Quoting: CorbenNice writeup!

Yes, VR is nothing you can explain, it has to be experienced. Glad you had a good first impression and only little issues. Meanwhile I cannot restart SteamVR without rebooting. When I quit SteamVR and start it again, the vrmonitor window pops up, and renders on the monitor instead of the HMD. Only a reboot helps for me so far. In combination with the bug, that I cannot restart any game, it's very annoying. With current Beta 1.7.8 at least I can restart games again.

What colors are the LED's on the HMD when you experience that issue? If they are red, you could try the "restart headset" option in the vrmonitor menu. That always helps me when the HMD wont come up.

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Quoting: jens[..] A reviewer approaches reviews with the mindset that the requester wanted to help and (at least partially) did their home work. Assuming that the general intention is wrong, gives a very different angle to reviews.

Unfortunately, that was the point of the research itself.
Putting that way, it is a form of successful social hacking.

Yes. Actually I would even go further. This _was_ a fully executed social hack done “in the name of research”. Really disgusting.

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Quoting: GuestIf i understood well,there are 2, distinct facts here:

1) Researchers did it wrong.
2) Linux needs more code quality control in the first place, since the malicious code made its way into mainline and stayed there unnoticed for a long time.

Personally, i don't care much about the former, but the latter scares me and still i notice that everyone is focusing on #1.

I think it is both. A reviewer approaches reviews with the mindset that the requester wanted to help and (at least partially) did their home work. Assuming that the general intention is wrong, gives a very different angle to reviews.

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I hope those kids and especially their mentors at that university will never get again a food down in IT. I have really no understanding for this "supposed to be innocent" behavior.

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Nice to see progress, locking forward to this one.

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I’m not really up to date with ARM based systems. Where do you find those GPU’s in real life?

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Quoting: scaineInteresting, Nocifer - I wasn't aware of Super+A at all. Gnome probably need something like Ubuntu's old shortcut-popup that taught you all this stuff.

That said, just pressing the Super key is decent enough generally. Hit it once, then type what you need. It acts like Krunner in that regard, or the old gnome-do (loved that app!) in that it's basically invisible, but is a very quick keyboard-based way to navigate around. Combined with the PopShell extension for tiling, Gnome could almost compete with i3 for a tiling environment.

Gnome has, with enough extensions, grown on me.

Indeed pressing Super and typing on the keyboard is much faster, and that's how I use Gnome as well, like KRunner (which I love). But Dash on steroids (Super+A) can be very useful as well for the more mouse-oriented people among us ;)

Quoting: Purple Library GuyFor me personally, the "do the typing" thing leaves me kind of cold. And I say that as someone who usually navigates the web by typing the first couple letters of the url. But I have launchers for my most commonly used apps--one click. If I'm starting most other programs I probably can't remember just what the dang thing is called and I actually do want to look in the menus until I see what I want there and say "Oh yeah, that was it!"

That's exactly why it's so important for a project to support more than one workflows, especially when we're talking about an Open Source project where freedom (be it user freedom, code freedom, monetary freedom, personal freedom i.e. privacy, or whatever else kind of freedom) is supposed to be king. And so it's exactly why Gnome is disliked or even hated (and IMHO deserves to be so) by many users who don't use it, and even only tolerated by many users who do use it: because Gnome as a project (and despite its many technical merits) does not respect its users and the ethics/values of the Open Source community it claims to be a part of.

In fact, Gnome is the perfect example of how a world would look like where Linux is controlled not by a thriving community of free coders but by cold and detached corporate entities who only care about their bottom lines, and where the only difference between "open source" and "closed source" is that in the first case the code is openly available for people to read (but not touch unless they're part of the corporate decision-making clique).

Now I think about it, Gnome is the Cyberpunk version of Linux :P

But unfortunately, as already mentioned, Gnome is in some cases miles ahead of the competition, and for my particular use case it's simply the only choice.

In my opinion it’s not a bad thing if the general direction is controlled by just a few people. I prefer a desktop that feels complete and concise as a whole (albeit limited for a certain workflow and only limited escape from that workflow) than a desktop that has some very cool details but also some rough edges in trying to support every way of working. Since creating a desktop takes a lot of years and manpower, I think a more directive approach is even needed to follow and stick to a vision over a longer period of time. Not saying that nothing can be improved with Gnome, but in general I like their direction and vision, including decisions to remove features that doesn’t fit their direction.

I adapted my workflow when switching to Gnome 3 back in the days, it took some time, but now I can’t go back to anything that is similar to Windows XP. But that’s just my way of working, nothing wrong of course with other workflows and other desktop environments.

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Oh nice, very unexpected but I'll certainly get this one.

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Wow, that's already the second high-profile game announced today to be officially coming to Linux. Please continue like this :)

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Very nice, also looking forward to this in the next Fedora version. I'm curious how the workspace changes turn out in real life in a multi monitor setup.

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