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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?

Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time
1 March 2024 at 5:16 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: CalinouI remember having to run games through Zink just to be able to do that on AMD…

I thought with AMD you could already do it for radeonsi:

AMD_TEX_ANISO=16

For Vulkan it's:

RADV_TEX_ANISO=16

Example:

AMD_TEX_ANISO=16 glxgears
radeonsi: Forcing anisotropy filter to 16x
...

The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released
28 February 2024 at 11:36 pm UTC

Quoting: hardpenguinEh I am not in a rush, my Debian Sid can stay on version 5 for as long as maintainers want to :P

I'd rather that to happen soon. Plasma 5 isn't working well with Wine Wayland and I don't want to spend time debugging it if it's fixed in Plasma 6.

The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released
28 February 2024 at 4:59 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: whizseThe future:

KDE Plasma 6
• Flying car
• Robot butler

One down, two to go!

Hoverboards too?

The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released
28 February 2024 at 3:54 pm UTC

Quoting: hardpenguinGentlemen*, start your pacmans**!

* and everyone else
** or apt, dnf, nix-env, pkgtools, emerge etc.

Hopefully Debian maintainers will package it soon.

Upcoming GZDoom shooter Selaco will have Steam Workshop support
26 February 2024 at 3:25 pm UTC Likes: 5

Looks cool. Reminds me of Ion Fury. Hopefully they'll release it on GOG too.

Cross-platform development library SDL3 gets a Vulkan Renderer and camera API
23 February 2024 at 5:36 pm UTC Likes: 2

Can someone explain please what does rendering backend mean for SDL? SDL has some abstraction over graphics API?

I thought it's primarily useful for abstracting stuff like WSL / windowing integration and input and such.

Linux gaming performance display MangoHud v0.7.1 is out now
8 February 2024 at 10:19 pm UTC

Nice for them to add present_mode after I proposed that :) But it appears to be buggy and needs more investigation.

Linux gaming performance display MangoHud v0.7.1 is out now
8 February 2024 at 10:17 pm UTC

Quoting: M@GOidLast time I used this it wasn't playing nice with Vulkan and Wayland. How is it behaving now?

Works fine, but I think it doesn't anticipate Wine running in Wayland mode yet judging by some X11 related errors it shows in that case. But it still works.

OBS Studio 30.1 Beta 1 adds Video Capture Device (PipeWire) source, plus more AV1 support
4 February 2024 at 1:34 am UTC

AV1 VAAPI support in OBS is a long awaited addition.