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.

the Xring O1 should outperform the Snapdragon 8 Elite

That’s very impressive for a first effort, but the real test is how energy efficient it is. It shal be interesting to see reviews of this. 😀

The new Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 will be out later this year, so I don’t expect this to be performance king. But still this seems like a huge accomplishment, very possible way better than what Samsung has shown.

It is way too much tension over way too short of a time span.

Except charging speed of a phone depends on the capability of the battery used for that phone, and new batteries that are made for it, can handle way faster charging than older batteries.

My phone adaptive charge gets to 80% and stays there without charging until 20 minutes before my alarm

Oh my god, that is the absolute worst. So the day you are extra busy and have to get up a little earlier than usual, and depend more on your phone than normal, it’s only charged to 80%! That’s exactly the kind of unintelligent solutions I hate. They always fuck up when it’s most inconvenient.

the battery stops charging at 100%, waits to drop to 95% then goes back again to full in a cycle.

So repeated charging from 95% to 100% which is clearly not good for the battery.

Trickle charging does not harm batteries. On the contrary, the slower you charge a battery the safer it is.

Charging when the battery full or very close to it is absolutely harmful, and that’s what trickle charging does. It especially harmful if the charger isn’t 100% accurate, and especially for Lithium batteries.
Apparently some people also use the term for just slow charging in general, but this is obviously what I meant in this context.
Trickle charging compensates for self discharge and the idle power used, so even when accurate, to keep charging a little bit to maintain a 99%-100% charge is definitely harmful.
It’s way better to only charge to 80% for instance. Which is the reason all fast charging times for cars a measured up to 80%.

Trickle charging is damaging if for instance you charge your phone when you go to bed and don’t disconnect the charger until morning, that means many hours of trickle charging at near full capacity.

Because my phone charges fast, it never trickle charges for long at near 100%.

I’m curious what car charges at 1.3MW

BYD has the entire 1MW system ready in cars you can buy today, with charging stations for it being rolled out in China.
CATL has a battery capable of 1.3MW, but it is AFAIK not available in any cars yet.
Current high end Chinese cars on the market in EU are about 400 kW charging.

BYD Charges at 1MW, although they will probably not be available in America due to protectionism.
1.3 MW is the newest CATL Battery, which for American manufacturers were supposed to work with, but may be impossible now too due to protectionist tariffs.

https://insideevs.com/news/756144/byd-han-l-megawatt-charging/

BYD is launching two EVs that boast “Megawatt” charging capability, capable adding about 250 miles of range in just 5 minutes.

https://www.perplexity.ai/discover/top/catl-unveils-battery-charging-K2CWUCOTQuuj6G_DkbaTjw

peak charging rate approaching 12C with maximum charging power exceeding 1.3 megawatts

But even a pretty average 80-85kWh car today can charge 10-80% in about 20 minutes. More expensive cars do it in 15 minutes.

I’m pretty sure taking out the battery of a feature phone would turn it off instantly.

If they can charge a car in 5 minutes using 1.3 MW charging, why wouldn’t 120 Watt be fine for charging your phone in 20? Also the charging is protecting the battery by reducing speed as it approaches 100%. The lifespan seems fine, I’m not detecting any deterioration. By today’s standards it’s not even that fast. And it is very convenient to be able to top it off quickly. That way I also don’t have to leave it charging overnight, I can do it while I make coffee and eat my breakfast. That way I minimize trickle charging which can also harm the battery.

The battery has to be made for fast charging, and Samsung is apparently way behind on that.

that’s already faster than what I’m comfortable with.

Then why did you buy a Samsung?