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Latest Comments by tmtvl
The Linux market share appears to continue rising with Ubuntu winning
2 Jul 2020 at 10:59 pm UTC Likes: 2

Neat. Too bad it's Ubuntu, we don't need Canonical to grow too big for their shoes.

Linux Mint 20 'Ulyana' is out with better NVIDIA Optimus support, fractional scaling
28 Jun 2020 at 11:31 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Ari El Uno
Are you a Linux Mint or Cinnamon fan?
No.
Is there some particular gripe you have with Mint that you would like to see fixed?

Eye of the Beholder Trilogy is currently FREE on GOG, plus big D&D sale
17 Jun 2020 at 11:06 pm UTC

Oh man, Eye of the Beholder, now that takes me back... to Kikoskia's LPs of the series. Sandstar, Rune, Valendra, and Lilanva have become as familiar as Spunty and Archer Jim.

Defold Foundation awarded a grant to bring support of Web Monetization
12 Jun 2020 at 5:36 pm UTC

oh yes webgatchas because the internet isn't terrible enough yet

The Plasma 5.19 desktop from KDE has released
9 Jun 2020 at 4:53 pm UTC

I have good memories of KDE. Unfortunately, as EWMH treats multi-monitor users like annoying gnats* I have decided to not use window managers that support it, which includes Kwin.

* See this reddit post [External Link]

The Linux market share still appears to be rising
2 Jun 2020 at 11:25 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: HoriIt's because Bill Gates invented the coronavirus, and because Windows comes with 5G preinstalled.
You never know when the next Windows update comes and it installs a microchip in you!

Wake up sheeple!
Microsoft's in cahoots with the CCP? So that's why I should wear a tin-foil hat when using a Windows system.

Steam Cloud Gaming confirmed with Steam Cloud Play
28 May 2020 at 12:08 pm UTC

Quoting: PatolaI wonder if we will eventually be able to get VR through streaming, since Valve is so invested on it now?
For VR to be bearable for the average person they need a high framerate (I forget what the minimum comfortable level was), but trying to stream, say, 144FPS with current infrastructure is hard to achieve. It's an interesting technical challenge that may require creating of a new data transfer protocol, various new types of hardware,...

Mesa 20.1.0 drivers released
28 May 2020 at 11:33 am UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: Patola* jealous of AMD GPU owners * :dizzy:
While their stack is not entirely Free, AMD is still vastly better for the GNU/Linux ecosystem than the NVidia proprietary garbage dump. Even if the latter has a card that does rough pathtracing.

Play Next is live on Steam to remind you of all your unplayed games
15 May 2020 at 12:27 pm UTC

Last time I went through my unplayed games I found a bunch that just didn't launch, so I really don't care for this.

What are you clicking on this weekend? Come have a chat in the comments
2 May 2020 at 6:25 pm UTC Likes: 1

I've been playing "working on improving some packages for Emacs," as well as "switching over from Awesome + KDE to Stumpwm."

Free Software is the best game ever.