Quoting: rustybroomhandle

Quoting: gradyvuckovicBlender, the chad open source software.

This is the second time in a week I'm seeing someone on here using MRA/incel terminology. What the heck is going on?

Hey, male insecurity is a serious problem and shouldn't be belittled.

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Quoting: CatKillerWhat I do care about, though, is people wasting our time and energy on cannibalism, which harms our chances of achieving our objectives as Linux gamers. There's plenty of reality-based discussion to be had about the challenges we face as a community. We don't need to make up more.

Hey, what did you expect from a bunch of Linux enthusiasts? Of course we've all got our priorities, but you'll always see a backlash when a company does something that can in any conceivable way be seen as against the spirit of software freedom. Any signs of vendor lockdown will not go down smoothly.

It would be nice if there was less knee-jerk involved, but that's the nature of conversations on the Internet. Of course, I don't think Linux is at a particular disadvantage here. People argue about software choices regardless of platform.

Also, what was that about wasting time? Isn't this a gaming website? :D

Quoting: CatKillerAs a concrete example, Phoronix has some useful stuff, but you can't send people there in case they accidentally read the comments. I don't want gamingonlinux to be like Phoronix. I'd rather Phoronix wasn't like Phoronix, too.

Phoronix comment threads tend to quickly descend into crap slinging matches. It's just not worth wading through the festering muck for the rare pearl.

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Quoting: CatKillerYou're right, of course. "a backdoor by connecting your computer to the Ubuntu Store," "back-room shenanigans [between] Canonical and Microsoft," and "filthy bloatware" represent exactly the calm and objective assessment, entirely on the merits, of a new packaging format. That's sure to have people lining up to join our community and have companies taking us seriously.

Just pointing out that your dismissive tone towards a bunch of fellow Linux users was not helpful. And if you want to convince them that snaps are a good thing, I don't think sarcasm will go very far either. Linux users tend to be passionate about the software they use, and mocking them for differing opinions (fact-based or not) is surely more divisive to the community than a few competing software projects are to the Linux ecosystem.

I guess I'm coming off a bit patronising now, so I'll just shut up.

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"You're not fans of a thing I like so you must be ignorant and get all your info on social media." With such a confrontative attitude, I'm sure you feel right at home on Reddit and YouTube.

Please accept that snap does not enjoy the kind of support from the greater Linux community that other controversial projects like systemd (or directly competing projects like flatpak) do. It's very much a Canonical project, and they seem to want to keep it that way. I personally don't mind at all that snaps exist as an option, but I simultaneously don't see why I should mind that Mint is not jumping on that particular train at this point.

Regardless of how useful container tech can be in many areas of computing, there are valid reasons why perfectly sane and knowledgeable people might not be enthusiastic about a particular use case or implementation. And many of those people have embraced projects like systemd, simply because they're useful to them in some tangible way. I'd claim to be one of those people, but I don't think I'm qualified to assess my own sanity.

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As a Mint user, I'm perfectly fine with this.

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Quoting: AwesamLinuxI solved the issue with the background shader processing stalling at 0%, by uninstalling Steam and nuking the whole ".steam" folder the shadercache folder at where I have the Steam library. Then reinstalled Steam and the processing went without issues.

So the results are in, the TOP 10 games with the largest shader caches I currently have installed are:

261MB TEKKEN 7
204MB RESIDENT EVIL 2
198MB The LEGO NINJAGO Movie Video Game
176MB Street Fighter V
141MB Prey
131MB Vampyr
129MB A Plague Tale: Innocence
106MB SOULCALIBUR VI
89MB Planet Coaster
83MB Redout: Enhanced Edition

Not surprising to see TEKKEN 7 up there as it was a stutter fest :P

1.9GB for native Borderlands 2 here. :O No wonder it took a while to process.

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Quoting: AwesamLinuxVery exciting stuff, this will really help out with many recent AAA games. If I update the GPU drivers does it need to process all the shaders again?

Seems so. But it isn't much of a problem when it happens in the background, and only takes up one core.

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: tuubiJust a heads up: If you're using the kisak-mesa PPA on Ubuntu or a derivative, your update manager might complain that the PPA label has changed and refuse to update. This is because kisak has added an alternative kisak-mesa stable PPA [External Link] that is more conservative with updates to new major releases and the other one [External Link] is now labeled "kisak-mesa fresh". I fixed the problem by simply removing and readding the PPA.

A "manual"
 
sudo apt update
will ask you whether you want to change the label. Answer "y" and everything's fine, too.

That sounds like a simpler solution. :)

BTW, apt will ask for your password as needed these days. No need for sudo. At least it does on Mint.

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Just a heads up: If you're using the kisak-mesa PPA on Ubuntu or a derivative, your update manager might complain that the PPA label has changed and refuse to update. This is because kisak has added an alternative kisak-mesa stable PPA [External Link] that is more conservative with updates to new major releases and the other one [External Link] is now labeled "kisak-mesa fresh". I fixed the problem by simply removing and readding the PPA.

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Quoting: LungDrago

Quoting: tuubiI always thought the 'legit' way was to suck it up and wait for the next sale.

So, you're saying my best option is to spend hours wishlisting hundreds of games across various stores and spam my email account with a bunch of games I might or might not want to buy at some point?

And you're saying we should all be entitled to sale prices after a sale has ended, even if that means purchasing from a random dude on a shady key reselling site like G2A?

I wishlist games I actually do want to buy, and if I miss a sale, I wait a few weeks or months for another one. There's always something else to buy or play anyway.

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