Quoting: ArehandoroSteam OS Holo has -2.46%, is that a typo or are people removing Steam OS to to install other distros?

Sure would be groovy if SteamOS Holo would have a proper release for other systems.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeToo bad they went with a Fedora base (not a huge fan there). But I've legit been waiting for a usable linux on the m1 since I bought one. They definitely have amazing battery life, it's just that macOS is such a slog...

Guess it wont be long for other distro gets the necessary pieces too. And according to the Asahi team, Fedora is only for "prototyping" and serve as a test bed, and with that in mind, Fedora isn't a bad choice.

QuoteOur goal is for all distros to eventually integrate all this work, so that users can use their choice of distro and be confident that it will work well on their machine. But, in order to kick off this process, we had to prototype what this integration looks like, which meant we had to create our own distro.

Yeah, that's what I figured. I've been waiting for close to two years, may as wait longer...

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Quoting: ChrisznixI have tried this on a Machine at Work, an M2 Mac Studio and it is really convenient, it works like a charm.
Only thing is - does anyone know how to get steam installed on these new machines? There is no steam installer available for this architecture yet as far as i know.
I tried some games on MacOs, and what really blew me away was the ration of power consumption to FPS. I was able to try heavy modpacks of minecraft, and on FullHD it barely went above 50W with really good framerates. No Mans Sky ran on Ultra Settings, FullHD with around 100FPS without any issues, while the power meter only showed around 30W of consumption. That was awesome. I want that on linux! :)

You'd probably need 1) Valve to release a Linux ARM binary for Steam. 2) Either the x86 -> ARM translation layer or a native ARM Linux binary for the games.

I mostly just want a powerful but awesome battery life laptop for Linux use. Gaming kind of eats battery far more than if I were using it for more work-like stuff. Then again, I also bought my m1 mac for some video editing :P

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumBut there is the "Advanced" tier which you can join. To do so, you must first install Arch Linux with i3 Window Manager. Set an anime based wallpaper and finally, post a screenshot titled "I did it!" with a terminal window open showing your neofetch.

I've grown too lazy to do that, but I did run Gentoo with Fluxbox as my daily driver for a couple of years back when it took two days of bootstrapping, compilation and self-flagellation to get it properly running on my Athlon Thunderbird system.

You haven't lived until you've installed Debian from a floppy drive, or do a net-install from a 19.2kbps modem.

Granted, those were early days when you had to recompile XFree86 to be able to use a newer graphics card...

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Quoting: PhlebiacGlad to hear they are finally fixing the shopping cart so it's tied to your account instead of your session.

I can't tell you how many times I've added a game to the cart on my phone or laptop, then forgot about it, then went back to my desktop and wasn't aware I had left stuff in there...

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: BlackBloodRumWorse: They've been playing them without him knowing!

As a teen, I had a slightly younger neighbour who also had an Amiga and we've been borrowing games from each other. That one time I borrowed Hollywood Poker from his collection and a few days later his dad came knocking that he wanted his game back. Fortunately I've managed to finish it by then.

Ha, I think I posted this elsewhere, but I'd given a copy of Strip Poker for the Atari 8bit to a kid at school. This was after I 'fixed' the copy we'd gotten. You see, when we first got it, the files were in reverse order, so they started naked and put clothes on as you won.

This kid's mother wouldn't let him play past bra/panties, so I showed him how he could reverse the file names and he got all nervous and told me to change it back before his mom found out. Still makes me laugh.

Pixelated booty!

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Too bad they went with a Fedora base (not a huge fan there). But I've legit been waiting for a usable linux on the m1 since I bought one. They definitely have amazing battery life, it's just that macOS is such a slog...

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Quoting: ArehandoroYay, I can finally masturbate with one hand like God intended! (Without my friends being able to comment in my achievements.)

P.S: This is trying to be a joke, but happy to remove if someone is offended or thinks is inappropriate.

Spank it 'til ya make it! That is what I always say!

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: slaapliedje(until the Unreal Tournament III debacle)

This is way before my time with Linux-gaming, but I'm curious, what happened?

UT III was said to be released for Linuz (after UT 99 and 2004 had Linux versions). But it kept getting delayed over and over. Stuff leaked out that it was being held up because of some third party middleware that wasn't available for Linux, and either needed to be completely replaced, or also get ported. Think slomething like the Bink Video player.

I am sure someone else could provide more info.

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I thought Walking Simulator: The Movie already came out. It was called Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

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