It's not great on Nvidia. KDE's dev team have announced a big Plasma update, specifically focused on Wayland support to be released around February.
I have a 3090 and some stuff works, some stuff doesn't. I am forced to use it because X will lock refresh rates to the rate of the lowest monitor, so my 165hz screens were not being used to their fullest until I swapped over to Wayland which supports multiple monitor refresh rates.
Often I will find system components freezing up. The task bar, for example, will often stop being useable and freeze up. I have had the digital clock widget freeze up on me, which requires a relog to fix. It also doesn't totally work on transparent themes, rendering them without the translucency.
I think the best thing about Intel's offering is that they are trying to pitch the value proposition. The cards aren't amazing, the drivers are hit and miss, but every few weeks I see a new update posted bringing the cards closer and closer to parity with the more expensive and established brands. 10% increase one, week 15% increase another; 110% increase was the latest I read, although that might've been OpenCL performance.
Ultimately I hope Intel transitions their capabilities with these Arc cards into modular APU-style designs.
You can refund games for being buggy, you cannot however, play them for dozens of hours and then refund them. Steam's limit is two hours and two weeks.
I don't think Sony is going to give up that easily, nor is Nintendo or Valve.
Microsoft has tried, with sheer force of capital to buy out these players and couldn't understand when they were denied. In tech you can do big mergers and acquisitions with sheer capital but Nintendo is a pride and joy crown jewel of Japanese industry, and no amount of money would allow MS to buy them.
MS' big push for accessibility and cloud gaming makes them ultimately platform agnostic over time, because they are leveraging the cloud technology to deploy their catalogue on any machine with an internet connection and a screen.
"Classic" Microsoft, the EEE (envelop, extend, extinguish) strategy that made them assholes through the 90s and early aughts hasn't been nearly as prevalent in the current Nadella era. More often than not MS has been forking open source projects or simply contributing to them in their own ways rather than building proprietary systems.
It's funny that I lead with this because I had a minute to think about it and honestly I kind of just don't care. Dragonflight did not renew my hopes for retail, although it had some neat mechanic changes. Classic will be over for me probably by the end of January, unless they announce basically Classic+ based around the WOTLK talents. I am going to get my Shadowmourne, kill Arthas on heroic, and then go play FFXIV.
No, I think they're going to continue adding massive value to the Gamepass system to keep it afloat and competitive. Maybe a WoW sub is a bit of a stretch, but basically all other games will thrive on the platform. StarCraft 2 is still the benchmark RTS for competitive play. Overwatch and Diablo are not my cups of tea but they would also make great offerings on the platform. Most of Blizzard's core franchises outside of WoW itself are heavily MTX'd out the ass, battle passes, cosmetics, whatever - even if it's included in the gamepass sub, the theoretical higher volume of players will likely compensate for unit sales through the aforementioned MTX.
I learn mostly about FOSS, Linux, and piracy through you guys. And I thought I was a pretty advanced pirate myself, but you guys are a whole other level at times.
Outside of my instance I think slrpnk is one of the coolest. I like all of the efficiency being discussed for being more in tune with the planet and the environment rather than being at odds with it. I get tired of hearing "fuck cars" though. I like 15 minute cities as much as the next guy but I already live in suburban sprawl and it's not going to go away, so please don't tell me that my enjoyable automobile is evil.
Honestly the sh.itjust.works instance is pretty on the level. I don't find too many antagonistic folks on the instance and the conversations tend to be pretty varied depending on the community. I've seen you guys mostly around video game subs.
I just have biases against other servers. For example, .world users tend to act a lot like redditors which I dislike.
.ml users are more likely to tell me about the glories of communism than any other discussion. Yeah I get it, the ml stands for Marxist-Leninist, great job guys.
.dbzer0 folks are more likely to profess the greatness of FOSS solutions and discuss Linux distros, but I'd rather have that conversation over and over again because it's usually pleasant and I learn something new every time.
I hate how we're just on a few week delay of doing everything the States does. Didn't Trump and his cronies try the same tactic down South? It utterly failed in their case, and it seems to be failing here, this is the second or third person I've seen with the Freedom Convoy bullshit try to move their case out of Ottawa and get denied. I guess when you're that scared you're willing to throw all kinds of shit at the wall to see what sticks.
It's not great on Nvidia. KDE's dev team have announced a big Plasma update, specifically focused on Wayland support to be released around February.
I have a 3090 and some stuff works, some stuff doesn't. I am forced to use it because X will lock refresh rates to the rate of the lowest monitor, so my 165hz screens were not being used to their fullest until I swapped over to Wayland which supports multiple monitor refresh rates.
Often I will find system components freezing up. The task bar, for example, will often stop being useable and freeze up. I have had the digital clock widget freeze up on me, which requires a relog to fix. It also doesn't totally work on transparent themes, rendering them without the translucency.