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It will fry your brain just as much as your eyes, as the action truly gets intense

Epilepsy Simulator 2025

Probably too intense for me, but it looks pretty fun !

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Fedora, like Gnome, have gotten stuck in a mindset of toxic-positivity recently imo.

It very much reminds me of an external speaker our uni teacher brought in who tried to argue for why we should stop using "negative" words like problem and instead use "positive" words like challange.

Safe to say, bringing this up in a uni environment of software engineers did not go down well. No attacks were made on the speaker, only criticism of the idea and criticising the idea that problem was a negative word. Overall we considered it a positive thing as we were taught to be in the mindset of problem solvers.

And I feel like Fedora are in the same situation as our external speaker, and consider words like criticism, and problem as inherently negative. This causes them to get really defensive as we can see from e.g. the moderator Francesco in the thread linked.

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Quoting: melkemindSo, is Plasma Wayland in a good state for Nvidia users now?

I tried switching back to Wayland two days ago, with a relatively recent version of KDE Plasma (using KDE Neon) and an NVidia RTX 3070Ti using the latest proprietary driver.

On the upside, the issue of having *anything* with transparency freezing the whole desktop is gone. This included extensions popup in firefox and the time tooltip when hovering the clock in the notification area…

On the downside, it made weylus unusable (a particularly niche case unfortunately), related to how window location and screen arrangement are reported. And video capture is not happy too…
OBS became unpredictable (a relatively larger case I'd wager). Related, the portal popup that allow selecting a screen/window for screen sharing freeze with a particularly obtuse error message in the logs (`mesa: error: MESA: failed to import sync file 'too many open files'`) rendering the whole thing useless, as even screen sharing from the browser is now borked.

And, still happening, trying to use the clipboard from a terminal application (say, using clipboard manipulation in vim in konsole) still won't work without setting up some call to external scripts that can't handle all common use cases.

So, one day ago, I switched again to X11. Everything works, and since I have no use for fractional scaling or anything fancy on my decade old displays, there's no tangible downside.

Also, since we're on the internet, some disclaimer: I *know* that this is only a personal experience. But it exists; on a system that's mostly a vanilla installation of Ubuntu+KDE Plasma, using very common software, on a graphic card from a manufacturer that represents a large share of the general public. And some of these issues are so often brushed off that it really irks me. I don't really have the resource to put development time in Plasma's implementation of wayland, and trying to raise awareness is usually met with a wall, which is frustrating. But as it is, switching to Wayland, on my relatively modern, up-to-date system, means losing features, having some software completely unusable, and the only recourse as a user will soon disappear. It does not feel great.

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Quoting: MayeulCI fully agree with bisbyx above, nothing prevents a compositor from implementing this today, or even a separate app, like KDE devs did for X11 screen capture compatibility. Obviously better if the apps register shortcuts themselves, though.

Quoting: syylkviewport/video memory sharing

Now I don't understand this. We already have dma-buf.

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Back to the article: an interesting tidbit is that, last time I checked, the Steam Deck was still using the X11 session. I wonder if they are going to change this?

yea, once the X11 session is dropped, I expect SteamOS will also drop it, though probably not immediately since SteamOS packages are quite far behind.

Overall this is a welcome change, I've been running everything under Wayland since about 3/4 year and had zero issues that I could directly attribute to Wayland. Flameshot said something about Wayland being incompatible but the flatpak seems to work fine. I think it's in a good enough state so they can drop the X session entirely

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I fully agree with bisbyx above, nothing prevents a compositor from implementing this today, or even a separate app, like KDE devs did for X11 screen capture compatibility. Obviously better if the apps register shortcuts themselves, though.

Quoting: syylkviewport/video memory sharing

Now I don't understand this. We already have dma-buf.

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Back to the article: an interesting tidbit is that, last time I checked, the Steam Deck was still using the X11 session. I wonder if they are going to change this?

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So, is Plasma Wayland in a good state for Nvidia users now?

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Went with a Framework recently.

