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I guess the ARM apk support is in part also a response to them shelving their ChromeOS support since Google decided to kill off ChromeOS and rather work on improving Android desktop support.

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It works in 4:2:0 (chroma subsampling) but not 4:4:4 (PC mode), which is a dealbreaker for productivity. It's fine for games as the impact of chroma subsampling is generally not noticeable outside of small text (like scoreboards).

Would it work using an active DisplayPort -> HDMI2.1 adapter?

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One can only applaud the developer, that's the best marketing an indie game can hope for. Genuinely impressed.

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That said, my 7800XT does 4K@120Hz just fine, connected via HDMI to my LG OLED TV. VRR (FreeSync Premium) works as well, and is active according to the TV. Don't know about HDR as this machine is still on X11.

It works in 4:2:0 (chroma subsampling) but not 4:4:4 (PC mode), which is a dealbreaker for productivity. It's fine for games as the impact of chroma subsampling is generally not noticeable outside of small text (like scoreboards).

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After reading a great review on GoL and watching a very professionally done developer's blog on YouTube, I bought Megabonk. I have posted the URL to the developer's blog previously, but for those of you that are interested in this hilarious video, here is the link:

I'm Making Vampire Survivors but 3D | Game Devlog #1
[https://youtu.be/gnxnmw5ryhg?si=CgW5KYjY5P8YzgOw](https://youtu.be/gnxnmw5ryhg?si=CgW5KYjY5P8YzgOw)

After playing the game for a few hours, I got very curious about the developer. I could find nothing. Since Vedinad turned down The Game Award nomination, a number of other people have written articles about this mysterious developer. Here is the most authoritative and interesting article I discovered:

Megabonk and the mystery of the missing YouTuber - is creator Vedinad actually Danidev?
[https://www.eurogamer.net/megabonk-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-youtuber-is-creator-vedinad-actually-danidev](https://www.eurogamer.net/megabonk-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-youtuber-is-creator-vedinad-actually-danidev)

One thing that is not a mystery to me, this is a great game. Highly recommended!

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Will those Android games also work on amd64 CPUs, or just on the Frame?

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I don't use regular Fedora, but I have been using Bazzite and Aurora for over a year and have had no issues. Yes, I've had some nitpicks, but no actual issues. Using an immutable distro is very pleasant, in my opinion, and I have no interest in going back to a regular distro.

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I personally like using FSR in Performance mode, particularly in games like Cyberpunk 2077, The Outer Worlds 2 and Oblivion: Remastered. It's particularly important in those latter two games, due to their use of UE5.

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The only thing that keeps me away from Fedora is SELinux; the over complicated and error prone technology built initially by an infamous organization. Fedora should do better than that.

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For the ones commenting on the lack of HDMI 2.1, AMD isn't allowed to implement the standard in their open source kernel driver.

That said, my 7800XT does 4K@120Hz just fine, connected via HDMI to my LG OLED TV. VRR (FreeSync Premium) works as well, and is active according to the TV. Don't know about HDR as this machine is still on X11.

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I've tried to install Fedora a few times now and every time I bounce off because I'm particular about my partitioning set up and the Fedora installer doesn't appreciate that (ESP on /efi instead of /boot/efi, both / and /home with btrfs but separate partitions instead of a single partition with submodules, full disk encryption with a bunch of specific options,...). Arch, Gentoo, and Guix all let me use the partitioning I like, but Gentoo's packages are too old for my liking and doing full disk encryption on Guix is a pain because Shepherd doesn't do the systemd multi-partition unlocking.

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Well, Liam, I think you lasted longer on Kubuntu than you did on Fedora when you first switched over to it. Can't remember why you left Fedora last time but, hopefully, you'll have a good run this time around.

Myself, I've had a lot of luck maintaining a separate partition for my game installs. Both Steam and Lutris have adapted well to this approach. I try to keep as much stuff off my system partition as possible (hence, why I have been avoiding flatpaks thus far).

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I'm surprised that people even care about these awards.

