Quoting: EhvisIt didn't help that my current monitor is g-sync and that switching colours meant I'd have to go Freesync and get a new monitor as well. Just didn't feel like researching that.

What monitor do you have? I do know of any monitor that supports G-Sync but not Freesync (or adaptative sync).

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Quoting: scaineThis sounds absolutely incredible. If they've genuinely created intra-distro consistency, that's a HUGE win for Linux as a gaming platform. Now, Valve, what are you going to do about that shitty kernel-level-anticheat problem?

Thinking on this somewhat. Perhaps this could be a way towards it. Have everyone run Steam inside a container, Valve can verify nothing in the container has changed. Perhaps this could help towards ensuring a secure environment?

Interesting thought. As it is, it's not enough, as external programs can still poke at he memory and code. But add to that encrypted memory and secure attestation (SGX enclave verifying the hash of the code, memory decryption keys only available inside the enclave), and it could be pretty bullet proof, no need for a kernel driver, "just" a recent CPU with recent microcode (and hopefully you will not be locked out of your game just because a security bug has been found for your CPU model).

I don't like this idea in general (imagine your bank wanting you to use an approved web browser on an approved OS), but I could see it working for anti-cheat in games. I wonder what the perf impact would be. And of course, it would require cooperation from anti-cheat providers.

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Quoting: tgurrYou probably still need to install 32bit graphics driver on your host for as long as you want to play 32bit native games. Maybe they could add an option like "Always run the windows version of the game (through Proton) for games which only have a 32bit native version" to be able to really get rid of the need to have to have 32bit libs installed. As (old) 32bit native games won't magically go away any time soon - if ever.

Well, it sounds like it's time for a new API compatibility layer, then ;)
Couldn't a shim work? A 32-bit library that calls into a 64-bit driver. Or would it require additional IPC mechanisms & overhead?

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Quoting: liloventWhy aren't they sueing the owners of these games, Microsoft, Take Two and Electronic Arts?

These already paid a license. They want the store to pay a license as well.

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Lots of alarmed comments in here. I agree that it's a slippery slope, but in practice this seems like a good idea to ask OSes to provide an API for this, especially for age brackets (prevents tracking if any user worth tracking is "over 18" -- this may make for a neat tracker blocker if you just need to input a lower age).

Now, the title make it sound like the "verification" is privacy invasive, but if it's just a mechanism to store the age in account data, provided at account creation time, there are many ways to implement this: new field in /etc/passwd, or new config file. Provide /proc/is_user_over18 or some D-Bus API provided by the DE. Could be a new "portal".

I don't see any "official / secure verification service" being enforced, so if it's just another picker besides "time zone" or "keyboard layout", fine by me. If they start mandating something else though... Slippery slope, as I said (though we could use key-signing parties for that).

This could make it trivial for parents to setup a very basic parental control system, and could avoid all these popups about "are you 18+" on Steam and other websites.

Thank you Liam for your accurate reporting, though the headline is still a bit click baity. I would say "require OSes to provide|share your age".

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Darn, I missed the deadline, I had so much to say :|

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I'll be honest, I would be much more interested in an open source remake.

Still, I'm happy to see that someone picked up this project. KSP needs some developer love.

In the open source world, I know of Orbiter, for instance: https://github.com/orbitersim/orbiter [External Link] but it's more of a space sim than a sandbox. Are there others?

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This is awesome, though I wish it was open sourced as well.

Now, can we publish it on FlatHub (with a downloader)?

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Quoting: PyrateIs there any indication of this working differently than Waydroid when it comes to ARM-only APKs ? Currently on Waydroid, only x64 APKs work, ARM ones work only after installing an inadequate emulator.

Given that the target platform seems to be the Planck, which uses an ARM CPU, I doubt it. In practice, a tool similar to FEX could work.

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The irony. An AI tag being relevant for art exhibits, but not videogames? Are videogames not art, then? It is telling how Tim thinks about games. But then, id software epic games do not have a particularly high artistic value (subjectively, of course).

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