Quoting: CheesenessNo reason beyond those being the first to come to my mind (probably because I've used Theora and Vorbis in projects before). It was definitely not intended as any sort of comparison of or statement about those projects relative value.

I was kind of curious, when Opus will be used in games, but so far I didn't spot it, except surprisingly for the Witcher 2, which uses Opus' predecessor CELT [External Link] for audio.

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Quoting: CheesenessCheers!

On the screen about tools, why do you list Theora and Vorbis instead of let's say VP9 and Opus which are far better?

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Yes, GOG installers behave much better with this Wine release.

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Quoting: edoNo linux-related answers, that makes me suspicious.

Yep, sounds fishy. But while Valve are hiring developers to work on Mesa - there is still hope.

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Kudos for VR standards push (I didn't know about Valve being behind the effort). No Q&A about Linux though?

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Quoting: dodrianCould someone explain...

The Nvidia proprietary drivers you mention consists of different parts.
- Kernel driver
- Xorg driver
- OpenGL driver
- Vulkan driver

Formally speaking, I wouldn't call anything besides the kernel part a "driver". This confuses and complicates understanding. Driver is normally responsible for interfacing the hardware to the operating system. The rest are already various libraries and implementations of APIs which interact with the driver and OS.

So, in the open stack, there are for example amdgpu (kernerl driver for AMD), and radeonsi / radv, implementations of OpenGL and Vulkan respectively. Usually, name "Mesa driver" refers to OpenGL / Vulkan implementations.

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I've never played it, but it looks interesting.

@liamdawe: I see you switched to KDE?-)

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I'd say gaming contributes to Linux usage growth in a big way, so relative percentage of Linux gamers is probably higher than relative percentage of Windows gamers.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt presumes that some factor is causing Windows PC use of Steam to grow, that somehow does not cause Linux PC use of Steam to grow. But what factor?

First of all, I don't see the survey as even representing Steam picture correctly (why do you need the survey, if Steam has complete data no doubt?). But one factor can potentially be higher number of games that don't have Linux versions still. If we assume gaming market is growing, and only a minority of games have Linux releases, then may be non Linux segment has larger growth?

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Yeah, who cares about that disease (Origin).

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