Quoting: ShmerlWith recent news of MS pushing into making their own CPUs like Apple, I wonder if PC manufacturers together with AMD and Intel could start a stronger push for Linux adoption. Because that move by MS is not friendly for them.

And I don't mean just support, I mean actual wider adoption that will take Windows on for real.

That would be amazing, and I'd say wishful thinking, but then many moons ago it was wishful thinking that we'd have Steam on Linux, or VR support or such a huge push for it on everything (except desktop).

I mean if you think about it this way, AMD and Intel are kind of already decent supporters of Linux. Now that nvidia also bought ARM, if they go full on into the CPU making business, that puts them in the same game.

We have some interesting times ahead of us. This is really the first time Apple has full control from SoC to software, something I'm sure they've been wanting for a few decades, probably since the move from 68k to PPC was so harsh. It makes them a little bit more like IBM, which survives mostly in spite of itself. But at the same time, does IBM push Linux on the desktop? Start going for that workstation money like Apple sort of does (I don't think Apple actually even considers that a lot of developers / ops people use their products as a commercial Unix, but I'm sure a lot of companies keep macOS for that purpose, Apple seems more to target the 'creative' types, as most of the devops people really don't like the touch bar!)

Microsoft making their Surface stuff based on ARM is an interesting choice, but I wonder how much of that is being pissed off at Intel for some random thing vs trying to follow Apple.

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Quoting: GuestI see netflix and prime video in the application list.
Are they just wrappers around a chromium browser?
What streaming resolution do they reach?

From my understanding they are. I have not yet set up either of them yet. There is an HBO Max one as well, but then I haven't set that up anywhere since Amazon Prime is where I have my HBO subscription and I thought it was horse shit that now they want me to have a separate app :P

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Uhhh, tried to run Tomb-Raider and it complains I can't initialize Direct3D, wtf Feral?

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Quoting: slaapliedjeOh, I'm sure it runs at 30fps (I'll have to install that overlay to check). the hiccups are part of the game though, I think.

Is it using Vulkan or OpenGL? As I recall, Mad Max was very stuttery on the latter.

I switched to Vulkan, when I first ran it, it seemed okay, but I hadn't put my controller in Xbox mode so the right analog wouldn't turn the camera. then I had to look up how to enable Vulkan as I have not played the game in a while. changed the settings to high vs normal and it ran about the same.

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Quoting: ValckI think although they say sales outside Steam are minuscule, focussing on the Steam numbers only leaves a good proportion of the Linux sales by the wayside; I have a feeling itch.io and GOG are more attractive to more Linux users than Steam is, percentage wise, even if overall numbers aren't anywhere close of course.
I'm not that much into city builders, but if I were to buy it, I'd certainly prefer itch over GOG over Steam, in that order.
Would be interesting to see the picture with the OS shares for either of those two market places too, as well as all the numbers combined.

Ha, pardon the excitement for the Atari VCS, but from my understanding of my backer number, there should be ~11k machines soon, and I bet everyone that owns one would buy this game if it hit the Atari store. Though this is probably very much a mouse / keyboard game. Fortunately those work fine there. So at least that would double their sales, as that system is currently game starved.

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This is the type of game Atari should try to get on their store for the VCS. I should pick it up on Steam (assuming I haven't already done so, I forget a lot of times what I've bought...)

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Quoting: fagnerln

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: RafiLinux

Quoting: slaapliedjeAnything in particular you'd like to see?

Installing the other OS options - Loading my GOG/other DRM Free game collection.

That should work fine. I'll see about slapping Lutris on there tonight. So far I've tested Debian Sid with Mad Max (plays using the Experimental Vulkan on High with a little bit of hiccups here and there, but otherwise pretty smooth at 1280x720). I installed Doom (2016) to test proton, but it was taking it's time to download the 59gb...

I've also ran PCSX2 and Dolphin on it with decent results.

To be fair, it's a bit disappointing 720p with hiccups on MadMax, 1080@30fps would be nice. They are using an APU like R3 2200G?

Oh, I'm sure it runs at 30fps (I'll have to install that overlay to check). the hiccups are part of the game though, I think. I'd have to try it again on my desktop. Like it'll be perfectly smooth, then trying to turn it pauses for a second. Also I haven't upgraded mine at all, it apparently has a shared video/system memory thing, and I'm betting once I upgrade the memory to 32gb (tomorrow?) it'll perform better. I mean if it only has 4gb of system and 4gb of video...

Edit: Just checked, Debian shows 5 with free -m. So it really doesn't have much video RAM at all. Will report back after I've bumped the memory.

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: slaapliedjeStill no one gives love to the mother of them all, Debian...

It's a long term relationship, 18 years or so. We no longer feel the need to be demonstrative.

This is true. With the exception of my move to 64bit, I still have the same running install of Debian on my server as I have since... 2000? Sure I've swapped out hardware many times, but it's the same install updated every time a new stable is released.

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Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: elmapul

Quoting: slaapliedjehttps://shop.atarivcs.com/developer. According to that, they only take 12% from game sales.

12% if your game is exclusive to then, otherwise they take 20%, source:

Publishers and developers will receive 88% (percent) royalty on all Atari VCS-exclusive titles, and an 80% (percent) royalty on non-exclusive titles, approved and placed in the Atari VCS store.

Yeah, my bad, I should have quoted the whole thing. 20% is still better than the 30% everyone else gets. Though I think it's the same as Epic? Pretty sure their exclusives are also 12% but probably not if you are not exclusive.

except that the marketshare for epic @ windows is much bigger and i dont see this changing any time soon.
who would be crazy to make an exclusive game to this thing?
i would if atari fund me, after all its better to make an game exclusive to an small platform/store than make no game at all, other than that, i dont see the point.

I think someone should contact them about a Frontend to Stella, now that would just be sweet. But for sure, I'd rather just an integrated Steam client myself.

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Quoting: FauconNoirWhy everyone is talking about Pop!_OS ? What is so cool about it compared to others like Ubuntu or Manjaro for example ?

Because it's ubuntu that doesn't suck (removes snaps and other ridiculous things that Ubuntu does).

Still no one gives love to the mother of them all, Debian...

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