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Latest Comments by Shmerl
It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
16 Dec 2025 at 7:43 pm UTC Likes: 14

I'd rather see them replacing Gecko with Servo and implementing Vulkan rendering instead of all this AI nonsense.

Hopefully Servo based browser will become a thing eventually, with Mozilla or without.

GOG formally announce their GOG Patrons subscription donation system
16 Dec 2025 at 5:48 am UTC Likes: 3

I buy games only on GOG lately. I wish it was bigger. Catch 22 creates a problem that their Linux users focus is very minimal, since Linux users are only a small part of their total user base that's already quite smaller than Steam's. That doesn't give them a lot of incentives to back efforts like Galaxy for Linux, which is easy to understand.

The other side of it are developers like Hellish Quart's, who pull their games from GOG, saying that all their users are on Steam. It's very annoying for actual GOG users.

Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7 on Linux, D7VK has a 1.0 release out now
14 Dec 2025 at 7:07 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Beta VersionDX7->Vulkan translation layer requires Vulkan 1.3, while you can play DX12 games on Vulkan 1.1 hardware. It's just so stupid.
If developers find it easier to stick to latest Vulkan - it's their choice, no one forces you to use that. I wouldn't call it stupid, quite the opposite actually - trying to lower Vulkan requirements for the sake of old hardware which leads to avoiding some Vulkan features is a bad idea.

Besides, how old is that old anyway? Even GCN 1.0 cards support Vulkan 1.3 (that's from 2012 which is quite old by now) which is basically as old as it gets for Vulkan on AMD at least.

Aspyr have indefinitely delayed Deus Ex Remastered
12 Dec 2025 at 3:15 pm UTC Likes: 2

I'm playing Deus Ex: Revision, and it's great. Hard to imagine Aspyr will do a better job remastering.

KDE's 2025 fundraising has been a huge success
10 Dec 2025 at 6:43 pm UTC Likes: 4

Just donated to them a few days ago.

Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate
9 Dec 2025 at 3:24 pm UTC Likes: 1

Wine really had huge progress this year, so many things got fixed and implemented especially for winewayland.

What's so far is broken still is this:

* https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57456 [External Link]
* https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461063 [External Link]

But formally, it's a KDE bug.

The RAM price and availability situation is going to worsen as Micron pull their Crucial consumer business
4 Dec 2025 at 2:08 am UTC Likes: 1

That's bad. As if prices weren't high enough, now Samsung and SK Hynix will raise them even more.

Wine 10.20 released with upgraded vkd3d
2 Dec 2025 at 2:15 am UTC Likes: 2

Btw, this version has improved videos handling. Now NightDive logo video in System Shock remake works properly.