Quoting: pleasereadthemanualObligatory "it's still not available in Australia" comment. Maybe a Steam Deck 2?

Quoting: Jarmerahhh so experimental is on the 9.x branch?

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualMy understanding is that AMD and Intel's drivers implement implicit sync but NVIDIA doesn't want to implement that; they want explicit sync because implicit sync is imperfect, but I'd take imperfection over the flickerfest. I haven't looked into it at all; that's just what I've heard. Some cursory reading suggests this is accurate.

Quoting: CollaboraEach of those can be pretty bad by itself but when you put them together the result is that, in practice, using implicit synchronization in Vulkan would completely serialize all work and kill your multi-queue parallelism. So we shut it off if the kernel driver allows it.

If we're turning off implicit synchronization, how do we synchronize with the window system? That's the real question, isn't it? There are a number of different strategies for this which have been employed by various drivers over the years and they all come down to some form of selective enabling of implicit synchronization. Also, they're all terrible and lead to over-synchronization somewhere.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyWasn't tearing supposed to be a bad thing?

Quoting: Purple Library GuyWhy are we trying to make it happen now?

Quoting: ssj17vegetaI always wondered. What's in it for the end-user ? (Wayland)

Quoting: EikeWhere did you get the missing Steam Deck percentages? Internet Archive didn't yield data for many months...

Quoting: EikeI guess you added the trend lines manually?

Quoting: EikeI wasn't sure about that either. On the one hand, it looks like bad data, and we know there's problems with the data, on the other hand, leaving something out feels like cheating. *shrug*

Quoting: EikeI'd say, percentage-wise nothing has happened for over two years, but as you're pointing out, Steam is probably growing, so yes, desktop Linux usage is at least growing along. Good point.

Quoting: EikeBut here you go...

Quoting: sarmadWhen will Valve start selling the Steam Deck in China? It's strange to ignore such a big market.

Quoting: CatKillerI think having an official third party releasing in Hong Kong is as close as Valve wants to get to an official release in China. They've had to make a Steam For China since Chinese customers were using VPNs and vanilla Steam to get round the restrictions on gaming in China; there are 30-something games released per day on Steam, but around that many are authorised for sale in China per year; if you're too young it's a legal requirement that you're only allowed to spend a specified number of hours per week gaming, and only at specified times. It's just way too many headaches all round to try to sell a vanilla-Steam-based gaming machine whose main attraction is that you can play on it whenever you want.

Quoting: NathanaelKStottlemyerI'm somewhat a fan of this idea. I know that most games aren't horrible or inappropriate, but I like to know what I'm getting into and indie titles usually don't have an ESRB rating.