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My bad! I forgot we are on GamingOnGooglePixel here - or was it GamingOnXiaomi?
I was of the impression we were on GamingOnLinux and hence talking about PC gaming.

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I might be blind and dumb as usual, but are there any benchmarks out there comparing this to e/fsync instead of vanilla Wine? I'm far more curious about those numbers.

Fsync don't have a big performance difference against wine, so nsync gonna have a better performance than both wine and proton, you can see that on Brodie video

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So basically it's Distant Worlds meets Shadow Empire meets Civilization meets... whatever the f else, combined in a single game.

Yeah, I'm sold.

The only two asterisks will be 1) the AI quality (there's no point in having all that stuff at your disposal if it feels like playing by yourself) and 2) the diplomatic depth (for the same reason). As much as I love geeking over spaceship designs and colony statistics, I've had quite enough of deep, convoluted, but ultimately boring space simulators.

EDIT: Whatever happened to the user avatars?!?

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Nice! A graphical update for the arguably better Dying Light!

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@TheRiddick Yeah, after Valves recent comments about SteamMachines, I anticipate foremont will be something like this, just powerful enough to handle VR titles.

Next question would be wearable or wifi7?

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Love the commitment to these games. Looking forward to another playthrough of Dying Light

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Amazing to hear that cuz i only have Dying light and dlcs. cuz they are only Linux supported games in the series. i hope we get DL2 and DL3 day one support on linux.

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I supported this one on Kickstarter when it was announced, it's looking like a really interesting game with really deep mechanics included.

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Perhaps they will earn enough from it to get real translations done by people who actually understand context and the languages properly.

As an alternative, being open enough and having a large enough community to have fan translations to correct what the auto-complete has come up with. But, yeah, professional localisation would be heaps better than entrusting the user experience to auto-complete.

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Nice, now we need Wine to actually merge its side of support for it.

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At the moment you can only get one of these things without figuratively handing the keys to your pc over to someone you don't know.

Exactly the opposite: My banking app will ONLY run on a smartphone that has not been rooted. Which in turn means no LineageOS or GrapheneOS.

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I turn all friend notifications off. I really don't need or want to know anything while I'm gaming.

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Funnily enough, the "friends in game" notification spam just started to annoy me the other day. I don't have that many friends, but it seemed to be giving multiple notifications for the same friend. This was especially annoying in handheld mode, where the notifications would cover part of the UI for the game I was playing.

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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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I like the idea of this. Maybe the developer can still change to a font more optimised for screen UX, it has that 'wireframe style' proof of concept quality to it that contrasts with the polished mechanics.

(I tend to have this issue with Linux distributions as well without having the skills to suggest an alternative sadly -- maybe try Inter)

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Would play it if not for PayToWin

WT is not PayToWin. There is nothing you can buy that will make winning easier for you.

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Hopefully this will solve the issues some games have with esync or fsync. No specific titles come to mind but I've seen several reports on protondb which reported issues with esync.

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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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I'm on Fedora. Noob question: Do I need to do anything other than update to this kernel when it comes out? Will Proton automatically use this new feature if it's available?

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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's worse. I checked it. The current Steam Deck Kernel seems to be derived from a 6.5 Release.
In the Preview and Beta Channels, it's listed as 6.5.0-valve23-1-neptune-65-g385b5e207ae2.

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Lamplight City was very good, especially the choices actually mattering.
I showed some... not sure anymore, I think human bones to somebody. She was shocked and refused to talk to me any more. So I (reloaded and) started to actually think what I should and shouldn't be doing instead of just clicking on anything possible!
Will buy Rosewater, too.
Additionally, Application Systems Heidelberg is a very Linux friendly publisher.

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I might be blind and dumb as usual, but are there any benchmarks out there comparing this to e/fsync instead of vanilla Wine? I'm far more curious about those numbers.

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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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Well, we'll still need to wait for a kernel update on SteamOS first. Isn't it pretty slow on SteamOS still? We still haven't gotten KDE 6 if I didn't miss anything...

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But I think Sony will probably hold the best of the best, such as Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Astro Bot, as console exclusives.

The problem with Astro Bot and PC is that I think the Dualsense is essential to playing the game. Sony's ulterior motives aside, good luck trying to convince the PC players that a game can't be played with a mouse and keyboard.

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I imagine this could be something close to what they may offer to their new VR headset which will have a standalone mode I'd assume. Little skeptical if they can fit in INSIDE the headset, but perhaps a addon that sits on the back or top of strap?

With advancements in rear-re-projection and frame generation, I think it is now possible to have a 120Hz standalone VR headset that can run things like HL Alyx. Assuming AMD has some internal special custom hardware Valve has access to (very likely). (also keep in mind that controls can be disconnected to the rendering pipeline, so latency issues would be very minimal)

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Having a demo would help this game a lot.
Since not many people know how to play Mahjong, it would be a harder sale

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"I haven't seen this problem on Mint Xfce machines I administer, for what that's worth. Is this a fresh install or did you upgrade from an older Mint?"

Upgrade. I was on Fedora for more than five years, then Debian, then Mint for like the last two years. OpenMandriva seems to do a lot of Red Hat things without being tainted by IBM, so going there next. But Mint is great distro and if things go bad I'll be right back.

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I like the first one. Definitely interested to see what the second will be like.

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Well, they say lots of impressive stuff. But the line between "We did great innovations but kept the good stuff" and "We screwed up the good stuff and kept the bad" is surprisingly fuzzy and difficult to find in this kind of game. We'll see how it actually works out . . . hoping for the best.

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