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Not to derail the thread, but: What's your problem with AppImages? I didn't even know Windows had a package manager until a couple years ago.

You don't know how long I've been waiting for Wayland on nVidia. I haven't tested with the new beta driver, but I'm just happy we finally got to this point.

It varies from song to song, but most FLACs I have ripped from CDs range from mid-to-upper 700 Kbps range to almost 900 Kbps. I don't pretend to know even the slightest thing about audio, but I think the highest you'll see FLACs go is probably the 900 Kbps range. Most of the ones I have...

A friend of mine retired his X470 system and gave it to me. Has a 2700X in it. Was thinking about Black Friday/Cyber Monday for 5700X3D or 5800X3D, but why wait with a price like this? Unless y'allz think it might go even lower this November...

https://youtu.be/I3DwhTc7Z4o

Ironic this news shows up after I recently played through one of the native PC ports of Super Mario 64 (which resulted from decompilation). The one I used was Super Mario 64 Plus, which is most excellent indeed. Would love more games to get that kind of attention. So yeah this recompiler stuff...

I use this to rip CDs to FLAC: https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_Audio_Copy

Convenient if you wanna launch them through Steam, but standalone Aleph One is still available, as it has been for many years: https://alephone.lhowon.org/ And yeah, the Steam versions are from the Aleph One crew.

And that goes all the way back to the very first Spyro game. Insomniac has been hitting it outta the park for a good long time now.

A friend of mine has been using NixOS and having a blast. I think it's actually his main OS now! It does sound quite interesting. I'm gonna have to give that one a look myself.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Explicit-Sync-Week "KWin explicit sync support was merged to much excitement. Wayland explicit sync support is coming together in the ecosystem for improving the NVIDIA proprietary driver support and making Wayland more robust in general."...

Well there were 4 main games on PS2, and the first game got a remake for PS4 in 2016 (which started the current reboot timeline), of which Rift Apart is a sequel to. The first two PS2 games were okay (I actually didn't care for the first one, but the 2nd one Going Commando got me into the...

Classic R&C. I usually save my NG+ runs in R&C games for a few years later, grabbing stuff I missed the first time through. Rift Apart I got everything on my first playthrough though. Some R&C games, like Deadlocked, I have been through NG+ mode many times. Most R&C games I've been through...

That's how I been rollin' for a few years now. In the 2000s and 2010s it used to be that Windows was my main OS and Linux was my "fucking around/testing" OS. But a few years ago I switched. Linux is my "everything except gaming" OS (and sometimes gaming too), and then I keep Windows around for...

Was never able to get Wayland working on GTX 1080 Ti or RTX 3090. I should mention I am on Plasma 5. The best I can get is a low-res display, but there's A LOT of graphical issues. Been a while since I last tried it, so I can't give you specifics at this time. I can use Wayland fine on my Intel...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Explicit-GPU-Sync-XWayland-Go "...notably takes care of a number of NVIDIA driver problems on Wayland in the process." "NVIDIA is also expected to have out a new Linux binary driver release soon for ironing out their Wayland support with explicit sync...

I've been playing the R&C games since the first one on PS2, and I played Rift Apart on PC with a controller. But after I beat the game, I messed around with keyboard + mouse controls just to see what they were like. They work out surprisingly well, mainly because of the game's...

I was gonna recommend a similar iFixit kit. This one will do just fine.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-Switches-To-Zstd

Horizon Zero Dawn on PS4 was painful to me cuz of that. That's why I specifically waited for the PC version of the sequel. I didn't wanna play another Horizon game with a controller again. Normally I would be fine playing with a controller, but Horizon games require too much precision and...

Same. And then yeah in some games I map it to certain functions.

Pressing/clicking the scroll wheel as a button has been middle-click for ages and eons. There is no way anyone who has used a computer mouse for the past 2+ decades doesn't know about it.

A friend of mine also showed this to a bunch of us: https://youtu.be/jqjtNDtbDNI Same.

Just Steam's native built-in DRM, as far as I know. Although "the career mode requires a constant internet connection in order to play" (pcgamingwiki) which I actually did not know.

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2024-the-big-horizon-forbidden-west-pc-tech-interview

Daaaaaaaaaaaaang, DLSS Quality looks better than DLAA in this game?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!!!

I've been maining Manjaro (with KDE Plasma 5) for the past two years and it's been fantastic. Before I switched to Linux as my main OS, I had been f*cking around with Linux since the mid-2000s. I've tried Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu, Mint (which my brother mained for years), and a whole buncha others...

I use both a Logitech G27 wheel and an XBSX|S controller, and I gotta say, the controller actually works out surprisingly well. I only have the base game.

Fantastic game. I paid a similar price a few years ago. Definitely worth it at this price. Yyyeeeaaahhh...

I really appreciate UV builds since I'm a big fan of UV-reactive stuff, and no one really uses (or makes) UV PC stuff anymore. I still use blacklights in my PCs to this day (but no UV-reactive cables, components, slots or brackets anymore).

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Firmware-Blobs-HDMI-2.1

nVidia can do what it wants, so long as I get to continue using Sedona (aka nVidia Control Panel) without issue. It's bad enough that after nVidia drivers switched to DCH, Sedona became a Windows Store app. But yeah I just hope Sedona continues to exist as-is, and remains available for us to...

I too never ever use GeForce Experience. nVidia can do what it wants, so long as I get to continue using Sedona (aka nVidia Control Panel) without issue. It's bad enough that after nVidia drivers switched to DCH, Sedona became a Windows Store app. But yeah I just hope Sedona continues to exist...

I don't like wearing headphones/headsets either. I prefer having discreet speakers.

Yeah man!!! This was my favorite version of AA before I experienced the wonder that is DLAA. I used to be a fan of FXAA despite its flaws, and I never really liked TAA. But SMAA is some good shiznit! I agree that not enough games have it as an option. I still see FXAA around sometimes, and TAA...

Rotary dial telephone! Niiiiiice!

And I was really hoping there would be. Cuz after reading "the last thing the previous owner did was to rip out his M.2 drive" and seeing those pics, I most definitely have questions.

This game was an amazing fucking experience.

Hey man, you do what you gotta do!

So what I'm hearing is Micro Center really fucking needs to expand out more. Long ago I too had to make a long drive to get to one. Now it's a 15-20min drive. And there are multiple in my state. I think the next closest one is 45min away. Kinda shitty they don't ship. It just plain sucks that...