Quoting: ArehandoroThe design is directly from 1989.

Needs more beige.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: CatKiller

With this release you're getting Kernel 5.4, a packaging base of Ubuntu 20.04

That seems really weird. Most Ubuntu 20.04 users are going to be on 5.11 already because of Hardware Enablement. If you're going to go through the effort to make a new downstream release based on that, why wouldn't you pick up the newer supported kernel from upstream?

I kind of thought Mint stopped using the Ubuntu kernel some time back because Ubuntu had done something that no one agreed with (can't recall the details) so they offer the Ubuntu kernels, but install their own?

No, they're Ubuntu kernels still.

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Quoting: CatKiller

With this release you're getting Kernel 5.4, a packaging base of Ubuntu 20.04

That seems really weird. Most Ubuntu 20.04 users are going to be on 5.11 already because of Hardware Enablement. If you're going to go through the effort to make a new downstream release based on that, why wouldn't you pick up the newer supported kernel from upstream?

The 5.11 HWE kernels, as well as 5.13, are available in the kernel manager app. Are the HWE kernels installed by default on Ubuntu LTS?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy"In many ways 3D has become mainstream now."
Hmph. I was living in a 3D world before it was cool.

Don't worry, it'll inevitably go out of fashion. Then it'll be "retro" before you know it.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Purple Library GuyAyup.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ayup [External Link]
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hey_up [External Link]

:huh:

You were on the right track, but then took a wrong turn. ;)

The first link tells you it's also an alternative spelling of ayuh [External Link].

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Quoting: MohandevirBut what I would like to know is how many people, in Steam user pool, is like me:

One computer for work, supplied by the company that hired them and a personnal gaming rig that is used only for that: gaming. Everything else is done on smartphones nowadays... My daughter has a Win10 laptop and it's barely used anymore. Little gaming, here and there and all else, from video editing to photos/photo editing is done on cell phone too... Similar for my son, except he's more of a gamer. Are we weird phenomenons?

I know plenty of people like you so I doubt you're weird, but I'm pretty much the opposite. I've also got a computer at work (a proper desktop, not a laptop; I like leaving my "tools" at the office) and another at home for gaming and other entertainment. And then there's my wife's graphics workstation, which I borrow when I need to edit photos or something, but that's not very often. All of these systems run Linux obviously. ;)

But my phone I only use when I absolutely need to. It simply feels silly to try to do anything productive on a tiny touch screen when I've got more powerful hardware with better input methods and larger screens at hand. A smartphone has its advantages, mainly to do with it being small and easy to carry around with you, but it's never my first choice for getting something done or entertaining myself.

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Quoting: mr-victoryWait... Is that browser Google Chrome?!

Why is that surprising? It has officially supported Linux for more than a decade.

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Quoting: elmapulwe complained a lot about not being 100% an native port

Most of the complaints I saw about the Witcher 2 port were because it was released before it was anywhere near ready. It was more or less broken in many ways and performed like crap. There was lots of talk about VP's wrapper tech being the reason, but you wouldn't have seen a fraction of the backlash if the release wasn't so badly botched. You see exactly the same kind of response when a bad or broken console port is released on Windows.

Personally I was fine with the port and enjoyed the game after they fixed the most glaring problems, quite a while after release. The tech doesn't really matter that much to me as long as the release is properly supported on Linux. Emphasis on "support". I still don't really buy games that don't officially support Linux.

Quoting: elmapulsorry if it sounds like conspiration theory, it is.

It definitely is a conspiracy theory with very little technical understanding to back it up.

Quoting: elmapuli always thought that free software was made by people for people, and companies had an symbiotic relationship with us.

Some companies understand the long-term benefits and work with Linux and the community, but most take what they can and give nothing or very little back. It's naïve to expect anything else, when most business decisions are made by people who have very little interest or expertise in the technology or anything beyond short term profit.

Quoting: elmapulits harder and harder to believe that narrative, mint broke compatibility with snapes claiming that they were an proprietary form of distribution or that canonical was the only repo or something, but then, why they support steam?

They didn't break anything. You can just install snapd and go nuts, but Mint decided that flatpak was the more universal solution and better for their users, and went with that as the default instead. I don't think any distribution officially supports both out of the box.

Quoting: elmapulwe may demonize an proprietary codecs because they arent open source or compatible with open source, they are evil , etc.
we may demonize drm and anti cheat.
we may demonize everything for the sake of freedom, but at the end of the day, what we end up with?

Lots of demons?

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Chapter 2 was in one of the huge Itch.io charity bundles, but there's no Linux build available. Looks fun though.

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Quoting: CatKillerWhile AMD should get all the kudos and headstart from releasing their open-source cross-vendor scaling tech first, I hope Nvidia's similar one will also ultimately get integrated for those developers that want to use movement vectors to help their scaling. It would be a shame for that use case to only be covered by DLSS.

Does the open source Nvidia Image Scaling actually make use of motion vectors? As far as I understood, it's just a clever single-pass scaling + sharpening algorithm, much closer to FSR than DLSS. I don't see any mention of motion vectors in the readme on the github page [External Link].

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