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Quoting: pbBTW why is default 65530 and not a round number like 65536?

Probably the structure holding those takes some extra space for 'bookkeeping'. In such case allocating exactly 65536 entries would require some number of full memory pages and a few bytes on another page that would be mostly empty, which would be inefficient.

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Quoting: bekoHuh… the shipped openal.so failed to play nice with PipeWire. Chances are it also doesn't work on PulseAudio. It only offers default and Jack. I assume that's Alsa and Jack.

For me editing /etc/openal/alsoft.conf and setting drivers=pulse there is enough to make it behave properly. Without it it would use Jack interface, which works, but does not obey the system default output settings, which is annoying.

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Free puzzle game for Linux? Sure, take my $2!

But then I tried to play it. Performance is terrible, somewhat playable on 'low' graphics, but it looks bad then. Ok, I have just a laptop (even if called 'gaming'), but for such a simple game it should be enough.

And then it crashed, just after solving the first puzzle… :-(

Not what I was hoping for.

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Surviving Mars for another sudo comic:


(XKCD #838 [External Link]

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It have been decades since anything under the „Atari” trademark really succeeded and there were many attempts. I would like to believe, but I have no hope left for them.

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I really hoped it would be a game in a game, some kind of 'Festival Tycoon'. Base game already provides the logistics simulation, which is an important part of such endeavour, just add a few festival-specific buildings, some metrics on them to tune and we have a great game. But just one building? Disappointing and not interesting (at this price).

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Quoting: edoso opengl now can read spirv shaders? like using vulkan shaders and to be able to use them for opengl too? that sounds useful for feral which still create both renderers for their games.

That would mean targeting OpenGL 4.6, which would limit compatibility to devices and drivers compatible with OpenGL 4.6. This would be probably the same set that can handle Vulkan. Would it be any better than supporting only Vulkan? I don't think so.

SPIR-V in OpenGL is useful for those who don't want to use Vulkan (prefer higher level API) but would like to take advantage of SPIR-V.

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I hope Samorost 3 will come to Linux some day too.

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Please note that not every 'Not supported' means that anything is missing. A Vulkan driver needs only to support what is in the hardware (e.g. only the supported image formats) and only what makes sense for the platform (I don't think that 'win32' extensions would ever be supported in radvd).

'Failed: 0' is the most important part of the conformance tests results.

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