As a long time Fedora user, I welcome this decision.
Ubuntu dropping Unity alongside MIR will finally bring back convergence in the Linux Desktop.
Re-inventing the wheel for business purpose was their worst call ever.

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Quoting: aldyHow is the performance near Gastown? This was the most demanding area in the OpenGL version.

Quoting: BeamboomOk, wow. I am blown away by the difference. And this is no demo but a real world example. Utterly promising.

Please Feral dude, stop by and explain to us why exactly the difference is this major, even on a ported title?

For the most part Mad Max on GL is CPU bound - ie. limited by the single threaded CPU performance on the GL thread. We already use a separate thread for GL dispatch but this doesn’t mean GL itself is multithreaded.

Vulkan helps us massively here, as you can see in the graphs, and is almost always GPU bound now. If you've got the time to spec this out you could look into average GPU utilisation (using nvidia-smi) with GL and with Vulkan, and you'll see the difference.

To be clear the benchmark areas are some of the absolute *worst* cases for the CPU, designed that way so we could target the issue directly. That obviously produces some skewed results towards the best case for Vulkan, but I'd hope the jump in performance across the board proves it's not just a one off.

Other games might not get as large a boost, the exact benefits very much depend on if the game is CPU or GPU bound and why.

Quoting: elmapulwait, this is a linux only feature or windows is supported?

Linux only.

I'm wondering if such a gain could be obtained from Deus Ex. It seems the most demanding game you ever ported on Linux so far. As it already has a DX12 renderer, I believe the port to Vulkan should be easier.

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I hope Feral relations with WB are still good after the Batman fiasco.
I definitely want to play this game on Linux !

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Quoting: autonomouseHere you go: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/06/howto-host-your-own-snap-store.html [External Link]

I don't mean any offence here, but I wanted to set the record straight. It's a company made up of some of the most intelligent, talented, passionate and idealistic people I have ever met. Oh, and me.

I like what they stand for and what they do and I don't like seeing them framed as the root of all evil when all they ever tried to do was build something for people to use.

I like Red Hat too. What I don't like is the way the companies seem to fight like an old married couple. They have far more in common than they have differences. I wish the two companies would get over it amdcollaborate more, but I guess seeing as though they're competitors in the server space, some of the debates spill over to the desktop world.

I already acknowledged that as I mentioned above... I wasn't aware of that because they provided this solution after the community complains about Snapcraft.
I also don't think the issue with Canonical is about a NIH syndrome, I think it's more about project governance.
They want to control the big projects they rely on, their controversial CLA is another evidence of their stance on that matter.

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Quoting: seb24Nop Snappy propose this function : https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/blog/2016/11/16/snapping-qt-apps/ [External Link]
And you can add use different repo and add various stores. In fact it's a nice solution for Steam because they can really easily integrate a proper Steam Snapp repo in steam.

Is this really the same ?
Flatpack's runtime have a namespace, and they can be installed in parallel, you can have different version for different apps. The system automatically remove duplication, so you only have what you need installed.
Well, for the store it seems you can setup your own, but the whole publication process seems a lot simpler with Flatpack (Flatpack repo is more like a PPA).

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Quoting: Spyker

Quoting: mehari95Does anyone know why they chose Flatpak over Snap?

Flatpack has one advantage over snap, like the possibility to bundle a runtime containing common dependencies shared between Flatpack packages. Thus Flatpack packages tends to be much smaller than snap ones. The runtime can be updated separately providing benefits for all other Flatpack apps without breakage.

Snappy have the same functionality ^^ .

As far as I know only Flatpack provides this feature...
Another drawback for snappy is you cannot set up a third party repo for it (only the one from Canonical is allowed), which is probably the biggest issue for Valve.

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Quoting: mehari95Does anyone know why they chose Flatpak over Snap?

Flatpack has one advantage over snap, like the possibility to bundle a runtime containing common dependencies shared between Flatpack packages. Thus Flatpack packages tends to be much smaller than snap ones. The runtime can be updated separately providing benefits for all other Flatpack apps without breakage.

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It seems those devs never heard of the Steam Runtime.
No need to target a specific distro, just build with the Steam Runtime and your game will run basically on any Linux distribution able to run the Steam client.

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Don't hold your breath guys.
Unreal's Vulkan support is only available for Android right now.
I wouldn't be surprised if Unity build it for the Google's platform first.

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