My new notebook just came back from repairs (call it a DoA, they had to replace the motherboard)
I think it would meet the "Recommended" spec (which is pretty high performance) with its RX 5600M (Which is a downclocked RX 5600XT, so I'm hoping its at least 5500XT equivalent).

Just in time.

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That music was extremely familiar, and then I remembered:
https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_player&query=57925 [External Link]

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assuming its the same arch as what's in tiger lake, we know it will perform pretty much exactly that fast.
less cu's more clockspeed and bandwidth.

So, maybe 10% faster than Renoir integrated graphics.
I think a nvidia mx450 competitor.

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I've had really good experience with AppImage, its a great generic solution for stand-alone desktop apps.
It would be nice to manage them as apps that get updates, etc... but it's currently the lowest friction way to get a complex desktop app available for any Linux distro.

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Quoting: razing32What mods do you recommend ? Have not really gotten into Morrowind that much.

I remember none of the face-fixup mods felt right, I basically kept to a vanlilla "feel", just more. Also some game balance fix mods were used to basically make some of the things that didn't age so well, less troublesome.

Yet Another Guard Diversity - Purist
Patch for Purists (+ Book Typos/Semi-Purist)
Correct_Meshes
Correct_UV_Rocks
Tamriel Rebuilt (the whole lot)
Morrowind Optimization Patch
That set of official mods (UMOPP)
OpenMW Containers Animated
Glow in the Dahrk
Graphic Herbalism MWSE - OpenMW
Project Atlas
HiResUI
Vurts Groundcover v2.3 for OpenMW
Better Balanced Combat
WeaponSheathing1.6-OpenMW
Sufficient Adamantium
Abot's Guars
Abot's Stilt Riders
Graphic Herbalism + TR stuff
Updated Morrowind - (skills/enchanting and blocking)

Some er, obscure names of archives:
shrinetext
MET (A texture pack)
All in one (A texture pack)

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Woah, how did I completely miss this? It looks awesome!

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OpenMW 0.46 really was the point where it was very mature. I enjoyed it thoroughly, and for the second time, got stuck in the world of Morrowind.

It's strangely immersive for a place where nobody talks and people look like badly painted dolls. It just has a real nice charm.

I also ran many, many, mods at once, and delighted in how it containerizes them so that you can resolve conflicts easily. And then I just enjoyed it for 100+ hours with no crashes or game breaking bugs.

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To be honest, their docs are usable.

I find the progression for docs are:
Incorrect < Missing < Incomplete < Complete < Well organised

So makes sense to remove what is incorrect, and organise what it there.

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There is no real fragmentation in the Windows ecosystem because you don't have a choice.

Tenchically the windows linker is significantly more fragile.
They solved muti-versioning by namespacing all the symbols.
Whilst that works, it significantly reduces the ability to just test to see if a different version of library X works better than the original one.

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I think you may be confusing the issues here.
There is distinctly different "fragmentations" being spoken of here:

1) Fragmentation of the administative environment. Debian/RH/Gentoo/Arch bases all administrate very differently. This fragmentation is being felt, but RPM/APT and Portage/Packman solve different problems. So we actually need much of this.

2) Fragmentation of the app environment. Other than having to load styles seperately for GTK/Qt, we don't really care here. An app built for Gnome/Unity just works in a KDE enviroment.

3) Fragmentation of APIs. This has been a much bigger issue in Windows (DLL hell) than in Linux, and we have a few interfaces that are stable (kernel-userspace + libc) and you can just bundle the libraries on there, and problem solved.

One claims that fragmentation-3 is a non issue, and the other claims that is false because of example fragmentation-1.

This is about an app summit, so they are mostly concerned with fragmentation 2 & 3, and not 1.
If you solve 3, then it will run on any distribution (and run on future ones), and if you solve 2 then the experience will be consistent on any desktop.

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