I agree except for this:
But in return you get clean software
Vanilla Android sucks now IMO, it gets a little bit worse with every update, other vendors are actually batter at maintaining sanity IMO.
It’s like vanilla has changes for changes sake, and all the new stupid AI feature they try to push on everything is extremely annoying IMO.
Vanilla Android used to be a feature, but not anymore IMO.
1 inch sensors are no joke, my phone has a 0.8" sensor, which is also quite respectable.
IDK if you are under 16, but compared to cameras just 2 decades ago, modern phones have amazing camera hardware. My own phone can in many ways beat a multi thousand dollar camera from back then.
The light sensitivity alone is insane compared to older cameras.
The cameras aren’t really high end either, they are decent mid range cameras with a lot of AI post processing to make pictures look better.
Most of the time it works really well, but at other times, they don’t really capture the actual picture.
I’ve seen pictures taken in fog, where the AI treatment completely removes the fog, impressive if that’s what you wanted, but if you actually wanted the “real” picture, you were fucked because you couldn’t disable the AI post processing.
IDK if they have changed that, but personally I prefer more moderate post processing.
It’s easy to double sales from 1 to 2, and it’s only by that measure that Google is fastest growing.
In marketshare percentage Huawei and Xiaomi grew more.
Also I’m not sure Pixel actually counts as a premium phone.
When I bought my current phone 2 years ago, Pixel was absolutely a sub premium phone with pretty mediocre stats.
I’d count it at most as an upper midrange phone.
Go away, LTT is infamous for sloppy testing.
Yeah farming or mining whatever you can do.
They sell everything for real money, complete accounts with upgraded characters, or rare items or whatever has value in a game.
Interesting. How was this data extracted?
AFAIK Linux is not doing well in China, and China has been known to skew the Steam stats a lot before. China uses bots heavily on Steam for mining in games.
Anyways it’s cool that we can see Linux is doing well on Steam now, despite influential factors like China.
It would be interesting to see the amount of purchases made on Linux vs other operating systems. I think that’s the number that counts more than anything else.
You can install Steam on a perfectly standard distro, and achieve similar performance.
Show me the test that demonstrate games run faster on SteamOS than Arch which SteamOS derives from.
That’s just a stupid claim, SteamOS is Linux based, and every Linux distro generally have the same optimizations SteamOS has.
Windows is simply not as efficient as Linux is.
For instance multi threading has traditionally worked better in Linux, but there has also been made massive improvements in the kernel to improve graphics card performance, with entirely new technologies introduced a few years ago to achieve that.
These things also benefit CAD and other 3D-software, so it’s not just a “gaming” thing. Linux is simply generally more efficient than Windows, at mostly any task.
Valve has done a lot to help improve game performance on Linux, and these improvements are merged into the respective main projects, like kernel and drivers and graphics libraries. The same is simply not possible in Windows, because Windows is proprietary.
Windows used to have a clear advantage in that all optimizations by GPU vendors and game developers were made primarily for Windows and Linux was just an afterthought. Also games were made for DirectX which is native for Windows, and a compatibility layer for Linux.
So for decades games made for both generally ran better on Windows.
So it is absolutely impressive that Linux can now run games faster than Windows. Despite having only a fraction the marketshare.
Pixel phones were never bleeding edge performers, so I don’t think that’s the only problem.
I’m guessing there is more to it than the article is mentioning.
Maybe Google was getting huge discounts, and even that wasn’t enough to keep their business.
So my guess is the problems with value is not just the yields and performance.
I’m sure Samsung is very well aware of the differences between TSMC and Samsung 3nm process, But they probably miscalculated the value of their own process, and they may already have production running at a loss, for sure their margins must be razor thin.
Or you could buy a $200 phone like the Nokia G42, and then go with a cheaper service provider.
My wife chose that because she doesn’t use her phone much, and it’s built for home repair.
Turned out it is a way better phone than we expected. Mine cost about $800,- and there is no way I can say it’s that much better.
I use a small service provider, that has their services through one of the biggest, but it costs less than half per month.
And when I buy a phone, I have complete freedom to choose whichever phone I want, disregarding limited service provider discounts.
And buying from free competition dealers, also gives a nice rebate.
So you could, you just choose not to.
I personally never bought a phone though my service provider, I don’t care for that kind of bullshit tie in.
Why aren’t you able to buy any unlocked phone?
Unless of course you are in USA that sucks hard on consumer protection.
But in “normal” countries that wouldn’t be a problem.
Interesting, thanks.
How are notifications more “live” than they already are?
Wow, when I started using Linux in 2005, there were an estimated 10 million desktop users.
May 2023 1.47%
May 2024 2.32%
May 2025 2.69%
= 83% growth in 2 years.
That’s very impressive, I suppose Steam Deck is a major reason for this, not only because Steam OS is native on it, but also because many games are now tested to work on it either natively or through Proton before launch.
This has the side effect that using the Steam client on independent Linux systems also generally work better.
I admit I’m boycotting everything American because of the current administration, the only exception I have is my Steam client.
Because with Linux there is simply no real alternative. Except maybe if you can get it on GOG and get it to work manually.
Oh boy when I bought my current phone, I really wanted the Vivo X100.
We can actually get the X200 here, but it’s €1.400,- or USD $1,600.- That’s a bit to much IMO.
According to the article it’s tested to be faster, and the final product may have further microcode tweaks that improve performance.
So unless there was cheating involved on the test, then yes it should be faster. But of course we don’t know for sure before we have confirmed tests from trusted sources.
As you say, nice with some competition, and it should also be very fast on graphics and AI, Immortalis graphics are very fast and excellent for gaming. And G925 is the newest version of that. So very definitely it will be fast.
Vanilla means the original unmodified.
And the Pixel version of Android is per definition the vanilla version.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_software