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Latest Comments by whizse
Linux gaming overlay MangoHud gets fancy with new graphs in the latest release
30 Nov 2020 at 11:53 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: CorbenToday I learnt, that MangoHud totally killed VR performance for me.
At first I was wondering, what that very little edge on a window was sitting in left top corner of my VR view, I couldn't properly see it, just that something was there. Until someone guessed it could be MangoHud. Oh dear, it was. And after completely disabling MangoHud, by renaming /etc/vulkan/implicit_layers/MangoHud.json, performance was great again.
Probably worth mentioning in a quick bug report:
https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud/issues [External Link]

For the Black Friday 2020 sale, itch.io are giving 100% to developers
27 Nov 2020 at 8:59 pm UTC Likes: 6

Two absolute delights:

Forest's Secret https://bynine.itch.io/forestssecret [External Link]
Hive Time https://cheeseness.itch.io/hive-time [External Link]

UNIGINE Engine 2.13 is an impressive upgrade for this rising game engine
27 Nov 2020 at 2:05 pm UTC Likes: 1

It doesn't seem to be used for actual games much, the last game using the engine seems to have been Sumoman in 2017. They seem to have found a niche for themselves with military/industry simulations instead.

Linux hardware vendor and Pop!_OS distribution maker System76 has a big sale on
25 Nov 2020 at 6:14 pm UTC

I think you mean Wayland instead of Cairo [External Link]?

Open source game manager Lutris sees the big 0.5.8 release out now
21 Nov 2020 at 11:28 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: slaapliedjeI am hoping they get into the Debian repos at some point, as you still need to add the OBS repo for it.
Possibly you already know this, but it's packaged (together with goverlay, vkbasalt and mangohud) but currently waiting for a sponsor to upload:
https://mentors.debian.net/package/lutris/ [External Link]

TUXEDO announce the InfinityBook S 14 with Intel Tiger Lake and Intel Xe
21 Nov 2020 at 2:20 pm UTC

One day soon, I really hope hardware vendors stop shipping with 8GB RAM as a their minimum because so much now just eats ram like it's candy you don't get a lot done with it unless you're willing to really watch everything you use. Apart from that, it seems like a nice unit.
Oh dear yes!

The laptop I'm looking to replace shipped with 8GB of RAM. Nine years ago...

Little Ghost Project is an upcoming spooky modern 3D point and click adventure
20 Nov 2020 at 10:32 pm UTC Likes: 1

Sad news

We are issuing this press release to bring you some difficult news. We are indeed forced to prematurely end the crowdfunding campaign for the Little Ghost project.

As you know, the world situation has been complicated for some time. In addition, some members of the team have recently experienced even more difficult times related to the Storm Alex which stroke badly our region in October. The aftermath of all of this has forced them to leave the Jolly Roger Productions crew today. Their departure is heartbreaking for the whole team but, beyond our affection for them, it is also problematic for the Little Ghost Project.

We are no longer able to produce it as we had conceptualized it.
https://www.ulule.com/little-ghost/news/triste-nouvelle-278330/ [External Link]

Wine compatibility layer development release 5.22 is up, video fixes and 3DES support
20 Nov 2020 at 10:28 pm UTC Likes: 3

Looks like there's been some work on the quartz front, yay!

Also nice to see the fontconfig changes. Not sure how noticeable these particular changes are, but startup time is an issue.