I never was a huge Half-Life fan .. and I played through both and have to say - I didn't really enjoy either. Guess it's just not a game for me.

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I hope NVK will become viable for gaming in the next few years. I've had my fair share of driver problems with 535 and 545 nvidia drivers by now.

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Not convinced The Forge claim to what they are.

Last codebase update in 2022, the following on github describing their owm codebase:
* Linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with Vulkan 1.1

Their github looks like of somebody who never did software development having .exe of installers publicly available anyway hosted there (7zip)

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I often thought of switching, but even in testing and unstable they're a year behind. I understand stability concerns, and have no issue with that on servers, but makes it not viable as a desktop.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: Salvatos> you usually only get the survey on one machine.
Not in my experience. I had it on two different desktops one week apart just last spring and I've had it on my laptop as well.

Got it on my Steam Deck, my laptop and my PC, this month. I decided to distro hop on my PCs and it triggered the survey for each fresh install (wasn't a fresh install for my Steam Deck).

Lucky. I had a survey once. And I have Steam open almost every day since it was released for Linux.

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I am still set to continue or restart once it's done.

I like the lesser raid option though, never liked that feature.

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Quoting: 14I've been playing with Kinoite a little bit in a VM as a way to get hands-on with Flatpak. I don't have a solid opinion yet. I will say that trying to get vim and Kate to work is not obvious. Kate doesn't work via the app menu even though it's listed, nor is it or vim in the bash profile path. Those are pretty fundamental programs that I need to use all the time. I think this OS spin is a proof of concept, but it's an interesting one that could get traction, especially on vendor or corporate supported devices.

Quoting: STiATArch.. well, sweet spot there, pacman is probably the best one out there. I stopped using arch based distros due to their bad optional depend choices (if the software needs it for featurs it should not be optional, even if it is an option on compile, but there the paradigm of Arch and I have diffferent opinions).

If you are into using virtual machines or live USB sticks to test distros, you should try KaOS [External Link]. They are not a fork of any other distro, however they use pacman for the package management tool! It has a good feel.

I know KaOS and Anke probably longer than most, we both have roots in Chakra. The x86_64 focus of them makes it impossible for me (still) to use it in a proper way. I understand her intention, and I do support it, but I can not use it as a daily driver, since I depend on i386 software for my daily work.

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Must be a new IP. I doubt Gabe has learned to count to 3.

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Quoting: HohlraumI love what Fedora does but once I started using other package systems 25+ years ago it's really hard to give up the massive package repositories provided by deb and arch based distributions. Finally, they've tried for years to improve the speed of their package managers but they are terrible every time I give them a try.

dnf5 is actually really nice, I would even compare it to eopkg. And I never could follow the argument of too few packages, I never did miss any in any major distro (but Solus).

I personall find the debian based distros tremendously slow when it comes to package management.

Arch.. well, sweet spot there, pacman is probably the best one out there. I stopped using arch based distros due to their bad optional depend choices (if the software needs it for featurs it should not be optional, even if it is an option on compile, but there the paradigm of Arch and I have diffferent opinions).

What I can agree on, current dnf is painfully slow.

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: STiATFor Cities: Skylines 2 I really hope for a better engine. I am really having issues on my larger Cities with the Performance, and I'm running a 3070Ti... which should not have issues with a game like that at all. Does not matter if OpenGL, Vulkan or via Wine/DXVK, I do have performance issues maxing at 15-20 FPS.

I haven't looked at the exact numbers, but I assume that the game is massively CPU bound. It also requires huge amounts of RAM.

I'm not convinced that a sequel will solve the issues that they haven't been able to fix in all those years.

AMD Ryzen 5 3600X and 50 GB of RAM should be sufficient as well. The graphical detail in the trailer, if even in-game, looks like being a different engine.

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