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Good luck... you'll need it with the bugfest of Fedora + KDE

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I am honestly not happy with AMD.

I own a 7900xtx and this news that FSR4 does not support 7000 series cards and the lack of HDMI 2.1 support is just yet another slap in the face. This is a great gaming card but the lack of support from AMD is beginning frustrate me.

It is such a shame because I really enjoy my gaming experience with this GPU but the lack of HDMI 2.1 support and now this has forced me to re evaluate whether I should go back to using a NVIDIA card.

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Nice, but I won't install it on my system until they make a [Flatpak version](https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMods.App/issues/2436).

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I really hope we get Bethesda game support soon. I've been wanting to start a modded play through of Fallout 4 for a bit now but couldn't quite get MO2 to work properly through Wine/Proton, and everything else seemed too hard to work with.

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I make frequent use of AFMF on Windows to play FF7 Rebirth at 4K 120fps. It looks fantastic and I rarely ever see any ghosting blurs. It simply defaults to on at the driver level, and ar first I was disabling it because who needs it, but if my games are already getting 90fps+ (and they are), then why not take the extra fps offered if I can't even see the potential artifacts introduced by it?
It is a shame my 7900GRE won't benefit from Redstone but I've heard our 7900 line doesn't have the correct cores to process these new features. It's a bit like gtx1080 to rtx2080, the GTX line simply lacks the hardware feature set to support DLSS.
Is AFMF present on the Linux side?
Tangential: I wish Valve would just buy out Lossless Scaling and then bake it into Steam Deck as an easy add-on like they do with FSR1.

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Have been using Fedora KDE for a long time now. Never felt the need to switch.

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Someone, somewhere, press the "oopsie" button that allows far more clever people than me to add support to older GPU generations (and the future Steam Machine) pretty please!

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I have never and will never use any form of frame generation

I have bad news for you. Every frame is generated, everything you see in games is fake and an approximations of reality (at best). Ad hoc upscaling has existed for a long time, and so has interpolation of low-frequency operations between frames.

The line between FSR and whatever game devs do or did before it existed is very blurry.

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HYPED! Oh wait, no, I'm not. One more reason to refund a game I guess.

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Inb4 the return of Humble Android Bundle, this time with steam keys.

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It seems like a stupid idea. I won't say it can't work, maybe it can. But what I'm getting is "From the makers of the game store nobody likes, a new game store you can't access at all unless you're already playing another game!"

I guess people who already play Fortnite might use it--for them, it's convenient. And there are quite a few of those people. And, that might keep them in the Fortnite universe for longer. Just that could probably be considered a success at Epic's real core mission of keeping Fortnite going as a huge phenomenon one year at a time. But it doesn't seem to me that likely it would become a success on a broader level than that, or that likely that it will pull more people into Fortnite just to use it as a game store.

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Writing down post-installation steps is so relatable but whenever I'm in the heat of the moment during a new install I rarely take the time to read them.

So glad to see the comments from other Fedora KDE gamers. I heard Fedora was a minority in this regard, and the proposed dropping of 32-bit this year did not help, but a leading edge KDE setup was too nice of a deal to pass up, and all my games have been very playable!

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All aboard the hype Train!

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This would be a lot cooler if they would support RDNA3. It's annoying that I bought a 7900 XTX and I miss out on features that my card could handle, even when it is still the strongest AMD card on the market.

Agreed.

all hail the fake frames?

Frame generation is OK for slower moving games where input lag isn't critical.

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Meanwhile I have somehow managed the impossible and have kept my same Arch Linux install going for over a decade now. Luck or dark magic, you decide...

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all hail the fake frames?

I have never and will never use any form of frame generation or upscaling. If I wanted to play my games on a 480p monitor, I would have bought a 480p monitor and a 3dfx voodoo gfx card from 1998.

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This would be a lot cooler if they would support RDNA3. It's annoying that I bought a 7900 XTX and I miss out on features that my card could handle, even when it is still the strongest AMD card on the market.

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