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Quoting: Villian

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI'm glad NVIDIA pushed the entire Linux Graphics Stack to implement explicit sync too. It makes all of our desktops better.

They dragged us down by 10 years, without supporting GDB, wayland, etc, amd intel always had that figured out, except nvidia, this is a good solution yes, but because of their lazyness we aren't using wayland from default since years

Why are you saying its because of their lazyness and not amd, intels and wayland lazyness? why should nvidia implement something that is legacy everywhere else and amd/intel not implement something that has been the standard for over 10 years and that they have already implemented on windows?

Because
A. Just because it's 10 years old doesn't mean it's legacy. In system development 10 years is pretty young.
B. Because "legacy" is legacy, because it has proven to be useful.
C. Because standardization, basically any standard is just legacy support for really popular systems.

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Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: rambo919Given that the ONLY linux native version of any game to never give me problems that I can remember has been Stellaris..... this might be for the best.

This. I mean, the only bad part about this is that it was a goal, or a promise or whatever, that they're now throwing away or "giving up" on. Which is still pretty bad, don't get me wrong, not downplaying that part, especially for MacOS users, I don't think they have a Proton equivalent to play the game there? MacOS backers should get refunded.

But on Linux, I booted the game up yesterday, and it just works.... like, who the hell cares beyond this point? I asked the other day on this website what could the actual, real world disadvantages of playing through Proton vs Native, bearing in mind that Proton is slowly becoming the defacto Linux-supported method from game developers side, and other than large prefix folders potentially eating up space over time, it's pretty much nothing to bring up.

They do have Wine(nowadays even as a default app under the name Rosetta), but most of them nowadays also need an x86_64 emulator, which really slows it down to nearly useless.

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Quoting: Luke_Nukem> deepest catalog of software enablement across the CPU, GPU and NPU

On Windows mostly I bet.

Actually Intel's Linux support is quite good.
Open drivers, lots of Linux clients and active(proprietary) collaboration in Kernel development.
Also the large AI players all run Linux, so making AI stuff windows exclusive is asking for problems if you're not microsoft.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanual

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: 14I don't think I had any unexpected issues with the multiple Arch machines I maintain.

Just expected issues? :wink:

I've been running Arch for the past four years.

Last year, many people found out that Arch does not automatically upgrade GRUB; you need to do that yourself. This became an issue when a new GRUB version wasn't compatible with the old version for [reasons], I forget.

I also got my laptop serviced and after some testing was run in the BIOS, my bootloader was broken. I needed to re-install GRUB via LiveCD.

Two years ago, my sound suddenly disappeared. This was the pipewire-media-session➜wireplumber transition (or maybe pulse to pipewire, I forget). It took me several hours to figure out how to get my sound back, and in the process, I learned the basics of pulseaudio sound sinks. This knowledge continues to come in handy many years later as I regularly need to use Pavucontrol to reroute audio streams to the right audio device whenever I plug my laptop in via HDMI, as for some reason that causes it to become greatly confused with some programs (but not others). I don't have much love for audio configuration on Linux.

Over the past few years, several programs like Anki have no longer opened after being updated—and actually, Anki has been broken for a few weeks now. This underscores to me the value in separation between host system and user programs that Silverblue creates. I'd rather use Verified Flatpaks though, and Anki doesn't have much interest in adopting the package.

There have been a few other incidents not significant enough for me to remember in any detail.

Breakage on Arch tends to visit me every few months, but for a long time I've viewed breakage as inevitable on Linux. The only difference is I know how to fix the breakage on Arch, but I wouldn't have a clue if you put me in front of Ubuntu or openSUSE. Part of that is lack of experience; the other part is complexity.

...but I've been playing with Fedora Workstation/Silverblue lately, and I've had my perspective challenged.

I'm a debian stable user.
Random breakage is rare.
I'm also a low tier tinkerer.
To me "expected issues" are issues I create by trying some ridiculous trickery I don't need.
Running it on an ARM processor breaks my standard browser.
Getting fingerprint scanning to work requires driver trickery.
Having a lot of privacy protections on your browser breaks websites.
Etc.

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Quoting: Cyrilhttps://github.com/netrisdotme/netris/issues/49#issuecomment-2119248645 [External Link]

Quoting: wanjohiryanHey @kevin-wijnen

Thank you for bringing up an important point regarding browser compatibility and the terminology we use in our documentation.

As of now, we primarily support Chromium-based browsers (such as Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Brave, etc.) due to their comprehensive support for certain web technologies essential to our project. Specifically, here are the compatibility challenges we face with other popular browsers:

Firefox: Unfortunately, Firefox does not support WebCodecs, which is critical for decoding audio and video on the client side in our application.
Safari: While Safari has limited support for WebCodecs, it lacks support for WebTransport altogether. We use WebTransport as a more efficient alternative to WebRTC and WebSocket for our needs.

