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Timothee Besset is working on fixing the long 'hangs' Mesa users get in Rocket League
25 January 2017 at 12:59 pm UTC
25 January 2017 at 12:59 pm UTC
Let's hope this results in performance improvements across the board. The port is great, but not perfect.
Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
25 January 2017 at 8:17 am UTC
25 January 2017 at 8:17 am UTC
Tiny niggle: Only the first letter in Xfce is capitalized. It's not an actual acronym since the project dumped XForms in favour of GTK+ in the nineties.
Alien: Isolation - The Collection is 70% off on the Feral Interactive store
25 January 2017 at 7:58 am UTC
25 January 2017 at 7:58 am UTC
Quoting: CreakMaybe Feral didn't update A:I, maybe A:I are using such technology that makes it difficult to have 5.1 in Linux (but I admit, that the former is more plausible, I'm afraid).Some comments on the subject from Feral's edddeduck here.
Microsoft announces new DirectX Shader Compiler that's open source
25 January 2017 at 7:45 am UTC
25 January 2017 at 7:45 am UTC
Quoting: GoLBuzzkillShader compiler is useless for us, everything that M$ had open sourced is useless form Linux user perspective, dont fall for it, dont be a traitor!You lost me at traitor. :)
Mesa 12.0.6 released with bug fixes for the older stable version, users encouraged to update to Mesa 13
24 January 2017 at 7:38 pm UTC
Mint 18.1 provides the Mesa packages from Ubuntu 16.04.1, so the version is 11.2.0 I think. If you need to upgrade for better opengl support, you might want to check out that stable Mesa PPA @tuxintuxedo mentioned. I think it can be found here.
24 January 2017 at 7:38 pm UTC
Quoting: armageddon51Ok well I am using the default one coming with Mint. Confused, the opensource driver, which also can be use with Nvidia system, is made of different parts and one of them is called "nouveau" for Nvidia cards and for Intel, AMD is called MESA,right ?Consider Mesa an umbrella project and a collection of shared libraries and code for open Linux graphics drivers. Your system uses the radeon driver, whereas nouveau is used for Nvidia chips. I understand how this is confusing, especially as most Mesa-related news on sites like this tend to refer to AMD a lot.
The driver manager does not suggest any video driver at all for my system. So if I understand if I am using the opensource driver, I am already using MESA then. Go figure.
Mint 18.1 provides the Mesa packages from Ubuntu 16.04.1, so the version is 11.2.0 I think. If you need to upgrade for better opengl support, you might want to check out that stable Mesa PPA @tuxintuxedo mentioned. I think it can be found here.
Mesa 12.0.6 released with bug fixes for the older stable version, users encouraged to update to Mesa 13
24 January 2017 at 2:53 pm UTC
24 January 2017 at 2:53 pm UTC
If you want to upgrade to Mesa 12/13 on Mint 18, for now you'll need to resort to a PPA like the xorg-edgers one. This is risky and might break future OS upgrades (or worse) unless you know what you're doing. It seems like the next Mint point release just might bring in Mesa 13 as an optional update. That's still a ways off though.
Competition: Win a key for the metroidvania-style game King Lucas
24 January 2017 at 9:17 am UTC
24 January 2017 at 9:17 am UTC
Quoting: wolfyrionThe bad thing is that I cant draw, so the warriors I imagine cannot come to life :(Hey don't give up before you try. Doodling random stuff is pretty fun if you don't care about the result too much. You can always call it abstract or "naivistic" art. ;)
Some thoughts on the Shadowrun series
23 January 2017 at 9:12 pm UTC
23 January 2017 at 9:12 pm UTC
I just started Dragonfall a few days ago, and so far it's all right. Based on what little I've seen, I'm not expecting anything as mind-blowing as Planescape Torment or FO2 were and still are. Good old Arcanum and the not-so-old Wasteland 2 definitely impressed me more as well.
Despite this I have a feeling I will not be too disappointed when I'm through. The game might not end up getting the "Favourite" label on GOG from me, but thus far I don't regret going ahead and buying Hong Kong as well. There's more text in HK you say? Awesome. So far I'm definitely enjoying the story and the atmosphere more than the IMHO slightly tedious fighting.
Despite this I have a feeling I will not be too disappointed when I'm through. The game might not end up getting the "Favourite" label on GOG from me, but thus far I don't regret going ahead and buying Hong Kong as well. There's more text in HK you say? Awesome. So far I'm definitely enjoying the story and the atmosphere more than the IMHO slightly tedious fighting.
Competition: Win a key for the metroidvania-style game King Lucas
23 January 2017 at 3:00 pm UTC Likes: 4
23 January 2017 at 3:00 pm UTC Likes: 4
Brave, brave sir Tux
(Quick Inkscape doodle based on the new avatar I drew a few days ago.)
EDIT: Fixed.
(Quick Inkscape doodle based on the new avatar I drew a few days ago.)
EDIT: Fixed.
We now have a Matrix chat room setup with an IRC bridge if you want to join
23 January 2017 at 5:27 am UTC
Oh, it seems Riot also provides a Linux desktop app built on electron. I'll give that one a try. Looks a lot like the Discord client.
EDIT: At first glance the Riot desktop client is not quite as slick as Discord, but it's not too bad. Now someone write a Discord bridge so I only need one chat app. :)
Yeah I know Discord's proprietary. Might just dump it if Matrix works out.
23 January 2017 at 5:27 am UTC
Quoting: ShmerlIs there one for Sailfish? I can test it too. On a side note, it takes Jolla forever to open up SailfishOS UI, so I'm starting to contemplate a switch to Plasma Mobile (though it seems way less usable at present).I meant I'll test the Android app. That's why I mentioned the compatibility layer. It takes Jolla forever to do anything and everything.
Oh, it seems Riot also provides a Linux desktop app built on electron. I'll give that one a try. Looks a lot like the Discord client.
EDIT: At first glance the Riot desktop client is not quite as slick as Discord, but it's not too bad. Now someone write a Discord bridge so I only need one chat app. :)
Yeah I know Discord's proprietary. Might just dump it if Matrix works out.
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