Ah, that's good to see. I was getting a bit worried about the lack of updates!
Anecdotally, I got one of the biquintennial (is that a word?) hardware surveys recently, and it listed me as not having a VR headset, despite my Index being plugged in, on and registered in Steam, so hopefully, they aren't allocating development resources based on those stats.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe trailer was eerie and cool, but I couldn't figure out what a player would be doing, exactly. I mean you're zooming down one track; you can't really dodge, most of the time it doesn't seem like you're shooting anything although now and then it seems like a shock wave comes out of you. I presume there's something, and it's related to the rhythm and all that--I'm just wondering what it is.

It's a bit like a rhythm game; you have to activate the right thing when the appropriate, usually glowing, other thing hits you (or right before). It's cool, I recommend it - gets you in a weird, dreadful, semi-hypnotic mood :D

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The wording is odd, but I can't fault their stance (for now). To me, it sounds a lot like when Ubuntu was the only officially supported distro for many games, only here they also protect themselves from NVIDIA driver bugs and any other hardware and software stack differences.

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Shout-out to Rune (also ported by Loki) from a few months later, that not only also let you sever the limbs off of your enemies, but also let you beat them with them.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: CybolicFor comparison, that's more than were ever released for the N64 (~300) and the Nintendo Wii U (~150) put together. Pretty nice launch already! :D

You've undershot a bit there, I could have sworn the Wii U had around 800 games :grin:

Anyways, I would expect this list to increase massively soon with WMA codec being worked on, exciting times ahead!

Yeah, it might be a bit undershot; I went by largest amount per region (JP/US/EU) to not count games released in all regions twice/thrice.

EDIT: Since we're all doing it:

VERIFIED:      94 games (4.97%)
PLAYABLE:      63 games (3.33%)
UNSUPPORTED:   14 games (0.74%)
UNKNOWN:     1719 games (90.95%)

Not a great ratio for me but I know most of the unknowns work on desktop so I'm not too concerned.

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For comparison, that's more than were ever released for the N64 (~300) and the Nintendo Wii U (~150) put together. Pretty nice launch already! :D

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Quoting: mmstickWhat ananicy does is only a fraction of what system76-scheduler is doing.

Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: CybolicThis sounds like something that could also be implemented with bspwm, so I'll be sure to keep an eye on what tweaks they're doing.

Here's a quick version for anyone interested. Thanks to mmstick for correcting me on the logic.
bspwm-scheduler.sh [External Link]

Doesn't appear to be applying the background process priority to all background processes, or matching all descendants of a PPID and their descendants, descendants. It'd be easier to simply do

 
dbus-send --system --dest=com.system76.Scheduler \
    /com/system76/Scheduler \
    com.system76.Scheduler.SetForegroundProcess \
    uint32:${PID}

I added support for using the System76 Scheduler in my little script [External Link] now. Honestly, I don't see any difference in how it handles process groups in my limited testing, but it is a bit faster at changing the niceness levels.
Best of both worlds now :)

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Quoting: mmstickWhat ananicy does is only a fraction of what system76-scheduler is doing.

Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: CybolicThis sounds like something that could also be implemented with bspwm, so I'll be sure to keep an eye on what tweaks they're doing.

Here's a quick version for anyone interested. Thanks to mmstick for correcting me on the logic.
bspwm-scheduler.sh [External Link]

Doesn't appear to be applying the background process priority to all background processes, or matching all descendants of a PPID and their descendants, descendants. It'd be easier to simply do

 
dbus-send --system --dest=com.system76.Scheduler \
    /com/system76/Scheduler \
    com.system76.Scheduler.SetForegroundProcess \
    uint32:${PID}

I've updated it [External Link] to better handle children of PPID and PID. I'm not aiming to handle the entire system with this, just the basic userspace processes to the extent that bash scripting allows without too much slow code. As for general background processes, that's what the limits.conf edit is for.

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Quoting: mmstickWhat ananicy does is only a fraction of what system76-scheduler is doing.

Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: CybolicThis sounds like something that could also be implemented with bspwm, so I'll be sure to keep an eye on what tweaks they're doing.

Here's a quick version for anyone interested. Thanks to mmstick for correcting me on the logic.
bspwm-scheduler.sh [External Link]

Doesn't appear to be applying the background process priority to all background processes, or matching all descendants of a PPID and their descendants, descendants. It'd be easier to simply do

 
dbus-send --system --dest=com.system76.Scheduler \
    /com/system76/Scheduler \
    com.system76.Scheduler.SetForegroundProcess \
    uint32:${PID}

That would certainly be easier, yes :)

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Quoting: DebianUser

Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: CybolicThis sounds like something that could also be implemented with bspwm, so I'll be sure to keep an eye on what tweaks they're doing.

Here's a quick version for anyone interested. Thanks to mmstick for correcting me on the logic.
bspwm-scheduler.sh [External Link]

Thanks, seems interesting.
I see it uses bspc command, does it require bspwm ? or it will work under mutter with bscp command installed ?

It very much depends on bspwm. If there's another tool that continuously prints out the WID when the focused window changes, it could be adapted, but I don't know of any.

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