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Quoting: mrdeathjr​This wine version in my case install mono 11.1
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Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, orginial Outlaws, Moto Racer, and is that Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine?! 😃

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Can't stop us now!

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneSince people don't trust me, I also draw some lines:

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Everyone can extrapolate the line themselves.

The last line might be Windows 11 and not happening like this again.

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Since people don't trust me, I also draw some lines:



Everyone can extrapolate the line themselves.

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Quoting: dpanterThe generative AI cancer taints everything it touches. Glad the Blender Foundation wised up... but did they really need quite a lot of backlash to realize the bulging diaper wasn't full of candy? 🤔

A brilliant expression! My wife wondered why I suddenly burst out laughing 😂

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Curious ... The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition is almost always on the list of top Steam Deck games and yet it is supposedly "deck unsupported". Go figure.

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Quoting: mattaraxiaIt's really wild. 10% by ~2030 seems just about inevitable now.

With the current speed, 9.5% is reached by end of 2027 and considering Steam hardware it should even be above 10% next year (if nothing slows down).

Maybe. I doubt it's quite that fast, but could be. I mean that is certainly by ~2030. There isn't another Windows 10 EOL coming, so it probably won't be quite as fast as the current rate non-stop, but I'm virtually sure it won't reverse. We also may just not need another Windows 10 EOL. Linux is hip now. It may just get even faster.

Steam Hardware is tricky. On the one hand the RAM shortage is hurting it. But that's probably balanced out by the RAM shortage driving Windows 10 EOL'ers to switch.

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Quoting: SakuretsuWe're probably not going to see such big jumps frequently.

That jump is already done. We are on a 3% per year rate right now. 2 years multiplied with 3% = 6% plus 3.5% of last year December = 9.5%. No further jump or acceleration, just continuing growth of last 6 months, which is very likely considering 25% of Win10 users and that Win11 growths slower than Linux does. I did not even include Steam Machine and VR or EOL#2 in this math.

And also consider this: until now Linux never had a slow down in growth. That will happen at some point, but there is no sign it will happen in 2026/2027.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneThere is no real exponential trend. I did the math some hours ago and there was a linear trend before Steam Deck release, than an accelerated trend between Steam Deck Release and Win10 EOL and a 5.5 times increase after Win10 EOL. Steam Deck OLED did not change the linear trend. November and December 2025 had exactly the same 5.5 times increase as the whole 2026 until April. January and February were Chinese New Year, March somehow bad data, so these should be ignored.

If it would be a real exponential curve, March data would be real and April even above that. So it would be better to use 3 linear lines, clamped between those relevant dates.

PS: If it is linear we will see on Windows 10 extended support end of life. It should be around 6%. It should be far above 6% if it is exponential.

Here's a visual aid.

As you say, it's all pretty flat before the Deck, then we get added a pretty linear Deck signal, and then we get a pretty linear desktop signal as the Deck flattens out.

I've found the 5-month moving average to be quite good at separating out the signal from the noise.


There's no real justification for splatting the data onto an exponential curve, although we get someone demanding that it's done pretty much every month so I'm not surprised that Liam's given it to them to make them stop. One could splat it into a logarithmic, sinusoidal or tangent curve just as easily.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: mattaraxiaIt's really wild. 10% by ~2030 seems just about inevitable now.

With the current speed, 9.5% is reached by end of 2027 and considering Steam hardware it should even be above 10% next year (if nothing slows down).

I'm as excited as every other Linux enthusiast but that's very unlikely.
We're probably not going to see such big jumps frequently.

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Quoting: mattaraxiaIt's really wild. 10% by ~2030 seems just about inevitable now.

With the current speed, 9.5% is reached by end of 2027 and considering Steam hardware it should even be above 10% next year (if nothing slows down).

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Quoting: KimyrielleIt only takes "AI" somewhere in the first line to make these people go reach for the pitchforks. Objectivity and reason has left this discussion a while ago.

...which is a good thing because we've learned very quickly that giving an inch has them take several hundred miles. There's nothing wrong with rejecting satan technology in all of its forms and not just the most cataclysmicly evil version of it, in fact I'd argue that's exactly what you SHOULD do.

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There is no real exponential trend. I did the math some hours ago and there was a linear trend before Steam Deck release, than an accelerated trend between Steam Deck Release and Win10 EOL and a 5.5 times increase after Win10 EOL. Steam Deck OLED did not change the linear trend. November and December 2025 had exactly the same 5.5 times increase as the whole 2026 until April. January and February were Chinese New Year, March somehow bad data, so these should be ignored.

If it would be a real exponential curve, March data would be real and April even above that. So it would be better to use 3 linear lines, clamped between those relevant dates.

PS: If it is linear we will see on Windows 10 extended support end of life. It should be around 6%. It should be far above 6% if it is exponential.

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It's really wild. 10% by ~2030 seems just about inevitable now.

Even as someone who's used Linux for literally decades now, I'd have never thought this would be such a thing.

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Hopefully the dip brought the numbers closer to reality.
That's still a 1.5% increase since the Windows 10 EoL. Roughly 2% over the last year. Despite the Steam Deck being out of stock for many months now. The future of Linux gaming is looking bright, folks.

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0 64 bit? 😆

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​This wine version in my case install mono 11.1



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FNA still delivering good stuff, thanks flibitijibibo et al.!

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Quoting: GerarderloperBet Sony spending a fair bit of money trying to patch all these holes out.
Bit of a scenario of them shooting themselves in the foot because having a way to install Linux on these consoles will make them MUCH more popular and people will naturally buy the games for them anyway.

