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Quoting: PenglingAfter all, the specs look pretty reasonable, aside from the massive 75GB of storage that's required for it!

I don't know where that 75GB come from, it only consumes 39GB here.

Quoting: F.UltraSo this being the first game to use DirectStorage 1.2 that all the Windows fanbois are up in arms about so will be interesting to see how loading times will be in WINE/Proton here vs native Windows.

DirectStorage works with Wine/Proton as well. On my PC with a PCIe4 SSD the Portal jumps are pretty seamless. On the Deck not so much. Can take up to 3 seconds.

Quoting: sarmadYeah, I'm interested to see how this performs on the Deck. I doubt it'll be as seamless as it is on PS5.

It runs at pretty stable 30 FPS on lowest settings with FSR. It's playable, if you really want to play it on the Deck.

Yeah, as I expected. The portal jumps cannot possibly be seamless on the Deck. But having stable 30 fps is great to hear, that should make it perfectly playable, especially on a small screen.

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Quoting: TheRiddickMight be stutters in areas where you transition levels since it was designed around much faster NVMe speeds (with special Sony compression on top which sped things up further)

Yeah, I'm interested to see how this performs on the Deck. I doubt it'll be as seamless as it is on PS5.

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Is this the best Linux laptop ever? It surely looks like it.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Well yeah a million steam decks have been sold that's one million new Linux users in one hit

SteamDeck was at 1 million last year, the number is probably above 2 millions by now, but SteamDeck is unlikely to contribute to Statcounter, i.e. the report from Statcounter is excluding most of SteamDecks. This is because Statcounter depends on visited web sites and my guess is that SteamDeck users spend the vast majority of their time playing games rather than browsing web sites.

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Quoting: MiZoG13% in India is huge :woot:

The Linux origin country Finland was almost 11% a year ago too. Maybe the actual truth slipped through accidentally for a short moment? What is that Unknown operating system anyways globally? It if often very high up there.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/finland/#monthly-202206-202206-bar [External Link]

My guess is that the Uknown OS is someone using a browser extension that hides their details, or maybe some proxy or vpn.

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Quoting: MiZoG13% in India is huge :woot:

That's probably half of all Linux users in the world :D

Kudos to India

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For me MGS went on a downhill path. MGS was the best, then MGS 2, then MGS 3, then MGS 4, and then MGS V which I couldn't even complete. Every release was worse than the one before. With every release the story gets more and more complicated, and the gameplay changes between releases make them sometimes feel like different games rather than a continuation of the same game. MGS 3 gameplay is quite different from MGS, MGS 2 has a different protagonist, while MGS V is open world! It feels like Konami looks out in the market for whatever is currently hot among players and puts it in an MGS game. Compare that to Uncharted and you'll understand what I mean.

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Quoting: hardpenguinLinux desktop needed immutable desktop since forever. To definitively close the issue of system-breaking updates. This could help Linux adoption in the long run.

On Ubuntu the only system breaking updates I've encountered are related to nVidia's proprietary driver. If you are lucky to have an AMD GPU you'll probably not encounter any breakage unless if you tinker with your system.

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Quoting: spayder26Friendly reminder that Snap is not free software due vendor lock-in (its sole package repository is proprietary).

So whatever Canonical decides to do with their base Snap OS is pretty irrelevant for the general linux ecosystem.

Total BS! If that was the truth, you would not be able to download and install Snaps outside of Snap Store, and Rudra (a teenage boy) would not be able to create an alternative store.

Well, maybe BS, but not total BS as there is some truth to what he said. The snap tech itself is open source, but by default it's tied to a proprietary backend. So, while the tech itself is open source, it has no use without the proprietary backend, which is why people don't view it as truly open source. However, technically anyone can build his own backend and then fork snap to support his new backend, which is exactly what Rudra did, but his backend is not usable on a default Ubuntu installation, and is probably impossible to use on Ubuntu Core. In order to use his backend you'll need to install his forked version of snap.

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Quoting: rcritSounds similar to Fedora Silverblue [External Link].

The concept is similar, but the implementation is different. Silverblue depends on ostree to implement atomic updates while still depending on RPM. Ubuntu Core does it differently: it breaks down the system into smaller components and packages each of these components as a snap, so there are no DEB packages any more. This has some advantages over the Silverblue approach because you can control these components individually. For example, you can opt to switch your kernel to the "edge" channel and you'll get the latest kernel without having to build it yourself and without losing automatic updates to that kernel. Same can be done with Gnome Shell or Mesa or any other component in the system. You can also easily install multiple desktop envs without messing the system since each of these DEs will be a separate snap, which likely means there won't be different flavours of this, just one flavour with all DEs.
This also means Ubuntu can, hopefully, provide a better install and update experience since it'll have one package system instead of two, so the devs can focus their efforts on getting this right instead of having to maintain two separate package formats.
All of this, however, is theoretical potential. It remains to be seen whether Canonical manages to get it right, but if they do I bet it'll make Ubuntu an attractive distro to a lot more people.
Personally, I hope this will encourage someone to fork snap and make it properly open.

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