Just on your point at @15:30 about over 100% sRGB, that is flat out wrong. As HDR slowly becomes the norm, sRGB colour space will be the baseline, not the target. REC.709 is around 126% of the sRGB colour space and REC.2020 (the most common "HDR" colour space) is around 176% or sRGB. It all comes down to colour management and profiling. A >100% sRGB screen should always be able to clamp back to sRGB colour space with a profile, which is a good thing. You may want to correct that.
Why should >100% coverage of a specific color space be bad? Is there not just an effective clamp if there are too many colors? Also, if a display supports 100% of a larger color space that overlaps with sRGB, wouldn't that make the display cover >100% and thus automatically be bad? A little confused about this, I'd be thankful for someone make this a little clearer.
A not-sRGB (in both directions) display will cause wrong colors without color management, because the video signal is relative to the colorspace of the display instead of absolute. With the color management features like in the Plasma Wayland session though, as long as the EDID is correct or you profile your display with a colorimeter, a bigger color gamut is almost always better. The only exception is if you only have a limited bit depth and really big color gamut; 6 or 8 bits per color spanning all of rec.2020 would have visible artifacts for example.
22:48 - If you wanted to give the developer the benefit of the doubt about what they mean by 'out of pocket': The refund money does come from what the backer gave them, but they don't get the transaction fees back (~4% + maybe Kickstarter's fees), which does come out of their pocket.
Man, that so North Armerican. Don't worry about the price, just add this stuff and that stuff, what is a few hundred dollars more. Mmm, maybe I need to, I don't know, eat.
@@michael_tunnell I have had problems with the panel mainly, when I click on the tray icons at first they run but other times nothing happens and they seem to activate below the panel itself which is strange? It's like editing mode is activated and it doesn't show me the volume controls, calendar, removable devices, etc.
I dont remember what the default setting for the panel is but going under the panel is a setting inside of the panel controls so it could be the default. Which distro are you using Plasma 6 on?
Yeah stick to software news because u dont know shit about hardware. More than 100% srgb is good, its always good. If you are using OLED or good hdr display your screen will have close to 120-135% of SRGB. Thats is good. It is perfect for consumption as well as for color sensitive work, movie post production, photography etc as your monitor is closer to the actual colors in the file you are developing. There might be a problem if you are buying off brand ghetto display from china which has amazing color space and no clamp or srgb profile which can result in oversaturation in certain colors. The market auto corrects itself in this aspect, cheap common market displays have cheap panels with not so high of a gammut 95-110% srgb, while much more expensive much higher gammut displays are expensive enough for the manufacturer to add proper srgb color profile clamp in case its needed. Fun fact: almost every user will steer away from srgb profile as it will look "dull" and lifeless compared to punchy colors of unclamped screen. This is why in every electronics store, sample TVs are always set the most broken oversaturated overbrightened VIVID mode or "store display mode" which sends color accuracy to narnia and back.
3:38 I just gave my mom an old MS Surface running Fedora 40 with KDE to replace her ancient win7 laptop, and when I showed her the shake to find cursor, she was ecstatic!
It's also cheaper.. people tend to forget that repairability and modularity have a steep cost, and I'd imagine if they added a superfancy 4k oled screen on top of it would result in a downright inaccessible price.
Those are 3 good reasons already why I don't want higher dpi screens in my laptop. Cost, battery life, easier on the gpu. I'll add to that: I don't want to bother running into possible issues with scaling and again with scaling on multiple displays. Yes it has certainly gotten better with time, but it took forever to get to where we are now, is still not supported in everything and never will be.
Hi from the Ultramarine team! We're very proud of that joke, we keep seeing AI generated articles and videos recapping our blog posts and getting details wrong. Also, we don't support Pi 5 just yet, but expect that in the coming months. Thanks so much for the shout out, and we hope you enjoy Ultramarine when you give it a try :3
I'm a little unsure what to make of your bit about sRGB. If you want coverage of the Adobe or PC3 colorspaces, you'll need more than 100% sRGB. And any monitor that does so I would expect to have EDID information for calibration. I'm not sure what downside you see there.
Lol'd at the "Live, Die, Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow" reference! Love all the references you throw in! (Like Stargate in the past). Thanks for another great episode Michael! Edit: "Live, Die, Repeat", not "Love"... Sorry, hard to type on a phone for me... XD
Using Ultramarine 40 Plasma. Nice not to go through my 15 minute post install routine usual with Fedora. This laptop performs best with Fedora. Nuked Arch when I saw this went stable. Pretty happy with it.
"How would they know?" "So our system flagged someone as being active for 183 years now... We can assume the original create died yeah?" That being said, that was also my solution to this whole thing. To me it sounded more like steam won't help with the transfer of a library. Like if my friend died and left me his games I wouldn't just get it added to my account. Edit 2: ultramarine Linux, 40k. In the grimdark future, there is only war, against proprietary software.
Tuxedo is also suxx on screen. I have my ancient dell xps 15 which is probably 6 years old model. .and 4k OLED gorgeus screen. When I see those pathetic TFT screens from 'linux' ventors.. well. What choice I have to upgrade?
KDE Plasma 6.0 is very good! KDE Plasma 6.1 will be the best desktop environment ever! Too bad so many developers are still wasting their time contributing to their small projects instead of contributing to KDE software.
