Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: chuzzle44

Quoting: LoftyEmulation is meant for game preservation and nostalgia.

Emulation is meant for emulation. Please don't fall into the trap that so many do, pigeonholing emulation (or anything else) by saying "it's just for this" and that anything that falls outside that specific use is somehow wrong. People want to play games. Many people want to play games in the best possible situation, be that comfort, visual quality, features, etc.... The Nintendo Switch is not the best platform to play games.

And personally, I believe that people should have the right to use a piece of software any way they choose. DRM, platform exclusives, attacking emulation, I see all this as dismissing and undermining the fundamental right to your own property. If I want to buy a Tesla battery pack, a Nissan Leaf drivetrain, and shove them both into a completely different vehicle, that's my prerogative. Digital property should be no different.

Don't agree things have to go to that extreme. I know emulation is for emulating of course, it goes without saying but in general emulation has been the preservation and re-living of old memories.
With regards to game DRM it's bad especially when it reduces the quality of the experience ( or stops it working on Linux ) but here we are talking about playing games that are readily available on a modern device that is within it's lifecycle that work as intended on the platform they are designed for, meaning In terms of running games at a better quality if it's a modern release it's almost always most likely on PC anyway. In many ways the cross platform revolution already happened.

That said, i think a creator has the right to stipulate where they sell their wares and how. That too is a fundamental right, although i could see how some people might disagree with that, it is what it is.

I don't think it actually matters what the motivation of people is to emulate games. As long as they bought the software they should have every right to use it as they like. If people use it for piracy then well you can also use a knife for multiple purposes. Note that I am not disagreeing with your last statement, but I don't see any impact an emulator has on the how and where creators choose to sell. To be blunt, this reads a bit like an apology for Nintendo's handling of the situation, which isn't the first rodeo where Nintendo has shown its anti-consumer stance.

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I am seriously considering buying one if the prices are right when they launch in EU/Germany.
My r9 380x is really showing its age, not because of the games I play (mostly CS & some older games like Gothic/Risen)
but because of the lack of ray tracing and computing.
AMD's Rocm sadly isn't working and I believe its partly due to the more closed source approach there.
Intel's computing libraries with oneAPI on the other hand are more open source, but I am not sure about the support of
third party libraries there. Support in e.g. pyTorch and Blender would be great.
And I would just love to experiment with ray tracing for some of my own game engine experiments.

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Quoting: Samsai

Quoting: vildravn

Quoting: Samsai... When I switched to Fedora Silverblue ...

Oh hey a Silverblue user with sort of similar specs to mine! How do you like it for gaming, if I can ask? :)

Works about as well as anything else. Steam runs as a Flatpak and I maintain a Toolbx container for the miscellaneous Itch.io and GOG games that require more specific dependencies. There are some annoyances, like for instance I haven't found a reliable way to run SC Controller yet, but generally speaking it hasn't gotten between me and my games at all. Most stuff just runs OOTB on the Steam Flatpak and for the rest I can drop down to a Toolbx and pretend it's an ordinary Fedora.

The real benefits of Silverblue are obviously elsewhere. I like the simplicity of the system updates and separation of system, apps and development environments. Being able to rollback bad updates (including OS version updates) and updating my dev environments separately from my system is also neat.

If you like those features you should definitly take a look at nixos. It is a bit more work to get going and knowing the Nix language is kinda a requirement, but other than that it is a great experience. The unstable branch is sometimes well a bit unstable but in the 6 month or so I never had bigger problems with the stable branch.

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Quoting: MordragIs there any way to support them ? Given the situation I definitly think many would happily pay to support this ...

I'm not sure if them earning money with the project wouldn't actually hurt their position in court.
Unless you mean like a fund raiser for lawyer costs.

Yes that is what i meant, I can imagine Take Two has some advantage with the amount of money the can throw at their lawyers

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Is there any way to support them ? Given the situation I definitly think many would happily pay to support this ...

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Nice I am really looking forward to more and more stores coming to lutris.
What I do not really understand is, why legendary was not used for the implementation, but I am sure they have their reasons :)

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: Mordrag

Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: Luca_PioBut do you use legendary for the client to download the games?

From what I see it just installs the full blown Epic Windows client, and then you use that to install your game.
At least this is what it did for me when I tried to install GTAV.

No that is just because you probably used an old installation script. The integration is similar to humble or gog. I would guess that they use legendary as it is both written in python but I am not sure

I just linked my Epic account to Lutris (the same way I did for GOG and Humble) and choose to install the game. Not sure how else it should be done.
https://youtu.be/5vm4yqOqPlY [External Link]

Ah yes sorry I had epic games already installed so I thought I wouldn't need it. That is really unfortunate. Hopefully they will add support over legebdar as well but my github issue https://github.com/lutris/lutris/issues/2891 [External Link] got closed recently.

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Yeah it was more like a interactive movie but I really like the first one as well

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Quoting: dubigrasu

Quoting: Luca_PioBut do you use legendary for the client to download the games?

From what I see it just installs the full blown Epic Windows client, and then you use that to install your game.
At least this is what it did for me when I tried to install GTAV.

No that is just because you probably used an old installation script. The integration is similar to humble or gog. I would guess that they use legendary as it is both written in python but I am not sure

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Quoting: NociferSomebody should inform them post-haste about a certain little thingy called the AUR.

(j/k, I know that this is all marketing, and marketing describes the world how you wish it to look like for your target audience, not how it really is.)

Yeah well and the target audience are windows switcher who dont necesarily want the hustle with aur, i know with manjaro for example it is pretty easy to install aur stuff, but still there is many software wich does in fact not run properly on manjaro (on arch is does, but there is no support for manjaro here). I am myself running manjaro and i am really happy about it, but for my parents zorin is a perfect fit.

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