Quoting: ShmerlSooner than that. KDE is mostly in good shape already with Wayland support. Now we need big applications like Firefox and Wine to catch up, so they won't need to use XWayland as a fallback.

Really depends what your wants/needs are. Besides the NVIDIA situation, and the fact that most games will need XWayland for the foreseeable future, from what I've read there are still various input issues, e.g. mouse cursor issues with games. And then there's the fact that the screen recording and screen sharing tools people have been using don't work, copy and paste seems to work differently meaning potential issues with password managers and more.
And then there are general bugs that always come with huge rearchitecture efforts.

Do keep in mind this is something I've only read about Wayland, also fairly recently, but I don't have first-hand experience so I can't guarantee all of these are still issues. But for me even one of these would make switching now more annoying than the benefits touted.

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From reading all the issues people have with Wayland still, I've not even bothered to try it yet. Maybe 2020 will be the year of Wayland on the desktop.

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Quoting: BeamboomOh man that looked frustrating :D

Trust me, it is. A couple of the quotes in the trailer are from me.
On the other hand, it's really satisfying once you have gotten good enough to pass some area, so if you enjoy a challenge and can handle your alcohol you can certainly do worse than this game. It looks great too.

Edit: oh and about the alcohol, you need good hand/eye coordination so it's probably good to limit anyway, even though you only improve your physical health that way (and your mental health might deteriorate). :P

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Quoting: GuestI just downloaded it and tried it out on my Debian Stretch rig with a Q9650 and 750Ti. It runs flawlessly with the graphics set to Ultra but I can't really tell the FPS cause the FPS counter it has is confusing. It says 29/29/29 or 39/39/39 or somewhere around there. It feels like its around 40 or sometimes 50 FPS.

Format is minimum/current/maximum.

Thanks for the article Liam, and hopefully 0.9.4 will get even more praise. :)

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It's open source, but not Free Software.

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Quoting: liamdaweI think you missed the point. While SuperTuxKart might be a nice open source title, it's not going to be a game that can really draw people in. Articles like this are meant as a point of reference for when people ask "are there any really good/recent Linux racing games?" and things like that.

SuperTuxKart has it's own special mentions whenever major updates are released. We gave it a boost with the Greenlight submission, and we covered the last few releases.

Yeah you're right. I'm a bit tired and grumpy today, sorry for venting on you. You've given us great coverage of your own volition, and we're grateful for that.

I guess it's also the feeling that free and open source games are getting overshadowed by all the commercial games in recent years. But people should choose games not based on whether they're the only ones available, but because they're fun to play. And I find Dirt Rally very fun to play and there's no Free equivalent (can't be either because of car brand licensing).

BTW Stunt Rally is a nice FOSS racing game that's sadly no longer in development. It's sort of a mash-up between Stunts and a rally game, as the name implies. Would be great if anyone picked up the project.

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"Since" SuperTuxKart? We're not dead yet. And unlike proprietary games, you actually continue to get improvements and can make your own improvements. It will continue to work, and you can see what it's doing. I get it though - I also play proprietary games. But considering how much time and money people have given to games never living up to their promises of Linux support among other things it's a little sad that STK is considered cold leftovers. But thanks for the mention, especially further down in the article.

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From helping a little bit with a FLOSS game I can tell you the main issue is there are not enough people willing to put in the effort needed for something most consider unnecessary. When even RMS doesn't care much you know you're in the tiniest of niches.

Other Free and open source projects get people because they need the software to solve an issue. Games don't get the same treatment, and as you've already pointed out getting artists can be a huge problem. We have one person that's been with the project for years doing a lot of the art but frankly we could use at least ten people like him.

We get other art contributions as well, including having someone creating music for a while, but most of it are one-off contributions making it very difficult to get consistent art. Even the aforementioned long-time artist doing the bulk of the important art has grown as an artist and changed styles a couple times. And we don't have the luxury where we can demand he keeps to one style because if he goes away, there will most likely be almost no new or improved art for the foreseeable future.

I could go on but not sure how interesting people would find it anyway. Because it's a fact, games aren't as important as productivity software. But I do really wish more people would care about and especially contribute to open source games.

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I bought it but haven't done more than the two tutorial campaigns. The performance is not horrible but it stutters a bit, which I don't have a lot of tolerance for nowadays. I hope they'll fix it in time.

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Quoting: wleoncioThe lack of a clutch does take away a little bit of the realism, especially if you've driven manual cars, but at least for me it doesn't cut a significant part of the fun. Ditto for the sequential gears, as it only goes up and down and not in an H-pattern.

Anyway, the pedals are connected to the wheel through a VGA port, so I suppose you could switch them to another one with a clutch. Or maybe you can buy the 3-piece pedal separately and have it connect directly to your PC, perhaps using a cable like this one [External Link]. I've tried to find a testimony of someone who's actually done this, but got nothing.

Thank you again for the additional information. I am almost exclusively driving manual cars so I'm afraid a stick only going up and down also will not feel natural. How does it work in practice though? How does it know to gear down instead of up - do you have to brake while shifting down in order to gear down instead of going to a higher gear?

Looks like I may have to bite the bullet and go for the G29 and the separate stick shifter for it to get something suitable for manual gearing. However I'm not sure if I would be able to manual gear while driving Dirt Rally - might be too difficult to not use automatic gearing in that game. But I imagine it would be nice in Euro Truck since you don't need to shift up or down as quickly.

As a side note, Rocket League with a steering wheel might be interesting too - it's probably the vehicle-related game I play the most.

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