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Stone Story, an RPG animated entirely in ASCII symbols is releasing in Early Access next month
26 Jul 2019 at 6:01 pm UTC

Good candidate for itch.io release! Also, if it's ascii only, shouldn't it run in the terminal? ;)

Good news for VR fans in the US, the full Valve Index bundle is back in stock
24 Jul 2019 at 7:47 pm UTC Likes: 1

When are they going to replace OpenVR/SteamVR with OpenXR?

NVIDIA releases the GeForce RTX 2060 and 2070 "SUPER" GPUs, along with a new Linux driver
22 Jul 2019 at 4:30 pm UTC

Quoting: EhvisThe only thing that matters is that it is preferable to have open support for hardware.
Not preferable, required for proper Linux support. I.e. those who don't do it while having all resources to, are foul players in the Linux ecosystem. And Nvidia is such an example. Hypothetical speculation like "what if it was reversed" is pointless.

NVIDIA releases the GeForce RTX 2060 and 2070 "SUPER" GPUs, along with a new Linux driver
22 Jul 2019 at 4:07 pm UTC

Quoting: EhvisAnd AMD is doing the same thing. They open the trivial stuff, but keep other things they think are important. Like the actual shader compiler of the AMD driver.

They are companies, they do what suits them. AMD is no more ethical than NVidia is.
They might do what "suits them", but when it's anti-competitive junk, I don't get why Linux users jump to whitewash it.

NVIDIA releases the GeForce RTX 2060 and 2070 "SUPER" GPUs, along with a new Linux driver
22 Jul 2019 at 3:55 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestNot really, but it seems like it does have quite a few disadvantages.
What kind? The only reason Nvidia is not opening their driver is anti-competitive. I.e. they want leverage over server market. Are you whitewashing such kind of behavior? What Nvidia doing is disgusting, and not something Linux users should be accepting.

Surprise - Supraland for Linux is now available on GOG
16 Jul 2019 at 3:46 am UTC

Quoting: mylkagame options
I already disabled vsync. I'm testing drivers, so framerate is limited with highest setting.

Surprise - Supraland for Linux is now available on GOG
16 Jul 2019 at 1:42 am UTC

Quoting: CyrilMaybe with libstrangle [External Link]?
Interesting, but strange that it's not implemented as a Vulkan layer instead of explicit LD_PRELOAD.

Surprise - Supraland for Linux is now available on GOG
16 Jul 2019 at 1:15 am UTC

Quoting: mylkadisable VSYNC and use the FPS limiter (try 60)
I don't think radv implemented external framerate limiting yet. How do you do it?

Surprise - Supraland for Linux is now available on GOG
15 Jul 2019 at 11:59 pm UTC

Just tested the game. It's using Vulkan. Looks like it became the default target for recent Unreal Engine versions, which is good!

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Performance though is pretty bad, due to Unreal Engine not using Vulkan effectively and frametimes being completely messed up.

CoreCtrl, a new FOSS Linux tool to help you control your PC with application profiles
15 Jul 2019 at 6:10 pm UTC

Quoting: heidi.wengerI refuse of it too... It's time consuming, stressful and altogether just awful! If i can't have a truly simple way to install something then it's "oh well" and move on. Really.
That's totally fine, there is no need to rush to use unpackaged tools. Eventually distro maintainers will package it, if they'll find it interesting, or someone asks them to. But it can take a long time in my experience, unless something becomes quite popular.