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But I think we can do better with a native solution.

Oh really? 🤔

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Wow, did not expect this.

Is this the start of the Linux picks up mainstream developer mindshare thing?
Or is Unity just trying to have it covered in case that happens?

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Quoting: g000hAs soon as Californians are no longer able to legally run Linux, their own citizens will go after this law and end the moronic political overreach.

This assumes that the majority of Californians are Linux users. Linux is not significant enough to overturn this law. Besides, the majority of eligible voters are indifferent sheep ... they are more likely to just accept or ignore the overreach.

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Quoting: CaldathrasInteresting. I was forced to 580 from the 550 series. Wasn't given a choice. Based on the link below, Nvidia no longer supports the 550 series, by the way:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

To do that I had to drop my kernel to 6.14 (which is now also unsupported I think) and remove one line from the code. But any drive above that messes up my VR (among other things), so it has to be done.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: hardpenguinHmmmmmm Debian Sid has only 550, the Experimental repository has 555, and the official NVIDIA apt repository has... 590.

I think I'll stick to the older driver as long as everything works. Although jumping on the bleeding edge is tempting, as always.

I've tried drivers up to 585 and always returned to 550 because of too many issues. So sticking with the older driver definitely not the worst idea.

Interesting. I was forced to 580 from the 550 series. Wasn't given a choice. Based on the link below, Nvidia no longer supports the 550 series, by the way:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

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Quoting: princechmm but any news on the totally broken XFCE desktop compositor...? Anything later than 570 completely borks it.

Well, not totally ... just those using the nvidia-open-dkms driver -- i.e., those with newer Nvidia GPUs that support this driver.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/nvidia-recommended-driver-580-126-18-released-for-linux/?comment_id=290368

I'm not having any compositor problems on the 580 series driver with my GeForce MX150.

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Quoting: tmtvlOn the other hand, it would be neat if Steam paying the royalties meant that products containing copyrighted material could be sold through Steam as long as the royalties are paid; DDR/Audiosurf/GH clones could ship with a ton of songs, for example.

That assumes that these parasitic bodies know, much less care, whose work is being licensed. They don't. These bodies don't have a membership list of artists and composers. They don't know whose music is being played by the licensed facility nor to they require that playlists be filed after each event. They are just demanding a general fee because music is involved with the event.

This puts a lie to their claim that a performing artist putting on a show would pay a fee for performing live music but then get that fee back in royalties as the artist and/or composer. Most of the money they collect is likely being consumed by the organization itself with the balance just being distributed to large record firms to line their already considerably wealthy pockets.

Quoting: tmtvlAnyone could make a Harry Potter/Song of Ice and Fire/Lord of the Rings game.

Well, these "royalties" only applies to music, not other intellectual property...

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Quoting: princechmm but any news on the totally broken XFCE desktop compositor...? Anything later than 570 completely borks it.

This problem is not only on the XFCE. MATE desktop is broken too... :(

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Quoting: KandarihuI don't think that this is the right approach. As much as I want Linux to grow as a platform, this gives us an unfair advantage. The better choice will be to scrap/abolish such legislation entirely.

The more users that switch to Linux, the better. M$ Microslop may start to listen to the users 😆 😆 or they will try Embrace, extend, and extinguish

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Quoting: tarmo888Godot has Linux ARM64 and even ARM32 in the UI and you don't even need ARM hardware.

Cool! I know what I have to do. 😁

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This would be great if the Steam Deck system wasn't so terribly inconsistent. I frequently find games that are listed as 'Unsupported' but that run fine, and 'Verified' games with severe performance issues, such as Horizon Zero Dawn (the OG has tons of stuttering). And as for the Remaster, it's Verified despite having the exact same engine as Forbidden West (Unsupported due to 'bad performance') and performing identically.... yea I already gave up trying to make sense of this mess

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: tarmo888Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?

It's more a case that most devs are unlikely to do Native Linux builds.

I don't even think there is a game engine that exports native Linux arm builds. Although they should be there for mac, so who knows what can happen in the future.

Many don't have Windows ARM export too in the UI, but that doesn't mean you can't do it. On Windows, many use scripts to make build anyway, so Windows ARM exports have been available for them for quite some time, even on x86_64 machine. On Linux, all you need is hardware with ARM64.

