Here's a crazy idea. Start a petition to de-list Rust from steam, as "we're asking Valve to support a whole other platform, and supporting developers like facepunch takes away resources from our main platform, SteamOS".

If we do that, it looks like we'd be labelled toxic Linux community. When they do the exact same shit, somehow they're being reasonable.

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I’m pretty sure, that since it’s GPLv2, and they have made modifications to the Ubuntu ppa, that are not available in the source code, unless they explicitly state that their software is dual licensed, that means that it’s not FOSS anymore. In fact, I’m quite sure that this is the kind of modification that must be contributed upstream. So either they need to provide build instructions for how to obtain API keys/secrets and make it work on other platforms.... or you know.. get the unhappy FSF/GNU stare, and a walk of shame.

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I've been thinking of getting one of those. Is there anyone knowledgeable enough to give me a good idea for what would be the best gaming laptop with Linux support. Obviously system76 has some of the best hardware... but they're also rather expensive spec for spec and not particularly well optimised for the task.

I was looking at Legion 7i from Lenovo or getting a decent gigabyte. The issues with those is that I don't know how repairable they are...

I'm looking for something reliable first and spec'd to game second, ("good looking" or being "traditionally laid out" are not priorities at all).

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Quoting: Termy

Quoting: rustybroomhandleNot sure if it's the compositor or sddm or what, but for some reason games just feel like they run better on KDE. Have not benchmarked and purely going on feels here.

I agree - but only until you try kwin-lowlatency xD

KDE is still my favorite by a long shot. I just hope this icon-only task manager crap will not be the only option in the future ^^

Cool! Should probably give it a try!

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: appetrosyanYou can get a similar experience on BSPWM, and Sway, and to a much more experimental extent on river, but not on Compiz (XFCE, unity), Metacity forks (Cinnamon, Mate, XFCE, Gnome), Clutter (Gnome) or OpenBOX.

Just a small correction: Neither Xfce's compositing window manager Xfwm nor Compton (probably the most popular replacement compositor among Xfce users) are Metacity forks.

My mistake, should have said compiz.

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Question to knowledgeable penguins, what advantages does crossover have if any over wine?

I thought it might be a good idea to buy, because of supporting wine, but would I end up with something more than a paperweight?

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleNot sure if it's the compositor or sddm or what, but for some reason games just feel like they run better on KDE. Have not benchmarked and purely going on feels here.

It's a bit of everything. KWin is the most advanced compositor, I've come across, second only to sway and river. The reason why you get better feel may be due to the driver stack being a monolithic C++ library, plus some nice stuff, like unredirect by default and being able to disable the entire compositing stack with a key combo.

You can get a similar experience on BSPWM, and Sway, and to a much more experimental extent on river, but not on Compiz (XFCE, unity), Metacity forks (Cinnamon, Mate, XFCE, Gnome), Clutter (Gnome) or OpenBOX.

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Quoting: damarrinHmm, is this any different to what what already in Gnome? I have this in Ubuntu 20.04, _maybe_ I did enable an experimental setting in dconf. If so, that would just be them enabling it for everyone, right?

Last time I tried it, it made stuff pretty blurry.

That could be the same code being patched as per GNU GPL. Or it could be totally independent. Or it could be nothing.

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Quoting: GrabbyHow long before someone recompiles the game for ARM and plays it on a Pinebook ? :wink:

I think it would be playable on even the cinematic 12 fps. It's not a twitch-reaction game, but an atmospheric masterpiece.... It shouldn't be too hard, as long as all of the libraries exist for Linux/ARM.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: EhvisIt might be old, but a quick scan makes it look pretty compact and clean. So it should be easy to use for those without a degree in graphics programming. I also only see OpenGL stuff. Were these engines OpenGL only?

Yes, HPL engine has always used OpenGL on all platforms.
Frictional Games have always aimed at cross-platform development from the ground up, so it makes sense to only use cross-platform APIs like OpenGL and OpenAL.

I'd be up to tinker with it, and patch Vulkan support. This should give them a reason to use HPL2's evolution in the next iteration games.

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