Quoting: sonic2kkIf Valve start buying exclusivity, they're no better than scumbags like Epic, Tomorrow Corporation (I say this with a Little Inferno profile pic, and an ex-fan of Tomorrow Corporation), and every other dev that buys into paid third-party exclusivity.

I completely agree with the bit about Valve not having to buy exclusives, but calling Tomorrow Corporation names when you can buy the native Linux build DRM free from their website IMHO may be a little overreacting, don't you think?

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Before Valve invested in Linux I had to buy consoles to get my gaming fix. After a while I was considering buying one again, native games were slowly declining in number and Wine pre-DXVK was not able to play recent releases. Then Proton arrived, and man, I never looked back.

I bought a Switch for my kids last Xmas and that's the first console I buy I don't play at all. Linux covers all my gaming needs all thanks to Proton, it's such a great piece of software I don't even notice I'm actually running non-native games.

I know I've been hating on John Carmack for saying the future of Linux gaming was Wine, but man, he was absolutely right, and deserves my deepest apologies.

When you come to think of it, dedicated layers of API translations are the most fail-safe and future-proof technical solution possible for gaming when it's got got low overhead, and Valve offered us just that by funding open source projects.

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Back in the day when I was playing Introversion and Lexaloffle games on Linux, I bought all these from the dev's website. As a matter of fact, I bought the first World of Goo this way too... Don't see any problem with this

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Not a fan of open worlds myself, but I loved Metro Exodus' survival stance and the plain dialogue/adventure aspect of it. The gameplay and atmosphere also also lived up to its roots. I wouldn't mind playing through another episode, though I wonder if they'll be able to renew the formula once more...

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Quoting: STiAT"Fixed Wayland flickering issues" is missing. Oh ye - they didn't. Again.

I'm on Wayland and I don't have flickering at all, could you explain the issue?

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Quoting: wvstolzingAwful news.

I can't like this comment but I definitely concur.

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Quoting: NasraRX 7600 XT is probably a good card, but in 128bits, the memory bandwidth will be a problem for its 16GB VRAM...

Not quite sure about this. There are interesting benchmarks regarding nVidia's own 4060 Ti 16Gb and while there is no tangible difference in framerate, the frametime is a lot better, which is the very reason for this model to exist. The problem with nVidia's card isn't the end result, it's the price.

To be honest, I am pretty interested in this RX 7600 XT, but I am really worried about power efficiency...
I think they shouldn't have overclocked it, the market was in need of an aptly priced sub-200W GPU with 16Gb of VRAM, but now its consumption is pretty much on par with the 1440p segment, which kind of defeats its purpose in the first place.

So let's wait and see, there may be surprising results at hand, but I am not very confident about these.

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Quoting: M@GOidWhy the RX 7900 results were lower than the RX 6700 ones?

Must be resolution the game is running at

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Quoting: LanzGnome now resembles the bastard child of a smartphone, Mac OS, and Windows 11 - combining the worst elements of all 3 into the most dialectical GUI.

I am quite passionate about OS UIs, and to me what it resembles the most is in fact Xerox GlobalView :


But I'm fine with diverging opinions, I am just happy to have a DE that fits my tastes completely.

Fedora 39 brought Mesa 23.2.1, which makes me gain quite a few FPS, along with increased vm.max_map_count out of the box. Also GNOME Files got a GUI overall that's pretty nice. On the negative side, HIP is now broken, but package maintainer is working on it.

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For the price I'd still buy the original versions for my Dreamcast

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