I don't play LoL, but I appreciate that the developers went to the effort of understanding how Linux players play their game, and explaining in detail from their perspective, why they will now prevent Linux players from playing their game.

It's more than some publishers will do. They could have just pretended Linux players don't exist, or pretend that Valve is the only party responsible for making sure the game works.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOn Mac, I suspect open source software is quite hard to run.

In general, it's a lot easier than Windows because it has a lot of the same libraries as Linux due to its *BSD heritage.

I was thinking more along the lines of just a bit of a pain to install because of Apple walled garden stuff, not so much not working or anything.

Oh, well in that case, not really! Installing open source software (or any kind of software, really) is pretty easy on macOS. Even installing homebrew is possible with a click (and a drag, and an OK prompt, and a right-click to Open it) or a one-line command. Same deal with, say, Krita. Just download the .DMG and go through a wizard. Most people don't use the App Store because it sucks for getting software anyway.

I actually think macOS is a pretty decent OS (with major caveats) and isn't much more locked down than Windows. In some ways, I think it's less limiting. It's all of Apple's other devices where that reputation is rightly deserved.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualO

Quoting: pleasereadthemanual. GIMP 3.0 will be out with so many improvements.

im not sure if that will be enough to counter photoshop AI stuff...

No way, but it has basic NDE (absolutely huge difference and necessary for so many people's workflows), multi-layer select, decent CMYK support, Wayland support, GTK3 support ... those are the things I noticed in 5 minutes of using the dev branch. The GSoC projects this year have me even more excited.

I don't expect GIMP to ever replace Photoshop for the simple reason that Photoshop is the only program that has perfect compatibility with .PSD files (with the exception of maybe Photopea?). That is what it would need for it to replace Photoshop for me and for a lot of other people. Same goes for Scribus, Inkscape, Natron, and Kdenlive/DaVinci Resolve for Adobe's respective formats, to a lesser extent. What's important is that GIMP is more pleasant to use and has more professional features for the odd things. Those that aren't locked to Photoshop then have a good option on Linux, and a good open source option on Windows and macOS.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyOn Mac, I suspect open source software is quite hard to run.

In general, it's a lot easier than Windows because it has a lot of the same libraries as Linux due to its *BSD heritage. Homebrew makes it so. It's why so many developers use macOS (Unix without the hassle, as they used to say). However, both GIMP and Krita have significant performance issues on macOS due to OpenGL, but mpv works fine for example. Kdenlive (and Lightworks, interestingly) can't handle scrolling inertia at all, but DaVinci Resolve is a fantastic experience on macOS. And Wine is more of a hassle. Open source software is quite easily installed on macOS compared to Windows, but the actual experience can be hit-or-miss.

I agree that there is a tendency to pay for stuff. Somehow I ended up paying for Magnet instead of installing Rectangle.

That being said, you can pry my Intel Mac from my cold dead hands before I shell out money for Apple Silicon (famous last words).

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QuoteTechnically, ChromeOS is also Linux, and while people like to debate that if you do include Linux and ChromeOS together it would actually be 6.32%. A number that is getting steadily harder for developers of all kinds to ignore.

If I remember correctly from last time we had a market share thread, more knowledgeable users than me pointed out that ChromeOS does not run Linux binaries (without installing Linux containers); it only runs webapps. That adds pressure for developers like Adobe to release webapps and hopefully make them good substitutes for native programs, but it doesn't mean anything for making Native Linux programs.

Wine still can't run Adobe Creative Cloud, but hey, at least you have a few more options today...

Quoting: rustigsmedwith win10 support ending for home users late next year combined with win11 high system requirements we could see a continued or slight jump. anyone want to predict Jan 2026? will 6% or higher be possible? It will be interesting and fun to watch.

I'm curious how many people will pay for extended support. For business users, it starts at $60 per year, then $120 for the next year, and $240 for the last year. Extended support for home users will likely be cheaper...

By 2025, I think Wayland will be a good experience for everyone. STF's funding for GNOME runs out at the end of 2024, and hopefully the accessibility stack will be up to snuff. v1 of the Color Management/HDR protocol will hopefully be finalized this year. Wine 10.0 will probably have the Wayland driver exposed by default. Noveau + Zink + NVK will have had more time to mature. GIMP 3.0 will be out with so many improvements. So it'll probably be a good time to switch!

In some ways, I'm glad Fedora 40 is forcibly cutting ties with X11 next week (although a KDE developer maintains X11 packages for Fedora, they aren't installed by default) as it will give more users more time to live on Wayland, which gives user-facing programs like Steam, Discord, and Krita (after CM...) more time to switch to Wayland. I just worry about Linux Mint's Wayland project.

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Quoting: TheRiddickBe a great day once NVIDIA gets [..] properly balanced HDR (is desaturated and wrong exposure atm).

Is HDR even available at all? As far as I know, KDE only offers a partially-implemented version of HDR on their Wayland session.

gamescope

Ah, that's true.

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Quoting: TheRiddickBe a great day once NVIDIA gets [..] properly balanced HDR (is desaturated and wrong exposure atm).

Is HDR even available at all? As far as I know, KDE only offers a partially-implemented version of HDR on their Wayland session.

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Solidworks does work in Wine? That's surprising.

I've never used it, but isn't that a popular industry-standard CAD program?

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If Ubisoft won't enable anti-cheat support for Proton for Siege even when it's seemingly done for them, I don't have much hope for these EA games using an unsupported anti-cheat.

I don't think the anti-cheat problem will ever be solved for Linux.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualDowngrading to an earlier version of xz sounds like the most reasonable thing to do based on what Nix and Gentoo are doing.

Thinking about it some more, this could also be a bad idea if you downgrade to previous Arch packages. They were built from tarballs signed by the maintainer, which could be hiding more surprises. You would want to make doubly sure that the release you are using was based on tarballs signed by Lasse and not Jia Tan.

At least with the 5.6.1-2 release, you can be assured that Arch is building the package directly from git, with no binary surprises in the tarballs.

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Quoting: sudoerso you are saying they should use the compromised binary tarballs instead. You said it twice already.

I'm not. In the interest of caution, I downgraded to an earlier version of xz. I would have felt more reassured had Arch done the same, as every other affected distribution has done. I overstated that in my initial comment, I admit. Hopefully it turns out there was no need for Arch to go further back.

What worries me is that other parts of xz may have been sabotaged. Lasse recently reverted a commit that disabled the Landdlock sandbox e.g., but this is benign: https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commitdiff;h=f9cf4c05edd14dedfe63833f8ccbe41b55823b00

Quoting: sudoerI'm not sure you understand the situation and are basically copy-pasting stuff you find elsewhere here pretending to know a thing.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2160841#p2160841

I'm doing my best to understand the situation. I'm not a security researcher, packager, or developer; just a user. Downgrading to an earlier version of xz sounds like the most reasonable thing to do based on what Nix and Gentoo are doing.

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