Looks fun. I hope GOG release will follow.

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Quoting: CaldathrasI wonder if it might be Proton-CachyOS that is creating the perception that games run better in CachyOS?

I don't think they do run better there. But from what I gathered, CachyOS is incorporating a bunch of stuff that's work in progress but developed openly. I.e. let's say they see someone is working on feature X and published the early version of it for testing. Feature X is intended to improve performance.

What CachyOS does it taking it and releasing it before the feature is even ready from perspective of developers who work on it. That makes it appear "better" but it's really not. I call distros that use such approach - "hype distros". It's somewhat cringe, since they get the credit for work that other people are doing simply because many people don't realize how this is happening, and it's not really fair.

I.e. in the end, when feature is out, all distros will have it. But CachyOS "jumps the gun" with half cooked stuff which creates the false perception of it somehow being better. Unreleased things are unreleased until proper time usually for valid reasons.

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Quoting: WanderdueneI really enjoy using Mint because it's stable and very user-friendly, and I also welcome the fact that planning and stability are being prioritised by the developers. Will Mint's extended release cycles have an impact on me as a gamer?

Possibly. The longer the release cycle, the longer it will take to get any new features. Mint's default DE is in general behind on gaming related features and historically was playing catch up to bigger DEs like KDE and Gnome. If they increase their cycle even more, things will slow down further.

I personally don't recommend hype distros like CachyOS, but pick a regular rolling distro if you want newest features sooner.

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Quoting: wytrabbitWould this apply to AMD iGPUs too?

AMD integrated GPUs allocate VRAM from regular RAM, so this wouldn't make much sense for it.

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Quoting: Chinstrap Does this mean the WINEDLLOVERRIDES command is no longer needed? That would make modding some games less of a headache.

See above. In some cases you can now avoid overrides, but not always clearly. So experiment and see what works and what doesn't, but it's still an improvement.

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With this change now in place and shipped in Wine, it means that if the DLL company name attached is not Microsoft (so a custom one supplied with the mod or game), Wine will automatically use it over the Wine version.

Looks like it partially works for Cyberpunk 2077 mods, but not fully. I was able to remove version.dll override and still load Cyber Engine Tweaks, but winmm.dll override is still needed to load some other CP2077 mod tools.

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Cool! I need to finish the base game.

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Looking forward to this one, especially since it's coming out on GOG:

https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_expanse_osiris_reborn [External Link]

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Looks hilarious. It's from the same developers as The Longing. I hope they release it on GOG.

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Quoting: benstor214[apparently the GeForce3 was the first video card released with a programmable pixel shader. Though programmable shaders in general were already a thing for years before that.

Yeah, they implemented such idea in the GPUs first, but they didn't invent it.

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