Quoting: robredzWonder when they will get RTX capability into the Pressure vessel or Proton

For games that do ray tracing with Vulkan, nothing needs to be done. Unfortunately there's only one of those, but it does work perfectly.

For games that do ray tracing with DirectX you'll need to wait till they implement it in VKD3D. AFAIK, that's not a priority for them at the moment.

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Quoting: emphyGreat; now we will likely also get lenovo bloat- and spyware for linux, including that one that gets reinstalled on a fresh os install ...

Fedora were very insistent that they'd only take part if they were using standard images of software from Fedora's repos.

In principle, Lenovo could do shenanigans with the non-Fedora ones, but there's no point. These are aimed firmly at the professional market, and they didn't do shenanigans with their Windows pro models, either. It would just break the reputation of their fledgling market.

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Quoting: fagnerlnI like the idea of a system that filters words for those who feels embarrassed, but it's impossible to create a perfect system as it's multilingual.

The general class of the issue you've experienced is known as the Scunthorpe Problem [External Link].

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Quoting: slaapliedjeThis is one of the reasons I hate Ubuntu. Debian does it better with backports, as then it can be part of your main distribution (with all the extra support that entails) and you have a choice of which actual packages to update and use the backports version, so it is easier to opt for 'stable' vs 'latest' on those particular packages.

Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu are updated through Stable Release Updates now, the same as browsers. You don't need to use the PPA to get updated drivers over the lifetime of a release any more.

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Quoting: ZapporIs there an updated SteamPlay proton whitelist somewhere? A long time since I heard about an update to it.

I think this [External Link] is it. The thing with the whitelist was that Valve agreed to take on support for whitelisted games to help Proton take off, and it turned out that Proton didn't really need that as long as it keeps improving in general.

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I'm still thoroughly curious on what the end game is here

My impression is that they don't really need one.

The strategic reasons they had for starting out on the path are still the case, so there's no strategic impetus to stop. Compared to their revenue, their total outlay for supporting Linux is small, and the Linux market likely makes a profit for them. The work is interesting, which fits well with their flat structure. The work can progress incrementally, which fits well with their flat structure. If they did stop the help for new Linux games they'd still be on the hook for supporting all the existing Linux customers without new sales to cover those costs, and the appearance of there being no viable alternative to Windows would mean that they'd end up more dependent on Windows than they were before they started.

So unless they get bought by someone else with radically different strategic priorities, which is extremely unlikely given that Valve is privately-owned and makes an awful lot of money just as it is, I don't see their support stopping. If they happen upon some new amazing thing as a result that puts them in a stronger position, then that's good, but if they don't that's fine, too.

Linux being a good place to scratch one's own itch works just as well for Valve as it does for everyone else.

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Quoting: Alm888Proton™

This is really obnoxious.

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Quoting: brokeassbenI'm having frequent complete system freezes that require a hard reset and nothing I've tried so far is helping. Different drives, entirely different distros, updated the BIOS, tested RAM, and still freezing. Sooo damn frustrating.

Power supply is the next item on your checklist.

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Powered by Nakama from Heroic Labs, it's something PDS has been working on for some time now, which enables players to "be able to connect and play with others from any Windows, MacOS, or Linux platform where the game is sold, including the Paradox Store, Steam, GOG.com, and any other digital retailers where Imperator: Rome may appear".

This sounds awesome.

Cross-platform multiplayer is a pain, because devs make assumptions about determinism that don't necessarily hold on different platforms, so you get games where players on different platforms can't play against each other. Plus matchmaking, which tends to heavily use the platform infrastructure (like Steam), so doesn't translate to other platforms that don't have it (like GOG).

If it's easy to integrate and saves devs from having to roll their own, that should be really useful. With it being open source it shouldn't go the way of GameSpy, either.

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Quoting: scaineOne thing in particular I hated is that both Kate (the text editor) and Dolphin (the file manager) are crippled to disallow running as sudo.

I agree on Dolphin: I think it was short-sighted and daft. You're much more likely to mess things up having to do things as root from an unfamiliar command line than doing so with a file manager that's easy to understand and familiar.

For Kate, I believe it does the standard authorisation thing when you try to save a root-owned file now, but before that you had to use sudoedit.

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