The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 42 Beta! We have lots of info to share about our upcoming release.Matthew Miller (Fedora Project)
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We have announced the release of Fedora Asahi Remix 42 Beta!
As this is a beta release, we expect that you may encounter bugs or missing features. You can try out Fedora Asahi Remix 42 Beta by following our installation guide. Existing systems, running Fedora Asahi Remix 40 or 41, can be updated following the usual Fedora upgrade process.
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Annoucement for Beta release of Fedora ASAHI remix 42Neal Gompa (Fedora Project)
Fedora Linux 42 Beta is available now! Help us test the next version of Fedora across all of our editions and spins, including Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop and the upcoming Fedora COSMIC!
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We also have the Fedora Asahi Remix 42 Beta also available!
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Happy testing!
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 42 Beta! We have lots of info to share about our upcoming release.Matthew Miller (Fedora Project)
I'm currently running the KDE spin of Fedora 41. As I understand, it will be promoted to an official "edition" for Fedora 42. Will the upgrade procedure from 41 to 42 require a reinstall ? Or will it be the same as the 40 -> 41 upgrade which was a one-click install ?
Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere, I haven't stumbled upon any info for now.
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Reddit, where sanity goes to die. According to Reddit, it's perfectly fine to list a game like GTA V Enhanced as Playable on Steam Deck, even though online play is intentionally blocked, because single-player works.
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Person 1: "Hey guys, check out GTA V Enhanced on Steam Deck. It's Playable!!"
Person 2 who just bought it: "Uh, but online doesn't work?"
Person 1: "But it's Playable offline!"
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That is what "playable" means. Furthermore, this is the price one pays to be a consumer of corporate products — to never receive the full product all at once.
Solution: Don't consume corporate products as long as that's the situation.
@ottercynical No, it's not what Playable means.
Playable means it has specific mostly minor issues, but the game can still be fully playable.
An entire major part of the game being blocked is not playable.
@ottercynical it doesn’t matter what you think of the word Playable, what matters is Valve’s rating and documentation.
A game with a major feature, what most people go for, being blocked is *not* playable by anyone with common sense
"What i think" and the implication that i lack common sense because i didn't immediately agree wasn't the point but thanks for that.
Since everyone (except one other person) is allergic to citing the docs as their grounds for rebuttal, I'll go ahead and do the citing for others (like i find myself doing every single day).
From the docs, an extremely ambiguous incarnation of what seems like the usual definition of "playable" in comparable contexts (except, here, written as more centered on controls for whatever reason), which would be something that might inform my preconceived assumption, had I previously seen it:
>"• Playable: Your game functions on Deck, but may require manual work from the user. (Examples: manually selecting a community controller config, requiring the user to manually bring up the on-screen keyboard, or requiring the user to use the touchscreen to navigate a launcher.)
That being said, curiously enough, zero people in this thread so far (including yourself) have chosen to cite this FAQ entry on the same docs page which happens to more strongly support your argument than some (such as myself) might have perceived the former to challenge it:
>"What does it mean when a compatibility test says one of my games is currently Unsupported on Deck?
>Almost always, an Unsupported rating
comes from one of two issues:
> • *Your game relies on a piece of middleware or technology that Deck doesn't currently support. Some anti-cheat providers are currently unsupported, for example*, as are some media codecs used for video or audio. While we're constantly improving the range of software Deck supports, *if we don't yet support middleware that's required for part or all of your game to function, your game will be considered Unsupported.*"
And irrespective of all that, personally speaking my first core expectation would be more one of adherence and consistency, rather than interpretations of intentionally ambiguous blanket definitions. Therefore, if, for example, we're to mark Ghosts of Tsushima (disclaimer: idk anything about it) as "Unsupported" due to inoperative online features which as I understand are not absolutely essential to the product as sold, then the features of GTA should obviously be reviewed under the same criteria. Otherwise, it must be accepted that if GTA V is "Playable" while missing an arguably much more involved online aspect than Tsushima, then Tsushima needs its category changed to "Playable" in order to reflect meeting this standard. Either we (as a collective industry, setting aside perhaps only the hardest-core underground enthusiasts) have standards or we don't.
Conclusion: We don't, and GTA V is bought and paid for, while Ghosts of Tsushima is not an industry plant, hence why GoT is "Unsupported" despite meeting higher standards of compatibility under the same constraints. This, of course, is a personal hypothesis (but a fairly sane one, all things considered).
@ottercynical I'm not reading all that, refer to my prev reply.
If anyone thinks "Playable" should apply to a game with a major feature blocked, they're wrong.
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