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GitLab takes down Nintendo Switch emulator suyu due to the DMCA
22 Mar 2024 at 2:41 am UTC Likes: 3

Good trolling of Nintendo. Their one bit brain can only do "use DMCA 1201!".

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

Lol, the name. Eat that Nintendo.

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GOG team up with Amazon Luna for cloud gaming
19 Mar 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.

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OBS Studio 30.1 out now with AV1 support for VA-API, PipeWire Video Capture
14 Mar 2024 at 1:19 am UTC

Nice, but good to note this bug: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/9185 [External Link]

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

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

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Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 40: The Cyborg Project
12 Mar 2024 at 11:10 pm UTC Likes: 1

It has a cool soundtrack!

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

Nice and surprising, but positive trend for Sony.

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Plasma 6 lands in Arch Linux, KDE neon teething issues and Plasma 6.1 heating up
10 Mar 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.

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Plasma 6 lands in Arch Linux, KDE neon teething issues and Plasma 6.1 heating up
8 Mar 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.

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Wine Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation library vkd3d v1.11 released
6 Mar 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.

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