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This looks promising. The concerning thing is they make it sound like they haven't spoken to Valve yet.

But yeah, much of Manjaro's bad reputation comes from failing to do some essential basics like keeping their keys updated, repeatedly. So I suspect Bazzite will still be a superior experience.

Re the "Steam Deck 2" thing, the hardware is overpowered in CPU, and underpowered in memory bandwidth. In theory it would be nearly 3x the performance in GPU but memory bandwidth will need a significant increase, and the CPU is too wide so won't operate as efficiently in a handheld platform.

e.g. If this had a 192-bit memory bus and was limited to only 8x efficiency cores it would probably give a superior gaming experience in handheld form factor.

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Wow, 10 years!

I remember having to help debug issues in anv to get this game rendering on a skylake igpu notebook. Then finished the game at sub 20fps on lowest settings. And I still enjoyed it.

But it was a few years old at that time already.

It really is a very well done game.

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No, an Office365 subscription is worse. It is now all your documents belong to us Office and not the your computer may leak data Windows.

I did not know about Softmaker Office.

"But also why? If she's working at a university than she probably already has a free subscription to the online MS office anyway."
Nope, she does work for a university, she does not work there anymore. She hasn't worked there for over a decade.
She now only reviews reports and a few papers to keep busy. She does it on a consulting business. She keeps on getting asked to do it because she's a known quantity and sits outside the University politics and because she was a Dean knows when to ask nicely and when to fierce all over them.

I'm wondering if Office 2013 will run reliably and completely under Wine. I haven't tried Office-on-Wine in over a decade, I'd have to start at discovery again :whistle:

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I will try LibreOffice, but last time I tried (many years ago) it had issues with the audit/comment/suggesting and some differences re inserted excel graphs.
It's things that is not really used much outside of academia, so will have to get her to try it.

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My mum in law is perfectly happy with her W10 system, and she need MS Office for her academic report works as the university in question standardised on MS Office. Performance wise there is nothing wrong with it, mostly she gets annoyed by the popups and targeted advertising. (And twice it auto upgraded to fail and downgrade, which takes hours and hours. I managed to turn that off)

I don't know what I'm supposed to do. if I move her to e.g. Linux and LibreOffice... is she going to be able to do her work?
She's 78, she doesn't want to learn new things right now.

Seriously, that Dell XPS aged incredibly well, it has enough RAM to not feel slow and still has ten hour battery life.
So I'm probably going to try and keep it on W10 for her for a few more years. Somehow.

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This is possibly the game I'm looking forward to get and play most at the moment. I just can't stop hearing good things about it.

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The line must go up!
:angry:

Doesn't matter that Respawn somehow delivers a best sellers every time that EA management looks away, and delivers mediocre work when paid attention to.

EA exco: Lets pay more attention because that way I can say I changed things and forced the line up, so I can exceed my badly incentived KPI so I can get my bonus. Doesn't matter that we just hurt the long term industry, AI can take up the slack, right?

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I spent a bit of time hunting it down and I was thinking of Freespace 2.

I am enlightened that Everspace 2 is not Freespace 2. It's also new.

@Daneel I agree that visuals of this is stunning.

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Why did I in my mind think of Everspace2 as some 20-year old game? It looks very modern?
Is this a remake?
They even released the source code or something?
I am confused.

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