The PS5 is going to easily be relevant longer than the PS4 and the PS4 is still relevant

The thread is about servers and supercomputers being dominated by Linux

Don’t have anything recurring. More like random $10-20 thrown here and there. It’d probably be more often if it was all more integrated/streamlined. Pretty much the hyped up Flathub payments feature someday. I’d do that more often than patreon/opencollective/etc. I’ve had a patreon sub for a few projects over the years

They haven’t had a crossover hit yet. The Switch had at least 2. Breath of the Wild on Launch and Animal Crossing during COVID. Hoping Star Fox get’s a major Breath of the Wild type jump for the series and maybe a new IP. Metroid would be good to have a new sub-series that changes up the formula for 3D adventure. Hopefully a new IP too

I don’t think 10 lifetimes is enough for me to learn about all the software that people out there run on Linux servers. Then I die my last lifetime and people come up with new software. Myself as an individual could see all that and say that software like that should be available on a server OS especially to compete with Linux. A huge company with over a hundred thousand employees. They can probably crowdsource through their employees a way longer list than me but will leadership read the list? Will they greenlight funding development for all that software? Will they match up to as good and ideally better to be worth paying for than the free and open source stuff on Linux? Will they keep up development on all that software or fall behind the open source stuff?

If they can’t do that, there’s no reason for any company to smartly spend money on a proprietary server OS license for what would be immediately a worse product or a product that is at best just as good or a product that would inevitably end up being worse than the Linux ecosystem. I consider it an impossibility for a new proprietary OS to cover the whole breadth of server software out there and even the whole breadth of server hardware support. I’m not sure what the status is of Windows Server ARM and Windows Server RISC-V. Don’t know how popular POWER is on server or if SPARC is still kicking. That’s top 5 largest company in the world Microsoft that’s been doing operating systems for like 40 years.

Doing a Linux spin makes the most sense.

Plus Linux development is supported by a huge amount of large companies. It’s not rag tag open source freelancers vs mega-corporation. It would be a collection of mega-corporations to small corporations plus independent individuals vs a mega-corporation

I’ve heard nothing but good things about Schedule 1. Haven’t gotten it yet since it doesn’t seem like has good gamepad control support yet but it’s planned. Modern gaming in practice, not as what’s most marketed as gaming, to me reminds me of the PS1 and back. A lot of really game-y games. Systems that you get really into. Learn the exploits. The patterns. Get high scores. Max damage numbers. The PS3/PS4 era is the cinematic narrative era. The late PS4 to present is a gameplay heavy era. Narrative heavy games may get the traditional media awards but it’s been a long time since I’ve felt like traditional media has been good at judging games for their gameplay. They’re more like junior film media. Felt that way to me at least ever since Starcraft 2 was topping/gave birth to Twitch.tv and then League of Legends and Counter Strike GO

Settlement Survival is pretty solid. I played that for a bit since it has an android version and it was a nice use of waiting room time

Qualcomm support on Linux has been too mediocre and late to take it seriously so far over x86 products

I bought into AM5 first year with Zen 4. I’m pretty confident Zen 7 will be AM5. There’s got to be little chance for DDR6 to be priced well by the end of the decade. Confident that I’ll be on AM5 for 10+ years but way better than the Intel desktop I had for 10 years because I will actually have a great update path for my motherboard. AM4 is still relevant. That’s getting to almost 10 years now. It’ll still be a great platform for years to come. Really if you bought early in the life of first gen chips on the socket for AM4/AM5, you’re looking at a 15 year platform. Amazing

Hoping the Steam Machine can match the Steam Deck in success and get pre-build desktop/minipc wins like Lenovo having Steam OS versions of the Legion Go. Steam Frame dethrone the Meta Quest hopefully

Lol. Please everyone contribute to the change you want to see. If you’re not sharing spreadsheets and slide decks in a team, then for personal use you should be good with Collabora (LibreOffice based). It’s great. Write your novel and short stories in Collabora

https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-office/

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/

Looks like the ARC B580 has a TDP of 190w and comparable to the 7600xt. If it’s priced like a 9060xt and performs between a 9060xt and 9070, someone may bite but whatever it comes out to, I bet a 9060xt can overclock to match it

I use GeForce Now for like 1 month a year or when they have a really good deal on a 6 month like a game I want

~300w TDP for RX 9060xt level performance which ranges ~160w. Really going to need to be priced well

Nice. Waiting for RVA23 boards with a PCI-E slot to become widely available so I can test out box64 on those

It’s been good for the average PC user for like 5 years. Pretty much when Google Docs became pretty ubiquitous from elementary school through university. Then also stuff like turbotax becoming something people use through a website rather than a application they buy a disc for from the store. Steam Deck was when Proton maturity reached a point where it became suitable for most gamers. Steam games on Android is the next mainstream frontier to pull users away from Windows. Now the main barrier to me is improving prosumer software/making open source alternatives competitive like how Blender became. Pretty much need people to get away from Adobe and FL Studio/etc

Windows is their #1 marketing platform for their other services. They crash and burned out of mobile and television so in the name of expanding their business into more and more subscription services, Windows is their only popular consumer platform and problem for them is that basic OS functionality that people want pretty much was reached with Windows XP. Everything new is an application that is easily installed afterwards or in a web browser. Packaging it into the basic Windows installation just bogs things down and makes it more busy. It’s a marathon. Linux will win eventually by having features and services out the box. Practically no services. No onedrive, o365, and copilot nagging

That newer open source driver is still far behind but is progressing. Those graphics cards will have a great new life with modern kernels someday

Get to acquiring Seagate external HDDs and shucking them for your own 3.5" drive bays before the data centers get them

Before big commercial companies can succeed with the mainstream, flatpak permission handling that is as smooth as Android and iOS. Not everything is going to be in the distros base package manager and devs need a way to distribute software that can be expected to work on any of these devices. No confusions over why they’re system doesn’t know what to do with a deb or rpm file. Flatpak is the closest thing right now to something with universal adoption. After that it’s a slow and steady grind for market share. Like how Macs market share 20 years ago isn’t very different from where Linux is today

I think a hardware company could succeed better by marketing the devices as creation devices. Focus on Blender, Krita, Ardour, Darktable, Kdenlive, etc. Pretty much the niche Macs were marketed as 25 years ago getting regular people interested with stuff like garageband and imovie