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25 Mar 2019 at 3:59 pm UTC

Quoting: CreakJust for the lol I tried to project the CPU trend:


See you in December 2022 :D
Trends are hard to predict, due to specific hardware releases having a bigger impact. For example I expect AMD adoption to accelerate after Navi and Zen 2 will come out.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 Mar 2019 at 3:16 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: tonRSo GoL users... what's our opinions on this? For me, I think 8GB RAM on Linux are nearly to it's limit but still enough for at least 1-2 years..
I'd say 16 GB is a norm today, to be able to run most games comfortably. I personally like building stuff in different VMs, so prefer even more.

Google announce ‘Stadia’, their new cloud gaming service built on Linux and Vulkan
22 Mar 2019 at 11:03 am UTC

Quoting: jensA Strada game is not a Desktop game
Nothing stops developers (and Google) from making this an optional feature, not a requirement, and providing offline option DRM-free. That's kind of the point.

Google announce ‘Stadia’, their new cloud gaming service built on Linux and Vulkan
22 Mar 2019 at 5:16 am UTC

Quoting: ShabbyXOne person might have had luck with the Intel ceo, but imagine what would happen if everybody went ahead and wrote all their thoughts to CEOs all the time.

I would think of that as inconsiderate TBH.
May be, but otherwise I have quite low expectation of this going anywhere high enough. May be you know some other people in Stadia who can actually be interested in discussion about this, and not simply "thanks for your feedback".

Google announce ‘Stadia’, their new cloud gaming service built on Linux and Vulkan
22 Mar 2019 at 5:14 am UTC

Quoting: ShabbyXI would love to still be able to own games and run them locally, sure. Sounds to me though that that's a burden on the developers rather than Stadia. I thrink people are still going to want to own games, so as long as there's a market for buying games, that won't go away because of Stadia.
I'd say it's both. But if Stadia doesn't even provide such option, developers are less likely to bother. So Stadia can do something about it. GOG promote DRM-free actively. Stadia has a lot more resources to do it.

Google announce ‘Stadia’, their new cloud gaming service built on Linux and Vulkan
22 Mar 2019 at 2:28 am UTC

I'm glad it's entertaining for you, but what I said is quite well known and nowhere a secret.

Google announce ‘Stadia’, their new cloud gaming service built on Linux and Vulkan
22 Mar 2019 at 2:13 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: etonbearsThe discussion in the US, concerning how the Internet is constructed managed and used, seems to have become intensely partisan and thus narrow because the participants simply assault each other with their best dogmatic assertions and withdraw.
Not really. It's quite artificially partisan for no good reason besides corruption and sides trying to use a hot topic to their advantage. Outside of politics, net neutrality is quite a non controversial and generally accepted concept.

I suppose the reason it became partisan in politics was a ploy by monopolists to thwart its adoption as a functional law. They often use legislative power dysfunction and partisan bickering to derail good ideas that actually could prevent monopoly abuse.

Google announce ‘Stadia’, their new cloud gaming service built on Linux and Vulkan
22 Mar 2019 at 1:13 am UTC

May be Liam can get an interview with him asking more from the perspective of Linux gaming. That would be pretty cool.