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@monkee Still, they are a shitty company. They most likely only do this now because they saw the mobile PC / handheld market being kickstarted with the Steam Deck and companies like Valve telling them their driver is hot shit. Any handheld-PC is using either AMD or Intel for good reason. I don't think any "gaming handheld" being announced so far is using an Nvidia chip, especially not now as Valve opens a new market for "SteamOS devices". SteamOS does not support Nvidia at all.

@monkee If I understood correctly nouveau should become the default for "legacy" cards at some point (anything that isn't RTX) while nvk takes over for modern GPUs.

@monkee Well, no. They actually began contributing to nouveau and work on their own open-source driver (see "nvk") that works nicely with the Linux ecosystem because their proprietary driver blob is way beyond saving.

Unfortunately nvk isn't there yet. Comparable to Intel ARC drivers, really; both are new and rapidly improving, but not yet optimal.

@monkee I got a more capable used laptop. There's literally no dedicated AMD graphics in that market right now, even with new laptops you usually have to specifically look for devices with mobile AMD chips.

System update in #OpenSuse #Tumbleweed - nice.
Nvidia driver not loaded again - not nice.

Some things never change. Well, with the new driver Nvidia works on they might…
#Linux

@lritter Lol, he immediately blocked me as well.

@lritter @jwz It looks to me like jwz put up a strawman (some "HOA") to then beat it because he doesn't like to receive criticism regarding some specific topic, in this case alt text.

There really is nothing to gain from interacting with someone who's just here to throw a temper tantrum (the last few sentences of jwz's post is a big red flag). This applies to everyone, including jwz.

So #ApexLegends is breaking #Linux support because they're too lazy to do #anticheat properly. Got it, screw that game.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/blocking-linux-steam-deck-in-apex-legends-led-to-a-meaningful-reduction-in-cheaters/
#GamingOnLinux #SteamDeck

Does #Gnome work on their "background apps" menu to finally include all of 'em? It's kind of sad that downloading the "Tray Icons: Reloaded" Extension is quite literally mandatory for so long now to not have invisible, sometimes even inaccessible background programs running (e.g. Steam, Discord).

If Gnome wants to have this fancy menu (which, in general, is really nice!) it should also show any program using the classical system tray "backend", *including* their context menu options.
#Linux

I sense an antagonistic pattern around Sun Microsystems.
#video

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The Madness behind the #Linux Source Code Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvXSSPovi9I