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Steam is having a festival for Visual Novels until August 14th
8 August 2023 at 9:14 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: StoneColdSpiderI had a quick look at the sale....... If your into boobies......... This is the sale for you........
Odd, I've never heard of anyone having a breast fetish before.

NVK the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA merged into Mesa
7 August 2023 at 3:13 pm UTC Likes: 2

Jumping jehoshaphat, it happened!

Linux continues hitting above 3% desktop user share on Statcounter
3 August 2023 at 9:15 pm UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: XpanderWhat? I live in Estonia and i don't know anything about this. lol
at least not in massive scale. There ofc are some small initiatives here and there.
Could be i live under the rock though
WHO LIVES IN ESTONIA UNDER A ROCK?
XPANDER SQUAREPANTS!

(Sorry! Couldn't resist!)

Steam desktop and Steam Deck get a fresh stable update
2 August 2023 at 3:10 pm UTC

Quoting: poiuzWhat's the state of VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library on Steam Deck with Proton 8? Is it always enabled or must I manually add RADV_PERFTEST=gpl?
Check the Mesa version used by the Deck? It's been enabled by default starting with 23.1.0.

Linux overtakes macOS users on Steam thanks to Steam Deck
2 August 2023 at 10:17 am UTC Likes: 1

I'll be mogadored! It finally happened!

Wine 8.13 is out now with plenty of bug fixes
22 July 2023 at 12:25 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: mrdeathjrThis wine version comes with Wow64 support in WineGStreamer (could affect cinematics), however once stay avalaible ubuntu packages add more info

In this case I think it refers to the new experimental WoW64 mode. So no changes unless you build Wine with --enable-archs which isn't used by default yet, I think.

GE-Proton 8-7 released bringing back AMD FSR support (UPDATED)
21 July 2023 at 4:20 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: drjomsSo they removed FSR before, or?
It needed rework for the move to Proton 8 and was disabled. From the previous release notes:

"FSR is currently disabled again. It needs a massive rebase and same as before I don't know if it's currently possible to rebase/port it over to the new proton 8 build."

Wine 8.12 brings more Wayland work and performance improvements
12 July 2023 at 5:17 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: ShmerlHmm, seems it's enabled by default?

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/blob/master/configure#L4420
It's not hooked up yet.

This is the missing bit needed for the waylanddrv driver to be loaded and used instead of winex11:
https://gitlab.collabora.com/alf/wine/-/commit/4db0008a36fd424cac274447d8b4517d8b8055aa
It has yet to be merged in upstream Wine.

Applying that works. It's just that other interesting bits, like actually interacting with a Wayland window have yet to be merged!

Steam Summer Sale 2023 is live with the Steam Deck up to 20% off
29 June 2023 at 10:18 pm UTC Likes: 4



Nintendo blocked Dolphin emulator release on Steam
2 June 2023 at 10:24 pm UTC

Quoting: JordanPlayz158Edit: after reading their later responses, 100% a troll, intellectual property over human life, if they are serious... they might need to be incarcerated
I dunno. Sure their posts are swiftly written, but going back in time and exterminating ancient copyright violators actually seems like a modest proposal.