Quoting: Cley_FayeIt was unlikely, but I kinda hoped there would be some hardware release date announcements too :D

Me too. For me the steam machine looks like some kind of on-desk box I've been looking for. Depending on the price, I have to get that pitch through my finance minister (my wife).

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That information is the same as used as the age verification on vending machines selling cigarettes. It's a good way to verify age without sending official documents around to some 3rd party entities.

That said, having a young stepson, I found the parental controls pretty okay in steam.

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@Leprotto: The desktop version is said (I can't confirm that since I never used it) to have better performance / stability when it comes to network connectivity/ping/packet loss. Other options as recording and screenshots and the in-game menu are not there as well.

For me and the games I mostly play it's good enough. Especially after my gaming rig died and I'm stuck with a 300 € mini-pc for now until I decide on something different (if I ever get a gaming rig again) :grin:.

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I was using the AppImage for some time since I had issues with the geforcenow-electron when it was deprecated. They fixed that now too (interestingly enough, seems one of the devs of geforcenow-infinity fixed those too).

Glad they have a flatpak now though, so I get automatic updates. Works great for me :-).

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Interesting that so few people have issues with the installer. Maybe it's just the gnome version suffering issues, but I get thrown in there, and it flickers / turns off and on screens all through the installation process (on a nvidia 3070Ti and a amd ryzen mini-pc which I use for game streaming).

Otherwise it's a really cool distribution and actually made me like atomic distributions. Except the download size of 1gb every day.

Though, I really switched to the cosmic main image to make sure I am not running the risk of actually having a too stable system. Didn't work, it's still stable and does not give me many problems.

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I'm using actually the gnome variant. Their installer still has issues on nvidia at least, but once it's running it's really good. It's actually the first immutable system I feel good with.

And I like that they just update in the background and I do not have to take care of the system. Clicking an update button once felt good, now it's just annoying.

I even was surprised how easy it was to set up a go and rust dev environment on a immutable system. So I'm quite content to continue using Bazzite (or something similar) in future.

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Ouch. That seems to be worse than it first read.

But well, mistakes happen, and I wouldn't blame it on one guy. What I'd question is the actual QA process involved there, such a major issue not caught during testing phases is very rare, especially for distributions as widely used as *Ubuntu.

I hope we get to know how that issue slipped through in the end, since that happening now after many years of basically flawless updates is quite surprising.

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I want to see how much NVK has improved since the last minor release.

Me too. But since nothing is in the release notes, probably not too much except for performance improvements / backend work (they did a lot of work on nak, and broke a lot of things on the way too :-D).

I had to go with the proprietary drivers again.. because I'm a sucker for a good RPG and wanted to continue my 1200 hour story from KCD1 (KCD2 was a slide show on mesa/nvk here).

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It just made the Nvidia driver (including the whole system) crash about 1.5 hours in. But until then it was very smooth.

Probably yet another driver oops by nvidia.

NVK sadly suffered from regressions in the latest versions for me (performance regressions and crashes in the nak rust code), but I will try it with DX11 and NVK later this weekend (it is not playable with DX12 on NVK, but we know that still needs work).

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I am really confused, that's something I'd expect on hotfix not just on experimental. I really don't know what's the purpose of the hotfix by now if those fixes don't come to hotfix (if they don't and, could be that I missed that).

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