Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "The Lunduke Journal" channel.

  1. Now we only need GIMP 3.0 to launch to wrap up this year. With a proper 5% Linux market share :)
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  2.  @electrolyteorb  You are coping. Yeah, the memory bandwidth is significantly below. But you can have 96 GB of (V)RAM (110 if you use Linux) avaible. Your 5090 won't be as good and fast once it's bottlenecked by the normal dual-channel system RAM which even on high-end desktops (that aren't something like Threadripper) maxes out at about 120-140 GB/s
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  3.  @jamessorrel  Oh, absolutely. It's very iresponsable this whole forced transition from X to Wayland when Wayland is not fully ready to be a replacement. I did complain about it in a lot of other comments. Something so low level, so important should be properly supported until the new thing has everything ready and people, by themselves (aka not forced), on their own time, at their own pace, on their own will migrated themselves to the new thing. And start removing the old thing when the above happened and the old thing gets to something like 0.3% market share. That's a responsable transition.
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  4. The study is from 2021. It would be nice to have one from 2024 too, some of the slow languages have improved.
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  5.  @breadmoth6443  My only reply to your obvious trolling, more for the others reading this thread. HDR is worked on XLibre. So is the fix for "every app is a keylogger". XLibre works with all hardware - Wayland had issues with some older cards. Wayland had jack sh&t implementations for accesibility, Xorg and XLibre is much ahead (though still not "done") in this regard. Wayland has no support for scripting and automations, and given their "5 years to settle on a minor protocol" track record, I don't think we'll see something like this by 2030
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  6.  @justanothercomment416  Any sources on that ?
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  7. "If Zelensky's Ukraine is independent who do they need US money?" Can you ask a more idiotic question ? Jeez Louise, where are you folks coming from ? I wish that someday you face what Ukraine is facing and then amaze us with your amazing problem solving.
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  8. Your calculation is quite off. First of all, I don't think it will be 30 days per month. Did I miss there being a mention about working in weekends ? Normally you have 20 to 22 working days in a month. But also... it said PART TIME. So no 8 hours per day.
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  9. Well said!
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  10. It is a thread on XLibre's Issues page. I think it will take some time though, they're still in the discussions phase, and the topic seems to be very broad and complicated.
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  11.  @livenotbylies  You love other men ? Ha! Gaaaaaaa ok, I'll see myself out
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  12.  @jamessorrel  To be fair, up until like 2 years ago, it was barely usable for non-trivial tasks by a good bunch of people. Accessibility does make sense to be implemented when the rest is rather functional, and that's only been true rather recently.
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  13. Was waiting for a mention of how right Richard Stallman is about freedom and security. Well, he's more on the software side, but the principles remain. We'll just have to start manufacturing locally chips. Which means they'll be decades away in performance and efficiency. But, hey, for something important, that might still be something better than nothing.
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  14. Still waiting for a full week in which I hear NOTHING about AI (that is, no mainstream news about AI or mainstream people having takes on AI). I don't think it will happen in 2024 :(
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  15.  @livenotbylies  To be fair though, if every mildly important project has 100 forks, we won't get anywhere.
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  16. And that's why it's stated for Alpha release only in 2026. Currently with it you can see/use like half of the websites. About the same % of functionality as some AAA games have at release. I'm sincerely very positively surprised that they said alpha only in 2026, not 2025. It tells me they're realistic and serious about it.
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  17. This is only the 9th time I've read this comment. That's crazy!
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  18.  @4mROIdg.JRETZ35l6KtdwE_MRRjkqw  Truly, nothing of value in your comment.
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  19. Yeah, but banning the name ??? Is Trump a banned name ? If they really have a problem with politics, they should simply close the threads or posts that are political (and probably asking for trouble). Not banning a name, Jeez Louise!
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  20. That's like saying that the tricycle culture is fundamentally broken. Because in the instructions it assumes (to you) that you have to be a Formula 1 race driver. In case my example seems WAAY blown own of proportions, that's exactly what the OP did. It is a really stupid (emotional?) take. So you know the Linux culture after doing one step-by-step guide ? And you think that's what a network admin needs to know to build a corporate network ? My example with being Formula 1 driver to use a tricycle is on the same level, really.
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  21. For me that's why it's so appealing. You can make so many jokes with and about it
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  22.  @nephatrine  He's probably amazed how same-ish GIMP is to the '90s version
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  23. You can, I think, I hope, also try to push back against such nonsense. I'm sure that Linux Mint has a TON of users that are actually sane. If they receive a massive pushback, maybe this can be corrected and Linux Mint can remain as a a good option to have.
