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Wine 5.9 is out with major WineD3D Vulkan work
23 May 2020 at 9:59 am UTC Likes: 5
23 May 2020 at 9:59 am UTC Likes: 5
Also having different tools to achieve the same goal is better because in case of an incompatibility with DXVK, people are glad they can switch back to WineD3D. Imagine if X11 development was completely abandoned in favour of Wayland, that would be a real mess.
Come tell us about what you've been gaming on Linux lately
18 May 2020 at 6:41 am UTC
18 May 2020 at 6:41 am UTC
Trying out my brand new Logitech MX518 Legendary playing some of my favourite FPS, namely Quake III Arena, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Painkiller HD. Also got to try it on CS:GO.
After two Razers and a SteelSeries Rival 300, plus a fair amount of non-gaming mice (including Apple mice from my Mac-era), I've got got tell you it's the best mouse ever. The worst I had is the SteelSeries, felt cheap and ended up having the two click buttons rubbing each other which made it uncomfortable to play with. I loved my Razors but let's be honest, they don't look serious enough on a workstation, and they are not tank-built like the MX518. Also each had its own flaw, like the Abyssus' lift distance which was... well... abysmal. The Copperhead from my Quake clanarena days was also not very comfortable, I mainly played claw-grip at the time. On those two I had the same issue with the wheel, which is really tough in the beginning and breaks after a year or two. Their wheels are not meant to be used for everyday computing and that's irritating.
The MX518's Hero sensor is just amazing, best tracking I ever had, and that's coming from a Pixart 3360. I'm impressed.
After two Razers and a SteelSeries Rival 300, plus a fair amount of non-gaming mice (including Apple mice from my Mac-era), I've got got tell you it's the best mouse ever. The worst I had is the SteelSeries, felt cheap and ended up having the two click buttons rubbing each other which made it uncomfortable to play with. I loved my Razors but let's be honest, they don't look serious enough on a workstation, and they are not tank-built like the MX518. Also each had its own flaw, like the Abyssus' lift distance which was... well... abysmal. The Copperhead from my Quake clanarena days was also not very comfortable, I mainly played claw-grip at the time. On those two I had the same issue with the wheel, which is really tough in the beginning and breaks after a year or two. Their wheels are not meant to be used for everyday computing and that's irritating.
The MX518's Hero sensor is just amazing, best tracking I ever had, and that's coming from a Pixart 3360. I'm impressed.
DOOM 64 is now available to stream on Google Stadia
13 May 2020 at 2:12 pm UTC
13 May 2020 at 2:12 pm UTC
Quoting: mosWell Doom64EX does run natively, but it is not the exact same experience [External Link] as the official re-release, tl:dr the new release is closer to the N64.Quoting: robvvwell... never said nufin about oficiallness... Doom64EX is long since available, native, honest, and works fine. What else one would need.Quoting: mosThere's no native version of this game, unless you mean Doom64EX which is not official.Quoting: rregeerHave it on stream. Works really good with proton.there's a perfectly working native port tho.
smh what wine does to ppl
Besides, nightdive are dirty little bloody liars.
PS "works well in Proton" should be on the offtopic list in a place like this. it's getting worse..
Steam Play Proton 5.0-7 is officially out - Street Fighter V and more now playable on Linux
2 May 2020 at 6:45 am UTC Likes: 2
2 May 2020 at 6:45 am UTC Likes: 2
I think that each people is going for a freedom of some sort. I understand people who reject DRM as such, and I'm not the one to blame them. In fact I even would like all game engines to be open source enven if the assets are proprietary, but I know this is not going to happen.
The reason I buy from Steam is to support further developpement, and if it wasn't for Steam, I would have kept buying consoles anyway, which are heavily DRM'd nowadays as you may know.
I think both approaches are fine as long as they fit your own convictions. When I was buying from GOG I used to buy a Crossover licence anyway, so I kept supporting Wine developpement.
And let's not forget itch and Humble in the equation (though the later is just a shadow of its former glory).
The reason I buy from Steam is to support further developpement, and if it wasn't for Steam, I would have kept buying consoles anyway, which are heavily DRM'd nowadays as you may know.
I think both approaches are fine as long as they fit your own convictions. When I was buying from GOG I used to buy a Crossover licence anyway, so I kept supporting Wine developpement.
And let's not forget itch and Humble in the equation (though the later is just a shadow of its former glory).
Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution Fedora 32 released
29 Apr 2020 at 11:46 am UTC
29 Apr 2020 at 11:46 am UTC
Updated yeasterday, using stock GNOME3 desktop, it's really stable.
