Quoting: NasraRX 7600 XT is probably a good card, but in 128bits, the memory bandwidth will be a problem for its 16GB VRAM...

Not quite sure about this. There are interesting benchmarks regarding nVidia's own 4060 Ti 16Gb and while there is no tangible difference in framerate, the frametime is a lot better, which is the very reason for this model to exist. The problem with nVidia's card isn't the end result, it's the price.

To be honest, I am pretty interested in this RX 7600 XT, but I am really worried about power efficiency...
I think they shouldn't have overclocked it, the market was in need of an aptly priced sub-200W GPU with 16Gb of VRAM, but now its consumption is pretty much on par with the 1440p segment, which kind of defeats its purpose in the first place.

So let's wait and see, there may be surprising results at hand, but I am not very confident about these.

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Quoting: M@GOidWhy the RX 7900 results were lower than the RX 6700 ones?

Must be resolution the game is running at

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Quoting: LanzGnome now resembles the bastard child of a smartphone, Mac OS, and Windows 11 - combining the worst elements of all 3 into the most dialectical GUI.

I am quite passionate about OS UIs, and to me what it resembles the most is in fact Xerox GlobalView :


But I'm fine with diverging opinions, I am just happy to have a DE that fits my tastes completely.

Fedora 39 brought Mesa 23.2.1, which makes me gain quite a few FPS, along with increased vm.max_map_count out of the box. Also GNOME Files got a GUI overall that's pretty nice. On the negative side, HIP is now broken, but package maintainer is working on it.

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For the price I'd still buy the original versions for my Dreamcast

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By acquiring CoD, Overwatch 2 and King's F2P, Microsoft actually just got worse than it was before.

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Quoting: devlandMacOS, iOS & Safari are the modern equivalent for Internet Explorer 6.

As much as I dislike modern Apple software, there is a fundamental difference between Safari & IE: the engine is FOSS and is used by many open source projects, whereas IE was an enemy of interoperability.

Quoting: M@GOidAFAIK Apple started the Metal API more or less the same time AMD released their Mantle API. When Vulkan appeared, they had already invested a lot in Metal, so they made the call to continue that path.

In the past they invested in Rave then OpenGL, yet they dropped all these. The main motivation for them is the convergence with iOS and tvOS, and forcing metal upon users and developers is a way of both reinforcing and taking advantage of the domination of smartphone gaming.

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Well for once I'm a bit more positive than others on this one, I'd gladly buy it when it's on sale.

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Quoting: omer666Good job fining Valve for region-locking, while Germany continues censoring games and Microsoft buying Activision is tolerated.

Only one of the three broke the law.

Germany does not censor games. Certain presentations are banned but that rarely happens (only 40 games - if the list is complete - were ever banned, 11 bans rescinded). Many games (but even that now rarely happens) were indexed which imposes major restrictions but technically it was still possible to buy the games. Publishers then censored games to allow a mainstream release. This happens in the US, too: e.g. movies are censored in production for an R rating & avoid NC-17. But unlike German releases this usually affects all releases.

You can't buy Postal Redux in Germany at all for example, even if you buy a legit key and try to activate it on Steam. But your statement is right: it doesn't break the law because it is precisely the law in Germany.
As to whether Microsoft is breaking the law or not, as far as we're dealing with antitrust laws or European competition law, that's quite debatable if you ask me. To see that it was problematic up until they got away with an agreement on game streaming is a bit confusing to say the least.
I am also not trying to compare the EU to the US, as the later is not a model to me either. I am french and I see EU doing stupid things sometimes, but they also do get many things right. That today's news got me thinking of these is not that far fetched, is it?

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Good job fining Valve for region-locking, while Germany continues censoring games and Microsoft buying Activision is tolerated.

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I bought it for my new rig with the upcoming DLC, but the controller icons and the fact some keys can't be remapped (especially troublesome for AZERTY keyboards like mine) outdid my patience quite quickly...
I installed 1.63 using the beta tab, edited the keyboard mapping file manually + in-game, and in the meantime I keep my fingers crossed for seeing an update fixing those things before the actual DLC release.

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