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Nintendo Switch emulator suyu continues on from yuzu - first release is up
20 March 2024 at 6:21 pm UTC Likes: 12

Lol, the name. Eat that Nintendo.

GOG team up with Amazon Luna for cloud gaming
19 March 2024 at 4:39 pm UTC

Does actual Luna server use Linux or Windows? That's the interesting part, not so much the streaming client of which there were a bunch already.

I'd say that's what Stadia should have been. I.e. sell games DRM-free and give streaming as a bonus feature. So good for GOG, but it would be better if Luna is using Linux underneath.

God of War now DRM-freed with a GOG release and discount
13 March 2024 at 3:04 pm UTC

For GOG games I'm using my own scripts. And Wine+vkd3d-proton+esync.

God of War now DRM-freed with a GOG release and discount
12 March 2024 at 3:54 pm UTC Likes: 5

Nice and surprising, but positive trend for Sony.

Plasma 6 lands in Arch Linux, KDE neon teething issues and Plasma 6.1 heating up
10 March 2024 at 5:55 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: PlintslîchoAlso, Plasma 6 takes up quite some noticeable amount of RAM at times, even though the system is idling.

If you aren't using KDE PIM (Kmail and etc.) try to disable Akonadi server - it eats a ton of RAM for something you might not use.

Plasma 6 lands in Arch Linux, KDE neon teething issues and Plasma 6.1 heating up
8 March 2024 at 3:03 am UTC Likes: 1

Meanwhile in Debian

*crickets chirping*.

More seriously, I wish Neon would provide repositories for Debian unstable and testing.

Wine Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation library vkd3d v1.11 released
6 March 2024 at 11:58 pm UTC Likes: 2

I think the key difference is that vkd3d-proton uses Vulkan fully without any limitations which allows it to target good performance. vkd3d uses Vulkan that's crippled by being limited to features that work on macOS's Metal over MoltenVK. Unless I misunderstood the idea.

That means that vkd3d will never be as efficient as vkd3d-proton. So for Linux users it's not even a question what to use.

Sunshine game streaming v0.22.0 adds HDR on Linux, Wayland + NVIDIA improvements
4 March 2024 at 6:18 pm UTC

QuoteFix missing mouse cursor when using KMS capture on a GPU with hardware cursor support.

Sounds suspicious. Did they start using Pipewire + XDG portal or they are still stuck with kmsgrab?