Quoting: LeopardIs Wine Staging dead now?

Take with a wheelbarrow of salt.

IIUC a lot of staging was mainlined suchas CMST around 3.0.

wine staging maintainer is AFK for a while now and someone else was looking to step in to do his job.

Last wine staging was 2.2X.

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I wonder if Wine Staging is still a thing.

Looking foreward, I wonder if System Shock fix related to 4 player coop lan.

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The unexpectedness of this event just gave me a flash back to Fuck You It's January.

View video on youtube.com

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View video on youtube.com

Since the game has a VR version I wonder if the Linux Vulkan version is getting ship shape for VR.

Looking forward to some Twitch Streams of this and some play. Glad Feral is pumping things through the pipeline I want to buy.

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If anyone gets a hand on one can you do a FPS benchmark video on DOTA or some other common game?

It's sold out, I'm not surprised.

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I think we're talking about different things, no problem expanding on the topics you prefer, like I said nothing against wine -- hell I'll probably even use it for a select few games I want to make bottles for.

I think I'll call them all "Classics" though as I have a habit of referring to anything as Classic that requires a old emulator, runtime, or layer to make it work.

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Quoting: ElectricPrism

Quoting: ShmerlWhat's the problem with strong FOSS competition?

In this case it reduces incentive for companies to natively support Linux.

Pumping as much cash into Linux supporting companies as possible is a big goal for Linux Gamers as cash is king.

I wouldn't argue with that, i.e. the fact that wrappers can have a chilling effect on making native ports. But that applies to all wrappers. By this logic you should see a problem with Feral too, since companies that use Feral's work cut costs and avoid proper native ports, using a wrapper instead. It's just cheaper for them. And on the other hand, if you are OK with some wrappers already, then you should be OK with all of them.

And see above, about what practical benefits Wine has in contrast with closed wrappers. Also, we as Linux users should support FOSS more, at least I'd expect that.

It's the principle behind my point that you missed. The principle is that developers and publishers who do Linux versions should get as much profit as we can give them if we want to show that we are a worthy pursuit.

The Linux market should be a lake full of gold just waiting for devs to come and tap.

Nothing wrong with gaming on wine it's just that it creates 0 incentive to produce a Linux port if the market will just buy your Windows version and 100% of the support is up to wine instead of the publisher or porter to follow through on.

It's simple stuff.

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Quoting: ShmerlWhat's the problem with strong FOSS competition?

In this case it reduces incentive for companies to natively support Linux.

Pumping as much cash into Linux supporting companies as possible is a big goal for Linux Gamers as cash is king.

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Well shit, these people know me too good. Yes of course I will buy it -- I have been maintaining a wine prefix for Comet Busters but for $5 to get the same kind of mechanics with new graphics on my console with 0 work, super awesome.

Thanks for the tip.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumNext up: Monthly subscription for Windows 10!

It's only 9.99/mo what's the big deal -- it's not like it's 100 bucks a year or anything

/sarcasm

Quoting: chancho_zombiewhy does stupidity of windows users has to f*ck everyone else??

Stupidity has caused more harm to fellow humans than malicious intent. Let that one sink in.

As a world wide collective we are simply not very intelligent. The smart have suffered the stupid for millennia. And it's not humans did themselves a favor when large religions keep executing the intelligent who find fault -- the religions have eradicated anyone with descending articulate thinking because people who can think for themselves are more difficult to control.

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