FINALLY!
Another half year to implement it properly and we are on a brink of year of Linux Desktop! And Half life 3 is going to be released around same time. And I will find a girl friend.

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Would play it if not for PayToWin(pay to rest your crew, pay for certain behind paywall vehicles, etc.)

I have no problem to pay for game ones. But certainly not over 100$ a year for subscription game.

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A few years too late.
Most of features are already implemented in KDE + MPV and on the way to Gnome.

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For Firefox users there is also this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/protondb-for-steam/?utm_content=addons-manager-reviews-link&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_source=firefox-browser [External Link]

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Quoting: soulsourceI was aware that some distributions disable ICMP for regular users, but this is the first time I am wondering why they actually do that.

Does anyone know?

Quoting: soulsourceI was aware that some distributions disable ICMP for regular users, but this is the first time I am wondering why they actually do that.

Does anyone know?

I think it does something else compared to what you think it does.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sysctl#Allow_unprivileged_users_to_create_IPPROTO_ICMP_sockets [External Link]
I am not a native english speaker, but way I understand it works(suspect) is this:
Their server or whatever sends a ping/packet/whatever from itself to client machine on some port 1-1000(which in linux is a restrictive set of ports, that is ONLY allowed to be opened by default by a root user, by default on most Linuxes anyway).
And by receiving this packet on some port, client machine OS send back a ICMP reply. Which later on that reply is being judged for some glitch/network delay exploit detection.
If set permission is not set an default policy of OS is not to respond - ICMP reply will not be generated/send. Hence it breaks their anticheat.

Its all speculation of course.

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Quoting: dimkoIs it pay to win?

I did some googling, and yes, it is.
Ill pass...

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Is it pay to win?

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Quoting: BdMdesigNThe Ashes of Singularity Game will support Vulkan, i think ?!?

All the Game Dev's who supports Linux today, they will support Vulkan too.

They support also mantle and DX12. And no, not everyone who supports Linux will support Mantle.

I can imagine, porters who only port games from DX11 will not port to Vulcan. Same porters who port openGL game to Linux will not make it magically Vulcan game.

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Quoting: KwaadpepperConsidering Osx is like 4%, GNU/Linux is lke 1%, and developers are like, we develop only for Windows and Mac because of the market share and stuff, also the recent move from ***** Apple - which i hate, but just my taught - to port and only use their Metal API so Vulkan just won't bring peace into that platform as well as everywhere else.
I seriously think the only argument is the mobile one from Vulkan advantages and performances (but harder to implement though).
I'm afraid this might not be enough and we won't see Linux overtake on Windows because of this Apple idiots. What a shame exactly as Canonical with their Mir instead of Wayland. Peoples work hard to bring good solutions and no some troublemakers decide we won't have some progress.
So i think devs might stick to DX12 and use Metal, thats what may going to happen and my greatest fear, am i wrong ?

I wonder, how much money Mac gamers spend and how much Linux user spend. While sheer number is high, it means not translation into money.

Also, I wouldn't worry about Mir, it will not do much harm. Ubuntu is loosing popularity. Either Ubuntu devs change graphical system or they become irrelevant. Same Ubuntu will have package for Wayland/Weston. Mir and Weston are probably mutually exclusive, at least at run time. And even if Mir doesn't die, as long as openGL and Vulkan games run under it - nothing to worry about.

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Quoting: Comandante oardoI would like to see Nvidia Physx on Linux... So I can use a big card for gaming and an small card for physics.

Thats the beauty of Vulkan, you will be able to use both. I have gtx 660 dusting on the shelf. Once any good game comes out with Vulkan support, it goes back in.

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