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[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Sounds like an issue with your WiFi adapter/driver. You can verify this by creating a mobile hotspot on your phone and connecting your PC to it and see if you get the same issue, if you do then it proves it's got nothing to do with your router.

Another thing you can check is your journalctl logs - run journalctl -f before launching the game, then run the game and quit it when you run into the DNS issue, and check the logs at the time the issue occurred. If there's indeed a hardware/driver issue, the errors should show up in the logs.

If it's a driver issue, there may not be much you can do about it besides reporting the bug and implementing some sort of workaround (eg using a VPN). Of course, depending on the error, there may be a fix you can apply, like turning of aspm for your chip. A better option would be to replace the WiFi chip/adapter you're using and get something that's better supported under Linux, like something with an Intel or Atheros chip. But check journalctl first and see how it goes from there.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

It's not that simple. The biggest issue is that Apple Silicon uses 16K memory page sizes instead of the 4K pages used by pretty much every other architecture out there. This means you'd need a kernel patched for 16K pages - but that would also cause an issue with drivers and other apps designed with 4K pages in mind. So there's a lot of work done in that area to get both the kernel and apps working. Even then, some apps may never work, and so you'd have to resort to using hacks like microVMs to run a 4K kernel and then run the app on top of it, but that introduces it's own set of issues of course.

Then there's the issue of hardware components - of course Apple hasn't open-sourced any of their firmware/drivers, so most of the Asahi drivers were developed by reverse engineering. The GPU was the biggest piece of work, the reverse engineering done to get it to a workable state by the Asahi team was nothing short of genius. In fact the current state of the OpenGL driver is so good that it's far, far more compliant to the spec compared to macOS itself - macOS only supports OpenGL upto 4.1 and is not certified either (and technically no longer supported by Apple), whereas Asahi supports up till 4.6 - and it's still being improved. See: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/asahi-linux-projects-opengl-support-on-apple-silicon-officially-surpasses-apples/

Similarly, a lot of wizardry was done to get the sound going, and not only did they get it going - they even improved the DSP so it sounds even better than macOS! (Scroll down to the speakers section here: https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/).

But in spite of all that, there's still a lot of work to be done, such as getting Thunderbolt and DisplayPort going, as well as improving compatibility with x86 apps (using krun and FEX) and more GPU improvements etc and support for the M3 and newer chips.. Even then, Asahi is already in a usable daily-driver state for many users, and it's improving at a rapid pace.

So long story short, the Asahi team had to do a ton of work to get it all going on a complex, closed piece of hardware like Apple Silicon - and it's genius levels of work, the level of which I can barely comprehend - and isn't something any random distro can pull off.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 29 points 7 months ago (4 children)

ElementaryOS doesn't work on Apple Silicon, so that's not an option.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

In the footnotes they mention GPT-3.5. Their argument for not testing 4 was because it was paid, and so most users would be using 3.5 - which is already factually incorrect now because the new GPT-4o (which they don't even mention) is now free. Finally, they didn't mention GPT-4 Turbo either, which is even better at coding compared to 4.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I've heard of Intel Arc users for instance not able to play certain games because it checks for AMD/nVidia, so you'd have to fake the GPU vendor to get it to work.

Eg see stuff like this: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Graphics-Hogwarts-Legacy

Or https://www.phoronix.com/news/The-Finals-Intel-Arc-Graphics

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You can sill use Medicare to create the USB and then add your favorite antimalware rescue CD to it, like the Kaspersky/Avira ones, but if it's an unknown malware you'd have to use other analysis tools like Sysinternals RootkirRevealer, Autoruns etc. If you want to fix Windows stuff then it's best to get a WinPE-based live CD with these tools, like Sergei Strelec, Gandalf etc.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Medicat USB has a few hardware diagnostics tools on it. It's based on Ventoy, so it's more like a collection of ISOs as opposed to a single distro.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 56 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Before y'all get excited, the press release doesn't actually mention the term "open source" anywhere.

Winamp will open up its code for the player used on Windows, enabling the entire community to participate in its development. This is an invitation to global collaboration, where developers worldwide can contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion to help this iconic software evolve.

This, to me, reads like it's going to be a "source available" model, perhaps released under some sort of a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). So, best to hold off any celebrations until we see the actual license.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago

You can, if the laptop supports VLink/DP-in, such as the Minisforum V3.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 53 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This has nothing to do with Arch or Bazzite, it's actually a bug in recent kernels. Switching to Mint only fixed it for you because Mint uses an old kernel.

The fix/workaround is to enable "above 4G decoding" and "resizable BAR" in your BIOS. If your BIOS does not have these options, you can either downgrade to an earlier kernel (or OS image if you're on Bazzite), or switch to a patched kernel like the Cachy kernel.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You cannot go back after trying it

I did! Used to have a Samsung 49" ultrawide. After using it for a couple of years, I sold it and got a 16:10 32" QHD, which I found worked better for me (+ one or two laptop screens for chat / random stuff when I'm doing serious work).

The biggest issue I had with the ultrawide is that most of the games that I played weren't optimised for it, especially in some games where things like the mini-map might be at the far end of the screen, or worse, if it was an older game then you'd have to put up with black bars, or play the game in windowed mode.

 

Ventoy is an open source tool to create a bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don't need to format the drive over and over, you just need to copy the image files to the USB drive, and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them and boot from it.

1.0.97 Changelog:

  • Add support for FreeBSD 14.0. (#2636)
  • Fix Proxmox 8.1 boot issue. (#2657)
  • Fix VTOY_LINUX_REMOUNT option does not work with latest linux kernel version. (#2661 #2674)
  • Fix the VentoyPlugson issue that default_file value is wrong for more than 10 theme files. (#2608)
  • vtoyboot updated to 1.0.31
 

Ventoy is an open source tool to create a bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. With Ventoy, you don't need to format the drive over and over, you just need to copy the image files to the USB drive, and Ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them and boot from it.

