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Dead by Daylight now works on Linux desktop and Steam Deck
5 May 2023 at 11:37 am UTC Likes: 2

finally!

great news! more good multiplayer games on linux

Xwayland Video Bridge created to improve Linux screen sharing
24 Mar 2023 at 4:31 pm UTC

Quoting: Marlock
Quoting: minidou
The problem is that currently in the likes of Discord, MS Teams, Slack, Zoom and others that you run through Xwayland, you may end up with a black screen and no windows listed — this should solve it.
I don't understand which case this will help that xdg-desktop-portal-wlr doesn't handle.
If you read the details you'll see their app is a convenient GUI for a non-expert user to be able to leverage what already exists (xdg-portals, pipewire, etc) through a system tray minimalist app

how do you leverage xdg-desktop-portal-wlr at the moment?
The way I understand it, it's a sort of proxy for screen sharing. It exposes whatever you want on any graphic server, which can then be acquired by most apps.

I guess I'll have to try to understand better, but teams pwa in wayland+gnome is already great (https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/issues/107 aside), I suppose it's only relevant for older configurations.

Xwayland Video Bridge created to improve Linux screen sharing
23 Mar 2023 at 5:39 pm UTC

The problem is that currently in the likes of Discord, MS Teams, Slack, Zoom and others that you run through Xwayland, you may end up with a black screen and no windows listed — this should solve it.
works fine here on latest gnome and teams pwa.

I don't understand which case this will help that xdg-desktop-portal-wlr doesn't handle.

The upcoming Team Fortress 2 update may not be as big as expected
20 Feb 2023 at 11:25 am UTC Likes: 2

As predicted, it's a simple community update. It's no surprise, it's not like anyone has been working on the game for the past 10 years. Of course, still no mention of anti botting and anti cheating update.

Valve promise a proper big Team Fortress 2 update is coming
10 Feb 2023 at 5:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

No mention of anti cheat and bot. Update padding with community content.

I'm not getting my hopes up.

Team Fortress 2 update adds VScript and you can now run Linux inside it
3 Dec 2022 at 2:13 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: fagnerlnErrrr... Is that secure? The game already has cheating issues, what can go wrong when someone execute an OS on it?
And rampant bot issue.

KDE are raising funds for the Kdenlive video editor
20 Sep 2022 at 5:29 pm UTC Likes: 2

I've been using shotcut for a while because it's so easy to use, but it lack good object tracking or a way to plug opencv. What's the object tracking status in Kdenlive ?

Valve dev understandably not happy about glibc breaking Easy Anti-Cheat on Linux
17 Aug 2022 at 11:49 am UTC

But irrelevant when compared to the importance of not breaking user space.
Nothing got broken. A two decade of depcrecation function got removed, but nothing broken. Or do we just expect everything to be forever maintained ?

Quoting: TheSHEEEPAlso, so what if they did that 20 years ago?
Somehow, EAC and a bunch of others still ended up using that function. Probably looked something up online, copied the function, it worked and that's it. Or had auto-complete suggest something, or whatever.
You can't expect programmers to double-check every single function they use for possible deprecation, that's absurd.
I don't expect anyone to check, I expect a CI or a quality gate to stop them from shipping.

Quoting: TheSHEEEPDeprecation warnings in compilations get overlooked.
That's not good, you can call it bad practice or whatever makes you feel good about yourself, but in practice, it happens. A lot. And that's the reality that has to be dealt with, not some kind utopia in which programmers have eradicated bad practice...
I'll call it bad practice, or just not being up to 2022 standards.