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Quoting: MinoscerebI'm curious where other people fall on this though. Have I missed something about Heroic?

Same. I don't get logic, why stubbornly not to include Steam games import to Heroic.

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Quoting: ShadowXeldronThe rest of that looks fine... but doesn't AI actively reduce developer efficiency and code quality?

It depends heavily on how you use it and what for....
I guess majority of the market has no idea yet how and where to use it properly. That is because the technology itself is just not there yet; it cannot be used for 'anything' en masse; it makes sense for certain select tasks only...

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Will 2026 truly be the real year of Linux gaming on the desktop?

Between this, and Adobe Photoshop getting a Wine fix, Affinity Studio teasing Linux support, and the new Vulkan extension that will apparently fix the performance loss on Novidia..

Yeah, I'd say this is the year 😁.

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Quoting: MinoscerebI like the look of Heroic, it's a lot better designed visually than Lutris and feels more user friendly, but since Lutris can run all the stores Heroic can, and at least for GoG has access to lots of useful scripts for things like mods or just actual playability, I don't see a use case for Heroic for myself. I'm curious where other people fall on this though. Have I missed something about Heroic?

Unless this was changed, Lutris installs EGS meaning you have to deal with that garbage game store. Heroic basically bypasses any store it integrates and just asks you to login to the services to serve the games you have purchased.

My use case for Lutris over Heroic is for those game setup files I find laying on the ground after they fell off a truck full of game setup files. The customizability shines better there, even if both programs are capable of the same end results eventually.

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Hell yeah! This would get me to buy and play more of their games. Hopefully they follow through on this.

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Having both support for "Galaxy" and (preferably) some measure of: "if GOG end up making use of Wine / Proton", that would be the proverbial "Game Changer" for me.

Up until now, I've largely ignored GoG, aside from buying games for "ScummVM" and a few older titles for DosBOX. The reason for that, is that their commitment to Linux (compared to Valve) has seemed "half-assed" at best and almost non-existing at worst.

This change, if it's realized, could mean that I actually start using GoG for new/modern games. A legitimate alternative to Steam.

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Quoting: ShadowXeldronThe rest of that looks fine... but doesn't AI actively reduce developer efficiency and code quality?

That's what I thought too, and it's probably the case generally, but I got my mouth shut yesterday. One software architect at the company I work, created a new feature in a day that had been estimated in 8 or 9 months of work. It has been quite the buzz in the office. Now, I don't know if the original estimate was way off, but the "achievement" is still rather impressive.

Quoting: ShadowXeldronI'd be fine with going back to shopping with GOG if their official client actually comes to Linux as a native package with proper wineprefix handling for non-native games. Their lack of Linux support is what made me give up on them.

100% with you on this.

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I'm totally okay with a CLI tool like legendary

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The rest of that looks fine... but doesn't AI actively reduce developer efficiency and code quality?

I'd be fine with going back to shopping with GOG if their official client actually comes to Linux as a native package with proper wineprefix handling for non-native games. Their lack of Linux support is what made me give up on them.

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Fun story time!

Back when I worked at GOG (over 8 years ago) as their Linux gaming expert the company hired a highly qualified Linux engineer for the GOG Galaxy team. As far as I know the poor fellow never got to do anything Linux-related in his job. Still, he was a fun friend to talk Linux with.

There were a couple of us Linux gamers back then at GOG. Unfortunately not among the decision makers 🙂.

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about time I guess?

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15 years since this conversation with former GOG head of support happened: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2017/08/looks-like-gog-galaxy-wont-come-to-linux-any-time-soon-as-its-not-a-priority/?comment_id=100651

It took them a long time.

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Quoting: GoEsrI wish they didn't make DX12 the default on Windows, that's exactly what developers are going to use and target for performance. 😫

Unfortunately, NVIDIA's and AMD's Vulkan drivers on Windows is such a goddamn mess, I don't blame any developer that switches to DX12 by default. I really do hope that the drivers get better, but the Godot developers wants to make game development as seamless as possible, and that will unfortunately mean choosing a graphics API that works better, even if it's not an open standard.

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I like the look of Heroic, it's a lot better designed visually than Lutris and feels more user friendly, but since Lutris can run all the stores Heroic can, and at least for GoG has access to lots of useful scripts for things like mods or just actual playability, I don't see a use case for Heroic for myself. I'm curious where other people fall on this though. Have I missed something about Heroic?

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Quoting: CreepioI still play Dirt 3. It runs perfectly on the Steam Deck and provides loads of fun even to this day. I cannot say the same for many modern racing titles. I waited years for Forza Horizon 4 to reach a reasonable price, but by the time I was ready to buy it, it had already been pulled from the store. What is the point of waiting for a game to be affordable only for it to be killed at the six-year mark?

It's absolutely not the same. FH4 still works well as of today, including online features such as pvp races and eliminator game mode. The only exception is that they killed the festival playlists, effectively making some of the achievements impossible to unlock, which is a bummer. Anyway, delisting a game from the store because the licences expired is absolutely not the same as making the game not launch after the servers are shut down.

