I am not gonna use SteamOS. But if a bunch of regular folk do, then it might convince peripheral and game makers it’d be worth putting in a modicum of effort to support linux. That’s why I’m excited for SteamOS.

Huh, guess I’ll google that. Thanks.

Joking aside, what’s this about drones?

Yep. :P

I have research to do, I see.

Can you elaborate for the curious among us?

Hell, Steam’s adds overhead. I turn it off most of the time and just tab out. Most things run in borderless window mode now so there’s no reason not to.

What happened exactly?

KDE, because it’s familiar yet customisable. Gnome is just too strange for me, and doesn’t seem to allow me to un-strange it.

I’ve been told it caches that data for areas you have been. But that doesn’t make it offline friendly, obviously.

Also what you’re suggesting is more dev work to make it not a live service with the associated benefits for the publisher, so they’re not gonna do that. :(

I have a friend who plays, and they suggested that maybe putting it right onto gamepass – allowing Johnbro McFuck to download it, get lost in a cloud, crash into the ocean and never play again – during the launch window might not have been a great idea.

Not ready for PSN requirement on DS1…

Good point. And sounds like you’re in a similar headspace to.me on the topic. Personally I’m not a huge fan of live service games, but I can see why a lot of people would want to avoid killing them.

Not saying you’re wrong, but how can the source code be “open” and not publicly accessible? If it’s not, that’s just a closed codebase that is shared with some external people, surely?

If they let it cook this time it could be good… human kissing aside.

More thinking of the ios app store in this case. But they’re also ripping off the osx dock, IMO. :P

I’ve not booted into windows for a few weeks now. It’s been pretty smooth sailing, one horrifically unoptimised game aside.

It’s not about security. Not anymore, anyway. Maybe when Authenticode was first added to windows. Now they just want to scare users into getting everything through their store, because they’re perennially jealous of the shit Apple can get away with.

A laudable goal. Can they pull it off, tho?

As with intel, I would recommend not really paying attention to the 3, 5, 7, 9 numbers. Those are just marketing vague indicators; ideally of performance, but realistically just of cost.

Instead, look at the actual model numbers and seek out benchmarks performed by groups you trust with workloads similar to what you might actually do with them. E.g. If you are a gamer, look for comparisons between CPUs as to how they perform in various games. Linus Tech Tips do videos about recent CPU releases and compare how they do vs the competition in a bunch of games, and it shouldn’t be hard to find websites with the same kind of comparisons.

But also, yes, they are due to release a 9900x3D and 9950x3D early next year, supposedly. I am keen to see if the 9950x3D is symmetrical this time around; the 7950x3D was asymmetrical so I avoided it.