Quoting: Mal

Quoting: kaktuspalmeAt first I was shocked but a second later, I don't care. Haven't played any of their games the last couple of years. Indies amaze me much more atm.

For me we should be happy. Activision had no budget for games with less than a 10 billion revenues potential. Bobby wanted to absorb Blizzard to save his dieing company... but for wow, not the rest.

You know that Blizzard is not even close to the revenue of King owned by Activision? They aquired Blizzard to milk their games with micro transactions, since the player base was big.

But Activision was nowhere close to die. They did not need Blizzard, they wanted it for revenues sake.

But I think Microsoft as a platform owner has a lot more interest in long term customer binding than Activision ever had due to the need to create short term profits for shareholders.

So I think this could actually help the games under the banner of Activision/Blizzard, while all the microtransactions will stay, the focus will change from short term profit and especially "engagement" to long term sustainability.

Mocrosoft does not care if you play something else, as long as you are on the game pass service and pay.

And Microsoft certainly has the infrastructure to make it even more cost effective to run servers. They do not need to rent datacenters or backbones - they own them.

They have a history of attractive workplace and adequate payment.

All that will help if it gets through to the actual staff employed, and they'd be able to hire and keep talents.

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It's not a bad move. Microsoft has no history of aggressive sourcing, and a quite high standard for Employees.

With what Activision/Blizzard produced the past years, completely failing their audience, it hardly could get worse.

I actually do not mind that particular takeover, since they were in the shits management wise and producing games which are good.

I see an issue with Microsoft to buy up so much in the gaming market. Not because it's Microsoft, but it's concentrating the market too much under a single banner and within that management and direction.

I hope though that Microsoft can find talent and accordingly skilled management to pull the cart out of the shits. My guess is that Blizzard would pretty much struggle in future if nothing happened, the current course just was a downward spiral.

Microsoft is not in the game for short term profits, they are a platform holder who are into long term profits. That usually is better for games.

We will see.

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Quoting: GuestThat was a quick update from the Proton team. :)

Certainly skilled developers at DXVK who know what they're doing. Profiling a game recognizing the pitfalls for them is as easy as it comes. I think Valve to hire those skilled people did us as people playing games on Linux really well, and I thank them for that, and ofc the developers for their hard work.

I've worked with those developers in the past, especially on D9VK before Joshua went to work for Valve, doing API captures to help solving issues - and it probably was the smoothest experience I ever had reporting issues in an open source project.

I actually only once had a run-in with Philip in a bug report, and it was constructive and solution-focused as it possibly could get.

Valve seems to have skilled and enthusiastic developers on their hand there. Even with the ground work laid, I hope they don't loose them, with all their passion for what they're doing they're an asset.

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On my PC it runs somewhat fin with async option on.

Of course it had to build a shader cache to get rid of stuttering, but it really got better over time by that.

I am actually not yet that excited, story telling is rather weak at the point where I am at.

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Damn, I had my eyes on that in the past - but lacking a playstation...

That's a must buy. Though, still involved in some other game(s), in a month or so I'll certainly buy and try it.

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Quoting: STiATWe'll see where this leads, but I do not have another disro providing an experience even close to Solus, so I'll stick with it (and I used Arch 2004-2017, tried it over the holidays again and it's just a mess).

I do not want to manually search for depends when things don't work I do not want to fiddle around, I want a system/Desktop that just works.

Sounds like the AUR is not for you. But I'm curious: why did you try Arch again over the holidays? And what's a mess anyways, the fact that you have to make more decisions as to what to install?

The mess is that it does not come with sane defaults, as with dependencies.

For me, if an application requires dependencies to make functionalities work which otherwhise simply throw errors and nobody knows why - that's a bad decision not to have it as a dependency. Even if it does not require it at compile time. Arch disagrees on that opinion.

It's not about decisions to make, it's about if you install a package it will actually work properly or not. And in that regard, Arch is a hot mess.

I do use Arch installations from time to time to reproduce bugs, especially in the graphics stack (kernel, mesa, dxvk) and KDE since they're very close to vanilla packages and pretty up to date compared to alternatives.

I have never used AUR, most things are in the repos, if I require anything not in repos it's mostly for development, and I can manage those depends properly without messing with the system. So no, I never had a single AUR package installed - I am talking about core and extra packages. Not even community ones.

An example would be: KDE, Dolphin requires kio-extras to be able to get android phones working. But wait, installing kio-extras it does not. Since you require an optional mtp lib. That done, on some devices, it will still not work. You need some udev rules package.

Otherwhise Dolphin will give some cryptic error. That's not exactly what I expect, if I install the kde meta package, that stuff should be included. Ye, there may be udev rules I do not need. But that's the point, Arch has the minimalistic approach making it basically a bad experience even if you use meta packages. Though, I think kio-extras by now made it into the meta depends.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: mrdeathjraccording wine devs for now fsync dont be approved

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50281 [External Link]

:smile:

Doesn't stop any of the various Wine builds like Wine-GE, Staging, Tkg and so on using it.

Staging won't implement it either. TkG and Proton & GE very likely will.

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Nice, I like the sims but got driven away by their DLC/microtransactions. They are so damn expensive for little gain.

Sadly there are not many games like that out there. This seems a bit too pixel-art for me, but I'll probably give it a shot.

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Steam always gave me troubles having GE installed for some reason. It ended up not remembering that I selected to use a compatibility tool or if it remembered it remembered the wrong versions as soon as I installed GE.

Very likely some strange Steam bug which I seem to always run across. That's the reason I do not use anything else but the Experimental Proton.

For me, it works better than GE, where I seem to have issues with fonts too in games for some reason.

I do not know where those issues hail from, but I still hope those will be fixed some time. Maybe they are, didn't try it in the past 2 month or so.

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It's at its current state more-or-less just a UI Mockup.

I really like to see something new evolving out of KDE tech / KDE Frameworks.

A nice video of Niccolò where he tests it and shows it a bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSX4rNr14Vg [External Link]

CuteFish is nice too, but it heavily interferes with KDEs configs.

I'm not unhappy with Plasma, but I'm more for sane defaults than a lot of options and features making it more unstable than it needs to be.

We'll see where they go, 1.0 within a year is quite the task they set temselves. Especially since they're a small team, especially since it was started Mid-2020 already and wasn't really active (not even lately, considering the latest commit is 6 days old).

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