Quoting: ElectricPrismThe USB ports are blue completely ruining the aesthetic.

I think usb3 is always blue.

Quoting: fleskYeah, why on earth did they choose Unity over something more lightweight, and with a more liberal license?

If they expect some kind of partnership it would actually make good sense. If they just choosing it because they think this is easier then it is a stupid choice and it is only because they do not know any better. I do not know which case it is, I would bet it is just a stupid choice just because this is what they know.

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Quoting: ShmerlOnly HDMI output? That's a huge no go. At least they should use both DisplayPort and HDMI, if they think HDMI is so necessary.

Plenty of TV sets with no DP inputs, but all of them have HDMI. I doubt this is such a no-go for most of their target audience.

I agree that for a console that is supposed to be connected to a TV a HDMI currently is more important, yet I do not understand why is it so hard to also support the superior DP.

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Quoting: NeverthelessTo support Desktop Linux means wanting to support open gaming on a wide variety of hardware and drivers.

This is not such a big problem as you make it sound. One should just say "64bit only and an open source vulkan implementation"

If games are working good in these terms then old hardware, who cares, and all other drivers should just get good as it does work on an open source driver there is no real handicap for every other modern enough hardware.

For lightweight games you want to run on older hardware just support OGL3.

If you want to support even older hardware then why not make it all the way and support DOS or even old 8bit computers?

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My personal opinion is: Why is OGL4 a thing? Developers should either support OGL3 for light games, which is good because it supports a lot of hardware, or just support Vulkan.

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What puzzles me for many years, is why there is no "linux store" for user, __not system__, software. It is not like we really need all this software to be in the system, in which case the distro software manager needs to know about it. Why we need steam to do the obvious and even know there is not something like it. I do not even see anyone proposing it.

Instead we see overengineering solutions like snaps and flatpacks.

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about the DE.
a) KDE is not "bloated" and slow at least not the way many people think it is. I really think that should should be the main one. But it is not very reliable. There was a time for me that it was unusable from the bugs, and its behavior may vary from machine to machine. Also you have pretty big upgrades.
b) Xfce is not as light as many people think it is, but it is a very reliable and conservative. It is solid and very good for what it is needed it as an option.
c) I hate GNOME.

Quoting: CybolicI don't really care about which DE they end up keeping as main as I've been running i3 for quite some time and have recently switched to dwm. As long as no DE is a hard dependency, I'm fine with it.

I agree that DE should really not be a hard dependency for anyone. This can be really catastrophic. But the main DE is very important, it is the face of the distro.

What I'd like to see them focus on is compatibility and stability as the last couple of times I've tried Manjaro, it has either failed to install or locked up on boot. I'm sure it's related to my MSI motherboard not playing nice, so not directly their fault, but plain arch and Antergos (R.I.P.) never failed on me.

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Quoting: jensNothing wrong with criticizing, but repeatedly venting unfiltered frustration is not exactly that imho.

I do not think Shmerl overdid it.

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I think nvidia had hid rock bottom about the time Linus gave the finger. Since then is improving but the pace is so slow that I do not see even considering nvidia for the next decade.

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Quoting: fabertaweI recently started playing XCOM 2 and the only problem I have is it just won't start in fullscreen properly.

If I understand right this problem is not much relevant with nvidia, I have amd.

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It was not working on me (Arch/RX 560) but this worked:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/a-bunch-of-feral-interactive-linux-ports-may-be-broken-on-arch-and-others-heres-a-possible-workaround.10324

I wonder, it was fixed and now it is broken again? Or never fixed, because I read some posts that it was fixed.

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