Quoting: scaine

Quoting: Xpanderflatpak :sick:

no appimage?
i guess someone can extract the client from it and build an actual package

nice to see linux support though

I love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users. :grin:

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.

A fix for your appimage problem is appimage-launcher [External Link].

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Quoting: Xpander

Quoting: scaineI love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users. :grin:

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.

Its fine if you like it.
flatpaks are just awful with their runtimes and permissions. Appimage at least is fully self-contained sandbox, not some random runtime this and that here and there with sometimes no access to this or that unless you manually modify things.
each their own. I don't like my distro to become an android device.
native distro packages are prefered for me.

Appimage is not a self-contained sandbox.
Appimage simply runs with the same permissions as the user that runs it(this includes root).
It can do anything the user can do without entering an extra password.

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Quoting: LestibournesI wonder, since Valve is now the OS vendor, if it can't implement its own kernel-level anticheat and let the game devs or anticheat devs make use of it.

It could, but the devs wouldn't trust it, because under the gpl they would be forced to release the source code defeating the security through obscurity kernel anti-cheat relies on.

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Quoting: scaineSelfishly, I have Netflix (albeit debating keeping it much longer after I ditched Spotify a couple of months ago), and won't ever take Paramount, so hopefully this hostile bid fails completely. Also, as others have noted, this is backed by Jared Kushner apparently - Trump's step-son, with additional backing from the middle east.

According to the FT, Paramount are on the hook for only (!) $12bn, while $24bn is secured through several middle eastern sovereign wealth funds (who are still separately diversifying from oil through initiatives like PIF's investment in EA e-gaming), and the remainder is a debt through a combined commitment from the Bank of America, Citigroup, and Apollo.

Why's the middle east always involved when Trump's kids buy something.
Can't they mix it up a bit: tech [External Link] titans [External Link], Russian [External Link] oligarchs [External Link], drug lords [External Link] or the Chinese [External Link].
Their dad has received money and gifts from all of these groups, why can't they do it?

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Rome-Total War
will always have a nostalgic place in my heart.
I played it as a kid. I sucked at it and it had some interesting bugs, but I sank so much time in it.

Spoiler, click me

The most interesting one was in my opinion the fact that it crashed after an hour, my screen time just happened to be an hour. I did some research to the system and asked my father several times, but it appears this was a genuine bug.

Also I didn't read the patch notes when they upgraded the ai to be smart enough to not wait and be hammered to smithereens by catapults, but instead do a step back, so they were out of reach.

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Quoting: Beta Version

Quoting: CorbenTHREE POINT TWO PERCENT?! What the heck! ... Proton, Steam Deck, PC gaming handhelds showing Linux distros working better on them than Windows

Only with AMD. With Nvidia it's a complete disaster. And Nvidia holds around 80-90% discrete GPU market share. You can't expect people to massively switch to Linux when it means losing up to 50% performance in DX12 games.

Is that still true, I see a lot of WINners(wordplay, I mean Windows users) complain about extra sucky NIVIDIA drivers and the other way around Linux has gotten a lot better NVIDIA support, since the AI boom.
In 2022 Pcgamers stated a 10%-20% preformance loss in non-cpu bottlenecked systems, otherwise it was actually better. [External Link]

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Good to see the small struggling tech company NVIDIA being able to push out some nice fixes, BUT we still have completely broken DX12 performance bug with MANY games (as per nvidia forum big thread about it).

One more good reason to switch to Linux...[/quote]I must congratulate @Liam, doitsuijn and Linus with the fact that this exchange is possible on this forum and commend @phil995511 for spotting the difference from so little information.

Spoiler, click me

Both Linux and Windows can run DX12 games, but when Linux has an issue with them the problem is DXVK or a Vulcan issue and when Windows has a problem it's a driver and kernel issue.

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Quoting: LachuOnly we wait for quantum wireless network, so people would not buy normal PC, but only displaying device and pay subscription. Maybe world will go in this direction? I do not joke. Imagine how many resources will be preserved - only one kernel for many devices, only one code for each program loaded into memory, only one copy of constant data loaded into memory, etc.

Current wireless technology already massively uses quantum effects.
Also it would only worsen the base resources problem.
There is a reason why better chips often means smaller transistor distance.
The more volume a signal has to cover the more the second law of thermodynamics will get involved.
Besides that the cloud providers haven't really shown they can be trusted with, so much control over people's data(not your hardware, not your data)

Still you're probably right that this will happen.
After the end of the AI bubble, all that cloud compute infrastructure will still exist and start to compete with other cloud computing infrastructure.
This will drive down the price of cloud subscriptions. Bringing people to do more and more in the cloud.

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As long there is considerable consumer demand for these labels, they should exist.
Even when there're liars at least the consumer can call them out(including at court for misleading advertising)
The consumer pays and is thus the boss. If you don't want to play by their rules a healthy market must punish you.
Otherwise the market loses its primary selling point compared to government involvement: competition leads to motivation to offer better products.

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Wow, that dude is hardline.
You make it harder to debug: keep yourself stable.
You start bitching: do it yourself.

Still I think he made legally the right choice.
Steam is DMCA protected any research published to find what crashed it is publishing works aiding with rendering effective technical measures ineffective and thus illegal.

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