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Latest Comments by Vardamir
Microsoft breaks some Linux dual-boots in a recent Windows update
21 Aug 2024 at 1:24 pm UTC Likes: 21

I have a simple rule: If you need Windows, install it in a VM. Never ever grant Windows access to real hardware.

TUXEDO tease an ARM Snapdragon X Elite Linux notebook is coming
10 Jun 2024 at 4:04 pm UTC

I have an eye on one of theese :woot:

NVIDIA release 550.90.07 stable and 555.52.04 Beta drivers for Linux
7 Jun 2024 at 5:00 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GuestI don't know what hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime driver is, it seems a manjaro thing.
Yes

Quoting: GuestTo be sure we are speaking about the same setup, prime render offload means that the display is attached just to the igp and you run commands on the discrete one via prime-run script.
Yes. I only ran steam or DaVince Resolve with prime-run. Currently I have only installed the video-intel drivers and so far, I have not yet encountered any such crash
Next time, I'll try the nvidia only drivers and see, if that works

NVIDIA release 550.90.07 stable and 555.52.04 Beta drivers for Linux
6 Jun 2024 at 2:47 pm UTC

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: VardamirI'm currently using my Intel graphics only, because the NVidia driver crashed my computer on shutdown every now and then. I suspect the driver also for some crashes during system update, which is particularly funny. Had to reinstall after a crash during an update destroyed the libc (without it, repairing with a chroot is not possible)
You can always try to use prime render offload and rely on intel for desktop task and getting frames back from nvidia for the heavy stuff.

Before switching to Amd, I found that to be the less troublesome way to live with the blob.
I had the hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime driver installed and for regular tasks it was using Intel. But that didn't prevent the system to crash every now and then (and at mostly every shutdown)

NVIDIA release 550.90.07 stable and 555.52.04 Beta drivers for Linux
5 Jun 2024 at 3:15 pm UTC

I'm currently using my Intel graphics only, because the NVidia driver crashed my computer on shutdown every now and then. I suspect the driver also for some crashes during system update, which is particularly funny. Had to reinstall after a crash during an update destroyed the libc (without it, repairing with a chroot is not possible)

GOG team up with Amazon Luna for cloud gaming
19 Mar 2024 at 5:03 pm UTC

Quoting: devlandStreaming games will never catch on because the whole point of the hand-held gaming success story is to be able to play anywhere not "anywhere there is a good internet connection".
How about having options? If you want to install your game locally, you can. If you want to stream and not worry about updates and such, you can also do that.

I would love if Valve would offer streaming for all "Steam Deck Verified" games. Such games would probably work perfectly in a Linux container. They should talk to Google to give them Stadia (doesn't Google offer Stadia as white label product?)

Palworld hits 19 million players in less than two weeks - beating the latest Pokémon
1 Feb 2024 at 3:51 pm UTC

Here on my Tuxedo notebook with Manjaro and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050, Palworld runs very bad. Even on the lowest graphics settings.
I still suspect, that the game uses the Mesa Intel Graphics instead of the NVIDIA card, although I start the game with prime-run %command%
I also read somewhere, that Wine/Proton automatically configures the NVIDIA graphics.

Does anybody know, what I'm doing wrong here?

After over 80 weeks the Steam Deck leaves the top 10 global sellers on Steam
10 Oct 2023 at 2:40 pm UTC Likes: 1

If the top sellers list is by revenue, how come that Counter Strike 2 [External Link] is number 1?

CodeWeavers blog about their Linux / Steam Deck work on Proton with PooShooter
16 Jul 2023 at 8:01 am UTC

This game reminds me of AstroTit. If you know this game, you are old ;-)