.

But let me tell you, I am incredibly jealous of the amount of things that "just work™️" on her setup. Things that I've had to track down on obscure forums. Avoiding footguns and landmines.

I used to recommend Ubuntu, then it was Linux Mint, and now, I recommend any Atomic distro that fits your purpose.

[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days 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.

[–] silt_haddock@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Check fan speed volume before and after linux to see how many background AI scrapers were removed lmao.

[–] theyoyomaster@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Sweet, I contributed to both those categories.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

"EndeavourOS 0.07%"

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

[–] vritrahan@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

Checking in

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 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).

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Don't want to diss CachyOS. They're sure doing tremendous work for the gaming community and all the default themes for the different WMs and DEs look enticing. I'm sure this was a case of PEBKAC.

[–] LievitoPadre@feddit.it 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You need to install CUDA first, if you have a Nvidia card. Limine is already an option when you install the os.

[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks. Seems you're correct and Sunshine profits from CUDA when using this NVFBC but it doesn't seem to explicitly depend on it to run. I tried it pretty soon after installing EOS and can't imagine having installed CUDA so early. Last time I explicitly did it was for Ollama.

I just looked on that EOS machine on which Sunshine worked right from the start and no CUDA package is installed but nevertheless nvidia-smi shows CUDA Version 13. This seems to be because the nvidia driver brings the CUDA runtime with it which differs from the big CUDA toolkit. I'll try CachyOS again when I eventually buy an AMD GPU.

I think you meant Cachy when you pointed out Limine is an option while doing automatic partitioning. And yes this worked very good. I meant that Endeavour doesn't offer it at that point in install.

Have a nice week.

[–] LievitoPadre@feddit.it 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

You're welcome. I knew about CUDA because I hit my head with it with manjaro. However, I vaguely remember that when I tried in Cachy, it asked for the dependency as well. I think I tried to install with octopi tool though.

Yes I meant Cachy for limine, I didn't know Endeavour didn't do it too.

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[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm doing my part!

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

It’s not a huge issue for me but I would love to upgrade to an AMD mainboard in the future

[–] mpdarkguy@piefed.world 5 points 3 days ago (5 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?

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

They're power hungry for about the same performance as AMD. At least the i-series

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[–] de_lancre@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (4 children)

all-time high

It's 3.2%

I mean, sure, big headline is cool. But it's 3.2%

[–] addie@feddit.uk 28 points 3 days 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/

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

Why stop there? If you filter it by “users not using windows” we can get that number over 90%!

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[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It's 3.2% of Steam Linux installs. The actual number is higher.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

3.2% on a gaming hardware survey is fucking insane stats for Linux though. Three years ago that wouldn't have been believable.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 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?

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 36 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I personally just don’t trust Intel. A lot of people just treat them as the default, but if you’ve been following the news for the last few years, there is a lot to be skeptical of quality wise.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

AMD: "Our partners will fry your expensive CPU on some boards."
INTEL: "Our software will fry your expensive CPU on all boards."

[–] 123@programming.dev 29 points 3 days ago (4 children)

NVIDIA: "Our partners will fry the planet for all!"

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

if you have been following them for decades you know too

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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

The US government has stake in Intel. Don’t trust them anymore.

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[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 29 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 25 points 3 days ago (4 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.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

based

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 10 points 3 days ago

Full survey with some historical charts here

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