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I started my last Distro hop 11 months ago with Manjaro, I killed the system within two days. Then moved onto Bazzite briefly until I realised that was likely to be within the US Government control. Settled on CachyOS, which I broke after 3 months (that is a record for me!). Latest distrib of CachyOS is mightily impressive.

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It looks impressive, but its NVIDIA... I'm on a 4070 at the moment and my upgrade cycle is 3-5 years away based on what I play. This will be my last NVIDIA card though, I'm not going to support a company that is actively trying to kill the pass-time I have had almost entire life.

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These days I always checkout 'who owns' a particular software. I checked out 'Opera Norway' and noted that the company was floated on the NASDAQ, ergo it will have lots of American investors and will likely cater to US tastes and business norms. In my experience as a developer/tester/project manager, I know most US firms will make all the noises to comply with GDPR, but will often breech intentionally as 'part of business'. In contrast Vivaldi is still privately held (not floated) - so right now at least is still within GDPR.

I'm not being anti-US, I'm just taking precautions against a prevalent business culture that is actively hostile towards its customers. At the moment the only US tools I'm using are Steam (as I have such a large back-catalogue) and Lutris. I'd opt for Heroic Launcher instead, but it is just not as flexible as Lutris. I use CachyOS which is a Deutsch distribution based on Canadian Arch.

Still hoping to see GOG.com bring Galaxy to Linux, then I can remove Lutris from the equation.

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Would never, ever trust a free vpn. I use ExpressVPN and am very happy with it. Though I can understand why the expense would put people off.

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Some returns about this game? I kept good memories about the gameplay of Desert Strike being a child.
Is it repetitive?

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A "gaming" web browser? So is that like any other web browser but twice the price with some RGB LEDs built-in? 🤣

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eh I don't know. Personally, as the dad of two littluns, I honestly don't care whatsoever about any form of parental controls. Implement them, don't implement them, whatever.

In the end it doesn't matter. Smart kids will ALWAYS find a way to get around stuff like that.

For me, I'm much more concerned just about in-general parenting them to have screen time limits across all screens and devices and just doing it myself.

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Quoting: grigiI would love a clone of this parental controls to work with Plasma too.

Although my kids are actually very good at self policing themselves right now, so maybe it's not really needed for me?

I never used parental controls for mine, only good old talks. I can safely say that it worked. But I guess it depends on a lot of things that might or might not be different in other families, so YMMV.

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I would love a clone of this parental controls to work with Plasma too.

Although my kids are actually very good at self policing themselves right now, so maybe it's not really needed for me?

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These changes look awesome! Looks like slow and steady rolling out of good stuff.

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I can totally see myself using split view. Finally, a new browser feature that may actually be useful.
Hard to believe, but it is not even AI powered!

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If this had happened 3 years earlier, I would be using Opera GX.

I am no longer interested in Opera GX.

Sucks to suck.

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I wonder if there will be a paid version for more / unlimited data? Makes sense and I’ll happily pay it.
I wonder if this feature will come to mobile as well at some point?

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Quoting: Jarmerahhhhhh give me a moment to reminisce about the good ol days when Opera was actually its own competent thing using its own engine and features etc... ahhhhhh

The old Opera was absolutely amazing. Most innovative, useful swiss army knife of a web browser ever.

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It sure is flashy

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ahhhhhh give me a moment to reminisce about the good ol days when Opera was actually its own competent thing using its own engine and features etc... ahhhhhh

okay now back to reality. Aint nobody got time for this malware on their linux systems 🤣

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Quoting: wintermuteI recently stopped using regular Opera on EndeavourOS because video playback stopped working properly. Does the gaming version require the same codec workarounds?

If your distro supports snap packages the snap version of normal Opera comes with all the codecs built in so video playback has always worked

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One of the most idiotic changes I have seen for a game in a while.

The wall banging and "free" reloading has always been a staple.
People looking for realistic ammo simulation (or any kind of realism, honestly) are playing other games, not CS.
Completely uncalled for, wrong target audience.

I fully expect them to undo that change after the reviews have dragged the game down to the low 70s. Recent reviews already dropped by 5% in just a few hours 😂

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Looks hilarious. It's from the same developers as The Longing. I hope they release it on GOG.

