This is from the Infamous developers? As these are among my favorite games of all time, I'm really looking forward to the game. Might be one of the first titles I'll buy at full price :D

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: redneckdrowHere's looking at you, GNOME devs, I'm still sore about you relegating desktop icons to a blasted extension! What's the point of an empty desktop?

My computing background is part-Mac (10.3 was where I learned my *nix basics), so I really like an empty desktop. :grin: But Xfce lets me have that with a simple toggle - it should never be missing from the desktop-environment entirely, because I know that weirdies like me are a tiny minority! :shock:

I do like the desktop metaphor. Having a computer desktop that's not able to hold some files is like having a table desktop that's not able to hold my pencil and some papers. (My humble, of course.)

Then of course, both the computer and the table desktop tend to hold more than some things while time goes by... And in my observation, people having a mess on the computer desktop are the same that have a mess on their real one. :D

I currently have a small mess on my real desktop, but my virtual one is slick and clean

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Quoting: pbThat reminds of that one time when I wrote a little script for myself to rename photos based on exif data, and a friend wanted me to share it, so I did, and he used it in a slightly different way and lost a bunch of photos. Sharing is caring, but trust no one. :whistle:

Haha, I made such an script recently and luckily had a backup :D

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Quoting: LoftyNot that i ever want to side with a giant mega corporation but i can kind of understand the perspective on switch emulation, i mean people are emulating games that are practically day one release on emulators, sometimes games that have been leaked. And there was a whole highly visible monetary aspect to it too. Emulation is meant for game preservation and nostalgia (edit* i stand corrected.. not exclusively) It's not very nostalgic emulating a current gen game on non supported hardware and it's not a game that needs preserving whilst its still on immediate sale.

The whole name of this project is obviously a troll towards Nintendo too so their reaction was to be expected.

Emulation will continue though. one way or another, which is great.

No one forced Nintendo to release a console using outdated tablet hardware and stick for it for a decade. This problem is entirely home made by nintendo.

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: pleasereadthemanual

Quoting: melkemindThat would explain why now, after all this time, Nvidia has suddenly shown interest in supporting open source drivers.

The open source kernel modules were more a result of discussions with Red Hat: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2022/05/11/why-is-the-open-source-driver-release-from-nvidia-so-important-for-linux/ [External Link]

And as the only linux vendor with a significant engineering footprint in GPUs we have been working closely with NVIDIA. People like Kevin Martin, the manager for our GPU technologies team, Ben Skeggs the maintainer of Nouveau and Dave Airlie, the upstream kernel maintainer for the graphics subsystem, Nouveau contributor Karol Herbst and our accelerator lead Tom Rix have all taken part in meetings, code reviews and discussions with NVIDIA.

That makes me wonder how much attention they'll ever give to gaming if their main focus is engineering and other technical uses. Has there been any disccussion around actual gaming use? Part of the problem with the proprietary drivers has always been their apathy toward Linux gaming. Any plans for that to change with the open source driver?

I'm tempted to say NVIDIA is thinking: "I wish they would get to tens of millions of [gaming] users, at which point it would actually make sense to support it." I don't know.

But in some ways, it doesn't matter. It's open source, now, and the community is already doing great work with NVK, Zink, and the Noveau kernel driver (maybe one day replaced by Nova?). Fancy stuff like DLSS might not be there (?, I don't really use any of those features), but I don't think it will be long until Noveau + Zink + NVK is the driver stack we'll be running on NVIDIA almost everywhere because it's just a better experience in general.

I sure hope so...

NVK is turing+, isn't it?

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Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: constHad to set a kernel option for it to work.

Which option did you set?

nvidia_drm.modeset=1

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Quoting: constFor a few years, we were able to welcome more and more people switching from windows. Now we are finally back to telling people "Yeah, your still perfectly capable hardware is not supported, you should buy other hardware"
I personally think this is utterly stupid. I recognize wayland is the future, but compatibility is still favoring Xorg, especially for Nvidia users (~70%) with multi-screen setups. I can't believe people here are celebrating this cutting of workarounds.

Despite my complaints about Wayland compositors, I think it has actually been an overall better experience. Games play smoother and it's generally smoother. Krita and Steam have the worst flickering in the world, but Bitwarden and Freetube's flickering I can live with.

Multi-monitor setup with my Wacom tablet flat-out doesn't work properly on Xorg. It will only work properly on KDE Wayland. Proper color accuracy is desirable, and while Xorg kind of implements it, the Wayland protocol looks to be close to completion and doing a much better job with all the input from all these important stakeholders.

Once explicit sync is implemented (it looks very close), I think that's the last thing Wayland needs for it to be a consistently good experience for me. It's already a consistently better experience than Xorg even with the flickering. Neither has been problem-free.

I don't argue that some people have a better experience with Wayland. That's a given. But just because it works for you it doesn't mean it works for everyone. Explicit sync may be close, but if that solves issues for many people, shouldn't distros wait for it before they drop Xorg sessions as a fallback?
I have a wacom tablet on my 3 screen setup, btw. It just works on Xorg.
I tried wayland nearly every year for a while. Have gotten a session to run once, it was misbehaving in every way I can imagine. Mouse offset, crazy colors, graphic elements moving randomly added to constant flickering seemed like the experience those warning banners in movies and videogames warn you of. That's the one time I got it to run at all. Every other time, selecting the wayland session would drop me back to the login manager. My 980TI might be old, but it's still pretty fine for a lot of games and I fear that entire generation can have comparable issues. So yeah, make it the default, pressure Nvidia to fix their driver. But until we are sure everyone has an equally good or better time with wayland, distros should keep the fallback.

Edit: ok, I'm now on wayland. Had to set a kernel option for it to work. It's not a nightmare for now, it actually seems pretty neat and a lot of KDE bugs that were bugging me lately have gone. That's great. Still, the fact I had to set a kernel option is kind of a sign this is not ready for prime time.

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For a few years, we were able to welcome more and more people switching from windows. Now we are finally back to telling people "Yeah, your still perfectly capable hardware is not supported, you should buy other hardware"
I personally think this is utterly stupid. I recognize wayland is the future, but compatibility is still favoring Xorg, especially for Nvidia users (~70%) with multi-screen setups. I can't believe people here are celebrating this cutting of workarounds.

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I fear this will be me departing from plasma. My tests with wayland on my 980TI triple-screen system last year went horrible and I haven't even gotten the wayland session to start last time I tried a few weeks back. Will definatly try, but am also ready to move on since for some reason, triple-screen handling has become a bugfest even on plasmaX11 for a while.

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Quoting: psycho_driverMy daughters were both addicted to Roblox when they initially released their AC and I refused to set up anything windows based in my home so they had to go cold turkey. They've been able to play again since September or so but the old one seems mostly weened off and the younger one isn't as susceptible to hardcore addiction as the older, so she'll be fine. Adios, Roblox.

Hopefully they were unaffected by the many problems affecting it!

Roblox Has a "Cannibal Cult"... [External Link]
Roblox: The children's game with a sex problem [External Link]
Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers [External Link]
Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper. [External Link]
A 12-Year-Old Sued Roblox and WON [External Link]

And so on, and so on...

Thanks for posting these links. More people should watch them and more people should care.

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