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  • Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes

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  • Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

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  • It doesn't take 3nm/2nm chips to make a great computer. The Switch 2 is has a Samsung 8nm SoC. Steam Deck is TSMC 7nm. A Steam Deck has a better processor than my Intel N150 NAS. We don't need the strongest hardware for self hosting. Don't need it for a good gaming experience. Someday we'll get second hand server parts salvaged into home equipment. The PS5 had that jailbreak. That can someday be a useful Linux machine. Someday the Xbox Series. Someday there'll be a wave of RISC-V SBC's that are better than the most recent raspberry pi

  • Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

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  • Go Valve go. Screw Facebook/Meta, Google, Apple. I want the future of VR to be standard desktop Linux centric. The iOS/Android state of mobile is annoyingly restrictive compared to even Windows let alone desktop/server Linux

  • Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show

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  • The quality of the Fallout TV show to me is somewhere post-season 4 Dexter. Not at Dexter's worst but far from great. It is watchable. Entertaining enough. Not very memorable. Good for syndicated reruns background noise while you eat. Milking something that doesn't have a very high peak

  • What's the current state of intel Arc GPUs on GNU/Linux? Open Source Driver? OOTB experience?

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  • Improved over the last year

    https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-b580-opengl-vulkan-eoy2025

    How it compares to Windows I wouldn't know. I did use an Intel Arc for a while on Linux but switched to AMD for performance and idle power draw before the start of 2025. It was stable though with Steam Proton games and general day to day usage. Probably pretty good performance today relative to what it can do on Windows today compared to 2023-2024 when I was using Intel

    When I first got the card, Switch emulation did not work. I think it was around mid 2024 when it started to work well

  • Memory crisis expected to last until 2031, supply already allocated for 2026

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  • The PS5 is going to easily be relevant longer than the PS4 and the PS4 is still relevant

  • Why do servers and supercomputers primarily run on Linux and not on some Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon OS?

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  • The thread is about servers and supercomputers being dominated by Linux

  • how much do you donate to the apps you use?

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  • Don't have anything recurring. More like random $10-20 thrown here and there. It'd probably be more often if it was all more integrated/streamlined. Pretty much the hyped up Flathub payments feature someday. I'd do that more often than patreon/opencollective/etc. I've had a patreon sub for a few projects over the years

  • Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period

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  • They haven't had a crossover hit yet. The Switch had at least 2. Breath of the Wild on Launch and Animal Crossing during COVID. Hoping Star Fox get's a major Breath of the Wild type jump for the series and maybe a new IP. Metroid would be good to have a new sub-series that changes up the formula for 3D adventure. Hopefully a new IP too

  • Why do servers and supercomputers primarily run on Linux and not on some Microsoft/Apple/Google/Amazon OS?

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  • I don't think 10 lifetimes is enough for me to learn about all the software that people out there run on Linux servers. Then I die my last lifetime and people come up with new software. Myself as an individual could see all that and say that software like that should be available on a server OS especially to compete with Linux. A huge company with over a hundred thousand employees. They can probably crowdsource through their employees a way longer list than me but will leadership read the list? Will they greenlight funding development for all that software? Will they match up to as good and ideally better to be worth paying for than the free and open source stuff on Linux? Will they keep up development on all that software or fall behind the open source stuff?

    If they can't do that, there's no reason for any company to smartly spend money on a proprietary server OS license for what would be immediately a worse product or a product that is at best just as good or a product that would inevitably end up being worse than the Linux ecosystem. I consider it an impossibility for a new proprietary OS to cover the whole breadth of server software out there and even the whole breadth of server hardware support. I'm not sure what the status is of Windows Server ARM and Windows Server RISC-V. Don't know how popular POWER is on server or if SPARC is still kicking. That's top 5 largest company in the world Microsoft that's been doing operating systems for like 40 years.

    Doing a Linux spin makes the most sense.

    Plus Linux development is supported by a huge amount of large companies. It's not rag tag open source freelancers vs mega-corporation. It would be a collection of mega-corporations to small corporations plus independent individuals vs a mega-corporation

  • Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”

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  • Intel Arc B770 “Big Battlemage” Graphics Card Based on Top BMG-G31 GPU Has Been Listed

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  • Looks like the ARC B580 has a TDP of 190w and comparable to the 7600xt. If it's priced like a 9060xt and performs between a 9060xt and 9070, someone may bite but whatever it comes out to, I bet a 9060xt can overclock to match it

  • NVIDIA is preparing to add native Linux support to GeForce NOW according to VideoCardz.com

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  • I use GeForce Now for like 1 month a year or when they have a really good deal on a 6 month like a game I want

  • Intel Arc B770 “Big Battlemage” Graphics Card Based on Top BMG-G31 GPU Has Been Listed

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  • ~300w TDP for RX 9060xt level performance which ranges ~160w. Really going to need to be priced well

  • Box64 v0.4 Improves Support For DRM Protected Games, Steam Is Now More Stable

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  • Nice. Waiting for RVA23 boards with a PCI-E slot to become widely available so I can test out box64 on those

  • PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop"

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  • It's been good for the average PC user for like 5 years. Pretty much when Google Docs became pretty ubiquitous from elementary school through university. Then also stuff like turbotax becoming something people use through a website rather than a application they buy a disc for from the store. Steam Deck was when Proton maturity reached a point where it became suitable for most gamers. Steam games on Android is the next mainstream frontier to pull users away from Windows. Now the main barrier to me is improving prosumer software/making open source alternatives competitive like how Blender became. Pretty much need people to get away from Adobe and FL Studio/etc

  • NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux

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  • That newer open source driver is still far behind but is progressing. Those graphics cards will have a great new life with modern kernels someday

  • Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents

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  • Get to acquiring Seagate external HDDs and shucking them for your own 3.5" drive bays before the data centers get them

  • What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

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  • Before big commercial companies can succeed with the mainstream, flatpak permission handling that is as smooth as Android and iOS. Not everything is going to be in the distros base package manager and devs need a way to distribute software that can be expected to work on any of these devices. No confusions over why they're system doesn't know what to do with a deb or rpm file. Flatpak is the closest thing right now to something with universal adoption. After that it's a slow and steady grind for market share. Like how Macs market share 20 years ago isn't very different from where Linux is today

    I think a hardware company could succeed better by marketing the devices as creation devices. Focus on Blender, Krita, Ardour, Darktable, Kdenlive, etc. Pretty much the niche Macs were marketed as 25 years ago getting regular people interested with stuff like garageband and imovie