Quoting: KlaasThe name of the Sony president has to be the Japanese equivalent to Mäxchen Müller in German (i.e. a generic placeholder name).

So, like Underhill in the Shire.

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Huh. Mine didn't give me a %Linux. I assume it's 100%, but it didn't say as far as I could figure.

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Quoting: prosoorBut did they do a market research to find out how many of female players will play Witcher game? Speaking only for myself, I find it hard to identify with the character, if playing the game with a female character. I have nothing against it, I just think they missed the market.

What-ev-er.

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Quoting: sarmadI still don't see how this can be legal.

The fact is though that it is the case. Maybe it's not "legal" but nobody challenges it for the same reason they signed it: They can't get a better deal, it is either that deal or sell hardly any computers because people won't buy them without Windows on them.

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Gotta hand it to the developers. This probably isn't a game I could play worth spit, but it's making me wish I could.

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Quoting: razing32Obligatory diggy diggy hole ?

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Classic. Although I really like this version:
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Quoting: clatterfordslimThe question is why are Xfce going with Wayland?

Because they want to still be used on computers in a few years?

There are still a fair number of users saying "X11 is fine just keep using it" but as far as I can tell there are no actual coders saying that. Wayland is coming, slowly but it is, and that's pretty much that. It's not like SystemD where there were noticeable numbers of actual coders wanting to do something different, who for all I know may still be working away at alternative lighter-weight not-SystemD stuff that may actually work for some people. When Wayland is seriously ready, as far as I can figure distros will be gleefully hucking X11 through a window.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy...But, that contract may not have mentioned Steam-Deck-like things because the MS lawyers wouldn't have been aware of that possibility. So in the case of this thing, Lenovo could potentially build it without the MS tax applying.

I wonder this myself. This is what I was referring to when I said, "Maybe Lenovo is able to justify their new handheld unbound by the MSFT licensing agreement they have." But to be honest I really doubt the MSFT lawyers would have missed something. I mean, MSFT had tablets in the early 2000's, It's just nobody wanted them, at least, as consumers go. MSFT lawyers have been aware; new types and styles of un-PC like devices would crop up. The wording in their contracts are probably very vague enough for it to favor MSFT. Even if Lenovo thinks they have a carve out that they believe will allow them to sell handhelds without the MSFT Tax applied, MSFT doesn't heart Linux so much that they wouldn't resort to lawfare. If one company gets away with a carve out, all the companies are going to want a carve out. Whew! if that happens, almost thirty years of vendor lock'in will evaporate so fast. MSFT knows they can't allow that.

I don't think MS has the power to go too far afield in terms of device types, because there are just so many devices out there for which Windows is not a real option. So TV boxes, smart TVs, the overhyped Internet of Things, stereos, there are just so many little thingies nowadays with a computer in them, and no OEM is going to be willing to shell out for a useless Windows license for all of them, so the terms have to have some limitations on just what the Microsoft tax is going to be paid on. And since portable gaming devices never had Windows on them, they would not have been a viable thing for MS to charge a Microsoft tax on.

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Quoting: NeoTheFoxBy the way, it's based on a SAMOSBOR fictional universe, that thing deserved a game for a while now.

On a what now?

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Quoting: legluondunetDebian and Debian-like distributions are not, to my experience, the best Linux distribution for gaming, their packages are not enough often updated and lack libraries dependencies. Arch and Aur are the way to follow for Linux gamers, SteamOS is ARCH based.
For the DE I suggest a light one to keep your resources for gaming, like XFCE.

Depends on your gaming. For heavy gaming with graphics-heavy AAA-type stuff, I expect you're right. I play mostly indie games that don't require either really heavy resource use or twitch reflexes (so I don't worry about frame rates). For light games like that, none of this stuff matters much, so just "whatever makes the nicest desktop" is also fine for the gaming.

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