Just heard of this thing being planned.

If they manage to make a device that looks attractive as alternative to or even over preferable over the Switch then it may well work out. Obvious pros are the large selection of games available and the presumably small effort to get games to work on it. The obvious problem is that the Switch is very well established as _the_ handheld gaming device.

If it does succeed it will massively increase the Linux player base, in a sense. Keep in mind though that developers will not target Linux, they will target the SteamPal, which happens to run Linux. So whether that would improve general Linux support is an open question. For example, we do not know whether developers will port more games to Linux or rely on Proton.

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Quoting: iskaputtDid anyone try this with a plain (tiling) window manager yet? I can't get it to work properly in DWM. Most things don't even start with `(EE) failed to read Wayland events: Broken pipe` and the one thing that does start (vkcube) doesn't use the expected resolution. Tried both current master and 3.7.

Oh I can run it in i3 alright.

I managed to get some newer games to run through Lutris so I'm not making a fundamental mistake. Example: Grim Dawn. That too is at least buggy. I only limited the framerate with -r 30, nothing else, and the result was that the mouse cursor was restricted to a part of the screen.

The real question for me is, does it work for old games? Those that could really benefit from scaling.
Take something like NOX as example, 640x480, DX 7? 8? 9?, made for Windows XP or something.
So far I couldn't get it to start (through Lutris). Same with LoM.

Scaling up old games would be the #1 use case for me.

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All stuff I don't care about. I hope it's still possible to manually install games, no scripts or anything. That is currently possible, although clearly not intended.

Also did they drop that useless Gnome dependency? By the looks of it, no. This is the only thing pulling in GNOME desktop and whatnot on my system, and probably for no good reason.

Also why would the change of scripting language open up script writing to more people? With the complexity of these scripts it hardly matters which language they are written in. It's usually just a sequence of external calls.

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Or, you know, those huge companies with huge budget could port their games to Linux where the native anti-cheat solution supposedly works just fine.

Totally implausible, I know. Let's keep building hacks around hacks to get their shit working for a month.

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DON'T pick it up on GOG.
They very recently removed the Linux icon from the previous DLC and the version of it available is outdated (1.5.7).
The new DLC still has no Linux version and no icon either.

I asked support and got an answer today:
"GOG Support is not able to provide comments in this case."

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Quoting: ageresThat 4000 items switch case: https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV/blob/master/desktop_version/src/Game.cpp#L4048 [External Link]

It clearly isn't a 4000 case switch statement, it's just that the numbering has a few holes.
The author sure had a peculiar way of structuring code. Lots of huge switch statements interspersed with large if else statements.

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Don't you worry, once you play via Stadia and friends this will be a problem of the past.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

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Quoting: rkfgDXVK has a "fundamental flaw" and that is the language it's written in. Wine doesn't accept C++ code, unfortunately.

Now I wondered what they're using.
Pure C [External Link]?!?

Yes, Wine is written in pure C [External Link].

Guess that is one way to make sure a project never has too many people working on it.
What a waste of potential.

Pure C is fine for smaller projects or concise little libraries.
But big ones purely in C is just nightmare fuel. Go take a look at the FFmpeg sources if you don't believe me.

Alright, merge Wine into DXVK, then ;)
C++ isn't picky about having some pure C code within.

Well, there is this little project called Linux that is written in C.

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Isn't DXVK that project that just went into maintenance mode because it's not feasible to develop it further?

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I personally prefer the family sharing feature of GOG.

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