Must have been me. Got the survey twice last month. First on the deck, the second time on the desktop.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: M@GOidI wished they show this on the Store page, so when I tempted to buy a game that does not have a native Linux port (I may or may not had broken a promise...), I don't need to refund it later because it doesn't work on Proton.

They've listed this on the store page for a long time. It's down the right hand side.

Ah. Yes. Would be much smarter to show it along the "supported OS".

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Quoting: ShabbyXHow well would you think it works for gaming on a TV? I can't imagine fanless could handle that.

Since it relies on Intel's iGPU gaming will be restricted to non-demanding titles.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: mrdeathjrWell if rtx 4060ti is a fail in various levels, this card join to same group

Personally seems better rx 6700 10gb or 6700/50 xt 12gb and back to rx 7600 as rtx 4060 ti/non ti are stupid cards with stupid price

Let's wait and see the benchmarks, but usually, generation to generation, the RX7600 should be close to the RX6700, performance wise, at a much lower price...

It's hardly any faster than a 4-year-old 5700XT and considerably slower than a 6700XT. The benchmarks are already out.

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Quoting: psycho_driverASUS generally makes good to great hardware. You can't really go wrong with their motherboards.

Perhaps you should ingest some recent videos on Gamers Nexus and JayzTwoCents...

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Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: miroWhat the actual fuq?
Is this for real? You do know that this is designed to kill people, not in a cs-fashion but for real. And all with the currently f'ed up narrative and politics, you are cracking jokes with it.

I can not believe this, what a shame.

Are you suggesting we treat the Russian invading army of genocidal psychopaths with respect?

They're perfectly ordinary people

Well... no. Not exactly. They have bolstered their ranks with plenty of mercenaries and convicted criminals. So "perfectly ordinary people" might apply to some of them but a sizeable portion is not "ordinary people". I am also not aware of regular and large scale massacres of the US army in Iraq or Afghanistan (yes, there were war crimes but to a much much lesser extend).

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: CatKillerIt's a pretty terrible name, and Ubisoft have historically been not good to work for, but this

QuoteWork with the rest of the engineering staff to help them expand their cross-platform mindset

is how all developers should be thinking.

Yeah too bad "cross-platform" in this context is PC-Playstation-Xbox... where PC means, of course, Windows.
The job is 100% for the server.

Then why would the need to

QuoteExpand and improve the Snowdrop engine’s presence on Linux"

The job is (a) 100% for the client.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: TuxeeCanonical makes money with support and services for commercial customers. Exactly like Red Hat. Their Steam efforts are just pursued to keep Ubuntu visible as "the" desktop distro that plays well with their customer services. And there is zero lock-in since pretty much every software I can think of is also available via other channels. Snap is a convenient (YMMV) alternative in the Ubuntu ecosystem. That's all.

That would be great if it were true, as some software is out there that make snaps available, but otherwise have to be installed via tar balls, or converting rpms, etc. It's a visibility issue. I bet you if there could be alt stores to snap, no one would hate it as much as they do.

So... The situation without the Snap store would be exactly the same for non-snappers today. Correct?
Now, the alt stores... Yes, it would stifle your Canonical flaming somewhat (though I assume there is plenty of other nasty stuff lurking out there), but apart from that it wouldn't change a thing. How many alternative Flatpak repos are there? I have about 20 Flatpaks installed on my system (about as many as snaps). Exactly ONE is NOT from flathub. (And that's a paid-for software.)

Quoting: slaapliedjeThe difference between them and Red Hat is that Red Hat pays developers to put most of that code back into open source projects and pushes forth the advancement in Linux in ways that Ubuntu have either tried to do their own thing with (mir, Unity, snap) or just minor things that do actually help (gnome performance improvements). The scale difference of how much Red hat improves Linux as a whole vs how much Ubuntu does is kind of staggering.

I know. Red Hat. With their NIH syndrome. Painful. They didn't want to contribute to upstart. They had to dish out systemd. How lame. They didn't want to support Unity, no they had to had it their way and concoct Gnome Shell. They could have supported Snap, but no, it had to be flatpak. Because all the Canonical alternatives preceded the Red Hat implementations. Mir was a different beast altogether - Canoncial actually wanted to use Wayland, but Wayland was years from being usable and then Mir served a different purpose.

And just to give you an idea about size and influence: Red Hat has - according to Wikipedia - 19,000 employees and makes billions of revenue. Canonical has a few hundred employees and has an annual revenue of 140 millions. So yes, Red Hat contributing much much more is hardly surprising.

Quoting: slaapliedjeFor myself (and others), Ubuntu would need to do a lot to regain our trust. All the snap vs flatpak does is cause developers to keep shying away from deploying commercial software on Linux (and as much as we as users can disagree on how much we want commercial software, for 'The year of the Linux Desktop' to happen, we need it.

Oh puhleeze. The usual BS. This has been the mantra for at least the last 15 years (because that's how long I use Linux on my desktop). The availability of commercial software has never been hindered by "having two or three package formats". Never. I do have my (paid-for) commercial products as DEBs, AppImages, Flatpaks, Tars, script installers. So if companies want to sell their stuff they are perfectly capable and willing to do so.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: sudoerWell done corp world... a container in a container. Unneccessary complexity for the sake of corp agendas. Does Proton even work with this.

What "agenda"?

Every corporation has an agenda... to make money.

Not shit, Sherlock. But "agenda" sounds so much more sinister and secretive than "make some money and - maybe - grow". And since we are talking about Canonical something fishy must go on.

Quoting: slaapliedjeCanonical's best way to make money is to try to get as much vendor lock-in that they can, without pissing off the community enough that someone switches to a different distro. Snap and them being the only ones who can host a snap store is their method of lock-in.

Canonical makes money with support and services for commercial customers. Exactly like Red Hat. Their Steam efforts are just pursued to keep Ubuntu visible as "the" desktop distro that plays well with their customer services. And there is zero lock-in since pretty much every software I can think of is also available via other channels. Snap is a convenient (YMMV) alternative in the Ubuntu ecosystem. That's all.

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Quoting: sudoerWell done corp world... a container in a container. Unneccessary complexity for the sake of corp agendas. Does Proton even work with this.

What "agenda"?

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