Say hello to your new best friend 'LVI' - another security flaw in CPUs for Intel
10 Mar 2020 at 10:49 pm UTC Likes: 11
They are as unfriendly towards open source as a vendor can get. Also don't forget their GPUs already have security flaws to begin with.
10 Mar 2020 at 10:49 pm UTC Likes: 11
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThis is why we need another player in the x86 CPU market: NvidiaGod no! Not them!
They are as unfriendly towards open source as a vendor can get. Also don't forget their GPUs already have security flaws to begin with.
Distro news: Arch gets a new leader and Manjaro has a new release
6 Mar 2020 at 6:42 pm UTC
I also guess you never experienced any breaking bug that you had to work around? Like having to investigate which piece of software keeps triggering a kernel panic since your last pacman -Sy?
Sounds strange to me, because as I said I've been using it myself quite a bit - look for my nickname on Arch forums if you need any proof of it - and I do remember quite accurately spending a great deal of time on managing it. I don't mean that it was unpleasant, but it DID take some care and time, and a lot more than a simple Fedora update which amounts to half an hour.
I also don't quite like the tone of your reply, especially you calling me out for spreading "FUD." My goal is absolutely not to keep people away from Arch, in fact I think it's a great way to get to know how a distro works behind the scene, but just to share my experience and tell other people that yes, I would have dug Manjaro if I had the chance to do so at the time.
I may have to mention that I took care of reporting a lot of bugs and I am quite the perfectionist when it comes to how my computer runs, tracking down small errors and all.
Also never had any big technical problem using Fedora, I don't know what you call unfinished or beta state, coming from an Arch user it's quite funny. Who's spreading FUD now?
6 Mar 2020 at 6:42 pm UTC
Quoting: GuestIf you've been using Arch for so long, I guess you remember the switch to systemd don't you?Quoting: omer666I had been using Arch on a daily basis for a long time, and I learned so many things along the way, but when I stopped having enough time to manage it I had to switch to Fedora which is a good intermediate solution for me.More FUD.... Arch does not need "time" to manage it, in fact, it is the easiest to manage distro on the planet. Once you have set up the distro to your liking, it is just a matter of using pacman (or a wrapper like pacaur for me personally) to update the system periodically, plus monitoring the Arch site/feed for the occasional intervention. I rarely have to change things for months and months, all i do are updates the vast majority of the time.
Had Manjaro been a thing when I switched, I would definitely have had a look.
On the other hand, Fedora needs distro-upgrading every 6 months, how is that better?
Plus Fedora has always been a testing distro, oftentimes they include beta versions of software plus many times things break.
I also guess you never experienced any breaking bug that you had to work around? Like having to investigate which piece of software keeps triggering a kernel panic since your last pacman -Sy?
Sounds strange to me, because as I said I've been using it myself quite a bit - look for my nickname on Arch forums if you need any proof of it - and I do remember quite accurately spending a great deal of time on managing it. I don't mean that it was unpleasant, but it DID take some care and time, and a lot more than a simple Fedora update which amounts to half an hour.
I also don't quite like the tone of your reply, especially you calling me out for spreading "FUD." My goal is absolutely not to keep people away from Arch, in fact I think it's a great way to get to know how a distro works behind the scene, but just to share my experience and tell other people that yes, I would have dug Manjaro if I had the chance to do so at the time.
I may have to mention that I took care of reporting a lot of bugs and I am quite the perfectionist when it comes to how my computer runs, tracking down small errors and all.
Also never had any big technical problem using Fedora, I don't know what you call unfinished or beta state, coming from an Arch user it's quite funny. Who's spreading FUD now?
Intel chipsets have another security issue, this time it's 'unfixable'
6 Mar 2020 at 6:11 pm UTC Likes: 2
6 Mar 2020 at 6:11 pm UTC Likes: 2
Because their CPUs are so much better right now and because their GPUs have the best open source support right now and just caught up with Nvidia's cards regarding energy efficiency, my next rig is gonna be full AMD.
Distro news: Arch gets a new leader and Manjaro has a new release
26 Feb 2020 at 7:03 pm UTC Likes: 1
26 Feb 2020 at 7:03 pm UTC Likes: 1
I had been using Arch on a daily basis for a long time, and I learned so many things along the way, but when I stopped having enough time to manage it I had to switch to Fedora which is a good intermediate solution for me.
Had Manjaro been a thing when I switched, I would definitely have had a look.
Had Manjaro been a thing when I switched, I would definitely have had a look.
The Linux GOTY Award 2019 is now over - here's the winners
9 Feb 2020 at 9:44 pm UTC
9 Feb 2020 at 9:44 pm UTC
To be honest, I didn't vote this year because most things I've been playing were on Proton+DXVK. Truly groundbreaking technology, it deserves its first place as the most meaningful open source project of the year!