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Looks like Telltale's 'The Walking Dead' may be coming to Linux
28 Feb 2017 at 8:09 pm UTC

I *may* care about the GoT novel(s), if they were released next.

System76 have refreshed their most powerful Linux laptops now with 7th Gen Intel CPUs
25 Feb 2017 at 7:28 am UTC

Quoting: ShoNuff!!!I have heard all the comments about... but they support linux (and so on) but to be honest.... there are cheaper alternatives that work just as well with linux if you know how to configure. The first thing I did when I got my Galagos was wipe it and install Arch and have had no issues...
I suspect the reason for your flawless experience might be related to the fact that Sys76 upstreams their kernel work. But I'm just guessing...

System76 have refreshed their most powerful Linux laptops now with 7th Gen Intel CPUs
18 Feb 2017 at 10:53 am UTC

Yes, shipping/taxes to Europe is a bitch. If only there was a way around that :D

Wine 2.2 released with even more Shader Model 5 instructions and work towards Direct3D command stream
18 Feb 2017 at 10:41 am UTC

Quoting: no_information_here
Quoting: [email protected]Wine IS one of those reasons.
If the number of Linux desktop users is small, and the number of Linux gamers is smaller. What is the number of them who will buy a game just to manually run it on Wine? What if that game is already old and a percentage of us already own it from a bundle or a nostalgia sale?
Except wine supports up to D3D9 just fine now, AFAIK. Hence further development will only push it beyond that. I do not call DX10+ games 'old'. IMHO the wine project should switch to .NET/Adobe/MS/etc app compatibility as their main focus now. But that's not going to happen because wine is mainly supported by codeweavers and games is where the money is.

HITMAN released for Linux, initial port report and two gameplay videos
17 Feb 2017 at 6:18 pm UTC

Quoting: nIQnutnI definitely need a better GPU.
I played low settings 1920x1080 and mostly between 20-30fps.
:'(
What's your card?

HITMAN released for Linux, initial port report and two gameplay videos
16 Feb 2017 at 7:47 pm UTC

It says Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 is minimum. However, I often find these 'minima' unrealistic. It would be nice to hear if anyone has tried it with a ~ GTX 550 Ti. Although, I guess the difference between the 2 may be too great to ignore this time :/

Microsoft announces new DirectX Shader Compiler that's open source
24 Jan 2017 at 6:07 pm UTC

Now, how about a FOSS de-/cross-compiler plz?

No?

Thought so.

We now have a Matrix chat room setup with an IRC bridge if you want to join
24 Jan 2017 at 6:03 pm UTC

88.119.151.82
Quoting: liamdawe
Quoting: minjNot convinced. IRC will stay forever, this will go away in a year. I'd rather everyone went tox instead.
It's been around since 2014, it has already been here for a few years now.
It's not around for anyone until (s)he hears of it. And this is the first time I've heard of it so...

I applaud it for openness but HTTP (and the underlying TCP tbh) are dead weights these days

We now have a Matrix chat room setup with an IRC bridge if you want to join
24 Jan 2017 at 2:57 am UTC

Not convinced. IRC will stay forever, this will go away in a year. I'd rather everyone went tox instead.