Quoting: AdutchmanAlways good to see Linux Mint chugging along. I was just thinking though, does anybody know how far along the folks at Linux Mint are with the Wayland migration?

It's still in alpha status afaik, but looking nice already

Progress is frequently mentioned in the distro release notes and monthly news
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wayland+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linuxmint.com%2F+site%3Ablog.linuxmint.com&ia=web [External Link]

There is a nifty summary from a moderator in dec/2024 (a bit old but insightful) and plenty more interaction about this in the forum:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=411761 [External Link]

There is also this board for Cinnamon's Wayland support status, though it isn't representative of all Mint needs done and is doing across other parts of the distro
https://trello.com/b/HHs01Pab/cinnamon-wayland [External Link]

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Now im not saying these are the exact specs time will tell. However i still think even lowering settings running a 4k canvas with such a small bus will make some graphics engines cry, lowering the Physical resolution would be the only fix imho

AFAIK Steam Deck's Gaming Mode (aka Gamescope - https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope [External Link]) allowed the tiny handheld console to escape precisely that conundrum

It tells the game that it should target a small rendering resolution (faking this as the native resolution as far as the game engine knows) then upscales this to the actual physical resolution. Because Gamescope's upscaling is of the FSR type, it was still too computationally expensive while plugging the Deck to a 4k TV, but not to a 1080p hardware... so folks asked for a way to force the output resolution lower via SteamOS settings too, and after some Valve Time™ they did it, so now you get full control over this balancing act.

eg: game renders in 480p, Gamescope FSRs it to 1080p then TV set upscales to 4k the easy way

Plus the Gabecube is much stronger, so it's not a stretch to hope for games rendering in 1080p and being FSRed to 4k thus skipping the TV's upscaling.

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i'm not sure what AMD is aiming for here...

not going bankrupt?

going bankrupt faster?

protecting the Steam Deck from being used on Windows?

forcing other handheld gamers to replace windows with GamerOS?

making win10 users hate win12 even more when they are forced to jump?

🤔

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they are used to be the ones people come for help, now they find themselves to be the ones that need help

i was the one doing Win95, 98, XP and 7 maintenance for the whole family until Microsoft started nagging for Win 7 >> Win 10 upgrades (before EOL)

boy was I happy when i figured just how much less maintenance Linux Mint requires!

auto-updates that apply fast, silently and cleanly?! what is this arcane miracle?!!! 🤨

app configs that i can copy-paste into a user folder on fresh install instead of reconfiguring?! wtf! 😮

what do you mean with "it doesn't run slower after 2 years"?!! 🥹

and my personal favourite: there is no spoon... and no regedit.exe 🤯

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I really don't get why people use wordpress for static webpage content...

It's a huge attack surface to keep secure with all its features.

What's also a bit embarassing is this happening to a server managed by Canonical, as far as I understand. Linux Mint went through a similar issue years ago, but their team is really tiny.

I hope they're as swift and transparent as the Mint team on how it happened, who may have been affected, what they did to prevent new issues, etc

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a friendly reminder that those totally legit kernel-level anticheats will now be in the hands of totally legit Saudi and MAGA totalitarian regime colabos

also i can't wait for EA to explore blockchain, bitcoins, LLMs and betting app business synergies in their next games...

...no, wait, they sacked their few remaining devs too fast

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did they fix the chinese translation already?

i expected them to take a while to finish that, but at least keep mentioning the progress on that front until done

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if they let us actually rename games, like Baldur's Gate III instead of 3, for example, or remove those eye sore subtitles like "Platinum Edition"

stupid allcaps, or filled with obnoxious ™ symbols.

oh god yes, pleeeeease!
my body is ready!!!

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yes Nintendo are hateful for submitting this patent...

...and so is the patents office for approving this shite sham patent

ps: iirc it's been a reality of patent offices for several years that they almost blindly approve requests if formal requirements are met, without thoroughly checking for prior art and other subject-specific aspects

this patent could probably be challenged and dropped before they try to use it against other game devs

but that would be a reversed whack-a-mole where the huge company with the big money and the barely infinite legal team comes up with new shoddy patents and the bigger legal cost is everyone else's to challenge each one of them

this is a rotten legal field until patents scope and originality are subject to more limits to applicability and better scrutiny before acceptance (and patent offices are properly supervised to enforce this), and/or a legal pathway for making it unlawful to forge sham patents (eg: in my country there is a mechanism to sue back if someone tries to sue you in bad faith, trying to weaponize the legal process)

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something the first genius that using the reshade ui detector + some magic that makes it more legible gonna sh*t gold

that's more or less what Valve did on the Steam Deck in Gaming Mode with the automatic FSR upscaling and whatnot

and waddayouknow... they're indeed sh*tting gold :tongue:

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