Quoting: SantojaYou can add the launcher to steam and play it using Proton, works great for heroes of the storm, I didn't try WoW

Works with WoW too, but proton had issues with the bnet app too these days.

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Quoting: lionblaze55The Fedora beta has been great with Gnome 43, all my extensions have been working without issue as well! Loving the work being done with these projects.

I am getting crashes with the AppIndicator after lock screen for some reason. Or I think so since that disappeared after I disabled it.

Otherwhise it's so far pretty good. I dislike that they do not show the device for the audio output change (now I have two devices to switch to with the same name), but everything else seems pretty good.

Seems they did some work on switching windows too, some weired games as M&B Warband now actually appear when you click them in the preview (it runs real fullscreen, no windowed fullscreen option).

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Quoting: KohlyKohlI just read some rumors that Intel cancelled their Arc dedicated GPUs already. Would be disappointing if they gave up already as I was looking forward to more competition in the GPU market.

Intel alteady pushed back on this rumor.

I would like them as a competitor in the GPU market, but they are far away to become one.

I think we'll probably see cards able to compete in the mid-higer levels in 5 years or further in the future.

Let's see if they have the will to that investment.

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Quoting: Sojiro84...Ugh, now I gotta look at that ugly Gnome styled interface :sick:...

You get used to it. I thought it impossible too and now use Gnome for 6 month after I used KDE for the short period of 24 years. Mostly since it's simply better supported in Fedora than KDE (had issues there with KDE and display management and Discover).

I may go bsck to KDE once they figured out proper display management though. For some reason that is a headache since 2018.

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I tried to use Bottles for various games, but to be true I found Lutris way easier to manage, and well, most things I installed in Lutris actually worked, where most in Bottles did not.

I think it's too young a project to be stable or even close to be fit for general consumption.

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I wondered today what my HDD was doing going crazy while I was programming.

It was the update running in the background. That one is huge.

Glad I got the games on a seperate disk. Though, I finally got 2 2TB disks to replace my HDDs, still have to do that. But then I would not recognize stuff like that.

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Never been much of a console player, no handhelds either.

But having played V Rising, I can imagine it working pretty well on steamdeck with properly adapted controls for inventory, building and crafting. The combat is already very centric on movement and targetting, so that should work with little adaption. It felt like a controller game with mouse&keyboard already in that regard.

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Quoting: Klaas

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SyntaxError: expected ':'

and what's that? Python? lol... the langauge best known to break API in minor versions and even bugfix releases. By honest mistakes which got fixed with fast follow up releases, but still. Got better in the past few years though, was a lot worse in 2.x, but happened in 3.x too (3.6 series in example).

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceSo an employee from a company who makes a closed source game store client that hosts a closed source game that uses closed source anticheat software had an issue with an open source library and i'm supposed to side with the employee ? Do I about have that right ? Would it not be an easier issue to fix if more of that equation I listed were open source ?

It wasn't just EAC that broke but a few other applications like Shovel Knight, a game with a native linux port and libstrangle, an fps limiting library, this isn't about open vs closed source software, this is about maintaining backwards compatibility to not only make linux more enticing to port to but also to make it so things like games that do not get maintained forever won't get lost to time.

Well, it 'sort of' is about open vs closed. If it was open (Shovel Knight) someone could have given them a pull request to change to the newer method. That's pretty straight forward.

This wasn't really about backward compatibility, and more about deprecated methods still being used in software. This should be a wake up call for those projects that use old crappy code, and hopefully they'll get updated to be faster.

We'll have to agree to disagree on that front, most of the outrage I've seen is about glibc developers not making it clear they were removing DT_HASH (and that you needed to go to mailing lists and such to know it was depreciated, incremented the patch rather than the major for a breaking change) and I'd say the bigger deal of hurting the prospect of the Linux desktop being ported to or getting more native applications (especially for game developers when games inevitably stop getting maintained and typically do not get their source released once the game is EOL) due to these sort of changes

This was certainly a documentation mistake, but as well misunderstanding what they (glibc) consider as their api/abi, and what some applications did consider by it.

That said, it should have been a wakeup call to those using it, and we will probably see ports to DT_GNU_HASH, and DT_HASH will disappear with a major release at some point.

That will give them thoughts about what they want to deprecate of the ELF sections too for a next major release. And it's good this process started.

It's a real nieche usage, I personally never did require to use DT_HASH or DT_GNU_HASH since dlopen pretty much did work for my cases. But I undetstand wanting to directly read library information in some use cases (security scanners being one, they certainly don't want something messing with dlopen, and I know some commercial tools messing with the dlopen and generally library loading process, dynatrace comes to mind as an example).

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: randylEmbracer is freaking huge. I've been wondering how they've flown under the radar so well. Maybe it's because of their name change and how little known "Embracer" is. Embracer is the rebranded parent company of THQ Nordic and was also previously named THQ Nordic AB which owned THQ Nordic GmbH. They rebranded to Embracer in 2019.

Some of the subsidiaries Embracer owns and several are massive parent companies in their own right: Amplifier Games, Asmodee, Coffee Stain Holdings, Dark Horse Media, Embracer Freemode, Gearbox Entertainment, Plaion, Saber Interactive, and THQ Nordic. They've also merged several previous brands into their fold or into their subsidiary's holdings group.

Thanks for pointing out!
They also got Koch Media and Deep Silver, both well known at least in German speaking countries.

That they aquired Koch Media 2018 slipped completely past me. They were not that small.

At least they seem to still invest in the kindom come sequel.

THQ /Embracer have almost no reputation for me, since they manage to fly under the media so well.

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