Quoting: pete910Just a point, "contributors" does not mean Control.

Well, working on bug fixes is surely under their control.

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Quoting: pete910If it's that bad why not go Nvidia !

Nvidia is completely unacceptable. I don't even want to touch their blobs. It's basically DOA for any modern Linux desktop (Wayland migration and all).

Quoting: pete910To be honest the oss drivers ain't under their control.

AMD drivers are under their control. They are the primary contributors. The only component they aren't developing is radv and ironically, it's also the best in bug fixes speed.

Quoting: pete910Not had issues myself personally.

Navi experience was pretty rough until lately, and even now it's still not completely perfect due to remaining bugs.

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Upgrade from Navi to Navi 2 (i.e. RDNA 2) would be good. As long as AMD will put more effort into fixing driver bugs faster.

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EA games ported to Linux? That's unusual for EA.

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Quoting: HamishI made sure my brother got a ThinkPad with an Intel IGP for that exact reason.

Today there are Thinkpads with Ryzen+Vega APUs, and they work very well with upstream kernel. Zen 2 based ones are coming out soon.

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Quoting: Duke TakeshiAlso I wouldn't have thought that KDE plasma is the most popular DE, since I personally think it's more for power users who know how to handle all the customisation stuff that you can do there without breaking anything :D

KDE was the most popular DE for quite a while in the past, being ahead of Gnome. Then Ubuntu dropped Unity for Gnome, and big influx of Ubuntu users tilted Gnome usage up quite a lot. Now things are just naturally trending to how they were.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPWhy Fedora, though?
I mean, nothing against Fedora, but wouldn't Ubuntu generally result in a better experience for users due to more widespread support of pretty much anything?

Because Fedora project worked with Lenovo on it? No one stops others working with them if they want to. You can always install any distro yourself. The main point is that they are doing heavy lifting of testing the hardware and Lenovo also offers you an option without the Windows tax. That's a huge win.

Also, Ubuntu is not the most popular distro these days anymore. So I can ask the same question, why Ubuntu?

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Finally! Until now they even refused to refund the Windows tax. That's a refreshing change. Looking forward for them doing it for all Thinkpads. I'm only buying them with Ryzens these days.

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GOG release is coming in May: https://www.gog.com/news/coming_soon_virtuaverse [External Link]

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Quoting: YoRHa-2BThe game is known to support D3D12 with optional raytracing

Do you have a source for that? I've never seen developers of CP2077 explaining what graphics API they are using. I asked them many times, they never explained. The only indirect information was their announcement of Stadia support which naturally implies Vulkan.

Ray tracing announcement alone doesn't explain things, since Nvidia supported it with Vulkan same as with DX12 from the start, and now there is a standard Vulkan extension for it as well. So using ray tracing plans announcement doesn't say anything about DX12 really.

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