It's cool, but at that point why "replace"? Why not just have a desktop computer?

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Interesting. And you know, climate change aside, there's nothing new about war ruining the landscape and wrecking the economy. Directly and indirectly . . . throughout recorded history you have countries chopping down all their forests to build navies.

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Quoting: elmapultoo little too late for us.
sure, we can play another subset of windows games, but that isnt enough reason for people to migrate to linux...

and now that ms turned linux into an middleware with WSL, making softwares exclusively for linux wont help either.

now i'm happy that i will be able to play my games on, shit, the niche stuff that i want to play wont work >.>
and GFN isnt avaliable on my country...

Unless and until we already have for other reasons market share around say 20% and many things change, from the start nobody was ever going to migrate to Linux because of games. The hope was always that games on Linux get close enough that it will be easy to migrate to Linux for other reasons and not be seriously held back by games. We're pretty close there; arguably if Proton gets anti-cheat working we'll be near enough parity for everyone except really hard core gamers.
Then if Adobe stuff works smoothly on Wine/Proton, we're golden for about everything else.

Of course no matter what we do nothing will happen if there isn't some kind of push for preinstalled desktop or Steam Machine Linux. We're not going to pass 2% on people taking the initiative to replace their preinstalled OS all by themselves. Mind you, that doesn't necessarily have to be established companies. If the likes of System76 grow to become titans of industry with massive sales and placement in Wal-Mart, that works too.

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Quoting: GuestInteresting but i guess desperate: https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/14/arm-co-founder-starts-save-arm-campaign-to-keep-independence-amid-40b-nvidia-deal/

QuoteThis puts Britain in the invidious position that the decision about who ARM is allowed to sell to will be made in the White House and not in Downing Street,” he writes

His apparent trust in the current UK government's ability to do anything productive let alone efficient is touching.

It's kind of amazing when you think about it that, stripped down, what he is saying, and it's being taken somewhat seriously for frankly solid reasons, is that being taken over by an American company could torpedo a business. Even ten years ago, can you imagine the idea that a company becoming American would be the kiss of death commercially being seriously contemplated? And yet here we are--the US picked their trade war with China and the fallout is beginning to filter down.

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Quoting: slapinNvidia is big time SoC vendor (tegra) and this is very bad for market, where are anti-trust laws?

As Liam notes in the article: "This includes regulatory approvals across the U.K., China, the European Union and the United States which they're estimating to take 18 months." Of these the EU and maybe the U.K. are the only entities I could possibly see pushing back, but I doubt they will.

I can imagine the EU doing it. If this gets embroiled in China vs. the US tech-politics, the realities are shifting rather fast. The EU is having to re-evaluate just who is their best trading partner, who they are going to be most involved with geopolitically, and the answer is looking somewhat different from even a few years ago; it may come up "The ones who own the New Silk Road" rather than "The ones who own big aircraft carriers and are too incompetent to handle a public health emergency" . . . especially since the aircraft carriers are obsolete in the hypersonic missile age.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Whitewolfe80Case in point Mac has a larger base than linux and by all accounts porting games to mac is still highly profitable. My main point is we are not getting native games again anytime soon the buzz has gone on that.

We are not getting native ports of AAA games. We're still getting plenty of new native games, I see articles about them right here every single day. They're just generally not from the very top tier, which is a problem, but it's not the same problem you're describing.

Again i repeat my previous statement most of them are drek and you would not normally look at them but because we are getting so few native triple a games people are buying them.

Tastes apparently differ. I can't remember when I read about an AAA game that sounded like something I wanted to play. I won't go so far as to call them all drek--clearly plenty of misguided souls for some bizarre reason have different opinions on this subject from my own. You might want to pull your horns in a bit, too.

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They should finally get to the end only to find polite Canadian border guards explaining that the border is closed due to poor American handling of the zombie pandemic. But if you'll wait in quarantine for two weeks while the zombies close in on you . . .

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Like Liam, I'm a Mate man. But one size does not fit all; I'm generally pleased to hear that the different DEs are doing good stuff, whether it's XFCE, KDE, Cinnamon, Budgie . . . I guess even Gnome 3 . . . OK, never really forgave Gnome 3 for being what it was rather than an improved Gnome 2 . . .

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Quoting: dubigrasuGood for them.

I know I'm swimming against the current here, but despite the fact that their interests don't really align with us, I always liked and respected Nvidia.
They always treated me right with their drivers, they worked on par with the Windows ones, they were reliable (sure, bug happens), and in about 20 years as a Linux user I knew I could always count on them to deliver the best performance.
Sure, there's more than looking for performance, I'm not living in a bubble oblivious to the existing Nvidia issues, and I've heard (or some experienced myself) them all, here, reddit, discord or whatever place where someone mentions Nvidia and shit start hitting the fan, so please, don't try to "open my eyes". And I'm not an "Nvidia or bust" person either, as you can see I'm rocking a AMD GPU right now, since it was the best card for the money at the time.
Maybe is a bit of nostalgia, since in my early Linux years I used only Nvidia cards, I dunno...I used to break my system all the time in all the imaginable ways, and there was a single constant piece if software that refused to break, guess which one :)

But anyway, I just think that Nvidia is an impressive front-runner company that excels at what they do. I hope they put this acquisition to good use, so yeah, good for them.

I don't actually agree with you but I liked the comment because I respect where you're coming from and the way you expressed it.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Case in point Mac has a larger base than linux and by all accounts porting games to mac is still highly profitable. My main point is we are not getting native games again anytime soon the buzz has gone on that.

We are not getting native ports of AAA games. We're still getting plenty of new native games, I see articles about them right here every single day. They're just generally not from the very top tier, which is a problem, but it's not the same problem you're describing.

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