Is it not reasonable to expect this SteamOS Beta branch, that's in development to support other devices, to leave the Beta state simultaneously with this Lenovo device release ? It can only make sense for the OS to be in a Stable state when the device comes out, right ?

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More devices with Linux pre-installed is welcome news.

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I've been using SearXNG for my web searching for a few years now. The other day I had a friend's phone in hand and I looked something up on Google (the default), I was blown away by the amount of crap showing up that wasn't what I was looking for: the first result is an AI generated response, then it's 4 to 5 advertisements, so I had to scroll down to get what I needed. This is the average experience for most people, and it's somehow fine by them.

This project sounds interesting, thanks for bringing it to our attention.

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Last week, me and my friend finally proved the hypothetical scenario of Experimental breaking something to be truthful and significant, where before that we used to believe it's all fine, doesn't matter and it's better to stick to Experimental as default.

The issue was that for some reason playing games with Experimental would break Dualshock 4 support and games just don't respond to the gamepad inputs. Proton 9 doesn't have the issue. It was by sheer luck we found that the Proton version was the issue, I could imagine we would've been spending who knows how much time troubleshooting the issue otherwise.

Moral of the story: Do stick with the stable Proton(s).

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Many thanks for the writeup.

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This game used to be viewable for me, but now it joins the other Sony games post-PSN being not available for my region.

Denuvo was the nail in the coffin. This shit sucks.

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What I don't get is the amount of people who fuck up and and forget about this in every game release, flooding the forums with the same posts before realizing they didn't read the memo. It happens pretty much every time, like clockwork.

Making a PSA is a good idea. Hopefully this will get more awareness to people.

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Going for another Linux solution than SteamOS is good news in a way in that, the adoption is appearing to go beyond just SteamOS. Great stuff from Zotac.

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My LibreOffice documents make their way into IGO's. Never received a complaint :grin:

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Great initiative. It's time for a drastic, future-proof change !

I don't know what I'm supposed to do. if I move her to e.g. Linux and LibreOffice... is she going to be able to do her work?
She's 78, she doesn't want to learn new things right now.

I'm not 78, but I have effortlessly transitioned to using LibreOffice for work. It's feature complete, and would say it's 90-95% identical to MS Office. Also, it doesn't crash and piss me off like MS Office. The single time LibreOffice crashed on me, it politely made me aware of it and saved my work before going ahead with the restart, that was so cute, like it's asking for permission to go ahead and die off so I can instantly restart it snd continue where I left off.

Edit: LibreOffice is also on Windows, so it can be tested before committing to the bigger Linux switch.

When comparing the downsides, I believe one should really consider the bullshit Windows pulls off from time to time like the things you mentioned in your message. Often times I see people downplaying all the crap one would have to put up with on Windows, when complaining about the slight cosmetic differences between Windows and Linux, like those are the end of the world.

Linux (Fedora Kinoite) is one-thousand times a better experience for me doing office work than Windows ever was on my work laptop.

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