Very nice! Looking forward to this!

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Well now what I want is a SoC with this that is the same form factor as the Raspberry Pi so I can stick it in my Atari Arcade Fight Stick https://www.microcenter.com/product/623128/atari-dual-fight-stick-with-trackball-usb [External Link]

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: einherjarEveryone knows what companies like this do, when they have enough power/marketshare. They lock up things to erase competition.

Yeah Google is giving Mozilla money so they won't be a monopoly with Chrome/Chromium.

But that is tge trick though. Mozilla isn't actually in competition with Google. Google's money maker is Google, not Chrome. If they pay Mozilla to use their search engine by default it is just them getting people to use their bubble / ad infested / tracking crap. Whenever I set up a new computer, the first thing I do is change to DuckDuckGo, and disable Google and Bing as search engines. (I think they removed Twitter, that was the other I would disable.)

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Quoting: PhiladelphusSo, obviously security vulnerabilities are bad and I'm going to update ASAP, but just how bad are these, really? Do I have to worry about some carefully crafted bad GIF on a shady website making my GPU run arbitrary code as root, or what? :dizzy:

I learned recently of a new fetish about people who get aroused by rescuing people from quicksand. They are apparently called Sinkers... so your computer will get filled with sinker porn!

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Ha, did a port scan on it for fun. Ports 8060 and 2600 were open. Those cheeky bastards.

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We need secure boot support for the AtariVCS :)
Was hoping they added that here.

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Quoting: Breizh

Quoting: KohlyKohlManjaro for new users? Really? They purposely break important packages for various reasons. Recently, they even broke the Steam package. This was the final straw for me and why I moved back to KDE Neon.

If you want to recommend a bad user experience for new users then by all means recommend Manjaro. If you want new users to have a positive experience then recommend Ubuntu.

I already did and for now, concerned users are satisfied, with no problems. On the other hand, Ubuntu with Gnome is more and more slow, Snap is enforced with the problems of disk space, integration (locale and theme are often broken), and Ubuntu have still the same eternal problems of drivers that I never had on Manjaro.

In the worst case, Xubuntu have the advantage to be faster, and you can easily remove Snap (the standard Ubuntu use Snap even for the software center or the calculator…). Or Linux Mint. But Manjaro still the best, even more since the packages break you mention are now rare (I talk only about the main versions : XFCE and KDE (never tried the Gnome version). Community versions are still often broken…).

I used the KDE version and it broke all the time for me. I didn't even use the AUR and packages would still break all the time. The worst part of this? The developers knowingly broke packages and didn't care.

In my experience, and I've been doing this since '93, if you recommend a distro like Manjaro to new users they will eventually run into the problems that I did. And when they do, they will go back to Windows because they will not know how to fix the problem (When the package manager broke on me earlier this year it took me 3 days to fix it properly an no new user is going to want to do this).

All distros have issues but in my experience every single person I've had install Ubuntu has stayed with it and not gone back to Windows. I cannot say the same for other distros.

Pop_OS is the new Ubuntu. Ubuntu has too much of the NIH syndrome, and keep trying to foist their own stuff onto their users. Redhat does the same thing, the big difference though is that RH has the man power to make sure (or at least try their best) that the tech is stable. Canonical doesn't really have the people to go off and do their own thing and keep it supported and upgraded.
Arch Linux is great (I haven't ran Manjaro longer than to say it has a nice installer for Arch). There have been a few breaks, but they usually have the fix on their website as they are happening.
Ubuntu's history of starting something new, or specifically trying to compete with others has mostly failed, and they have gone back to just using what everyone else uses.
Ha, remember the backlash they got for suggesting they were going to drop 32bit support?

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: TheRiddickI've found updating GPU drivers and MESA to be much easier under Arch based Linux, AUR is a godsend also! The whole PPA Ubuntu random packages method was rather clunky to deal with!

A Mesa update is just as simple to install as any other update, isn't it?

Are the packages in AUR less "random" than ones in a PPA?

Well mesa being a library that a lot of things depend upon, and PPAs basically being a wild west and not officially supported by Ubuntu...
And with Arch they are core libraries and so things that need to be rebuilt on those are rebuilt at the same time the libraries are. It is one of the 'pros' of running a Rolling release. If you are someone who always needs bleeding edge drivers / libraries, Arch is fantastic at keeping things up to date. If I ran AMD stuff, I would probably just stick to Arch.
Snaps were created to try and stop the many PPAs from being needed.

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Quoting: Basiani

Quoting: XpanderOhh thats weird... i played through all of the game with 450.xx drivers..different ones. havent tried on 460 though

Yes, 450 works well for Detroit. 460 crashes when starting chapter 29 "Last Chance, Connor". I played that game whole two days and every attemp to play chapter 29 it was crashing. A little search I found that same problem have Windows users and fix was just downgrade Nvidia's driver. Tried downgrade driver on Arch Linux, but there was multiple dependencies and it failed, so temporery I installed Ubuntu with Nvidia-450 and finished game with mostly good ending. Yeah, today going back again to Arch.

I really should play through that game, I bought it when it came out on the PS4 though as I thought it was going to be an exclusive one for some reason.

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Quoting: vipor29would be nice if oculus rift worked in there

Ha, I hate to be a dick, but that's what you get for giving money to Facebook :P

On a more serious note, I really wish someone would port over the Thrustmaster TARGET stuff to Linux, so that I could use my Warthog there...

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