Quoting: scaineI gave up on Itch for this reason. Ended up buying a game I'd already gotten in a bundle. Tragically poor consumer experience.

Agreed. I had to keep the script running for like 15 minutes to be able to add to the library all games from the Racial Justice Bundle... Really poor experience that could be easily fixed with the "Add All" button people asked.

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And just as a reminder: ITCH does not automatically adds games to your library. While you will be able to download them, you have to manually enter the game and add it to your library.

It is kinda weird but, it is their way of managing game collections. That happened back in 2020 with the "Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality" which had tons of games and you could get lots because it is hard to keep track of the games you own on Itch.

And that is something that it will not change as per Itch owners/develpers: https://itch.io/t/1979459/give-me-an-option-to-add-all-ukraine-bundle-items-to-my-library [External Link]

So, a greasemonkey script on Firefox/Chrome is a good idea if you want to add those games to your library.

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Gotta love the DO NOT TOUCH sign at the back of the handheld... lol

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A really nice to have.

I'm using bluetooth headphones a lot daily during lunch and commute times with Steam Deck to avoid the clutter of wired phones. This will allow me to check battery levels without having to use them on my smartphone.

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Nice. These screenshots reminds me of others like Bubsy(Snes), Jazz Jack Rabbit(PC), and I see some potential where features from those games might also be incorporated to Surge Engine.

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Quoting: nwildnerThere is no advantage that is immediately "tangible" by the user except it will make things better in the future.

Wayland fixes a security nightmare that's intrinsic to X11 protocol design.

This has very tangible and immediate effects...

If security was that tangible for end users, no one would be using Windows.

I get your point that X11 is outdated and has a bunch of security or at least design flaws that will lead to security issues in the near future, but we are talking about really end user perspective.

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They have even added Esperanto translation to this version... Awesome.

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Quoting: kaimanSo to me the question is, is there anything I'm missing out on when using X11? HDR support, maybe? (not that I'd have a HDR-capable display). In short, what's the incentive to switch from a user perspective?

It's a display server. You can't expect bells and whistles on that except really technical stuff that will be used by the DE/WMs with Wayland(lower device latency, standardized interfaces and protocols, better autoconfig, security on app isolation, better modern graphics handling or High-DPI as you've said...).

That's why it is being force-fed. There is no advantage that is immediately "tangible" by the user except it will make things better in the future.

For my personal use, being able to use Waydroid without using the "cage" command on X11 is a plus.

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Quoting: EikeWhen does SDL have to choose between X and Wayland? If I've got only X running, well, X is it, and if I got Wayland running, I probably wouldn't want SDL to use XWayland? Obviously, it's more complicated, but... why?

That was a "middle ground" the developers found instead of reverting once again the Wayland by Default behavior, checking for fifo-v1 and commit-timing-v1 protocols, and if they are unavailable, fallback to X11 and XWayland.

And the "When does SDL have to choose between X and Wayland?" is more of a philosophical question than a technical one. It's been shown recently that a lot of technologies(distros, libs, softwares) are pushing Wayland by default, or at least using XWayland because if they don't do that, Wayland will not get implemented by other third-parties (cof, cof, Nvidia...)

Wayland is being around for the last 15 years so, need to push it hard or it will never replace the already bloated and hard to maintain X11.

If you are not happy, I think you can still force x11 by exporting the SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER=x11 environment variable.

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Quoting: fenglengshunOkay, I'm confused here - is this redundant with NVK and what other aspect of this vs NVK that I'm not understanding that would make the project make sense as it's own thing despite the great progress that NVK has made in recent months?

Not redundant. It is a "replacement" (read with a grain of salt here) for the nouveau driver, but focused on GSP enabled GPUS that don't have to deal with the legacy nouveau has to implement to handle older than RTX2000 series hardware.

It is a kernel driver(dri, pci, iomem, common abstractions for hardware) and not a translation layer or 3D API whatsoever.

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