Quoting: subThis?

https://twitter.com/CyberpunkGame/status/1012760227148587009

That thread, yeah; there's more than the one tweet.

Anyway, sorry for the derail.

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Quoting: PalancaWhat is your problem with CP2077? if i may ask...

I've got no opinion on the game. It might be great, it might be terrible: we'll see when they stop crunching their devs and release it.

CDPR, though, are Linux-hostile, and used the CP2077 Twitter account to mock people for wanting a Linux Galaxy client.

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Quoting: PalancaHave CP2077 in Linux on the same release day with the new version of Proton. It would be incredible.

Nobody buying it, on any platform, so that it's a complete flop, would be a better outcome.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI have a cunning strategy for dealing with this situation:
Wait.

That's so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel.

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QuoteIn a move that's sure to raise a few eyebrows, the Blender Foundation has announced that Facebook has joined the Blender Development Fund.

It's not really that big a deal: others have already shown that donating money to Blender is an easy and cheap way to get some positive PR, and I'd imagine that they would like people to be able to make game assets so they can sell them in their games store to run on their games hardware.

More interesting is oomd, which is a proper open source infrastructure product out of Facebook that serves a genuine need in the Linux ecosystem. They had an itch that needed scratching, and everyone benefits, exactly as it should be.

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Quoting: scaineI'm not sure what the release schedule is for kernels - they seem to be every two months or so, although there was a 6 month gap between 5.6 and 5.7.

2-3 months between versions. They switched to a more regular cadence after the trials of the 2.x era. Less than that, and it isn't done, and more than that and Linus gets fidgety.

5.6 was released on 29 March 2020 and 5.7 was released on 31 May 2020, so 63 days between them.

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Quoting: scaineI'm currently running the latest 5.9 from mainline using the low-latency option. It works really well, but I think I might give Liquorix a shot, since it will update automatically, AND includes the fsync patches. Liquorix (https://liquorix.net ) support PPA and AUR updates, which is pretty cool.

Bear in mind that the last benchmarks I saw showed the liquorix kernel significantly underperforming compared to the standard generic and lowlatency Ubuntu kernels. You might find that it helps the games that need the newer scheduler patches, but makes everything else worse.

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I don't really like strategy games all that much, and I don't have that much interest in Warhammer, but I am still tempted to get this to help keep Feral in the Linux-porting business.

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Quoting: tuubiYou should simply remove the old xorg.conf file. You don't need one for AMD or Intel.

In case you want to fiddle with options (e.g. to enable TearFree), it's better to just create a new file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ containing nothing but the device section for the driver.

You don't need one with Nvidia, either, and the butchered thing that their automated tool produces is just awful.

The invention of xorg.conf.d and being able to use snippets rather than having to specify the whole thing was a great improvement.

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Quoting: NanobangThough I'm grateful for everything Valve has done for Linux gaming, the one place where I feel they've dropped the ball is in creating and maintaining a standard Linux for Steam gaming. Originally it was Ubuntu 12.04, wasn't it? And/or SteamOS?

They did. It was the Steam Linux Runtime, which was based on the libraries that were in Ubuntu 12.04. If developers targeted that rather than any particular distro, they'd have many fewer things to deal with. The issues with that implementation, and the things they've done to improve it since, are detailed in some recent videos that Liam put up some articles about. They're worth a watch.

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