Quoting: LinasSo I used 3.6 for a bit now, and I find it rather unstable. On multiple occasions I got stuck at black screen, mostly when trying to switch to desktop mode. Then this happened when launching Google Chrome:

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Well, at least it's neither a back screen nor a bluescreen... ;)

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: EikeIs that referring to Steam Deck?

Oops! Yes, it is! Sorry for not being clear enough there - I wrote that comment quickly whilst between rounds in Stumble Guys. Have edited my post to clarify!

... and I was wondering where all those settings might be hidden... :)

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Quoting: PenglingJust a small thing that I encountered that might be worth pointing out: Post-update, I played Stardew Valley and noticed that the scrolling was really jerky even though the game was otherwise running fine. It seems that something got messed up regarding per-game power-saving settings, because even though I already had that game set to 60fps, I had to change that to something else and then change it back to fix the problem; Turning per-game settings off and on again didn't help, I specifically had to change the refresh-rate and change it back again. I presume that it would've affected anything, but that just happened to be what I played first.

Just making a note of the fix in case anyone else runs into it.

Is that referring to Steam Deck?

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Quoting: artixbtwHow does one manage to make a distribution that doesn't support native Linux games? That sounds like royal kludge.

While personally, I'm refraining from Proton, I don't find it too unreasonable from a device makers point of view. It's easier to just handle all games the same.

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Quoting: fritzyIt's too bad that they (reportedly) broke so many mods with the latest update to Fallout 4. I was thinking about revisiting it with some mods that toned down the base-management parts of the game. I stopped in the middle of my original play-through after I was told "Another settlement needs your help" one too many times.

Oops. Sounds like the reason I gave up on Mad Max. Is there really a Fallout with busywork?

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Thanks for pointing out the tiny ones from time to time! I'll give that one a try for sure!

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Quoting: F.UltraOnly rearranging your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years isn't really how I would defined bit rot ;).

To be honest, the examples I was thinking of were quite longer than 2 or 4 years. But I'd still prefer to be closer to the wave. Like changing every two years to the LTS version that's a year old at that time.

Quoting: F.UltraHeck all the QA some of our customers have to perform on each release before they certify it for production takes almost those 4 years.

That sounds strange. I don't want to disclose more (not that it is very secret stuff, I just want to keep it private), but our customers would be counted as critical infrastructure and they are careful and... reluctant to change, but as far as I know, even they are a bit faster than that.

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QuoteFixed uninitialized memory in right eye.

A problem I got every morning...

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: F.UltraBecause it's much easier to only change your build environment every 4 years instead of every 2 years.

Not sure about that. You shouldn't sink too deep in the mud...

I am a developer of enterprise software so yes this is exactly how at least that part of the industry works and thinks.

Yeah. I'm developer of industry software too, and we're doing our best to not do such things anymore. Bits do rot.

Quoting: F.UltraNot sure what mud you talk about, I have build environments that work for CentOS 4 still due to customer demand :)

For old software, we're keeping old environments around as well.

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What's that image in the news feed, a swine railgun?!? :D

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