@CatKiller, thanks, though I said that jokingly. "This" was ambiguous of course, Liam clearly meant "Vulkan extension work", but could have been mistaken for "this particular extension".

Anyway, joke's not funny anymore, we can stop.

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This is of course aimed at developers, not most of us normal consumers

Since when are Vulkan extensions aimed at consumers? :D

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Quoting: Hori

Quoting: ShabbyXValve is pretty clearly delaying this so they can finish Half-Life 3 as a Deck-only game.

I wouldn't mind that (in fact, I think it would be good for the Deck and for Linux in general), but only as long as it's just a timed exclusive which will eventually find its way to other platforms and also other stores (not just Steam).

While I obviously said that as a joke, it's not too far fetched for them to release a game that's highly specific to Deck's controls to the point that it wouldn't be really playable on desktop. They did that for VR after all, didn't they?

Of course, we _hope_ we aren't forced into Deck to play HL3, but you never know what a company's plans are.

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Valve is pretty clearly delaying this so they can finish Half-Life 3 as a Deck-only game.

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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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