Quoting: a0kamiI know DMABUF was quite a big deal for a while on nvidia GPU.

But I ended up changing side for an amd card.
Are amd also concerned by this dmabuf or is it specific to nvidia ? If not specific to nvidia, am I correct to assume the openness of radv helped getting it supported ages ago.

And when it's said up to 4k capture via pipewire, are we talking x11 or Wayland (and xwayland) or both ? Or graphics server is irrelevant ?
(And how well is OBS supporting all those latest treats?)

PipeWire capturing works on all DEs that support xdg-desktop-portal, regardless of display protocol.

And OBS has implemented that months ago, it works OOTB on Wayland.

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Quoting: JozuaWhat's the main difference between PE and ELF? Why this shift to PE?

There are some cases where Windows applications expect certain components to be in a certain format, and PE is closer to what Windows has than ELF.

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6.21...

Are there any infos regarding the next major version jump (Wine 7)?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyInteresting that they finally caved on GBM. I wonder why, and why now?

I attribute it to 2 factors.

1. The KDE lead developer requested an engineer from Nvidia to implement the EGLStreams backend for kwin. Said engineer ran into technical issues, a la some features could not be implemented with the EGLStreams' approach, exactly like the Xorg people predicted.

2. RedHat announced a while ago that they won't support bare-metal Xorg anymore and will focus entirely on Wayland and the XWayland-Xorg-server.

No way forward, no way backward, at that point they had no choice anymore.

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I am excited to see what Pop!_OS will do in 21.10

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EDIT: mmstick on the Matrix-room confirmed that this driver is being packaged for Pop!_OS today.

Took them long enough!

But better late than never, I hope their implementation works as well as the open-source implementation of Mesa.

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Nice, so you don't need to stop libvirtd or docker anymore.

Unfortunately that doesn't fix the Steam <-> EGS cross-play issues. Though that's for Epic to fix.

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I don't really mind the Intel CPU (Thunderbolt is nice) but we really need some Linux notebooks with dedicated AMD GPUs like the mobile RDNA2 series.

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Quoting: BielFPsI wish Mate and XFCE team could join forces to adopt and support wlroots compositor in order to improve it. I think those awesome but underfunded projects would have a lot to gain from this kind of mutual collaboration.

XFCE are still debating whether they will port to Wayland at all, because "We do not have the resources to maintain our own Wayland compositor"

I'm not counting on a cooperation of MATE and XFCE.

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Quoting: g000hI was actually thinking - If Steam Deck becomes a mega-success, and Valve remains reasonable with respect to privacy and respecting their customers, then maybe they could diversify in the future and produce a SteamOS mobile phone. There are so few choices for phones nowadays that aren't glorified spying devices for their Big Tech masters. I would *jump* on a non-invasive, open-technology smartphone *so fast*.

Custom Android ROMs are a thing.

And no, "Linux phones" aren't a real alternative,
1. There is not much interest into making applications work on that, since better alternatives already exist,
2. Security compared to Android is abysmal.

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