Linux has exactly the same issues as Windows & I think it's usually caused by the firmware (e.g. it got better on Lenovo ThinkPad or HP EliteBook devices after a few firmware updates). Unfortunately S3 often isn't even implemented anymore.

I don't know any of the details, I just know it doesn't happen for my laptop (Dell Inspiron i5 gen 8).

In fact, and this is another thing that came up when I was flexing on my friends; I don't believe I heard the fan noise of my laptop, not even once since I installed Linux on the thing a year ago. When it was on Windows, it would randomly spin up the fans like crazy, usually when I'm away form the computer too, like what's up with this thing ?

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Makes me wonder if the battery life on regular laptops could also be better with Linux installed?

That's the case here. I pulled out my laptop in front of my friends last night to do something, they were all mindblown the battery was still at %60 having told them I hadn't touched in in a day and a half. They were most surprised it doesn't turn on by itself when I tuck it in the bag, such is the case for the infamous Windows sleep in laptops.

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Would've been perfect if it also included the 1-3 DMC collection...

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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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