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  24. IIRC GIMP 3 has a lot of color space improvements if not an overhaul. And it's one of the main blockers for Adobe people in using it, from what I've heard.
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  25. Somebody has to first put a light on this nonsense so somebody else (hopefully many) can fight this nonsense. Tech is dying because of these lunatics.
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  26. Don't want to be Canonical's apologist, but I'd say the Ubuntu case is decently justified. It's only for GNOME. Supporting that would mean extra work (that would've been done previously by GNOME) for Canonical. And they do have LTS, so you can stay on 24.04 until 2029 on GNOME. Or on X11 on Kubuntu or any other DE. It's not great, but I can't fault them for not stepping in to do the work for GNOME, it's not their project.
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  27.  @roccociccone597  Why 1989 specifically ?
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  28. It says in the video that they have about $62M profit. And then that they would about break even from the USA alone
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  29. This is Devuan we're speaking about. It will take some time until they have it, they don't simply get the new shiny stuff without proper testing.
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  30. This, and also, the worse ones are naturally filtered out. That is, it's easy to find the good old stuff (well, there might still be hidden gems), while the bad stuff is harder.
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  31. It's been like that for many years already. It focuses and comments more on the future and the trends, not that much on particular stuff that's currently not working. It did that in the first editions, but it got boring and repetitive (for him) fast (every single year to mention how bad games are on Linux, for example), so he shifted on more of a meta analysis. While I wouldn't say no to have an actual list, roundup of all the things still missing or being broken in Linux, I appreciate this culture and trend analysis more, since it's less easy to observe and realize the current state or the near to medium term risks. He is usually a bit more pessimistic in his views, but, in a way, he's contributing to those things not having a change to turn into reality, by outraging people who in turn do something about it, before it's too late.
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  32.  @iamjacobnz  Depends. The NVidia product might not age well, while the Framework desktop will still be a very good desktop chip for everyday use and work (that doesn't need very powerful graphics).
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  33.  @K6ORJ  The problem is that it took 15 years. If X wouldn't have been a deadend, Wayland would've NEVER took off.
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  34.  @dftfire  Simple, the developer experience is better on macOS and Linux. Andreas himself is not using Windows and I'm willing to bet that a good portion of his devs and contributors aren't either. On the launch part... I don't know, it's a bit early to tell. There are people and entities excited about Ladybird and I think that even if the launch is mediocre, with bugs and missing features, it can still go on.
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  35.  @shiks98  Technically the M chips that Apple has (same idea) are more powerful. The M Ultra chips go 16-channel to a max of 800 GB/s. And have both more CPU and GPU cores. Also technically you don't need "faster" RAM and to spend billion $$ to invent it. The RAM is fast enough, what Intel and AMD are skimping WAAY TOO MUCH is limiting the high-end CPUs to dual channel. Threadripper has 4 and 8 channels. And servers usually have 6 and 8 channels. I know there's 12 channels too. Don't know if there's with more. And guess what, with 4 channels you can go (almost) double the bandwidth of dual channel (and bandwidth is what you need). And I say almost because Threadripper and server chips usually keep the RAM at stock (like 4800-5600 MT/s) speeds/frequencies, while the high end desktops usually go higher on that.
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  36. I never thought he is or was insane.
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  37. On your local disk, obviously!!!
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  38. The hell are you smoking ? Zelenski cross dressor ? Money launderer ? You say that COMPARING TO ELON ? The absolute, undisputed conman king ? The man that tells you that Full Self Driving will be done next year since LITERALLY 2014 ?
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  39. IIRC Brave did said that they'll keep having Manifest v2 support, though realistically I don't know for how long they'll be able to do that. I'm sure the maintenance burden will increase as time goes by and that at one point they'll drop it too.
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  40.  @20NewJourney23  In practice IT IS controlled by Google. Edit: I meant to say that Chromium is controlled by Google. Brave, fortunately, isn't.
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  41. @ Correct, except that I still call 128 bits as dual channel (and saw that most people do it too) even though DDR5 has its 64 bits split in dual channels per module.
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  42.  @zanagi  Well, who knows, maybe he was hiking a mountain or something and didn't had the means to properly analyze and respond to this stupid drama.
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  43.  @disks86  Maybe it was coded using OOP ?
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  44. This is a very bad take. Wayland works already much much better than microkernels did, especially the one from MINIX in 1991 or 1992 whenever that debate was.
