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Latest Comments by Shmerl
GNOME Twitch releases a major update with notifications, offline channel searching and more
4 Apr 2017 at 5:32 pm UTC

Quoting: tuubi
Quoting: ShmerlIs Twitch now a game store? And do they sell Linux games? What about DRM there?
Nope. :)

You can browse streams by game though.
Well, I actually just saw this: Twitch to start selling video games this week [External Link]. So I thought this is a new open source client for their store.

GNOME Twitch releases a major update with notifications, offline channel searching and more
4 Apr 2017 at 5:10 pm UTC

Is Twitch now a game store? And do they sell Linux games? What about DRM there?

Road Redemption releases a massive content update, Linux version now behind
3 Apr 2017 at 9:12 pm UTC

@Luke_Nukem: Only if the game is still not out DRM-free, and I'm interested in it. Otherwise, why should I care? :D

Unity 5.6 is now available with full Vulkan support
31 Mar 2017 at 5:28 pm UTC

Now hopefully, more and more games will be coming out with Vulkan support out of the box.

About updating older games. I'm still waiting for developers of Armikrog to release the update with newer Unity, which fixes the annoying double cursor bug. But at this point, I'm not sure they are going to do it.

X-Plane 11 is now officially available with day-1 Linux support
31 Mar 2017 at 4:37 pm UTC Likes: 2

I saw some commented it's using compatibility OpenGL profile. That's too bad, no one should be doing this today.

Steam now has a bunch of Anime shows you can buy, also a sale on Anime games
31 Mar 2017 at 2:43 pm UTC Likes: 1

I'll wait for more DRM-free video on GOG. Unfortunately, last time they tried, they failed [External Link] because of media control freaks. Otherwise, no thanks. Video is already polluted with DRM everywhere.

X-Plane 11 is now officially available with day-1 Linux support
31 Mar 2017 at 3:44 am UTC

Using some modern codec like Opus, allows efficient audio decoding. It's not an issue really, and surely not a reason to use uncompressed audio.