Impressive. No arguments there.

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Quoting: omer666

Quoting: STiAT"Fixed Wayland flickering issues" is missing. Oh ye - they didn't. Again.

I'm on Wayland and I don't have flickering at all, could you explain the issue?

Library: You select one title, if you mouse-over other titles, it sometimes just soft-highlights other titles fully or partially (sometimes more than one) and flickers those highlights in-out with mouse move. Sometimes it even manages to show the game-page of the flickering title you did not mouse over - even without selecting the game you are currently mouse-overing. The faster you move over your library titles, the more often it occurs, and the more extreme it gets. If you move out of the selection and just mouse-over "maximize" in example it also soft-highlights the last title you did hilight over and flickers. If you resize the window to a smaller size it happens less.

Library Game-Page: The game screen is not properly loaded, respectively, instead of the title picture of the game or even sometimes the whole window it is transparent showing the window you have below.

That changes as soon as you manually trigger a full window redraw (resizing, taking a screenshot) to the correct behavior, until it occurs again. Running OBS fixes this too, so I guess it's something to do with how redraws are conducted.

May be related to Nvidia drivers though, but it really is a ugly issue happening often enough (like every 5th click). Since this only happens in Steam and with no other application, I'd guess whatever they use (their own toolkit?) is not properly handling at least on Nvidia+Wayland.

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"Fixed Wayland flickering issues" is missing. Oh ye - they didn't. Again.

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I never was a huge Half-Life fan .. and I played through both and have to say - I didn't really enjoy either. Guess it's just not a game for me.

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I hope NVK will become viable for gaming in the next few years. I've had my fair share of driver problems with 535 and 545 nvidia drivers by now.

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Not convinced The Forge claim to what they are.

Last codebase update in 2022, the following on github describing their owm codebase:
* Linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with Vulkan 1.1

Their github looks like of somebody who never did software development having .exe of installers publicly available anyway hosted there (7zip)

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I often thought of switching, but even in testing and unstable they're a year behind. I understand stability concerns, and have no issue with that on servers, but makes it not viable as a desktop.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: Salvatos> you usually only get the survey on one machine.
Not in my experience. I had it on two different desktops one week apart just last spring and I've had it on my laptop as well.

Got it on my Steam Deck, my laptop and my PC, this month. I decided to distro hop on my PCs and it triggered the survey for each fresh install (wasn't a fresh install for my Steam Deck).

Lucky. I had a survey once. And I have Steam open almost every day since it was released for Linux.

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I am still set to continue or restart once it's done.

I like the lesser raid option though, never liked that feature.

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Quoting: 14I've been playing with Kinoite a little bit in a VM as a way to get hands-on with Flatpak. I don't have a solid opinion yet. I will say that trying to get vim and Kate to work is not obvious. Kate doesn't work via the app menu even though it's listed, nor is it or vim in the bash profile path. Those are pretty fundamental programs that I need to use all the time. I think this OS spin is a proof of concept, but it's an interesting one that could get traction, especially on vendor or corporate supported devices.

Quoting: STiATArch.. well, sweet spot there, pacman is probably the best one out there. I stopped using arch based distros due to their bad optional depend choices (if the software needs it for featurs it should not be optional, even if it is an option on compile, but there the paradigm of Arch and I have diffferent opinions).

If you are into using virtual machines or live USB sticks to test distros, you should try KaOS. They are not a fork of any other distro, however they use pacman for the package management tool! It has a good feel.

I know KaOS and Anke probably longer than most, we both have roots in Chakra. The x86_64 focus of them makes it impossible for me (still) to use it in a proper way. I understand her intention, and I do support it, but I can not use it as a daily driver, since I depend on i386 software for my daily work.

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