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  45. The CPU certainly isn't the problem for moving to Linux. On the AI part, you could say that if you tell it to generate things that you imagined, it's still you doing the creation, and the AI is just (like a tool) facilitating, helping you transpose your imagination. The counterpoint is that many people aren't and won't do that.
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  46.  @LTPottenger  Interesting. I still say that it's not the CPU lacking support, unless it somehow belives it has an iGPU when it doesn't. From what you say, it seems it's confused somehow about the GPU. I can't give any actual advice, since I've never tried that combo, I'm still on an almost 8 year old laptop with Intel 6th gen CPU and an NVidia 1060 GPU. I installed Gentoo and I can't say I had any major issues or problems, though I think I had to install the nvidia proprietary drivers twice initially or something. I actually had more issues with the Wi-Fi card until I got it working. Booting from live USB works ? Including multiple distros ? That would be a sign that it's not processor support. Unless, don't know, maybe you installed Debian and the kernel version doesn't know about Ryzen 8000, that might be a thing. But almost all other distros have a newer kernel which should instantly solve the problem. Or maybe you can upgrade the kernel in Debian too, though I don't know how easy that is.
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  47. Where did you got that ? From what I've seen "Doom was first ported to Linux in 1994 by Dave Taylor of id Software". And it makes a lot of sense, Linux in 1993 was very rough.
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  48. I was searching for someone to point this out. This is correct, about half of Steam users on Linux are on Steam Decks, meaning the DESKTOP part of Steam is about 1%, not 2%. Frankly it is much lower than what I expected.
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  49. I agree on your first part, but fully disagree with the last paragraph about "if you're a tech reporter, report on the tech". I mean, you can certainly skip the un-interesting to you stuff, just like I skip political stories some times and sport stories almost all the time. But if something is in the tech, or affects the tech, how, why shouldn't that be reported ? You mean that, say, hypothetically a news item like "Company X in tech is shutting down half of its servers in preparation of the incoming hurricane and floods that will hit tomorrow" should NOT be reported because some people "don't want a weather report" ?? Should the fact that the organization that funds and steers the Linux development decides to spend less and less on that and increasingly more on totally unrelated stuff NOT be reported ? Something like this, where, if people know about it in time, can rally up and push against some stupid political change, so they can save the project NOT be covered, because it's a news item that's political in nature ? I'm just baffled beyond words of how can you say that. It's beyond obvious to me that this SHOULD.... no, sorry, this MUST be reported on. You can simply filter them out if you're not interested. But the reporting of something that affects tech, by tech journalists absolutely must be done. That's journalism 101. Jeez Louise!
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  50. I'd say that a more effictive way would be to be involved into their discussions and push against stupid things. Though supporting the alternatives is not bad either.
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  51. Sorry to put this out to you, but many artist are and were as$h0les Or at least very very difficult to work with, and hard to be a close person to. Aka, very focused on their project and their passion, neglecting everything else. If you want to check all the people of all the bands, movies, paintings, sculptures etcetc in detail, you''ll be put off by 80% of them. I'd say to separate the two, the artist and the art, and only make sure that you don't promote ahole artists in a way that enables them to be more ahole-y. At least on the dead ones that's very easy. With Linux Mint, maan, that's so disappoint to hear. I hope the community can steer it off of that though.
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  52.  @TheSimoc  Interesting. Didn't knew the details of Windows' prefetch. Can't say I'm shocked to find out, lol.
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  53.  @dm8579  1) Yes, it CAN help. If both USA and EU have been acting faster on the helping side (some of which they themselves set the deadline), maybe Ukraine would've recovered the territory by now 2) Ukraine didn't ask just for money, it requested other things too, like the ability to use rockets in Russia 3) Don't act as if US has absolutely nothing to gain. A weakened Russia means more gas exports (which it already increase) for USA, and a lot of weapons selling to all ex-soviet countries that want to get rid of Russia, like the baltic states, Ukraine, Georgia, not to mention the increase of military spending for most of NATO, which a good portion comes back to USA as weapons sold 4) In the end it's still up to USA how it uses its own money, you can't fault Zelensky for asking
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  54.  @happykittysurprise  Technically the data you sent or not does NOT belong to them, they just have a license to use it. Like.... training an AI model, for example. However, I remember there being a paragraph about not having the permission of uploading things, and among them violence. Like, if my bother is shot and beaten up by some thugs and I want to submit a report to the police, I'm not allowed because the video or photos I took contain violence ? I still claim that whomever is responsable (not who wrote, but who approved) that change should be fired and never be hired for a position like that again. Maximum incompetence (or even malice, cannot rule that out)
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  55. IT enthusiast cannot install Zorin OS ?