I use AdobeRGB 100% monitor in windows. And dual boot to Linux Mint Debian Edition 6. Windows help keep the monitor colour calibration because Linux has no support for my BenQ SW2700PT 2K monitor for hardware colour calibration and software is not available for Linux. I am afraid Linux won't grow that fast sa we think. Because when it comes to these kind of things then the companies should start making software or apps for Linux too. But only if they want to. It's sad i have to keep windows on work PC in my photo lab for professional work and use a Pi box M.2 enclosure adaptor for running Linux.
I got a Tuxedo Laptop with a higher than 1080p resolution. But it comes with a cost. Setting the rendering scale to 2x makes everything too big, 1x is too small, so 1.5 or 1.75 is good but fractional scaling messes some things up. So I am looking forward to real support for fractional scaling, but until then, its just not optimal.
It depends on the desktop environment used for fractional scaling. GNOME is a mess for fractional scaling but it’s great in KDE Plasma. More importantly, higher resolution screens can also be turned down to 1080p while still benefiting from the other improvements. So doing this would eliminate fractional scaling issues
It as depends on your personal needs (e.g. eyesight) and the size of the screen, but you can always render 1080p on a 1440p screen, but the reverse can't be said... Even if it doesn't look as pretty... But now, with fractional scaling becoming closer to mainstream in Linux, I think it's much better to just mass produce the higher res screen, reducing costs and giving more choice/flexibility to users.
I agree, and I am on a 2K laptop... My previous one was 1080p and the resolution was perfect, in fact I would rather have 1080p native resolution on this one instead (lighter on the graphics card for gaming, no need for scaling (or barely) on the desktop and even more power efficient).
Oh, well I wasnt saying their response was annoying because they were honest. I was saying its annoying that you cant give your account away in that regard. I mean you already dont even own the games, I so not big deal for someone to give an account so someone else can also not own the games lol Its one instance of the game that was paid for once and not making copies to share so I dont see any issue with giving control over an account. I mean the family play system allows for people who dont own a game to play it if a family member owns it so that is more so problematic than this
Fedora is not replacing Anaconda, they are changing the Anaconda UI to the new WebUI which is also shared with Cockpit. Wayland is planned, and they may switch to GNOME remote desktop with RDP for the installer. Anaconda is more than just the UI.
I wish there were more 2-in-1 format Linux laptops, ideally a 16" Framework model. Or a larger tablet format. I typically use a mechanical keyboard, either wired to a hub or bluetooth on the road (or downstairs). It's nice having an "emergency" keyboard built in, but if I'm bringing my laptop to work somewhere, I am usually bringing my keyboard. The Lenova 16" Yoga is my current system.
Im excited for the shake mouse feature.. Sounds stupid, but 4K monitors in multi monitor setup, can be challanging.. Especialy with a gaming mouse with high dpi. I wish, they could work on better scaling for 4k. Due 4k resolution in linux is not allways flowers and dayblooms. I have not jumped over to the beta testing yet, but im also an nvidia fan.. The beta + beta = not that good atm. Nvidia driver can be monky in it self as it is right now. Nothing major that i have seen yet, but enough that i dont want to add more chefs to the soup
Unsupported label should be renamed to Untested. But in the software industry the term unsupported is actually correct in this case. Just like Linux is unsupported by many devs does not mean the game would not work. I think there should be a counter that shows how many players are playing the game on the Steam Deck, regardless of the badge. That would help with games that have no rating or a lower rating. If a multiplayer game is unsupported, but has lot of players currently, then you can assume it is working. If the game has no players, then there is a good indication to not working on Steam Deck.
I dont like it when terms are chosen by the dev mindset when it reaches broader into users. Unsupported is the reverse of Stable releases. Stable doesnt mean stability but at least it doesnt make people think something is broken. Unsupported will make some people think its simply not supported at all
@@michael_tunnellI just had a discussion today on another place where I tried to explain that Fedora is not stable. People really associate this term with stability of the programs, not about the release model. That's in example a bad word that has been established. For the term "unsupported", I'm not sure what is better. It's pretty accurate, because they don't support it officially. It's also a widely used term to describe exactly that, for any game or application, so its not a bad choice. Maybe there is a weird term, but that would be probably more confusing. Therefore problem is, there is no term that is perfect. There is probably a term that you personally like most, or another one that I like most for this. Every of them are problematic. Choose your poison I guess. And BTW thank you for reading the comments and replying to them from time to time. 🙂
This is why I hate the term Stable being used as a branch or label. Users will never adopt it as anything but "stability". This is also why the term "free software" is terrible because Users on the whole will never adopt it to mean "freedom" they will always see it as "free in cost" because that is what the term is used for in 99% of interactions between people and things. Free Software creates a burden to explain due to confusion for something being "Free" while also costing money. Stable at least creates a positive assumption. While yes Steam does not support these games but they dont really support the Verified either. I think they are using it to mean that it doesnt work which is what people think it means but they are using it as a defacto baseline for things they dont know whether it works or not and assuming it doesnt. Untested or Unknown are both better I think. But like you said, pros and cons regardless of what is picked.
I try to guess how many Linux users exists compared to Playstation 4 users. And Linux code base could be more similar to Windows version than console version. In both cases we have Vulcan.
