I don’t think it ships with a desktop environment by default; I think they’re just referring to the Qt framework. If it is mentioning a desktop environment - it’s probably LXQt.
From what details Intel provided they’re claiming “60%” better battery life for these mobile processors in “real-life usages”. Impressive if true, but just as exciting is the huge advancement of the graphics side with Xe2 which they claim will bring improved “gaming and graphics performance by 1.5x over the previous...
For those curious about the “Memory on Package”; this isn’t soldered on RAM. The RAM is integrated into the CPU package itself. This can be a good thing; improved performance and power efficiency, increased memory bandwidth which allows the CPU to talk to the RAM at insane speeds due to how close the RAM and CPU are to each other . The downside to all of this, is you can’t upgrade the RAM. Intel’s probably gonna pull an Apple, and charge you an insane amount for more RAM. Also, currently they only support memory capacities of 16GB and 32GB.
AMD say the new graphics will provide “console-class gaming on the go” and that the “Radeon 890M graphics has the fastest integrated graphics in its class”.
Console-Class Gaming on the Go: Built-in AMD Radeon 800M graphics are the world’s best graphics for gaming^8^, ensuring top-tier gaming experiences with high frame rates and ultra-low latency.
If you’re only going to pick Pop!_OS or Manjaro, I’d suggest you go with Pop!_OS. The Manjaro team has been very weird, and made some poor decisions in recent years. I’ve had a very good experience messing around with Pop on an Nvidia GPU.
Yes. It means we have better compatibility with DirectX shaders on Linux. It enables a unified shader development workflow across platforms. Developers can focus on HLSL without worrying about different shader languages for Windows and Linux.
Fight the devs of Fishards, if you win - it goes open source! Lose and it's deleted from Steam (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Moonlight PC for game streaming via Sunshine gets HDR support for Linux / Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes (nichegamer.com)
Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0 Preview (www.phoronix.com)
"Honeykrisp" Is A New Vulkan Driver For Apple M1 On Linux - Derived From The NVK Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Limited Run Games now Selling "PC Micro Editions"
NVIDIA release 550.90.07 stable and 555.52.04 Beta drivers for Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Intel revealed more Lunar Lake processor details with their new Xe2 graphics (www.gamingonlinux.com)
From what details Intel provided they’re claiming “60%” better battery life for these mobile processors in “real-life usages”. Impressive if true, but just as exciting is the huge advancement of the graphics side with Xe2 which they claim will bring improved “gaming and graphics performance by 1.5x over the previous...
AMD reveal new Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 processors, plus Ryzen AI 300 Series for laptops (www.gamingonlinux.com)
AMD say the new graphics will provide “console-class gaming on the go” and that the “Radeon 890M graphics has the fastest integrated graphics in its class”.
Intel Reveals New Lunar Lake Details At Computex (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Announced - Zen 5 Showing Big Generational Uplift (www.phoronix.com)
Pop!_OS or Manjaro for Steam games?
Context, I use Linux, usually. I have been a user of Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora for a few years....
7 Common Linux Myths You Should Stop Believing (www.howtogeek.com)
Proton 9.0-2 has a Release Candidate ready for testing on Linux PC and Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)
God of War Ragnarok and Until Dawn coming to Steam, requires PlayStation Network Account (www.gamingonlinux.com)
SteamVR for Linux gets "experimental improvements to async support" (www.gamingonlinux.com)
New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out
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Microsoft Starts Preparing Its Open-Source DirectX Shader Compiler For "HLSL 202x" (www.phoronix.com)