According to this data, desktop devices still make well over 50% with over 75% in Europe.
Natanox
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It was somewhat of a special situation back when Gnome 3 dropped. Ubuntu & flavours of it was still regarded as the go-to distro by many and KDE still had a somewhat damaged reputation due to KDE 3 (even though 4 was already available, however that also had some issues). Many environments we know today didn't exist yet, so lots of people were rather distraught when Gnome broke with a lot of concepts and dropped what arguably was a horrendous DE.
Many of our current DEs are Gnome 2 or 3 forks (MATE, Cinnamon, Budgie, and back then also Unity), made exactly because of this whole debacle.
Same here. Has to be degoogled though.
...no, definitely not.
Bloated when being run on a potato.
Luckily 99.9% of people do not compute on a potato.
That sounds like a design decision (not saying it's good or bad here), not something broken.
This thread gets dangerously close to r34 territory, and I do not know if I like that.
Awesome, truly love to hear that. π₯°
Question out of curiosity, even though that isn't exactly what you're working on: Do you think the technology could eventually also be used to detect what might be referred to as "latent cancer cells", that can't be destroyed by the body but also didn't grow into tumors yet due to the body fighting it?
Asking because that's what happened to me years ago. Had high inflammatory markers for over 1.5 years with no doctors being able to tell what the heck was going on. Then one day an angry Lymphoma appeared that required 4 aggressive chemo cycles and 14 day radio to get rid off, even though it was stage 1. If AI tech could be able to detect those "latent cancer cells" (or some biomarkers caused by them) before tumors appear⦠that would be phenomenally awesome.
Is it Copilot? That thing began to censor stuff a while ago based on the Trump regime's wordlist. Suddenly it stopped working when it read "trans" (even as part of "transcode" or sth), among others. I'd bet it still has some "anti-DEI" nonsense in their guidelines.
To be fair though, the features of that pen look really useful if you're into analog note-taking.
What I heard so far was about advanced pattern recognition for scans (MRI, CT etc) to reduce oversights and in documents to detect potential patterns relevant for epidemologists (a use that's very controversial since it requires all medical documents of citizens to be centralized and available unencrypted). Also some scientists seem to praise purpose-built machine learning technology for specialised tasks (those are not LLMs though).
Oh, translation mistake on my side. Is the word "desktop" really still in use for tower computers? π€ I only know it for the kind of computing, not the device type.
Anyway, can't quickly find proper statistics for that. I once read an estimate done by what I think was Valve, that's obviously scewed towards the gaming bubble though. Still, I think it "only" was about 50-60% desktops over laptops and "other". They won't vanish anytime soon though, you can't squeeze highest performance into a laptop and game streaming only works very selectively.
I'm really curious how it will shift in the future given Linux becomes more and more popular, and that ecosystem is already offering a synergy approach (not just the way SteamDeck does, but also with both GTK and Qt apps able to shift depending on display size and touch capabilities).