Disagreeing is one thing, berating is another. I may not always share Tunnell's opinions, but the needless aggressiveness of some of the comments here is really uncalled for.
Conscript...he used the linux and macos backers money to deelop for windows and shady consoles and then he said he will refund out of his wallet?Its a lame game i dont think it will sell well ,i dont think he will refund ,he will came out with a lame excuse.
What Planet are you on? If the Laptop's pannel isn't absolutely tiny, having such a small resolution is just a waste, as you have to scale everything to be uncomfortably large, just to be able to read text. Personally, I find 2K about enough for most laptops, but 1080p is just ridiculous for anything larger than a very small phone.
I agree with you and I am writting from a 2K laptop... I still think 1080p is more than enough for 15'', plus it doesn't require any scaling unlike 2K and above.
@@michael_tunnell I am back on Kde. Running Kubuntu 24.04 My hardware specs : Ram : 8GB DDR4 CPU : 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1155G7 @2.5GHz (8 Cores) Graphics Unit : Intel Iris Xe Graphics ( TigerLake )
Who cares about native support when wine and proton provide better one experience, just do what financially profitable. Screw linux fanboys and do what will be better for your project.
My point was make a proton version and that’s fine but the tragic logic for ignoring Linux is nonsense. Proton is fine, inventing incredibly specific criteria for Linux to meet that was never practical, that’s not fine
Yea, you’re probably right. Gaming industry has been getting really weird over the past few years. This same announcement the guy said he hopes announcing console support will ease the pain of not having Linux like what does that even mean ?! LOL … I game on Linux, supporting consoles I don’t own will alleviate absolutely nothing lol
9:18 (in theory) if your account remains active long after the average human lifespan, it may raise suspicion. For example, if you pass away at 80 and your account continues to receive traffic beyond that age, it could trigger their internal fraud detection 🙂
I realize I could pronounce it that way but how it’s stylized is that way. I suppose Pop!_OS is the same thing and I never say the symbols so that’s fair enough. The only issue I guess is the potential conflict because some say eOS for elementary OS and also Endless OS
That’s cool and solves the problem nicely, but it requires the user to know it’s an option to use it, I’ve been using KDE Plasma for 10 years and I didn’t know it could do that lol
@@michael_tunnell One can see all available KWin shortcuts in System Settings, Keyboard, Shortcuts, kwin. Life requires functioning curiosity, sorry to break it on you 😁
As a UX Designer my response to that is, good UX design requires intuitive interactions. The amount of steps needed to use this as a solution means it will be used by almost no one. Requiring users to preemptively manually set this, that fact alone kills 99.9% of its value. On the other hand, Shake Cursor is something people will do out of frustration automatically when they lose track of it, I have seen people do this.
@@michael_tunnell The design could be better, sure. But the keyboard shortcut has been there for ages in System Settings, exactly where it belongs and where one would expect to find it. I have enjoyed the keyboard shortcut for centering mouse cursor, as well as windows, for donkey years and cannot recommend it enough.
@@max0x7ba your insults are based on inaccurate assumption that I deleted your comment. RUclips is notorious for hiding comments at random and then bringing them back at random times and even hiding on some devices and not on others. So your attacks towards me are 100% completely baseless. Have a nice day.
I just tried KDE for the first time since KDE 3.0 and I really did not like it. They try way too much to show you everything, to give you all the options... way, way too much.
@@michael_tunnell for the point of reference I am using Ubuntu and I made gnome to look like the old Unity. In the KDE file manager got the usual suspects in the left bar, plus 2-3 separate lists, and and data about the partition, and the tree graphics with nodes for the actual folders... I got the concept of tree, just put the path of the folder and let me click on individual folder in that path, I need just 1 list in the left bar... my list, let me, in the bottom bar on the screen, in their quest to offer more and more, is now treated as an app space, and I just want to put links to apps and folders and I could not put folders in there... they try way to hard.
@@michael_tunnell well lots of small things, like the laft panel in file manager, you got 3 separate lists with locations, available space on the drive, when I just need a single one... mine. They also give you visual representation of the tree folder, like we do not understand the concept, and so on. In their quest to give you everything they made an app drawer out of start bar, and I can't pin specific folders in there and so on. They wanted to do way too much, and the worst part is, it actually fucked up Gnom. Now some apps will not recognize dark mode.... no, just no. The experience was so bad that I won't touch it for at least 20 more years.
Dolphin allows you to customize the left sidebar. You can disable those sections if you want to but it is normal for those to be included just as they are with every OS filemanager. For example, macOS is claimed to be super user friendly and they have multiple sections of locations in the sidebar. Dolphin supports multiple view styles, yes it has tree style but also standard icons. Icons is the default style too. I am curious now what distro you tried it on and what version of Plasma it is. I dont understand the "app drawer out of the start bar", that's what Windows does too so not sure how that is too much. How did KDE affect GNOME at all? GNOME apps are built a very particular way and they even made a website complaining about distros and otther DEs theming their apps. (stopthemingmy.app/) I think its more accurate to blame GNOME for the look of their apps rather than KDE.
okay I missed the first comment about using Ubuntu. If you installed KDE Plasma inside of a pre-existing install of Ubuntu (proper) then your testing environment was setup to fail. The reason Kubuntu exists is to offer KDE Plasma instead of what comes with Ubuntu because Ubuntu is so customized that simply installing KDE Plasma will not end well. If you tested on Kubuntu then thats fine but if you installed in an already installed version of Ubuntu then I would expect the experience to be clunky and probably even broken in some ways. Even if you did try Kubuntu then you would not be using the latest KDE Plasma as Kubuntu 24.04 ships with KDE Plasma 5.27 not Plasma 6. I am very curious how you did these tests but what it sounds like is that you had a subpar experience because the testing environment itself was subpar. As a side note Ubuntu has always made GNOME look like Unity since they switched back so curious what you did on top of that?
