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KDE developer thinks they will become the 'Windows or Android' of the FOSS world
17 Nov 2021 at 6:15 pm UTC
17 Nov 2021 at 6:15 pm UTC
Quoting: slaapliedjeThis is in KDE? Huh, weird. I have not experienced that in Gnome. I'd have to check next time there is a new nvidia driver for Sid to try that. Sounds like it's trying to make a new GL call, and since the library had changed, it just crashes. Though you'd think it'd just use whatever is in memory.Conky freaks out somewhat on Nvidia driver changes, too - the Nvidia monitoring bits. Most software is perfectly fine over the transition, it's just some things that have issues. I've even been doing protein folding during the driver switchover - so heavy GPU compute workload - and it's just sailed right through.
KDE developer thinks they will become the 'Windows or Android' of the FOSS world
17 Nov 2021 at 4:53 pm UTC Likes: 2
17 Nov 2021 at 4:53 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: slaapliedjeHuh, Debian just warns you when there is a kernel mismatch during the nvidia update and you'll need to reboot at your earliest convenience. I've never seen it just take down X for the fun of it.It doesn't. When you try to use the panel widget to shut down, it pops up a box to ask if it's shutting down, restarting, or logging out that you're after. Spawning that window when you've got a mismatch between the library that the widget was expecting and the one it actually has causes the widget to crash before it successfully spawns the box. So you can't use that method to shut down.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance gets shown off on the Steam Deck
17 Nov 2021 at 11:10 am UTC Likes: 17
17 Nov 2021 at 11:10 am UTC Likes: 17
- developer promises Mac & Linux support
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- developer promises Steam Deck support
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KDE developer thinks they will become the 'Windows or Android' of the FOSS world
17 Nov 2021 at 7:24 am UTC Likes: 1
17 Nov 2021 at 7:24 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: MohandevirThe bug that quickly comes to my mind, that I personnally witnessed, since switching to Kubuntu, is always happening after an update... Suddenly I can't turn off or reboot the computer. Everytime I get an error message that... I don't remember the name... just crashed. I have to ALT+F4 + CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot.If it's the thing I've seen, it's specifically after Nvidia updates. The version mismatch causes the shutdown widget to crash when you try to use it. You can still do
sudo shutdown -h now though.
KDE developer thinks they will become the 'Windows or Android' of the FOSS world
16 Nov 2021 at 4:45 pm UTC
16 Nov 2021 at 4:45 pm UTC
Quoting: slaapliedjeAlso... why have System menu, and Settings menu, then have System Settings? Should be called Preferences or something...It's in the specification [External Link]. "Preferences" could be OK for the settings of the system, but that might be confused with preferences for the menu.
NVIDIA takes on AMD FSR with their new open source Image Scaling
16 Nov 2021 at 4:23 pm UTC Likes: 1
16 Nov 2021 at 4:23 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: AnanaceWait, for that comparison image, are Nvidia saying that a lower resolution image upscaled with DLSS gives a better resulting 4k quality than a native 4k render?That's what they've said before, and what people have found. For example. [External Link]
KDE developer thinks they will become the 'Windows or Android' of the FOSS world
16 Nov 2021 at 2:06 pm UTC Likes: 2
16 Nov 2021 at 2:06 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: win8linuxI've seen the last half of that sentence in particular happen with all kinds of software over the years and there are pretty good chances that it will happen again sometime after this comment."I know about computers; of course I should use Arch rather than this 'beginner' distro. 'Remove essential packages'? Do as I say!"
KDE developer thinks they will become the 'Windows or Android' of the FOSS world
16 Nov 2021 at 2:16 am UTC Likes: 3
16 Nov 2021 at 2:16 am UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: slaapliedjeA good example of this is the clock settings. In Gnome, you can change it in the settings -> Date & Time. It lists 'Automatic Date & Time', or you can manually change it. And Time Zone. And 24 hour or AM/PM.Right-click on the clock widget -> Adjust Date and Time.
Then it is smart enough to do the reast based on location.
KDE on the other hand (which it looks like it is better, is still terrible)...
Settings -> Regional Settings -> Date & Time Or Time Zone (they are on separate tabs).
KDE developer thinks they will become the 'Windows or Android' of the FOSS world
16 Nov 2021 at 12:22 am UTC Likes: 1
There is functionality that I require from my computer - like being able to set the volume control interval to something other than 6%, or making applications look how I want - that can't be achieved on Gnome no matter how much tweaking I do. Whereas from any distro's KDE defaults I can turn it into what I want with maybe a couple of minutes clicking in the built-in settings application.
16 Nov 2021 at 12:22 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: omer666I've been using so many desktops over the years I lost count a while ago, but after all these years I finally know what I want: something I don't have to configure for hours. So I prefer GNOME because it fits my needs perfectly and it is very intuitive. I can quickly focus on what I'm working on.
There is functionality that I require from my computer - like being able to set the volume control interval to something other than 6%, or making applications look how I want - that can't be achieved on Gnome no matter how much tweaking I do. Whereas from any distro's KDE defaults I can turn it into what I want with maybe a couple of minutes clicking in the built-in settings application.
Here's some of what we've learned about the Steam Deck
15 Nov 2021 at 12:19 pm UTC Likes: 5
Valve (and us customers) need developers to be actively testing their games on Linux themselves (which is what Valve recommend in their developer documents) and flagging up updates that might have issues. At the same time, they can't launch their new platform with no games tested, and they can't afford to have inaccurate information in their store about the level of functionality. So they have to be the final arbiter (we've already seen too many games saying that they support Linux, but don't actually support Linux), and they have to do testing off their own bat, but they need to use as much carrot, stick, and critical mass as they can to get developer buy-in.
"Build it and they will come" did work to some extent with the Steam Machines, but not nearly enough. So this time they need to steer developers into the behaviour that they want. Hence firm statements of intent but vague specific targets, plenty of extra visibility for games that are playing nice and not specifically saying that games that don't play nice won't get reduced visibility.
15 Nov 2021 at 12:19 pm UTC Likes: 5
Quoting: Eike"we may sometimes" sounds way less than I expected, to be honest.Valve wants developers to be stoked about developing for Linux. The softly, softly, "we'll take care of everything," approach that they started with, if they keep doing it too long, will lead developers to expect that Valve will actually take care of everything. Which isn't good enough.
Valve (and us customers) need developers to be actively testing their games on Linux themselves (which is what Valve recommend in their developer documents) and flagging up updates that might have issues. At the same time, they can't launch their new platform with no games tested, and they can't afford to have inaccurate information in their store about the level of functionality. So they have to be the final arbiter (we've already seen too many games saying that they support Linux, but don't actually support Linux), and they have to do testing off their own bat, but they need to use as much carrot, stick, and critical mass as they can to get developer buy-in.
"Build it and they will come" did work to some extent with the Steam Machines, but not nearly enough. So this time they need to steer developers into the behaviour that they want. Hence firm statements of intent but vague specific targets, plenty of extra visibility for games that are playing nice and not specifically saying that games that don't play nice won't get reduced visibility.
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