Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: jensIs everything OK with you?

No.

Get well soon! ;)

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: BeamboomTheir dedication is of a very wide nature and involves a lot of areas. Examples are aplenty: Linux version of Visual Studio Code (and a bloody good editor it is too) and MSSQL server, investment in time and money on the Linux Foundation, cooperation with both Canonical and Redhat on running their distros on Azure and Windows 10, change to supporting GIT over their own versioning system, I mean... I could go on and on. The list really is extensive. This is just how it is.

I have a question for you: how does that boot taste?

Is everything OK with you?

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: BeamboomI'm honestly surprised at many of the responses here. It looks like you haven't really been in touch with the IT world in at least ten years?

It's fair enough to be sceptical, I can totally relate to that, but over the last 5-6 years there's been significant policy changes in how Microsoft has approached open source in general and Linux in particular. So much so that it's made nonstop headlines in the IT press. Hence my surprise.

Their dedication is of a very wide nature and involves a lot of areas. Examples are aplenty: Linux version of Visual Studio Code (and a bloody good editor it is too) and MSSQL server, investment in time and money on the Linux Foundation, cooperation with both Canonical and Redhat on running their distros on Azure and Windows 10, change to supporting GIT over their own versioning system, I mean... I could go on and on. The list really is extensive. This is just how it is.

I'm an old man myself, and by God I tell you I've swore and cursed over their name many a times. I was there in the 90s and early 2000 when they did nothing but to inject and pollute every single open standard protocol on the whole god damn internet, shitty implementations where their friggin' trademark! Not to mention their CEOs and their attitude towards Linux.

But this is not the case today. Yes, they are a corporation and yes they have an agenda, but so do every other commercial company, also those who for a long time has proven to support Linux. Open source and corporations can coexist and benefit from each other - they have, for a very long time already. The Linux kernel would not have been what it is today had it not been for contributions from the big, commercial actors out there. Corporations have been depending on Linux for decades already - and Linux depend on them too.

There are no impenetrable walls between Linux and the corporate world, other than amongst evangelists and - yes I dare say it - fanatics.

One question here is if this is really a policy change in Microsoft or if they are more or less forced to go this way to stay relevant in the Enterprise/Cloud environment where they want to grow. I hardly think that the their expectation was that the majority of instances on Azure should be Linux servers when they first launched the service, and the very fact that this is so probably scares them somewhat.

I guess both with a changing market and a different CEO as the driving forces.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: jensI'm pretty sure that this is just a rationale long term business decision and that there is no huge conspiracy behind it.

You're probably right. Now if only I were clear on the exact difference between those two things.

Alright, I should have omitted the second part of that sentence. Sensible topic ;)

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I'm pretty sure that this is just a rationale long term business decision and that there is no huge conspiracy behind it. I guess Microsoft assumes that in the near future the big money will be earned from cloud computing and not from the silly desktop market. You can't ignore Linux in the server market, let alone try to beat it. So if Microsoft would not make Linux a first class citizen in Azure, most sane customers would go for Google Cloud or AWS and not for Microsoft's own cloud platform. Which OS's are hosted in Azure or even on which OS Azure services runs on are really not important as long as customers pay their subscriptions to Microsoft. This is imho just another move to make Azure more attractive to potential customers, nothing more, nothing less.

"If you can't beat them, join them"

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Still busy with GTA5 :)

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Quoting: SalvatosMonkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ is the first game on the whitelist that's in my library. Pretty excited for that, I was really happy with how they remastered the games.

Yep, just tried both MI SE versions, very cool that both "just" work. Not as nostalgic as playing via ScummVM, but both SE versions preserve the original feeling quite well imho, especially the music.

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Quoting: YoRHa-2B

Quoting: chancho_zombiewell done they fixed bug 666, must be a really diabolic bug.

Fixing that was actually a shitton of work, so it kind of lives up to its number I guess? On the bright side, it also makes depth-to-color image copies more efficient than they were before, so it wasn't exactly wasted effort.

More important is the other bug though, I thought it was quite rare, but apparently a lot of Lutris users started running into it as of late. FWIW, the fix for that bug was cherry-picked for the Proton build.

And yeah, things might be rather boring nowadays, but it's mostly feature complete and doesn't have a huge amount of optimization potential left.

Thanks a lot for all your work spent on this. It is still magic that I'm playing GTA5 on my machine.

I have a small question: Next to stream output there is still "Predication" on your list with missing features. From my (limited) understanding this should only affect performance for games that use this feature (e.g. Arkham Knight wants to do so). Do you have a feeling about what you can gain with predication, assuming that it is actually possible to somehow translate this DX feature.

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Quoting: hummer010

Quoting: chepatiFinally, a sensible approach to announcing future porting plans by Feral. There are games that I am eager to play upon release, even if it means booting into Windows. However, if I knew the game was to be ported native to linux, I would delay my purchase so I can order it directly from the porting studio and let them keep all the money.

I find these "teasers" immature and childish. While they try to be cute, they may lose sales just because people have no idea a game they want is about to be ported.

As soon as they finalize the legal paperwork of acquiring the porting rights, just say so. Don't play guessing games.

Sorry for the rant.

I will now delay my Life is Strange 2 purchase so I can order it directly from Feral.

This. Now that they've announced it, I won't buy it until Feral gets the money. It's really in their best interest to announce it as soon as possible.

I'm pretty sure they know this ;)

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Very nice, looking forward and I'm happy to wait since my backlog isn't actually empty :)

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