When they have native OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and Vulkan backends, what's the point of translating to DirectX?

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Quoting: dpanterDaym, that's impressively crazy... everything and the kitchen sink.

And the kitchen sink has parameters as well.

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Quoting: 14There is a time limit to complete the objective. The objective requires an enormous amount of food stored. One of the failures, we didn't even know how much food we needed. Another, we ran out of time.

That does sound tedious. Not something I enjoy in a game.

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Quoting: 14Too bad my friend and I can't even get past the first campaign mission

Why not?

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Quoting: rcritAnd yet still an empty desktop.

I don't know about you but the only time I ever see my desktop is when I first boot. That's a weird complaint to have.

I think that getting rid of desktop icons was one of the biggest innovations of GNOME 3. Finding stuff on the desktop is slower than any other method, be it start menus, search, or simply a file manager. To find stuff on the desktop you have to literally move whatever you are doing out of the way, and break your flow. It is only realistically useful for the first few seconds after you have logged in, and before you launched your first application that obscures the view of the desktop.

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Quoting: GuestI wanna play this so bad.
And I need to know how Bill is still alive... I'm far to excited over a game that is 11 years old!!!!

Me thinks GOL co-op stream... maybe?

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Bill... survived?

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Quoting: EhvisNot sure what "olden days" you're referring to, but it seems to me that the situation for default audio chipsets now is much worse than it was in soundcard days.

Somewhere after dedicated soundcards started losing popularity, and before proper software mixing.

My audio journey on Linux went something like this:

• No sound at all.
• Single stream, reload the driver when playing different bitrates, otherwise crackling sound.
• No more crackling sound.
• Software mixing in ESD, crackling sound is back.
• Proper software mixing with dmix, as long as your asound.conf is configured properly.
• Software mixing by default, no more asound.conf.
• PulseAudio brings per-application volume settings, crashes a lot.
• Most applications do not support PulseAudio. Need to configure ALSA over Pulse or Pulse over ALSA, or maybe both.
• Time goes by.
• PulseAudio works, no configuration needed.

I do realize that PulseAudio is not perfect. But holy crap have we come a long way.

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I'd rather judge a man by his work, than some inconsiderate thing he may have said years ago. Cancel culture ruins lives.

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PipeWire is like PulseAudio with video.

In the olden days you could only play one audio stream at the time on Linux, because most sound cards only have a single hardware channel. Then ALSA added software mixing with dmix to allow for multiple audio streams. Then there was EsounD and aRts sound servers. Then eventually came PulseAudio.

Whereas nothing much really happened for video. You still can only access your webcam via a single application at the same time.

PipeWire allows things like sharing video sources like webcams, so you can have a video stream going to a conference call while saving it to a file and broadcasting to YouTube at the same time. Maybe apply some fancy effect somewhere in between, because why not?

It also greatly simplifies screen capture, because your window manager can take care of the capture part, because it knows where and what is being rendered, and you just get the video stream as input. No more messing around with X libs, finding the right window, cropping it, etc.

I honestly think that PipeWire is one of the most innovative projects for the Linux desktop at the moment, and definitely deserves attention.

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