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Quoting: Liam DaweThe perils of using closed source stuff for something like a UI, they've now been given the source

Hopefully they will submit patches upstream (and they will get accepted!), so anyone else using this can also benefit.

I believe Coherent UI isn't even a thing now, Coherent replaced it with GT and then Gameface so Coherent UI is quite old and not exactly supported which is why I assume Planetary Annihilation Inc now have the source to fix it themselves.

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Have emailed Valve about the Steam Controller, awaiting a response.

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Yeah I saw the OMG piece, as always though you can cherry pick comments about anything from anywhere to show some people have it good and some have it bad.

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Samsai also tried it on Wayland, didn't quite work there either but did on xorg.

Actually it does work under Xwayland but it seems some compositors are "better" at it than others. It seemed to work quite nicely on my Gnome session using Xwayland with mesa 19.2.4 on a RX480.

Addition : it's a crapshoot it worked flawless this afternoon and after some more testing (to prove Samsai wrong no less) it just started failing more and more.

Nice to see some progress was made but why did it take them about 4 years to get it to work on anything other than nvidia blobs???

The perils of using closed source stuff for something like a UI, they've now been given the source: https://twitter.com/PA_the_game/status/1199402341897621504?s=19 [External Link]

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Quoting: wytrabbitHow does the multiplayer work? Like are there lobbies/servers you can browse or do you have to already have an address to connect to?

You go to the lobby and find a game in the list or host your own :)

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Quoting: BeamboomI don't understand why it shouldn't work - it's just using standard streaming protocols. I mean, yeah sure things happen, but this is almost like celebrating that a website working on Linux too. If I am allowed to be a bit stingy here. :)

Just because something is in a browser, does not mean it will work on Linux. We've seen it time and time again with various things locked down somehow. I believe it's important to let people know what works on Linux, that's the reason we are here after all isn't it.

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Quoting: MayeulCStuff

Samsai also tried it on Wayland, didn't quite work there either but did on xorg.

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Quoting: kibblesBut on a simpler note, don't buy this crap, don't support google, ever.

To each their own, as I always say. Some may like Stadia, some may not. There is no one size fits all, or no "right way" to play games.

Quoting: kibblesThis isn't mentioned much but the controller has a microphone build in supposedly to talk to help chat. Yeah. I'm sure it won't be remotely toggled like all the other products they make. (if you disagree then congratulations for waking from your 10 year coma!)

It's mentioned in the article, has been since the moment it was published.

Quoting: kibblesAlso I expect this to join all the other products here [External Link] in the near future.

How many of them were actually useful? How many were sold products? It's a nice list, but it's just a list. You could make the same about MSFT, Apple, Canonical and plenty of others even just in the Linux space. I've changed and removed plenty of features on GOL over the years. Some of that list don't even make sense, listing old hardware like Nexus phones - every hardware company ends lines and starts new ones.

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Quoting: dpanter"retro arade" huh? Clever girl... :wink:

Fixed.

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Quoting: Patola

The awesome free and open source 3D creation suite, Blender, had another update lately. Not a massive feature update like Blender 2.8, with 2.81 including thousands of bug fixes but it did come with some feature improvements too like an overhaul of the sculpting workflow, some experimental NVIDIA RTX support (supported on Linux too!) and so on.

I can't find any clear instructions to enable RTX processing on Blender Linux though. Any help on this? I have downloaded and installed OptiX and I am using Blender 2.82 alpha precompiled from a PPA, do I need a specially compiled edition of Blender?

What driver do you have? States it needs 435.12 at least, more here [External Link].

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