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  56. Why this specifically ?
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  57. At 3:00 Phoronix is NOT saying that Enrico has no experience, come on. He's saying that there's very few experienced developers (like... only one, Enrico?). Seriously I can't see how one would not realize that, seems like malintent from Bryan.
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  58. Other than not being the fastest and the most efficient, I'd say nothing!
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  59.  @justanothercomment416  Yeah, I was curious if you got it in the PHP 5 or 4 or even earlier. Since 7 and especially 8 it is much better, stable (also decently fast, for an interpreted language) and has strong OOP features.
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  60. It's not mentioned in this video, but I would like to add that Gentoo is also blocking AI made or AI helped contributions. Though they reserved the ability to have exceptions, just in case. But this isn't because of creativity and stuff like that, it's just about the ethics, moraly and licensing part of it. They just don't want to have to deal with a potential giant mess later. And I couldn't agree more on that stance.
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  61.  @ViniciusSilvadaCruz  Technically, I think Lunduke is a millenial. And Richard Stallman would be a boomer. Doesn't matter much though. That being said, I fully disagree.
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  62. "Nicco Loves Linux" has a video about not recommending Brave. And has quite some points in it.
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  63.  @LeiosLabs  Isn't the cancel culture a left thing ? People who worked very well for a project for YEARS and suddenly got pushed out of it (sometimes that being their own project) because "not fighting for trans rights is transphobic" ? I'm not saying there's not a lot of rotten right wing people or that there's no normal left people, but you can't say that it's only a problem with the far right and that somehow these kinds of exagerrated actions aren't a problem of the left.
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  64. Serious criticism: if you want to make a point, don't making fun of the actors. Do either one or the other, not both, in the same video (or audio or text or whatever) In my particular case, I just can't get over how annoying and stupid, to me, saying "Motzilla" or whatever that pronunciation would be spelled. I can't focus properly on the subect at hand because I keep getting triggered by this stupid thing. You can say, I'm the one being stupid, and I can't objectively counter that. But it is counter productive, there's nothing to gain with that making fun or whatever that mispronuciation is meant to be.
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  65.  @Fonda-d3x  It's been like that from the beginning 13 or so years ago.
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  66. Agreed
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  67. The sane left people (the ones that actually care about actual important stuff) should form a mass and push back against all of this nonsense.
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  68.  @alomac8976  That slow startup times, last time I watched a video about it, was largely been addressed. Also, if waiting literally 2 extra seconds when you open a program is that much of a concern.... then I feel sorry. The running performance was already on par with flatpaks, IIRC. The other side that xritics briefly mentioned, is that you can have anything as a snap, including daemons, system tools and I think, even libraries. That is, some things you can have them as snaps, but not flatpaks. From what I remember, a good example of that is Nextcloud, the cloud server software - which can be installed trivially as a snap.
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  69. There's Serenity and Serenum (I know they look and sound very similar, but have almost nothing in common). But they totally don't seem like something you can make a lot of money off of it, though in 7-10 years, who knows ?
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  70.  @LTPottenger  Interesting. I just read about what it means. Might save me from headaches later :D Thanks!
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  71.  @IshayuG  Oh, I feel so dumb now, he said in a window, which probably was only possible in Win95, right ? Well, at least there were interesting bits in the conversation :P
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  72.  @techpriest4787  No, that excludes SteamOS, which has more than 40%
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  73. A bit lazy to check, but doesn't Brave have more market share than Opera ? And you sure it's just 0.05% ? Sounds waaaay too low.
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  74. I almost hate Microsoft with a passion, but I couldn't simply spew such gigantic BS that Win 11 uses almost 8 GB of RAM idling. Maaaybe if you have 128 GB of RAM and if you also have a lot of extra bloatware, then maaaaybe you can reach that. But a clean Win 11, even with 128 GB (it matters how much total you have, as Windows will try to prefetch and cache things if you have extra/spare RAM, which is GOOD) I don't think it reaches that much. My Win 10 was at about 3.6 GB of RAM un startup, and I have 64 GB of RAM in total. And I don't have a clean installation, this Win 10 was never reinstalled, it's still the same (but upgraded to Pro at one point) that came with the laptop, almost 8 (yes, eight) years ago.
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  75. That would be the only redeeming part there, investing into future revenue streams. But I'm skeptical.