The text is tiny if I watch the video on my phone in portrait mode, which is how I always watch. I did switch to landscape to see if it was better and the text was fine like that. I just don't like holding the phone in landscape and don't like my screen flipping when it's not locked into portrait mode. It's a user issue, not a text size issue.
lol @SeanClarke I appreciate the honesty of that last line, thats funny. There are times where the text is not large enough for portrait mode on a phone, that's true for sure but sadly that is due to how the text is laid out on the website when the screenshot is taken, sometimes websites just dont optimize well for youtubers to screenshot their text :D
You know there is no need to say gnu/linux anymore right? Back in the day before GNU had a kernel and where in the works with kernels yes. But the other kernels are dead. Forgive my optionion its just linux with gnu tools on the side. Even Gnome is not a GNU project anymore. I didn't mean to be come across like an ahole but its not needed to be called gnu/linux anymore. I would say just call it linux .. but its up to you. I wont blame you just wanted to add my 2 cents.
I’m not sure what you’re commenting about but you might mean the opener of the show where I say the slogan. The slogan of the show is “Your Source for Linux GNews”, this is a joke about the drama about what to call the system
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
Linux community and Linux journalism is so desperate for new, they will report on every announcement of a beta release for a new incremental update. It's sad.
I covered it because it’s actually a big deal. KDE Plasma is one of the most important desktop environments and the beta coverage is to let people know what is in it and inform those who want to contribute to testing that it’s ready for testing. I didn’t spend a ton of time on it in this episode because it’s a beta and I said that in the episode. The actual release is when I did a deep dive. Besides Plasma 6.1 is not an “incremental update”, it’s the next big update of the desktop. 6.1.1 or 6.1.2 are incremental updates and I don’t cover those on the show. Also this is a weekly show, so I cover what happened over the course of that week. Some weeks are big news weeks and others aren’t, that’s the nature of any kind of news content.
Dude, thank you for calling out 1080p. It needs to go away forever. Freaking smartphones ship with 1440 and higher, I don't get why 1080p still ships on laptops. It's the very first thing I check when I shop for a laptop. 1080p is never, and will never be, an option for me.
@@radioxerox7698 I can't stand 1080p on any screen bigger than 13". I hate it. I hate seeing the pixels. It makes the desktop look like trash. Both of my monitors are 4k. I'll take 60 Hz 4k over 240 Hz 1080p. It just looks bad
Just on your point at @15:30 about over 100% sRGB, that is flat out wrong. As HDR slowly becomes the norm, sRGB colour space will be the baseline, not the target. REC.709 is around 126% of the sRGB colour space and REC.2020 (the most common "HDR" colour space) is around 176% or sRGB.
It all comes down to colour management and profiling. A >100% sRGB screen should always be able to clamp back to sRGB colour space with a profile, which is a good thing. You may want to correct that.
Personally, I'd take 1080p over 4k any day on a mid-range laptop for work. Power and resource efficiency matter more to me than screen resolution.
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Why should >100% coverage of a specific color space be bad? Is there not just an effective clamp if there are too many colors? Also, if a display supports 100% of a larger color space that overlaps with sRGB, wouldn't that make the display cover >100% and thus automatically be bad? A little confused about this, I'd be thankful for someone make this a little clearer.
A not-sRGB (in both directions) display will cause wrong colors without color management, because the video signal is relative to the colorspace of the display instead of absolute.
With the color management features like in the Plasma Wayland session though, as long as the EDID is correct or you profile your display with a colorimeter, a bigger color gamut is almost always better. The only exception is if you only have a limited bit depth and really big color gamut; 6 or 8 bits per color spanning all of rec.2020 would have visible artifacts for example.
@@zamundaaa776 Okay, thanks for clearing that up.
Ultramarine should be Warhammer 40k themed.
Yes!
22:48 - If you wanted to give the developer the benefit of the doubt about what they mean by 'out of pocket': The refund money does come from what the backer gave them, but they don't get the transaction fees back (~4% + maybe Kickstarter's fees), which does come out of their pocket.
That’s a fair point, thanks for commenting
Man, that so North Armerican. Don't worry about the price, just add this stuff and that stuff, what is a few hundred dollars more. Mmm, maybe I need to, I don't know, eat.
What? I didn’t say I would buy any of these. Also is this some kind of judging of me because I work so much or something?
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Whenever I hear intel. I just think meh.
It's just pronounced "eeeOS" 😂😂
I know but if they are going to make the brand have the slashes then I will absolutely always say the slashes because it’s funny to me 😆
Plasma 6 is so broken (Wayland) ;=)
It’s been great for me, what issues have you experienced?
