Quoting: botato

Quoting: CatKillerpart of KDE's UI guidelines.. is that an option is only worth having if it's worth having on by default.

I'm sure that's absolutely not a KDE guideline.

Already linked upthread:

Most people never change most of the default settings for their software. Any feature which is off by default is likely to be missed by most users. Therefore, when proposing a new feature, don't make it configurable and leave it off by default. Have confidence in your designs and features! New features and design changes should be on by default, if they should even be configurable at all.

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Quoting: fearnflavioI think the only games I have there are The Witcher 3 and Cyberbug which I regret it because I simply forget I have those games. Since I use only Steam and Heroic most of the time.

You could add them to Steam as non-Steam games. Which also gets you controller support for games that don't natively support controllers.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyYeah. I'm not sure they're right about that though.
And I mean, the extra options don't have to be very hidden, it could be just you click on that fuzzy line at the bottom of any given little options page that says "more options", and it sinks down and reveals them. And if you are a serious options person, well, you can have an option to reveal them all by default.

Hey, I'm not sure that they're right either. I mentioned upthread that their policy of turning on all the taps has consequences that can be undesirable. I just mentioned that they're currently wary of the "Advanced Settings" approach. And I'm sure we can all think of examples where "users of great ego will find the basic view insulting even if it meets their needs better than the advanced view."

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Quoting: mrazsterSo maybe work a little on the defaults and then and the rework the system settings so you have "basic options" always shown. And then have the ability to expand to more "advanced options" when/if needed.

That's a pattern that they're specifically wary of [External Link]:

However the basic/advanced paradigm does not work for grouping and separating features, especially when explicitly using the terms "basic" and "advanced" in the user interface. The problem is that different users have different needs, and what one user considers advanced will be considered basic to another user. Also, even "basic" users may very occasionally have a need to use or configure "advanced" features. Users who doubt their technical prowess will fear entering the advanced view, while users of great ego will find the basic view insulting even if it meets their needs better than the advanced view.

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Quoting: randylYou know what's silly? The 1 - 2% asking for any game support or accommodation at all, while feeling entirely entitled to being treated equally.

Of course they should be treated equally. Are games companies charging Linux users 94% less than Windows users? Or Mac users 90% less than Windows users? And the idea that minority groups should be treated worse because they're a minority is... like... really bad.

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The part of KDE's UI guidelines that I disagree with in practice (although not necessarily in principle) is that an option is only worth having if it's worth having on by default. Which means that the default experience is having everything turned up to 11 with every edge-case-useful thing enabled. And that goes against providing a sensible non-scary initial experience. So hopefully they'll reconsider that guideline in endeavouring to make things sane.

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Nah.

If they wanted to do it, and they could see there's a business case for doing it, they'd have already done it.

These things are just so that they can say you're suffering because you didn't pray hard enough. It's just bollocks.

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Quoting: F.UltraWell here's to hoping. Wish I was a billionaire so that I could invest tons of money into creating the perfect Linux computer that was as slick as a Chromebook and have it been sold in normal stores. We need a new Canonical anno 2004 to pour resources into moving Linux closer to the customers.

It would need to be someone bigger than Canonical was. They did pour resources into a slick Linux device, worked out software packaging and distribution, took cues from Android about how to avoid the cruft of X11, developed an interface paradigm for convergence with the desktop... and then ran out of money, had to fire a bunch of people, and had to give up. So like Canonical, but with sufficient resources to be able to survive, say, 5 years more burn.

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The timing's interesting. They first showed their native build running on the Steam Deck on 29 September, I think, so that's about 9 weeks between having a build and releasing it. That might be informative for the cadence of other indie dev releases in the future.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: CatKillerWhile AMD should get all the kudos and headstart from releasing their open-source cross-vendor scaling tech first, I hope Nvidia's similar one will also ultimately get integrated for those developers that want to use movement vectors to help their scaling. It would be a shame for that use case to only be covered by DLSS.

Does the open source Nvidia Image Scaling actually make use of motion vectors? As far as I understood, it's just a clever single-pass scaling + sharpening algorithm, much closer to FSR than DLSS. I don't see any mention of motion vectors in the readme on the github page [External Link].

Actually, maybe it doesn't. I saw references to directional scaling and assumed they were using motion information for their scaling (like they do with their anti-aliasing), but maybe it's just for different scaling in different directions.

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