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Weren’t there talks about removing the Fedora flatpaks entirely in favor of a regular Flathub access?

Even with support from the compositor, you need support for it in every part of the graphics pipeline.

Currently you can either use Wine with Wayland + Vulkan layers + KDE or gamescope + KDE (or gamescope directly in TTY).

HDR support

Hey, same two games for me!

Hey, Fractal looks pretty cool. Might just replace Element.

You can check on ProtonDB if it’s just you: https://www.protondb.com/

linux-image-oem-24.04b contains newer firmware. It’s quite possible that firmware for your wireless adapter was not included in the latest Linux Mint version.

The 4070 Super is more than new enough that it should work just fine with the official Nvidia driver.

If you are willing to give this another go, it might be worth booting a distro with newer packages and pre-installed Nvidia drivers just to test. You should keep your current Windows installation in case things don’t work out.

Here are two distros that are fairly recent and come with Nvidia drivers pre-installed:

• Nobara (make sure to use the Nvidia version)
• Bazzite (choose Desktop / Nvidia / KDE / No in the dropdowns)

Everything should work out of the box with one of these without having to install anything extra or dropping to command line.

Hope that helps!

What’s your hardware? Specifically your wireless chip(s) and graphics card.

I assume people do not want to run an OS that has “testing” or “unstable” in its name.

If you don’t need the latest packages, Debian is the way to go but if you do need the latest packages, you are much better off with a distro that is primarily made for that.

Yes, I’m on CoreELEC with an Odroid N2+ but I only play content without DRM. If you’re streaming DRM protected content you will have an easier time using Android.

It’s a shame that they deleted their data after their evaluation.

Should have checksummed the e-mail addresses and put a haveibeenpwned-like website up where car owners can check if they are affected.

Feeling pretty good about not getting a Boox e-ink tablet now.

I mean, it’s serviceable if all you do is gaming

You answered your own question. For some devices, gaming is all they need to do.

It feels as if Steam is doing everything in its power to keep me from leaving it and punishes me for daring to try

Does it? EmuDeck, Heroic and Lutris integrate directly into Steam. With a single click you can add a shortcut in your Steam library. Same goes for adding any desktop shortcut with a right click.

I’m not sure how they can make it any easier unless somebody like GOG bothers to do some work themselves.

I hope they will switch their registrar. That’s just unprofessional.

I’m 95% there, I just need Docker Swarm to support IPv6 without breaking as soon as it is enabled.

That’s disappointing, Discover is pretty neat.

Isn’t it running plain KDE? If so, Discover is included.

Isn’t Foundry just a website? What’s stopping you from putting a browser window on your second monitor?

I check youtube for replacement videos for battery and screen

You already lost me there. My times of looking up video guides on how to repair my phone are over, I can replace the battery with my hands and the screen is mounted with 8 screws. OEM parts can be ordered directly from Fairphone and arrive within 2 days.

all replacements done with chinese parts, ultra-cheap and locally available.

It is incredibly difficult to get OEM parts for many phones, you never know if it is a good part until you actually have it in your hand. In some cases it doesn’t matter but I have never seen a cheap third party screen which comes close to the original.

I figure I’m doing everyone a service by repurposing a discarded 5 year old phone.

You are, the best phone for the environment is an old phone.

what’s your use case that you need that kind of a phone?

I repair my phones when they break and the easy repair of a Fairphone is in no way comparable to the absolute pain it is to remove the display on a phone released in the last 5 years.

Especially considering they provide a 5 year warranty, source fair materials, 8 years of security updates and many more years to come with full access to replacement parts.