I wonder what the motivation of Sony is? Their consoles do not run Linux, and they only have a few games published on Steam. Has Sony done anything out of kindness of their heart ever?

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Quoting: DorritI wonder what percentage of buyers really save money on these sales?
I ask because I have the feeling many will buy much more than they normally would, and filling up their library with unplayed games :tongue:

That's exactly the idea behind sales. Let's say I have games A and B that cost $20 each in my wishlist. That's $40 I don't really want to spend considering I have a bunch of other games I haven't played yet. Now they go in sale for $7.50 each. For me it means I can save $25! Woohoo! But for the publisher it means I just gave them $15 that I wouldn't have spent at all.

Even though I consciously know this, it still is so tempting to buy the game on sale that I maybe will play some day. When the truth is that I still have more than a bunch of games that I haven't played from 5+ years ago.

Will I buy more games this time around? Yeah, I most likely will. :grin:

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Quoting: gardotd426

Quoting: LinasNot seeing VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline extension on my Vega 56. And unsurprisingly it doesn't start.

Don't know why you would think it would, since the Vega 56 doesn't support Ray Tracing.

Because I remembered reading something like this: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Not-just-RTX-even-the-Vega-56-can-do-ray-tracing-at-1080p-30-fps.420357.0.html [External Link]

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Nice. Looking forward to it.

I tried switching to Wayland on my gaming machine recently, and the experience was pretty nice overall. Firefox VAAPI and WebRender acceleration seems to work much better (when configured correctly) than on X11. Some games even felt a tiny bit smoother, although I have no data to backup the claim.

I switched back to X11, because some Proton games behaved a bit weird. For example the mouse pointer was invisible in The Witcher 1. This new driver may be exactly what is needed.

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Not seeing VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline extension on my Vega 56. And unsurprisingly it doesn't start.

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Quoting: hardpenguin...it took a while until this feature arrived in the Epic Games Store as well...

That's quite a low standard to measure against. :tongue:

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This stuff is really interesting. Anything that reduces the friction between Linux and Windows is a good thing in my book.

At work all our servers are Linux, but desktops are Windows. And it always seemed that these are two separate worlds that have nothing in common. But now a lot of people started using WSL on their desktops for development of our server applications. Some are content with that, and think why would they run Linux when they can do it all in WSL? While others started questioning why do they need Windows at all if they spend all the time in WSL anyway? A double edged sword for sure, but at least people are talking about it now!

As for daily work, all the developer tools, Microsoft Teams, and Skype work natively on Linux. Office 356 runs in a browser anyway. Printers work via CUPS. Windows shares via Samba. Evolution is a great replacement for Outlook, and works just fine with an Exchange server. Surviving as a Linux user in a corporate environment is not nearly as much of a struggle as it has been.

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Looks like Euro Truck Simulator of the skies. I'm in. :happy:

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: LinasThe zombie model could also use some improvement. Right now it looks like a wooden plank with googly eyes painted on. That's not very scary. :grin:

Wood - splinters everywhere... googly eyes - a choke hazard... aaargh! [...] Also needs some really bad voice acting, like HotD, which was frankly the scariest part of those games.

You just made me realize that there's more than one way to improve a game. :happy:

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The zombie model could also use some improvement. Right now it looks like a wooden plank with googly eyes painted on. That's not very scary. :grin:

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