I realize you can't imagine listing every desktop environment, but I would like sway to be included (maybe just "sway/wlroots-based). Just curious how many fellow users there are, and how the numbers compare against other wayland compositors.

Tiling vs non-tiling could be interesting also. "Do you feel comfortable with the terminal" is another thing I'd be interested in.

Some of these could be one-time questions, instead of recurring. I don't know :)

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: thoughtfulhippo

Quoting: tuubiI think the game only activates on the account you link.

No, they give you the key directly and a convenient 'Redeem' button that just links to the Steam register key page.

So they just want your data. Nah, not worth it to me.

I think they just want some newsletter subscriber, really.

And if you don't link your main account, there wouldn't be much data available to them in the first place :)

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Quoting: ElectricPrism

Quoting: Eike"Denuvo Anti-Cheat will not prohibit Linux users from accessing single-player and non-competitive multiplayer features of their games"

Ain't it great? It's anti-cheat - not anti-DRM! - and will not prohibit single player stuff!?!

Incredible, It's almost as if they understand Anti-Cheat should not necessarily be ANTI-CONSUMER too. Mind = Blown

I much prefer games that do it like Halo MCC where you literally are given the choice as consumer if you want to launch with anticheat disabled ( which I do so I can play on custom servers )

It's funny looking back, back in the 90s "cheats" used to be a "feature" you literally paid extra money for a players guide or game shark or whatever to get special new capabilities.

Yeah, but you currently can't get achievements in MCC, nor ranking and some unlocks I think. If only there was local multiplayer!

Same point for the 90s : multiplayer was kinda rare, besides local-only. Nowadays, most games implement some sort of multiplayer, especially casual ones, integrated with social media.

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I just tried a couple tricks for PA, to no avail, like pretending [External Link] to be an Intel GPU. This seems to be our best bet [External Link] for now.

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Quoting: MaathI wonder, why does this need a launcher to be able to publish your achievements to hubzilla? Why can't it just read a config file in ~/.config/gamerzilla/ ?

It could be setup that way. How would you configure it? I don't like telling people to manually edit a file. I don't think most games are going to want to include a configuration screen for it. I have wondered about the possibility of making it some sort of service in the desktop. What exact technology would be used for that I don't know? I want to support Windows as well so any solution needs to have an answer for that. (It doesn't have to be the exact same answer but more code to maintain is a minus.)

Hmm, D-bus exists on windows as well (if you bring your own). Have a standalone GUI to configure it if you must, leave the option to have a config file: I migrate those across my PCs :)

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Quoting: WizardCM

Quoting: Guppy1. Greenscreen / camera effects (usually for fun)

But this isn't the same as the virtual background (it removes the background without the need of a greenscreen/green background) from Nvidia's Broadcast engine, or?

The quality is vastly different :)

It's a bit like being on the phone in a train station: OK, you can do some processing to remove the background as much as you can, but it doesn't beat a clean environment.

I don't yet have a green screen, but would like to use one to make my background transparent when I compose the webcam view on my slides :)

Also, the other day, someone tried to show a paper to their webcam, and zoom decided that was part of the background...

Quoting: GuppyAfter spending quite a bit of time on google the only thing that comes close to explaining the "why" of virtual camera seems to be that you select it as a webcamera in zoom/teams/etc..

but I'm not sure why that's preferable to simply using the build in 'share desktop/window/chrometab' in those ?

What am I missing about this feature?

In my case, sway (which is missing in the PC settings page on GOL) is my main "desktop environment". Most software you quoted do not have support for capturing the desktop under Wayland (no XDG-DESKTOP-PORTAL support, nor the wlroots protocol).

Using a wlroots plugin for OBS allows me to capture my monitor, and feed it back to these apps (teams only sees a black screen, not sure why?). I've had to do it a lot more lately...

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Quoting: HoriJust make sure it is secure and the achievements can't be (easily) cheated.

I don't know about this. It isn't really secure on other platforms either. (See that kind of tools [External Link]).

What if you already unlocked achievements on another platform and would prefer not to start over?

What if you wanted to lock them again as you decide to start afresh?

I don't like playing with cheaters, but that's generally a trust issue, and a web of trust could do wonders. Achievements are for you only, it doesn't really matter to me.

I applaud this initiative!

It would be even better if this library could take care of abstracting achievements for other platforms, especially as GPL apps can't easily link to the Steam runtime.

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Well, I have a braveheart edition, and it's pretty good, but it has its quirks and is most likely not ready as a daily driver yet. It's improving quick, though, and should be mostly there by ~january.

For now, it's quite cool to plug on my USB-C docking station, switch ttys, ans start sway using my laptop/desktop config. Works pretty well, but hangs the phosh interface until a reboot. Maybe I should try Plasma Mobile again.

Quoting: BotonoskiI wonder how good the main camera is? The budget android phone I'm currently using is reportedly 12MP, but the pictures are so dreadful I'm convinced it actually uses some kinda horrid 3MP sensor and pushes the image data through a crappy upscaler. The images always look smeary, and in low light scenes (anything besides direct sunlight) additionally look blotchy and blurry. If the PinePhone is a honest good quality 5MP sensor, it might outclass my current device quite easily. Though that isn't hard to do, I swear the Sony Mavica I used in the mid-2000s pumped out better looking pictures more often than my current Android device.

See Martjin's (from postmarketos) series on the pinephone camera [External Link] to get a general idea.

It isn't top-notch, but it's passable. It also reflects the improvements that have come in multiple areas for this device: power consumption, audio quality, etc.

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Quoting: WorMzyAccording to Steam, I just need to wait another month and then I'll get the Go Outside achievement (Don't play The Stanley Parable for five years). \o/

I only have to wait until september 9. What's wrong with me deciding to run for that achievement less than an hour in? :D

I guess the experience was quite traumatizing... I got to play minecraft during that time.

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Well... A Guix/Nix-like architecture might be the most suitable to such a de-duplication effort. Seconded by an OSTree approach (à la flatpak). I think I'm going to mention this on the issue.

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