I'm surprised, Valve slacked with Linux gaming marketing. At one time they pushed it (during Steam Machines effort), but clearly later scrapped it completely.

In contrast, today Google is pouring a lot of resources into Stadia marketing.

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Some other good releases of 2019:

Ion Fury
The Bard's Tale IV

From the failures:

We Happy Few

Another very negative trend is M$ swallowing good Linux supportive studios like inXile and Obsidian. I think it's safe to assume they are lost to Linux gaming now.

Wishes for 2020:

More developers who release for Stadia, to start releasing for desktop Linux proper. I'd like to see these released for desktop Linux users:

* Cyberpunk 2077 [External Link] (CD Projekt Red)
* Bloodlines 2 [External Link] (Hardsuit Labs / Paradox)
* Baldur's Gate 3 [External Link] (Larian)

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Quoting: Liam DaweRegardless of the issues surrounding collab/IM clients like this, my point was still pretty clear. If a lot of people use them, we need them available on Linux and I'm sure you fully understand this.

It looks Web based, so browser should be good enough. Their client is likely a wrapped browser engine anyway.

My views on proliferation of such stuff though is like those of Eben Moglen.

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Quoting: PikoloYou are correct about the laptop screen. However, most Optimus laptops have the HDMI output wired to the Nvidia GPU. If you start the system with the Nvidia GPU in Prime offload mode, you can't use the HDMI port. I think connecting your laptop via HDMI is far from a niche case... And having to reboot to use it is annoying.

So as usual, they supported a limited use case, and let the rest deal with broken setup.

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From there it sounds like it can render on Nvidia, and display through the integrated. But I suppose then not the other way around?

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Did they actually add proper PRIME support both ways? I.e. rendering on the Nvidia GPU, while output goes through the integrated one? I remember reading they didn't implement it fully, and only one way was working (i.e. rendering on the integrated one, while output goes through Nvidia).

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Good to see AMD usage reaching more than one third on GOL and gradually growing. A big driver is advancement of Mesa:



Also, the pace seems to have slightly accelerated after Navi release in July 2019.

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Great release. ACO now has tessellation and geometry shaders to pick up, and radv will become even faster.

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Quoting: s8as8aDo you, by any chance, know if sandboxes like Flatpak's bubblewrap and/or Firejail prevent that kind of spying?

I suppose on Linux it's not even possible on the level it's done on Windows. But sandboxing should help for similar issues, that's what it was made for.

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That goes a bit off-topic, but multiplayer games may require authentication in general, that's not the same as DRM. It's a normal feature. Unless you mean malware like anit-cheat, that spies on the user almost on rootkit level. That's for sure very nasty and not something I'd be interested in using.

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