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xrdesktop for turning your desktop into a VR space had a productive Summer
13 Sep 2021 at 2:24 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: jrtSo tldr is that a Valve co-sponsored VR project has a better keyboard than SteamVR?
This isn't actually about SteamVR. xrdesktop is its own thing but you can use it to layer windows from your desktop on top of a SteamVR game, as an example. So for a livestreamer, they could use it to show Twitch chat and use the new keyboard implementation to interact with that layered window without touching a normal keyboard.
I know. But the SteamVR keyboard is so unreliable that it's likely it has a far better user experience.

xrdesktop for turning your desktop into a VR space had a productive Summer
13 Sep 2021 at 1:20 pm UTC

So tldr is that a Valve co-sponsored VR project has a better keyboard than SteamVR?

Intel Arc is the new brand for their high-performance GPUs, Alchemist arrives in 2022
17 Aug 2021 at 9:58 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: F.Ultra
Quoting: jrtCompetition is good. But why are companies so incapable of naming products?
Intel ARC vs. Intel ARK. There will be no confusion at all!
Quoting: jrtCompetition is good. But why are companies so incapable of naming products?
Intel ARC vs. Intel ARK. There will be no confusion at all!
Almost as good as their coming cpu naming scheme: 10nm -> Intel 7 -> Intel 4 -> Intel 3 -> Intel 20A (lower is better until higher is better again).
Not as bad as Nvidia with "Shield". I think they had 3 products named that and changed the name of the product to something else when they needed the name for a new Product.
"Nvidia Shield" -> "Nvidia Shield Portable"
"Nvidia Shield" -> "Nvidia Shield Tablet K1"
"Nvidia Shield" -> "Nvidia Shield Android TV"

Or the "Titan X" GPU. Where they had a second "Titan X" on a new architecture (pascal). So the community called it "Titan Xp" to differentiate, just for Nvidia to launch a new "Titan XP".

Intel Arc is the new brand for their high-performance GPUs, Alchemist arrives in 2022
16 Aug 2021 at 4:47 pm UTC Likes: 11

Competition is good. But why are companies so incapable of naming products?
Intel ARC vs. Intel ARK. There will be no confusion at all!

Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu gets much improved performance and rendering accuracy
14 Aug 2021 at 10:54 am UTC

Performance improvements are great. Animal Crossing on the Steam Deck will be awesome!

Seems the Valve Steam Deck has been impressing people with some hands-on time
7 Aug 2021 at 6:24 pm UTC Likes: 23

I was very positively surprised by the LTT video. He didn't mention "installing Windows" or the current anticheat situation.
I think it's great that we are at a point where people can be hyped about a Desktop Linux device without a constant "but it would be better with windows".

A fan for the Valve Index? Consider it an essential upgrade purchase
4 Aug 2021 at 1:49 pm UTC Likes: 1

So now that your Index runs cool: When is the next VR stream?

Proton 6.14 GE-2 and Wine 6.14 GE-2 are out, easily update Proton GE with ProtonUp
3 Aug 2021 at 10:57 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: rustybroomhandle
Quoting: jrtWhat do I need ProtonUP for? There is an AUR package that updates proton-ge with normal system updates and you could probably do the same with a deb/rpm repository. I don't like a separate tool to update individual components. I'm a strong believer in the benefits of package managers.
That's nice for you, but not everyone is on an arch-based system.
There is still the possibility to add a repository with normal packages. I dislike the idea of programs that ship their own updater or community made updaters. Package managers are made for this purpose and they do mostly a good job.

Proton 6.14 GE-2 and Wine 6.14 GE-2 are out, easily update Proton GE with ProtonUp
3 Aug 2021 at 8:52 am UTC Likes: 4

What do I need ProtonUP for? There is an AUR package that updates proton-ge with normal system updates and you could probably do the same with a deb/rpm repository. I don't like a separate tool to update individual components. I'm a strong believer in the benefits of package managers.

Frozenbyte are now telling Linux users to use Proton, even for their older games
28 Jul 2021 at 3:17 pm UTC Likes: 3

It seems they now went from "I would recommend Proton emulation over native versions for all the previous games we've released." to more or less "We don't test against Proton and we don't provide any support".

Guess I don't buy anything from them except maybe when there are -80% discounts.

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