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Mesa 20.1.0 drivers released
28 May 2020 at 12:07 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Patola* jealous of AMD GPU owners *

As a both Navi10 and Navi14 owner I agree, since I seem to have strong masochistic tendencies.

I have to update my rant from last fall ( https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/4128 ) with my most recent findings: It's nearly June now and the shit still hits the fan when you connect two displays.

Beyond Blue gets a release date, Linux looks to be later
27 May 2020 at 1:17 pm UTC

"The production team is working out a plan that will launch Linux as soon as we are able."

Which translates to: Never.

The Humble Indie Bundle 21 launches to mark the tenth anniversary
13 May 2020 at 9:16 am UTC Likes: 2

Guys, what did you expect? The first HBs were released when there was practically no Linux gaming in existence. It was sensational and the market share of the bundles by Linux users demonstrated this. Games were ported to Linux because of the bundles. Nowadays you get thousands of Linux titles and bundles, indie games frequently have same-day releases for Linux, too. With the advent of Steam and recently Proton there is just no place for Humble Indie Bundles anymore.

(And yes, they could have just left it there and skipped an anniversary bundle.)

GNOME launches a 'Community Engagement Challenge' with cash prizes
8 April 2020 at 11:28 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: gabber
QuoteHow well does this entry engage with communities and groups under-represented (e.g, women, non-binary, gender queer, or gender non-conforming) in the FOSS Community?

smh

Why? It's one of three "secondary considerations".

Ubuntu 20.04 has hit Beta (as have all the extra flavours) - help make it a release to remember
8 April 2020 at 9:31 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: slaapliedjeI think I can fairly bash them, I just installed the beta that I downloaded yesterday, and I can't even 'apt update' because it says the repos aren't valid for another 5 hours... wtf?

Cool story, bro.

I literally never got a response which told me that "repos are not valid until..". Occassionally regional repos can be lagging slightly behind the main repo (this goes unnoticed unless you switch to the main repo and an apt update reveals it). Last but not least you would be on a beta branch where certain problems might be expected.

Ubuntu 20.04 has hit Beta (as have all the extra flavours) - help make it a release to remember
6 April 2020 at 5:10 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: Tuxee
Quoting: slaapliedjeWait, what? They switched back to Gnome because they don't have the man power to work on Unity, which is just a gnome hack.

No its not. Unless we have quite different ideas what a "hack" is.
As far as everything I saw of it, they basically took gtk3 / gnome-shell and tweaked some things on it, made compoz sort of work with it and called it Unity.

What did you "see"? Did you dig into the code? I honestly didn't. But from the timeline alone that's already hard to accept: Unity was rolled out with 11.04 (the precursor came already with 10.10's netbook edition), pretty much exactly the same time as Gnome Shell 3.0 was presented. A cursory glance at the Wikipedia pages show that Gnome Shell is developed in C/JS, whereas Unity is written in C/C++/Python and Vala. Gnome Shell requires GDM, Unity requires LightDM, Nux instead of Clutter, Compiz instead of Mutter. If you wanted to use Gnome Shell on 11.04 you had to completely remove Unity beforehand.

They used the software stack of Gnome. But calling Unity a Gnome Shell hack is pretty far-fetched.
Quoting: slaapliedjeI never used it much because I hate having the dock take desktop space.

But you know it's a hack. This smells more like Canonical bashing.

Ubuntu 20.04 has hit Beta (as have all the extra flavours) - help make it a release to remember
6 April 2020 at 9:03 am UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeWait, what? They switched back to Gnome because they don't have the man power to work on Unity, which is just a gnome hack.

No its not. Unless we have quite different ideas what a "hack" is.

NVIDIA have a new Vulkan Beta Driver out for Linux - helping DOOM Eternal on Steam Play
3 April 2020 at 9:44 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: BrazilianGamerThat's awesome but there's a question that occurs to me every time I see these kinda news. Should I buy a Nvidia or an AMD card? Because on one hand, Nvidia is really spitting code on a weekly basis and really improving its drivers but on the other hand, AMD's driver is FOSS and is being improved at almost, if not the same pace as Nvidia's. What do you guys think about it?

You read my rant?

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/4128/

Situation now is ok-ish. But it took quite some time to get there.

The Humble Conquer COVID-19 Bundle is live with lots of Linux games and all going to charity
3 April 2020 at 8:43 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: sprocketIronic, considering us Linux users are all about freedom.

It is more important than ever that we resist vendor lock-in and DRM, and fight the good fight in favor of consumer rights, pandemic or no.

...says the user with the proprietary NVidia driver.

(Seriously: I consider this "games have to be DRM free" standpoint expressed by quotes like "fighting the good fight" just childish. We are talking about games - not the cure for cancer. Besides: There are plenty of DRM free games - even in this bundle.)

The Humble Conquer COVID-19 Bundle is live with lots of Linux games and all going to charity
1 April 2020 at 7:38 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: The_Aquabatare we sure that this is going to the people in need in Italy, Spain or Usa. Because the last thing I knew is that European bureaucracy were locking funds away from Italians. shameful .

Are there any trustworthy sources on that? Besides you are funding organizations like Medicines Sans Frontieres who are now very present throughout Europe. (And they've been active in the US for years - just like in other developing nations.)