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Latest Comments by damarrin
System76 continue improving Pop!_OS with fractional scaling now live
8 Oct 2020 at 9:21 am UTC

Hmm, is this any different to what what already in Gnome? I have this in Ubuntu 20.04, _maybe_ I did enable an experimental setting in dconf. If so, that would just be them enabling it for everyone, right?

Last time I tried it, it made stuff pretty blurry.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
26 Sep 2020 at 5:59 am UTC Likes: 1

Great writeup, Phil, thanks for taking the time to do this. Observing trends is always very interesting and GOL's stats are a splendid tool.

Modern point and click adventure Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit gains a demo
15 Sep 2020 at 8:44 pm UTC Likes: 1

That was quite pleasant. Looking forward to the full thing.

Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure now has a Linux Beta
14 Sep 2020 at 9:55 am UTC Likes: 4

I wonder how his Linux transition is going. He hasn’t written anything about it since the initial posts.

What have you been gaming on Linux lately? Come chat
6 Sep 2020 at 9:05 pm UTC Likes: 2

I put a lot of hours into HL: Alyx today, so many in fact I had to charge the controllers twice! It's splendid, but I'm now at a point it's becoming a little repetitive, I hope it throws something new my way soon. The way things are, I won't be able to play until next weekend most likely, unfortunately.

I've also been playing a little of Seers Isle, a very pretty VN. It's quite good story-wise, it's been a pleasant diversion after all the head crabs.

As for controllers, I just use all the Dualshocks 4 I have around the house. I gave up on the Steam Controller, no right stick is game-breaking for me.

TUXEDO announce the Polaris 15 and 17 Linux laptops ready for gaming
4 Sep 2020 at 7:01 am UTC

Sometimes you can’t because new hardware from AMD comes out and support is nowhere to be seen in the kernel and/or mesa and you get it in bits and pieces months later. Both Intel and Nvidia manage to sort out their shit way in advance (Intel) or by launch date (Nvidia) and AMD can’t. That’s the real issue here.

Spiritfarer for Linux is now live on itch.io, dev apologises for ableist writing
4 Sep 2020 at 6:10 am UTC Likes: 1

This is a dangerous slope.

What’s the difference between this and telling a male writer he can’t write a female character because he’s not one?

TUXEDO announce the Polaris 15 and 17 Linux laptops ready for gaming
3 Sep 2020 at 7:44 pm UTC Likes: 1

Oh, and a Southern Islands GPU from 2013 I own gets constant hard lockups until this day. I don't believe it'll ever be usable with Linux.

TUXEDO announce the Polaris 15 and 17 Linux laptops ready for gaming
3 Sep 2020 at 7:11 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quite, roughly one year after the cards came out.

I recently bought a Ryzen 3xxx laptop. A CPU from one year ago. It was unstable in Mint 20, I had to go hunting for newer kernels.

Ryzen 4xxx just came out. You need to go hunting for newest kernels to make it work.

Whenever AMD comes out with something more radically new months of hurt await again.