@@michael_tunnell I have had problems with the panel mainly, when I click on the tray icons at first they run but other times nothing happens and they seem to activate below the panel itself which is strange? It's like editing mode is activated and it doesn't show me the volume controls, calendar, removable devices, etc.
I dont remember what the default setting for the panel is but going under the panel is a setting inside of the panel controls so it could be the default. Which distro are you using Plasma 6 on?
@@michael_tunnell Gentoo>Plasma Wayland (AMD GPU)
What's up with the teeth?
Yeah stick to software news because u dont know shit about hardware. More than 100% srgb is good, its always good. If you are using OLED or good hdr display your screen will have close to 120-135% of SRGB. Thats is good. It is perfect for consumption as well as for color sensitive work, movie post production, photography etc as your monitor is closer to the actual colors in the file you are developing. There might be a problem if you are buying off brand ghetto display from china which has amazing color space and no clamp or srgb profile which can result in oversaturation in certain colors.
The market auto corrects itself in this aspect, cheap common market displays have cheap panels with not so high of a gammut 95-110% srgb, while much more expensive much higher gammut displays are expensive enough for the manufacturer to add proper srgb color profile clamp in case its needed. Fun fact: almost every user will steer away from srgb profile as it will look "dull" and lifeless compared to punchy colors of unclamped screen. This is why in every electronics store, sample TVs are always set the most broken oversaturated overbrightened VIVID mode or "store display mode" which sends color accuracy to narnia and back.
3:38 I just gave my mom an old MS Surface running Fedora 40 with KDE to replace her ancient win7 laptop, and when I showed her the shake to find cursor, she was ecstatic!
I unironically use this and I'm 24
It's a great feature if your peanut brain constantly forgets where you left the tiny black triangle
20:07 1080p might be better for battery life.
It's also cheaper.. people tend to forget that repairability and modularity have a steep cost, and I'd imagine if they added a superfancy 4k oled screen on top of it would result in a downright inaccessible price.
And lighter on the graphics card for gaming.
Those are 3 good reasons already why I don't want higher dpi screens in my laptop. Cost, battery life, easier on the gpu.
I'll add to that: I don't want to bother running into possible issues with scaling and again with scaling on multiple displays. Yes it has certainly gotten better with time, but it took forever to get to where we are now, is still not supported in everything and never will be.
Hi from the Ultramarine team! We're very proud of that joke, we keep seeing AI generated articles and videos recapping our blog posts and getting details wrong. Also, we don't support Pi 5 just yet, but expect that in the coming months.
Thanks so much for the shout out, and we hope you enjoy Ultramarine when you give it a try :3
I'm a little unsure what to make of your bit about sRGB. If you want coverage of the Adobe or PC3 colorspaces, you'll need more than 100% sRGB. And any monitor that does so I would expect to have EDID information for calibration. I'm not sure what downside you see there.
Lol'd at the "Live, Die, Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow" reference!
Love all the references you throw in! (Like Stargate in the past).
Thanks for another great episode Michael!
Edit: "Live, Die, Repeat", not "Love"... Sorry, hard to type on a phone for me... XD
Using Ultramarine 40 Plasma. Nice not to go through my 15 minute post install routine usual with Fedora. This laptop performs best with Fedora. Nuked Arch when I saw this went stable. Pretty happy with it.
After Linux year one of distro hopping, I settled on Fedora 40. It is the best of the bunch for my desktops and notebooks. Hyprland and Budgie DEs.
I always deliberately choose 1080p over higher resolutions. I want to be able to easily read without fiddling. No need for 2K or 4K here…
"How would they know?"
"So our system flagged someone as being active for 183 years now... We can assume the original create died yeah?"
That being said, that was also my solution to this whole thing. To me it sounded more like steam won't help with the transfer of a library. Like if my friend died and left me his games I wouldn't just get it added to my account.
Edit 2: ultramarine Linux, 40k. In the grimdark future, there is only war, against proprietary software.
Tuxedo is also suxx on screen. I have my ancient dell xps 15 which is probably 6 years old model. .and 4k OLED gorgeus screen. When I see those pathetic TFT screens from 'linux' ventors.. well. What choice I have to upgrade?
KDE Plasma 6.0 is very good!
KDE Plasma 6.1 will be the best desktop environment ever!
Too bad so many developers are still wasting their time contributing to their small projects instead of contributing to KDE software.
I use AdobeRGB 100% monitor in windows. And dual boot to Linux Mint Debian Edition 6. Windows help keep the monitor colour calibration because Linux has no support for my BenQ SW2700PT 2K monitor for hardware colour calibration and software is not available for Linux. I am afraid Linux won't grow that fast sa we think. Because when it comes to these kind of things then the companies should start making software or apps for Linux too. But only if they want to. It's sad i have to keep windows on work PC in my photo lab for professional work and use a Pi box M.2 enclosure adaptor for running Linux.
I got a Tuxedo Laptop with a higher than 1080p resolution. But it comes with a cost. Setting the rendering scale to 2x makes everything too big, 1x is too small, so 1.5 or 1.75 is good but fractional scaling messes some things up. So I am looking forward to real support for fractional scaling, but until then, its just not optimal.
It depends on the desktop environment used for fractional scaling. GNOME is a mess for fractional scaling but it’s great in KDE Plasma.