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No body should even think about using Any Opera programs!

This video brings up a few reasons:
https://youtu.be/dE-_30xSiZo?si=r7U8OjxSdxF030C_

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Quoting: DrakkerHaving dumped CS for Urban Terror in the past because I found it more fun and I like the whole mag reload thing, I'm tempted to give this version of CS a try.

I heard that game is now full of morons screaming stupid stuff on voice, is it true and should I stay on basic text comms?

depends on the game type and skill rank. in competitive mode on mid ranks and higher, people just exchange tactical info. my last solo game was almost silent. if someone is abusing voice chat, there is report button that mutes them as well.

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Quoting: ridgeNot a CS player myself, but, I always thought more FPS games should keep track of magazines rather than bullets. I think it's a great fit for CS :)

Worked really well in Battlefield, made it fun even, I think.

the issue with the new reload system, you just delete partially empty mags from the game instead of pocketing them for later. i think it should be fixed.

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Having dumped CS for Urban Terror in the past because I found it more fun and I like the whole mag reload thing, I'm tempted to give this version of CS a try.

I heard that game is now full of morons screaming stupid stuff on voice, is it true and should I stay on basic text comms?

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Quoting: discocatUsually when you announce a product, you try to show it in the best light, so my take on all this is that what they showed here (heavily edited result) is what they're the most proud of.

Nvidia generated all that content, those videos, those examples, being super duper proud of it like it was the best thing ever. They're genuinely convinced it's awesome.

Quoting: Stellaand completely deserved too. Nvidia itself has become a meme

Quoting: JarmerWOW that looks absolutely horrid. Their heads are so far up their own asses they couldn't tell? And then went on to be PROUD of that ...?

Based on what I saw in that YouTube video, I thought it looked awesome and has enormous potential... And I can't stand NVIDIA as a company!

Surely I'm not the only one?

Quoting: melkemindThat's why the game characters end up looking like Instagram models.

That's a bad thing? 😂

Quoting: BrokattI sincerely hope AMD and Intel won't follow but something tells me they can't help themselves.

Nah, I look forward to this - as long as it suits the particular game type! For example, it would make little sense to have such realism for say, Palworld... But it would be fantastic to see this implemented in The Last of Us.

Quoting: Jarmeras others have said, it 100% looks fake pornified. Which is just so misogynistic.

Again, that's a bad thing? 🤣

In all seriousness though, you're blowing this way, waaay out of proportion... This is no way "pornified"; even using the "Instagram models" comment above is grasping at straws, to be honest.

Quoting: EhvisDid they really pay off a bunch of studios for demo games so that those 7 people in the world that have a spare 5090 can use it?

Quoting: alka.setzerNvidia explicitly said that they were running two 5090, one for rendering the other for DLSS 5 processing so that they could maintain fluid fps on the demos. They also said they had DLSS 5 running in a single card on the lab (didn't said which, could be a rtx 6090). DLSS 5 is supposed to come out on Q4.

Quoting: kit89that required 2 5090s.

Meh. This will trickle down to us peasants in the coming years... It's a sign of what you can have now if you're rich, and what us peasants should expect in the future.

Quoting: KapelliniI haven't seen this mentioned nearly enough, it's enforcing instagram and tiktok filter beauty standards.

Good lord, here we go...

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I started using Linux cuz Windows became spyware.
Why would i want to actively install spyware like OperaGX on my system?

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Well I'll be damned, they actually ported it. One of the few Chromium based browsers that didn't support Linux is now available.

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50 GB is plenty for anything that's not video. My mobile data plan is 2GB and non-video calling and streaming applications don't use more than ~500 Mb a month.

But I can't see how they can possibly keep it free

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Saw my colleague using this at work, looks too cluttered for my taste. It is however nice to have a Linux version.

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I recently stopped using regular Opera on EndeavourOS because video playback stopped working properly. Does the gaming version require the same codec workarounds?

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I've been using Split View for a few weeks, and love the feature! You can enable it in about:config and search for "split" to toggle it to True if you'd like to try it before 149 release.

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