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Latest Comments by RussianNeuroMancer
Canonical drop the Unity desktop environment for Ubuntu favour of going back to GNOME
7 Apr 2017 at 10:40 am UTC

Quoting: EikeI'm sad that this puts the end to a possible alternative for mobile phones.
SailfishOS and Tizen is still around.

NVIDIA might have more open drivers in future on Linux
17 Mar 2017 at 5:11 am UTC Likes: 4

I'll believe it when I see it.

Valve have hired another developer to work on Linux graphics drivers
14 Mar 2017 at 3:28 pm UTC

Quoting: AnxiousInfusionMesa got over the major hurdles of reaching OGL 4.5 compliance finally.
Only for GCN and latest Intels, unfortunately.

DiRT Rally tested on R7 370 and an A10-9600p APU
4 Mar 2017 at 7:38 am UTC

Quoting: saildatamodern chips don't really see much benefit from governor changes
Check this: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-ryzen-gaming [External Link]

DiRT Rally tested on R7 370 and an A10-9600p APU
3 Mar 2017 at 8:41 pm UTC Likes: 1

Switching CPU governor from ondemand to performance could be very useful for running games on APU.

I finally completed Half-Life 2 on Linux and it was quite the experience
3 Mar 2017 at 8:36 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestSomeone gave me boxed version of that game when it came out and I never got around to installing it. I wonder if the serial would work for Steam.
HL2 was and still Steam-only, so it will work.

Looks like Telltale's 'The Walking Dead' may be coming to Linux
28 Feb 2017 at 11:01 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Grim85Didn't they have a Beta of their Minecraft Story, and it never got publicly released?
That probable because I drop this letter to dev:
Hello, Dave!
Is there plans to port other Telltale titles? Like Back to the Future, Walking Dead, Wolf Among Us, etc.?

I personally not interested in Minecraft at all, but would be happy to buy some other Telltale games (for example listed above) if this games will be ported.
I also asked if they using SDL2, and the answer was:
We are indeed using SDL2. =)

Thanks for your interest.
Anyway, Walking Dead will be instabuy for me, just like Life is Strange.

Wine 2.2 released with even more Shader Model 5 instructions and work towards Direct3D command stream
18 Feb 2017 at 5:28 am UTC

Win32 considered legacy even on Windows (UWP is new shiny thing) so if you hate WINE, you could also hate PCSX or DOSBox for same reasons.
As for WINE ports - I actually prefer to VP get money for eON ports (if Feral or Aspyr porting is not an option for developers).

Quoting: LeopardCustom wine version is really needed?
Yes, but I hope GalliumNine will get merged into Wine-Staging: https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/pull/333 [External Link]

Mesa has a patch from a Valve developer to help ARK Survival Evolved run on the open source drivers
3 Feb 2017 at 10:23 pm UTC Likes: 6

I don't think this is good idea. Wouldn't it will be better to ask game developers fix their engine?

I also pretty sure someday they will decide to update their engine, probably require higher OpenGL version, discover that Mesa for some reason report 3.2 to the game while support 4.5 or 4.6, they could make another workaround, instead of fixing thing right way, or straight declare Mesa as unsupported driver.

The story of grey market G2A worsens, I really do recommend to stay away
3 Feb 2017 at 4:49 am UTC

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThat is something that Steam, Humble, Greenman, GOG, etc will NEVER NEVER NEVER do because, unlike G2A, they don't understand how the real economy works outside their bubble...
Actually you can pay on Steam and GOG with Yandex.Wallet or QIWI Wallet (Russian electronic cash wallets) and you can pay with Bitcoin on Humble Store. So they do support local payment methods besides usual VISA/MasterCard/PayPal, but probably not for all countries.