Fuck. I just lost 50 bucks. I did my bet that Nvidia won't release before 2025 12 years ago.

Happy it's finally happening though. Worth the 50 bucks for loosing the bet.

Since the mention Canonocal, Red Hat and Suse, it's likely that's going to be a pretty fast transition to be kernel compliant. Fast being let's say 12-18 month.

No,I do not accept bets this time ;-).

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Quoting: Mar2ck

Quoting: LeopardSquare Enix or any other company whom are pushing Windows builds do not have any obligations for SteamOS/Proton users.

They don't have any obligation but neither did all of the other devs who made adjustments to their windows-only games to get them running better on Deck.

It actually should not be that hard to get away from MSHTML. But you are right, they need not to since MSHTML will receive security updates till 2029.

With a history of terrible launchers for FFXIV, I doubt this will change any time soon, especially since that piece is not that old.

I am fine with XIVLauncher if they do not start banning us for using it (which I doubt, even with their more aggressive stance to non-standard addons I am pretty sure they are aware of XIVLauncher and will not break it on purpose). I actually use the XIVLauncher windows version inside the FFXIV prefix at the moment, which works well too (and stays there on my HDD when I decide to switch distros).

The flatpak is cool though, didn't think they'd be going for that.

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Maybe once it releases, I'm not buying early access anymore :D.

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For that to happen Gabe needs to learn to count to 3.

Not very likely to happen.

Jokes aside, there is so much which can go wrong in a sequel of great games that you do not want to destroy a legacy by risking another sequel.

Can go great, but pretty much ruin a franchise and reputation too. Better in great memory than failure.

Looking at Valves track record this may not happen, but it can.

Valve is on a point with their games that making a sequel better is hard to do.

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Quoting: 14Fedora as a stable alternative to Arch? Well, you know what they say: have it your way.

On that part it's probably really more stable. They usually don't break on fundamental stuff in a stable release cycle.

But to be fair, distributions are just that. They maintain upstream packages.

The difference with Arch and Fedora is, Fedora undergoes a quality gate. Which Arch never did, never does, and probably never will do.

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Quoting: MaluraqAs a long time Fedora user, I don't see it getting nearly the love it deserves. It's stable and reliable and has a LOT of spin options to get the look and feel you want. I run it with XFCE4 myself. Enjoy!

Using fedora for 4 month now, breaking my system once I'm not sure if that's true. Though, was played by Nvidia drivers, but for me it was not a stable experience.

I still use it though, it's still the best option for me.

Fedora is not stable, considering 80 % of the GPUs in the laptop space probably are Nvidia.

I do understand their stance towards that. Just, that won't be good for any average user.

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Quoting: ridgeAs an Arch user on all my devices (except the Pi). Yeah. Yeah I don't blame you one bit. I haven't experienced any breakage with my hardware but I keep reading about it and other issues that can occur, so while I do love Arch, it kind of feels like a minefield at times even for me. Fedora's a great choice! I tried it on a laptop just over a week ago and I'm a big fan, packages are relatively up to date and it's so simple to set up. A bit bloated out of the box, for my tastes, but that's just nitpicking really, so I'm definitely recommending Fedora KDE or Mint to anyone who might ask me what their "first distro" should be.

Yeah, arch still has and always will have a special place in my heart. It is good, but probably not for the every day use of a person who does not want or does not have the skills to tinker.

Fedora for new users? Well, I certainly would not recommend that. In my personal opinion there are better distros for that, though based on Ubuntu (as Neon) which I wouldn't touch, for new users who want stability, the LTS kernel and just "use" the systems and very likely... mostly just a web browser in todays time, it's perfectly valid.

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Quoting: dibzExactly why I use Mint. There is absolutely no reason Linux has to be a chore for Desktop use, it's well-supported, it's been around long enough for me to know it'll continue being around for the foreseeable future, many of it's defaults match my preferences, and I generally like their stances on things like Snap while also making things like Nvidia drivers easy to install. Most of all, they're an excellent buffer between the user and Ubuntu; Sure, it makes some packages slower to roll out then Ubuntu, but also GOOD -- Mint tends to polish Ubuntu's occasional turds.

Why I did not use a Ubuntu/Debian based distro was that it adds an additional upstream level.

I wanted a upstream distro, because the downstream ones pull bugs and issues and have to wait for upstream to fix it.

That leaves Debian, Fedora, Suse, Solus and Arch basically.

Maybe Ubuntu since they rebase and compile their owm repos and therefore do have the control too.

Debian was too outdated in stable, and you have the Nvidia issue too. At least for my dev purposes, and using testing is like using Fedora with still more outdated Packages.

Suse is well, Suse, it has Yast, and when i see yast I want to throw my PC out of the window. It duplicates config options into a tool where they should not be. It's a long standing hatred since 1998, though, gave Suse a shot last year, and if there was no Yast I could live with it.

Arch... too bleeding for my taste. And not really for me for desktop use, I want to use not tinker.

Fedora.. was the closest I found to what I wanted, and I like their silverblue approach (even if I do not use it yet). I think that could be the future approach, but I'll wait.

Ubuntu. Well, nothing ever got or will get me within a mile of that one, mostly for their past politics, policies etc.

Fedora could be better when it comes to proprietary stuff, but it's a lot of less hassle than it used to be, at least in the Workstation edition.

Solus basically isn't completely open source. You can not build or distribute your own installer or base a disto on top of Solus, or use their package files and redistribute.

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Quoting: axelb

Quoting: STiATrebooting several times since it just didn't install all packages downloaded

are you sure you arent mistaking it with windows by accident?

Yes, I am. Doing a system update it triggered the "you need to restart" after every package instead after all were downloaded and ready to install.

In Gnome Software that works, in discover it was bugged (switched 2 weeks ago from KDE to Gnome, so it's likely to be still not fixed).

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Quoting: BoldosAs I need to be productive (day-by-day, both office and home, both desktop and server) I just have to say: God bless for LTS distros! :tongue: (Now running desktops on ZorinOS, and it is a blast!)

And yes, migration to AMD two years ago have helped with driver install issues a lot! :woot:

Enjoy the hopping!:smile:

I still wish I have had an option when the GPU prices were just too high and my rig burned down. The only AMD cards I could get I couldn't get equipment to cool them passively, and the most vendors which got the cards on "normal" prices had no proper option for passively cooled AMD cards.

This rig will last a few years with it's 3070Ti. But I'll very likely opt for a AMD card if there is any possibility next time.

Though, it's not as bad as it sounds with NVidia, the lack of support for official open source drivers is buggering me.

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