Who needs EA when Sony is releasing their day-1 verified games? :) :)

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I would not count on "Verified" status, because i was playing RE Village a few days back and while it runs great, there are some in-game videos which are showing only green screen placeholder instead of actual video.

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I have tried it yesterday. It's based on Ubuntu 20.04.2 so how different it can be, right? Wrong!

What a flustercluck distro OMG..

They ship with kernel 5.11.0.25 which is already in daily builds of Ubuntu 20.04.3. Problem is, live usb cannot boot with Radeon RX 6700 XT (propably all RDNA2 cards). Since there is no safe graphics boot options(e-le-menta-ry), i had to remember old ubuntu skills 10 years ago how to add nomodeset boot parameter..

So finally i have booted and wow, artwork and visual consistency is beautiful, great job. Very professional looking, but let's install it. Wait, they don't support dual boot. Ooo :( So let's wipe entire disk, because.. why not :)

So system has booted into clean installation, but how to make my GPU work? Of course by installing driver from AMD! Radeon™ Software for Linux® Driver for Ubuntu 20.04.3 should do the trick, Yes? No! OS is not recognized by installer, but quick Google suggest modify AMD installation script to add "elementary" to the list of specifies distros, where is mentioned debian and ubuntu. Heureka! Installation has started :) Booomm... and stopped in the middle because some weird missing depecies and libraries. This time had Google not helped :( Also, i will better not desicribe my failed atempt to install Steam client. Let's not get there. I feel like 15 years ago when i have started experimenting with linux..

Meanwhile i was fighting with that pathetic GNOME Web default browser, previously called Epiphany. Indeed it is. A terrible one. Oh and btw. you can forget to have nice experience with Firefox or Chrome, because literally NOTHING can integrate nicely into Elementary window manager/desktop shell. If apps is not speficically designed for eOS, it will look really bad on window borders or other UI elements and forget CSD.

This system cannot provide almost nothing to users, beside nice looking default UI experience which was worth to me drop some donation to them.. and then i have re-imaged my drive back to Windows 10 so calm my nerves..

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: X6205What i really need in linux since i have new wide color gamut monitor without sRGB mode (un-famous DELL S2721DGFA), is some kind of whole screen color management. I need to somehow apply ICC profile to entire desktop to prevent terrible over-saturation typical for WCG monitors.

Since this article is about KDE, maybe there is some KWin plugin to achieve that. Similar to old Compiz ICC color server. That alone would make me switch from prefered GNOME..

https://github.com/compiz-reloaded/compicc [External Link]

EDIT: It seem there is Ubuntu 20.04 Unity Remix... Hmm.. I wonder if it's usable..

Uhm, Gnome uses ICC profiles... Is it just not working for some reason?

Yes, it's working the same way like in Windows. Color managed apps are displaying colors properly when you instal ICC profile. but GNOME desktop user interface is not color managed like Windows, so everything is oversaturated on WCG monitors.

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What i really need in linux since i have new wide color gamut monitor without sRGB mode (un-famous DELL S2721DGFA), is some kind of whole screen color management. I need to somehow apply ICC profile to entire desktop to prevent terrible over-saturation typical for WCG monitors.

Since this article is about KDE, maybe there is some KWin plugin to achieve that. Similar to old Compiz ICC color server. That alone would make me switch from prefered GNOME..

https://github.com/compiz-reloaded/compicc [External Link]

EDIT: It seem there is Ubuntu 20.04 Unity Remix... Hmm.. I wonder if it's usable..

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Honestly, i am suprised that all those gameplay/walkthrough videos are not ilegal. How many people decide to watch gameplay instead of pay for the game and streamer got money from it. WTF? This cannot in any way benefit the publisher/developer. YT and others should at least demonetize these types of videos if not remove them completelly. It's like uploading full a movie. But then.. i call YouTube the biggest warez source :) All those full lenght movies uploaed by random people, full lenght movie/game sountracks or other music albums. And the same appliest for full gameplay (not short reviews).

IMO YouTube deserves shutdown for years of tolerating ilegal content. But i guess.. DMCA and others are scared of giants like Google. It's easier to bully average joe for downloading movie torrent.

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I am sure that Ubuntu 20.04.2 will have it with HW enablement stack from 20.10. That includes 20.10 kernel and other drivers. Maybe even Mesa 20.3. But that is still at least 6 months away. But there is no need to wait, just use some 3rd party repository and you are done. I recommend the one from Valve employee :)
https://launchpad.net/~kisak/+archive/ubuntu/kisak-mesa [External Link]
 sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa && sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade

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I asume that for navi10 is minimal requirement linux kernel 5.6 or 5.7 for undervolting and underclocking? Because kernel 5.4 in Ubuntu 20.04 has quite unfinished and buggy driver support for navi10.

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CODE VEIN with Proton works flawlessly, beside heavy stuttering when entering new areas (it's same on Windows). Propably bad optimization by developers or maybe it's a engine thing.. It's Unreal Engine 4.x. Anyway, it has Platinum rating on ProtonDB and i'm wondering why has Valve stopped whitelisting games? Fear of regressions or it's something else? CV it at least much less frustrating than Sekiro :) another "Platinum" game..

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Not sure if i understand this.. It surely looks great, but if shaders are compiled only on first run and Steam client has even his own shader cache for distributing shaders, why they are putting man-hours into this? Does it improve also in-game performace after all shaders are compiled?

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