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Latest Comments by Shmerl
CodeWeavers are after a Graphics Developer for Steam Play Proton and Wine
14 Nov 2019 at 5:36 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: EikeIs that a current offer?
Because... "Working with OEMs throughout the hardware product cycle from design through production and maintenance"...
Yes, it is. Shows also Valve are still working on it. But they might have commitments to partners, it's not a guarantee about future plans.

CodeWeavers are after a Graphics Developer for Steam Play Proton and Wine
14 Nov 2019 at 5:27 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: TheRiddickMeanwhile NVIDIA is doing their driver code all by themselves in-house.
Surprised they haven't gone open-source yet and ditch the binary method, my guess as to why they haven't is because their drivers have a lot of cheats and hacks that would make them look real bad if opened up to public eyes.
Or more like they don't care and don't get the point of open source in general.

CodeWeavers are after a Graphics Developer for Steam Play Proton and Wine
14 Nov 2019 at 1:00 am UTC Likes: 4

Another interesting position is from Valve for SteamOS developers: https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/jobs?job_id=36 [External Link]

Though CodeWeavers one is better, since it's a firmly FOSS option, which is not so common.

Epic Games acquires Quixel with its enormous library of 3D and 2D assets
12 Nov 2019 at 6:55 pm UTC Likes: 8

Epic should get up from the sofa, and implement high performance parallelized Vulkan renderer, instead of "archiving" it:

https://trello.com/c/lzLwtb5P/124-vulkan-for-pc-and-linux [External Link]

We Happy Few for Linux and Mac being refunded, to get an "unofficial" beta
12 Nov 2019 at 4:26 pm UTC Likes: 1

GOG users are getting the short end of the stick. Oh, well. At least I got the Windows build of the game, so I can try it in Wine+dxvk.

Compulsion Games confirm a Linux version of We Happy Few is coming next year
12 Nov 2019 at 3:53 pm UTC Likes: 1

Not sure what GOG users are getting though. Probably the hole from the bagel ;)

Google reveal Stadia will only have 12 games available at launch, more later in the year
11 Nov 2019 at 8:36 pm UTC Likes: 2

Google could do a lot more, to make sure these titles come out for desktop Linux.