'Video game library manager', huh? Well, we already have Lutris, Heroic, and Steam, but I suppose another one wouldn't hurt. I mean, there's something like half a million desktop environments, so ecosystem fragmentation isn't anything new.

Never heard of Playnite, but looks like it's another game library app. Hopefully this one uses QT, AFAIK the others all use GTK>=3 which sucks.

I use playnite to have some control of what I have. It's an excelent backlog tool. I'm getting very emotional by this update! For now I run it inside a win VM. Ah, I also use it to randonly pick my next game.

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go to discuss.kde.org, give your feedback on this feature. maybe devs will consider improving it, maybe they will tell you about some way to configure it you don't know about. just keep cool attitude, kde devs are very open minded.

Just when they changed that I did go there and found some other users are complaining already. The responsible for HDR on KDE is just one person. He declared that this issue is a "feature" and pointed that we all are wrong. Even when people say that when people relly on a certain wrongly behavior that "wrongly behavior" is not a problem but a feature the guy give the middle finger to everyone and closed the request saying that everyone in the thread doen't know what HDR really are and every other platform implemented HDR wrong and KDE will not behave like that (in a nutshell).

That guy is an idiot. EVERYONE controls SDR detached of pure HDR but KDE. It'll fix SDR to your paper white setting and THERE'S NOTHING one can do. BECAUSE THAT GUY IS AN IDIOT!

If you want to read the original thread it's here:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499934 [External Link]

Other people opened other threads about the same thing again and again only to be dismissed.

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When I remember HDR was great on KDE I cry... They decided that the same bar that changes SDR brightness also is good to change HDR. The new settings made HDR impossible to fix. I just can't reproduce what PS4/5 outputs on Linux anymore thanks to ONE kde dev that thinks his way of doing thing is the right one.

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So... This means that games will use wayland instead of xwayland?

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Quite Nice. Can't wait to see some performance comparison with proprietary. Also if dlss tech could run on it in the future.

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They've made more than one gamepad, you know?

Yeah and I have some data from them. The only ones that are actually good are the xbox licenced ones because they need to comply to the xbox spec.

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8bitdo is a really, REALLY bad gamepad. Why? extreme high input delay. My old sn30pro+ from 8bitdo has insane 33ms over BT, 16ms over USB. Support did not help at the time and this issue never got fixed. And it is worser to think that new models never got this solved. Some friends bought one of the new models including that ultimate whatever model besides my warnings. They did the latency test and bingo! 33ms over bt, 16 over usb (with some variation over models but still very high).

For reference, DS4 is 3,5ms. Xbox controlers is around 7ms. Anything bellow 10ms is OK, Bellow 5 is good, Bellow 2 is great. Anything above 10 will be very noticeable specially if you use more than one type of gamepad.

Other issues includes very low durability for analog stickers rubber, and a very annoyng problem with skipped inputs from time to time... yes. you missed that Mario jump not because you didn't pressed on time, it was because 8bitdo ignored it. Again support never responded or solved this issue.

From all this awesome experience with them and their products I now say: 8bitdoNOT!!!

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Did check out to see... not cheap at all in my region... sad

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I think this is a problem until it's not anymore. What I mean is that proton needs to improve. Valve wants that SteamOS replaces windows as main OS for gamers on their plataform. For that they need 2 things: Proton needs to improve as I said and they need to get devs onboard.

Valve failed at their first atempt because the second need.

edit: I find myself frustrated the majority of the time with Linux gaming because windows support by wine and proton are far from perfect. So games often needs extra arguments, have less performance and is very tricky to make mods works. As a company with that amount of money, they should put as many people they can to improve SteamOS and Proton/Wine to cover all the missing links.

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Ownership of digital content is strange as people are used to value a game if it's associated with a company account. That said, I don't think anyone will want to buy your DRM free game because it's easely duplicable. DRM, if used for that purpose, would be a solution to pass ownership, to make it reliable. Selling used games aways worked because you couldn't copy a game easely. Even pirated copies could be selled because you couldn't copy a pirated game easely. This isn't a easy task to solve as companies don't trust clients much more than clients don't trust companies.

My take on this: I only want accessibility granted. The way I use to do this is making functional stand alone backups of what I buy. I do this by buying DRM free games and store the latest installer somewhere. If a game has DRM then I put a cracked exe inside it. And if a game has DENUVO I DO NOT BUY it ever. DENUVO is the only DRM not easely circunvented meaning the game is trully not mine.

Well, this is on PC. What about consoles? I jailbreak all of them at their end of life (I consider that the year a new console is released). In some cases I buy and jailbreak it instantly like Nintendo consoles because of agressive anti consumer practices.

By now there are some companies that there is a moral obligation of not paying them to play their games because agressive anti consumer practices:

- Nintendo
- EA
- Ubisoft (this one is getting worser at a day basis)

It's like they say: If buying is not owning, piracy is not a crime. Because y'know, taking your money to give you nothing is just theft.

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