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Latest Comments by elmapul
Pop!_OS Linux gets better game performance and desktop responsiveness
3 Feb 2022 at 10:28 pm UTC

i'm not into distro hopping anymore, can someone benchmark this and see if it make a huge difference?
i dont have free space or HDD's avaliable to test myself.

anyway, this tech dont seem impresssive, i'm a bit tired of seing huge improvments in the proprietary software world, and gimmicks on the free one.
dont get me wrong, blender and godot are amazing, but i'm still not convinced that an new desktop enviroment is nescessary and will help linux grow instead of just fragment.
sometimes it seems like we are just reinventing the whell and "stealing" money from other distros instead of developing some real tech
compare lumen /nanite from unreal engine to this, what have the bigger potential to be an game changer?
some "rocket science" algorithms to allow an "unlimited" ammount of polygons to be rendered on screen in real time, with another "cutting edge" tech to make lights ingame feel almost as good as raytracing without the processing cost of raytracing in scenes with that ammount of polygons...

meanwhile we get hyped at stuff like "automatically seting your cpu to performance mode when you gonna game" or "automatically seting priorities straight for processes"
hell, even microsoft is doing some nice inovative stuff, directX 12 came before vulkan was a thing.

i know system 76 is not as big as epic or microsoft, the question is, maybe the path for linux to go foward is, using the money that can only be gained by selling proprietary software and using it to fund open source, like what valve is doing funding wine/proton, vulkan, mesa, futex, etc.

i know this leave an sour taste on our mouth, the question is "the goals justify the means"
and an philosofical discussion i would like to propose:
if we give up having many stores to rely only on steam and stuff that work well with lutris/heroic, because those work well with linux , we are giving up part of or "freedom"
if we give up on the ability to change the wallpaper as canonical was proposing with ubuntuphone to try to convince oems to adopt the system (aka seling the consumers wallpaper as an place to put brand adivertise )
we give up having many tools, like tools to make mods (eg: custom maps for an specific game)
give up using floss drivers because the proprietarys are better.

and so on... at some point we end up with less freedom than on windows...

sigh...
sorry for the confusing comment, i cant formulate phrases in english right now.

Windjammers 2 is out and it works perfectly on Linux
26 Jan 2022 at 2:50 pm UTC

did they improve their emulator? the last time i checked it was an piece of shit.

i'm not talking about how accurate it played the game, but the usability in general.

Dynamic Cloud Sync to let you easily switch between PC and Steam Deck
26 Jan 2022 at 11:59 am UTC

that reminds me of the old days:


this game support rumble pack , this game support/require memory card.

" this game suport trading cards, this game support dynamic cloud sync"

Lutris game manager getting Ubisoft Connect integration
25 Jan 2022 at 1:54 pm UTC

its a hack or uplay has some official api? i hope ubisoft/epic dont break thirdy party apps on purpose.
" lots of different emulators and more."
i will pass for emulators, i already use retro arch for it, having 2 solutions would only make things confusing.

do lutris work with controller?

RetroArch 1.10.0 out with Vulkan fixes, Wayland improvements, GameMode support
24 Jan 2022 at 10:25 pm UTC

retro arch updated while i was gaming on it (i think i have an snap version?) some features broke and i end up not being able to play at some point...

i hat to quit the game without saving then when i opened retro arch again, i figure out it got an new bug:
if i toggle fullscreen/window mode the gamepad stop working and i have to disconnect/reconnect it to work again...

Easy Anti-Cheat gets much simpler for Proton and Steam Deck
22 Jan 2022 at 12:55 pm UTC

Quoting: JpxsonI think most developers will enable it, it's just a question if they do it now or wait until it starts costing them money not too.
yeah but its a chicken and egg problem...
or people might just install windows...

AMD Ryzen DeskMini UM700 announced with Manjaro Linux
21 Jan 2022 at 10:16 pm UTC

wow, valve made an partnership with an thirdyparty to sell steamdeck sdk's?
:wink:
not really, but close enough

A whole bunch of games just got Steam Deck Verified
21 Jan 2022 at 9:16 pm UTC Likes: 1

the lists where updated with new games already.

sort by platform, unmark the option steamdeck verified, and you will see the others.
steam deck playable , steam deck unsupported. (everything else is still unknow)

verified : 42
playable: 39
unsuported: 5

RetroArch need your feedback on their Open-Hardware planned for 2022
21 Jan 2022 at 2:31 am UTC

Quoting: Purple Library Guy
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Quoting: PhlebiacManufacturing compatible hardware seems like opening the door to lawsuits; Nintendo in particular likes to lawyer up.
While I agree, Nintendo isn't making NES, SNES, N64 or Gamecube consoles anymore. And since this is hardware that depends on physical media (cartridges/discs etc) Nintendo has no legal standing to prevent them unless RetroArch screw up and copy BIOS code etc which I don't see them doing.
they made nes mini and snes mini recently, and put an n64 emulator on switch...
Do they take their respective cartridges?
no, but it affect their business model, not sure on how an lawyer would interpret that
A lawyer would interpret it how he was paid to. :grin:
The question is more what interpretation a judge could be persuaded to buy.
an lawyer need arguments to convince the judge, but in any case i used the wrong word, i mean judge.