Quoting: soulsource

Quoting: drmothCanonical's Unity, once the bugs were fixed, was actually really good.

Canonical's Unity was basically the Gnome desktop environment with Compiz as Window Manager (and some hacks to GTK). It only worked as long as you didn't dare to even think about opening CompizConfig. Once you even remotely considered changing any Compiz setting away from the GodCanonical-given default, your desktop was messed up beyond repair and your only option to get it working again was to nuke your compiz config files from orbit.

As unhappy as I am with recent Gnome, Unity was imho even worse...

As someone who frequently messed about with ccsm while using Unity, I do have to wonder what on earth you were changing to cause desktop instability!

To be honest, I frequently hear people talk about "desktop stability", and I just don't get it. I've very occasionally seen desktop crashes after heavy AAA gaming - I suspect some DEs are sensitive to compositing changes. But outside of that, how on earth do you crash your DE?? Honestly, if I saw my DE crash as a result of user-driven changes, I'd have to question using that DE. But I've used Mate, KDE, Gnome3/shell, and Cinnamon over the past two or three years while trying to find a new "home" and this just isn't a thing. I can't be that lucky??

As I say, Unity was rock solid too. I miss it, but I'm kind of happy that I ended up on a viable KDE desktop as a result of Canonical's decision to ditch it.

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From a VR perspective, I like my XRoverlay, so I'm stuck on either Gnome or KDE. I changed to KDE a couple of months ago and it's a pretty much near-perfect replica of what I had under Gnome, so I'm also surprised that the Pop devs are choosing to roll their own.

Exciting, but I don't hold out much hope for their success. If a company like Canonical couldn't justify making 10 years worth of Unity development stick, I doubt System76 will somehow make it work either.

I'm still happy to use Pop as a base for KDE though. It's a really slick foundation. The Pop shop is superb and I've never experienced a crash since using them.

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Quoting: drmothI want a slick, highly usable, modern DE, that preferably doesn't look like Windows. Gnome is the only decent contender at the moment, but it's not great.

Only contender? You're joking, right!? KDE is superb, XFCE was excellent last I tried. Budgie is slick as hell. Cinnamon? Mate? We're tripping over DE's that absolutely rock - functional, beautiful, varied desktops that only look as much like Windows as you actually want.

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Quoting: AzPI really wish they'd update to a very new Unity engine, as well as optimize quite a lot.

I recently bought a 5120x1440 superwide screen, which forced me to buy a new graphics card as well (a 6700 XT), but Valheim still barely maintains 60 fps.
Performance tests of that card shows really nice framerates in demanding games like Battlefield 5 for 4K resolution, so a game with graphics like Valheim should run like tuxracer, I would think. Don't get me wrong, I love the game and the graphics, but I can't say (with a straight face) that the fidelity can be compared to BF5, or games like it.

I do however understand that the game is in pre-release mode, and new features and expanded gameplay is more important than optimization at this point.

Are you definitely running it in OpenGL mode? The Vulkan mode is still under development and the performance is terrible. I couldn't believe the difference when I swapped back to OpenGL.

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C'mon Destiny 2... you can do it!

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Is official proton ever likely to get FSR fullscreen support? Right now it's consider a Proton-GE "hack". But it's so vital for 4K gaming on modern AAA games that it means that I pretty much use Proton-GE for absolutely every title these days.

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Some good stuff in this one. Project Wingman will scratch my VR itch, but the real steal here is BPM - the trailers give me goosebumps... how can you resist "Doom meets Necrodancer"?. And there's always Wrath for some old-school shooty magic.

Personally, I'm also really interested in TimeLie, and I've always wanted to try out House Flipper.

Not sure about the rest, but that's an easy $12 from my perspective. I don't think I've paused now since about March! At the end of the day, it's less than two pints of lager - it's difficult for me to justify not buying the bundle.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo since February we've gone from the doldrums of 0.8% to the not-quite-so-doldrums of, looks like over 1.1%, which is, what, something like a 37% increase. Not too shabby.

OK, the total's still tiny. I'll definitely be interested to see what happens when Steam Decks start to sell.

Definitely tiny in relative terms, but it still blows my mind to think that there are potentially well over a million active monthly users on Steam that run Linux. It's pretty incredible given the choke hold MS has on the vast majority of the population.

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Quoting: lucinos

Quoting: EikeWindows 11 might play a role as well.

They already have more marketshare than linux :(

I think the implication was that a) Win 11 is both underwhelming and has high hardware requirement and b) if you're going upgrade/re-install to a new O/S, it's a good time to try Linux anyway.

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I guess it's all about SteamDeck, Proton and anti-cheat these days, huh? :grin:

As Dr Károly Zsolnai-Fehér (Two Minute Papers [External Link] would say: What a time to be alive!

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I had NO IDEA this was going to be native. For some reason, I'd gotten it into my head that while the first one was native, this one wasn't!! Amazing news. Bought it - let's see how it stacks up to a) the original b) Immortal Redneck and c) Gunfire Reborn (via proton).

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