Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: XpanderWhat distros are dropping X11 support? there are still things that dont work on wayland some people require, so i doubt X will go anywhere soon. If that time comes we will see.

All of them...

Fedora
Ubuntu
Opensuse
Popos
Mint
Gnome (I know not a distro, it's a de, but still relevent) is fully wayland only, no x at all.
^ this is just off the top of my head, I could look up more, but it's pretty much all the major parent distros.

I'm sure you can add X back in to some of these if you want, but that's not the point. X will of course still be used by the legacy people, but every day that passes that percentage will go down and down until there's a stable like 0.1% or something.

Technically, isn't it the desktop environments that are adding Wayland support, not the distros?

However, adding Wayland support does not equal removing Xorg support. The Mint team, for example is adding Wayland support to the Cinnamon desktop. They are not, however, removing Xorg support. KDE is shipping Plasma with Wayland enabled, but they have not completely removed Xorg support either. XFCE is in the alpha stages for Wayland, but they always move slowly.

I can't speak to Gnome, Cosmic or Budgie. Haven't been following them as closely. I will admit that I have heard that Fedora and Ubuntu intend to ship with Wayland as default but that does not mean that they are dropping Xorg, just that they are favoring Wayland -- likely because their DE of choice is also doing so.

That being said, one of my laptops has a Kepler GPU. As long as I remain on the proprietary driver, I will never be able to use Wayland on that laptop. Many users of legacy Nvidia hardware will be in the same state. If only Nvidia would let the open-source community take over full management of their legacy GPU drivers instead of hording tech secrets on what they consider to be defunct hardware. If Nvidia thinks they will force legacy hardware enthusiasts to buy their new GPUs by denying us support, then they are truly clueless...

Go NVK!

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Quoting: ghostdoghttps://www.eurogamer.net/owlcat-gen-ai-expanse-osiris-reborn

Informative article. Thanks for the link.

The final version of the game will not have any art generated by the neural networks. The same goes for the final concepts. Everything will be original and drawn by professional artists. On our current projects, Rogue Trader and Pathfinder, AI was not used at all.

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Quoting: Vladimir-DimovAs I'm aware, Gnome and KDE are most widely used Linux desktops, apparently. Also KDE seem to be most ahead desktop when coming especially to accessibility and monitor fraction scaling, while majority of others desktop environments (LXQt, LXDE, Mate, Fluxbox, Unity, Budgie), except of maybe XFCE are somewhat more obscure and way less used. Only Cinnamon seems more widely used but as I'm aware it's mainly Linux Mint exclusive.

I agree that Gnome and KDE Plasma are certainly the top players. Mate is a lot more common than you think (we have active Mate users on this forum). XFCE is widely available on almost every distro, usually offered as a third option to Gnome or Plasma. I use it myself.

As to Cinnamon, it is not restricted just to Linux Mint. There is an Ubuntu flavor. It's available both on LMDE and mainline Debian itself. I'm pretty sure I have seen a few GoL members who have mentioned that they're running the Cinnamon desktop on Arch and Fedora as well.

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Translation: The founders of The Fun Pimps pimped their company into a nice retirement nest-egg.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: TightRopeHow much did Tim Sweeney cut his own compensation? Responsibility starts at the top.

You don't understand how corporate management works.
If a business is doing well, it's ALWAYS because of the hard-working, visionary CEO.
If a business is not doing well, it's ALWAYS because of external factors outside of the CEO's control.

Don't forget the massive exit bonuses if they do decide to hold the CEO responsible for the failure. Nothing like a reward for screwing up...

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One day I'll get around to playing all these Infinity Engine games. I wasn't into RPG games back then.

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Oooh ... John Carpenter's The Thing, in space...

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Quoting: dubigrasuGiven my increasingly failing eyes, old GPU, size and distance (80cm/2m) from my 2K monitor, I am satisfied to play everything at 1280x720 (boooooo). It scales perfectly, and with a bit of old FSR1 I'm quite OK with it.

I was going to say the same but you beat me to it. I play on a laptop. I'm am quite happy at 720p, 768p or 810p. I can't see myself ever exceeding 1080p, which is a resolution I rarely use for games anyway.

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Quoting: ArehandoroIncreased housing prices don't happen because of immigration. It happens because of the de-regularisation of the housing market (Which it should never be a fucking market)

I agree completely. The problem is that investors are being allowed to speculate on real estate. Housing/shelter should be a basic human right not a field for investment and speculation. There are other ways to handle real estate, but society and the rentier class are too deeply involved with the current system for change to happen. Particularly, since many of society's elite are members of the rentier class.

Quoting: ArehandoroNo one is "importing" anyone. Please stop referring to people like if they were goods.

"Import" is definitely the wrong word. It's hard to find the right word for this. "Immigration" refers to moving into a new country or region. "Emigration" refers to leaving one's country to move to another. Neither really apply to the act of encouraging immigration. "Deporting" means to exile or expel from a country or region. I guess the closest word we have for the opposite of that would be "admitting".

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhat's not extreme is justice and equal rights for all.

In our current, somewhat distopian times, it seems to me that the ideal of "justice and equal rights for all" IS an extreme viewpoint, verging on utopian in nature. Our society more accurately reflects a paraphrase of George Orwell's famous quote from Animal Farm: "... some are more equal than others." Our society definitely allows certain individuals to hold more power and privilege than others.

Quoting: George OrwellAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

We are a hierarchical species. If you look back in history, this is how it has always been.

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