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Quoting: fenglengshunHm... and the NVK isn't a kernel driver? I think it's in Mesa, so does that mean it's the userspace driver? Sorry, really don't know about the details - all I've been hearing is about how NVK is supposed to be a replacement for Nouveau.

nvk is a Vulkan implementation that uses the kernel driver, so no, it's not a kernel driver itself. So it's either nvk + nouveau or nvk + nova.

Or NVK + Zink, which at this point seems the efficient solution. I do not know, I cannot bring myself to be interested in this project :neutral:

Stricly speaking it would be Nova + nvk + zink.
Nova controlling the GPU directly, NVK using Nova to run Vulkan on the GPU, and Zink running OpenGL on Vulkan.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI really don't like companies beholden to Wallstreet Stock Investors. The companies have 2 masters and they always pick their stock holders over their customers -- infact it's legally codified that they are required to otherwise they could be sued for not squeezing every dollar and cent.

That's not really true. Officers of the company have a duty to act for the benefit of the company, and can be sued if they don't - that much is true. But that doesn't mean they're required to maximizes short term profit at the detriment of long term value - that would just be dumb.

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Rodent Games is such a cute developer name

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APICO and One Step from Eden seem interesting

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleStories like this happen every few years. In the early 2010s, a local government in some European city (I forget which) announced they were entirely switching to Linux in all their public service departments. 2 weeks go by, "no, sorry we're sticking with Windows". Turns out they had a visit from a Microsoft sales rep.

The city was Munich, and they didn't change their minds after 2 weeks - they actually switched to Linux (the switch started in 2004 and took until 2013), and then switched back (2017) when another party took over the city government after the election. Microsoft moved their German HQ to the city as part of the deal.

https://itsfoss.com/munich-linux-failure/ [External Link]

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Quoting: ChesckDamn this looks like yet another huge win for Godot. Since the Switch is the main console Indie devs tend to want to port to, now having apparently a free option to do that may make the biggest disadvantage Godot had a lot less disadvantageous.

The downside is that this is out of tree - we don't know how easy it will be to keep up to date with future Godot versions. Think of how Nvidia drivers routinely break with new kernel releases. Unlike Nvidia, there is no commercial organization with interest in keeping this up to date. This would probably be relatively easy to merge into Godot, if not for the fact that Nintendo's NDA prevents it...

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Quoting: skaplonAbuse of the DMCA system should be double-punished

It would be nice it it was punished at all...

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Starfield winning most innovative? LOL.
Optimistically, Heretic's Fork was in the running for Most Innovative, but that was always a long shot.

Baldur's Gate winning best game - no surprises there, that's a deserved one.

I was hoping WarThunder had a chance for Labor of Love, but no luck.

Never heard of Lethal Company - it seems to be in Early Access.

Hogwarts Legacy winning the Linux category is also surprising - I refunded it as it would not run on my Nvidia GPU, but probably the AMD GPU performance was better.

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I'd recommend Ludus Mortis - it just got Verified [External Link], and it's a very good Dungeon Crawler

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Top tiers and aircraft in WarThunder are of no interest to me - once you go above 7.0, it's all "grind a tank with default HEAT ammo, against which all enemies have reactive armour, until you unlock APDS"/"grind a plane with no anti air missiles agains opponents who do have missiles" - no thanks. 3.0-4.7 ships, and 2.0-6.7 tanks are where the fun is.

The last interesting changes were the French ships (although the boats are still missing), and the great mid tier paper tank rebalance (all tanks with negligible armour got uptiered, but as compensation, fighters got a big nerf in their ability to hunt them down). This update doesn't have anything interesting.

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