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Quoting: EhvisYou can say that, but what then?

I primarily use three devices, so here's what I use:

- linux desktop: Librewolf / Orion beta
- macos laptop: Orion
- ios phone: Orion

I absolutely love what Kagi is doing with Orion, so at least for now I'm very happy with that. In the future Servo / Ladybird might be great alternatives as well, just not there yet as of today.

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Quoting: JarmerI'm glad they added this, but for me: too little too late / the train has left the station / the horse is out of the barn / [insert saying here] ...... I'm never going to use FF again. Sorry mozilla :(

You can say that, but what then? I refuse to use a chrome(ium) based browser since those have shown to follow google. Other alternatives have their own issues. Besides, I think the settings have been in FF for a while because I turned all of it off the moment it appeared. I just needed to do it with about:config. So not sure if this change is more than just UI.

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Keep a chatbot in view as you browse.

There is no saving humanity.

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Quoting: M@GOidAbout their requirement for on site work, they better change it if they want to get good and experienced workers. People are fed up with jobs that involve long, daily commuting but can easily be done from home. After all, AMD does have people on their team that work remotely and they have done pretty well.

moreso for me it just instantly limits the pool of available candidates by like 90% (or more?) ... any person with a family can't just instantly uproot themselves and move to a MUCH MUCH MUCH more expensive location for a job that may or may not work out long term. Doubly so for a company such as Intel who might not even exist in a few years. So therefore, you get to pick from whoever is available locally. SO. STUPID.

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I love the look of this, will check it out. I like the animation of the moving castles, very nicely done. Looks fun!

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LOL I had the same weird full screen issues - it kept forcing itself into a small window. But whatever, I don't think I'd play this game on my desktop, I think I'd play this game on my deck where that wouldn't be an issue. Seems perfect for the deck.

I played it for a few mins this morning then promptly uninstalled it. Loved it! It was enough for me to know that I'll be getting it day 1 on launch and can wait patiently until then :)

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I'm glad they added this, but for me: too little too late / the train has left the station / the horse is out of the barn / [insert saying here] ...... I'm never going to use FF again. Sorry mozilla :(

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Quoting: CatKillerThat's the opposite of what anyone wants.

Better an untested linux build than no linux build.

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I hope they use it as an indication that they need to hire Linux-experienced developers. There've been countless games over the years that have left their Linux versions blowing in the wind because none of them really understand it.

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Deep Snow Delivery looks great! Adding that to my demo list.

Yesterday I tried Ardenfall & Replaced. LOVE LOVE LOVE replaced! Will 100% be getting that. The art / visuals / sound is off the charts amazingly good. Ardenfall has some bizarre graphical stretching at the edges that was super distracting (which I hope they fix) but otherwise DEFINITELY has the morrowind vibes.

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Everyone needs to check out [Deep Snow Delivery](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3281970/Deep_Snow_Delivery/) as well. Should work perfectly on Linux, as it's doing fine on my Deck (lower the Snow Heightfield Resolution to low, other settings to medium, target 30 FPS), and is just a fun experience from the get go.

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I have to link one of my all time favourites on the steam deck here:
[Nova Drift](https://store.steampowered.com/app/858210/Nova_Drift/)! Way over 100 hours for me.

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Evil West is an incredibly meh game. The graphics are okay, but the game is needlessly demanding. Characters are childishly onedimensional, the leveldesign is absolutely linear with invisible walls everywhere and the core game loop gets repetetive quite fast. PC controls and co-op are both obviously an afterthought. Startet the game with a friend, as we both liked the idea for the setting, but the game got so stale that we just stopped.

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Crap. My deck just broke. 😭
Anyone have any experience in contacting Valve regarding hardware defects?

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Quoting: octarine_dreamThe dreamland optimist in me thinks they're projecting more gamers switching off windows and they want to avoid an entire new generation of 'avoid nvidia on linux'; a mantra like that is tough to shift. Yes, I used a semicolon, but I assure you I am human.

That looks like something a bot would say...

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Well, I think this puts a end to the speculations about Intel discontinuing their discrete GPU lineup.

About their requirement for on site work, they better change it if they want to get good and experienced workers. People are fed up with jobs that involve long, daily commuting but can easily be done from home. After all, AMD does have people on their team that work remotely and they have done pretty well.

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Honestly looks like about 75% of contributions mention Linux support. Maybe more - incredible support from the penguins. On the back of that response I hope they devote some time to the Linux version instead of just shoving out untested builds.

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This are the few demos I liked enough to wishlist the games, of the 4-5 I have tried:

• Dungeons of DUSK: Very good. Native Linux compatibility, shows it's a "labor of love", smooth CRPG difficult curve. Very good performance.


• Gambonanza: A turn-based chess roguelike. Very fun, seems too basic at the beginning, the chess-puzzle difficult escalates pretty smoothly. Similar to Balatro with a cool and animated interface, and in the sense you buy very strategic power ups with money earned after each special "mini chess" match.

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[Denshattack!](https://store.steampowered.com/app/4142750/Denshattack_Demo/) It's similar to Jet Set Radio, but you are a train! From a Spanish developer, but very Japanese in the style and type of game. The demo is short but a lot of fun!

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Maybe we will need to wait a little longer for the DX12 performance issues.

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Oh Crit!

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Question: Does building Lavapipe on Windows require building “microsoft-experimental” as well?