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  76.  @justanothercomment416  Hey, thanks for the reply. I had the same problem multiple times and sometimes you can see the extra comments by using Sort By newest first. YT is trash. In this case, I can see your comment which starts with "have to do the research yourself". The results by stat counter website (which is where we have the 4.45% figure from) isn't simply checking the user agent that people visiting various websites have ? That's bypassing counting installs and things like that. But there's the thing that some might fake the user agent in order to be more anonymous. But I think it's still a rather small percent. Also I really REALLY REALLY doubt Linux is on par with Macos on desktops and laptops. Maybe on desktops alone. Apple hit a home run when they launched the M chips and a lot of people bought into that and are still in it. Apple laptops are much more common. Not even a contest. Yet.
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  77.  @justanothercomment416  You still haven't said (well, wrote) anything resebling a reference. Just mentions that the counts are wrongly made. And you call that facts. Unbelieveable. And just so you know, nothing you said seem to have anything related to the percentages that everyone uses. The Linux marketshare that's being cited everywhere, the one that said that Linux is at 4.45% one months ago and 4.55% this month is Statcounter . Search for "statcounter operating system market share" in any search engine and then filter by Desktop (which includes laptops) and you'll get to the 4.55% figure. Now, statcounter measures this by having a small tracking code in (what they say) 1.5 million websites. From what you say, you're speaking about a totally different thing. Which I still have no idea what that is. And you can see in that stat counter that Linux is nowhere near OS X. And I totally believe that. Everywhere I look that's not a Linux community, there's more Apple laptops that laptops that run Linux. And Linux on Apple laptops is still basically non existant yet, as it's not yet ready for daily use.
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  78. That's weird, I don't have that problem. Using Gentoo with pipewire and dwm (of course, with X)
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  79.  @galileo_rs  I'm not so sure, Fair point, but still a lot of "maybes" and "ifs"
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  80. @pong-sx9je What US army ? And what agreement ? The Minsk one where Russia agreed to basically nothing ? Also, you don't get to start a war just on what might happen. You don't go and kill HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of innocent people because you're not sure. You don't annex regions of foreign territory "because you're defensive". The amount of logic in these kind of statements is so lacking, it's not even funny. Russia absolutely did NOT had to intervene, it was totally just their choice and fault. And in your example with Mexico, the same thing - US has absolutely no basis on attacking and annexing 20% of Mexico just because Mexico built some military bases. With or without Russia's help. Get into the 3rd millenium please, we have things like basic human rights here.
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  81.  @attilaedem101  Just because others didn't had the opportunity to ask for "a sugar daddy" in the past, it doesn't mean that one shouldn't ask for help. That's totally irellevant. The hell are you smoking ? When faced with extinction, people do whatever they can to survive. How can you be against asking for help ? In case you're not aware, Ukraine is NOT forcing USA to send help, that might've missed your point of view. And my country is not Ukraine, you tool.
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  82.  @McClainJ  On the preparation argument, fair point. Not so sure about the nuclear arsenal, I'd say it's better to stay off it. Realistically do you think it could've used it in any way, shape or form, without making things much worse for themselves in the long run ?
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  83.  @dftfire  Except Arc was made by a company with sahdy intentions, while people at Ladybird actually care about browsers. The push to have mac and Linux first is just the reality of development. They can wait to have all OSes ready or realease some early until the other ones are ready.
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  84.  @justanothercomment416  Out of curiosity, do you remember when you used it last time ? What version ? What framework/library/CMS (if any) ?
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  85.  @act.13.41  However it is spelled, it distinctly doesn't have a "T" in it. It triggers me everytime I hear Lunduke spell it. :(
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  86.  @act.13.41  I'm interested in the content. And I can survive the annoyance ... every so often.
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  87. Eventually certainly. But this year I think you'll see it only on Arch and Gentoo. I guess NixOS too
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  88.  @thenexxuz  Jokes aside, now it seems that google knows about it (though it's like the 6th result or so). It's on github, at X11Libre/xserver
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  89. On the employing such an individual... in the light of actually being inclusive and non-discriminatory, it would be ok if he would've been full time remote work. As long as you provide 0 opportunities for him to get near potential targets, then it should be ok. After all he did pay his sentence. If there's no hope for an individual to have a somewhat normal life after "paying his dues", then the pentenciary system is useless in its current form.
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  90. LoL, good one!
