I was fortunate having received at least 3 surveys this year.

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Quoting: Code ArtisanOutside of hardware-based signatures and cloud gaming, programs like this can't be countered. This was what i feared when steam came to linux; that it become the platform of choice for cheaters. edit: this is also why you will never see clients like esea on linux.

Please elaborate, as it is i can't make sense of your comment, since people have been cheating on windows (and mac) ever since games existed. In fact, all the cheaters in Valve games i encountered used windows. And don't pretend hacking windows or any system is impossible, i see no reason why it would be any different on the aforementioned systems.

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I very much agree with the people that said the guy probably cheated. That said, even if that is not the case, Valve has done the most when it comes to software support (not talking about them being a member of khronos or making the steamos boxes, but the steam client) of the big game distributors. GoG is no better, it's worse in fact. If a game is DRM free, it's DRM free on both. Also, your games are gone once steam/gog shuts down or your account is deleted/banned from the service. I personally dislike how bloated the steam client is (i could do without the player market and most of the community things), but before GoG actually releses their client they aren't worth buying from from the point of view of convenience.

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Quoting: Guesthonestly i prefer to wait for games
i like that linux games always come late because it gives me time to beat the games i have without worrying about the games that are releasing

i like to wait with games too, but not for the (linux) release, but after the release so i can see the first user feedback about them. I also prefer buying older games for the most part.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeReason I stopped using AMD is because they'd deprecate support in their closed source driver way quicker on older cards than nVidia does, and the open source driver was never up to the same performance. That and there are what, like 5 different drivers now?)

I don't see why people feel like there are too many radeon drivers compared to nvidia. There is mesa for opengl, radv for vulkan and their blob, of which the vulkan part has been opened lately. So that's 3 drivers.

On the other side, i see 2 variants for the vulkan driver, a couple of packages mostly matching the same parts fglrx has, and noveau. Counted the same way, it is also three drivers.

That's about the same amount for me. Also, i have a 5-6 year old APU at this point, which is/was still supported by their blob.

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Quoting: tmtvlUgh, still so many people using the crappy NVidia garbage. I suppose that'll change as Wayland becomes more prominent.

Wonder how many people are gonna switch from Intel to AMD after the IME stuff...

Because it works most of the time and performs better than AMD.

Weird. It's exactly the same reason i made the switch to "team red" a good 5-6 years ago. It just worked. (and was cheaper even back then)

Nope.

First of all , AMD driver space is so fragmented.

OpenGL side ; you will get better performance from open source drivers.

Vulkan ; mixed results. Sometimes Radv sometimes closed source driver wins. I hope AMDVLK can improve RADV.

So as a gamer ; we want performance right? Yeah , then we should use open source drivers.

But on Mesa you can't play some games without doing workarounds. For example; Divinity , Dying Light , X11 etc.

With Amdgpu Pro ; you don't need to hassle like that but it will cost you performance wise. Also note that Hdmi audio , Freesync etc are not available with Mesa.

So ; AMD is not "just" works.

When i had a "green" card, it used to crash my whole system (with their driver, not the noveau one). I don't want performance, if it comes with frequent system crashes.

As for the games, it's mostly the fault of the developers. I had some problems with Mesa, mostly with older feral ports that supported the non-free driver (shadwen/trine 3) but those went away since.

Vulkan is a very new API, i doubt that most devs even know yet how to do things well in it, also, as far as drivers are concerned, since they opened up their code base, nobody will want to do the work twice, so most likely one of them will die out, or they merge in time, but i wager it doesn't go overnight with complex code.

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Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: tmtvlUgh, still so many people using the crappy NVidia garbage. I suppose that'll change as Wayland becomes more prominent.

Wonder how many people are gonna switch from Intel to AMD after the IME stuff...

Because it works most of the time and performs better than AMD.

Weird. It's exactly the same reason i made the switch to "team red" a good 5-6 years ago. It just worked. (and was cheaper even back then)

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Quoting: DuncThe trouble I have with open-source games is that I never make my system partition big enough to install them with the package manager. All my usual applications and their requisite libraries are fine, but a big lump of game resources? Forget it.

symlinks to the rescue?

Install them to ~?

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Quoting: evergreenI sadly was forced to install seven to play the game with modern graphic. Aberration looks in opengl so bad I thought I was playing Unreal Tournament 1 in low settings... now I’m dual booter again. Sound also feels amazing with supported logitech drivers on my g930. I hope vulkan will change things, or wine, or cloud gaming, or steam, or the entire community will begin to work together and not fragmentated as it does: 1000s of distros, several graphic servers, a multitude of desktop frontends etc.
Linus save the clients!!!

I don't think there is any fragmentation, or if there is, it is much worse with windows.

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Quoting: elmapul"The problem on top of all this, is that it will put off the very people working on such projects from continuing and if your business relies on their work—good luck doing it yourself."
except that they can hire someone with the money they did with the rip offs..


also, its a bit ironic that most of the users of the emulators are pirates, and people are "pirating" their code...

Those users could share some of their plunders. :p

By the way, most of the community behind modifying content for old systems don't "pirate" at all, but publish patches, which require an unmodified ROM to work. Also, they are fans of the companies that used to make these old games, so for the ones that are still around these fans probably generate more profit than the average Joe.

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