But is it any less awful?

How did you install the launcher? Heroic Games Launcher? Lutris? Bottles? Raw Wine?

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Times makes fools of us all. I definitely could be wrong.

To me, all of the quotes in question just read as especially formal journalistic English. Especially that last one ‘Synaptics said it would grant no patent license’ is just a more formal phrasing that is pretty standard for e.g. newspaper writing, especially if you look at how the sentence structure puts the date first, then the quoted party, then the paraphrase of what they said. Very normal newspaper style.

I haven’t read the article yet but these quotes you pulled out in particular don’t read as AI to me, as a software engineer who talks to Claude all day for work.

Will update once I’ve read the article.

Edit: Yeah, no, this doesn’t read like AI to me at all. AI fluffs up its sentences and paragraphs with excessive detail, this article has a lot of barebones sentences that are clear and to the point. When you try to get AI to write like that it tends to leave out too much context to the point that it becomes confusing. The author appears to be Indian. Are you sure you’re not just misreading the different conventions of Indian English as being AI?

Same. Heroic just works way more consistently than Lutris for me

If you use Proton, it should use NTSync or FSync automatically with any modern kernel. In my case I use Heroic Launcher for non-steam games and default it to using Proton-GE-latest for all games. Lots of small quality of life and performance tweaks in Proton for games specifically, I highly recommend it.

For what it’s worth, in recent months Dolby Vision and HD Audio formats became viable on x86-64 hardware running Kodi (LibreElec, specifically):

https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/30362-dolby-vision-w-fel-3d-for-pc-amd-intel-nvidia/

I run Deluge for the same reason. AutoRemovePlus plugin and a couple others go a long way and just like Transmission it has a web-ui for remote management, so I can VPN back to my home network and manage deluge from my phone’s browser.

Have you tried toggling the HDR setting, saving the change, then toggling it back? It’s possible the update overwrote the setting you had without changing the setting in the UI.

I am also really worried they’re going to start making things “touch friendly” now… And we’re going to end up with the MacOS equivalent of Windows 8.

You mean iPadOS?