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Quoting: SpurlosI wonder if every bit will fail in the right place for the OS like Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to get it working, or people who are stuck with LTS releases would have to wait for another two years to get everything in the main repos?

I'm afraid this is too late for 24.04 - maybe for 24.10?

It'll probably make 24.10, but the damage will be done in terms of LTS support. That's the biggest drawback of the LTS approach, although I was a big advocate until a couple of years ago. The stability was epic, and you still got decent updates through PPA updates. But not all the shiny updates, sadly. Maybe they'll backport, but it's more likely to go on hold, at least until they do that HWE update thing they pitch every year or so.

Yeah, I wish NixOS has an official LTS channel - you can already do multiple nixpkgs channels with flakes, but they only really focus on latest Stable and Unstable.

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Quoting: drjomsDoes Proton use SDL at all?

I'm pretty sure many aspect of Steam itself, including the client and the game overlay, uses SDL. I don't know if Proton itself uses it, but I'm pretty sure the thing that interacts with it and the thing it interacts with uses SDL or interacts with SDL themselves.

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Quoting: nwildnerWayland is being around for the last 15 years so, need to push it hard or it will never replace the already bloated and hard to maintain X11.

Sounds to me that it doesn't really have a benefit to the end user, otherwise it would have been adopted much faster. I understand it's a necessity for developers, because X11 is dated and the code is in bad shape, but for everyone else it's apparently doing the job just fine.

So to me the question is, is there anything I'm missing out on when using X11? HDR support, maybe? (not that I'd have a HDR-capable display). In short, what's the incentive to switch from a user perspective?

New stuff are built on Wayland. If you're fine with x11, sure, just use it. If some of the things happening on Wayland interests you, you can switch. The idea is that we're pushing for Wayland where we can, so that eventually it gets to the point where users who uses x11 can eventually switch to it without noticing many issues. Eventually.

For me, I'm looking forward to the remote desktop portal - input-remapper already made mapping keys on my MMO-style mouse easier, so it was one less reason for me to drag my feet in moving to Wayland and be done with it, but remote desktop portal would genuinely have made me switch because being able to just install a remote desktop app (Rustdesk) from Flathub and it just working is appealing. Though honestly I already can't switch back to x11 because I cannot be arsed to set up touchpad gestures now that KDE Wayland come with it by default.

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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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