One design competence that most companies fail at is properly balancing the USB ports. USB-C & USB-A should have one on each side versus same side next to each other. You Don't know if the power will come from right or left of the laptop from the outlet. It improves user experience when lying down on a couch because it allows the cord to be plugged into the non-backing side.

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You can find the latest version on Arch Linux and even on Fedora since the day one

Strictly speaking, both Fedora and Arch have their own testing repos that everything goes through for a while and they delay things too, but it doesn't necessarily save you from everything. Same as Debian didn't save me when LTS kernel suddenly had regressions when it wasn't even new anymore, but the probability of that on Debian is much lower of course

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Embracer, Extender, extinguisher?

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My understanding of Fedora is it's essentially a test bed for Redhat. As in it's generally stable, but if you want to depend on it, you should... probably use something else because things will happen sometimes and they will fix it, and repeat.

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Quoting: syylkWayland needs a secure and backward compatible (which, unfortunately, rules out secure) way to manage global shortcuts and keypresses and viewport/video memory sharing.

These are two sore points of still incomplete feature parity with X11.

Yes, there are workarounds. Yes, the old ways were insecure by design. Yes, it's damn hard to provide these features to unmaintained software that expects stuff to work in a certain way.

But removing used/useful features is not exactly progress, no matter in name of what is being done.

I feel like there are so many ways to do this that could be fully backwards compatible.

The way KDE is mostly handling it right now is that XWayland apps can just fully listen to everything if you allow it, just like they could on X11.

No app changes necessary.

This could go further... give me a dashboard for the portal that allows me to pick specific apps. Discord can listen to all my keypresses, so i can use PTT. Now discord doesnt have to know if its in focus, or change any code to request anything, It just needs to know "when I see the keybind, i respond". No app changes necesary.

Then they could make that dashboard allow specific keys to pass to specific apps. Now instead of passing all my keys to discord, only my PTT key needs to go. Again, they dont need to know that they arent seeing global keypresses, they just need to know to respond to the keybind, which they will see without understanding why. No app changes necessary. Still fully backwards compatible.

And then all apps need is some sort of way to interact with this dashboard, so users don't need to go to a KDE dashboard to configure discord (or OBS, or etc), the app can say "oh my PTT keybind is now X, and I see the user is on wayland, I should make sure X is a keybind I can see globally"

And then taking it _even further_ it would be neat to allow the sharing to not be global. "This app overlay can only listen to my keybinds when the app it is an overlay for is focused." Steam gets around this by being the one who launches the game as a child process, so it can listen to the game keybinds in its overlay, but I have other apps that have 3rd party overlays that I _want_ to allow to listen to my keypresses when Im using the app, but not globally.

I believe for the most part, these things are sort of what KDE is currently doing... It has a way of requesting global shortcuts, which it adds to its global keybinds (the keybind for X becomes "send keystroke X to specified app"). However in my experience in the past, global DE keybinds tend to consume the keybind. If I want "control" to be my PTT button, I dont want discord to consume all control keypresses. I want discord to see control being pressed, but I dont want it to be THE control handler.

The whole interface is currently a bit clunky. But it at least works. I had an app surprise me by popping up the KDE portal requesting a global keybind map. I can find these in the KDE `System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > System Services > org.chromium.Chromium` config (the app that prompted me to set things up was an electron app).

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Thanks!

Quoting: EikeBut, to be honest: If you're not playing in the first place, do you thing Steam Deck will change that?

That's a good question. I've read a fair number of comments and reviews from people saying that being able to just pick up the Steam Deck and play a game, rather than sitting down at a full-on desktop PC, somehow made it easier for them to find time to play. I'm also wondering if having the extra device will mean I can more easily play multiplayer games with friends/family at home. But I'm also not sure, which is one reason why I'm thinking of the (relatively) low-end LCD model (if I get one at all) rather than splashing out on the OLED.

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Love seeing Embracer go down. Good for Cryptic to be free again. They made some really decent games back then, when they were still independent. Maybe they can again.

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Wayland has some interesting issues, and most of them can be resolved by switching to x11, but the most important thing in life is to have the Wayland Plasma Wiggle Mouse feature enabled.

