Hmh, and Joshua Ashton is already fixing bugs in the driver looking at the merge requests. So Valve seems to want to involve themselves there too.

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Quoting: ssj17vegetaHold on people, if I get it correctly, they didn't open-source their whole drivers, just the DKMS.

Of course, it's still very good news and definitely a step on the right path !

Quoting: ssj17vegetaHold on people, if I get it correctly, they didn't open-source their whole drivers, just the DKMS.

Of course, it's still very good news and definitely a step on the right path !

It still helps a lot. My preferred version would probably be the kernel drivers properly maintained with the kernel, and the userspace actually with support from Nvidia and others becoming Mesa/nouveau.

I don't see the need to make userspace libs open source. AMD does not either, they help (or rather basically develop mostly on their own) the open source Mesa version too.

I could see Nvidia going the same path, keeping their userspace closed source but lending a helping hand to Mesa/nouveau. I'd like that actually, so we in the end have one library for userspace drivers - Mesa.

We'll see what happens, but actually hopefully the kernel upgrade not breaking akms / compiling of the nvidia module would be very welcome indeed. It does not happen often, but happend to me once since the beginning of the year in Fedora. Though, Fedora went on while they knew this would break it for Nvidia users since it's out-of-tree, within this open source change this could become a kernel module in-tree for Fedora too. Which I'd like.

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Quoting: edoThe article should have explained what is open-source and what is not. I assume the driver itself is still not open source

The kernel driver/modeset driver etc. are open source.

The userspace ones (OpenGL, Vulkan etc.) are not.

It's about hardware support. We will have to look to Mesa /nouveau for a userspace driver implementation. Which will be a lot easier with a DRM driver available, but still will take time, and just getting the kernel driver mainlined / compliant will take time. Until that it will live out of tree, but can be provided by distros and used instead of the current nouveau drm kernel driver, to be used by the nouveau implementation in Mesa.

I think :-)

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Fuck. I just lost 50 bucks. I did my bet that Nvidia won't release before 2025 12 years ago.

Happy it's finally happening though. Worth the 50 bucks for loosing the bet.

Since the mention Canonocal, Red Hat and Suse, it's likely that's going to be a pretty fast transition to be kernel compliant. Fast being let's say 12-18 month.

No,I do not accept bets this time ;-).

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Quoting: Mar2ck

Quoting: LeopardSquare Enix or any other company whom are pushing Windows builds do not have any obligations for SteamOS/Proton users.

They don't have any obligation but neither did all of the other devs who made adjustments to their windows-only games to get them running better on Deck.

It actually should not be that hard to get away from MSHTML. But you are right, they need not to since MSHTML will receive security updates till 2029.

With a history of terrible launchers for FFXIV, I doubt this will change any time soon, especially since that piece is not that old.

I am fine with XIVLauncher if they do not start banning us for using it (which I doubt, even with their more aggressive stance to non-standard addons I am pretty sure they are aware of XIVLauncher and will not break it on purpose). I actually use the XIVLauncher windows version inside the FFXIV prefix at the moment, which works well too (and stays there on my HDD when I decide to switch distros).

The flatpak is cool though, didn't think they'd be going for that.

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Maybe once it releases, I'm not buying early access anymore :D.

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For that to happen Gabe needs to learn to count to 3.

Not very likely to happen.

Jokes aside, there is so much which can go wrong in a sequel of great games that you do not want to destroy a legacy by risking another sequel.

Can go great, but pretty much ruin a franchise and reputation too. Better in great memory than failure.

Looking at Valves track record this may not happen, but it can.

Valve is on a point with their games that making a sequel better is hard to do.

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Quoting: 14Fedora as a stable alternative to Arch? Well, you know what they say: have it your way.

On that part it's probably really more stable. They usually don't break on fundamental stuff in a stable release cycle.

But to be fair, distributions are just that. They maintain upstream packages.

The difference with Arch and Fedora is, Fedora undergoes a quality gate. Which Arch never did, never does, and probably never will do.

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Quoting: MaluraqAs a long time Fedora user, I don't see it getting nearly the love it deserves. It's stable and reliable and has a LOT of spin options to get the look and feel you want. I run it with XFCE4 myself. Enjoy!

Using fedora for 4 month now, breaking my system once I'm not sure if that's true. Though, was played by Nvidia drivers, but for me it was not a stable experience.

I still use it though, it's still the best option for me.

Fedora is not stable, considering 80 % of the GPUs in the laptop space probably are Nvidia.

I do understand their stance towards that. Just, that won't be good for any average user.

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Quoting: ridgeAs an Arch user on all my devices (except the Pi). Yeah. Yeah I don't blame you one bit. I haven't experienced any breakage with my hardware but I keep reading about it and other issues that can occur, so while I do love Arch, it kind of feels like a minefield at times even for me. Fedora's a great choice! I tried it on a laptop just over a week ago and I'm a big fan, packages are relatively up to date and it's so simple to set up. A bit bloated out of the box, for my tastes, but that's just nitpicking really, so I'm definitely recommending Fedora KDE or Mint to anyone who might ask me what their "first distro" should be.

Yeah, arch still has and always will have a special place in my heart. It is good, but probably not for the every day use of a person who does not want or does not have the skills to tinker.

Fedora for new users? Well, I certainly would not recommend that. In my personal opinion there are better distros for that, though based on Ubuntu (as Neon) which I wouldn't touch, for new users who want stability, the LTS kernel and just "use" the systems and very likely... mostly just a web browser in todays time, it's perfectly valid.

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