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25 Nov 2020 at 12:33 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: tonRKinda stupid question about VRR (Variable refresh rate). Is it refer to
- monitor setting/system used?, or
- game setting?, or
- GPU setting?
For gaming.
I've never seen a Variable Refresh Rate setting in a game, is that a new thing?

Valve funds open source developer to work on Zink, the OpenGL on Vulkan driver
24 Nov 2020 at 12:36 pm UTC

Quoting: 3zekielAcutally, will this also work on top of Nvidia driver ?
Let's hope so, Nouveau can always use more love.

The Internet Archive are keeping Flash creations alive with the open source Ruffle
24 Nov 2020 at 12:33 pm UTC Likes: 2

And alas, Gnash gets no love, let's rewrite it in Rust. Still, neat that Archive keeps flash stuff alive, it's really starting to become a digital museum.

Collabora put up their patches for Linux Kernel work to help Windows games on Linux
20 Nov 2020 at 1:48 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: benjamimgoisI advocate for some years that a rolling kernel is better model for desktop usage, speacially if you are into gaming. For servers and corporate enviroments i still prefer to be in a LTS release with long support kernels.
I've been happily using rolling release distros (A and OSTW) for about... 5, 6 years now? I don't think I could go back to standard release distros, I'm too lazy to go through all the hassle every year.

Valve dev clarifies what some of their upcoming and recent Linux work is actually for
15 Nov 2020 at 2:47 pm UTC Likes: 11

Quoting: 1xokI think there is a positive attitude and curiosity at Valve. They don't sell insurance and do pure profit maximization. Life must also be fun and have some meaning.
Like good old Interplay Black Isle: "we want to make games, to make games we need money." compared to EA Bioware: "we want money, to get money we need to make games."

Gabe Newell of Valve is launching Gnome Chompski into space (yes really)
2 Nov 2020 at 8:47 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardoso...maybe....Is a sign that the game We want is coming..
Half-Life Alyx 2? Could be in the works I guess.

Fedora 33 released with lots of improvements to the Linux desktop
27 Oct 2020 at 9:54 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Luke_NukemopenSUSE has been using it by default for years. It works fine and is a lifesaver with snapper and the ability to boot previous snaps.
Quoting: shorbergopenSUSE have done done it for a few years now, seems to generally work fine. It is also better tuned to be used as a default for the general masses than ext4 these days since it allows things like checksumming, compression, snapshots and copy-on-write while still being a widely used and integrated system compared to say ZFS.
I would like to third this argument plus add that being able to turn off COW in btrfs submodules is really useful for stuff like /var.

Nonsense Soccer is a highly amusing local multiplayer platformer-soccer-hybrid
26 Oct 2020 at 7:51 pm UTC

"Nonsense" Soccer, eh? Is that meant as a take on Sensible Soccer?

Minecraft Java will move to Microsoft accounts in 2021, gets new social screen
22 Oct 2020 at 9:48 am UTC Likes: 23

If there ever were a reason to switch to Minetest, this is it.