Quoting: ZlopezIn this case, treat EU like one country. Make the price same for all the countries inside it. I think it will not take long and the worldwide digital market will be without borders.

Standard deviation of income and price of life is nuts in EU. :/
If they smooth the price tags, it's likely to be based on the richest countries and leave many people behind.

Also I though geo-blocking (which in the end might not be great) was actually kinda helping against grey markets such as g2a which are a definite loss for game developers.

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Quoting: Liam DaweThis has been talked about across other articles, and noted in the first link in this article where Valve clarified what the work was for - to help DRM work in Proton.

Sorry I missed the link and articles, I wasn't paying much attention back in November. :unsure:

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Edit: sorry, this is off-topic and was already covered in articles previously.

Original commemt:
What about the syscall emulation Collabora contribution (based in the seccomp mechanism, but ended up being a stand alone mechanism) making it's way in kernel 5.11 ?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=B35XhcmBDDI [External Link]

This looks promising and looks like a few back and forth discussions went on and a few patches made it to the kernel already.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?h=v5.11-rc3&qt=author&q=gabriel+krisman [External Link]

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Quoting: PhiladelphusSo, obviously security vulnerabilities are bad and I'm going to update ASAP, but just how bad are these, really? Do I have to worry about some carefully crafted bad GIF on a shady website making my GPU run arbitrary code as root, or what? :dizzy:

Nah, the rendering is done by the browser and through the compositor. You'd likely have to run a rogue application or a very badly designed rendering application that'd run arbitrary code. I'll try to go get some more information.

Fun fact: simple stuff taken for granted like jpg libraries had countless vulns and exploit in older versions, and carefully crafted image files could have been detrimental.
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/97856/can-simply-decompressing-a-jpeg-image-trigger-an-exploit [External Link]
Not to even mention ImageTragick.

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Likely, the Linux market will grow thanks to steam to the point it becomes beneficial to Epic supporting Linux. They'll likely start forking proton and put some devs on their most profitable games.

In the meantime they mentioned multiple times they'd support and love Linux, starting with their engine. Though there is so much more money to make on Windows already, they be busy busy.

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Bought it as soon as it got released on steam and a Linux version was announced.
Started the game via proton, though Linux version released a few days later. Had a minor save files issue with steam cloud but nothing worrying.

It helped me cope with very difficult times and kept going around october/december until I could settle things out in my life.

More recently, I finished the main campaign, the sports campaign and latest free update winter campaign. Unlocked every achievements including daily challenges and despite 10h and 10k strokes ones being boring.

Can't recommend enough, it's fun to play and sometimes even hilarious.

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Quoting: Pendragon

Quoting: ikirutoDevice-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A] driver: nvidia v: 460.32.03

Cyberpunk 2077 still crashes.

I wasn't aware they had made any Cyberpunk fixes with this release. Did you see some listed?

Not listed here but we're just desperately waiting for the VK_VALVE_mutable_descriptor extension for WineD3D vkd3d to perform better.

Edit: thanks Leopard, got confused with all those vk acronyms. :cry:

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Guys, as a fellow french companion, I must tell you.
That's a conservative/progressive debate and no it's not just on hippies theory complotists blogs (au contraire).

But my point is, it's off-topic here, it's at best irrelevant.

It's definitely politics and feel free to take this elsewhere.
I just highly doubt people care much about our unnecessary complicated language in which we even give gender to objects.

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ProtonDB is by far the most useful tool around.
This basically tells me which game is a go/no go before I actually buy it. Keep in mind it's actually crowd-sourced, meaning people like you and me, tech savy or not, new to Linux or not are contributing so we can all benefit from it.

By switching to Linux you should have been warned it wasn't an easy way, i.e games are not made for us and it's a miracle already we get them working.
So instead of whining reports are misleading, here's how you use ProtonDB:
1) Check recent reports, wine evolves constantly and given its purpose and wide application range, there will always be regressions;
2) Check for positive reports with the hardware as you have, sometimes just having a given model of GPU or whatev doesn't help
3) Match the proton version of the positive report matching your hardware, as I mentioned sometimes we have new features and smoother support, sometimes we get regressions.

This works 90% of the time.
For the other 10%, try proton experimental branch, try proton tricks, try eggroll version.
It's just a bunch of clicks and you don't even have to get your hands dirty.

I'd like to mention additional details, if eggroll works better and "Valve doesn't seem to care putting as many useful fixes" it's because eggroll embeds copied windows DLL and stuff that would infringe on the Proton licence, eggroll build faces cease and desist anytime from now but hopefully we're such a small market, corpo sharks don't seem to care about just yet.

Another thing, "Valve" needs to sort their shit for Linux".
No, Valve developers actively working on Linux are just a very few, it's definitely not the company as a whole, just check the announcements and commits, these are always the same 4 or 5 people top, and they're already making wonders given how few they actually are.
They don't freakin have time to sort and curate your steam library as you wrongfully setup your distro.

Finally, icing on the cake, just stop whining already and come help, gets your hands dirty, that's the spirit around here. You can't run the game even if it says "Platinum" ? When you made sure you tried everything, congrats you found a regression, at least properly log a bug with the debug logs provided in hope someone fixes it, (that a lot to ask but why not even try to fix it yourself?).
Instead of threatening going back to windows like a child, you won't be missed.

At least show some respect the work of the community who worked their asses off for this unique alternative to actually happen.
Rant off.

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I remember a short while ago looking into Wayland, wasn't Nvidia hindering Wayland adoption because of a few things they don't support in their drivers or things they did wrong ? Can't quite exactly remember what was it about (VA API or VDPAU ?)
Or is this completely irrelevant and speaking nonsense ?

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