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TUXEDO launch their smallest Linux gaming notebook with the Book XP14
12 December 2020 at 5:28 pm UTC

Quoting: CatKiller
Quoting: damarrinI wish 16:10 screens would come back. :-(

Dells have 16:10 screens.

That is nice. I was talking about Linux only hardware vendors, however. All these 13, 14, 15 inch laptops they sell have 1080p screens.

TUXEDO launch their smallest Linux gaming notebook with the Book XP14
12 December 2020 at 5:26 pm UTC

Quoting: Tuxee
Quoting: damarrinAnd the 1080p nonsense in 13-14-15" screens is baffling. Linux has no functional fractional scaling and those screens should not exist.

Care to elaborate? I have a 13.3" display with full HD resolution. Works perfectly ok.

Oh, I’m sure it works ok. What else should I elaborate on? Stuff is too small, that all there is to it.

TUXEDO launch their smallest Linux gaming notebook with the Book XP14
12 December 2020 at 5:23 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ageres
Quoting: damarrinI wish 16:10 screens would come back. :-(
Why? It's the worst ratio ever. I'm glad that it died.

I disagree, it’s much better than 16:9.

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Quoting: damarrinthose screens should not exist.
Why? The resolution is too high? Or too low? I have a laptop with an 11" screen and use no scaling at all.

Too high and too low all at the same time. Boggles the mind, I know.

I’m sitting in front of a 15” 1080p screen right now and it’s just about passable, but going lower makes the system unusable.

TUXEDO launch their smallest Linux gaming notebook with the Book XP14
12 December 2020 at 10:18 am UTC Likes: 1

I wish 16:10 screens would come back. :-(

And the 1080p nonsense in 13-14-15" screens is baffling. Linux has no functional fractional scaling and those screens should not exist.

Valve expand Steam Input to support more of the PS5 DualSense Controller
21 November 2020 at 1:48 pm UTC

Can't say, I use Dualshock 4s over bluetooth all the time and I don't have any problems.

Cyberpunk 2077 confirmed for Stadia on November 19
16 October 2020 at 1:58 pm UTC Likes: 1

I think CDP may have been neutral towards Linux before the Witcher 2 fiasco, but I think they’re hostile now.

Cyberpunk 2077 confirmed for Stadia on November 19
16 October 2020 at 10:13 am UTC Likes: 6

CDP only made the Stadia version because Google paid them to do that. It's my opinion ofc, but it's clear as day that's the case.

Begging anyone to release anything on Linux, especially a Linux-hostile company such as CDP, is completely counter productive. They (we?) now have Proton which will support Cyberpunk sooner or later and they'll gladly take our money. Most likely, they won't even notice that money swamped with all the actual Windows customers as they will be.

We need market share. That's the only thing that matters.

505 Games confirm that Indivisible is finished due to Lab Zero Games imploding
12 October 2020 at 12:48 pm UTC Likes: 3

Any skins I got in the game were simple color swaps, nothing really worth thinking about. Even if there are some better ones somewhere it’s all just superficial fluff.

505 Games confirm that Indivisible is finished due to Lab Zero Games imploding
12 October 2020 at 9:00 am UTC Likes: 1

That was my impression as well. The only problem if it's not updated at all is it's going to stop working sooner or later.

System76 continue improving Pop!_OS with fractional scaling now live
8 October 2020 at 9:21 am UTC

Hmm, is this any different to what what already in Gnome? I have this in Ubuntu 20.04, _maybe_ I did enable an experimental setting in dconf. If so, that would just be them enabling it for everyone, right?

Last time I tried it, it made stuff pretty blurry.