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Latest Comments by Shmerl
Amazon announces 'Luna', their own take on cloud game streaming
25 Sep 2020 at 9:25 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: brokeassbenwell it'll run on Windows instances [External Link], so that's a unfortunate.
Amazon were too lazy to put an effort in it like Google did. So they are just spreading MS lock-in in practice.

Amazon announces 'Luna', their own take on cloud game streaming
24 Sep 2020 at 10:35 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: DamonLinuxPL
Quoting: ShmerlEven their Lumberyard is lagging with Linux support.
Not lagging, they drop support for it long time. While cryengine (original, not fork) still supports it...
Even worse then. So Amazon clearly doesn't care.

Amazon announces 'Luna', their own take on cloud game streaming
24 Sep 2020 at 7:34 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: elmapuli wonder why we cant have an "open handset alliance" with all the companies who want to have games on linux to improve the ecosystem of their platforms
I feel like the likes of Valve and Google could form a Linux gaming alliance and promote Linux gaming in more collaborative way. Too bad Google doesn't care. It doesn't look like Amazon cares either. Even their Lumberyard is lagging with Linux support.

Amazon announces 'Luna', their own take on cloud game streaming
24 Sep 2020 at 7:31 pm UTC Likes: 10

So what exactly is their architecture? Are they running Linux on the server like Stadia or Windows like Geforce Now?

System76 announce more Linux laptop models get open source firmware
22 Sep 2020 at 2:32 pm UTC Likes: 5

Are any of them using AMD or not yet?

Story-driven, tactical stealth game Desperados III is now available on Linux PC
21 Sep 2020 at 2:14 am UTC Likes: 1

I think they can figure out a way to make a build that works both for Steam and GOG without a need to set up multiple ones.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is out today, some details for you (plus new driver release)
18 Sep 2020 at 5:57 pm UTC

Right, ASICs for ray tracing will be added only in RDNA 2.