More importantly, higher resolution screens can also be turned down to 1080p while still benefiting from the other improvements. So doing this would eliminate fractional scaling issues
@@michael_tunnell Thank you, I did not know that. I'll try that.
Wow! Once again great new Plasma features I think I can use!🥳🤓😜 Thanks KDE people!🥰
1080p is fine for a laptop. Most people don't need more and more pixels is just a waste of money and battery life.
People said this about 768p for years too, why did we bother to ever leave 768p then?
It as depends on your personal needs (e.g. eyesight) and the size of the screen, but you can always render 1080p on a 1440p screen, but the reverse can't be said... Even if it doesn't look as pretty... But now, with fractional scaling becoming closer to mainstream in Linux, I think it's much better to just mass produce the higher res screen, reducing costs and giving more choice/flexibility to users.
I can’t read stuff on a 4K display. I hate it. I choose 1080p anytime over 4K.
This is entirely dependant on font size and fontfaces themselves.
I agree, and I am on a 2K laptop... My previous one was 1080p and the resolution was perfect, in fact I would rather have 1080p native resolution on this one instead (lighter on the graphics card for gaming, no need for scaling (or barely) on the desktop and even more power efficient).
Actually watched your video on Ultramarine 40 (Budgie) , it's running sweet and I am impressed with it.
Ultramarine 40,000
8:36 Just “Untested” is the right label.
Great video Michael. I love the updates. Also i am not a cat girl right now.
How is giving it straight, as in stating obvious facts, annoying? Are we in a time when everyone wants to be lied to?
What topic are you commenting about?
Yea, pretty much.
@@michael_tunnell valve's response. plain and simple which you explained that's how it works.
Oh, well I wasnt saying their response was annoying because they were honest. I was saying its annoying that you cant give your account away in that regard. I mean you already dont even own the games, I so not big deal for someone to give an account so someone else can also not own the games lol
Its one instance of the game that was paid for once and not making copies to share so I dont see any issue with giving control over an account. I mean the family play system allows for people who dont own a game to play it if a family member owns it so that is more so problematic than this
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Fedora is not replacing Anaconda, they are changing the Anaconda UI to the new WebUI which is also shared with Cockpit.
Wayland is planned, and they may switch to GNOME remote desktop with RDP for the installer.
Anaconda is more than just the UI.
I wish there were more 2-in-1 format Linux laptops, ideally a 16" Framework model. Or a larger tablet format. I typically use a mechanical keyboard, either wired to a hub or bluetooth on the road (or downstairs). It's nice having an "emergency" keyboard built in, but if I'm bringing my laptop to work somewhere, I am usually bringing my keyboard. The Lenova 16" Yoga is my current system.
Is that the 7i? What flavour of Linux are you using on it and does everything work?
i love KDE !!! ♥♥
Im excited for the shake mouse feature.. Sounds stupid, but 4K monitors in multi monitor setup, can be challanging.. Especialy with a gaming mouse with high dpi. I wish, they could work on better scaling for 4k. Due 4k resolution in linux is not allways flowers and dayblooms. I have not jumped over to the beta testing yet, but im also an nvidia fan.. The beta + beta = not that good atm. Nvidia driver can be monky in it self as it is right now. Nothing major that i have seen yet, but enough that i dont want to add more chefs to the soup
Unsupported label should be renamed to Untested. But in the software industry the term unsupported is actually correct in this case. Just like Linux is unsupported by many devs does not mean the game would not work.
I think there should be a counter that shows how many players are playing the game on the Steam Deck, regardless of the badge. That would help with games that have no rating or a lower rating. If a multiplayer game is unsupported, but has lot of players currently, then you can assume it is working. If the game has no players, then there is a good indication to not working on Steam Deck.
I dont like it when terms are chosen by the dev mindset when it reaches broader into users. Unsupported is the reverse of Stable releases. Stable doesnt mean stability but at least it doesnt make people think something is broken. Unsupported will make some people think its simply not supported at all
@@michael_tunnellI just had a discussion today on another place where I tried to explain that Fedora is not stable. People really associate this term with stability of the programs, not about the release model. That's in example a bad word that has been established.
For the term "unsupported", I'm not sure what is better. It's pretty accurate, because they don't support it officially. It's also a widely used term to describe exactly that, for any game or application, so its not a bad choice. Maybe there is a weird term, but that would be probably more confusing. Therefore problem is, there is no term that is perfect. There is probably a term that you personally like most, or another one that I like most for this. Every of them are problematic. Choose your poison I guess.
And BTW thank you for reading the comments and replying to them from time to time. 🙂
This is why I hate the term Stable being used as a branch or label. Users will never adopt it as anything but "stability". This is also why the term "free software" is terrible because Users on the whole will never adopt it to mean "freedom" they will always see it as "free in cost" because that is what the term is used for in 99% of interactions between people and things. Free Software creates a burden to explain due to confusion for something being "Free" while also costing money. Stable at least creates a positive assumption.
While yes Steam does not support these games but they dont really support the Verified either. I think they are using it to mean that it doesnt work which is what people think it means but they are using it as a defacto baseline for things they dont know whether it works or not and assuming it doesnt. Untested or Unknown are both better I think. But like you said, pros and cons regardless of what is picked.
I try to guess how many Linux users exists compared to Playstation 4 users. And Linux code base could be more similar to Windows version than console version. In both cases we have Vulcan.
