I think I mix this up with Elementary OS sometimes. They're quite different. :-)

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Quoting: Badukdoes that mean that my fully AMD PC will run my games even faster ?

Awsome !

Not really, for desktop systems you get the best performance by blasting full power.

However on an APU (like the Steam Deck) with a shared power budget between CPU and GPU, this can help give the GPU some more power by saving a bit on the CPU...

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I kickstarted it and got it for Android, but now I wish I had it on Steam instead...

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So... it actually works better on Linux than Windows because of the headphone thing?! :-D

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Quoting: TheRiddickDefaulting to X11 until they get full display control and management integrated in Wayland... it still not possible to execute display adjustments or ICC controls correctly like how xgamma or xrandr allowed (often made available in WM settings or GUI tools).

Wayland still has loads of little problems that all add up.. X11 does too but actually has solutions to them for the most case!

Those sound more like problems for a desktop environment than for a game.

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The Windows version didn't work with Proton for me btw.

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Quoting: slapinThat is quite stupid as they could check for wayland session, I wonder why this even needed, PR? or RedHat paid them?

When an SDL2 game starts it tries to find a display. SDL 2.0.20 and earlier checked for an X11 display first and through the magic of XWayland they found one. And this was the desired outcome also since there were still a number of bugs in SDL's Wayland backend.

But now with basically all the (known) bugs fixed in the Wayland backend, they can check for a pure Wayland server first before checking for an X11 connection.

I.e, they changed the priority of the backends now that most SDL2-Wayland bugs are fixed.

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Quoting: slapinThat won't affect SDL1 games.

Right, this is SDL2 so SDL2 games only!

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So you can use SDL 2.0.22 to run Linux native SDL games without XWayland, like Stellaris, Factorio, Jupiter Hell.
They usually ship with their own copy of SDL but you can override it with SDL_DYNAMIC_API=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 for example.

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That's not really correct... They have ray tracing support with AMDGPU Pro, on Ubuntu 20.04.

But yeah, nobody uses that 😁

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