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Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing gets a huge physics update, new racing environment
27 Jan 2022 at 3:54 pm UTC

You guys should give https://www.velocidrone.com [External Link] a bit of love :). It's the best racing Sim out there and has Linux support. It's so good that pilots use it to train for real events.
I have nothing against Liftoff, but the competitive scene is mainly at Velocidrone.

Valve adds documentation for Steam Deck development, suggests Manjaro Linux for now
12 Nov 2021 at 10:51 am UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: rustybroomhandleSteam Deck won't ship with 5.14, it will likely be 5.15. Manjaro does currently have a 5.15rc selectable in kernels, but will likely get 5.15 soon. This is all relevant because 5.15 contains things that will affect how proton games run.
It's delayed until February, so 5.16 is more likely. (with even more Valve goodies in the kernel)

Collabora share big progress on the Wine compatibility layer with Wayland
21 Feb 2021 at 4:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ShmerlNice progress. Looking forward to switching to the Wayland session when KWin / KWinFT will also add adaptive sync support. That is a bigger deal breaker than the need to use XWayland for Wine currently.
VRR is planned for 5.22 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/718 [External Link]

Proton 5.13-5 is now up bringing in some of the experimental changes
15 Jan 2021 at 12:57 pm UTC

Quoting: BeamboomI wonder if that means that right now the "experimental" branch is behind? I've not noticed experimental getting a new version lately.
It's not, Just click on the link to the changelog.

Quoting: axredneckWhat is a right way to use Proton outside Steam?
You don't! Just use lutris wine or for latest patches wine from Tk-Glitch or GloriousEggroll.
(even lutris removed proton support because it causes wired bugs outside of steam)

Stadia hits 100 games with Far Cry 5 and New Dawn out now, gets Family Sharing
9 Nov 2020 at 3:57 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: RandomizedKirbyTree47Yet, somehow, most threads about Steam games aren't filled with complaints that you'll lose all your Steam games (or at least, you won't be able to install them on any new computer) if Valve ever goes out of business.
Well, people talked about nothing else the first ~5'ish years of Steam. Then they got used to it, like they will to streaming services like Stadia.

Humble Choice for November is up with Imperator Rome, Darkwood and more
7 Nov 2020 at 2:54 pm UTC

Youropa [External Link] is a gorgeous and unique puzzle platformer and works mostly perfekt on proton (character customisation isn't working). Y'all should give it a try :)

Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer vkd3d-proton has a 2.0 release
6 Nov 2020 at 11:01 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Trias"You're going to need the most up to date drivers possible to use it fully. For AMD that means Mesa's RADV driver ...".

Just to clarify, this "Mesa's RADV driver" is some different Mesa driver from what I'm getting from Kisak-Mesa PPA, yes? Eh, I think I'll wait a bit...
RADV is Mesas vulkan driver for AMD gpus. It's exactly what you get from Kisak-Mesa PPA. Just not new enough. Mesa 20.3 is scheduled for december.

Steam Beta adds Vulkan shader processing
26 May 2020 at 10:44 am UTC

It only uses one thread on my system (zen3 and polaris [mesa master]).

Psyonix are ending support for Rocket League on both Linux and macOS (updated)
25 Jan 2020 at 5:07 pm UTC

Quoting: Cyril... this is indeed terrible for us and for Apple users...
Well, they have to drop it anyways for apple users. Because macOS Catalina will not support 32bit software anymore.

Psyonix are ending support for Rocket League on both Linux and macOS (updated)
24 Jan 2020 at 10:47 am UTC

Quoting: Liam DaweMy request was denied last night, I've put a new one in now, let's see.
BTW Psyonix_Devin said yesterday on reddit

Hi everyone, if you are playing RL on macOS or Linux and are interested in a refund, please contact our Customer Care team here: https://support.rocketleague.com/ [External Link]
https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/eswu1s/rocket_league_ending_support_for_mac_and_linux/ffd835b/?context=1000 [External Link]