Quoting: torstenchrIs this due to the launch of the steam deck?

It was launched in Febr. 22 (according to google) and in the last two years it's grown from 2% - 4%. Except the trend was slowing going up before that... so maybe it explains some of the growth but not all.

Doubtful. StatCounter is assessing their figures through webpage hits. Unless a lot of ppl use their deck for browsing, it won't have an impact.

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Quoting: ShabbyXHappy to say I finally switched to Debian last week, no more Canonical nonsense for me thank you very much.

Does Debian have a crypto wallet app in its core repositories? If no (and given that you need such one) - how would you evade a potential scam? The dude entered his 12-word super secret recovery key...

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I assume the market share of the device will be less than negligible and wouldn't have done a lot for "wider adoption" anyway.

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Quoting: SoulprayerHm, was pondering some days ago to buy new CPU, but the 7000 series is getting so hot, I'm always thinking about that gif where this dogs is sitting in fire and says "Its' fine"... I'd say that as well, when my PC is nearly at boiling point of water.

What do you mean? My 7900 with a 65W TDP hardly ever surpasses 60° with a one minute all-core stress test. Perhaps you should add a cpu cooler?

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Quoting: M@GOidIf it had a single player mode where I could fly any aircraft without any restriction, you know, how sims used to be, I would agreed to pay AAA money for it. But to be forced to do stupid stuff to "earn" the right to get a better fighter, or to pay a lot of money for temporary access to those? No thanks. And still had to deal with cheaters and kids on the multiplayer? I rather play IL-2 1946 with its old bugs.

What are you complaining about? It is a multiplayer game and not a single player sim game (though there are a handful of single player missions and PvE content). And all the multiplayer mechanism apply. It's like you would criticise that Doom Eternal lacks some zen-like puzzle solving.

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quotea fingerprint sensor (although that only apparently works on Windows)

Selling a dedicated Linux laptop with customized Ubuntu distro and having a non-working peripheral? That's pretty lame, because there are plenty of fingerprint readers that work. On both my Lenovos they worked OOTB and even on my old HP EliteBook you could get it to work with some tinkering (and we are talking about 16.04 Ubuntu).

Are fingerprint readers useful anyway? I'm pretty sure someone getting a hold of your laptop can easily find your finger prints all over the device, so can't they simply copy it and unlock the device.

Well, every smartphone comes with one. (And I doubt that "copying fingerprints" is THAT easy...) Anyway, that's not the point: It is a device explicitly "for Linux" and in this case I expect that all the hardware that comes with the device works with the in-house distribution OOTB.

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Quotea fingerprint sensor (although that only apparently works on Windows)

Selling a dedicated Linux laptop with customized Ubuntu distro and having a non-working peripheral? That's pretty lame, because there are plenty of fingerprint readers that work. On both my Lenovos they worked OOTB and even on my old HP EliteBook you could get it to work with some tinkering (and we are talking about 16.04 Ubuntu).

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Quoting: pete910

Quoting: ZeroPointEnergyYeah, I believe it when it is actually released.

We already had such episodes where they told us they where weeks from release and it will be out before end of the year. That was years ago, can't even remember how long. How can someone be so wrong? It boggles my mind.

They've never sated it will be out in a few weeks to be fair, Original release got moved due to added content that the backers wanted.

The trouble is it's taken longer than both backers and the devs initially thought!

That's an euphemism. We are talking about years and years. The initial release (according to the Kickstarter campaign) should have happened in late 2014. They may be "only" 10 years late.

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Quoting: GuestI am wondering, why there is no proofreader position to check a submitted translation.

You got a product with dozens of localisations. You would need an armada of proofreaders - something a company as Canonical with its 500 employees can hardly muster.

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Quoting: dpanterWell, historically speaking every substantial deviation from the trend stemmed from flawed data and was typically corrected before long... but I'll take it. :)

Phoronix observed that Chinese language has dropped by 3 or 4 percent last month...

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