Not much else has been revealed about Intel Arc today other than codenames for future generations including "Battlemage", "Celestial" and "Druid".

Can't wait for the Necromancer class :tongue:

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This one was in my wishlist, in case a Linux version would appears... Time to clear the wishlist :smile:

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: SalvatosThe amount of electronic waste would be dizzying.

Certainly most things in our throw away society could be described as such, where do you draw the line ? How much waste realistically is a tiny microSD card (fractions of plastic and sand) connected into a SD card reader to PC vs running vast town sized data centers for downloading and the associated electricity costs. Not to mention, not everyone would use this option probably a minority. So im not sure how much more wasteful if you did a cost analysis on it considering if you had a big enough microSD it could double as storage for your steamdeck.
Are people to stop owning things altogether? why can't you recycle the SD card and use it for other things.

There is more to this: if magazines come with a small SD card, what would prevent someone to just open the plastic, and get away with the SD card (this already happened at the time of discs, unfortunately) ? What would prevent damaging the SD card during transport ?

Packaging is usually a compromise between protection (transport, storage,...), preventing stealing, and wasted materials.
Shipping CD at the time was kind of useful, since a lot of people did not have a (good enough) internet connection to download the contents, but nowadays, it would not be so useful, hence mostly a waste.

Also, the trend shifted from demo versions readily available / shareware versions, to no demo / "early access". I am personally glad that demos are a thing again (especially now to check compatibility with proton).

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A few months ago, I have bought myself a vertical mouse as well, but I am not still fully convinced unfortunately.

Before, I was sometime felling pain on the top of the hand, between the index and the middle finger ; now, it has been replaced by a (lower) pain on the side of the wrist (little-finger side)...

Unfortunately, it was already difficult for me to choose a correct "standard" mouse, but with vertical mices, the choice is even more limited (but I think there is more choice now than a few years ago, maybe correlated with the g@merz ageing ? :tongue: )

Quoting: Nanobang

Quoting: KeyrockI've been #TeamTrackball for decades, once I got past the initial weirdness of the change, which lasted roughly 1 day, I found them way more comfortable to use. To be specific, I prefer trackballs where you move the ball with your index, middle, and/or ring finger, rather than your thumb.

I'd be keen to hear more about this Keyrock. Would you be willing to post a link or picture of your model mouse? I've become so enamored with the trackball emulation on the Steam Controller that it's like slogging through waist deep snow whenever I have to resort to a track or mouse pad (calf-deep snow with a mouse). I'm already making plans for what to use when all three of my Steam Controllers break beyond repair.

I guess it is probably something like this ?



I owned a trackball years ago, but it was only 800 dpi, and thus not very practical with modern resolutions. The ball was moved with the thumb ; I had doubts about the ones moved with the other fingers... But I am curious to see Keyrock's actual model as well :smile:

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Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardo

Quoting: KohlyKohlGnome out of the box is ugly and to make it useful you have to add plugins to it. The default should be a useable desktop without the user having to do anything.

Imagine if a Windows user had to add a taskbar themselves...

Say what you want about KDE but out of the box it is useful and a user doesn't have to do anything to it.

Indeed it was necessary to add a start menu taskbar in Windows 8

I didn't know about this, but I know that Windows 8 was not particularly loved for its interface....
I believe Microsoft released Windows 8.1 partly to try to fix the UI for desktops

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Quoting: axredneck

Quoting: jrtWhat do I need ProtonUP for? There is an AUR package that updates proton-ge with normal system updates and you could probably do the same with a deb/rpm repository. I don't like a separate tool to update individual components. I'm a strong believer in the benefits of package managers.

Arch installs ProtonGE to /usr while ProtonUP installs it to ~/.steam

Exactly. I ended up removing the AUR package because of this, I will give ProtonUp a try :smile:

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: furaxhornyxNo offense, but I have tried Ubuntu Studio, and it is nowhere near a good out-of-the-box experience... In fact that's probably one of the worst distro I tried, and if I didn't have tried others before (and thus know better about the Linux experience), I would probably have migrated to Windows 10 by now...
I have spent quite a lot of time trying to figure out how to tweak Jack and pulseaudio with Cadence, and even now, I am not fully satisfied with this "solution", which is more of a "workaround".
I wish there was a CoreAudio equivalent in Linux (to be fair, I wish it would have been the case in Windows, too). Maybe with Pipewire ?

When did you last try? I ask because Jason Evanghelo thought the same back in 2019, but I think was quite positive about later versions? They lost a lot of developers between 2016 and 2018, which led to some serious stagnation.

I don't remember precisely, but it was somewhere between last summer (2020) and beginning of the year. it was before I got my Ryzen, anyway.

