I’ll imagine that there is a rising tide of Amiga desktops then.

Known unknown(s) at 7.14% and rising over the Linux stat. Could these also be Linux and perhaps BSD desktops?

Back in my day, jokes made people laugh, occasionaly, they still do. Don’t stop joking though. Even my grumpy ass can pull a laugh now and then.

You are old fashioned if you live in the 1800s. Powered bikes and scooters had gas engines long ago and the electrics we have now are quieter and cleaner with fewer moving parts and far less maintenance. Foot power is still alive and well, why begrudge people choises?

The modding is the true game

I guess this means that not having to rely on dkms for hardware means being able to run the latest kernels without the hardware being disabled.

just because they started packaging wine with their app

Even if that’s all they did, that is more than anyone else is doing. What they really did was make nearly every game they sell easily playable without requiring you to use Windows. As byproduct, DXVK (part of Valve’s Proton) provides greater compatibility and performance for Windows users as well (Intel ARC driver and DX9 game support for example). They have salaried employees working exclusively on making this work and their development is open source for anyone to use modify and share. Epic or any other store front could freely take advantage of this work and benefit why don’t they do that instead of whining?

There was mention in December that Collabora are working on supporting Maxwell (Geforce 700 series) based cards.

My RX6700 based 2022 is a beast. I think Valve did an amazing job with the AMD based Steam deck leveraging Linux as well! You can hook up the little handheld to a monitor or a TV and still have a blast with nearly all of your existing Steam library for not much money.

Sparse for the (two decade old) i915 driver is fine if you only need x86-64 support which would probably be most of us. Other architectures that could use the new Xe driver for DG2 (Alchemist) still wont have HUC ("for AVC/HEVC/VP9/AV1 low power encoding bitrate control, including CBR, VBR, etc encoding") right? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/issues/234

Intel kinda backed itself into a smelly corner with its consumer GPU card debut. A year in and it's still quite a mess.

AMD seems to be eating their lunch in small computers for consumers with their APUs in the Steamdeck and the more than a half dozen like handhelds, mini-pcs, etc. I’m sure intel will hang onto small embedded devices for industrial applications for some time but it’s puzzling that they would just drop RISCV which seems poised to proliferate in this sector as well. It could just be that intel seeing that manufacture in China is and will continue to be very tricky has to narrow focus while they move their manufacture closer to home.