Thus far, the Epic Store, Stadia, etc don't seem to be blunting their growth as yet. Go Valve!

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Quoting: pete910Them beam weapons still haven't been surpassed in any other game since this !

I was thinking the exact same thing as I read the article. It shows both how great this game was and how much modern gaming has stagnated. I would vastly prefer to play the many community made mods (including the excellent Battlestar Galactica one) for this engine rather than many modern games...

BTW: The last time I tinkered with this was 2-3 years ago, and their Linux documentation was ancient and out of date even then. I hope that's been updated.

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Quoting: ageresIt's just a line of text or two, isn't it?

It's an extra 11% of vertical space.

The black bars that you're concerned about: it's exactly that much.

I personally love 3:2 even better than 16:10, but those are rare beasts overall, and the few that exist have quirks with Linux...

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Quoting: TheRiddickwell 5.9.12 kernel is meant to work but I tested it and, it does not for my 6800XT card.

Once 5.10 final release is rolled out into distros as the standard kernel version, inc on install isos, then all should be smooth rolling from there on it.

Please somehow keep us updated on your 68000XT experience. I'm hoping this will be my next card. What is your CPU?

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Quoting: BielFPsI can't believe how well is Wayland/XWayland for games...

As a big Manjaro KDE fan (use it on my gaming rig), I have to say I can't believe how much farther ahead Wayland is on Gnome, and Manjaro Gnome Wayland is my daily driver on my work laptop. The Wayland specific Gnome gestures are fantastic, and I now can't live without them. Oddly, animations on Gnome in Wayland, though, don't seem as smooth as on x when I compare them to my wife's Manjaro Gnome install... Overall, though, I agree that Gnome Wayland is surprisingly good right now...

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Quoting: Nick_AvemWow, that looks sexy! Another great DE with multi touch is GNOME + Wayland.

Absolutely. I'm using Manjaro Gnome with Wayland as my laptop daily driver at work and those gestures are terrific. As great as KDE is (and I use it on my desktop), I couldn't go back to it on my laptop. The Gnome Wayland gestures are that good, and they already are more complex and configurable than it sounds like Elementary is doing above.

Now all we need are smoother and more performant Gnome Wayland animations to go with those gestures...

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Very interesting! Definitely putting this on my wishlist...

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceHopefully they use Coreboot.

Good question: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=System76-New-Coreboot-AMD

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Quoting: Luke_Nukem

QuoteLi-Ion - 49 Wh

Well that's a disappointment. Factor in 10% degradation in the first year and you'll be tied to a charger. Laptops should come with 70+Wh batteries otherwise what's the point?

As a S76 owner, I was disappointed in the battery size too, considering the early reviews have indicated the AMD chips battery life is a bit less than their Intel counterparts. Doubly disappointed considering that S76's reputation (Lemur Pro excepted) has long been that their battery life is often left wanting. I wonder if there is an expansion port here that'll take another battery... And am I reading it right that there's 3 USB A ports and 1 USB C? What chassis from what year is this?

Also, as I've posted elsewhere, I can't go back to a 16:9 screen. Here's hoping the next X1 Carbon Thinkpad likely upcoming this Feb/March will have 16:10 screen and be purchased preinstalled with Linux!

Definitely exciting to see S76 enter the AMD space, though, and hopeful of having my next desktop be a Thelio that's all AMD.

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Quoting: EhvisI don't think that is realistic. The resources that need to be put into it are way beyond the total size of the flight simming market. The only reason microsoft can do it is because they can leech of their bing maps. And even then I'm highly suspicious about them actually covering the cost. At least X-Plane is an open platform with a large community that brings us stuff like Ortho4xp that allows us to do it ourselves.

Well, I think that MSFS for X-Box and the large sales that will likely generate will do a lot to generate revenue, and I think they see this as a long term play and platform, with the add-ons in their store generating a lot of revenue. We'll see.

X-Plane has to do something, though. While through various add-ons and hacks it can reach some near MSFS visuals, the OOTB product is far from competitive. X-Plane's founder and head Austin Meyer has said in interviews before that he's against ortho for visuals, so that certainly won't be their approach going forward. He's indicated he's all for better and more beautiful autogen. We'll see...

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