Quoting: TheSHEEEPWtf?!

Only 10 finger support?!

Yeah, what if I want to get my nose in there, too? Then what, huh?!

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut I've been forced more and more to switch to Chrome (or rather, at home at least, Chromium) because I hit more and more websites Firefox just doesn't manage to load, or can't show article comments, or stuff.

Could you share some examples? Being a web developer I would be genuinely interested in such pages, because so far I haven't come across such websites (or rather these which showed quirks showed - different - quirks in Blink based browsers, too). And since I web development is my daily job, I'd say nowadays you have to put in some real effort to get something to work on Chrom(e|ium) but not on Firefox.

Huh. Maybe it has something to do with extensions, then. Perhaps I'm typically using an adblock on Firefox but not Chrome? I should do a bit of experimenting.
Examples that stand out in my mind are articles on the CBC website (that's Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's BBC equivalent), where Chrome seems to show the conversation threads below but Firefox does not, and EBSCO, a major player in scholarly journal publication. I work in a university library and often have reasons to follow links to articles in our holdings. Chrome shows Ebsco articles no problem, Firefox shows a blank page. The problems seem to be the same on Windows at work and on Linux at home.

Just tested it with Firefox 92.0 and with Adblock Plus on and I could see the comments section on the first article on CBC website. So it's probably some other extension.

Looking at the Firefox I'm using at work, I do have Adblock Plus and one other extension . . . but they're both disabled already, so I dunno.

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Quoting: NociferBut now that it's finally compatible, if it had been made mandatory instead of opt-in then you'd suddenly need to choose between two options, one worse than the other: either you're forced to commit to supporting this new platform that you never even signed up for, with all the financial and organizational headaches this implies, or you don't support it and you let the new users do whatever they want unsupervised, which quite possibly means destroying your game.

I don't quite see how that choice follows. Let's say you officially state that you don't support Proton, but it still works. Say despite official lack of support you get people who buy the game and use it via Proton. You have no responsibility to support their game experience, because you disclaimed it up front--they were aware before they bought. But, they still paid for the game and clicked the EULA. They're subject to being policed while playing the game online same as anyone else, are just as subject to banning and whatever, won't actually look any different to a game administrator than anyone else.
Unless you're saying that this hypothetical game leaves everyone unsupervised, and the Proton ones just (perhaps) represent a bigger risk? But any game like that was probably destroyed long before any hypothetical Linux cheaters got to it.

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Well. Another shoe. I was wondering if it would drop.

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut I've been forced more and more to switch to Chrome (or rather, at home at least, Chromium) because I hit more and more websites Firefox just doesn't manage to load, or can't show article comments, or stuff.

Could you share some examples? Being a web developer I would be genuinely interested in such pages, because so far I haven't come across such websites (or rather these which showed quirks showed - different - quirks in Blink based browsers, too). And since I web development is my daily job, I'd say nowadays you have to put in some real effort to get something to work on Chrom(e|ium) but not on Firefox.

Huh. Maybe it has something to do with extensions, then. Perhaps I'm typically using an adblock on Firefox but not Chrome? I should do a bit of experimenting.
Examples that stand out in my mind are articles on the CBC website (that's Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's BBC equivalent), where Chrome seems to show the conversation threads below but Firefox does not, and EBSCO, a major player in scholarly journal publication. I work in a university library and often have reasons to follow links to articles in our holdings. Chrome shows Ebsco articles no problem, Firefox shows a blank page. The problems seem to be the same on Windows at work and on Linux at home.

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Well, I'd whine about this. But Firefox seems to be rotting to death anyway. It's a pity, because fundamentally I like Firefox better. I like how its UI behaves more than I like Chrome, especially around how it handles going full screen, so if both were equally functional I'd stick to Firefox. But I've been forced more and more to switch to Chrome (or rather, at home at least, Chromium) because I hit more and more websites Firefox just doesn't manage to load, or can't show article comments, or stuff. It's like I'm constantly having to copy the url and paste it into Chrome. So at the rate things are going it may not matter how it's packaged.

Not like I use Ubuntu, or snaps, so it's not really my business anyway I suppose.

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Quoting: Rafii2198Do we know which games support it now or are going to support it?

How many (EAC using) games, have been recompiled using the required latest SDK, as well as having the Proton/Wine options enabled, and had that game update pushed via Steam, in the hours since this announcement?

I would guess ZERO.

Yeah, it'll take a while. Good thing this announcement comes with still a couple months before Steam Deck launch. Should give them a bit of time to get ducks in row.

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Quoting: scaineYeah, Dash to Panel is amazing

Harrumph. If I'm going to use a panel I want it to already be there when I need it--I don't want to have to dash to it first!

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Quoting: dpanterFSR's first pass is of course Edge-Adaptive Spatial Upsampling (EASU).

Oh, of course! Yes, I totally knew that all along. And what it means, too.

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Good lord, they did a "technical evaluation" before deciding to go for a release on Linux! What won't people think of next?! What if this bizarre innovation were to spread to other game developers? It could overturn the whole "Write the thing for Windows and realize later that that made other platforms a massive hassle" paradigm!

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