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Latest Comments by Shmerl
Windows 10 S might alarm Valve into boosting SteamOS again
11 February 2018 at 6:54 pm UTC

Did SDL solve relative mouse cursor positioning issue on Wayland?

Valve has boosted their Linux ranks by hiring another developer to work on open source graphics
9 February 2018 at 9:36 pm UTC

Quoting: ScooptaThe difference is wine users = windows users.

Wine users = Wine users. Whether anyone cares to measure that or not, is a question to them. Developers who make officially supported Wine wrapped releases probably do measure it.

Valve has boosted their Linux ranks by hiring another developer to work on open source graphics
9 February 2018 at 9:34 pm UTC

Quoting: ScooptaYou make it sound like all feral is doing is wrapping the game. You do know they do real work right?

Define wrapping. It's far from trivial obviously. Unlike Feral's code that we can't really see the source for, we can see it for Wine, and you can get the impression how complicated it can be.

Valve has boosted their Linux ranks by hiring another developer to work on open source graphics
9 February 2018 at 8:34 pm UTC

Quoting: ZybersunHowever my patience is not infinite. How does AMD compare to Nvidia now in the graphics area? Price, speed, etc?

AMD is competitive driver wise (Mesa), but somewhat lacking hardware wise on the high end if you value good TDP. I think the later point should improve with 7nm Vega. I can't really comment on prices - they are all over the place, because of the mess caused by cryptomining craze.

Valve has boosted their Linux ranks by hiring another developer to work on open source graphics
9 February 2018 at 6:08 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: jensThanks for the discussion and have a good, depending on your timezone, day or evening.

You too.

Valve has boosted their Linux ranks by hiring another developer to work on open source graphics
9 February 2018 at 5:01 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: jens"With our insignificant market share we should combine forces and not encourage competition.

Closed projects don't encourage combining forces by their very nature. If Feral want to combine forces, let them contribute to Wine, or open source their own wrapper so it could be used by developers with any game, rather than ones they authorize.

Since that's unlikely to happen, I see Wine as an increasingly important competitor. And for the reference, Wine can be used as a source wrapper too, see https://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib_User%27s_Guide

TL;DR: If you want to see collaboration, make sure your effort is based on FOSS.

Valve has boosted their Linux ranks by hiring another developer to work on open source graphics
9 February 2018 at 4:48 pm UTC

Quoting: EikePlaying Windows games on WINE is as opposite to native as playing on Linux can get...
This is going in circles, since same can be said about playing closed wrappers. Companies that funded those releases didn't want to make native ports because it was a cheap method. So decide whether you are OK with that or not.

Valve has boosted their Linux ranks by hiring another developer to work on open source graphics
9 February 2018 at 4:36 pm UTC

Quoting: jensIt makes me sad to read that your own personal choice to avoid Steam doesn't let you see the value Feral and friends are doing for Linux gaming plus Linux adoption and that you are even prefer to compromise their efforts :(

I didn't say there is no value. I said I don't agree that it's wrong to have competition. I quite strongly disagree with that especially in case when their option is exclusive. Competition makes it accessible, rather than walled.

Valve has boosted their Linux ranks by hiring another developer to work on open source graphics
9 February 2018 at 4:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: SamsaiEven you are benefiting from them because they are pushing our graphics stack forward. You just refuse to acknowledge this because you are mad that their games are not on GOG.

I never refused to acknowledge that. More than Feral about Valve for instance. I don't use them, but I well acknowledge their contribution to the Linux stack. Does it mean there should be no competition to any of them in the Linux gaming market? Of course not.

Valve has boosted their Linux ranks by hiring another developer to work on open source graphics
9 February 2018 at 4:30 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Eike
Quoting: ShmerlOne is playing a game sold for Windows, and other is not playing the game that Feral didn't port. That's the options. So for me the first is clearly better, since the second would be 100% of games that are available in DRM-free stores.

Erm, did I understand that right that you're buying DRM'ed games for Windows (to play them under WINE), but not for Linux?

No, it means I'm buying DRM-free only games, which means no Feral games are available for me. Insistence on DRM is the outcome of Feral's control over their wrapper. Wine has no such thing, so it's perfectly usable with DRM-free games.