Quoting: grigiwhy do they always have to do the Not-Invented-Here thing all the time.

You are aware that most of the NIH stuff came before nowadays established alternatives?

upstart (2006) preceded systemd (2010).
Unity (2010) preceded Gnome Shell (2011).
Snap (2014) preceded Flatpak (2015).
And when Mir was announced in 2013 Wayland was a long shot from being remotely usable.
Even Bazaar (26 March 2005) came a few days before Git (7 April 2005 after a 3 day development).

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Quoting: morbiusI tried Steam snap when I installed Ubuntu 24.04 and it worked like ass, no games would start. I replaced it with the app from Steam store and everything was fine.

What is the "app from Steam store"? Downloading Steam from Steam? This might cause a singularity in the space-time continuum...

Anyway: The Snap version of Steam runs without hiccups on my laptop. The apt version had it's fair share of problems with launching the single game I play on my laptop (Hexcells).

The apt version of Steam on my desktop launches all games quite nicely BUT I always have to start Steam from a shell. Just clicking the icon which supposedly does exactly the same results (after showing the splash screen briefly) in a Steam icon in my indicators section but does nothing else. The only menu entry working is "Exit Steam".

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They must be desperate. After just a few months when the predecessor hit the market they are already announcing a successor. By the end of the year we should see at an "Ally 2"...

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Why a 1920x1200 120Hz display? I mean you can always turn down the resolution. But my Lenovo T14 sports exactly the same APU, memory configuration and display resolution (at 60Hz) - and let me tell you: At FHD most games are far from "smoothly playable".

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Quoting: drjomsIs it still pay to progress/win?

It is still (and always was) progress to win. After playing it for nearly 10 years I can't state that it is pay to win. In fact I am notoriously underperforming with my premium vehicles.

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Quoting: LibreTEKDarktable on Wayland is fine, but using it with an AMD gpu is horrible because of the lack of OpenCL support, and using an NVIDIA gpu on Wayland is... yep. And yes, too quickly, if it cant be a drop in replacement for X11 then it's not ready and distros are rushing it.

There is OpenCL support with AMD gpus. OpenCL support can be installed standalone from the AMD repos along the Mesa drivers.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1406137/how-enable-opencl-on-amd-gpu-ubuntu-22-04-lts [External Link]

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Quoting: XpanderX11 still works perfectly here.. Multiple different refresh monitors and the likes have not been an issue on X11, just have to sync to highest refresh in order to prevent vsyncs/compositors cap to lowest.
Im quite sure that X11 will be still around quite some time. I personally can't switch before my Desktop Environment of choice starts supporting it fully without any edge case issues..So plenty of time to still roll on X11.

In the same boat as you man; I need an Nvidia GPU for work (DaVinci Resolve, Darktable, etc) and X11 is the only reason I'm able to ditch Windows completely. Wayland is a fantastic thing, sure, but I can't help but feel the bandwagon for it is taking off a little too quickly...

What's the problem with darktable on Wayland? Have been using this combo for years now. And "too quickly"? I mean, this thing has been in the making for 15 f*cking years now...

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Quoting: sudoerSo basically games that are using Proton/WINE won't work at all with Fedora 41?

Why? Playing Doom Eternal and Death Stranding here on my desktop which has been on Wayland for literally years now without any issues. It's an AMD card with Mesa drivers, though.

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Quoting: torstenchrIs this due to the launch of the steam deck?

It was launched in Febr. 22 (according to google) and in the last two years it's grown from 2% - 4%. Except the trend was slowing going up before that... so maybe it explains some of the growth but not all.

Doubtful. StatCounter is assessing their figures through webpage hits. Unless a lot of ppl use their deck for browsing, it won't have an impact.

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Quoting: ShabbyXHappy to say I finally switched to Debian last week, no more Canonical nonsense for me thank you very much.

Does Debian have a crypto wallet app in its core repositories? If no (and given that you need such one) - how would you evade a potential scam? The dude entered his 12-word super secret recovery key...

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