And if you look at the Fedora Flatpak "Goals and Objectives" it is just pure "not invented here syndrome": https://fedoramagazine.org/comparison-of-fedora-flatpaks-and-flathub-remotes/ [External Link]

They are just reinventing the wheel...

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WOAH.

Looks like RAMPART(SNES) on steroids.

Will definitively check out.

https://snesaday.com/2014/08/03/70-rampart/ [External Link]

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Controlify Is a really solid mod, and it feels like the game was built for gamepads when you are playing to the point you forget this game only supports officially mouse+keyboard.

The auto detection of gamepads works fine, and I've been able to test it on the Desktop with a "Switch Pro Controller", on the Steam Deck, and my nephew plays with both Xbox One and PS4 controllers on Windows using Prism Launcher.

Really awesome pieces of software(Prism and Controlify).

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Awesome news, specially with the recent SteamOS Powered branding guidelines

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So, this is kinda of a blend between Necesse(graphics and overworld movement) and Balrum(combat and item management)..

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1169040/Necesse/ [External Link]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/424250/Balrum/ [External Link]

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Worked out of the box here on a Laptop RTX.

No blackscreen, and Vulkan was selected as the default render provider.

Steady on 60FPS with VSync on

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I have mine with Batocera+Steam Flatpak already on an old PC i've found at the electronic recycling, but I wouldn't mind testing an official Valve "Steam Machine" distribution :)

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Quoting: poiuz"Those folks" (which develop the Intel drivers) are employees of Intel. There's no bashing Intel without bashing Mesa.

Yes there are employees in some of the contributions, and they might have signed up a NDA that restricts how, when and what they can contribute to multiple projects, which leads them to implement those changes on Mesa to keep the games running without being allowed to contribute to the drivers without further approval of their managers, or contribution on a limited scope.

You are reversing roles here and trying to use a sophism to justify that Intel Employees having their actions limited by their company is enough to bash Mesa Project as a consequence, as if Mesa is the one to blame for Intel company bad decisions in their driver development model.

Also, assuming Mesa is purely maintained by Intel is also a really bad point of view - https://www.mesa3d.org/developers/ [External Link]

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Honest question here: Is it too much of a burden the Dotnet 7.0 thing?

Looks like Arch and Fedora provide that runtime pretty easily

https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/dotnet7.0/dotnet-runtime-7.0/ [External Link] - Edit looks like the last release was for Fedora 39 so, I kinda answered my own question here.
- https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/dotnet-runtime-7.0/ [External Link]

For Ubuntu, does not seems to be in the official repos, that's true

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Too bad that Intel still provides shitty drivers for Linux when compared with the Windows version.

XeSS on Linux was/is lagging behind Windows considerably when it comes to features and bug solving. And there is also the fact that XeSS 1.0 wasn't opensource at first release and wrongly being advertised as opensource.

Mesa drivers are "ok" but are unable to extract all performance the hardware has. I would not trust Intel for GPUs, and I would even buy a NVIDIA instead of getting an Intel.

To correctly advertise XeSS on Wine through mesa, some weird hacks need to be implemented so the game does not crash while being advertised as a cross-vendor fallback.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/23271 [External Link]
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/25965 [External Link]

Not to count here the many fixes made to multiple games like Hitman 3, Hogwarts legacy and The Finals that had to hide the vendor ID to avoid crashes

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/27477 [External Link]

And just to make myself clear here: I'm not in any degree bashing Mesa here. Those folks are doing whatever is needed and doing beyond support scope to circumvent every difficulty that is imposed by Intel.

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