1.0.97 Changelog:

  • Add support for FreeBSD 14.0. (#2636)
  • Fix Proxmox 8.1 boot issue. (#2657)
  • Fix VTOY_LINUX_REMOUNT option does not work with latest linux kernel version. (#2661 #2674)
  • Fix the VentoyPlugson issue that default_file value is wrong for more than 10 theme files. (#2608)
  • vtoyboot updated to 1.0.31
 

Announced in early August and initially planned for the end of the month, the Fedora Asahi Remix distribution is finally here for those who want to install the Fedora Linux operating system on their Apple Silicon Macs.

The distro is based on the latest Fedora Linux 39 release and ships with the KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop environment by default, using Wayland.

 

Announced in early August and initially planned for the end of the month, the Fedora Asahi Remix distribution is finally here for those who want to install the Fedora Linux operating system on their Apple Silicon Macs.

The distro is based on the latest Fedora Linux 39 release and ships with the KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop environment by default, using Wayland.

 

Winlator is an Android application that lets you to run Windows (x86_64) applications and games using Wine and Box86/Box64.

Version 3.2 Changelog:

  • Improved x11 Cursor
  • Added option to create Box86/Box64 presets
  • Improved Shortcut Settings
  • Added more DX Wrappers
  • Other bug fixes and improvements
 

FreeRDP 3.0 stable was released today as this open-source implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) for allowing nice remote access support.

FreeRDP 3.0 brings relative mouse movement support that is important for gaming via RDP, server-side MS-RDPEL channel support, clipboard improvements, fixed FFmpeg/AAC encoding, improved RPC gateway support, Opus audio support for GNOME Remote Desktop, server-side handling of the mouse cursor channel, AAD/AVX authentication, WebSocket Transport support, SmartCard authentication for TLS and NLA, full OpenSSL 3.x support, and numerous other features and fixes.

In the past two weeks since the prior release candidate, support has been added for AF_VSOCK, improvements to the new relative mouse input support, E2K CPU support in WinPR, Android mouse hover support, and other fixes and minor enhancements.

 

Winlator is an Android application that lets you to run Windows (x86_64) applications with Wine and Box86/Box64.

Version 3.0 Changelog:

  • Improved Audio Plugin
  • Added PulseAudio
  • Added the option to choose the Box86/Box64 version
  • Added the option to choose the Turnip version
  • Added Custom resolution option
  • Improved Input Controls
  • Improved Lock Cursor option
  • Added Task Manager to main menu
  • Updated OBB Image to version 3
  • Other bug fixes and improvements
 
  • [MagiskBoot] Don’t pad zeros if signed boot image is larger
  • [MagiskPolicy] Fix genfscon and filename_trans
  • [MagiskPolicy] Fix bug in libsepol
  • [Zygisk] Fix and simplify file descriptor sanitization logic
  • [App] Prevent OOM when patching AP tarfiles
  • [App] Fix bug in device configuration detection
  • [Daemon] Fix certificate parsing of APKs
  • [General] Fix logging errors from C++ code being ignoredq
 

Four years after the Raspberry Pi 4 shipped, today the Raspberry Pi 5 is launching with a much improved SoC leading to significant performance gains.

The Raspberry Pi 5 is designed to deliver a 2~3x performance improvement over the Raspberry Pi 4. The Raspberry Pi 5 features a quad-core Cortex-A76 processor that clocks up to 2.4GHz, compared to the four Cortex-A72 cores found in the Raspberry Pi 4 that only clocked up to 1.8GHz. The graphics are also much-improved with now having an 800MHz VideoCore VII graphics processor over the VideoCore VI graphics with the Raspberry Pi 4. The Raspberry Pi 5 is capable of driving two 4K @ 60Hz displays and features 4K @ 60 HEVC decode hardware capabilities.

Also interesting with the Raspberry Pi 5 is that it features in-house silicon in the form of the RP1 "southbridge" used for much of the board's I/O capabilities. This southbridge should yield faster USB I/O along with other I/O bandwidth upgrades like a doubling of the peak SD card performance. The Raspberry Pi 5 also features a single-lane PCI Express 2.0 interface for improved connectivity.

 

CrossOver 23.5 has been released for macOS, Linux and Chrome OS.

This release offers an alternate way to run DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 games through CrossOver, using components from the Apple game porting toolkit. It can be enabled by toggling on “D3DMetal” in the right bottle sidebar.

The new D3DMetal option improves quality, compatibility, and performance for many games on Macs with the M1 chip or later, including Elden Ring, Hogwarts Legacy, Cyberpunk 2077, Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon, Mortal Kombat 1, Deep Rock Galactic, Satisfactory, Monster Hunter Rise, God of War and Batman Arkham Knight.

 

Go on an adventure with your adorable puppy Musashi in a roguelite 3D open-world inhabited by beastmen and gods in Mononoke no Kuni. Fish, work the farm, and cross islands by boat to go around various lands.

In order to return to your original world from the land of Mononoke, a land covered in filth, you must help Mononoke, strategize in dungeons, and defeat monsters to restore the Omiwa Shrine. This game is recommended for players who like cozy village development, unique art, story analysis, and Japanese-style fantasy.

 

Starting next year, Google will provide Chromebook security patches and software upgrades for up to a decade. This will effectively guarantee that no existing Chromebook will expire within the next two years.

However, a Google spokesperson added the caveat that, "In making changes to the expiration policy, we have to coordinate with each partner making any component in these devices. It requires a security and performance guarantee from the makers." Other Google sources indicated that the major Chromebook vendors are expected to work with the company to extend their hardware's lifespan.

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