Quoting: StalePopcornToo bad the countries wherein these monolithic, soulless viruses exist also dictate the minds of their respective governments—as most successful parasites do.

The countries dictate the minds of their governments?
Strangely put, but it doesn't actually sound like something bad.

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The preview image is chosen so well... :D

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Quoting: ShabbyXThis is absolutely not true. 16KB is 4 pages of memory, saving that on every .so is huge! It's not just that you have the memroy laying around, there are other costs too. There's the cost of loading the objects from disk, maintaing the struct page entries in the kernel etc.

Everything has worked fine so far even with this extra cost, so I doubt the (real world) effect is huge.

Many small changes can sum up to a huge effect, though.

Quoting: GuestWhat kind of improvement this change makes for desktop use case?

Glibc is not only targeted at desktop use case.

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Quoting: 1xokThis whole criticism from CodeWeavers developers should be taken with a pinch of salt...

... Why?

Because WINE is where their money comes from?
It's not like they're a neutral party in this question...

I see nothing wrong or biased in what they said.

We didn't say it's wrong. But they are biased. It's hard to take an absolute neutral standpoint about something that feeds your family. This doesn't automatically mean there's something wrong with what they said. Just have your salt ready.

But, as you asked:

It’s hard to blame developers for targeting Windows and relying on Wine + friends. It’s just much more stable and much less likely to break and stay broken.

I have heard it's not that easy and automatically working to run old Windows games on Windows, so I am not sure about this. I would even think that Code Weavers have to work around such changes. What I positively know (as they are mentioning changes in Linux sound interfaces) is that my Sound Blaster card stopped working on Windows with some update and continued to work on Linux.

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Quoting: 1xokThis whole criticism from CodeWeavers developers should be taken with a pinch of salt...

... Why?

Because WINE is where their money comes from?
It's not like they're a neutral party in this question...

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it's actually a little bit surprising that Offline Mode wasn't improved a lot before the Steam Deck released

I can imagine this as some testing bias: You have dozens of people sitting in the office and testing hell out of the device... but forget to make people testing it on their way home, or on the train, plane, whatever.

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Quoting: Pierre-Loup GriffaisWe are very interested in helping with any underlying resource constraints.

Yes please!

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If you want them to count for Linux, you might want to take some care though. I always install and start up the games I grabbed. (I don't do that often anyway, though.)

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Quoting: F.UltraNow for games in particular, security is rarely an issue what so ever

Why do you think so? Many games communicate over the internet, and I fear user security is not among the first 26 concerns of many game developers...

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No trouble on Debian stable here...

;)

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