Kudos for providing the ability to have a Radeon 780M and lots of RAM with no dedicated GPU setup, which is uncommon in other laptops for some reason. (Not having a dedicated GPU means lower weight, longer battery life and fewer driver issues in general.)

RAM speeds seem to be limited to 5600 MHz according to the FAQ, unfortunately. (It's pretty important to have RAM that runs as fast as possible to improve IGP performance, as it's often bandwidth-constrained.) Have people figured out how to run faster RAM in another Framework laptop?

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-smooth scrolling is super slow in terms of how much the scroll moves. have to waste my scrollwheel a lot

I feel every desktop app ought to implement a scroll sensitivity setting. The default feels way too low in a lot of apps, especially if your mouse wheel has a tendency to skip steps which is common on older mice.

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Quoting: Linuxerhoww do i launch or install this... downloaded https://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next/archive/refs/tags/v0.6.0.tar.gz [External Link] and extracted an bunch of files apeared but none of them brings an install program or launch when doubble clicking .... like the earlier poster said URG :shock:

edit: i realize to make the quickinstall file executable from menus an then launch but:

/home/tuxer/Downloads/ckb-next-0.6.0/quickinstall: line 51: cmake: command not found
An error occurred,
press enter to exit.

so this software doesn't work or am i just dumb as shoes!?

This is a source tarball, so you need to compile it from source.

Some distributions or third-party repositories offer prebuilt packages you can use instead, but these may be outdated: https://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next/wiki/Linux-Installation [External Link]

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Quoting: TorqachuSo is there hope for my old gtx660? :woot:
live tend to give me a bit of trouble with nouveau.
Trying or installing with Intel integrated and then switching to discrete is a bit of a hassle.

I will be able to pass it on to other PCs.

GTX 660 is Kepler, so NVK could work on it. However, performance will be very low due to missing reclocking support – only Turing GPUs and later will support it thanks to the GSP firmware (NVIDIA's own open kernel driver).

The lack of reclocking can make a GTX 660 slower than most integrated graphics nowadays.

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For Dark Forces 2 and Mysteries of the Sith, there's the excellent OpenJKDF2 which runs natively on Linux: https://github.com/shinyquagsire23/OpenJKDF2 [External Link]

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That's always one of my largest worries with battle passes, or any kind of microtransactions. A lot of time is spent by artists creating cosmetics for those instead of actually improving the core game.

CS:GO kind of gets away with this because skins and most maps are created by the community and some are eventually featured in the game, but most other AAA games don't work this way.

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Quoting: elmapulinst that one of the first games to have linux support?

One of the first well-known games to have native Linux support would probably be Doom 1/2. The open source release is in fact based on Linux Doom's code, as DOS Doom featured proprietary DMX sound code that couldn't be open sourced. This means that source ports running on DOS (and then Windows) effectively went full circle and had to reimplement the platform layer :)

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Quoting: elmapulanyway i hope they do something about game sizes for the lower storage steamdeck, games for switch use low res textures and low poly models to save disk space as well as other resources, i hope valve do an partnership with devs to provide that option, but i doubt they will.

A lot of AAA games (such as Ubisoft's) already use optional HD texture packs, but it's not the only thing that makes AAA game sizes so large. Localization and voiceovers for all languages has a significant impact too.

Some AAA games don't bother splitting HD textures since it's quite a lot of work for relatively little gain (in terms of additional sales). In most modern engines, it's not exactly a 5-minute job to implement a system to load HD textures that works properly with no negative side-effects.

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Of the old classics Jak and Dexter needs a PC port / remaster too. :D

This already exists for Jak 1 as https://opengoal.dev/ [External Link]. Support for Jak 2 is currently being developed.

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Hmm so again they violated the license, sad but *the norm* for corporations - and it's going to continue as FOSS has no legal chance to enforce itself because reasons .

Blind Squirrel Studios patched the game after launch to make it compliant with Godot's license :)

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