Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: Kuduzkehpanelse

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and what's that? Python? lol... the langauge best known to break API in minor versions and even bugfix releases. By honest mistakes which got fixed with fast follow up releases, but still. Got better in the past few years though, was a lot worse in 2.x, but happened in 3.x too (3.6 series in example).

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Quoting: JordanPlayz158

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Quoting: JordanPlayz158

Quoting: PublicNuisanceSo an employee from a company who makes a closed source game store client that hosts a closed source game that uses closed source anticheat software had an issue with an open source library and i'm supposed to side with the employee ? Do I about have that right ? Would it not be an easier issue to fix if more of that equation I listed were open source ?

It wasn't just EAC that broke but a few other applications like Shovel Knight, a game with a native linux port and libstrangle, an fps limiting library, this isn't about open vs closed source software, this is about maintaining backwards compatibility to not only make linux more enticing to port to but also to make it so things like games that do not get maintained forever won't get lost to time.

Well, it 'sort of' is about open vs closed. If it was open (Shovel Knight) someone could have given them a pull request to change to the newer method. That's pretty straight forward.

This wasn't really about backward compatibility, and more about deprecated methods still being used in software. This should be a wake up call for those projects that use old crappy code, and hopefully they'll get updated to be faster.

We'll have to agree to disagree on that front, most of the outrage I've seen is about glibc developers not making it clear they were removing DT_HASH (and that you needed to go to mailing lists and such to know it was depreciated, incremented the patch rather than the major for a breaking change) and I'd say the bigger deal of hurting the prospect of the Linux desktop being ported to or getting more native applications (especially for game developers when games inevitably stop getting maintained and typically do not get their source released once the game is EOL) due to these sort of changes

This was certainly a documentation mistake, but as well misunderstanding what they (glibc) consider as their api/abi, and what some applications did consider by it.

That said, it should have been a wakeup call to those using it, and we will probably see ports to DT_GNU_HASH, and DT_HASH will disappear with a major release at some point.

That will give them thoughts about what they want to deprecate of the ELF sections too for a next major release. And it's good this process started.

It's a real nieche usage, I personally never did require to use DT_HASH or DT_GNU_HASH since dlopen pretty much did work for my cases. But I undetstand wanting to directly read library information in some use cases (security scanners being one, they certainly don't want something messing with dlopen, and I know some commercial tools messing with the dlopen and generally library loading process, dynatrace comes to mind as an example).

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Quoting: randylEmbracer is freaking huge. I've been wondering how they've flown under the radar so well. Maybe it's because of their name change and how little known "Embracer" is. Embracer is the rebranded parent company of THQ Nordic and was also previously named THQ Nordic AB which owned THQ Nordic GmbH. They rebranded to Embracer in 2019.

Some of the subsidiaries Embracer owns and several are massive parent companies in their own right: Amplifier Games, Asmodee, Coffee Stain Holdings, Dark Horse Media, Embracer Freemode, Gearbox Entertainment, Plaion, Saber Interactive, and THQ Nordic. They've also merged several previous brands into their fold or into their subsidiary's holdings group.

Thanks for pointing out!
They also got Koch Media and Deep Silver, both well known at least in German speaking countries.

That they aquired Koch Media 2018 slipped completely past me. They were not that small.

At least they seem to still invest in the kindom come sequel.

THQ /Embracer have almost no reputation for me, since they manage to fly under the media so well.

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I am basically on experimental for all games without hickups except the one or two bad releases which got a fix within an hour.

And often they carried fixes I wanted rather sooner than later, as the ffxiv launcher or stray performance improvements.

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Runs well on Nvidia with Proton. And it really is lovely.

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I'm using Nvidia and decided I will just buy it once it's confirmed running. I have no doubts it will, most games running on deck do actually run on Nvidia.

And seriously, playing a cat in a survival game? Couldn't be a cooler setting. An almost perfect hunter with night vision in a survival game...

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While it was nice to get stuff DRM free, I hardly used it anyway.

I rather support Valve who have a stake in Linux now and did invest, even if it's another layer of DRM. With all those launchers it seems we hardly get around that in future anyway.

GOG is just another sales platform, and while Valves pricing is using their power on the market, it's a capitalist world and I would not trust any other company not to do the same or worse.

I do not see that market shifting any time soon. There are players with the capacity for that (Google, Amazon, Microsoft as examples), but none offer terms which make Developers AND players switch. That could only be done by lower pricing than on a competitors store and better terms for developers if the storefront goes with low profit. And that is not likely to happen.

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QuoteFinal Fantasy XIV launcher exiting silently when there's not enough space to download the update.

Hehe, ran into that while waiting for my new 2TB SSD be delivered to replace my 1TB HDD.

They are really doing a good job there on Proton/Wine. I think the money Valve throws at Proton and in the end Wine really is worth a lot. Even if a lot of those implementations in wine are done by contractors/crossover, Valve pays up.

I still want a switch like steam deck with docking for my TV though. Sadly they seem to have cancelled the docking plan.

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Too many games in my backlog for the years to come. I will wait a few more sales until I buy new games.

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This engine was probably the best thing which came out of amazon game studios yet ;-).

But wasn't it based upon the crytek engine? I wonder how they could relicense it to Apache.

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