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For now, I just updated my profile to be Fedora Silverblue with the Plasma Desktop to represent Fedora Kinoite.
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Last edited by Kallestofeles on 4 June 2024 at 9:32 am UTC
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And almost 1 year later here are my takes:
* KDE Plasma (at least here in GOL) is the de-facto DE, they were trading blows with Gnome from 2019 until mid 2021, when the last takeover occurred and Plasma has been going up steadily since. There's a 12.39% gap between them, which for now, holds the record of being the widest ever. Their performance, usability and customization improvements along being the "chosen" for the Deck, has made KDE the desktop of choice.
* Wayland is also going up slow, but steady, and I expect it to tie x11 in mid-2025 (maybe earlier if Nvidia's 560 driver release succeeds)
* The 60hz refresh rate decline has slowed, same for 1080p decline, looks like the current cost of living situation is refraining people from upgrading.
* AMD keeps growing both in CPU and GPU, growing share in CPUs is something wider and not limited to Linux userbase, Ryzen literally saved AMD CPU division. In GPUs it's because their Linux support is S-tier as opposed to Nvidia.
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60 Hz / 1080p is a bit more strange. May be upgrade rate has slowed, but better and affordable options are around for years already so something else might be going on. I.e. like less people caring about low latency and better screen sync experience?
You can see that newer GPUs / CPUs usage is moving ahead, so people do upgrade their main PC components, but they clearly don't upgrade monitors as much even when you'd guess they are using something as outdated as 60 Hz.
And yeah, AMD is just an indisputable leader for Linux gaming.
Last edited by Shmerl on 23 June 2024 at 4:18 pm UTC
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This is improving, but slowly.
Last edited by Shmerl on 4 August 2024 at 1:28 am UTC
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This adds to my feeling that the majority of games don't really interest me anymore, at least the AAA ones. Some of those i might've bought if they had native builds but that's rare now so i get to save a little money on them at least.
It is the VRR option ?
I'm not sure about what it means so I leave it at no but my Screen is Freesync so maybe it should be a yes. How can I check ?
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Yes it's VRR but it's the cooler name made by GPU brands. There's settings for it in KDE Plasma's display settings.