Just out of curiosity - since this "bug" count as fixed, can we know the answer to the question?

:).

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Quoting: soulsourceRed flag: The I.MX8M Plus is painfully slow...

That's the CPU used by Purism in their Librem 5... So painfully slow AND painfully old.

True but, in their defense I had a L5 for a couple years. It was rough at first but, they actually did a pretty good job smoothing it out and optimizing the software. As they said, the phone did get better over time. lol.

I suspect something specialized solely for games and, likely, emulation will probably run what it can just fine. The GPU the L5 has is pretty solid, all considering.

That all said, it'd be really nice if it were far more powerful. I imagine that's just the choice they made between freedom VS specs and there are several other devices out there for the latter.

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The ability to have virtual desktops only on the primary screen.

Is that like how GNOME can handle multiple monitors and virtual desktops? Sounds like it.

About time! It's wonderful to be able to leave i.e. a terminal, music player, XMPP IM, and small web browser window on one screen all the time and a game on the other and be able to flip through desktops on only one of the monitors without having a bunch of complex sticky window rules. lol

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I appreciate all the formating and links in the list. That's grueling. That's dedication. lol

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Finally, the year of Linux? lol

But really, this recent backlash on Microsoft with all the AI slop in Windows and their incompetence in other areas as well (a lot of layoffs on Xbox and the "retirement" of Phil Spencer), is making Linux more enticing by the day with the masses.

The biggest problem besides current Nvidia support is the anti-cheat shenanigans. I doubt that the average Joe will switch to Linux if the most popular games aren't supported.

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Quoting: Developer12This is not correct. Realistically, vulkan is broken below 6th gen skylake. In theory haswell/broadwell GPUs could support it, but the hasvk driver implementation is still very incomplete and not actively seeing work. As for ivybridge/sandybridge before it, there's a partial attempt at a vulkan implementation but even 1.0 is fundamentally broken due to hardware limitations. It likely will see no further work.

I daily drive a laptop with Broadwell, vulkan is usable on it

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Quoting: fenglengshun

Quoting: CatKiller

These builds are deployed untested.

That's the opposite of what anyone wants.

It's on the No Tux No Bux crowds now. Just today, I saw a reddit thread saying "Wine is not an excuse," so they better walk the talk and actually play this game, give feedback, and contribute real support to a game that's actually doing what they're asking for.

If you check the contributions leaderboard you have to scroll decently far to find anything that *doesn't* have a comment about the Linux version. It seems like an almost entirely No Tux No Bux crowd funded game, and I'm glad to count myself among the contributors.

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Quoting: CaldathrasWhether I go back to Lutris remains to be seen. There are some nice QoL features in Lutris that are not yet available in Heroic (like launching the game from its Windows shortcut, for example).

Well, Lutris has made the decision easier for me. I haven't even upgraded to v0.5.20 yet and they managed to piss me off. Lutris has this "feature" where the devs can change the default WINE version, overriding the one I chose manually. This would be fine if it only applied to new installs but, no. Any game prefix that used the old default WINE version gets switched over to the new default as well! I always find out when I launch a game that worked perfectly fine before, only to have it lock up and/or crash now. It usually corrupts my prefix and I have to reinstall the game.

This is the third time I've been hit by this "default version override". Other than the odd exceptional case, I am done with Lutris. I will begin migrating all my game installs over to Heroic Launcher. I discovered with my test migration that Heroic Launcher v2.19.1 supports the Windows shortcut. The migrated game even performed better than it did launching from Lutris.

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Quoting: memvirusThank you very much!
I have installed the most recent flatpak version to give it a try :)
but only one lutris is being displayed in the program overview in popos
and it is not opening flatpak lutris, so when I want to open my old deb lutris I have to write lutris into the terminal right now

I assume you mean that the launcher under Applications IS opening Flatpak Lutris.

Sounds like the Flatpak version overwrote the shortcut instead of adding a second one. Your solution works but if you don't want to be using terminal long term, you can manually create a menu/desktop launcher (make sure you use a unique name) and point it at the apt executable. Since it is in your path, just using "lutris" as the command should work but I would supplying it's full path so you can be sure it's launching the apt version. I don't have my PC on, otherwise I'd be able to provide that path for you. Unfortunately, I don't remember how to create a launcher in Pop!_OS. You'll have to figure that out yourself.

Quoting: memvirusalso in flatpak there are some "problems" - I guess due to it being containerized
mangohud was not working, but I fixed that by also installing the mangohud flatpak (is it supposed to be fixed like that? or can I link my goverlay mangohud to flatpak lutris? cuz installing mangohud twice is also taking space..)

but my bigger problem which I cannot fix right now: pulseaudio latency fix in lutris is greyed out - I guess because it also cannot find it in the container?

That's how Flatpak works. All supporting "tools" have to be in Flatpak as well. While more knowledgeable types might disagree with my simplification, Flatpak is essentially like running on operating system on top of your base operating system. That's why I stopped using flatpaks. The extra space they eat up annoys me. I prefer to stick with the repositories, AppImage files or downloadable installers (.deb, tarballs, etc.),

You'll probably have to install a Flatpak version of GOverlay as well. (FYI, GOverlay is also available in an AppImage. It works with my apt version of Mangohud -- I don't know if it will work with the Flatpak version.)

Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to your pulseaudio latency fix issue. It could be a Flatpak container permissions issue or it could be something else.

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