Godot has Linux ARM64 and even ARM32 in the UI and you don't even need ARM hardware.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: tarmo888Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?

It's more a case that most devs are unlikely to do Native Linux builds.

I don't even think there is a game engine that exports native Linux arm builds. Although they should be there for mac, so who knows what can happen in the future.

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: _Mars

In 2007, PRS for Music took a Scottish car servicing company to court because the employees were allegedly "listening to the radio at work, allowing the music to be 'heard by colleagues and customers'".

From the Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRS_for_Music#Legal_cases

It happened in other countries, too. My hairdresser has a plaque informing that the music is only for employees and the customers ought to abstain from listening to it. That's where it's headed...

That is not where it's headed, that is the way it has been since the 80:ies when these licensing firms was allowed power by politicians to not allow music to be used at all for any means without a separate license in every step of the chain. This is the entire reason why so called Muzak is used in public spaces and why there is a whole industry of people making music "with low entertainment value" which is exempt from this licensing.

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Quoting: KandarihuAs much as I want Linux to grow as a platform, this gives us an unfair advantage.

You think this gives Linux an unfair advantage? I suppose the fair version of this is asking for it to be completely scrapped knowing that it would be unlikely for them to listen.

Plus we are already asking for that. o_o

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Quoting: eggrole

Quoting: GustyGhostValve: "Wins" case against Rothschild patent troll
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Rothschild global influence:](https://files.catbox.moe/ba3ari.mp4)

Totally a coincidence that after this case we have NYC, Washington, and the music copyright lawsuits, right? Certainly this isn't a case of "the process IS the punishment."

Most likely it is a coincidence yes, note that this patent troll is not a member of the famous Rothschild family, they just happen to have that surname.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: tarmo888Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?

It's not like we have many closed source Linux + ARM apps right now...

Not sure what you mean, there are tons of Raspberry Pi apps for Linux ARM64. Steam Frame probably too weak to run most flat 3D games standalone, but should not have problems with 2D games that can even run on Pi.

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This is needed - Fighting the politicians. Most Linux distributions should amend their license terms to deny right to use Linux in the state of California and other states where this Operating System Age Law gets implemented.

As soon as Californians are no longer able to legally run Linux, their own citizens will go after this law and end the moronic political overreach.

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I don't think I played this one myself back in the day

For me it was either brain bread, Vampire slayer or natural selection :)

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: tarmo888Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?

It's more a case that most devs are unlikely to do Native Linux builds.

I get that, I am interested if there is at least an option, like with native Linux x86_64.

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During Gamergate, Brad Wardell was actively boosting harassment and taking part in it himself. The amount of ick I associate with that man and the company by extension has made me not buy anything published by them in what is now 12 years. The best thing I can say about ol' Brad is that at least he's not in the Epstein files (shoutout to Bobby Kotick).

Should published game developers suffer because of this? Probably not, no. Just makes it a very tough pill to swallow.

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Quoting: KandarihuI don't think that this is the right approach. As much as I want Linux to grow as a platform, this gives us an unfair advantage. The better choice will be to scrap/abolish such legislation entirely.

On the other hand, pointing out the flaws in the legislation in the process of requesting exclusions weakens the arguments for the rest of the bill to move forward as well — and should it fail to stop it completely, I’d rather free software be excluded from it than not.

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Quoting: tarmo888Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?

It's not like we have many closed source Linux + ARM apps right now...

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I don't think that this is the right approach. As much as I want Linux to grow as a platform, this gives us an unfair advantage. The better choice will be to scrap/abolish such legislation entirely.

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Quoting: tarmo888Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?

It's more a case that most devs are unlikely to do Native Linux builds.

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Confused. Only 2 paths for standalone Frame apps? Does that mean there will be no native Linux ARM apps? Through Lepton is as native as we get?

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I'm usually not much for 2d side scrollers, but that video actually looked pretty interesting. Wishlisted!

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Just want to do what I always do when it's about Dome Keeper: RECOMMEND IT! Seriously it's so good. If you haven't given it a try yet, go for it! A fav game of mine.

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This is great of Carl. Someone needs to stand up against these moronic politicians. He's in a good place to do so!

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Right, we just need an official Valve Proton with NTSync now also.

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