Liam, you should totally make some predictions for this time next year, and then we'll all have a laugh when they turn out totally wrong :D

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We got spoiled by the abundance, and shortages annoy the hell out of us.

Now wait until this happens to food.

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WARNING: YOU ARE *ROOT* WHEN YOU INSTALL SOFTWARE.

Do you trust the scripts microsoft puts in the package to run post install?

Remember when they changed your shell? https://www.preining.info/blog/2018/06/microsofts-failed-attempt-on-debian-packaging/ [External Link]

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Quoting: natis1

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: ShabbyXI'm glad they realized they lost this war, and now the poor people that trust microsoft have a working browser. If only they'd realize the same with NT and switch windows's kernel to Linux

They didn't make edge chromium based because they thought chromium was better. They were "forced" to because google was changing how youtube displays videos, which broke hardware decoding.

I can't find anything on this specifically but I'm guessing you are talking about the youtube switch to vp9 from avc. If so I will say, a website using free codecs that are part of the w3c standard instead of patented ones that aren't is a good thing always.

This, and also, edge was just garbage with video anyway. For example, you couldn't do video calls in facebook with it. My aunt who like most people have always gone with windows default even installed Chrome because of that. So obviously Edge just didn't cut it and they were losing users, so microsoft decided to do the easy thing and rebrand an open source browser.

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Windows notifications before Edgium: Edge is better than Chrome, Google said so, you should switch, seriously.

Then goes ahead and becomes a skin over Chromium. So desperate, they'd do anything to keep people tied to their microsoft id (instead of google id).

I'm glad they realized they lost this war, and now the poor people that trust microsoft have a working browser. If only they'd realize the same with NT and switch windows's kernel to Linux. Imagine so many people getting fast I/O for once in their life.

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoSo...
I guess it is possible to run background system processes in one core and games/apps processes in the other core...:dizzy:

That's already possible! Look for isolcpus. There must be some more dynamic options available too.

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Quoting: ShmerlBasically, don't rush to buy it, until someone (Intel I assume?) will add such scheduler for Linux (if you are even considering it). In general Intel are good at doing it though so it should appear at some point.

Linux has been doing this for years for big.LITTLE, asymmetric multiprocessing is nothing new for Linux.

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Quoting: SalvatosDue to "appropriate controller input icons" alone, I feel like a lot of games will fall short of Verified. I rarely see the right icons for my DualShock.

Same with me, but note that they need the game to show the Deck's icons correctly (i.e. xbox icons), not all controllers!

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Quoting: robvv

Quoting: ArehandoroNo different to the fact that if Steam were to go bust all our games would not work either, not downloadable.

Assuming that you have many of your games already downloaded, they will still work just fine (except some Feral titles). Some may require the Goldberg emulator to run but that's about it.

Without Goldberg Emulator after a giving time you wouldn't be able to log in to Steam, and not all games work directly with the executable without Steam. Not counting all the features integrated that games have that rely on Steam.

If Steam shuts down, I have no doubt some open source project will spring up and implement the API. People won't just let so many games go to waste.

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Speaking of wasteland, I just started playing Wasteland 2 (DC) for the first time since a few weeks ago. Damn it's a good game!

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