Quoting: Linuxwarper

Quoting: CaldathrasVery much so. And it's hard to find Windows equivalents of these tools that work just as well as the Linux-based ones. I'm thinking of Mangohud in particular.

There is someone developing a RadeonChill like feature called MangoChill: https://farnoy.dev/posts/mangochill [External Link]. It seems promising.

Fascinating (and a highly technical read) but that's really the opposite of what I was talking about. My statement was that, these days, it seems like the Linux tools are better than the Windows tools, with features and compatibility you simply don't see in the their Windows counterparts.

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Quoting: Stella

Quoting: CaldathrasSadly, Bazzite is not for me. They have very poor Nvidia legacy hardware support. CachyOS, on the other hand ...

We have images for GTX 9 and 10 series. If you mean Kepler and earlier, they are no longer supported by Nvidia's own drivers. It's a Nvidia problem, not a Bazzite problem.

Yes, I have a Kepler GPU (the GeForce GT 730M, specifically). There are a lot of us Kepler users out there.

I guess you might consider the 9 and 10 series "legacy" but the 580 driver is not technically dead yet. An "Nvidia problem" is a convenient excuse but CachyOS makes the effort to support the 470 driver (up to kernel 6.19 so far - presumably using the unofficial patch) and even Linux Mint does too (up to kernel 6.8). I'm currently on Pop!_OS 22.04, which is surprisingly supporting the 470 driver on kernel 6.16. Bazzite has no support whatsoever.

Clearly, Bazzite is focused on AMD (Mesa) and new Nvidia GPUs. That's okay, particularly as an alternative to SteamOS. For a desktop/laptop, it's simply not good enough. If Mesa/NVK was performing as well as the proprietary, no one would be concerned.

All this means is that I will not be considering Bazzite to be a suitable distribution for me.

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Quoting: kaktuspalmeI wonder how the System76 sales have been going since Framework is in the market. I have the feeling they are taking away a lot of their sales.

I guess that would depend on how comparable their pricing is -- if System76 has lower prices, they might not be too heavily impacted.

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Sadly, Bazzite is not for me. They have very poor Nvidia legacy hardware support. CachyOS, on the other hand ...

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Quoting: LinuxwarperDevs of software like Mangohud, GoOverlay, vkVasalt, DXVK, Proton GE and the many whose dedication and work (may) have gone unnoticed. Linux simply got better one line of code at a time until it culminated in good usability.

Very much so. And it's hard to find Windows equivalents of these tools that work just as well as the Linux-based ones. I'm thinking of Mangohud in particular.

Quoting: Linuxwarperpeople would still be using Windows, EOL or not.

I manage the tech for the small business where I work. My employer has no intention of tossing out perfectly good hardware just to meet the requirements for Win11. I did the research and offered the option of transitioning to Linux. My employer was quite prepared to remain on Win10, EOL or not. When I discovered that the extended support program existed, and could be had for free simply by registering a Microsoft Account, my employer jumped on that rather than switching to Linux. The $30 USD a year option to extend that support to 3 years will likely be embraced if there is no free option to continue. I still hold out hopes of convincing my employer to eventually move to Linux. We'll see.

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Quoting: scainePerhaps the DLC was simply out of their hands - a literal deal breaker, and this compromise at least gives anti-DRM folk the option to play at last.

There's also the remote possibility that it's a technological limitation. That something in the way the DLC is installed by the main program can't be done with an offline installer. Unlikely, but you never know ...

Quoting: Avehicle7887I wouldn't accept it even at that.

The way I see it - GOG the DRM Free store now selling a game with almost €83 worth of DLC and they require a client to access. Galaxy should ever be mandatory for multiplayer and achievements, not game content.

Purely cosmetic DLC is worth €83? 😲

I get your point. I only install GOG games using the offline installer so this means that the DLC would technically be unavailable to me. But, for those that like to use the GOG Galaxy tool, this would be a reasonable solution. Since they use Galaxy anyway, there would be no perception of DRM.

And, actually, if you think about it, this could even be a way of encouraging the use of the Galaxy client ...

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: CaldathrasAnybody with a Microsoft Account can easily access the program.

AFAIK, that's EU only? Others need to jump through additional hoops?

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneYes, it was just for EU.

Quoting: CaldathrasWith the free year of extended support, Win10 EOL is really a bit of a fiction.

And not having a MS account (which was one of the many reasons not to use W11) still makes W10 EOL for EU citizens, too.

Yes, enrollment is automatic in the EU. In North America, it is essentially opt-in. You can enroll in ESU at no additional cost if you are syncing your PC Settings. These settings are enabled by default. The only hoop is that you have to register your Microsoft Account to enable the support. You can go back to an offline account for logins right after registering.

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneWhen I speak "because of W10 EOL" I include all the reasons people may don't want to switch to W11 as online account, Copilot, broken features, advertisement on desktop, bloatware, trackers, "feature" updates and so on. To me the EOL is the term that indirectly speaks about all these problems.

To me, those are separate and distinct issues from EOL but all good reasons to drop Windows in favor of Linux.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: elmapulnon gaming pcs dont matter for the gaming market.

It matters, because someone working with Linux is more likely to adopt Linux on private PC, too. And someone who already owns a Linux PC is more likely to try out games on Linux instead of dual-booting all the day along.

Absolutely agree. My experience mirrors the one you've described.

I moved to Linux (Mint's Mate Edition) on my daily driver after my hard drive failed and I couldn't reinstall Windows. At first, I used it mostly for Web surfing, Office tools and digital music file management. As I grew more comfortable, I learned about this Wine thing and started playing around with running games in Linux. Once I got a laptop with an Nvidia dGPU, it was only natural to try Linux there as well. I still maintain a dual-boot with Windows for the odd game that has issues running in Linux, but most of my games are played in Linux these days.

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneIt was also the year of Win10 EOL.

Which, technically, wasn't. With the free year of extended support, Win10 EOL is really a bit of a fiction. Anybody with a Microsoft Account can easily access the program. Even a Hotmail email account counts as a Microsoft Account.

I suspect that the M$ obsession with LLM's, advertising and telemetry harvesting is having more of an impact than the Win10 EOL. Rendering thousands of perfectly good PCs obsolete with Win11's introduction probably didn't help either. Besides, from what I've heard, Win11 just plain sucks.

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Quoting: CaldathrasWell, I'll concede that that's entirely possible. Although, my T580 is on Mint XFCE 21.3 and it does not detect the WiFi printers. Perhaps the applet is not activated by default in XFCE?

I don't know, but it works fine on my work laptop (T14 Gen 6) with Mint Xfce 22.3. Check that "Discovered printers" is enabled in the View menu of your printer configuration panel (system-config-printer).

Thanks. I'll check that the next time my T580 has WiFi access.

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These days, pretty much what we've come to expect from Capcom.

I wonder if this means that Capcom trusts GOG customers more than they trust Steam customers? 😏

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