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  91. At this point I have to question if these are just lunatics or if somebody or something is behind. Too many attacks and takeovers. That, surprise-surprise, benefit big corpos from have a worse FOSS realm. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if there were several well-paid actors stirring $#!T up by rallying clueless gullible w()kes into attack vectors. (especially easy when a lot of them like to victimise themselves and don't miss a chance to lash out at something or someone for not giving them the attention they crave)
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  92. You mean boomers like Lunduke ?
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  93. Out of curiosity, if you have the time, what are those features ? I remember that color space is one of them, which I think is improved/addressed with GIMP 3
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  94.  @Chris-oj7ro  Mozilla and Firefox isn't the same though. There are people who hate the stupid things (woke or not) that Mozilla do nowadays but still contribute to Firefox. Firefox absolutely is a competitor to Google, because it is still independent in what it does, in what features it does or doesn't include. Manifest v2 is a perfect example of that. The problem is that what little funding was handed to Firefox from Mozilla (don't remember which one, if it's the corp or the foundation) might be gone if the funding from Google stops. Because Mozilla was stolen by people who .... have other values. I so soooo wish they could be replaced back by people who are aligned with the values that Mozilla stood for 20 years ago, but it might be too late. Because those people surely won't willingly step down and I don't think there's a way left for them to be kicked out by the community.
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  95. I'd say Gentoo. But it's really not for everyone.
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  96.  @adrianmizen5070  Well, I do agree with his point. But it's still extremely annoying to go along. It's akin with somebody being correct, but saying a curse or a swearword every now and then. Yeah, they're correct, but it's still something you'd wish they stopped doing.
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  97. Well, Threadripper and server chips do have 4 to at least 12 channels. Which is what this APU uses, 256 bit bus, meaning 4 channels. They certainly could've made it if they wanted, and at most if would've been slightly slower (lower frequency), but still quad channel, which is what matters. Won't deny it would've been expensive and that it would've took a lot of time.
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  98.  @javaman4584  Are you sure ? It always annoyed the hell out of me on how Bryan pronounces it, it seemed to me like it's mocking it on purpose. And from what I know (though not 100% sure) not even italians would pronounce it like that.
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  99. This coming from something that fElon touched, I have no confidence that it's actually real, even remotely so. Plus, 103 days can be like 102 days of waiting for approvals and 1 full day of meetings + actual work. The idea being that while it will take 103 days for that change to be public, the engineer can spend his time on other tasks on those 102 days of approval waiting. Still, it's extremely likely that there was a lot of red tape, I just wouldn't take for granted that it was that bad. Frankly, even one full day is extremely bad, and I think that's the level it actually was before. This is one area where Elon does do well, getting rid of needless beaurocracy (well, sometimes it is needed, he cuts that too) and lazy people.
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  100.  @toby9999  To put into perspective how small the OSP company/companies are ?
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  101. For future documentation, there MUST be a Linux Sucks this year. No matter how drooling with blood the kid or puppy is.
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  102.  @Fonda-d3x  Oooh, sorry, I though .... you get the idea. Thanks for clarifying!
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  103. I'd say that it would be more effective (in general, not just here) to get involved a bit in their discussions and push back against stupid things. Just boycotting is not that effective, because it's rarely done at a big enough scale to work, they might still not learn anything aka, at worst the project will die instead of getting healed and depending on the topic/subject and how much you care, sometimes you actually have no alternative. Actively fighting back is the better long term solution.
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  104. I'm part of this statistic change 😀 Long overdue, this start of the year (well, started just before the year change) I finally installed my first Linux on bare metal and switched to it. I went directly with Gentoo. In these 8 months, I only logged in back into Windows 10 (which still functioned flawlessly, I might add, one of the reasons I switched so late) a total of 3 times, one of which was only to check that it's still working and to do updates, just in case. I'm not surprised that Gentoo isn't in the statistics, it's very niche by its nature, and while I love it and I think it's, by a good margin, the distro with the best customizations possible (in an easy to do manner), I think it will always be niche. I also have to point out (fortunately at least one other comment saw it) the Steam Desktop share is flawed and it is trivially to see it. SteamOS users are Steam Deck users, which, last time I checked, it is not a desktop PC neither a laptop. Even if you keep it on a desktop or in your lap. So the Steam Desktop PCs users is actually about 1%. Which, I do have to admit, is significantly lower than I expected. Steam somehow saw the least Linux increase, even though it should've actually increased the most, since it has two vectors: desktop PCs AND Steam Deck. But then again, the surveys are only on a portion and it's random, so there's always a chance of stats being skewed by how the random picks happened. That's why it's better to wait several months too see a trend, like Bryan said in the video.
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