Quoting: gabber

Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: gabber

How well does this entry engage with communities and groups under-represented (e.g, women, non-binary, gender queer, or gender non-conforming) in the FOSS Community?

smh

Why? It's one of three "secondary considerations".

Because it even is a consideration.

Last I checked I did neither need my genitals nor my sexuality to program. This is a politically motivated power grab and only brings division and drama, not better code. Equality starts when you do not differentiate. Now they have to ask for gender and divide the projects into those categories.

But the fact it's under secondary gives me a bit of hope this cancer will soon die off.

Bloody anti-anti-sexism snowflakes. Waah, waah, waah.

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Quoting: oldrocker99I saw a post from one Arch user saying that he'd rather spend the time installing Arch and the apps he wanted than spend "hours and hours" deleting "bloat" from Manjaro.

That strikes me as silly leetthink. I mean, there are occasions for caring about bloat. I expect you probably don't want bloat in your router, not that I know anything about routers. If you're poor and using the ability of Linux to extend the lifespan of very old hardware, bloat matters.
But for a normal desktop it's pointless. Any modern hard drive only has a very small percentage occupied by not just the OS, but all the open source software even a lavish distro throws in. A couple of games or a couple of movies take up as much space as a whole distribution so what is this problem they're inventing? It's a pretend differentiator so they can look down their nose at the uninitiated.
(seriously, for some of the bigger games they could solve dependency problems by building in a whole Linux OS and barely notice the difference)

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Looks like some decent stuff. Meanwhile I'm getting into later game in my current playthrough and I definitely think it hasn't slowed down as much as usual, so I'd say recent efforts at performance improvement are working.

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This is perhaps heading for off topic, but I have been playing my non-computer, tabletop RPGs via a thing called Roll20 and Zoom. Teleconferencing isn't quite like being together in person, but it's nice I can still spend time with my friends.

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I was meaning to play different stuff but I'm back on Stellaris. Having fun with this run, though. I'm running idealized Commies/social anarchists . . . fanatically Egalitarian, democratic government, Shared Burden civic, even got the commissar-style voice-over. What I'm enjoying is that though they're Materialists, the anarchist utopia didn't seem to quite go with either massive genetic engineering or turning everyone into machines, so I was quite stoked that an interesting event let me go the Psychic route instead.
One thing I always find annoying in the later stages of Stellaris is that, with all the migration, my leader pool is always cluttered up with various aliens when I want to recruit my species 'cos they're frankly superior. I guess I can avoid that by being evil, which is fun now and then but . . .

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboySome of the stuff Canonical does is / was better than what its competitors are / were doing... Unity for example, was far better than the garbage that is GNOME 3.x. And Snap is theoretically superior to Flatpak in various ways, though Flatpak is more "open", which is an especially big selling point in the Linux Community. Yet another example would be "Mir", which as I understand it is theoretically superior to Wayland, though again, the latter would be considered more "open".

As I understand it, HURD is theoretically superior to Linux. Not sure how far those theoreticals get anyone.

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Whatever else you say about these guys, their project has provided a lot of entertainment. It may never yield a game box, but it's already given us an excellent soap opera.

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Quoting: TheRiddickIs RTX and DLSS2.0 coming to Linux sometime? that will be a BIG deciding factor come next gen GPU's. Hopeful AMD will offer a DLSS type solution also but we will see. DLSS2.0 is SIGNIFICANTLY better then 1.0.

I have no fear of exposing my ignorance if by so doing I may remedy it. What's a DLSS?

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis is all no doubt true but I'm not sure how much it matters to the average prospective customer.

I'm talking about Google. For customer it means there will be games on Stadia that aren't possible to run on Geforce Now. That alone is already a differentiator that will bring them users.

My point is, they aren't really competing 1:1, so I don't buy the argument that Google are doing something wrong in comparison with other stream services or they are behind them. They are actually ahead and they are doing something different.

I expect there will at some point be such games. But there ain't any yet, so for now there's no differentiator in sight. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. And even when there are, there may not be very many, and they may or may not be games that tons of people want.
The open question remains, I think, how long Google are willing to carry this thing before it gets to where they hope it will get.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: rustybroomhandleThe NVidia option lets you play way more games than Stadia does. Of all the options, Stadia is the weakest.

That doesn't matter. They simply offer you a VM where you can play your Windows games (which you already bought on Steam and such). Google offer something different - a platform to make new games. I'd say Nvidia isn't even a competitor, they are a different category service. The only comparable thing I see is something like Amazon's Lumberyard backend (not Lumberyard itself). Amazon just need to tune it for running actual rendering on the server.

The difference is important. I.e. Stadia allows making games that can't run on a desktop, they need server infrastructure. Nvidia doesn't offer that and it doesn't look like they plan to.

This is all no doubt true but I'm not sure how much it matters to the average prospective customer.

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