BUT they won't see it that way; gotta waste money and ruin everyone's fun, the corporate motto!

I've read they are now putting more DRM into consoles; wonder how long until Age Verification comes and you are required to have Face and ID scans to even turn the things on.... what a world!

I do wish Steam Machines were going to be affordable alternatives, but it seems that won't be happening for quite some time! Onward and Downward into the fiery pits we go!!!! :)

we used to have a lot of companies making their own proprietary operating system for phones with their own proprietary app stores, but they failed and now all companies use android, except for apple with iOS.

we used to have a lot of proprietary formats for pcs, nowadays we have ibm open pc and apple , basically.

I think the same will happen for consoles, a lot of companies making windows or linux devices, and sony will be forced to chose between the 2 or be kicked out of the market.
I think Nintendo might survive as "the apple of gaming consoles", their exclusive brands are too strong to simply disappear, the same cant be said about sony games, at least in terms of sales they arent such a big deal as fanboys think.

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It even has the iconic Tattooine track from SW Episode I - Racer!

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Glad to see you enjoyed it!! I helped with this release

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Quoting: Craggles086So not all the Studios that got bought up by Epic had half their workers sacked.

Nice to know.

Sorry, still feeling a bit bitter about some of the Epic purchases.

Yeah it sucks what they did to Fall Guys

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Quoting: NezchanAs much as the original Subnautica was one of my favourite games of all time, I'm gonna sit this one out and see what the reviews say.

I've heard from people that claim to have had access to it (yes, have a bag of salt handy) that the core game is very good, but that a lot of content still has to be added. Which sounds very positive, but is still a reason to not be in a hurry.

Quoting: Nezchan... Krafton's declaration they're now an "AI First" company a few months ago does not fill me with confidence.

The Krafton CEO couldn't even resist using ChatGPT to hatch his plan to not pay out the bonus to the Unknown Worlds founders (and luckily hide it badly). Personally I'm more worried about the chaos than the AI use. On the other hand, Krafton has been behaving terribly for a while and I'd have a good chuckle if they'd be forced to have to pay out an extra 250M. That alone might be worth 30 dollars. 😄

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Damn I didn't think this was going to be quite this big of a deal. I was happy to just say 'Look it's funding, we can take money from anyone, doesn't mean the company will have any influence', just like we do every time a dodgy company gives money to Blender Foundation.

I would have thought if the Blender community was happy to accept money from Adobe that they'd be happy to accept money from anyone.

Don't get me wrong, I hate OpenAI and Anthropic with the fiery passion of a thousand stars burning brightly, but sometimes it's hard for me to tell what outrage is just me being me and what outrage is actually universal. Seems this was a universal outrage. It really says something out of all the companies Blender Foundation has taken money from, THIS is the one which people couldn't stomach. Jeez, just shows how absolutely poisonous 'GenAI' is right now in public opinion.

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Quoting: Renzatic Gear

Quoting: EWGIf a higher price tags equates to higher quality builds and wages for those making it, then I'd be happy to eat a few more peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and wait another pay cheque if necessary to buy something.

You make it sound like having more PB&J sandwiches is a bad thing.

I’ll tell you right now that it is not.

Fair. I do often either way. It's one of those wonderful cravings and allows for a little creativity. Triple decker with cinnamon sprinkled on the bread? Crushed/sliced/chopped nuts? Alternative to peanut butter like almond butter? Frrsh fruit? Dried fruit? What bread is available today?
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However, it's also really nice to have a fat veggie heavy sandwich or cheezy panini. Something hot, grilled, with more vegetables and some protein.

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I'm whiling away the hours on my Deck with Pictopix and Nordic Ashes. They've both served me well in scratching my Picross and Vampire Survivors itch.

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So wait, I don't get it. Are they just updating the ISO to ship with the latest kernel that's regularly available to update to? So, basically, during install it'll have broader and better support for hardware depending on the kernel? Is that it?

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As I understand it, some games (such as Arc Raiders?) will group players with similar skill levels, which seems like a good way to limit frustration. Rather than banning cheaters, or someone who *looks* like a cheater, just make them play with other cheaters. If it's a false positive, it may be annoying, but way better than being banned?

Edit: I guess this is a bit off-topic, since the article is about DRM and online checks. But the conversation has drifted a bit into anti-cheat...

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Quoting: LinuxwarperEventually even Microsoft will support Linux

Soon after the Steam Deck came out, Microsoft was actively promoting their published games that worked on it. I think that was when they were under scrutiny for wanting to buy Activision, so that may have been part of the motivation...

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That behavior agrees with what I wrote below the previous article: Anthropic just wants to keep Blender healthy. They have an interest for plugins, not to destroy Blender while Blender requires money to make Blender better than the proprietary concurrences. I am one of the first who criticize things related to so called AI-companies, but this action was totally fine.

However, it is good that they address the complains in a good way. People who (still) complain do it for an uninformed opinion in this specific case. I am Blender user myself and don't want to get unethical neuronal network tools implemented by default. I am also fine with keeping the door open for implementing such tools in future, if it is done in a fully ethical and transparent free software way.

Hint: ethical and transparent includes:
- All trainings data is public available and published under free licenses as GPL or CC.
- All licenses of trainings data are respected (as naming sources/creators).
- Tools running locally, offline and do not collect any data.
- Tools are not implemented if there is no real benefit (like replacing totally fine tools) and also not to produce art-slop (can be done with plugins anyway).

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