Oh dear.. This looks like a very deep time sink for me.

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Quoting: melkemindIt seems like they are trying to do this, but like you said, there are probably companies that would have difficulty switching without major changes in their processes. Even if the government mandated it, they'd still have to get companies to implemented, which may be costly.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-releases-its-first-open-source-computer-operating-system-2023-07-06/

The thing is, if the government mandated it, it would get the hell done. Case in point is how rapidly they cleaned up their environment in many many areas. Shanghai and Shenzhen for example were super smoggy, polluted as hell - go outside and you could taste it. Factories dumping waste in streams and so on. I visited Shanghai this year and it was amazing clear and fresh, has been for a while now. From what I was told by various folks there the governments pretty much closed factories permanently if they didn't achieve goals within a certain timeframe.

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Quoting: ShabbyXPretty sure in the last minute it'll get pulled. Just after a reminder from microsoft that they'll ruin them if they don't.

While Microsoft very well might make such a threat, I doubt Lenovo would cave to them. Microsoft is an American company with lots of ties to the American government and military, and Lenovo is Chinese company with similar ties to the Chinese government, which is about to be on the receiving of new trade war tactics. They might very well be looking for a chance to stick it to Microsoft. By comparison, Valve is American but relatively neutral.

This little fact is why it still boggles my mind that so much of China is still very very heavily reliant on MS. Usually it comes down to apps, such as factories etc might need a particular app, but there is really nothing stopping a mass migration if they all wanted to or it was even mandated - plenty of big opportunity to jump in with similar apps with first class linux support.

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Quoting: kuhpunktI don't know. Turok is such a weird franchise. Why did it ever get "big"?

It was one of the first FPS I can remember on the N64... but eh.

I remember when it came out originally, it was big because of the graphics but was otherwise a boring game with the close fog and spaced out enemy encounters to keep things from getting too sluggish.

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Both the Ally 1 and Ally X have a new MCU firmware available which completely fixes the sleep issues. This is something I worked with ASUS on over the last few months to identify the root cause of. The release notes don’t mention it since Linux is “not supported”. Mario Limonciello (AMD) has also been working on an fwupd plugin for updating the MCU in Linux https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/pull/7782#

And I’ve been working on preparing my ally kernel driver for upstreaming. Been working on this in my free time over the last year https://github.com/flukejones/linux/commits/wip/ally/

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Quoting: Luke_NukemWhen I visited a few factories there the major factor was support for certain applications, usually CAD and graphics.

I'm sorry, I didn't know most of the gaming in China happened at factories. ;-)
Of course specialised software support is a major pain point for Linux, but we're talking about steam survey here, at least I was. :-)

Ah because gaming happens in a vacuum. I'm making the point that the vast majority of china is stuck on windows and that flows on to gaming.

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"See how many lawsuits we can fit in this baby"
slaps roof of Nintendon't

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Quoting: pbPersonally I find this fascinating that China is so Windows-centric. It might be because there's no IP laws and a lot of these are pirated copies of Windows (so basically free as in beer), but still, it's an American product, I would think its use would be discouraged at the very least. I guess Red Flag Linux didn't gain as much popularity as they hoped it would. ;-)

On the other hand, Linux is an open system while Windows is fully controlled plus they might have some deal in place for backdoors and stuff, so everyone is happy (I mean the corporation and the government).

When I visited a few factories there the major factor was support for certain applications, usually CAD and graphics.

Linux has only two decent commercial CAD apps: BricsCAD, and ARES Commander. Both of which are stuck using xorg crap. There is also Varicad but the interface for that is dogshit to put it mildly - think of a late 90's windows app with icon buttons EVERYWHERE. And yeah there is web based CAD now but many really do not want their stuff stored on servers externally.

Everyone seems to know the story with graphics stuff.

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I'm daydreaming about steam planes now

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Still no rivers, or water flowing in to empty spaces...

I love *all* the improvements. Some are amazing as hell. But..

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