I used to have this problem but not since the Steam Deck is out.
Before, I was always frustrated fiddling with Lutris, winetricks, etc. But now it's only been plug and play for me, just let Steam take care of it. Zero compatibility issues. In fact, recently I've had more issues with native games than Proton.
I don't know. I like Debian. My home server also doubles as a desktop sometimes and it does a good job.
I'm mostly not super interested in cutting edge versions. I run a newer kernel and mesa than default Debian, but the rest is just fine. I'm fine with Firefox ESR, and lagging a little bit behind the state of the art.
Yeah. I switched away from Ubuntu for all this crap.
I moved to Fedora for my laptop & desktop, and Debian for my home server. I'm considering switching everything to Debian eventually, but there's a couple dedicated repos that make using Fedora on my laptop much easier for now.
The problem that the courts haven't really answered yet is: How much human input is needed to copyright something? 5%? 20%? 50%? 80%? If some AI wrote most of a script and a human writer cleaned it up, is that enough?
Or perhaps even coming up and writing a prompt is considered enough human input by some.
Yes, because AI and automation will definitely not be on the side of big capital, right? Right?
Be real. The cost of building means they're always going to favour the wealthy. At best right now were running public copies of the older and smaller models. Local AI will always be running behind the state of the art big proprietary models, which will always be in the hands of the richest moguls and companies in the world.
I couldn't find one locally either. Ended up ordering a returned product from Amazon abroad, a friend of mine then shipped it over. The stuff I do to avoid Nvidia...
Yes, it was slim pickings. I tried a couple last year and finally ended up keeping an all-AMD Asus Zephyrus G14.
Others I tried:
MSI Delta 15: overall best performing of the bunch, returned it because of somewhat substandard machining and build quality. Linux worked perfectly out of the box.
Medion Erazer Major: Intel Arc laptop. Good performance but couldn't get the battery life up to good standards
Lenovo Legion S7 16: just stopped booting after a week
Asus Zephyrus G14: small, light, excellent quality, but a little bit of tweaking getting everything working
I made a script that monitors the power state of the laptop and automatically toggles the following things:
Limit the CPU boost frequency to something more reasonable using cpufreq when not plugged in.
I limit the GPU to 32W when on battery and 42W when charging over USB-C, while giving it the unrestricted 100W when running from the normal power charger. I tried fully turning off the GPU but there's no measurable benefit in battery life compared to this setup (GPU goes to ~0W when idle anyway).
I set refresh rate of the display to 60hz on battery (144hz when plugged in)
I turn of half the cores of my 8 core CPU om battery (this is pretty aggressive, and does not result in better battery life on all platforms - your mileage may vary)
That takes me from 4-5h to ~8-10 and the computer is still very useable.
Mine is an AMD device but Nvidia offers similar toggles through the nvidia-smi command.
It depends. If you get a fairly standard laptop from a brand that has some Linux awareness (Lenovo, Dell, Framework,...) you should be alright out of the box.
Gaming laptops generally are a bit worse since GPU switching is not as well integrated. I managed to get mine to parity but with a lot of tweaking. Devices with only integrated graphics tend to be fine out of the box.
Gaming laptops are a bit worse on Linux. But this isn't generally applicable.
I have a 2015 ultrabook that still gets 5h+ on battery under Linux. My 2022 gaming laptop required some tweaking but now does 8-10h on a charge as well.
This article is trying to conflate two different things:
Anti trust regulation of big tech which is trying to reign in the power of these companies. This is happening everywhere - including the US, which is currently starting a big anti trust case against Alphabet. The same is happening in the EU and probably the UK.
The UK online safety bill trying to ban private and encrypted communication
These are not the same. Portraying them as two branches of the same tree, and the tech companies as upset bullies because someone is standing up to them is disengenious.
Of course they don't particularly like either, but most of them are threatening to leave over the online safety bill and the UK trying to puff its chest and show it can regulate these forces post brexit.
It's different though. Zhou is a good driver, and by 26 will have sone experience, but mostly developing a middling F1 car at best.
Bottas is also good, perhaps has less potential as a driver given his age, but he's experienced the development of some of the most dominant championship winning cars ever. Bottas has demonstrated great single lap pace in those cars, and knows what those last tenths feel like.
Not saying they should or will keep Bottas, but it's not out of the question. Simple fact remains that he will need to beat his teammates during the coming years though.
I'm noy going to say I dislike it, but I don't see the point in a source based distro like Gentoo anymore.
I learned a lot from using Gentoo when I was just getting into Linux 20 years ago, but now looking back on it, why would I want to juggle with everyones build systems and compiler flags? Especially now hardware is so homogenous.
How does Manjaro add incompetence? I've not used either for a while, buy Manjaro never failed me, while arch did manage to make my system nuke itself a couple times just running pacman -Syyu. Granted, this was a long time ago, but it's the only distro to so this to me ever.
Vulkan is MUCH better at multi GPU systems btw. Most games default to the dGPU without hacks like DRI_PRIME, or allow you to select one in video settings
The same is true for some Feral Interactive games.
For Crusader Kings 3 on my desktop the issue does not exist. Native Vulkan is silky smooth there. On my laptop it only works with native OpenGL or Proton.
Both are AMD machines because fuck Nvidia drivers.
I used to have this problem but not since the Steam Deck is out.
Before, I was always frustrated fiddling with Lutris, winetricks, etc. But now it's only been plug and play for me, just let Steam take care of it. Zero compatibility issues. In fact, recently I've had more issues with native games than Proton.