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AMD announces Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile CPUs, RDNA 2 GPUs in the first half of 2021
12 January 2021 at 5:51 pm UTC

Quoting: KithopThis... this is what I'm waiting and hoping for. Time to start saving my pennies.
Hopefully somebody like System76 can get their hands on these and put an all-AMD Linux gaming laptop together, free of binary blobs - that might just be the thing that replaces my 6-9 year old desktop + laptops finally.
System76 is not available directly in EU, is it?

Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
11 December 2020 at 11:50 am UTC

Quoting: The_Aquabat
Quoting: TriasLooks like I would need more and more staff I understand less and less on my system. Giving up. I guess I'll wait for Mesa 21 release while trying to uninstall everything I installed today... :).

you can always resort to oibaf ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
I'm using Oibaf driver PPA on daily basis for quite a long time.
Can anyone please confirm that C2077 works with these (current) Oibaf drivers?

Valve puts up Proton 5.13-4 to get Cyberpunk 2077 working on Linux for AMD GPUs
11 December 2020 at 10:25 am UTC

Quoting: x_wingJust take a look on the number of people that are asking for CP2077 or Galaxy for Linux in GOG and you will see that they cannot have any doubt that a lot of Linux users shows their support but they don't give a fuck. "Keep buying so they notice us" just doesn't makes sense.
Can I please ask, where can this be found on GOG?

Raspberry Pi OS has a big new release out switching to PulseAudio
5 December 2020 at 11:22 am UTC

Quoting: UnixOutlawI've got 3 x Pi4 (1 x 4Gb, 2 x 8Gb)

Bought the 4 GB model last year when they were first announced but was disappointed in the lack of 64 bit choices so I barely used it...
Then they released a 64 bit buster - and I tried it on a "headless" RPi3 (running PiHole and OpenVPN) for a couple months... then I dd'd that image onto a Samsung T5 SSD and booted it from the Pi4 (4GB) - so my headless Pi4 4GB model is now running PiHole and OpenVPN.

I'm still running 32 bit Buster on the 2 x 8 GB models - why? Well there's no 64 bit ARM steamlink app, and also I use Citrix and there's no 64 bit ARM Citrix client - and this is purely anecdotal, but performance on 32 bit seems slightly snappier, e.g. things like Chromium...

Tried Ubuntu and even elementary (arm74) - but prefer Debian buster (and the Ubuntu images for aarch64 / arm64 are also still running older 4.x kernels).

Performance booting from USB3 is so much better than SD card, I don't boot off SD-card anymore...
That USB booting -> what are the requirements for that?
I have a Rpi4B (4GB) and would like to try some other booting device...

X4: Foundations gets a 4.0 Beta with the 'biggest free update so far'
19 November 2020 at 3:22 pm UTC Likes: 1

Ah. Can't wait to test this

NVIDIA slip out a small stable Linux driver update with 455.45.01
17 November 2020 at 5:38 pm UTC Likes: 1

*Still waiting for nv drivers not to crash GNOME Shell every 2 hours*

Collabora expect their Linux Kernel work for Windows game emulation in Kernel 5.11
28 October 2020 at 1:23 pm UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: rustybroomhandle...Will it work? Well, publishers are phenomenally stupid. They will happily develop for e.g. Stadia because it's a "new" platform pushed by a big company. But if you say "Linux" they hide under a table. My guess is that when Valve is ready to start rolling out Steam Machines v2, they will hardly even mention Linux in any marketing, but rather push it as some great new thing they invented between lattes.
An interesting point of view. Nevertheless, please bear in mind that Stadia (and technically probably all streaming platforms) act mainly as an "ultimate DRM" for publishers. That is - I believe - what publishers really see in it...

Dell announce new XPS 13 laptop models, will support moving from Windows to Ubuntu
30 September 2020 at 8:13 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam DaweArticle updated with info on the windows => ubuntu move support. Also they made us aware the date changed to October 1 for USA/Canada.
Great news. But more important question is: will this win=>Lin change affect device's support and/or warranty in any way?

What are you playing this weekend? We're Linux distro-hopping
30 August 2020 at 11:34 am UTC Likes: 2

It was Saturday evening, at it was raining the whole night..
So, Cloudpunk
(It has awesome cyberpunk atmosphere...)

The weekend round-up: tell us what play button you've been clicking recently
8 August 2020 at 12:49 pm UTC Likes: 1

1) WH40k: Dawn of War GOTY Edition. Older, but still good...
2) CS:GO
3) C# 7.1 and .NET Core 2.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development (yes, I know it is a bit dated, but well... )

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