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Wine manager Bottles has a big new release with major overhauls
28 Jan 2022 at 8:03 pm UTC Likes: 1

This looks like evolving into a better variant of PlayOnLinux.

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Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates
28 Jan 2022 at 5:43 pm UTC

Quoting: XpanderStill same old GPU :( Damn those prices. I want to upgrade already.

Supposedly new fabs will start operating by the end of 2022.

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Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem is out, run it on Linux with one small change
26 Jan 2022 at 9:06 pm UTC Likes: 3

Available on GOG too: https://www.gog.com/game/serious_sam_siberian_mayhem [External Link]

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Vulkan API 1.3 released, new roadmap and profiles feature
25 Jan 2022 at 9:28 pm UTC

Are ray tracing features optional in general? I.e. they aren't part of any Vulkan version?

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Godot Engine 4.0 Alpha 1 is out with Vulkan support, rendering overhaul
25 Jan 2022 at 5:07 am UTC

Quoting: TrainDocNo it's GLSL.

I'm not sure what making the language more accessible means than if they are using an existing one.

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Valve sponsors more work to improve Linux graphics drivers
25 Jan 2022 at 3:18 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: TheRiddickBe nice if they can get the RayTracing+DXR support up to snuff so people have more options then just buy a NVIDIA card if you want functional RT...

That's going to happen sometime soon I suspect. Jason Ekstrand mentioned possibly working on it here [External Link].

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Godot Engine 4.0 Alpha 1 is out with Vulkan support, rendering overhaul
25 Jan 2022 at 3:13 am UTC

And speaking of effects, our shader maintainer Yuri Roubinsky (Chaosus) poured a lot of love into making the shading language and visual shaders more accessible and versatile.

Is Godot using its own custom shading language?

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Get a fresh up close and personal look at the Steam Deck with Hellish Quart
20 Jan 2022 at 10:59 pm UTC Likes: 2

I've seen this game referenced before: https://www.gog.com/game/hellish_quart [External Link]

Do they plan a native version?

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KDE begin the 15-Minute Bug Initiative to make Plasma great
20 Jan 2022 at 5:33 am UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: Guest...then today's standards mean unoptimized code.
It is like hiding the dust under cheap carpet hoping that the price of the carpet will continue to go down when we'll need a bigger one.

It's a physical limitation, not a code one. I.e. if you want to use rotational disks, I don't see a need to complain they are slow.

I agree though it's not an excuse when something isn't optimized in general. But it's not about that. HDDs are slow, no matter what you do.

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KDE begin the 15-Minute Bug Initiative to make Plasma great
19 Jan 2022 at 11:50 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: MnolegMy main issue with KDE is the slowness to boot when compared to any other DE, it is unusable on systems where the home partition is not stored in a local SSD. However, boot times on the Deck will probably be acceptable.

I think by today's standards HDDs are horribly slow for boot times anyway. Why would you want to boot from one? Booting / startup is the most I/O intensive phase. SSDs are totally a huge benefit for that.

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