Quoting: hardpenguin

Quoting: ShabbyXSDL is awesome, but it looks like it's planning to to be not-so-simple anymore.

Like, we don't need yet snother 3d graphics API. Especially not now when the serious APIs (like Vulkan) are still struggling trying to figure out how to best do things. APIs like SDL's would end up based on those 3 APIs and naturally make the same mistakes.

Why not?

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I feel like I already said why not. A lot of ideas that shaped Vulkan turned out to be impractical (multipass render passes, fully static pipelines, decriptor pools, etc). A *lot* of it has fundamentally changed in recent years. Other APIs (d3d12 and metal) have solved some other problems but not half of what Vulkan has solved. A common API (which will necessarily be layered over the main APIs) will end up being a common denominator which means the worst of all worlds.

Also, SDL's strength is in making system integration easy. A real usable graphics API is soooo much work, it just takes away SDL's resources from what people need it for.

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SDL is awesome, but it looks like it's planning to be not-so-simple anymore.

Like, we don't need yet snother 3d graphics API. Especially not now when the serious APIs (like Vulkan) are still struggling trying to figure out how to best do things. APIs like SDL's would end up based on those 3 APIs and naturally make the same mistakes.

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Quoting: Geppeto35Again, about my experience: playing on linux 80% of my time, switching for some games on my windows session for ~20%. I'm a gamer: playing nearly 2 to 3h per days. This was the exactly 12th time last month, since 2012 (I begun to count), that Steam asks me my config stuff while I'm on my windows session. Was only asked on linux one time while being on my laptop during a trip abroad (I nearly play around 10 days per year on my laptop, always when moving from house).

I'm a probabilist for my job, this succession of events are uneven. Steam MUST ask users to declare their prefered plateform at some point, before (to be sure to be surveyed when on this machine) or during the survey at least, especially considering that it matters for the market.

Valve has no reason to _ask_ you about your platform they already know that because they have to serve you updates based that. That's ignoring all the other channels they could use to figure that out.

So while the hardware survey may not be accurate, pretty sure the platform usage data is.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: StalePopcornUnfortunately everyone has a price

Not everyone has a price, it just rarely makes a functional difference because the people who don't have one rarely end up in positions of power.

Of course everyone has a price. Won't you sign up for a microsoft account if you were given absolute rulership over the world including ownership of microsoft itself? Everyone has a price, it just lies somewhere in between zero and the above.

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Quoting: anewsonwe don't have any Linux users [on our team]

Yes, that would have been obvious if they didn't say that they don't have any "native" Linux users.

We say native Linux vs not for what the game _target_ is, I'd never heard anyone call their development OS native.

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> but since we have no native Linux users

I hope that's a typo and they meant "developers". Of course you don't have native Linux users if you don't have a native Linux build, what kind of an argument is that?!

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Quoting: Seegras> handling typos a bit better too, matching up names a bit closer

Not sure how I feel about that. The bigger the indexed body goes, the more your queries get answers swamped with irrelevant stuff. Case in point is "I decided to ignore the numerical parameters in your error message" google.

Typos showing up no results is actually quite annoying. It's quite prevalent these days (and very useful) when software does a fuzzy match after showing the exact results.

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Core Keeper was really fun to play with my wife, but honestly the last two biomes (sea, desert) were a bore. Just vast areas of nothingness (water, sand) to make the biome huge for no reason. The jungle one is of the same size as those, but somehow felt more "filled".

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I'd buy it, if nothing just to commend the dev for the from-the-looks-of-the-code well done engine (that's also free software)!

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Never had I paid so much attention to power until the Steam Deck, and specifically just a few days ago when I started replaying Shadow of Mordor. I went in with the expectation that I should set everything to low, ended up setting everything to Ultra and it still runs the game at 40fps without hitches and consumes just 12 watts.

It looks crazy now that a desktop GPU's _idle_ power is as much as the Steam Deck playing a not-so-basic game.

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