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12th Gen Intel Core processors announced with the 'world's best gaming processor'
27 Oct 2021 at 6:46 pm UTC Likes: 8

What's the pricing for this one? Would be interesting to see benchmarks, but I'm sticking to AMD. They so far decided not to use this cores disparity approach and rather focus on improving all cores as a whole.

Making such mixed cores also will put more burden on OS schedulers to use them in some balanced ways.

KDE Plasma gets fingerprint reader support, plus preliminary support for NVIDIA GBM
26 Oct 2021 at 7:31 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: BielFPsFor those people thinking about using the wayland session on kde, you can use the command qdbus org.kde.KWin /Kwin org.kde.KWin.showDebugConsole 
That didn't work for me. But I simply open Krunner (Alt+F2) and type in KWin and it offers to open that console from there.

UPDATE:

Looks like you had a typo. This one works from the terminal (/KWin is case sensitive there).

qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin org.kde.KWin.showDebugConsole

KDE Plasma gets fingerprint reader support, plus preliminary support for NVIDIA GBM
26 Oct 2021 at 12:00 am UTC Likes: 1

I played with Wayland session in 5.23.1, but adaptive sync has some weird problem. Digging into it for a bug report.

Wine 6.20 rolls out continuing the PE module conversion
25 Oct 2021 at 6:00 pm UTC Likes: 4

Yeah, in short switching to PE means shipping shared libraries as .dll, not as .so by Wine.

Valve launches Deck Verified, to show off what games will work well on the Steam Deck
19 Oct 2021 at 4:09 am UTC Likes: 7

Quoting: PublicNuisanceI don't see that happening at all. There is a better chance of customers installing Windows on the Steam Deck than that happening. Proton has shown that it will only lower the amount of native Linux titles being made not increase it.
Chances of customers installing any OS on Steam Deck? Pretty low and not likely to ever be high - it's same with installing an OS anywhere really.

Chances of developers releasing something for Linux becasue of Steam Deck? Depends on the marketing I guess, but they can get pretty good and way higher than the above for sure.

Valve launches Deck Verified, to show off what games will work well on the Steam Deck
19 Oct 2021 at 2:09 am UTC

Where do you actually see these icons when you open a game listing on Steam's site? I don't really notice any.

Valve launches Deck Verified, to show off what games will work well on the Steam Deck
18 Oct 2021 at 10:30 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Alm888So… In other words, Valve acknowledges that their "all your library should work" and "no porting required" promises are not feasible.
I don't think it was ever meant as anything more than a marketing bait. A good one for our cause, but did you ever take it literally? To put it in more realistic terms, replace "all" with "many".

AMD Radeon RX 6600 launches today aimed at high-refresh rates and 1080p
17 Oct 2021 at 12:41 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: 14Anyone have any tips for buying graphics cards? Are there manufacturers that sell direct and limit 1 per person and have bot protection and stuff like that? That's how I was able to get the PS5 (from Sony store).
Lately cards appear in stores in waves, like a monthly drops or so. And they aren't sold out immediately like before but eventually they do after may be a day. So just pay attention to that.

Apple is now funding Blender development joining many big names
15 Oct 2021 at 6:49 pm UTC

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt has to hurt for Apple to do that. It basically says "Yes, Apple doesn't have anything that can compete with this even though it's a core kind of software for Mac users, so we have to act like we're happy about something outside our walled garden succeeding. Isn't it bad enough we don't control Photoshop?"
My thoughts exactly, you couldn't have said it better, lol :grin:

Apple is now funding Blender development joining many big names
15 Oct 2021 at 6:48 pm UTC

Apple actually funding a collaborative FOSS project instead of pushing their NIH and lock-in? That's a new one.