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Quoting: sarmad

Quoting: VardamirWell, things are moving in the right direction.
Btw, I was wondering, if Linux is not already the most successful gaming platform. If you count Android, it might already be. Does anybody have numbers on the market share for gaming devices?

I don't have exact numbers, but Android is, by far, the biggest gaming market. If I remember correctly, it was bigger than Xbox and Playstation combined!

Curious, is that number of gamers, or is that profit? Android games make stupid, almkst criminal amounts of money based on EA level of shady antics.

If I remember correctly, it was based on profit. That, however, is the combined market size, and that doesn't mean if you publish your game on Android you'll make more profit than on Playstation or Xbox. It just means the market is bigger with far more developers and far more players. Obviously, a big portion of those games are puzzle games or other touch friendly games.

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When you say it now works, do you mean online multiplayer works as well, or only the single player mode?
If online multiplayer works as well, and it was a tiny and quick fix, then what excuse do other developers have?

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Quoting: VardamirWell, things are moving in the right direction.
Btw, I was wondering, if Linux is not already the most successful gaming platform. If you count Android, it might already be. Does anybody have numbers on the market share for gaming devices?

I don't have exact numbers, but Android is, by far, the biggest gaming market. If I remember correctly, it was bigger than Xbox and Playstation combined!

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Quoting: Termy

Quoting: Nico7asThe Starfighter also packs a 4K+ display

Which is more of a downside in my book. Who would need 4k on a tiny 15" screen?!

The Starfighter is also available with a higher refresh (165Hz) 2560x1600 screen as well, which is what I reserved mine with, as I agree with you about 4K and would rather have the higher refresh and lower battery consumption.

With higher refresh rate you probably won't save battery life anyway, but regardless of battery life, the higher refresh rate definitely gives you more visual improvement than the higher resolution.

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Glad to see this happening, though the StarLabs offering (StarFighter) is superior to this with more ram, better screen, better web cam, and larger battery.

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Quoting: redneckdrow

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: sarmadI know you are just stating your opinion, and I was just telling you that your opinion is wrong. This is a gaming device, not a military equipment in order to think it should be banned on certain countries. People in the west should really quit this mentality of punishing populations for the mistakes of their governments.

Well, the thought is that these (western) countries cannot really do much against some "governments", but unhappy citizens might.
(I'm not saying it's the right thing to do, I don't know.)

I mean, hey, the only place that strategy didn't eventually work was Cuba.

Well, and Iran, and Venezuela, and Russia, and Syria, and Iraq, and North Korea, and . . . actually, has there ever been a place where sanctions DID turn the population against the government? After all, the first move of most bad governments is to find some enemy to point to and claim all the country's problems are because of them, and so any dissent is being a quisling for the enemy. US sanctions sure make that move easy and plausible and to some extent even true.
To be fair, I don't think that's the point of US sanctions in the first place. The point of US sanctions is to crush a country and its people so bad that nobody wants to be next. Which is evil, but not pointless because I think it does work fairly well.

It works, but it has consequences that current US politicians ignore because they know it will eventually be someone else that needs to deal with them; the consequences of the US accumulating bad reputation around the world over the years. For example, in the middle east the US reputation has become so bad that the easiest way for a middle eastern politician to gain local popularity is by simply becoming anti-US, or just pretending to be. Granted, in the ME the US has done way more than just sanctions, but sanctions are still a big factor.

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Quoting: redneckdrow

Quoting: sarmad

Quoting: redneckdrow

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Purple Library GuyGood news! Hmmm . . .

QuoteJapan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan!

When it comes to Asia, aren't we kind of missing an elephant here?

Two, of similar size, actually.

I, for one, will never consider a certain "People's Republic" to be the legitimate government of the beautiful land they currently tyrannize! I won't mention it by name, as I've seen how vindictive their hired script-kiddies can be. Not only that, but I have a family member who was a U.S. Marine stationed there after WW2.

No one should support genocide. I pray for the U's every night.

Yes, I would have preferred that SYS had lived; CKS led a very unstable government that was little better than the current one, but at least it was sort of Democratic! Far better than what they got. Not for nothing, but at least SYS was a decent Cristian (bigamy aside). CKS was a devout but hypocritical one. Both are better than that imbecile currently in power.