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Quoting: PhlebiacBoth this and Zelda64 crash out when I select the "Load ROM" menu option. I'm guessing it's supposed to show a file picker?

If you want to deep dive, strace would probably tell you what they're trying to load there.

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Quoting: CaldathrasNot sure about the other effects, but the first one is available on GNOME

Window animations of many kinds, supporting both GNOME and KDE:
https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows

Desktop cube for GNOME (same author):
https://github.com/Schneegans/Desktop-Cube

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Both this and Zelda64 crash out when I select the "Load ROM" menu option. I'm guessing it's supposed to show a file picker?

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On Windows how to switch this thing to Vulkan?

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i love this game, i just dont like some... creative decisions made on the trailer, like the boring menu before the game, hopefully it boot you into the regular menu...
and the arrange of the game music with real/realistic instruments.

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Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeIt's amazing how fast these guys are getting these recomps out

What I particularly like is how they let the user upscale but then downsample back to native res. Far better then just bumping up the internal res!

it goes a lot quicker when you got the instruction set decoded and some open source tools that help reverse enginering stuff =p, but still it must be a lot of work

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Quoting: scaineThis kind of innovation is what got me into Linux in a big way in the late-2000's. I'd been pottering about with it since 2005, but when Compiz landed properly - maybe around 2007/2008, with Beryl and Emerald themes, suddenly Linux was just... cool! Wobbly windows, spinning cubes, fires consuming windows, genie effects when minimising. It was awesome.

I'm convinced that Compiz was why Microsoft launched that abomination, Vista, with it's exceedingly Emerald-like "glass theme" and a very familiar looking alt-tab animation!

Anyway, this project gives me the vibe. Obviously, it'll be less impactful, needing a VR headset to work, but it's still just incredibly sci-fi. I love it.

(p.s. I still use wobbly windows today, although the fire effect has been replaced by the "old tv turning off" effect, and I don't need a cube anymore, cos 4K screen mean I only need two surfaces. but it's still cool!)

compiz was the thing that made me feel in love with linux too despite the fact i dont use it anymore.

as for the emerald-like glass theme, well, they had an small advantage, changing the color with an HSL slider was prety easier not to mention the glass was a bit more conmvincing because it defracted light instead of picking what was imediatly behind it.

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I still play Dirt 3. It runs perfectly on the Steam Deck and provides loads of fun even to this day. I cannot say the same for many modern racing titles. I waited years for Forza Horizon 4 to reach a reasonable price, but by the time I was ready to buy it, it had already been pulled from the store. What is the point of waiting for a game to be affordable only for it to be killed at the six-year mark?

I absolutely hate the idea of buying racing games anymore because I know they will inevitably be delisted. Why should I spend $60 to $120 on a game to have "all the bells and whistles" when the developer plans to stop selling it before the decade is even out?

I find it very difficult to justify rewarding this type of anti-consumer behavior. I would much rather a game use indefinite licensing deals, or even feature fictional cars and original music, than for "limited licensing" to be used as a justification for killing a product. Ultimately, licensing is just a secondary excuse for the primary driver: greed.

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​This wine version in my case work with mesa driver from today aka vulkan 1.4.340





however is only a vulkan version, new extensions like VK_EXT_descriptor_heap dont appear stay ready for now

in my case gain around 10min, before need around 30min and now need around 20min for compiling:

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Building-Wine

older option:

./configure --enable-archs=i386,x86_64

newer option:

./configure --enable-archs=i386,x86_64 --disable-tests

​😀

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Lovely to see Godot improving. One of my 2026 resolution is to learn a bit of Godot and, at least, do a mini prototype game... Will see how that ends up 😅

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Quoting: TarosNo plan to replace my Ryzen 9 7900X3D any time soon ^^ Isn't it confusing the Ryzen 7 has a higher number after it than the Ryzen 9?
I am still not used to how AMD makes up those numbers. Have been Intel user before since.. well, I once owned an AMD Athlon xD

CPU and GPU versioning is insane. Yes, it's a difficult problem and there's a lot of legacy issues, but with Ryzen AMD had a chance to start again without the legacy baggage and it's still a mess.

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Quoting: GoEsrI wish they didn't make DX12 the default on Windows, that's exactly what developers are going to use and target for performance. 😫

It is a funny way to promote the use of open standards, really. By all means, provide that rendering path for those who absolutely insist on it, but leave Vulkan the default.

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Sounds a bit like Bazzite dislikes the entire concept of being hired to adapt the distribution for a new device?

Yet they do collect donations from Open Collective so they do see that money = being able to do more things?

Would be quite great to have another gaming OS beside Steam OS that manufacturers can get professional development and support for?

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Nice. Now can someone please implement it in the window manager I use: sway? 😅

I really would love there was some way the different window managers shared more code.
Everything has to be implement n times (n goes to infinite). Even things like HDR still
are a mess and I have to compile my own git version of sway to make it work.

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Really should have a look at this game after having heard so much positive about this game. But maybe this was about the Battlefront 2 from 2005 xD

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