Convenience. Well, nowadays that is. And I only started again after the enshittification of streaming services started. I buy all my games legally, just motion picture that I get from the seas.

As a kid/teenager it was more about the money. We cracked games to play on LAN parties without everyone having to have a (retail) copy etc.

I tried the odd distro here and there over the years on my old laptop/“secondary” device or whatever you want to call it, and while you get some experience with the different desktop environments and whatnot, I can’t fully replicate what I’m doing with my main computer on my older laptop. Gaming is a big thing for me for example, and my laptop has an old GeForce MX250 which doesn’t cut it for today’s games.

What I ended up doing to really give desktop Linux a try was installing it onto a separate SSD on my main machine. You don’t need a separate SSD of course, you could just repartition your existing one and install a Linux distro side by side with your existing Windows installation.

And then I just used my computer (or attempted to) for whatever I would’ve done on Windows at that time. So if I wanted to play a game, I tried installing it (via Steam or Bottles for example) and checked whether it worked. Same with voice chat, screen sharing, development stuff, photo editing, media consumption etc. The few times I booted up Windows again was to update the firmware of a game controller and to transfer save games I hadn’t backed up elsewhere (my Windows partition is BitLocker encrypted and while you can certainly mount it under Linux, I didn’t feel like it, rebooting was much quicker).

Sure, using an old device can work for checking out some things, but at least for me I wasn’t sure at all until I tried doing stuff on Linux that I also did on Windows. YMMV.

Or better yet try it on your main notebook/desktop. Try to get the same things done you did before with Windows and if it works for you, stick with it.

It makes a lot of sense for non-gaming tasks. Text looks great and non-fractional scaling makes a big difference. Try it for yourself, there are several non-“gaming” (60 Hz) 27" 5KUHD monitors out there. And remember just because you can’t notice a difference doesn’t mean no one can.

And for gaming: most GPUs can’t drive most games at native 4KUHD. Some form of temporal upscaling (DLSS, XeSS, FSR, TAA etc.) is usually required anyway, and whether you’re upscaling to 4KUHD or 5KUHD from the same internal resolution doesn’t have a big performance impact.

I don’t like the fact that QDOLED seems to always have shiny panels. I get that it lets the colors pop more and whatever, but I’m not sitting in a dark room. It’s usually well-lit, and no I don’t want to change that. I enjoy the sun shining and I also enjoy some artificial lighting in the afternoon.

So it seems it’s WOLED what I’m looking for, which seems to have matte/diffusing panels mostly.

Fullscreen brightness on either QDOLED or WOLED seems to be pretty meh at best though.

What I also don’t like, even though this isn’t exclusive to OLED monitors, is the missing continuity in resolution coming from a 27" 2560x1440 monitor, which has been a standard for many years. Most 4KUHD “gaming” displays are around 31.5" so if you’d want to get the same amount of real estate per physical inch you’d have to set scaling to 1.2-1.25x. Fractional scaling can already look bad at 1.5x, so this is a mess.

In an ideal world (or in my ideal world at least) there’d be “5K” (5120x2880) 27" panels as standard (I know they exist, but not as high refresh rate panels), so you could replace your 2560x1440 27", use non-fractional 2x scaling and have content at the exact same size as before. Larger panels could still exist, but they’d be closer to a “6K” resolution with the exact same pixel density.

Cool. I currently use Ferdium, but this seems like a much more lightweight alternative as it doesn’t ship its own Electron or whatever.

Alright, I stand corrected.

I don’t think there’s a large scale obesity problem in Germany.

What are you missing without it? If you don’t missing anything, I wouldn’t bother. The Nitro Deck seems to add back buttons for example, but they’ll probably be limited to simple button mappings, nothing fancy like you could do with Steam Input for example.

What is this about? That the firewall is missing by default?

I get that this ad implies the (new) iPad can replace all the other stuff that got crushed, I just don’t get how this can be so upsetting to people: it’s an ad for a product. Don’t like it, don’t buy it. Apple is hardly going to destroy the market for all the stuff that got crushed.

I can disagree with something and still not be offended or upset by it. As I said, sometimes I feel like some people want to be offended/upset.

We’re talking about an entertainment product here though, not who’s going to be the next president. Voting with your wallet always works for yourself in this case. Don’t buy the ad-infested game = you don’t get an ad-invested game. Simple as that.

Sure, if many people follow and nobody buys their ad-infested games, they’ll change it up. But even if they don’t, you still benefit by having “voted” yourself.

Or just vote with your wallet.

Some people care too much about an ad. I guess some people can’t live without at least a single controversy per day.

You could probably take any ad and argue why it’s offensive to some people in some way.

Fedora has been using it for years. The only thing that comes to my mind is that maybe it had some issues with the Deck’s standby mode? I wouldn’t think so, but why else would they not ship it for now?

Ah that makes sense I guess. Just felt weird to me to jump from 6.1 to 6.5 instead of 6.6.

It would also help with SSD lifespan, especially on smaller SSDs. It’ll likely improve performance further with the 64 GB eMMC model some people are still using stock.

So the zram change didn’t make it? I thought it was a great change, but it’s not mentioned here.

Kernel 6.5 is an odd choice as 6.6 is the latest longterm release.

Great that Mesa is up-to-date though.

Does overclocking support for the LCD Deck mean we can increase frequency?

What’s the USP of Deezer over Apple Music now that the latter has lossless streaming as well (and live lyrics for longer)?

They’d have to redesign their SoCs. The memory chips are right next to the SoC with the M chips.