For those interested in the specifics, there is a video of a presentation at the Linux Plumbers Conference.

This new approach should emulate the correct behaviour and therefore is supposed to be able to become a part of wine. The previous attempts (esync/fsync) do not emulate the correct behaviour in two (?) situations.

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No, this will not do anything useful (it only creates a device in /dev) without a modified version of wine – either as part of mainline wine or Proton. I haven't seen anything official on that front. There is a series of patches in a separate git repository by the author of the kernel patches that is (optionally) used by e.g. wine-tkg.

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I think you did miss the most unstable SteamOS channel that is (probably) only visible in dev mode. The channel names are a confusing mess in the German version, so I'm not sure what it is named.

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The most unstable version of SteamOS seems to be at Kernel 6.8 and when you consider the fact that Proton already has the alternatives patched in, there seems to be some misunderstanding – it should make non-SteamOS users that play games on Linux happy.

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There are two explanations that come to my mind when I see the high enthusiasm for games being developed against Apple's disruptions:

a) We've always done it that way

b) We're scared of Whoopi Goldberg publicly complaining about a missing Mac version.

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Video support has been getting better in the last two years, but there are still times that gstreamer makes me so mad. I think I've written the same thing on a previous news post concerning the ffmpeg back-end…

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I'm not sure that Leonard Nimby is a good idea for a name – Nimby is somewhat of an insult and it seems to make fun of Leonard Nimoy. I'm not sure that I want to play a Nimby in a game.

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That's disappointing.

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Yes, DeepL is so much better than Google's or Amazon's translation.

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Merry Christmas.

Unfortunately my attempts to keep the Weekend Players' Club alive in some form have been in vain, so I'm not in a festive mood.

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Quoting: tmtvlYou think so?

Yes, because it sounds made up, like Mäxchen Müller.

Although Müller is a very common surname in Germany, the name Mäxchen Müller is probably very uncommon, because no sane person would name their child like that.

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