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Quoting: MohandevirThinking the same, Liam. The concept is cool, but every news that comes out of it is one step closer to DOA. I'm pitying those that backed it and paid for what seems to be an overpriced and under featured experience.

I mean, Anstream? AirConsole? Seriously?

Where is Stadia? Where is Steam Link?

No indies onboard is already bad... Missing on those two is even worse, imo.

You don't need Steam Link, as you can run Steam. They have always said it's a linux box, and running Steam would be possible.
As for Stadia, Stadia needs chrome, so that might be a problem, since Chrome support for linux is bad.
All in all, it's a pretty linux htpc, running an Atari thing, from which you should be able to start Steam, or Kodi, or whatever....
To be clear: it being a native Linux htpc with an AMD is making it a feature rich device already.

Yeah, I mean it's basically the PS4 (original) level specs in a modern retake on the 2600, but with an open bootloader.

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Quoting: emphy

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.

When was that? Which models? (Hardly the "pro" X or T series I assume.) What did the adware advertise? (Would they advertise Linux software?)

That said, they would be in for a lot of work. Which distro should this effort target? Which desktop environment? And we haven't even talked about the deployment... This is my third Lenovo laptop - 2 came without Windows and got an Ubuntu, a third one came with then Windows 7 - they were all, well, boring. Pretty much everything worked out of the box.

I know, where's the fun in that? I mean to have everything just work? Bah, I like messing with things to get them to work!

Actually a little more seriously, I did forget one other thing that Linux doesn't like on my P52, for some reason the built in sdcard reader doesn't work right. I thought it did on Debian when I had that on there, but neither RHEL8 or Pop_OS! seems to like it.

By the way, I only have actual RedHat on there as I bought a desktop license for access to their very important knowledge base and figured I should install it 'somewhere'. It makes a pretty decent desktop these days though!

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Quoting: 3zekielI think that's actually the first vendor to offer Fedora by default, cool ! :) I tend to much prefer Fedora to ubuntu, as it manages to be both more bleeding edge and much more stable in my taste.

I intermittently test out Fedora. Never seems quite stable to me. Like there are always little rough edges around it that show that it's still RH's playground. This time around (version 33?) the fwupdate daemon would keep crashing, there were supposedly some fixes in the newer version, but I never did manage to get it to work, which meant the software update program would constantly say there was an issue with updates.

But the fact that Lenovo's and Logitech's firmware are now updated through that, it's actually VERY impressive! Remember when updating firmware had to be done either via DOS boot disks or Windows? Those days are coming to a close!

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Quoting: jensUh nice, I'm thinking about a new laptop for various reasons, this will be a serious option. I know roughly how an eGPU setup is supposed to work. Lets say one would combine this machine with a Razer eGPU box with a NVidia card. Does this setup (hotplugging, extend desktop, launch software on the eGPU on the external display, ...) works on Linux?

I have an eGPU, I didn't have much luck with getting it to work last time I tried, but it's probably been a year.

One thing about Thunderbolt ports, is that they properly require authorization first under Linux, whereas Windows seems to treat them more just like USB devices... I'll have to give the eUSB a test again to see if they've gotten that fixed.

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Quoting: Alm888"Note, IR camera functionality is limited with Linux"
That's on their configurator page. :(

Also, no option for other languages (and matching keyboards) than English.

I'm not entirely sure what the IR camera is supposed to do... but yeah I think it just flickers on my P52, I'll have to test that again.
Other than that the only thing that doesn't work is the fingerprint reader, as there currently isn't any Linux support for it (though it's being worked on).

The other thing of course that's annoying is the Hybrid GPU stuff. Like RHEL 8 on it doesn't seem to want to support the prime stuff, or I'm just doing it wrong...

But Pop_OS! works great on it. I currently dual boot Pop_OS! and RHEL8 workstation.

Edit: dual PCIe NVMe drives set in RAID 0 is CRAZY fast!

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Quoting: TheRiddickIt says they added ray tracing, I do wonder if that is from RTX package or DXR, and how that can be done on Linux. Obviously Vulkan and Nvidia now support ray-tracing under Linux, but so far we haven't seen a single game use them even when the Windows version does.

Quake II RTX works under Linux just fine.

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Quoting: GuestThis game really had a great atmosphere and story, but the narrow fov, view bobbing and light strobing really gave me a headache and some motion sickness that I _never_ get in 3d games. Not fun.

Yeah, this is one of those games I really wanted to love.
I mean it has Rutger Hauer in it!

Hopefully they manage to fix some of its shortcomings.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: lelorrainI started to learn how to play Ancient Cities and Horizon Zero Dawn. Unfortunately both Windows games that do not work on Wine...

I beat Horizon: Zero Dawn on the PS4, such a pretty game. Though now I kind of want to see if it supports my new Super Ultrawide monitor so it'd be even prettier....

From what I see it supports 4K. The only big problem it seems that some people are plagued with crashes, other than that it's ONLY Windows 64-bit.

It needs as much RAM as possible, about 70GB of disk and preferably a lot CPU power if you want very high (Ultra) graphics settings. Although I play at about 30fps with an I5-8700, nVidia GTX 750ti, 16GB Ram on a
1920x1200 screen, the rendering is still pretty nice with no tearing.

RD

My current system is 64GB of ram, i9-something I can't remember, 2080 RTX and that 3840x1200 monitor... game would be so pretty in that.
What's weird is my monitor shows 4k (3840x2160) but it is really squished). I do need to figure out how to get gnome to look less stretched at that resolution.

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Awesome, they used to make a lot of software for the Atari ST.

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By the way, on my earlier statement of Windows 10 fragmentation. Flight Simulator 2020 apparently requires 2004.

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