That said, I assume most gamers from there aren't very political, so I do feel somewhat upset for them. But then, extremely few use Linux there when so many machines run warez copies of Windows, from what I understand. The deck probably isn't even on their radar.

No excuse for India though. Valve should've released it there, that's an enormous market to miss.

I can assure you that Valve doesn't care, and shouldn't care, about your political point of view, and that the reason they aren't selling in China yet is either logistics or technical related. Just a matter of time before they start selling there too.

Of course they don't! I never said anything about them caring. Didn't mean to ruffle feathers.

I just felt it needed to be said. My opinion isn't worth the price of tea in a certain place!

As my psychology teacher once said: "Opinions are like ***holes. Everyone has one, and generally, no one wants to hear about anyone else's." he was a really great guy.

I know you are just stating your opinion, and I was just telling you that your opinion is wrong. This is a gaming device, not a military equipment in order to think it should be banned on certain countries. People in the west should really quit this mentality of punishing populations for the mistakes of their governments.

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Quoting: redneckdrow

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Purple Library GuyGood news! Hmmm . . .

QuoteJapan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan!

When it comes to Asia, aren't we kind of missing an elephant here?

Two, of similar size, actually.

I, for one, will never consider a certain "People's Republic" to be the legitimate government of the beautiful land they currently tyrannize! I won't mention it by name, as I've seen how vindictive their hired script-kiddies can be. Not only that, but I have a family member who was a U.S. Marine stationed there after WW2.

No one should support genocide. I pray for the U's every night.

Yes, I would have preferred that SYS had lived; CKS led a very unstable government that was little better than the current one, but at least it was sort of Democratic! Far better than what they got. Not for nothing, but at least SYS was a decent Cristian (bigamy aside). CKS was a devout but hypocritical one. Both are better than that imbecile currently in power.

That said, I assume most gamers from there aren't very political, so I do feel somewhat upset for them. But then, extremely few use Linux there when so many machines run warez copies of Windows, from what I understand. The deck probably isn't even on their radar.

No excuse for India though. Valve should've released it there, that's an enormous market to miss.

I can assure you that Valve doesn't care, and shouldn't care, about your political point of view, and that the reason they aren't selling in China yet is either logistics or technical related. Just a matter of time before they start selling there too.

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If only System76 focuses on what the company was established for, which is building Linux laptops. They still don't offer laptops that aren't just a re-brand. They still don't have any laptop with AMD or Intel dGPU. They still don't have a laptop with a build quality that matches the likes of high end laptops. Instead of focusing on these areas, which is their core business, they are now spending their efforts on keyboards and PopOS. There are plenty of keyboards, planety of distros, and plenty of desktop environments that you can easy find elsewhere. What the Linux community needs is better laptop options.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: rustigsmedyes have to agree, although I would go Kubuntu rather than ubuntu, and would probably suggest Pop!_OS if nVidia is involved and you were ok with the de.

The only Nvidia advantage for Pop is if your GPU/monitor combination means that the open source nouveau can't set the resolution properly (the black screen with the blinking cursor - for which there's a fix, but it is something that one would have to specifically learn about), which isn't all combinations and will hopefully become fewer as nouveau improves and the open source module from Nvidia matures.

Every modern distro can install the proprietary Nvidia driver as part of the installation process (just like Pop does), they just don't use the proprietary Nvidia driver in the installer environment (which Pop does).

Once the distro is installed, it's all the same.

Err no, the big advantage of pop is if you have an integrated graphics card (say Intel) PLUS a discrete Nvidia GPU. With pop you can use it like you would on win (proprietary Nvidia drivers included) : use one, the other, or both at the same time, and mix and match with screens over dp, HDMI, USB-C etc. Everything works out of the box with a nice switch on the desktop if you want to say disable the discrete GPU to save battery.

Good luck with any other distribution, been there done that (eventually sold the laptop and sweared never again tbh)

Ubuntu handles it the same way, and I'm guessing most of what Pop provides in terms of nVidia is actually inherited from Ubuntu. The only thing Pop adds is the ability to switch the GPU from the Gnome main menu whereas in Ubuntu you have do it from the nVidia control panel.

The best experience with nVidia I've had is with my current MSI GS66 laptop, which has the internal screen and the display port both connected to the iGPU rather than the dGPU, so the dGPU is only used when a game is running and only renders to back buffers. This is the only way to have a flawless experience with hybrid GPUs on Linux.

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