I never played any GK games, so that won't bother me. Loved Broken Sword series though and I've mentioned Full Throttle, of course.

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Looks quite similar to the awesome Full Throttle - I played through its remaster a year or so back. I'll definitely take a look at this.

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Quoting: scaineI have no idea what you're talking about here. Nvidia blocked something... how? Or is this tired old "Mir" argument, in which I'm sick of hearing it, since, after all, competing standards literally defines what Linux is.

No idea how you block open source alternatives though. Is this about that Microsoft-funded company that brought lawsuits to big Linux houses with bogus patents? I forget their name.

Yeah, sorry. No idea what this is about.

Seems that you never read the story of Nouveau driver in all this years, don't you? If you know of an alternative, let us know, as in the current scenario many Nvidia users won't be able to use wayland unless they upgrade their hardware.

Lets stop playing dumb. Nvidia pushed for EGLStream against GBM for many years. They only changed their mind after completely failing to make it work. Simple as that.

I genuinely wasn't playing dumb - I hadn't a single clue to what you were referring (which is why I guessed three different scenarios). But sure, you meant the fact that Nvidia refused to implement a technology that Wayland relied on. That's... I mean, sure, that's really annoying. But maybe there's some responsibility on Wayland for relying on technology that wasn't present in all drivers? Actually, thinking back, wasn't the unrealistic position of Wayland, 8 years ago, the very reason that Canonical created Mir? One of the biggest reasons anyway, I think.

Let's just be happy that Nvidia have finally come around to supporting this requirement in their proprietary driver. More than ever, this whole story shows why open source drivers are so important. And tbh, I didn't really understand that until I went AMD a couple of years ago.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: BielFPsAnd I would like to welcome the Nvidia users friends to the wayland side of the force :smile:

I hope now the Linux Mint devs can stop pretending that Wayland is not a thing.

You say that like everyone else has adopted it, and it's the new standard...? As far as I know Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and OpenSuse do now default to Wayland, but it's not like it's used everywhere by any stretch. I'm on Pop 21.04 and there's no Wayland here. And don't KDE still have a few kinks to work out with Wayland?

It feels like the technology that's permanently "just around the corner". I just wish it had some kind of selling point - something that made me want to try it, other than vague "better architecture" back-end stuff that I'm meant to care about, but don't, on my single-user system. Instead, there's a list of quirks relating to screen sharing, keyboard overlays, proprietary apps and Nvidia or KDE incompatibilities.

It does feel like there's some momentum at long last though.

Kinda difficult to implement new defaults when the industry jerk makes lobby for their own problematic solution and blocks the development of any open source alternative.

I have no idea what you're talking about here. Nvidia blocked something... how? Or is this tired old "Mir" argument, in which I'm sick of hearing it, since, after all, competing standards literally defines what Linux is.

No idea how you block open source alternatives though. Is this about that Microsoft-funded company that brought lawsuits to big Linux houses with bogus patents? I forget their name.

Yeah, sorry. No idea what this is about.

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Quoting: BielFPsAnd I would like to welcome the Nvidia users friends to the wayland side of the force :smile:

I hope now the Linux Mint devs can stop pretending that Wayland is not a thing.

You say that like everyone else has adopted it, and it's the new standard...? As far as I know Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and OpenSuse do now default to Wayland, but it's not like it's used everywhere by any stretch. I'm on Pop 21.04 and there's no Wayland here. And don't KDE still have a few kinks to work out with Wayland?

It feels like the technology that's permanently "just around the corner". I just wish it had some kind of selling point - something that made me want to try it, other than vague "better architecture" back-end stuff that I'm meant to care about, but don't, on my single-user system. Instead, there's a list of quirks relating to screen sharing, keyboard overlays, proprietary apps and Nvidia or KDE incompatibilities.

It does feel like there's some momentum at long last though.

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Quoting: DoctorJunglistI'm hoping Mass Effect: Legendary Edition goes on sale soon.

I have about just enough money in my Steam wallet to buy it, provided the discount it receives is no smaller than the previous one (so 34% off would suffice).

They dropped Denuvo from this title a month or so ago, so I'd happily pick it up too. Also got my eye on that star wars game where you play a ginger dude. Probably the closest to a "scottish" jedi I'm gonna get! :grin:

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Incredible attention to detail, as always. I didn't get into Stardew Valley, but this looks like a nice mix of the original games, but with some sweet sweet SpiritFarer vibes. Sounds like it's months away, if not years though.

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I'm getting weirded out here... cos I've played this already. Was there a pre-release demo or something? I remember seeing it on Twitch, then getting it, and playing it (only one floor was available). But there's a mad-scientist mission half-way through, and I remember getting a crazy build of high-level sword-wielding dudes backed up engineer types that fired laser bolts!? All a bit hazy, but I've definitely played it.

Anyway - great game, loads of fun and I don't see it in my library any more, so I'll definitely be picking this up again.

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Pulseaudio 15 is now weirdly "meh", now that the world has re-focused on Pipewire instead. I suppose Pipewire still leverages PA under the hood though?

And yeah, looking forward to Pop_OS 21.10 now, albeit, I take their improvements with a pinch of salt these days, given that I'm a bit of a KDE convert!

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Quoting: StenPettHopefully, this will be a GPU people can actually buy.

I just checked scan.co.uk and they're taking pre-orders at just under £530 for the 6600XT card. Which is pretty insane considering I bought my (slightly more powerful) 5700XT in February 2020 for less than that. Considering how close the 6600XT is to the 5700XT, I wonder why they're pitching it as a 1080p card, when I think the 5700XT was pitched as a 4K card two years ago. And it does do well at 4K in a lot of games, but needs FSR (or equivalent) upscaling for the big, modern 3D games, such as Cyberpunk or Horizon Zero Dawn.

But it honestly feels almost irresponsible to launch a new card in these circumstances. All it feels like is splitting an already tiny stock of silicon between an ever larger range of cards you're only to sell to scalpers. I know I'm being extremely cynical, but the last two years have been an absolute car crash for GPUs. I can't see how this is at all healthy for the PC gaming market. Looks like 4K gaming now demands at least a grand of spend on the GPU alone.

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