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Quoting: slaapliedjeIt's kind of amusing to me that CRTs started off as 50/60hz, then higher end monitors started getting really high refresh rates (like the one I have that'll do 1600x1200 at 85hz). Then when we started with LCDs, we were back to having crappy refresh rates, with the added disadvantage of any non-native resolution looking like trash... Many years later, they're finally getting better.

You're forgetting or ignoring the fact that we mostly wanted higher refresh rates for CRTs to reduce the eye destroying flicker, not to make games run smoother or whatever. Whereas an LCD doesn't really have a flicker problem, even with the old fluorescent backlights.

And digital LCD display was just sooo much better than anything analogue.

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Quoting: jaycAnother odd stats for me it's the amount of disk space people have :D

Above 1 TB 65.15%

Are people re-using HDDs from their old computers? I have 512GiB for years now and it has been enough.

Yes - and I'm reusing old SSDs. (Current setup: SanDisk 120 GB, Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB, Samsung 980 1 TB.) And a cheap 2 TB SSD is available for under 80 bucks.

By the way, I had a 512 GB disk at work. Docker on WSL took 100 GB alone. Ordered an additional 2 TB SSD to hopefully get rid of those problems.

Ah, and some gamers seem to keep all there games installed. Some due to "data plans", other just because they like to.

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Quoting: mindedieAtleast OLED crowd will be bit muted... ofc now 4K, 144Hz and others will scream louder...

There will always be a group of people who aren't satisfied with a product, and want another version to fit some ideal they came up with.

Every gaming display in this (and all coming) decades should use variable refresh rate ("Gsync" and such).

You're welcome. ;)

Yea? There could be dozens of reasons Valve didn't include it in the announcement. Maybe the specific configuration they want isn't ready yet, maybe it still has too many bugs to work out. Maybe it actually is compatible and will be enabled by default at a later date.

It's easy to make that claim looking at it from the outside, but we're just not privy to all the internal details.

This was a joke regarding expectations of gamers always wanting more. Should be clear from the quoted context, IMHO. (But I seriously wouldn't buy a full blown monitor without it anymore.)

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Quoting: wytrabbit

Quoting: mindedieAtleast OLED crowd will be bit muted... ofc now 4K, 144Hz and others will scream louder...

There will always be a group of people who aren't satisfied with a product, and want another version to fit some ideal they came up with.

Every gaming display in this (and all coming) decades should use variable refresh rate ("Gsync" and such).

You're welcome. ;)

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Quoting: LungDragoit gives me PTSD from using 4 chat programs to talk to different people back in the 2000's.

You mean like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Telegram, ...?

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Quoting: GuestI hope Xorg users will continue to get fixes.

I was under the impression that not only KDE on X, but especially Xorg itself does not get a lot of love anymore?

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Quoting: no_information_hereAwesome! I look forward to using it a year or so after it hits public release (I no longer live on the leading edge). Thank-you to everyone who is fixing bugs!

Yeah. I just thought I'll see it with Debian trixie release in 25. :-D

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Quoting: d10sfanHopefully the GUI will also be supported, since they just mentioned the CLI in the quote.

If they had (only) a CLI working, making a Linux GUI shouldn't be too hard for someone else.

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Quoting: spacemonkeyWhat is a Unity?

I read it was kind of an ancestor of Godot in ancient times...

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Quoting: scaineI'm okay on Android with Firefox, for what is worth (not much, I suspect). Maybe you can share some details and we can help fix.

That might be possible! By chance, I'm using the same. And I've got something to experiment: Could you try to access GoL via this link for some days?

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/usercp.php

I did that by chance, and get a not logged in message. When I try to log in from there, I' told I'm already logged in. This doesn't happen on desktop, though, so you could give it a try on mobile.

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