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Valve do work pretty closely on contemporary hardware, but to your point, the kernel driver is decently robust, the display abstraction layer is largely common with the windows side (and also resides in the KMD on both environments), the mesa GL driver is solid and Marek’s team are also beginning to contribute towards RADV.

AMD are also heavily involved with improving Linux desktop experience (particularly with Wayland), and host regular hackathons to that effort.

probably, though I’ve not had that in a good while

in-place upgrades are fine for just about any contemporary, mainstream Linux distro. You may find this experience to be more robust than on windows.

I believe you can also upgrade via separate installation media, but you won’t find yourself needing to.

totally fine in my experience, and I ‘dumb guy’ my way through the whole thing.

my primary workstation system started with Fedora 28 > 43 - persisting through many hardware swaps and all sorts - though that’s with the gnome desktop.

I’d imagine you could conduct full system upgrades via Discover on KDE too.

I want to like it so much but you’ve hit the nail on the head there.

I’ll give it another crack with this patch though.

inclined to think that Intel hiring Alyssa Rosenzweig not long ago has helped bolster this effort. good stuff!

it’s funny that Linus doesn’t think of rust as a tumor, but rather acknowledges that more and more code in the kernel will be written in rust. this was just over a week ago.

I see. weird that the former card was acting up like that, but glad you have a working linux system now 👍

Did you get a replacement rx6950xt or did you switch to something else?

Yet to be seen if BMG-G31 ever ends up releasing

hell gcn1 still sees functional improvement thanks to valve’s involvement

That’s understandable, I’m inclined to react the same way to games on steam.

I hadn’t checked in with how that discussion went down; that’s disappointing. I just settled into fedora after fully moving on from windows earlier in this year (have been multi-booting for several years prior). Time will tell if this all goes to shit as well.

another fair point, by allowing it at all they’re condining its use. i personally see it less as condoning and more that they acknowledge its wide use in the field, and that they probably cannot prevent its contributors from using it entirely.

I’d be interested in how many commits come in from now suggesting the use of llms.

that’s a fair point, though at least with projects like fedora, commits are public and can be broadly scrutinised, and since this stipulates that the use of LLMs must be disclosed, I’d hope that’d keep its use firmly under the spotlight.

Most critically no overview at startup. I also use dash to panel as the default hot corner behaviour to show all apps is sorta bad design if you’re using a mouse.

really looking forward to this.

have been comfortably using gnome with a set of extensions; still have some hangups around their design decisions.

If its a recent GPU (rtx 30 series and up), it should be pretty usable today even under the newer display server (wayland).

Hope it works out for you.

People have vastly different requirements / acceptance critera from each other. grab another disk and try dual booting and poking around.

this year, 95% of my time at my workstation is on fedora 42, 4 percent win11 (software testing purposes), 1% win10 (also testing purposes).

There’s no productivity sw keeping me from switching away, which is nice to be able to say. Five years ago, I wouldn’t have found it so easy.

do you have the specific vendor model handy? Maybe it could help soemone else with the exact same model board (vendor supplied clock and voltage properties via VBIOS).

Huh, so the onboard power play was unstable? Which model GPU was this with?