Quoting: elmapuli think the only solution is use an sarcastic label such as "shit games" no company would like to associate thenselves with an negative term...

You underestimate what those big companies are willing to do, when they smell the scent of money in any new market. Big example is the music industry. Any new trend, not matter how ridiculous it is, will be embraced by big labels if they think there is good money in there.

Indie once was synonymous of low budget, almost free games. Now they sell things that look like a indie for almost the price of a AAA game.

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Quoting: BumadarI do wonder how the intel dedicated gfx card development is going, will they continue there efforts and have a follow up for their current generation or is it going to die silently, I not heard much about it, anybody knows ?

My guess is that they slowed down releases of new hardware until their drivers can catch up. The brand is already damaged enough that launching new models will result in more cash loss.

I also don't think they will give up, since they are seeing Nvidia profits in the GPU market and sure they want a slice of that pie. But they also have to start from somewhere, even if the start is problematic as it is right now. They received a lot of goodwill from the community as a alternative from the current duopoly, so that is also encouraging.

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They had been developing this for a while now. I though in putting it on my wishlist, but I was surprised to see that it was already there. When I checked the date, it was in 2019!

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Quoting: jensActually I'm afraid to update. Wacom tablet support on Gnome Wayland is not yet there due to smaller issues like cursor doesn't become visible or clicks not being registered. On the other hand Wacom on X11 stills works nicely but broke horribly with the last two major Gnome releases and several minor releases were needed to get those regression fixed

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3120 for example worries me.

And that kind of stuff is why people like me prefer LTS distros. I can understand some have a real need to be on the bleeding edge, but others need stability to get work done.

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I'm quite surprised by this, since it is a modern game still being developed.

I wonder what will be heir reaction if someone uses this as the basis of a new commercial game, and said game actually competes with War Thunder.

Also, looks like there are quite a few files that the engine rely upon and are not released under the BSD license.

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Vulkan all the things!!

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Quoting: M@GOidFingers crossed it will come too late to be included in Kubuntu 24.04 LTS. I had nothing against new things, but in my past experience, big new versions of KDE are to buggy to be used on a production system, and the last thing a LTS release needs is bleeding edge software.

Conversely, if they don't put Plasma 6 into the LTS, the "desirability" of that LTS decreases significantly outside of hard production environments. Also, the older environment becomes a chain around the Kubuntu team's neck as they're still putting out fires on Plasma 5 five years after everyone has jumped onto Plasma 6 (or seven, by the end of that LTS's life).

I'm on the Kubuntu right now and if there isn't a simple way to get Plasma 6 on there, I'll be jumping distro. Again. Argh!!

I don't know about you, but the transition from 3 to 4 and 4 to 5 are still fresh in my memory. Not fun times. Very few people test bleeding edge software, and is only when released to the masses that a truckload of bugs appear. Right now KDE is at its peak stability and functionality, and trading that for a bigger number version with reduced stability and functionality is a bad deal in my book.

If you like KDE fresh, there is KDE Neon, that is based in the latest Kubuntu LTS but with up-to-date KDE versions, no PPA needed.

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Fingers crossed it will come too late to be included in Kubuntu 24.04 LTS. I had nothing against new things, but in my past experience, big new versions of KDE are to buggy to be used on a production system, and the last thing a LTS release needs is bleeding edge software.

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This don't surprise me. Even on Windows the game is broken, with reports of multiple bugs, bad performance and incomplete feature list.

One more case of buy on release day, regrets immediately.

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AFAIK Apple started the Metal API more or less the same time AMD released their Mantle API. When Vulkan appeared, they had already invested a lot in Metal, so they made the call to continue that path.

Now, was it the right move? If you look at their revenue from Apple store, looks like they did. But I had the feeling that is iPhone related. My impression is that their desktop stuff don't look any better than before, although they continue to get some support from a couple big names.

The recent release of a Apple's "Proton" indicates that things are not rosy, meaning Metal adoption is not in the levels they wanted it to be.

I had the feeling that while Tim Cook is in charge, things will remain the same. But I wouldn't be surprised if the next CEO, in a effort to boost profits, starts to drop anything that is proprietary in exchange for industry standards, like Chromium and Vulkan, to cut costs and make shareholders happy.

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