These are the kind of pressure we need to make Wayland better for more people. It's good enough for some people right now, but for others it's a no-go.

It's fine for me now, but man do I have a lot of protocols and portals I'm still waiting to see merged.

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Quoting: nwildnerNot redundant. It is a "replacement" (read with a grain of salt here) for the nouveau driver, but focused on GSP enabled GPUS that don't have to deal with the legacy nouveau has to implement to handle older than RTX2000 series hardware.

It is a kernel driver(dri, pci, iomem, common abstractions for hardware) and not a translation layer or 3D API whatsoever.

Hm... and the NVK isn't a kernel driver? I think it's in Mesa, so does that mean it's the userspace driver? Sorry, really don't know about the details - all I've been hearing is about how NVK is supposed to be a replacement for Nouveau.

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Okay, I'm confused here - is this redundant with NVK and what other aspect of this vs NVK that I'm not understanding that would make the project make sense as it's own thing despite the great progress that NVK has made in recent months?

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> RE:D Cherish!

Based. Still salty Tsujidou-san fandisc won over it and Tsuriotsu, but it's alwayd good to know that there are based people working on Wine.

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mfw manga fans takes more precautions when they're not even fighting Nintendo by just rehosting Tachiyomi as Mihon on Gitea.

At this point, just run gitea and host it on Russia or China or something.

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Quoting: boltronicsI don't think that's true. A lot of people in the forums state

Don't trust this. Never trust this. People may say something, and even mean it, but online sentiment in a handful of bubbles rarely make up the majority.

Quoting: boltronicsWhen it comes to consoles, I buy games physically. Alan Wake 2 wasn't on store shelves.

It's really hard to track these kind of thing. Epic is definitely a marketing blackhole, pretty much no one disputes this. As to an Epic exit strategy? That has really gone all kind of ways - as far as from my tracking in GamesDiscoveryCo (whose job is to track these kind of matters) it does depend on the hype the game gets and their marketing. It's a free money regardless, and isn't a clear indication of how it'll launch on Steam. In that case, why not take the guarantee, and then use some of that money to do marketing campaign when it's closer to Steam release?

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Quoting: boltronicswhy bother putting a game on Steam and giving it the most eyes and promotion if it's not going to sell anyway?

Because it's going sell anyways once you get to Steam. Being Epic exclusive, assuming your game is good, is just free money while you sort out bugs and prepare for a second release cycle on Steam. Let's not forget that Hades was an Epic exclusive, after all.

The only issue is that Epic is a marketing blackhole, as they say, so if your game isn't good then it's just going to get forgotten. If it's good though? Might as well get the free money because people are hyped for when you release on Steam anyways.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPWait, so the 5th or so "year of the Wayland" is not actually it? ....

I am shook!

For what it's worth, RustDesk is currently working on remote desktop portal compatibility so that they can do Remote Desktop Host even from flatpak on wayland. TeamViewer have support Wayland host for a while now, though it still has issues.

As far as I can see, 2024 is looking like the year where most of the Wayland stuff is done. Wine on Wayland is progressing decently, Google seems to be looking at Wayland too so browsers (and CEF & electron apps) should be getting better, new input module is being tested, display colors, drawing tablet, so many things have basic implementation that should be wrapping up this year or the next.

For this issue specifically, once the full pipe from DE/WM/Compositor to Steam to the Steam game (Linux Native or Wine) is fully Wayland, it should help with the latency and stability. It's really is just Steam that we don't have a timeline for when they may go full Wayland native - but even then we've seen the moves they've made to pay their tech debts and modernize.

2024 I think will be the year where Wayland is mostly done, and 2025 is mostly testing through early birds like Fedora before the likes of RHEL, Ubuntu LTS, and Debian drops x11 as a default fallback.

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Quoting: tuubiSo I guess by your definition, Atelier is just as "niche".

Huh. I guess the anti-woke group do talk about stuff they don't spend money on as much as the other side. Ryza was all over the internet though - in comparison, the most famous person who talks about Trails was Garnt from Trash Taste and Geoff from Mother's Basement.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: fenglengshunAs usual, Trails fans just show up in random places just to show that they're everywhere and they're dedicated despite 'niche' that game is.

Turn based JRPG is a niche? I thought it was still a decently popular genre with lots of fans.

Trails is relatively niche compared to Tales and even Atelier series, I'd say. It's getting more popular, especially thanks to Cold Steel being an easy entry point, but it doesn't change that it's a 10+ games of continuous story. The only other games I know that's similarly one long unbroken storyline are Ys (which is also the same company) and Rance series (which is even more niche outside of Japan).

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