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Latest Comments by Shmerl
GOG to go through some reorganization after suffering losses
30 Nov 2021 at 3:35 pm UTC Likes: 3

I think it's less about GOG and more about "too many games" issue? May be people just buy less games today because their backlogs are too long already. At least that's the case for me. And I buy almost all of my games from GOG and don't use Steam.

The Zink driver for OpenGL over Vulkan shows good performance on NVIDIA
18 Nov 2021 at 11:55 pm UTC

Quoting: denyasisI can say this for a fact as I work is place in a similar situation. The system that runs my entire workplace runs on... DOS.
lol, yeah, that can happen :)

The Zink driver for OpenGL over Vulkan shows good performance on NVIDIA
18 Nov 2021 at 6:51 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: EhvisNot to burst your bubble, but games aren't important.
Not according to those who make money on gaming GPUs. You can check their earning reports to see how much that is.

OpenGL for new projects will surely not be a thing. Non gaming applications are just progressing slowly, but they are going to move away from OpenGL, no question about it.

NVIDIA takes on AMD FSR with their new open source Image Scaling
17 Nov 2021 at 12:31 am UTC

Quoting: GuestFrom what I read from a guy looking into integrating this into retroarch like FSR apparently this code drop is less portable and more constricted that what FSR does. It assumes you are using dx shaders and working with dx11, something AMD's solution does not.

In other words, it's half assed and not even good.
Are AMD at least using Vulkan for FSR?

NVIDIA takes on AMD FSR with their new open source Image Scaling
16 Nov 2021 at 4:38 pm UTC

So to understand this better, Nvidia's new upscaling works on AMD too?

KDE developer thinks they will become the 'Windows or Android' of the FOSS world
15 Nov 2021 at 8:45 pm UTC Likes: 1

I used Gnome briefly in 2.0 days but switched to KDE when it started moving to 3.0. I agree that Gnome can't compete with KDE in flexibility.

I wish though KDE and KWinFT projects would collaborate. I'd also like to see KWin stop using OpenGL / EGL and switch to Vulkan / WSI.

12th Gen Intel Core processors announced with the 'world's best gaming processor'
15 Nov 2021 at 10:23 am UTC

AMD aren't going to for little cores approach in their Zen 4, so it will be pretty though for Intel to compete with that if they stick to their mixed approach.

Valve answers the question: should developers do native Linux support or Proton?
14 Nov 2021 at 4:30 pm UTC

Quoting: F.UltraDoesn't any of the 20 odd GDB frontends solve this? http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB%20Front%20Ends [External Link]
Some help with it, but nothing feels like a real thing.

Here's some of what we've learned about the Steam Deck
14 Nov 2021 at 7:27 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: slembcke(@Shmerl Is your avatar from Ferazel's wand? Been a long time since I played that game...)
It's from Loom [External Link].

Valve answers the question: should developers do native Linux support or Proton?
14 Nov 2021 at 5:53 am UTC Likes: 1

Yeah, it surprises me too. There are some alternatives, but they are not FOSS. Total View for example.