vahtos

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[–] vahtos 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Any system logs that might be related to the display not being detected properly?

Since you're using AMD graphics, you're using the open source drivers right? The proprietary AMD drivers are not good.

[–] vahtos 2 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Well, issues 1-3 could all easily be GPU driver related. Which GPU are you using, and what drivers?

[–] vahtos 4 points 2 months ago (9 children)

The Steam UI thing sounds like an issue like maybe hardware acceleration being disabled?

[–] vahtos 21 points 2 months ago

Then you wouldn't notice all the fun and exciting recommendations they have for you! /s

[–] vahtos 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wow. Linux performance is better in Cyberpunk, even though it is running via proton. How does the article not mention that...?

[–] vahtos 71 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They generally have really great linux support for all of their hardware (touchpads, fingerprint readers, etc.), and provide bios updates via fwdup. They are also just nice laptops.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Lenovo

[–] vahtos 48 points 2 months ago

Showing free demos as their own line item in the store suggestions feels counterintuitive. As a user, I don't want this, it just clusters the interface. I want to see the main game and something on it indicating a demo is available.

As for developers, discoverability is something they are always talking (complaining) about. Artificially inflating the sheer number of competing games for visibility seems like an odd choice in that regard.

[–] vahtos 4 points 2 months ago

It does support bios updates. That's how I do mine on my laptop (a Lenovo).

[–] vahtos 66 points 2 months ago

Well, we can't have felons voting. They should only be allowed to run for president!

[–] vahtos 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hmm I haven't tried this. Thanks for the suggestion.

[–] vahtos 92 points 3 months ago (20 children)

So, a dark pattern is a design that tries to trick the user into something. But what is the word for "knowing what the user wants, blatantly ignoring it and imposing the companies will anyway"?

Example: I think YouTube shorts are a terrible format, and I find them generally irritating. So I click the X on the element in YouTube that has a bunch of side scrolling cards, where each card is one of these shorts. YouTube informs me it will hide them for 30 days and then they'll be back.

Another example, Windows Update. I've set all the group policy settings so it should never restart and update without me triggering it. But, if I allow it to download the update, then damn my group policy settings, it is going to apply that update and restart whenever it wants.

[–] vahtos 48 points 3 months ago (10 children)

This is making me realize that I have never encountered this equivalent of a blue screen of death on Linux.

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