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Quoting: BOYSSSSS

Quoting: PJWith Gnome you just install 2-3 extensions, tweak the same amount of settings (for example turn on extra window buttons) and install icon theme. With KDE you add a theme and spend quite a bit going through the settings then disable/tweak stuff that does not work so well

This is one of the biggest misconceptions the Linux community has that makes Linux very unfriendly to new users.
You think that it's easy for a newbie to search the whole internet (Linux wikis, forums etc.) for a command that will need to be put in the terminal to run something. And at the same time you think it's hard for anyone to find a button in System Settings or Launcher Menu.
It's the opposite! You even have a search bar to help you with finding things.
This is what annoyed me to no end when I first started using Linux. Every little thing needed a command. If there's a setting or GUI it's easy for me. I will find it and change it and I'll remember that the setting is there. But I can't remember every single command that is needed to change something that I may never use again. (That's why I have a txt file with all the commands I've ever needed to do in case I need them again)
And that's why Linux will always be unfriendly to newbies. The Linux community doesn't understand that simple fact and instead thinks too much settings are hard to remember.
>Oh NO! I need to remember where this setting in the interface is! That's too hard!
>If only I could install some packages, change some config files with root privileges and run some commands in the terminal after some googling.

I'll have to agree with this: coming from Windows, it is impressive that it seems you cannot do anything without having to use the terminal to get things done (when copy/pasting from the internet works right away, that is...).

Quoting: scaine[...]

Quoting: PJyes - and its backed by the OS. For example - on OSX you basically connect an audio device and you have low latency audio out of the box.
On Windows you need to add some special drivers. Oh, and have you tried it on Linux? Yes, in theory it is doable but you need to fiddle with JACK and preferably custom kernel. I doubt most of musicians would go with that - not because they're not capable to learn it, but because fiddling with systems is not their job.

Well, no, this isn't really true. Like you say, you should be backed the OS, right? So if you're a sound engineer or musician and want to use Linux, you make sure you install something like Ubuntu Studio, and then it just works out of the box. [...]

No offense, but I have tried Ubuntu Studio, and it is nowhere near a good out-of-the-box experience... In fact that's probably one of the worst distro I tried, and if I didn't have tried others before (and thus know better about the Linux experience), I would probably have migrated to Windows 10 by now...
I have spent quite a lot of time trying to figure out how to tweak Jack and pulseaudio with Cadence, and even now, I am not fully satisfied with this "solution", which is more of a "workaround".
I wish there was a CoreAudio equivalent in Linux (to be fair, I wish it would have been the case in Windows, too). Maybe with Pipewire ?

Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: CatKillerThis is a fallacy, btw. If you're not into computers, you're only looking skin-deep. "This is the Internet, this is the app store, this is the update button" is all they need to know. Linux is the ideal grandmother OS. It's the Windows Power Users that have the hardest time; they're very familiar with the entrails of Windows and freak out about Linux' guts being different when they try to poke at them.

Mm, you have a point, and I don't disagree that Linux can be the perfect "grandmother OS", but if that grandmother has been using Windows I imagine she'd be more comfortable with a DE that looks similar, skin-wise, and doesn't require re-learning where the links to all those things are. :smile:

Fun fact: my grandmother actually has been using OpenSuse for over a decade now I believe (and she's quite happy about it, except when the printer decides to stop working for no apparent reason :tongue:)

EDIT:

Quoting: scaine[...]Hopefully Linux gets to the point that everything is as click and play as Steam and the Pop Shop.

I can only agree with that :smile:

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More recipes ? I'm in! Cooking is life :tongue:

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Quoting: mrdeathjr

Quoting: TheRiddickHere is some games with issues to illustrate my point. MESA/RADV, no idea about nvidia.

ELEX (requires workaround or gfx glitching)
Risen3 (same as above but crashes randomly often)
Max Payne 3 (tessellation bugged on RADV)
Operation Flashpoint 2 + Red River (needs gfw fix, but menu ctd, doesn't render).
NMS (people complain about random issues all the time)

The list goes on, basically Valve needs to address some backward compatibility with older games via proton more IMO.

Then we have all the anticheat stuff on top... for the most part broken with proton.

In my case with wine (no proton) and nvidia geforce gtx 1050:

elex runs ok - risen 3 (32bits) runs ok - max payne 3 (no test for now)

:smile:

In my case, with Proton (with the latest version at the time of play) and nVidia 1070, I can confirm that Elex was good and Risen 3 too.

My impression when looking for compatibility on protonDB was that, most of the time, the issues were occuring on AMD GPU ; I don't know how it is currently, as I have stopped buying games most games without a native version
(I still reserve myself the right to buy some games that I really want to play, such as Cyberpunk, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Bloodlines 2, because I am pretty sure they will never see a native version anyway).

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