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Latest Comments by Naib
Polychromatic front-end for managing Razer hardware on Linux gets an overhaul
12 Aug 2021 at 9:23 am UTC

Good good,

The WebKit was a PITA to build.
There is probably a new openRazor release soon as there are a number of fixes as well as a number of devices are queued for merging (including my nice keyboard \o/ )

I look forward to all the improvements KDE Plasma will get with the Steam Deck
10 Aug 2021 at 1:17 pm UTC Likes: 2

The desktop mode is probably the biggest thing to help Linux adoption.

The Desk booting straight into whatever will replace BigPicture makes it a easy to use portable gaming system and the fact it uses linux under the hood should be transparent to the end user (like Android is build on linux).

Why would a user consider playing with linux? until, at their leisure (ie not forced on them, which is key) they flick to a desktop which behaves like a linux machine and before you know it people will consider installing linux because its not that different - sure filesystem layout, package management ...

The tech savvy lot or the inquisitive lot could easily actively switch while those that are just consumers will still just follow whatever was setup for them.

Splitgate continues expanding server capacity and smashing records
9 Aug 2021 at 11:04 pm UTC

Had a few games this evening.
Has a tribes feel to it and twitchy firefights of quake

The portals feel gimicky but definetly a clutch save ability

Seems the Valve Steam Deck has been impressing people with some hands-on time
7 Aug 2021 at 5:13 pm UTC Likes: 4

oh FFS .... I an insisting on holding out until the 2nd manufacturing run but damn...

Open source Linux GPU drivers Mesa 21.2 released
5 Aug 2021 at 4:23 pm UTC

Quoting: kon14
Quoting: NaibIs the missing piece for Wayland and Nvidia ?

We have the driver (470). We have Xwayland (21.1.2). But there was still something missing
You can use Gnome and KDE on Wayland with Nvidia ever since 470, but you're doing so using the suboptibal EGL Streams backends while also being limited to these two compositors.

Mesa merged external GBM support so that Nvidia can finally work as expected on every sincle compositor, but we're still missing a new driver release adding Nvidia-side support for this.
Thats what I thought... I won't go near GNOME/KDE. You can launch sway/wayfire with 470 but it is slightly laggy and equally Xwayland is laggy... the missing part was obviously Nvidia accepting GBM so this mesa release closes it but yes... a new nvidia driver is needed. hopefully something soon to replace 470.57.02, maybe nvidia was waiting for mesa

Open source Linux GPU drivers Mesa 21.2 released
5 Aug 2021 at 2:24 pm UTC

Is the missing piece for Wayland and Nvidia ?

We have the driver (470). We have Xwayland (21.1.2). But there was still something missing

NVIDIA DLSS coming to Proton, plus GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti announced
1 Jun 2021 at 10:53 am UTC Likes: 1

Great ! And yes this hints the 470 series is due

Just wish you could buy some RTX cards... There are hints it's becoming easier, especially with the low hash rate tweaks to help gamers being leached by miners

System76 releases the open source Launch Configurable Keyboard
13 May 2021 at 5:34 pm UTC

Very nice!!!
Its a TKL configuration so no good for me, but I guess if it sells well they might do that as well...

Check out the Linux system specs needed for the Metro Exodus port releasing April 14
12 Apr 2021 at 4:28 pm UTC Likes: 7

crud... my GTX970 might finally be hitting is limit