Quoting: BumadarNot much will change in the short run, long run this is bad, licenses will be changed by nvidia as they now both own arm and will get more arm devices themselves and thus compete with the same people they sell licenses to. I guess risc v no longer sounds as bad for a lot of companies.

There is also the potential for abuse of arm's market position by linking gpu licensing to arm.

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The price class I am more interested in has been nicely cut off from that first graph (hint: it's not on the right side).

Impressive as the performance of the new releases is, this new generation will actually interest me when/if amd and/or nvidia release a sub-$200 video card with faster than 2070 super performance or, even better, a sub-$70 card with faster than 1660 super performance.

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: emphyGreat; now we will likely also get lenovo bloat- and spyware for linux, including that one that gets reinstalled on a fresh os install ...

What would hinder you to re-install a pristine distribution on the machine? The same I did with my X13 I bought a few weeks ago. Took me 15 minutes to have the machine up and running.

Would depend on whether there is some sort of vulnerability/feature that could be abused by lenovo, like they did with the "Windows Platform Binary Table" to have the bios install adware on fresh windows installs.

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Quoting: Hori

Quoting: emphyGreat; now we will likely also get lenovo bloat- and spyware for linux, including that one that gets reinstalled on a fresh os install ...

Nobody's forcing those apps on your existing PC. If you don't want them, don't buy those laptops, easy. Or just uninstall them.

Lenovo has been shown to have the bios install adware on fresh windows installs, so "just uninstall" is not a good recommendation in this case.

Now I am wondering, though; that method used "Windows Platform Binary Table", which obviously is not present in linux. Does linux have a similar feature and, if so, could it be easily disabled?

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Great; now we will likely also get lenovo bloat- and spyware for linux, including that one that gets reinstalled on a fresh os install ...

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Hmm, may try to get that source compiled on my pi4.

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Quoting: PhlebiacThe animated trailer certainly is lovely, but from the screenshots it doesn't look like the actual gameplay looks like that.

The launch trailer would be more representative of that.

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Currently testing my pi 4 retropie's dosbox version with this month's game of the month of the Dos Game Club: the quirky rts Z.

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A venerable project; I distinctly recall it getting started shortly after the disastrous release of the master of orion II sequel that shall not be named.

That's in 2003 ...

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Having recently acquired a raspberry pi 4, I decided to test its opengl capability with Aquaria, a game even older than gamingonlinux. It compiled without problems (just follow the instructions on the github page), and runs okey on the pi4, I think its opengl drivers still need some work.

It's one of the earlier original humble games, never got around to dig into it (the downside of the rise of all those bundles ^_^), so taking the opportunity to do so now. It's really a beautifully crafted little game.

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