Quoting: robredzThe dealbreaker for many in UK will be the online connection speed, Ok the MSFS will look awesome, but looing at specs, I'd get away with high, but would need aCPU and GPU upgrade sonner rather than later. Am looking at the RTX3070 but not right away. Problem is the Cryptominers might try to grab all the cards again.

The dealbreaker for MSFS2020 should be that it is not only a microsoft product, but a microsoft lock in. Eventually microsoft is going to want a return on their investment. Of course they're playing nice now, but it won't stay that way. Having microsoft in a niche product is a scary thing. There is a reason why they got rid of fsx and nothing has changed since then.

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Quoting: EhvisYou'd think that Linux users, who have been on the receiving end of FUD, would be slightly more careful with what they say. Unfortunately not the first time this has been proven wrong.

So Noveau poor performance is not Nvidia fault? Facts != FUD.

No it's not. It's a consequence of NVIDIA keeping secrets, but that doesn't make them at fault. And the way you wrote it was suggesting nvidia was late to the party and actively worked against nouveau. Neither of which is true. Nvidia has made closed source drivers for 20 years now and has behaved the same for all of those 20 years. They're entirely predictable and entirely what you would expect from a big market leading company.

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Quoting: fagnerlnI love the design choices of Manjaro's team, it's always clean and with nice colors. I hope that Xubuntu changes their theme, that greybird feels too antiquated.

What's the name of this theme?

Always funny to see how different personal taste can be. To me this looks about as off putting as it can get.

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Quoting: x_wingI know, my point is that once upon a time noveau capabilities weren't that bad... but Nvidia happened.

You'd think that Linux users, who have been on the receiving end of FUD, would be slightly more careful with what they say. Unfortunately not the first time this has been proven wrong.

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The thing I find mildly interesting about this is actually Apple. Just as they're switching to using ARM for laptops and (some) desktops, it is acquired by nvidia. Makes you wonder if Apple had actually tried to acquire ARM as well. Also makes you wonder whether nvidia is trying to get back into apple hardware.

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Very well made. Everything worked smoothly and intuitively. My only problem with it was that I had no idea what some of the items were.

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Apart from L4D2 with Sin, it's still been a lot of Factorio. Megabase still not done, but it is growing! And the biter attacks are relentless. :grin:

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I still find it surprising that I sometimes see games that I've never seen before. In this case it's "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build" that I managed to miss completely. It shows that it is always good to check out these articles.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: AzPInteresting! I've seen many comments (from the developers I think) that the graphics engine really isn't their main bottleneck, but more or less "everything else". But another native Vulkan-based engine is always welcome!

I'm looking forward to tests of it on Phoronix (or other sites).

I could be wrong here, but moving to Vulkan should make the VR stuff work in Linux? As I believe native Vulkan is a requirement at this point?

So there is that... which also means I should really dig into it with my overly expensive Thrustmaster Warthog set up + Valve Index :)

Nah, that worked with OpenGL as well. What didn't work were the index controllers since the default bindings left you without the ability to interact.

Performance wasn't the main focus of going Vulkan. It was really about getting the rendering engine into a debuggable state where they could actually fix things according to real data instead of having to guess where the OpenGL driver was having issues. This in turn should (eventually) lead to a stutter free flying experience. Having a more modern platform for the future was of course a thing as well. Eventually they will have to overhaul the weather (rendering) engine.

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I've held off on testing the Vulkan renderer so far. Mostly because I've been busy with other things. But it looks like it's time to give it a spin again!

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