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Measurements on navi31:

Cyberpunk 2077:
Difference at 95.0% confidence
1.12333 +/- 0.42876
1.88216% +/- 0.718391%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.189165)

Black Myth Wukong benchmark:
Difference at 95.0% confidence
4 +/- 1.30862
13.9535% +/- 4.56495%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.57735)

Portal with RTX:
66.2ms->61.5ms (~7.64% improvement)

Key points:

• Introduce plasma-login-manager as a modern replacement for SDDM.
• New virtual plasma-keyboard and OEM plasma-setup wizard.
• Critical improvements in Wayland: XRandr emulation and reliable screen mirroring.
• USB portal for security in isolated apps and OCR support in Spectacle.
• Accessibility controls for edge contrast and Wi-Fi connection via QR code.

https://github.com/ryzendew/Linux-Affinity-Installer

🚩 Performance: The program run with wine inside the appImage package. The performance are quite good, but not flawless, heavy instruments may still cause lag or crash. No need to preinstall wine, all the components are in the package.

AppImage 2,1 GB

AffinityOnLinux provides an easy way to install and run Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher, and the unified Affinity v3 application on Linux. The installer automatically sets up Wine (a compatibility layer for running Windows applications) with all necessary configurations, dependencies, and optimizations.

Use the AppImage:

1 - Download the AppImage from GitHub Releases

2 -Make it executable: chmod +x Affinity-3-x86_64.AppImage

(or simply right click the app> property > permission > flag as executable)

3- Run it: ./Affinity-3-x86_64.AppImage (or right click > open)

The page has also a complete installation tutorial using Wine with hardware acceleration. But it support only some distros. The AppImage is an all-in simpler way to test out this app without installing further tools.

to create a shortcut for an AppImage you can follow this guide:

https://linuxvox.com/blog/how-to-install-app-image-linux-mint/

Create a new .desktop file in the ~/.local/share/applications directory. For example, create a file named example.desktop with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Example Application
Exec=/path/to/example.appimage
Icon=/path/to/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;

Set in the vast world of H.P. Lovecraft, Dreams of a Dead God takes place in 1936 Louisiana following the events of the author’s seminal cosmic horror story The Call of Cthulhu.

Tracking a kidnapper and murderer from France to Louisiana, a young woman and her adopted brother team up with local police and set out into the swamps north of New Orleans. Here the group uncovers much more than they expected, barely succeeding in capturing the fugitive before being forced to flee.

The only surviving record of the event, Dreams of a Dead God is the recovered film recording of the rushed interrogation that occurred shortly after.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDp23insnqc

In an interview with PC Gamer, Kiciński and managing director Maciej Gołębiewski were asked whether GOG had plans to focus more on Linux going forward, given a growth in pro-Linux and anti-Windows sentiment among some PC players.

“Yes, we are,” Gołębiewski replied, stating that Linux was “one of the things that we’ve put in our strategy for this year to look closer at”.

“I don’t want to commit to any specifics, but certainly you will see this trend, and we also see that Linux is close to the hearts of our users, so we probably could do better on that front, and that’s something that we’ll be looking at,” he added.

Kiciński then addressed the current state of Windows, saying he was “really surprised” that it continues to hold such a large market share despite its issues.

“It’s such poor-quality software and product, and I’m so surprised that it’s [spent] so many years on the market,” he said. “I can’t believe it.”

(GOG founded 22 February 2008)

https://www.redbubble.com/people/nikholmes/explore?page=1&sortOrder=recent

"Gimp is good but i miss the heal patch" ...not really.

Resynthesize is a heal selection plugin you can add to Gimp. With many software store manager like the one from Linux Mint all you have to do is simply to add the additional components in the software page

Otherwise you can download it from github and add it to your plugin folder following this guide

https://www.arkthinker.com/edit-image/remove-the-watermark-with-gimp/

https://github.com/bootchk/resynthesizer

once installed you can find it in Filters> Enhance > Heal section

More Gimp plugins

https://beebom.com/best-gimp-plugins/

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/install-gimp-plugins/

https://fixthephoto.com/gimp-plugins.html

https://daviesmediadesign.com/video-tutorials/gimp-2-10-tutorial-resynthesizer-better-photoshp-content-aware/