Quoting: silmethAnd what’s IMO is worth pointing out – the kernel maintainers remain the same kernel maintainers. There are no personal changes into some hidden “SJW infiltrators”, whoever that would be.

Oh, really? You sure about that?

https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1042769399596437504 [External Link]

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Quoting: TuxeeI also find it highly amusing that the only ones kicking up a fuss and making it political...are the ones saying it shouldn't be political.

Did you miss the part where the author of the COC out right said that it was a POLITICAL document?

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Expect more and more of this. Just when GNU/Kernel was FINALLY getting to the point of being a viable platform for gaming, in come the corporate proxies shoving this COC and their politics down our collective throats. We DID not NEED this. We're already the underdog. And to the people supporting the COC, still think it's doing more good than harm?

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Perkeleen_Vittupää"Linux is a second class citizen, we don't run it internally because only 17 people use it"

https://mobile.twitter.com/garrynewman/status/615071229947564032?lang=en [External Link]

As I said before, he's blunt and sarcastic (and no that's not toxic), repeatedly digging up such a thing from years ago to get people all riled up isn't helpful.

Also, there's no need to instantly jump to grab your pitchforks guys. Like I said, we don't really know their reasoning, the issues with Unity and GPU drivers are quite literally out of their hands and it wouldn't surprise me if those are the causes of them doing this.

I don't think it's good that we found out like this, I do think they should have announced something when it happened or just after and not leave it up to us to let people know.

Oh, I'll tell you his reasoning, it's actually pretty simple. The only reason he exported a Linux version of Rust in the first place was because of the off chance SteamOS *might* have gone somewhere. Since it didn't/hasn't, he doesn't see the point in continuing support. Now, Garry has a chip on his shoulder as far as Linux and the community goes, so he's included some whinging about us with the announcement.

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Gotta be honest, I do not like this trend of proprietary emulators. It's one thing to have games be blobs, but emulators are the way we're going to preserve most of these games for future generations. They should be free as in freedom.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: orochi_kyoIt so easy to come here and sound like a popular guy between these selfish human beings who thinks devs doesnt have the right to have a minimal protection of their intellectual property.

I'm not interested disproving this nonsense for the Nth time already. I'll just sum up key points:

1. DRM doesn't protect any property, but it violates users' rights because it's unethical overreaching preemptive policing.
2. Reasons for using DRM aren't related to increasing sales, because in practice DRM only decreases them.

Yes but i can tell you immediately why DRM exists, Companies like money staff are fond of being paid too. If you release a game drm free on gog i can tell you for a fact it is up on torrent sites day and date and yes even the linux version have been going up lately too. I know this as one of the parts of my job is to monitor several torrenting severs to see what has been uploaded and how often and when gog launch a new game it typically gets uped exactly 5 hours after being avilable for purchase.

There is no evidence that piracy does anything to negatively effect the overall profit margins with most games. Hell, there is some evidence of the opposite. All DRM is, is a safety blanket for investors and suites.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Aspyr dont count anymore since they pretty much abanadoned linux a year ago.

Aspyr has basically almost fully transitioned into a publisher.

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Thankfully, Feral already has Metal AND Vulkan support baked into its wrapper tech.

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I know it's not gaming related, but it seems Krita IS depreciating Mac support in light of this news:

https://twitter.com/Krita_Painting/status/1003932780235980800 [External Link]

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I would also very much like to know what non-gaming projects like the GIMP, Blender and Krita think of this news.

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