The combination of OpenRazer and Polychromatic is great for managing Razerdevices on linux. In my opinion theese projects make Razer devices a reasonable choise for linuxusers. Official support/backing from Razer would be nice, but this solution is very good compared to the support you get for other devices, which is zero in most cases.

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Good news. However it would be great if AMD could do something to make the Radeon GPU'S work better when used for videoencoding via VAAPI with OBS.

While it is obvious that AMD is clearly behind in encodingperformance and quality when compared to Nvidia GPU'S even on Windows, the performance on linux with VAAPI is really weak.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: const

Quoting: minkiuWith the Big Screen feature, the Deck could easily replace any Android TV set box... now if only Netflix et al. could be bothered to package their apps for linux... :D

They won't because they can't deliver high resolution video on linux, anyway. Their license agreements with publishers demand them to check for full encryption pipelines, even though everyone knows the last chain, hdcp, can be broken by most cheap hdmi splitters from bargain bins. It's really stupid, but that's how things are. There's no way for them to talk all big publishers into delivering the content without these checks and Linux will not get official support for high-resolution streaming for years, if ever.
I guess the only way around that would be having GPUs that can receive, decode and display the stream in firmware without any further OS controlled IO.

How is it that Android-based players, such as the Amazon FireTV boxes, which are based on Linux (the kernel), can play 4K streams from Netflix and Prime? I've never understood what's missing from the core Linux desktop experience to make this such a problem.

DRM.

Putting it simply, those devices and such are modified to enable more DRM with proprietary blobs and such, which regular Linux boxes simply don't have (and shouldn't)

In addition, they're typically more locked down, preventing you from doing things outside of their confined rules, which big companies that support DRM love (more limits on you, the better in their eyes).

Put bluntly: We don't support DRM.

While a linux based OS is great for keeping you away from services that are locking you into a certain paltform i personaly think that there should be at least optional drm support. My system would be easily capable to playback even Netflix 4K stuff but the OS i have choosen prevents that.

You can´t get legal access to some content without the support of DRM. I don´t think that an OS should deny support for technologies that are needed to use services customers have paid for. The same goes for things like ebooks. I bought me some e-literatur a while ago and wanted to work with it on my linuxsystem. But the PDF´s where encrypted with DRM and i was unable to even download the publication i´ve bought.

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I never thought that this would happen. However i wonder why such a driver is needed. The most compelling reasons to use an Nvidia GPU are features like NVENC,DLSS and computing support via Cuda or Opti-X. To get accsess to these technolgies the proprietary drivers (at least the userspace parts) are needed anyway.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: ObsidianBlk

Quoting: GuestSecond and this isn't really specific to this game. Every time I see something has a Native Linux build/client anymore I just think "for now." There have been so many games that promised or had that and yanked it. The yank the table cloth off the set table analogy just lingers over every game like a nasty fart.

While I do not disagree with the worry behind this statement, I'm not exactly clear what alternative there is. You could not trust the developer, to which the developer will drop the Linux native due to lack of interest. Alternatively you could actually be happy the developer actively took the time to release a Linux native port in the first place (don't know enough about the game to know if the developer was pressured to do it or it was native from the get go, but I think it was the latter) and buy the game, showing the developer there is actual interest in there being a native Linux port. Going around griping about what might be could only lead to a self fulfilling prophecy.

I say don't make the developer feel damned if they do and damned if they don't about making native Linux ports. Just buy the game if the game looks interesting or don't buy it if it does not. Don't shun it for something the developer may or may not do.

It's less about the alternative and more just that having a Linux build shouldn't be a selling point anymore. So many studios have bailed and used Proton as a good enough excuse at this point it's just marketing BS or political pandering...which is sad.

For the record I am a developer and I *was* using Unity until they decided to break it on Linux unless you use Fedora or Ubuntu. Unity can not be used on the OS that will drive adoption now, Arch/SteamOS.

While i am not a developer the fact that the Unityeditor only works on two distributions is no suprise for me. It is proprietary software. Having support limited to two or three distros is a common scenario. Official support needs to be limited because of the fragmented nature of linux as a whole.

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It should be mentioned that the GPU needs to support meshshading as well. For support with an AMD GPU you need at least an RDNA 2 based modell as far as i know.

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Quoting: ripper81358Most if not all Notebooks made by Tuxedo are coming with a 1080p@60Hz panel. I personally think it is the best solution for a 14" or 15" display anyway.

Hmm, though this is a gaming site: I wouldn't buy a laptop for gaming only.
The Tuxedo InfinityBook 14 has 2880x1800 (and to me was the by far most exciting laptop in the last years).

If you wan't to use this device for some "light" gaming, 1080p will also be the maximum resolution the integrated GPU can handle at a decent performance in most cases.

Depends on what you call 'light'. I'd call 'light' what I do, and for that my 6-year old T460p (2560x1440, Optimus) is fine, for a lot of what I play even when using the (Skylake) Intel graphics.

I'm not demanding higher resolution as default. But I'd like to have the option, else the offer very quickly drops off my list....

It is of course my personal opinion but turning games down to 1080p on a display with a higher native resolution does often result in a bad quality. Another way to get decent performance and stay at a higher resolution is to lower the quality settings. I personaly rather play with a lower native resolution high performance (144Hz) display and high quality settings.

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Quoting: GuestHmmm, with only FHD screens it doesn't really cause much attention here.... :neutral:

I do like the support for the KDE project though.

Most if not all Notebooks made by Tuxedo are coming with a 1080p@60Hz panel. I personally think it is the best solution for a 14" or 15" display anyway.

If you wan't to use this device for some "light" gaming, 1080p will also be the maximum resolution the integrated GPU can handle at a decent performance in most cases.

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Hm, i thought that dlc's of games that use DRM where allready DRM protected. While i think the costs and work that is going into the development of DRM should be spent somewhere else we are clearly in proprietary "softwareland" for the most part when it comes to gaming even on linux.

As long as the DRM stuff doesn't keep me from playing the game on my preffered OS or is causing performanceissues or instability i personaly don't care about DRM.

It is one of the things that come with proprietary software i guess. I am more concerned about the underlying OS in this regard. On linux i am free of theese things in the OS itself so it is my choise wether i can live with the fact that some of my proprietary userspace apps (games) incorporate DRM stuff or not.

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Quoting: ObsidianBlk

Quoting: ripper81358

Quoting: ObsidianBlk

Quoting: scaineMy understanding of this is limited, but I think it has to be engineered into the game - FSR2 can't be "hacked" into a game externally the way we had with FSR1. But from the videos I've watched, it's pretty incredible. I couldn't really tell the difference between FSR1 and DLSS, but now you'd need a zoomed in side-by-side comparison to spot the difference.

Fingers crossed this is worked into existing games retroactively too, although that might be too much to hope for.

My understanding is that it works without the need for a game to support it. Additionally, it would work regardless of whether one is using an AMD or Nvidia GPU. This is kinda FSR's big selling point over DLSS. DLSS needs to be built into the games and is limited to Nvidia GPUs, where FSR is neither.

FSR2 needs to be implemented per game just like DLSS. RSR which is based on FSR1 can be used regardless of an implementation. However the downside of this is that the whole game is affected and this includes the Ui and the gamemenus as well. So things can become quiet tiny and text is hard to read in some games.

Fair enough. However, is FSR2 still GPU agnostic?

Nvidia Geforce 1000 series and newer are supported besides the AMD GPU'S.

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