Quoting: pleasereadthemanualWhat is ownership?

You don't know? Please read the manual!

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Quoting: user1

Quoting: robvvand the only issue I've had is with GPU accelerated rendering, which seems to be a bit unstable.

This is a gross understatement. In my experience, Steam is literally the only app on Linux that may cause a total desktop freeze (no matter on which DE, X.org or Wayland) after which I can do nothing but hard reboot my PC. The only workaround to it is disabling hardware acceleration in Steam.

Also, how about the fact that Steam context menu contents are 95% of the time unclickable. This is an issue since the big ui redesign update and it still hasn't been fixed after more than a year or two. You have to click sometimes dozens of times until game properties finally opens for example.

Oh, and also how Steam was already slow to launch on Linux and since the big ui update it's even slower. And many more annoyances..

I mean don't get me wrong, I have endless grattitude towards Valve for everything they've put into Linux, but you honestly have to admit that when it comes to the Steam client itself on Linux, it's a POS and the forever unfixed issues with it makes them look lazy.

Steam has an option to remove the fancy animations IIRC, so you can speed it up. Maybe without that you also wouldn't have a problem with GPU acceleration, so even more speed up with it.

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Quoting: pbWhich one do you think it is?
1. Corporate cost-cutting
2. Preparing for a future antitrust (look, we're so open!)
3. Actually caring about open standards

It's actually option 4. HLSL is not popular anymore, it's a desparate act to try and save it.

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Quoting: Nateman1000

Quoting: dpanterMicrosoft Embracing open standards nEver fails to sEnd a chill down my spine.

I’m not sure Microsoft can Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish a shader system

Why couldn't they? Add an extension no one else can implement (or want to, because it's believed to be a bad idea), devs start using it because needed for xbox/windows, shader is now no longer portable to other systems.

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Quoting: jrepinAnyone else having the problem with the new kernel that graphics in games/benchmarks is quite a lot slower (about 15-20%) then with older kernel (I used 6.10.7 before I upgraded). This is with Powercolor Hellhound AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE? Even Einstein@Home GPU tasks take about 20% longer now (28 min with previous kernel to about 34 min now).

Report it!

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Quoting: BumadarBut I guess they rather pay MS a fee for the licence and hire some programmers for another custom app.

More likely, they actually *get paid* by microsoft to do this. In a company I worked for before, they literally did that for dx12 support.

So these hardware companies may not turn a profit from their device, it may not sell well. But if they get a bag of cash from microsoft before they even ship anything, they are very willing to do whatever they ask them to do, because then they have zero risk of losing money.

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Quoting: Marlock

Quotebut absolutely not a programmer

try Linux Mint

while I have done a couple things via terminal and developed a couple scripts for personal use, it was entirely optional to go that route for daily driving that distro over the several years i've been using it in my family's laptops, desktops and miniPCs

• there is a complete liveboot OS on the usb iso


• you'll feel right at home on a traditional desktop design


• it has a GUI for everything


• it works out-of-the-box almost anywhere


• it won't change it's entire looks on a whim


• just the right amount of hand-holding (which is there to guide, not force you)


• auto-updates are optional, unintrusive, light on resources, safe and usually don't even ask for an update (which is never going to force-reboot)
  

Agreed that it's absolutely not necessary to be a programmer. That said, the bigger problem is usually the change in _other_ software.

People who mostly just browse the internet on their computer have the easiest time to switch; the browser is the same *and* their computer doesn't break for no reason (updates, viruses etc).

But people who are used to some (typically windows-only) software find the switch disruptive. That's expected, you need to truly not care about them and be ready to use an alternative (which more commonly than they'd think are actually _better_ software), but most people have a hard time with that (change in general).

So obviously MuttMutt is entitled to not want to change, and while sharing your experience is fine, I hope this doesn't turn into a crusade to get them to switch.

Incidentally, this is also why it's *super* important to get *young people* to grow up with Linux instead of trying to make people change.

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Quoting: PyrateI wish there's better ways to run these statistics, as I know many people including myself either directly or indirectly use browser agent switchers. On Librewolf (what I use), everyone has a Windows user agent by default.

Maybe that's a good thing, if microsoft _thinks_ they are doing fine, they would continue whatever they are doing that is costing them their users :P

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Quoting: Pyrate

Quoting: RomlokRemember folks: Don't buy games unless you're going to play them within the refund window.

Words to live by.

Yeap! Always at least get in the game, start the first level and if it runs fine by then, it's probably going to be fine later when you get to playing it.

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Played this with my wife a year ago, the first few biomes were really fun, up to and including the jungle. The sea biome was a drag, vast areas of nothingness (water) with little novel to discover in the islands. Forced through that, and the desert biome was much of the same, vast areas of nothingness (sand). We stopped playing at that point.

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