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Quoting: ageresI'll start to put aside money for RX 6800 XT. By the way, how to switch from Nvidia to AMD? Do I have to uninstall the Nvidia driver first and then swap cards, or do something else?

Normally yes, just uninstall Nvidia driver (some distros ship it as a package, so removing it can be enough) and make sure you have latest kernel and Mesa master. You'd also need amdgpu firmware.

This is why I don't like getting an AMD. While nvidia has proprietary drivers, and that is annoying, they are generally packaged up in either back ports or updated in the distro itself.

With AMD being kernel based and needing latest Mesa, hardly anyone really packages those unless you want to make your system less stable and are into the whole ppa things. or you start compiling things from source, which I'm not exactly keen on doing for just the graphics card to work. You almost need to be running a rolling release like Arch to be able to just pop the card in and have it go.

I may still dip my toes into the AMD pool this time around, but in general I don't have the time or patience for that crap anymore :P

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I need to try this out, granted I last spent a lot of time playing Ceasar 1 on the Atari ST, where I'm pretty sure I had the European version, as the serf was of a different shade of skin that was extremely bad even back in the 80s as the US versions were all white.

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Quoting: GuestNice, speaking of Lutris you can now watch blu-ray with Leawo through it. I just installed it last night and played several and they all worked. You can't use the menus and it works best in fullscreen. I'll be updating in a few.

Now that is interesting. Considering blurays require HDCP... my method has been with libraries from Makemkv and use VLC.
Niw what we need is a screen viewing app for the Index so I can watch blurays in VR in Linux!
About Lutris. It is amusing to me that it is one of the few packages that is in the Pop OS repositories but not in Ubuntu's! I am hoping they get into the Debian repos at some point, as you still need to add the OBS repo for it.

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Quoting: holisticboyI love system76, truly do (their products and commitment to Linux are amazing). Like a few others, the thing that really puts it out of reach for me is no AMD CPU/GPU combination for a machine like this.

I don't mind spending a bit more money on a system76 over a Lenovo or something, but I would also love a machine that augments that sweet open source firmware with an open source VGA driver (amdgpu). I note that the Intel XE is pretty good, but would prefer an AMD CPU with an AMD GPU (preferably dedicated).

I think the hardware to do that is only barely becoming feasible with this recent release by AMD. Wonder if pop_OS will get an AMD release like they have for intel/nvidia. Is there any gcc flags that tweak for AMD specific features? I know I have read one of the reasons amd has suffered for so long has been tied to most things in windows land has been compiled with intel compilers. If I recall, that was one of the reasons Clear Linux also seems to run pretty damned fast compared to some other Distros. Also would be interesting if AMD released their own Linux distro to compete with Intel's.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSpeaking of drifting off-topic... I saw a video a while back that was all about some of the ridiculous creatures in Dungeons and Dragons throughout the years....

And now I want to see the specs for a Giant Platypus! I mean all other animals seem to have a 'Giant' version of them... Imagine riding one into battle?

Platypuses are like real-world Owlbears, except they're Duckbeavers.

Owlbears don't have bio luminescence though! The platypus really is a 'god was bored' creature.

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Quoting: killyouGiving names to vulnerabilities annoys me to no end.

Right? Who started the damn trend? It is like naming nasty features of nature!

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: slaapliedjeThe issue with most wifi adapters is that while the open source stuff, works, the performance is kind of crappy without the firmware blob. It's much like geforce or radeon cards in that regard. What would be nice if there were a project to reverse engineer these blobs (as there are some NICs and other random pieces of hardware that use them) so that we no longer have to use closed source crap at all.

Part of the problem with WiFi devices is that they're radios. There are strict compliance requirements - such as power output - insisted on by regulators around the world. For example, by the FCC in the US. Without being able to show that they restrict the power output of these software-defined radios, they aren't allowed to be sold. If someone can tweak a value and recompile, they can't show that, and the devices are prohibited. So you either have to have some parts that can't be open source, or you have to have different product lines for different regulators.

Wifi APs already have a setting to choose which country / broadcast settings to use. And there really is no reason to not have the requirements of whichever governing body chooses to be a public spec.
I understand the need to set limits, but you could do that at a hardware level.
Cell modems are ones that definitely have no open source version either.

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceOpen firmware; Xe graphics; 14" screen; checks a lot of my boxes. I doubt that wifi is FOSS but even if I was right that's an easy fix.

From my understanding of System76 they try to make sure all of their stuff is as open source as possible. The issue with most wifi adapters is that while the open source stuff, works, the performance is kind of crappy without the firmware blob. It's much like geforce or radeon cards in that regard. What would be nice if there were a project to reverse engineer these blobs (as there are some NICs and other random pieces of hardware that use them) so that we no longer have to use closed source crap at all.

I find it funny that nvidia gets a large chunk of the hatred from open source advocates, and while they do deserve it more for having a fully binary driver, we should be just as harsh against others like Intel and Atheros and Realtek for having binary firmware blobs.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Purple Library GuyTurns out they're also bioluminescent [External Link].
Or, um, will be when they're created. Maybe the glow-in-the-dark thing is a byproduct of that production method.

I did not know that ! Thanks !

My apologies for drifting so much off-topic.:happy:

Speaking of drifting off-topic... I saw a video a while back that was all about some of the ridiculous creatures in Dungeons and Dragons throughout the years....

And now I want to see the specs for a Giant Platypus! I mean all other animals seem to have a 'Giant' version of them... Imagine riding one into battle?

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Man, that was quick, I only got an email from them about this 44 min ago.

I don't even own one of their laptops, but did inquire about them a while ago and never unsubscribed from their list.

My next laptop purchase will probably be from them. Even tempted to get a Thelio, and I haven't ever bought a prebuilt desktop system.

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