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I think this is good news and definitely the right call by the developers. It still leaves over a year for the last remaining issues (or whatever justifies keeping X11 around) to be ironed out, and means that developer time can be freed up to making a better desktop overall, and even beyond that LTS distributions will no doubt still offer it for a few more years.

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How repairable are the Slimbook laptops? The only spec that kind of sticks out as not great is the WiFi card, but if it's replaceable that isn't a huge issue.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismRedHat and therefore IBM are terrible stewards of Xorg, which lead to the forking and creation of XLibre, which unlike Xorg is __NOT__ on "life support" with people trying to kill the project.

I've now read about Wayland for 15 years, and it still has basic issues according to conjecture.

Viva La X

More Choices, More Better.

I can understand some Linux users not being informed on such issues but not developers. The fact is, it's been known for years that X was in maintenance/end of life mode. That XLibre developer knew this or should have known this, but made a big stink anyway.

As for Wayland, I use it everyday (with nvidia) with KDE/Plasma6 and I do play some games without issues on Steam.

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Wayland needs a secure and backward compatible (which, unfortunately, rules out secure) way to manage global shortcuts and keypresses and viewport/video memory sharing.

These are two sore points of still incomplete feature parity with X11.

Yes, there are workarounds. Yes, the old ways were insecure by design. Yes, it's damn hard to provide these features to unmaintained software that expects stuff to work in a certain way.

But removing used/useful features is not exactly progress, no matter in name of what is being done.

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Quoting: scaineDisolver Group.

I was thinking Divester Group.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksUgh, I forgot that IBM owns Red Hat now. Even more of a reason to never touch Fedora ever again...

Hey, could be a lot worse. Could be Oracle.

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Poke your eyes out?
. . . Just how close were you planning to get?

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Quoting: phil995511Rolling-release or semi-rolling-release packages often cause far too many problems for end users because they release new packages without even bothering to test them ;-(

Personally, I refuse to be treated like a beta tester of buggy software solutions. If you're leaving Windows, it's not to encounter the same instability problems under Linux... ;-(

Well, openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling release distro and this is not true for them.
Is very common for they to delay updates for days or weeks when they detect that something is not ready.

Most of times, after some big updates for very common used things (like desktop environment, MESA, and etc.) you can find the latest version on Arch Linux and even on Fedora since the day one, but for Tumbleweed you need to wait a day or two because of the tests.

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My labor of love game... again... No Man's Sky

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That's frustrating that Embracer retained the Remnant IP. They'll likely run it into the ground.

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Quoting: Cyberworm

Quoting: Tethys84I stopped voting in these a while back. I just don't see why it matters. Why does anyone care what the game of the year is? Whats the incentive? I'd rather spend my time playing the games than care about who gets what award.

Sharing your nominations with friends, comparing them and maybe find games you haven't considered playing before. It's basically a quick and easy way to recommend games to others

I don't have friends. But I can't imagine I'd care even if I did. You'd think that gamer friends of a gamer would know about all these games too.

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Quoting: natis1It's very pretty but my god is the gameplay miserable. I couldn't play it for more than an hour.

Can you elaborate? Was it too clunky or simple? Did the game feel too high level? Sorry to ask so many questions, I just got a blip of hope from the trailer.

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I’ve got to hand it to the video game industry, making people pay to beta test a free-to-play game is a baller move.

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Rolling-release or semi-rolling-release packages often cause far too many problems for end users because they release new packages without even bothering to test them ;-(

Btw it is common practice to only update to Nth release of Fedora when N+1th release comes out (so you should stay on 42 until 44 is out, then update to 43), and this is what ublue does by default iirc, their default recommended download is always one version behind Fedora. On the other hand, because Fedora is semi-rolling, I'm not really sure how effective this is, but it probably is, since people do that.

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Whew, must've missed this one whenever it happened.
Turns out, laziness in updating pays !

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It's very pretty but my god is the gameplay miserable. I couldn't play it for more than an hour.

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