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Moonlight and Sunshine game and desktop streaming updates out now
19 Oct 2023 at 7:36 am UTC Likes: 1
19 Oct 2023 at 7:36 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: rustigsmedYes - I use Sunshine on a headless vm on my home server, can stream to moonlight my LG tv (with ps5 controller working), phone and of course other pcs. great for remote gaming or editing. Better than steam's remote play with the ability for 120hz and desktop use. Highly recommended.How does your TV run Moonlight? Do you have a Steam Link dongle?
Mudborne is an upcoming laid-back nature sim about breeding & collecting Frogs
18 Oct 2023 at 10:40 am UTC
18 Oct 2023 at 10:40 am UTC
Taking the classic Crusader Kings Cousin Marrying simulator and swapping families for species?
Superhero strategy game Capes has a big new demo up
3 Oct 2023 at 6:35 pm UTC Likes: 2
3 Oct 2023 at 6:35 pm UTC Likes: 2
You got sponsored by mozilla? Cool!
Game porter Ethan Lee offers services to maintain old games for developers
2 Oct 2023 at 11:19 am UTC
b) Some apps do audio backend detection (pulseaudio/alsa/pipewire) in very fragile ways. It could be made more reliable
I'm sure there is more...
2 Oct 2023 at 11:19 am UTC
Quoting: EduAAACool, don't really understand how this helps Linux since game has to be already available for Linux but hope he hmmm, improves Steam Deck compatibility somehow?a) Moving to newer FNA can bring native Wayland compatibility instead of relying on XWayland
b) Some apps do audio backend detection (pulseaudio/alsa/pipewire) in very fragile ways. It could be made more reliable
I'm sure there is more...
Snap store from Canonical hit with malicious apps
2 Oct 2023 at 11:15 am UTC Likes: 2
2 Oct 2023 at 11:15 am UTC Likes: 2
They probably should have two tiers:
1. curated
2. uncurated
A few ideas to flesh out the concept
- only curated snaps can be in classic mode,
- only curated snaps have been reviewed at least once.
- There could be a setting for "view uncurated snaps", which is off by default
- Canonical commit to review the top 5 non-curated apps by install base every month, promoting them to curated if they pass or removing them completely and publishing a security advisory otherwise.
- Apps in the curated store should be re-reviewed randomly and on user reports, to catch apps going to the dark side.
This is because if I'm installing a potentially shady app, it's better if it's sandboxed.
1. curated
2. uncurated
A few ideas to flesh out the concept
- only curated snaps can be in classic mode,
- only curated snaps have been reviewed at least once.
- There could be a setting for "view uncurated snaps", which is off by default
- Canonical commit to review the top 5 non-curated apps by install base every month, promoting them to curated if they pass or removing them completely and publishing a security advisory otherwise.
- Apps in the curated store should be re-reviewed randomly and on user reports, to catch apps going to the dark side.
This is because if I'm installing a potentially shady app, it's better if it's sandboxed.
Heretic's Fork is an unholy blending of deck-building and tower defense
14 Sep 2023 at 9:23 pm UTC
14 Sep 2023 at 9:23 pm UTC
Looks interesting
Linux continues rising above 3% desktop user share on Statcounter
6 Sep 2023 at 5:22 pm UTC Likes: 1
6 Sep 2023 at 5:22 pm UTC Likes: 1
Seems quite stable - great!
Game porter Ethan Lee offers services to maintain old games for developers
5 Sep 2023 at 5:38 pm UTC Likes: 7
5 Sep 2023 at 5:38 pm UTC Likes: 7
I hope he gets customers - it's better for all gamers
The state of optimus-manager explained by its developer
2 Sep 2023 at 6:26 pm UTC Likes: 1
2 Sep 2023 at 6:26 pm UTC Likes: 1
That's unfortunate. Have you talked to the people behind asus-linux [External Link]? They're not asus, but they might know what's behind the odd displayport behaviour on asus laptops
War Thunder's next major update is 'Sons of Attila', plus easier vehicle unlocks coming
1 Sep 2023 at 6:54 pm UTC Likes: 2
1 Sep 2023 at 6:54 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: user1Too bad that WT has recently stopped working on Proton after working beautifully on it for some time (it now crashes after login). And I'm not touching the dumpster fire that is their so called "native port" with a ten-foot pole. Every time I was trying the native port it was a bad experience after bad experience after bad experience after bad experience after bad experience after bad experience... And again, bad experience.I've used the native port of WT since 2016. It works quite well on Nvidia, especially since they moved from OpenGL to Vulkan. I've used my integrated AMD GPU with it a bit too and it's fine - 20-30 FPS on low-medium settings was better than I expected while I couldn't get Nvidia drivers to work on the new kernel. I'm playing on Kubuntu LTS with HWE, so currently the equivalent of Kubuntu 22.10.
When the native port still used opengl, the game was essentially unplayable most of the time. Especially in 2017, when it was a total glitchlag fest. And when it received the Vulkan renderer, the performance also wasn't that great in the beginning. The Vulkan renderer has of course matured over time, but the Linux client still suffers from occasional crashes and other issues. At some point you couldn't even set texture quality to high (WTF?!) And last time I tried the native port, it caused a gpu hang on my RX 580.
Sorry if it was a bit of a rant. Overally I love this game, but getting it to run on Linux is like drowning in a sea of grief most of the time and occasionally finding a few islands of happiness.
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