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Latest Comments by STiAT
3rd party KDE Plasma Global Themes and Widgets can lead to data loss
21 March 2024 at 7:22 pm UTC

There is always risk involved. Community stuff is even more risky, but even in properly team-maintained software it happened that somebody could slip in risky stuff.

Glad to see they are looking into a curating/review process, but that will cost a ... lot of manpower, which is sad that people will be spending their time to try to eliminate bad actors.

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition out now on Steam - works on Steam Deck
21 March 2024 at 7:14 pm UTC Likes: 3

I'll wait for some discount. I liked the first one, but I'm not willing to spend 60 bucks for that at the moment. Have enough other games to play for now which wait to be played for years now :D.

Explicit Sync Wayland Protocol Merged, Wayland Protocols 1.34 released
21 March 2024 at 7:04 pm UTC Likes: 1

Finally. I hope they merge those on F40 once the driver comes around the corner. It is the one visual glitch which really annoys me on Wayland. Well, there are no others so far :D.

And well done .. good summary of the issue and the work put into this.

NVIDIA driver 550.67 released fixes for VKD3D (Proton), Wayland and more
19 March 2024 at 5:15 pm UTC Likes: 1

NVK is not prime time yet, 24.1 isn't even released yet (it's target day is mid-may or something like that) ;-). I hope to get it in F40 once it is so I can try to switch. Actually I decided to hold off with the upgrade until it got 24.1 (if Fedora even upgrades to minors? I think so..).

Move over Diablo 4 and Path of Exile as Last Epoch 1.0 is here
18 March 2024 at 6:56 pm UTC

Still buggy as hell in offline mode... does loose items, crafting materials, gold on every game exit.

Valve COO on Epic's Tim Sweeney "you mad bro?" when launching the Epic Store
18 March 2024 at 6:33 pm UTC

I think it's not that easy.

One thing valve provides especially to indies is ... a huge base and platform. They'd stay unknown or only sell 10 % of what they do if it was not for steam and their huge user base, which makes a loss of 30 % still a win.

I do not know what models Valve has, but for small indies things like "first 100k copies are only 10 %, 200k are 20 %, 300k+ are 30 %, and after a million we scale down to 20 % again" or something like that.

Could have huge implications to the platform though, so I am sure Valve has thoughts about that. But since they're spammed with indies anyway it shouldn't have too much of an impact.

Fedora Workstation 41 will drop GNOME X.Org session as fallback option
8 March 2024 at 3:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

Hope we can use NVK by then... since I have little hope that the proprietary nvidia wayland support will get better, to be true, it got worse from 535 to 545 :D. Those flickering issue in certain applications is annoying.

Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time
1 March 2024 at 10:53 pm UTC

Hope I'll be able to try that on Fedora 40. Would love nothing more than to get rid of the proprietary nvidia driver.

The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released
1 March 2024 at 10:48 pm UTC

Oh, the overview is in! That could draw me from Gnome again. I got so used to it for window switching in Gnome that I could not go back to KDE.

Good Job KDE Team!

NVIDIA open source driver to use NVK + Zink for OpenGL on newer GPUs
27 February 2024 at 10:01 am UTC

Good, I hoped that this would happen at some point and hope that will free up resources (generic implementations usually do). Now we only need NVK to perform well enough for gaming and we don't need the proprietary driver anymore only the GSP.

Some time down the road, but hey - there is a road!