Quoting: JarmerNice! Gotta love these huge improvements for same hardware.

Although: that said, I'm not sure I notice/care that much about raytracing just in general. It makes things look SLIGHTLY just a tiny bit better at a huge frame cost? But maybe with this the frame cost will be minimal so that slightly better look will be okay?

Apparently some developers are mostly using ray tracing not to improve the visuals but as a crutch that allows them to not bother implementing lighting at all as they normally should, like iirc the latest Doom game doesn't work without ray tracing at all, although when you set it to low the performance is not as horrible as you may expect from ray tracing (but still pretty horrible)

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Btw this mod works beautifully with flathub version of LibreQuake which includes Ironwail. You put the mod directory in ~/.var/app/io.github.lavenderdotpet.LibreQuake/data/ and then you can select the mod from the main menu, don't need to think about anything else and don't need to own Quake.

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An annoying downside to Fedora — Installing NVIDIA GPU drivers on Fedora still needs more steps than it should.

Didn't Fedora fix/bring back the one click nvidia driver installer in the last version? I think I've read that. I only ever used atomic fedora so that wouldn't apply to me anyway but on Workstation it's true iirc

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I think it's a good sign when people recommend Fedora, because I always thought of Fedora as just a collection of vanilla upstream software like Debian and Arch are, so when I hear that Fedora is good I just hear that Linux in general is good

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Speaking of Skyrim competitors, Tainted Grail was definitely one of the most interesting games for me this year and probably one of the best RPGS in years, writing is really good and even what seems like a tiniest fetch quest is likely to surprise you with something. Later sections of the game were a bit rough on launch but after some patches and a DLC I expect it to be in a pretty good state, although I'm yet to do a second playthrough.

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It took them 43 releases to realise they needed more formal testing procedures? Wow, that's rather amateur to put it mildly.

And Fedora 1 wasn't really a new distro, it was technically just a new Red Hat Linux release under a new name.
Also now that I think about, when I first read about it it didn't mean anything to me (and tbh I don't really remember what they said), but now it sounds like it was probably one of those greedy "we're locking our distro behind a paywall, but don't worry, you can still use our beta quality stuff" 😅

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You can find the latest version on Arch Linux and even on Fedora since the day one

Strictly speaking, both Fedora and Arch have their own testing repos that everything goes through for a while and they delay things too, but it doesn't necessarily save you from everything. Same as Debian didn't save me when LTS kernel suddenly had regressions when it wasn't even new anymore, but the probability of that on Debian is much lower of course

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Rolling-release or semi-rolling-release packages often cause far too many problems for end users because they release new packages without even bothering to test them ;-(

Btw it is common practice to only update to Nth release of Fedora when N+1th release comes out (so you should stay on 42 until 44 is out, then update to 43), and this is what ublue does by default iirc, their default recommended download is always one version behind Fedora. On the other hand, because Fedora is semi-rolling, I'm not really sure how effective this is, but it probably is, since people do that.

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TAA is also known for stuff like ghosting. But maybe it's worth it? idk
Old FSR versions at least also looked pretty bad, but I'm not really sure how it is with 100% resolution, especially newer versions

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I have never and will never use any form of frame generation or upscaling

This is annoying and weird, but it seems it's impossible not to use upscaling now in one way or another because in modern games all of the old antialiasing methods have been removed and unless you enable something like FSR (even if you render at 100% resolution) you're going to get pixellated garbage on the screen, especially in complicated parts of the image like foliage and hair

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