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KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta released with Wayland Explicit Sync support
26 May 2024 at 5:04 am UTC

Quoting: TheRiddickThen I can turn off this win10 VM
I used to tinker and try to make HDR work on Linux, when I finally got it, I realised I only have a handful of games with HDR, it wasn't really a big deal at the end. I don't have Nvidia so no frame gen, but is that also something you use a lot to mainly use a VM over Proton for it? Not telling you what to do I just find it interesting since like I said I went through a similar thing.

Microsoft's new Recall AI will take screenshots of everything you do - freaky
23 May 2024 at 7:42 pm UTC Likes: 5

This is so wonderful, it's setting the groundwork for my friends who have started asking me about Linux and it'll develop into them considering, and hopefully even switching to it before October 2025.

Mesa 24.1.0 released with big improvements for NVK, Zink, Explicit Sync
23 May 2024 at 7:33 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: pilkWaiting for this to land on Fedora, I'm really excited to give NVK a shot. If NVK can do all my gaming, then my NVIDIA card is suddenly plug-and-play on most distros.
I use mesa-git and that's on 24.2.0 and it works perfectly without issues, too impatient to wait for the "stable" release :D

Proton Experimental adds D3D12 support in OpenXR, Fixes for Foundry and Ubisoft Launcher
23 May 2024 at 7:29 pm UTC Likes: 3

Proton Experimental bleeding-edge is my hero. I can finally play Titanfall 2 and not have the cancerous EA Launcher crash on me or lock me out of even starting the game.

Nightdive Studios confirm Linux and macOS ports of System Shock are cancelled
22 May 2024 at 3:52 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: EagleDelta
Quoting: JarmerThis is typical from them. DONT. EVER. SUPPORT. NIGHTDIVE. Horrible developer that somehow continues to exist despite lots of other good devs going under :(
What else have they done wrong?

The Remasters they've worked on have all been well received.
I get the meltdown over false promises (or to be honest, it's probably moreso just because Linux is involved, you probably wouldn't see the same backlash even if the aspect of false promises persists)

But to say Night Dive are bad or they "don't deserve support" who would you support then? They're the only Dev team in this infiltrated industry that make sensible and genuine ports/remasters, not for making quick buck over people's nostalgia, not recycling games that don't need the remaster investment, but purely out of passion. They just released a remastered for a very obscure weird game called PO'ed, go take a look at that game and tell me with a straight face an executive greenlit that project thinking It would bring in money.

I think we must understand that unless we become a not insignificant chunck of the market, expect the 2nd class treatment to continue, any other interpretation is just living a fantasy dream, a higher market share is the only thing that'd make Linux support a serious thing for companies to consider.

Nightdive Studios confirm Linux and macOS ports of System Shock are cancelled
22 May 2024 at 12:38 pm UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: rambo919Given that the ONLY linux native version of any game to never give me problems that I can remember has been Stellaris..... this might be for the best.
This. I mean, the only bad part about this is that it was a goal, or a promise or whatever, that they're now throwing away or "giving up" on. Which is still pretty bad, don't get me wrong, not downplaying that part, especially for MacOS users, I don't think they have a Proton equivalent to play the game there? MacOS backers should get refunded.

But on Linux, I booted the game up yesterday, and it just works.... like, who the hell cares beyond this point? I asked the other day on this website what could the actual, real world disadvantages of playing through Proton vs Native, bearing in mind that Proton is slowly becoming the defacto Linux-supported method from game developers side, and other than large prefix folders potentially eating up space over time, it's pretty much nothing to bring up.

Ubuntu 24.10 roadmap includes Wayland by default for NVIDIA
21 May 2024 at 7:55 pm UTC

Quoting: fenglengshunGranted, Plasma 6.0 is still pretty rough from what I hear
I don't know what you heard, but as someone who was used to more "official" desktop experience of Windows 10 and co until 2 months ago, Plasma 6 is near perfect. I don't have any issues that I can recall right now.

I appreciate the insight into Bazzite. Do you reckon it could be used on a gaming laptop that is also used for general desktop work? or is it exclusively about gaming, where I'd be better off using something like Nobara? (I'm thinking of Bazzite because I'm interested in the whole atomic variant concept of Fedora)

Ubuntu 24.10 roadmap includes Wayland by default for NVIDIA
20 May 2024 at 4:18 pm UTC

Quoting: spacemonkeyWould you say that Ubuntu is the best OS if you just want things to work and not tinker, especially for gaming?
I hear Bazzite/Nobara are currently some of the best Just Works(tm), no tinkering distro's out there.

Ghost of Tsushima single-player only on Steam Deck due to PlayStation Network features
14 May 2024 at 7:19 pm UTC Likes: 3

Since Sony isn't bothered to sell it for us here, I'm excited to play the game free of charge!

Luxtorpeda adds Classic Marathon for playing the Native Linux version via Steam
14 May 2024 at 11:29 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: TimeFreezethey said i quote:

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the steam linux SDK is like 8 years old
Is that true? How is Valve and other developers releasing Linux Native games recently then?