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I suppose I can see that being more conducive to vertical scrolling?

I use KDE connect on my phones a lot and prefer to keep them oriented in portrait for that reason

haha we need more https://lemmy.world/c/cunkposting material!

e: whoops, it’s already there. must’ve missed it 😔

I think that could work well. looking forward to more diversity in compute in the future! 😊

That’s fine, it’s an emerging ISA, as with any, it takes some time before perf and sw compatibility reach a good spot.

I think the key novelty to rv especially compared to x86_64 and arm is that there are no licencing restrictions: anyone is free to design and produce products based on that ISA, making more viable for vendors to more easily provide in-house silicon solutions. It’s already become fairly popular in lower power devices, like for IoT and wearables. My smart soldering iron uses a little 32 bit RISC V CPU and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s found some use in automotive, particularly in China.

As we alluded to above, there are several designs available for more general use, and you may find that they handle your compute needs fairly well already, but they won’t be within striking distance of other ISAs if high performance is a requirement.

compat wise I think many packages are now available for rv specifically or as .noarch.

perf wise, I think we’re still a ways off, we’re not seeing rv SoCs at the same level of perf / efficiency as arm, and whilst that’s just a matter of time, I’m not sure you’ll have many compelling offerings even a couple years from now, though potentially in 2030?

you can check in with experiences using devices like the PineTab V or even the custom RV mainboard for the Framework 13. There are also several SoCs produced by SiFive on SBCs, some are card sized, some are mATX. These are primarily positioned as development devices, but they may give you some idea of what things are like right now

You’ve had me realise how long I’ve actually been using Linux for, though not quite at the ten year mark unless you count some very early endeavours with ubuntu.

fully agree with you on Debian as a rock solid server. my “don’t fuck with it, just work” client system for several years now has been fedora workstation, though I’ve only relatively recently switched all of my personal computing over to it (still have several windows installations for work-related testing).

Init managers for sure! Amongst file managers and DEs, firewalls, package managers, modern packaging systems and their sandbox/security systems, display servers (probably the funniest one), audio servers, filesystems.

Lots of stuff we should appreciate having as FOSS, especially the options we don’t choose.

Fully switching over for the last couple years has made this modularity feel especially apparent compared to commercial systems (when things aren’t always so seamlessly integrated) but I’m glad for it all; it’s really fucking cool to think about how dramatically you can change the experience of a Linux desktop OS.

the confounding tribalism behind its modularity. options are great, but they also bring out the absolute worst in many of us.

it’s not much of a problem until those options actually manage to fragment the desktop and server ecosystems, but the attitudes at play surely drive prospective newcomers away a bit.

Isn’t made by former team members of ableton as well?

nop. my overall desktop experience has improved substantially after I carved out my own niche of ‘creature comforts’.

feels lovely to have a system that works for you, rather than something that’s so adversarial.

huh that’s cool. all sorted then!

long journeys tend to be good ones.

I think that might be preferred to package overlay, yeah!

right, no problem. The Linux build of Stoat from the website is packaged as portable, precompiled binaries that you can run from any Linux system, immutable (like bazzite, silverblue, steamOS) or not.

It’s like any electron app (Discord, StandardNotes, etc) and should generally be good to go from the download.

PWA = Progressive web app, which is a relatively recent web technology that let’s you “appify” a website (given it’s permitted to do so). This can improve the experience of certain web apps and have them behave more like native ones to an extent. I think PWAs would be a suitable stand-in for electron apps like stoat but the experience may vary based on whether you use chrome(ium) or firefox

Rpm package overlay could work but I don’t like to recommend it. I’d imagine it’d work just fine from the browser. May be a flag that can be set to enable PWAs on Linux desktops.

E: totally forgot but like, the unpacked assets should run just fine. For some reason I thought it was available through rpmfusion. You can disregard the package overlay remark.

excellent find! hope it serves you well

nvidia have been promoting ‘big format gaming displays’ since I want to say about 2019. Some of them reach the dimensions you specify, I just hope these are VESA adaptive sync/FreeSync capable and not all GSync Ultimate module displays (they can be made to work in VESA mode but not without issues in my experience).

I think I’ve seen one or two obscure TV models offering DisplayPort over USB type C, it may have been from Hisense

No prob, really sorry about the situation though, I know it sucks. I’ve been looking into replacing my TVs with large PC displays with DisplayPort.

I’m not sure if you can somehow work around the HDMI forum limitation with an active converter, but I think they’re intended to be used at the adapter side (convert HDMI output to DP).

You don’t need proprietary drivers nor should you have to disable MST.

If you’re using HDMI 2.1, you won’t be able to use VRR on a Linux system as the HDMI forum have blocked the AMDGPU implementation for the feature - they don’t allow FOSS implementations of HDMI 2.1 VRR

More info here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Variable_refresh_rate

I would try to get the repack set up via the lutris client using the appropriate method for the installation media you have. Do you know if it’s the steam or origin version?

I don’t suppose the lutris install script for this game helps at all?

https://lutris.net/games/command-conquer-remastered-collection/