Latest Comments by Luke_Nukem
Explicit Sync Wayland Protocol Merged, Wayland Protocols 1.34 released
25 March 2024 at 11:57 pm UTC Likes: 2

Just to add a tidbit more info to the above:

The graphics stack in Linux was designed around openGL, which is inherently implicit sync. At the time the entire openGL spec was single threaded state machine and so the sync was implicit from that. Later came threaded openGL, but the state-machine design stayed.

So the reality is we have a ton of very slow moving legacy to deal with.

Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time
1 March 2024 at 5:37 am UTC

I really really do not understand the nvidia hate. It's frankly fucking ridiculous at times.

Nevertheless, hurrah for NVK and Faith. The experience when I tested it a few weeks ago was actually very good and I could run quite a few games. However I do wonder how ray tracing will shape up...

The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released
28 February 2024 at 5:39 pm UTC Likes: 3

The biggest thing about KDE 6 for me is that nvidia outputs on a hybrid laptop are now really really smooth. I've been running KDE 6 for a month on fedora and I've only got positive things to say (so much that it got me off of gnome)

Okay boomers, you get a shooter category on Steam now
8 January 2024 at 6:40 pm UTC Likes: 5

Should have called them "Doom clones" like they were actually called in the 90s. Fucking hate that "boomer shooter" term.

MSI teasing a handheld gaming PC like the Steam Deck
5 January 2024 at 12:58 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: TruckStopSantaClausWondering when (if ever) one of these things will come with they're own Linux OS, Windows just seems like a bad fit for handhelds. Would love to see a new handheld come with something tailor made for it running inside.

Valve are open to helping OEM's support SteamOS, but I suspect that the OEMs want it to be more of a one-way street with Valve doing all the work.

Windows is a flatout fucking terrible OS for handhelds - try getting through all the numerous reboots, privacy garbage, other setup screens etc.

Linux Mint planning an upgraded EDGE ISO with kernel 6.5
4 January 2024 at 6:51 pm UTC

They're going to find it harder and harder to keep using ancient shit as a base. It's fucking ridiculous that they used such an old kernel for so long in the first place.

And 6.5 kernel is EOL https://endoflife.date/linux

Cautiously hyped for Light No Fire from the No Man's Sky team at Hello Games
10 December 2023 at 7:39 am UTC Likes: 2

If there is no running water I'm going to be pissed.

Static water bodies feel so damned lifeless in NMS - needs waterfalls and rivers.

Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update brings Half-Life: Uplink, Steam Deck support
21 November 2023 at 12:48 am UTC

Quoting: RavenWings
Quoting: Luke_NukemBloody hell... I remember being uber excited by Half-Life: Uplink. Really feeling my age now.
Back then, Uplink impressed me to no end and made me really exited for the full game, but it still didn´t prepare me for the real impact of Half-Life. I´ve been gaming since the mid 80s starting with C64 and NES and I´ve seen some games do a sudden leap into the next generation of gaming, but Half-Life felt like it skipped a whole generation just like that.

I'll never forget the very first time on the train. Everything around me just tuned right out.

And then internet cafes started springing up mostly centered around Counterstrike tournaments