Well, guess it's time to stop procrastinating and try to make a game with it then.

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For now they're suggesting Fedora 35 for the best out of the box experience.

Finally a Linux laptop maker with some tastes :)
Jokes aside, it's building up to be an extremely interesting machine.

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Quoting: nullzero

Quoting: 3zekielHmm one thing that confuses me, they say you will still be billed in dollar if you are on humble classic... But if there is only one tier, then what is the point of classic ? And why still in dollar ?
Honestly, in the last year, the only times I did not skip was because I forgot to. I kept my subscription for classic "Just in case", and because I thought I might grab the discount one month if there was a decent game I did not already have. And it never happened.
So, I guess I can just cancel now.

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acording to the FAQ, the classics will still have the 20% discount.
The new account will start with 10% and increasing per subsequent renewal...

Ummm I thought this was for everyone who already had an account (not everyone who currently pays is classic). Might have misunderstood.

Well anyway, I did cancel. I don't really see things going in the right direction. I guess the advantage of no more classic plan is that I can resub if I ever see a streak of decent games.

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Quoting: ixnariHm, yes, I see. Windows only again. The GOG approach, as it were. Because if we learned anything, it's that the best way to attract new customers is to piss off your existing ones.

That's basic marketing indeed !

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Hmm one thing that confuses me, they say you will still be billed in dollar if you are on humble classic... But if there is only one tier, then what is the point of classic ? And why still in dollar ?
Honestly, in the last year, the only times I did not skip was because I forgot to. I kept my subscription for classic "Just in case", and because I thought I might grab the discount one month if there was a decent game I did not already have. And it never happened.
So, I guess I can just cancel now.

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Quoting: HoolyOr they use btrfs-subvolumes and allocate storage dynamically.

Unlikely, since BTRFS does not have casefolding which Proton uses. Casefolding for now is only available with ext4.

Hmmm I actually use proton on top of btrfs, what issues will this cause ? Can I assume some of my games are broken because of that ?

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Quoting: toorTheir bundles keep getting shittier and shittier. The time of humblebundle has gone. It's Steam time!

It's true I can't remember last time I did not skip...

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Quoting: x_wingThis is not only about technical decisions, this is more of an attitude problem with our community. You cannot expect that the community would drop their work on GBM to move to your new "standard" because you failed with your personal endeavor with EGLStreams.

The attitude issue I agree. Sadly, they are like too many hw vendors who tend to enjoy working behind closed doors and behave like control freaks.

Their last year has however been much more fruitful, with egl wayland and co they seem to work much more in the open. They seem to communicate much more overall, and they directly supported DLSS in proton. I mean, they did not do it out of goodness of their heart (no company does), but it does seem like they are softening to us... Now, time will tell. I still wait that "Big open source announcement" they were supposed to do months and months ago.

I mean, technically speaking open sourcing they freaking driver is still what makes the most sense... Maybe at some point they will realize it, just like they finally did for GBM. One can always dream (and meanwhile buy GPUs from more open source friendly vendors, when they are finally available anyway:P )

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Quoting: 3zekielThe situation indeed isn't as simple as "Nvidia evil vs good guy everyone else". Nvidia based its solution on a standard existing somewhere else (that did not pan out as expected) so they did not make a revolution in their own little world.

Actually Nvidia didn't even bother discussing the matter when the other vendors were making the choice, and decided to go for EGLStream all alone.

Then, they wanted to discuss how EGLStreams was supposed to be technically better, which lasted for quite a few years.

Then, they wanted to develop a new API, they wrote some code and put it on github, and is never went any further.

Then, when RedHat pushed for EGLStream compatibility in Fedora, it was mainlined in mutter but Nvidia was still not compatible with XWayland.

Fast forward 2021, Nvidia patches XWayland, only to give up a few months later and make their driver work with GBM.

Literally, they've been messing around for 5 years for nothing. The only visible effect of this is the harm they made to Wayland adoption and innovation on Linux at large. :shock:

Some sources:
Nvidia presenting EGLStreams in 2014 [External Link]
Nvidia wanting a new API [External Link]
Nivida's Unix Memory Allocator on Github (last updated 4 years ago) [External Link]

For the start, choosing to go EGLStream despite other vendors is indeed true.
That being said, it was done at a time where wayland was non existant (we need to remember that it is still barely usable in some significant cases, on AMD you can not share your screen with google meet as an example...).
I am not saying they did a good/nice choice. But moderating the idea that they would be "evil".

As for whether they messed around for 5 years, they did propose the better API, but as far as I saw, no one really came and discussed either ... Or maybe it happened behind curtains. Once again reality is a bit more gray than black or white ... And once again, of course, they acted a bit like divas who expect all attention even when coming late to the party.

Of course, at the very end, the conclusion is that technically their solution does not work as it should, but I was more saying it was not as easy to detemine at the begining. And as always, once a project has taken a certain path, it is often hard to backtract. You need to have the clarity to take a break and look back.

My opinion is that they just had some technical bad choice and perseverated by lack of clarity more than by evil-ness.

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Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: scaineI have no idea what you're talking about here. Nvidia blocked something... how? Or is this tired old "Mir" argument, in which I'm sick of hearing it, since, after all, competing standards literally defines what Linux is.

No idea how you block open source alternatives though. Is this about that Microsoft-funded company that brought lawsuits to big Linux houses with bogus patents? I forget their name.

Yeah, sorry. No idea what this is about.

Seems that you never read the story of Nouveau driver in all this years, don't you? If you know of an alternative, let us know, as in the current scenario many Nvidia users won't be able to use wayland unless they upgrade their hardware.

Lets stop playing dumb. Nvidia pushed for EGLStream against GBM for many years. They only changed their mind after completely failing to make it work. Simple as that.

I genuinely wasn't playing dumb - I hadn't a single clue to what you were referring (which is why I guessed three different scenarios). But sure, you meant the fact that Nvidia refused to implement a technology that Wayland relied on. That's... I mean, sure, that's really annoying. But maybe there's some responsibility on Wayland for relying on technology that wasn't present in all drivers? Actually, thinking back, wasn't the unrealistic position of Wayland, 8 years ago, the very reason that Canonical created Mir? One of the biggest reasons anyway, I think.

Let's just be happy that Nvidia have finally come around to supporting this requirement in their proprietary driver. More than ever, this whole story shows why open source drivers are so important. And tbh, I didn't really understand that until I went AMD a couple of years ago.

The situation indeed isn't as simple as "Nvidia evil vs good guy everyone else". Nvidia based its solution on a standard existing somewhere else (that did not pan out as expected) so they did not make a revolution in their own little world.
Once they saw it did not work for others, they proposed to work together on a standard that would be better than both current implementations.... But no one really worked with them. They waited a while and finally fell back on GBM.
Now, were they wrong fro EGLStream at the very beginning? that's a complicated thing to say. It's easy to say now that it lacks some features and co, but at the time nothing was working on wayland, so very hard to evaluate from their perspective.
Also, they did try to create a better standard with the community, but only got the cold shoulder. Which to be fair might be due to them being perceived as divas and leeches. Which might not be really justified, but it can be understood from other driver dev perspective.

As for the issue of legacy cards, kepler is real old, dating from May 30th, 2013 for the gtx 770. Having support forever on hw is not realistic, and is never happening. It only lasts as long as it makes sense commercially. Also, it is not as if they were flat out dropped in the mud, they only will not get wayland support. X will still be there for quite a few years before it gets fully dropped and thoses cards become e-waste. By the time, they will be way north of 10 years old ...

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