Quoting: WanderdueneI really enjoy using Mint because it's stable and very user-friendly, and I also welcome the fact that planning and stability are being prioritised by the developers. Will Mint's extended release cycles have an impact on me as a gamer?

For gaming, if you play the latest and greatest: CachyOS or Bazzite

If you wait some time to play them (waiting for bugfixing, DLC, etc) you can go with a more slow-paced distro.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy11% for English speaking . . . that's insane. But, once again says to me that something needs to be done about China not doing Linux.

I still don't understand why asian countries and china especially adopt Linux slower then the rest of the world. One would think they would be happy not relying on US closed source Software.

Asians like gachas and all sorts of multiplayer titles and a lot of them doesn't work under Linux. Valorant? a BIG FAT NO! Hoyoverse titles? A BIG FAT NO!

And this is what M$ is clinging to, Kernel Anticheat games.

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Past month it had an unrealistic dip which was not corrected, this peak also looks a bit unrealistic, I'd like to be true but I guess it will be corrected and we'll land into the low 4%s (4.2-4.3 maybe)

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Quoting: tmtvl

Quoting: JarmerI'm amazed Fortnite is still a thing. I don't know anything about that gaming sub-culture (teens mostly right?) but I would have thought its time would have passed by now. But it's multiplayer, and I know absolutely nothing about mutliplayer games whatsoever, so .... shrugs. I'm also amazed occasionally I see some gaming articles about world of warcraft and I have to check the calendar to ensure I know what year it is.

Eh, Starsiege Tribes still has users (the community even has their own master servers), and that game is only like a decade younger than I am. There's also things like Old School Rune Scape (OSRS), and something similar for World of Warhammer (Classic World of Warhammer or something like that?), so while communities shrink, it's rare for them to simply die off entirely (remember Stop Killing Games).

Eve Online is another game with a stable playerbase despite being 23 years old, such special cases lol.

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Quoting: GustyGhostIf this takes off, you just know the mentality of mesh animators and modelers will transform into "I don't need to worry about that awkward proportion / refine that unconvincing motion, it's just going to get covered over with an AI post-processing pass anyway."

This is most people doesn't understand yet, the "we will allow developers/artists to have control and make adjusts" is just a fallacy.

Developers doesn't optimize after DLSS/XESS/FSR

Developers doesn't optimize X2 after FrameGen

Developers are leaving raster fallback behind after Ray Tracing

What do you think they will do after Dall-ESS5??

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I used it a couple years ago to install Ubisoft Launcher, but my gosh it's clunky AF, and making it "sloppier" isn't the right path.

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Quoting: Arten

Quoting: CaldathrasThe misnomer "AI" is just a marketing label used to inaccurately promote LLM. In my opinion, when the backlash began against LLMs and their objectionable social, legal, economical and environmental impacts, it was convenient for the spin doctors to confuse the issue by throwing translation, grammar checking, spell checking and other older technologies that pre-date LLMs under the same label. How could we object to these uses of "AI"? We don't. We object to LLMs and how they are being promoted and presently utilized. Personally, I also object to the label "AI" because LLMs are any but intelligent.

My two cents.

Thanks, Liam, for your determined stance.

Spell checking alone isn’t enough. As a Czech speaker, I find that having an LLM correct Czech works much better. Czech is a stupidly complicated language with many illogical exceptions, so we at least need the ability to guess the context for a correct correction. Spell‑checkers were terrible before LLMs.
The same goes for English when you can’t formulate a sentence correctly. My English is terrible, so using an LLM to correct it is very useful. Can a spell checker do that for me?

There's nothing wrong by using AI as a TOOL! But you woulnd't like to be replaced entirely by it and let it post on this site in your behalf... I guess.

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Humans (and Penguins) are the only species allowed here. 😁

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Nice! But I'm not spending almost 400 bucks to have an enjoyable game (and no, mods cannot bypass this, because they need certain DLCs to work)...

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Clearly the Chinese always disrupt the metrics, there's no way Linux losing almost half of its users overnight (also because it didn't double overnight as well, even with the Win10 EOL noise).

And China, even with their push for Linux, still doesn't seem to make a dent with the consumers, maybe because multiplayer games with kernel anticheats...

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