Disagreeing is one thing, berating is another. I may not always share Tunnell's opinions, but the needless aggressiveness of some of the comments here is really uncalled for.
This not 0,6% Conscript Wishtlist Steam user will not buy this game, be sure of that.
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22:40 Im guessing losing money because taxes/fees of kickstarter they technically have to give a part out of pocket
Conscript...he used the linux and macos backers money to deelop for windows and shady consoles and then he said he will refund out of his wallet?Its a lame game i dont think it will sell well ,i dont think he will refund ,he will came out with a lame excuse.
This channel is seriously! Underrated.
Personally don't see a reason for more than 1080p if you run on a laptop screen. They're like what, 14" to 16" ? What kind of DPI do you need ?
What Planet are you on?
If the Laptop's pannel isn't absolutely tiny, having such a small resolution is just a waste, as you have to scale everything to be uncomfortably large, just to be able to read text.
Personally, I find 2K about enough for most laptops, but 1080p is just ridiculous for anything larger than a very small phone.
I agree with you and I am writting from a 2K laptop... I still think 1080p is more than enough for 15'', plus it doesn't require any scaling unlike 2K and above.
24:56 you hear that bungee? Let us play destiny 2 on linux
kwin is already buttery smooth for me, can't imagine what it will be like with triple buffering
Kde stutters in my laptop and thats why I am using ubuntu 22.04.04
In my case Gnome is super smooth.
@@franklin_johnson01 Ubuntu / Kubuntu is very bad for KDE software!
@Daniel-wn5ye what is the basis for this comment?
@fastbackshots what did you try KDE on? What distro, what is the hardware, etc? I am just curious
@@michael_tunnell I am back on Kde.
Running Kubuntu 24.04
My hardware specs :
Ram : 8GB DDR4
CPU : 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1155G7 @2.5GHz (8 Cores)
Graphics Unit : Intel Iris Xe Graphics ( TigerLake )
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Pretty sure there's a separate untested label, while unsupported means it won't work
Who cares about native support when wine and proton provide better one experience, just do what financially profitable. Screw linux fanboys and do what will be better for your project.
My point was make a proton version and that’s fine but the tragic logic for ignoring Linux is nonsense. Proton is fine, inventing incredibly specific criteria for Linux to meet that was never practical, that’s not fine
@@michael_tunnell Fair, but I think it's just more of a gaming in general with undelivered promises.
Yea, you’re probably right. Gaming industry has been getting really weird over the past few years. This same announcement the guy said he hopes announcing console support will ease the pain of not having Linux like what does that even mean ?! LOL … I game on Linux, supporting consoles I don’t own will alleviate absolutely nothing lol
9:18 (in theory) if your account remains active long after the average human lifespan, it may raise suspicion. For example, if you pass away at 80 and your account continues to receive traffic beyond that age, it could trigger their internal fraud detection 🙂
Bro, just pronounce it "E OS"
I realize I could pronounce it that way but how it’s stylized is that way. I suppose Pop!_OS is the same thing and I never say the symbols so that’s fair enough. The only issue I guess is the potential conflict because some say eOS for elementary OS and also Endless OS
/e/OS 👀Wtf!
KWin supports assigning a keyboard shortcut to center mouse cursor on the screen, which is very convenient.
That’s cool and solves the problem nicely, but it requires the user to know it’s an option to use it, I’ve been using KDE Plasma for 10 years and I didn’t know it could do that lol
@@michael_tunnell One can see all available KWin shortcuts in System Settings, Keyboard, Shortcuts, kwin.
Life requires functioning curiosity, sorry to break it on you 😁
As a UX Designer my response to that is, good UX design requires intuitive interactions. The amount of steps needed to use this as a solution means it will be used by almost no one. Requiring users to preemptively manually set this, that fact alone kills 99.9% of its value. On the other hand, Shake Cursor is something people will do out of frustration automatically when they lose track of it, I have seen people do this.
@@michael_tunnell The design could be better, sure. But the keyboard shortcut has been there for ages in System Settings, exactly where it belongs and where one would expect to find it. I have enjoyed the keyboard shortcut for centering mouse cursor, as well as windows, for donkey years and cannot recommend it enough.
@@max0x7ba your insults are based on inaccurate assumption that I deleted your comment. RUclips is notorious for hiding comments at random and then bringing them back at random times and even hiding on some devices and not on others. So your attacks towards me are 100% completely baseless. Have a nice day.
Shake the mouse to enlarge the cursor? You mean like Mac OS?
I think windows powertoys has it too. It’s Really bad on windows and ok on macOS but I still turn it off.
I just tried KDE for the first time since KDE 3.0 and I really did not like it. They try way too much to show you everything, to give you all the options... way, way too much.
How so? How do they show too much? Is it just the amount of options in System Settings?
@@michael_tunnell for the point of reference I am using Ubuntu and I made gnome to look like the old Unity. In the KDE file manager got the usual suspects in the left bar, plus 2-3 separate lists, and and data about the partition, and the tree graphics with nodes for the actual folders... I got the concept of tree, just put the path of the folder and let me click on individual folder in that path, I need just 1 list in the left bar... my list, let me, in the bottom bar on the screen, in their quest to offer more and more, is now treated as an app space, and I just want to put links to apps and folders and I could not put folders in there... they try way to hard.
