I don't really understand how KDE do things, it seems they don't really care about consistency and/or user friendliness they do what they want and if it breaks things so be it.

The ability to monitor GPU was first broken in 2021 because they didn't want users to access raw sensors and what the driver was presenting to avoid duplicates I suppose so you had to patch it to revert from blacklisting those sensors. As a result every fix was broken by a new driver, I hope this time it will be fixed for good.

Add to that the fact that KSysGuard was nice and tidy, now you have so much real estate lost, when I monitor things I think the density of data visible in one go is important.

In the mean time Psensor never had a problem to monitor anything.

Plus, in Plasma a lot of settings seem to come and go in the UI after every upgrade and you need to search in 5 different config files to put back your preferences.

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Quoting: ZlopezI don't like Epic for how they view Linux and give no support (actually they do opposite). So I will not support them till they change this behavior (I already have plenty of games from GOG or Steam and not enough time to play them).

The exclusivity is also bad thing, but good move to give more to devs for some time. I wonder if the exclusivity is for 6 months or more.

Indeed, how can we put competition and exclusivity in the same sentence?

What are you competing with a monopoly even for a limited time?

Epic will never see a cent from me, what exactly are they bringing to the table except frustration and bad software?

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Quoting: ssj17vegetaThere should be laws that send developers who use DRM directly to jail.

Oh, and f*ck copyright.

Unfortunately, devs are most of the time not responsible for any decision (in big project with a few dozen of them + animators + level designers + music department and more).

I know some really good devs working for big studios and trust me they are also fed up by technically stupid decisions, feature change in the middle of the project (the famous "It is just a button to add" but it impacts the whole engine and save system that overload CPU, RAM and hard drive ^^) with crunch time for deadline almost impossible to meet even if it was known for months that it was not possible.

Every bad thing you can think about in software engineering is the same in gaming industry with millions of dollars above your head that are invested with an uncertain RoI.

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Quoting: PenglingI've only run into Denuvo once in the two years since I ditched consoles (prior to that, I had ditched PC-gaming before even the likes of StarForce and SecuROM showed up), when it got added to Capcom's remaster of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective - a game I was going to buy and revisit, having enjoyed the original Nintendo DS release back in the day. I immediately opted not to buy it, and was left puzzled by why it's been stuck on an up-port of a decade-old DS game, but left off of some modern releases by the same developer.

Quoting: EhvisKinda. My wallet is happy about it.

Same. I suspect that Denuvo's real value is as a money-saving tool! :tongue:

Quoting: BogomipsI will count the hours between the publication of a game implementing it and the cheaters pointing their nose in that same game.

This is the problem, of course - if someone is determined to cheat, they're going to do it anyway, no matter how much effort it involves. Punishing legitimate customers is definitely not the answer to that.

Yep, games are developed like ERPs in the 90s that started with an Excel spreadsheet or Access "database" by the CEO or CFO and became a nightmare after 4 years of Frankensteining from everywhere.

So, a game is more like an MVP with a custom engine from another project with tons of third party libs to make it fast and cost effective and the last 3 months before release everything is optimized because you are playing at 20 fps on a dev machine with 250 cores, 128 GB of RAM and an SLI of 4090 with memory leaks everywhere.

That's why if you think that cheating is a concern for anybody leading the project willing to put money and time to address it, I think you will have a hard time ;)

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I will count the hours between the publication of a game implementing it and the cheaters pointing their nose in that same game.

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Quoting: sddt

Quoting: BogomipsWell, the worst part is that the optical junction box is 1 meter away from the pavement in front of the house but the "pipe" leading to the house is crushed somewhere and was not well build 40 years ago so everything is cast in concrete.

Common problem, easy solution. Cut a narrow trench in the footpath, fill it in after installation. :)

Well, basically yes but before "cutting" 30 m in length of concrete in a non flat area and be sure that the main electrical lines are not in the way (nothing is aerial where I live) I will try to pull cables from the middle section of the line (buried 1.5 m in the ground and yes I used a professional line detection system to follow the network underground) and see if I can spare some trenches ^^.

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Quoting: sddt

Quoting: Bogomipsit took me a week to rebuild my library downloading more than 200 GB of data with my poor bandwidth…

That's rough, no fibre available where you are?

We may not be able to buy the Steam Deck here but at least the vast majority of the country has gigabit fibre available.

Well, the worst part is that the optical junction box is 1 meter away from the pavement in front of the house but the "pipe" leading to the house is crushed somewhere and was not well build 40 years ago so everything is cast in concrete.

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: BogomipsYep, the new client is a pain in the ***, not faster for me, full black screen on first load of every window (friends, store, etc.)

I randomly had weird issues of this type for the first day. I cleared the Steam client cache after that and haven't had any more of them crop up since.

The only one still hanging around for me is notifications stealing focus, which was apparently reported during the beta.

After the update I installed the new client from scratch (without any cache/config files) to try to solve the issues. And when I tried to set the default proton version in the settings all the non native games files needed to be reloaded, it took me a week to rebuild my library downloading more than 200 GB of data with my poor bandwidth…

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Quoting: TheRiddickScaling is hard to get right when everyone uses a completely different window backend. In saying that they should get it right for each of the major desktop engines like XFCE/GNOME/PLASMA/CINAMON etc... It's important to keep in mind that Linux desktop is going through a revolution phase atm so things are changing so old was stop working.

The old client worked perfectly well. It didn't have hardware acceleration, but at least the overlay worked back then. It was broken months ago in Beta, and now it's broken in Stable, so I have to assume this is very low priority for them. I wouldn't harp on about this except it makes partying up with friends much more annoying.

At a minimum, they should get it right for GNOME and KDE. The other desktop environments use either GTK or Qt, so it's unlikely for compatibility to be perfect in GNOME but absolutely broken in XFCE and Cinnamon, for example. Each has their own Wayland compositor, of course, so that makes things a bit trickier.

Presumably. I don't pretend to know much about the graphical side. Or much of anything, really.

Yep, the new client is a pain in the ***, not faster for me, full black screen on first load of every window (friends, store, etc.) CS:GO overlay crash (indeed -vulkan parameter is the only way to fix it permanently but it is unplayable because of the stuttering) is a problem from the beta https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/3172 [External Link]
The loss of real estate and flimsiness selection on contextual menu (right-click) is annoying AF.

And if you force the old client (-vgui) the friends network doesn't work anymore.

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Quoting: AsciiWolfLooks and works great! The only two small things I've noticed so far are:

1. It is not possible to launch selected games in small mode by pressing Enter key.
2. Opening the Steam overlay in CS:GO causes the game to hang and/or crash.

Damn you are right, the Enter key launch is gone!
And, indeed, the CS:GO overlay causes the game to crash…

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