But how well is it working?

Yeah, that’s a good question. I don’t remember reading any documentation from Statcounter speaking about how well that bot detection and removal algorithms work. The last company I worked for did data collection, as we recorded all kinds of metrics from users. We had a team that focused on bot detection. Mostly it involved discovering the bot net and then removing all of their metrics that were accounted for in the system. Then updating the bloom filters so that any further metrics from the known bots would be ignored. Companies were paying millions of dollars for our contracts and every click was getting itemized and charged for. So, trust me, it was very important for my old company to discover and eliminate bots aggressively.

Statcounters sells their statistics and not the data from what I understand. So it does beg the question, how aggressive are they?!

One in every 20 computers

No, it could be 1 in 20 computers. It could be more than 1 in 20 computers. It could be less than 1 in 20 computers. 5% of the page views, of sites that Statcounter tracks, are reported as Linux machines. There is no way to know what percentage of machines are Linux from the Statcounter reporting as it is.

If you look back in 2022, you see the same ramp up. I expect ramp down soon.

If you read the FAQ, Statcounter detects and removes bot data.

No, Statcounter measures usage; not machines.

If they like how SteamOS worked, then go with Bazzite. I’ve used Linux for nearly 3 decades now. At the end of the day, we could nickle and dime the differences and the pros and cons. I don’t think it’s worth it. Bazzite will be familiar enough, and you can add Bottles to handle other game launchers. That will give you the most kitchen appliance like device.

Dude, the knock-on affects from this video will be huge.

100% agree. Good point.

rclone is pretty reliable. That’s how I back up my nextcloud to two different object storage sites. I have Nextcloud dockerized on a VPS in the cloud (among other dockerized services for selfhosting). Been syncing nonstop for 3 years now. I also used rclone to sync all my files from OneDrive directly to my VPS block storage. Rclone is a very underrated utility.

I would assume BBT’s. (Big Black Titties)

It’s a random sampling of devices. That’s why looking at the English only numbers are more consistent. Sometimes the randomness is heavily skewed to China, and sometimes has very little China. See here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/#languagesanchor

That was the big problem on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. They advertise themselves as a public square. Then they would censor speech in various ways unknown to the speaker. A lot of people in this thread don’t understand that. In case you are not familiar, sounds like you are, Martin v. City of Struthers (1943). I know these sites aren’t just U.S. citizens, so a lot of the comments come from foreigners who only familiar with their limited freedoms their government allows them.

Yeah, the internet is not the public space it used to be. A lot of sites act as private spaces now.

… and what I heard was we cancelled it.

That might have been true. There were actually two phone teams at Intel working with the same hardware. WinPhone and Android. Our budget came from the Android budget, as they had already been funded and working on the Android version for 6 months already. It came time to demo the phones and our WinPhone could make calls, get internet, and connect to wifi. The android phone could only boot. So the Android team took back what remained of the budget, because it was felt that more Android phones would sell. The WinPhone was put on pause. Then, the android team ran out of budget and the whole thing was scuttled, including WinPhone. I bet MSFT was doing Intel a solid by not trashing Intel because it’s Android team dropped the ball. Props to MSFT for that.

Anyway, yep, I am fully linux and fully team red now.

Same. And I’m never looking back.

Yeah man, have code in Win8, WinPhone, and Win10. Bet you didn’t know Intel had a WinPhone device. Of course, Intel cancelled it. I definitely avoid mega corporations now. Won’t even take their interviews. The small company I work for now, they said, “Can you make this integration in 8 months”, I said yes. Two months later, all done and deployed to production. Everything is much easier when you can actually talk to other teams and submit PR’s you need.

I’m with you. I’ll never work for another big corporation. The have no interests in making good products. All Intel did was use their money to artificially keep AMD from selling chips. Which is crazy, Intel pretty much did everything first. Now they do nothing.

haha, I was a Windows Kernel dev for Intel. What a shit show. Both companies would fuck each other over. So many times. We would start project, get Microsoft to buy in. Microsoft would pull in a bunch of engineers to support it, 3 months later, we cancel on Microsoft. Or Microsoft does the same thing to us, I get pulled on to a team to support Microsoft, 3 months later, Microsoft cancels. No wonder those two companies are imploding. Good riddence.

Bazzite is great. I tried it out for gee whiz. I don’t use it because I use my PC for dev work. Bazzite is purpose built for gaming. If that’s what you use that machine for, then I’d say it’s a good move. But really, you’ll be just fine for gaming if you stick with a standard distro too. I’m on Ubuntu now, but plan to move the second Pop!_OS hits beta.

Same. If I’m fixing something, it’s because I did something I knew I shouldn’t; which I rarely do. For instance, forced the upgrade of Ubuntu to 24.04 even though Canonical said that wasn’t ready and had it disabled, but 24.04 was fine for new installs. I went out of my way to enabled the upgrade, let it break, and then I spent 5 minutes fixing the upgrade. Everything was fine after that. That was never my experience when I had to use Windows. It’s like trying to start your carborated engine in the 80s. It’s just a roll of the dice that things don’t work with Windows.

Just use a live boot thumbdrive. Let her get her feet wet. When she sees she has almost no issues or zero issues compared to Windows. She’ll just use Linux by default.

Try using Linux off a live boot thumbdrive. Then you can figure out what you need to figure out before committing. You can even test out different distros. Just get as fast of a thumb drive as you can or Linux will feel pretty slow.