We acknowledge the value in making our project as compatible as possible with a wider range of browsers and will update our README to clearly explain these compatibility issues.

And thank you for the correction regarding "Chromium"-based browsers - I did not know that :)

Can someone tell if it's legit or not?

Validation.:woot:
Firefox has bad support for HEVC (H.265), due to patent reasons, which is the most popular "webcodec".
Safari is just a loser that doesn't support anything that isn't explicitly developed for it, because Apple doesn't want people to be able to use the web and leave their closed ecosystem, so missing WebTransport makes sense.

To make this work seamlessly for firefox they would have to switch to AV1 if they detect the firefox user agent.

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Quoting: westurnerWhat are some solutions to anti-cheat on
Linux?

For users that purchased these titles that were playable on their computers at time of purchase, this also causes me to avoid such companies.

(By comparison,
can't they run games in VMs, on Gamestreaming services?)

Though Linux users shouldn't settle for it,

Is "Offline mode only" an option?

EAC(Easy Anti Cheat) and VAC(Valve Anti Cheat) run on Linux.
Epic used EAC, before they developed their own, which they're now implementing, which is good news for cheaters, but that is a different question.

Edit:
Here [External Link]'s a full website devoted to this question.

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Quoting: spacemonkeyWould you say that Ubuntu is the best OS if you just want things to work and not tinker, especially for gaming?

A. You're a brave person for asking such a question.
B. No, I think PopOS is more suited.
(proprietary drivers, smaller push for paid features and less ecosystem locking)

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Quoting: tohur

Quoting: jordicomaInteresting. When it suports firefox (with open standards) and radeon gpus I'll try.
Hopefully someone will make it, as is opensource.

Pretty sure Firefox at least in the past has NOT supported all the standards that most these game streaming services use. its on firefox not these services as NONE of them support Firefox. want to be able to use Firefox hound them on their tracker to add the required features.

Quoting: tohur

Quoting: jordicomaInteresting. When it suports firefox (with open standards) and radeon gpus I'll try.
Hopefully someone will make it, as is opensource.

Pretty sure Firefox at least in the past has NOT supported all the standards that most these game streaming services use. its on firefox not these services as NONE of them support Firefox. want to be able to use Firefox hound them on their tracker to add the required features.

You would think so, but reading the reliant bug reports of the people who've decided to do just that I'm not convinced.
It does work if you spoof your useragent to Chrome.
It doesn't work on edge(which is popular and just a chromium fork)

Edge has all the functions of chrome except Widivine drm.
Firefox has widivine drm.
If it doesn't work there unless you spoof your user agent, they're actively sabotaging them.

Extra info:
I found a feature only supported by chrome that's very likely to be in use here.
WebRTC H264.
It is patented and closed source, so edge and firefox don't have direct access to it.
(edge could add it, but then they would have to develop their own implementation)
As such it's not standardized, so they have no more reason than "but chrome is doing it too" to support it
Both have have OpenWebRTC H264, but that isn't the same.
Firefox has since a little time a plugin for it, but that could've not yet come through by the developers who've just blocked all firefox for it.
Safari doesn't support it either, but Safari doesn't support anything.
It's one of the few ways to support streaming and open alternatives tend to have worse marketing, so it could be that they all implemented it this way.

I will finish this with my final advice.
Always spoof your user agent to the newest chrome. Much less support issues that way.

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Quoting: GuestThis is a type of memory module developed by Dell. Its use requires the payment of royalties, therefore an increase in costs. Other royalty-free and equally efficient technical solutions also exist...

To qualify for standardization they've to at least require "reasonable and fair" compensation for the right to use it. That puts a big limit on the price and this solution is a lot more efficient than you might think.
It's what allows the M1 and the M2 as low power ARM processors to approach the raw performance of the top of the line high power x86 processors.
RAM is a common bottleneck on modern devices.
This tech allows for quadrupling RAM capacity compared to normal laptops and a significant speed boost and it's backwards compatible with at least DDR4 and DDR5.

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Quoting: ElTutucaZen

it is near to impossible to cheat in Men of War II multiplayer.

Yeah... That's gonna age as well as milk left outside in a hot summer day xD

The current gold standard for cheating at said game is assault II [External Link] it has 100 reviews an average of five stars(implying few people have been caught) and 3669 downloads.

The cheat appears free of charge and adware.

I give it a 3/5.

Cheap cheating, but still the fear of sharing knowledge and enabling full blown modding.

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