@@michael_tunnell well lots of small things, like the laft panel in file manager, you got 3 separate lists with locations, available space on the drive, when I just need a single one... mine. They also give you visual representation of the tree folder, like we do not understand the concept, and so on. In their quest to give you everything they made an app drawer out of start bar, and I can't pin specific folders in there and so on. They wanted to do way too much, and the worst part is, it actually fucked up Gnom. Now some apps will not recognize dark mode.... no, just no. The experience was so bad that I won't touch it for at least 20 more years.
Dolphin allows you to customize the left sidebar. You can disable those sections if you want to but it is normal for those to be included just as they are with every OS filemanager. For example, macOS is claimed to be super user friendly and they have multiple sections of locations in the sidebar. Dolphin supports multiple view styles, yes it has tree style but also standard icons. Icons is the default style too. I am curious now what distro you tried it on and what version of Plasma it is. I dont understand the "app drawer out of the start bar", that's what Windows does too so not sure how that is too much. How did KDE affect GNOME at all? GNOME apps are built a very particular way and they even made a website complaining about distros and otther DEs theming their apps. (stopthemingmy.app/) I think its more accurate to blame GNOME for the look of their apps rather than KDE.
okay I missed the first comment about using Ubuntu. If you installed KDE Plasma inside of a pre-existing install of Ubuntu (proper) then your testing environment was setup to fail. The reason Kubuntu exists is to offer KDE Plasma instead of what comes with Ubuntu because Ubuntu is so customized that simply installing KDE Plasma will not end well. If you tested on Kubuntu then thats fine but if you installed in an already installed version of Ubuntu then I would expect the experience to be clunky and probably even broken in some ways.
Even if you did try Kubuntu then you would not be using the latest KDE Plasma as Kubuntu 24.04 ships with KDE Plasma 5.27 not Plasma 6. I am very curious how you did these tests but what it sounds like is that you had a subpar experience because the testing environment itself was subpar.
As a side note Ubuntu has always made GNOME look like Unity since they switched back so curious what you did on top of that?
Maybe increase the font size for the text portion, hard to read on the phone..
I try to increase the text size every time. Where did I miss it?
The text is tiny if I watch the video on my phone in portrait mode, which is how I always watch. I did switch to landscape to see if it was better and the text was fine like that. I just don't like holding the phone in landscape and don't like my screen flipping when it's not locked into portrait mode.
It's a user issue, not a text size issue.
lol @SeanClarke I appreciate the honesty of that last line, thats funny. There are times where the text is not large enough for portrait mode on a phone, that's true for sure but sadly that is due to how the text is laid out on the website when the screenshot is taken, sometimes websites just dont optimize well for youtubers to screenshot their text :D
Example at 6:21, small to read even in landscape mode on a regular size phone.
You know there is no need to say gnu/linux anymore right? Back in the day before GNU had a kernel and where in the works with kernels yes. But the other kernels are dead. Forgive my optionion its just linux with gnu tools on the side. Even Gnome is not a GNU project anymore. I didn't mean to be come across like an ahole but its not needed to be called gnu/linux anymore. I would say just call it linux .. but its up to you. I wont blame you just wanted to add my 2 cents.
Grass is green. Go look
I’m not sure what you’re commenting about but you might mean the opener of the show where I say the slogan. The slogan of the show is “Your Source for Linux GNews”, this is a joke about the drama about what to call the system
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
The only people left who actually unironically call Linux “GNU/Linux” are just Stallman cultists.
Linux community and Linux journalism is so desperate for new, they will report on every announcement of a beta release for a new incremental update. It's sad.
I covered it because it’s actually a big deal. KDE Plasma is one of the most important desktop environments and the beta coverage is to let people know what is in it and inform those who want to contribute to testing that it’s ready for testing. I didn’t spend a ton of time on it in this episode because it’s a beta and I said that in the episode. The actual release is when I did a deep dive. Besides Plasma 6.1 is not an “incremental update”, it’s the next big update of the desktop. 6.1.1 or 6.1.2 are incremental updates and I don’t cover those on the show. Also this is a weekly show, so I cover what happened over the course of that week. Some weeks are big news weeks and others aren’t, that’s the nature of any kind of news content.
Dude, thank you for calling out 1080p. It needs to go away forever. Freaking smartphones ship with 1440 and higher, I don't get why 1080p still ships on laptops. It's the very first thing I check when I shop for a laptop. 1080p is never, and will never be, an option for me.
Why tho? If 1080p is clear enough why waste battery on a laptop
I've got a 4k 13-inch laptop and it's a total waste. I always run it at 1080p and wish it had a higher refresh rate rather than resolution.
A lot of smartphones still ship in 1080p, wtf?!
@@radioxerox7698 I can't stand 1080p on any screen bigger than 13". I hate it. I hate seeing the pixels. It makes the desktop look like trash. Both of my monitors are 4k. I'll take 60 Hz 4k over 240 Hz 1080p. It just looks bad
@@muizzsiddique no shit, Sherlock. I know that, but that was just me objecting to the existence of 1080p screens.
Well, Conscription will work just fine on Proton...
Have you tried it in proton?
Hmm maybe I should give it a go and it runs well I can put it on my MacBook
/e/OS = eOS