I used to be hardware guru back in the 90's but nowadays I need a layman's table. Can somebody quickly summarise which AMD's GPU and CPU compare to which Nvidia's GPU and Intel's CPU for flagship models? I'm lost in all that Vega Ryzen RTX Skylake Turing bullshit.

Liam, how about a "gaming hardware for noobs" article?

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I agree it's very common people whose cards got fraudulently used to buy game keys make complaints to their card issuer (e.g. their bank) and the issuer is claiming a chargeback on that payment. The publisher who allowed for that stolen card to be used (by skimming on a risk management service) not only looses the transaction money but also pays a hefty fee. However, this is where all that anti-G2A logic falls short because that's not the end of the story. I had a talk with several card association reps and apparently the real story begins after the keys get revoked. You see, people who bought stolen keys also make complaints to their card issuers. Now card issuers claim chargebacks on those payments and guess what - G2A can't cede penalties on the users who already left their platform which all crooks do as soon as they liquefy their assets so now G2A looses not only money in refunds and fees but also their fraud rate goes up. Up to 3-4% can be perfectly normal for any long term business. But digital goods retailers get special treatment. When their fraud rate goes to something like 3%... They go *poof*! Card associations and IPSPs ban their asses for life.

Now try to guess fraud rates at eBuy before you google them.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: ThormackThe new Steam officially supported distro just launched.
Awesome.

(Just a speculation, for now...)

Nah, I don't think so.

There's a lot things to do after the installation. IMO they will support a more friendly distro, preferably with a corporation behind, like OpenSUSE or Fedora

Maybe they create a new distro for desktop use based on Debian.

I don't see where people get the impression that Ubuntu is more 'user friendly'. Nothing says that better than their python based installer that regularly crashes at the partitioning step with a bunch of exceptions that are surely easier to read for the average user than plain language.

Because the average used does not use whatever advanced setting that you are using that are causing those crashes. They will simply click "next" all the way. And once they have done so they will have a fully working desktop, and if they need further customization or changes then the Internet is full of blogs and nice looking guides for how to do this in Ubuntu.

That is why.

Agreed. Although I do have one minor peeve about that Ubuntu (and Mint) installer nonetheless. As a pretty basic user, I still tend to need to muck with the partitioning. Why? Because even the most basic user would be well advised to put their /home on a separate partition from the / with the actual OS. Eventually you're gonna update or reinstall or try a different distro or something, and when you do your life will be so much easier if your actual data you care about is on a separate partition from the one that's gonna get formatted. Sure, you should do a backup anyway, but having those two partitions is basic. But do they have that as an option, or even the default? They do not. If you want that you have to go into the full partitioning thingie and worry about swap and a little boot space and crap like that. Grumble mutter whine bitch.
(I swear I have a recollection of Mandriva having that option available in its installer in the old days)

What you cite is not an argument for partitioning, but rather for the use of LVM.

And frankly I don't know why anyone would partition any linux installation today (except for sharing a drive with Microsoft crapware, of course). It seems to me that this should have been abandoned in the nineties, when I fully switched to using LVM on every installation.

Yes, well, I've never really understood exactly what LVM is or what it's for, but presumably the same point applies: If it's so awesome and will do something to help me not reformat my data when I do a new install, it should be an option available in the installer, or even the default, so that it can happen without me having to understand how to set it up.

Quoting: Purple Library Guy[...] what LVM is or what it's for [...]

AFAIU it just means you're using logical partitions instead of the primary ones. In the old days (probably still a case but I'm not sure) you could have max of 4 primary partitions. It meant there could be 4 "start" and "stop" sectors magnetised on your HDD drives. If you wanted more you had to talk to your OS and say: - "Listen mate, let's agree that 4th primary partition is actually an extended partition with secondary division on it, from here to there and from there to the middle and from the middle to the end" - and thus you had 6 partitions, i.e. your OS would leave itself a little note on that 4th partition saying: - "It's not a primary partition any more, it's now an extended partition with 3 logical volumes". I think Windows has all kinds of weird restrictions here, e.g. OS can only be installed on a primary partition and there can only be one extended partition, etc., while Linux doesn't have such restrictions and there are all kinds of variations possible, the most popular being whole drive formatted as one extended partition (called a physical partition) containing multiple filesystems (called logical volumes or virtual partitions) but it goes way further. With LVM on Linux you can e.g. connect several physical devices into one logical volume (similar to RAID 0 where a single file is divided into "stripes of data" and written to multiple devices, few stripes each). Wow, all that sounding smart drained me to null! :D Going to sleep, cheers!

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Is there a way to painlessly restart Gnome on Wayland now? The 'r' command didn't work on Wayland few months back.

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If I didn't own Kingdom Come already, I would buy this... I couldn't sleep when that game came out.

Other than that, I hate those "monthly mystery lottery" bullshit offers. I'm pretty sure it's illegal in Europe, at least a grey area. And the monthly tax scheme? Why? I'll forget to buy it when it's a good deal? I'm pretty sure it'll be the other way around.

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Quoting: EhvisKingdom Come: Deliverance is apparently hard on the frames with Proton. From what I remember from youtube, it especially likes CPU power.

It went "golden" with Proton 4.2.9 (*) and now on 4.2.18 it runs almost perfect (**).

*) on 4.2-9 you had to copy *.dll files from Win64Shared to Win64 in the game's directory and the framerate was 60+ before game update 1.9, after it went to 20-30 fps,
**) on 4.2-18 you still have to copy the DLLs but it runs 60+ fps no issues on gtx1070 in 1440p (high-ish settings, also you want gamemode-git active for this one but I think current Proton install scripts take care of that, not entirely sure).

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I played Crawl since forever, lately got the Regular Human Basketball and yet again, didn't let me down at all. Powerhoof are the only studio that can still make me play games out of Steam. I saw their Ludum Dare entry called Snowed In and couldn't stop playing until I finished their whole portfolio. Those short games they made should be bundled up together and released on Steam for real money but I guess it's not possible since they seem to be a "dynamic" crew of mixed friends. I wouldn't be surprised if they were not able to say where the copyrights lie with most of their small titles.

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Damn it... I'm too lazy! I need that on Steam!

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If it becomes reality... I'll probably grab another Version 1 because it should go for cheap cheap! :D

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Happy Birthday, GoL!

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