My $0.02 on "HOW THINGS ARE NOW:"

• Stadia (and streaming in general) can work quite well, and are brilliant for Chromebooks, which is their best use case currently. In the pandemic, my young kids are all about Chromebooks, and Stadia and steaming are really the only way to game on them, and that experience is actually and suprisingly a completely satisfying one (with the limitation of what's there).

• Sadly, I'm not sure Google is the company to be the standard bearer here for all the reasons we are seeing. They seem to have concluded there won't be a "Netflix" of gaming, but that they're better off selling the tech to every gaming company/publisher who wants to be their own game streamer. I think that trend, though, will go just as well as each one having their own store...

• I never suspected in a million years we'd get a single desktop title from Stadia, but that it would help mature some of the back-end tech and Vulkan (which it kind of is doing, actually, which is good for us).

• Desktop Linux at this point is for hobbyists, enthusiasts, and a smattering for enterprise. Absent some as yet undeveloped killer feature, it's not going to break through to the masses.

• Gaming on Linux, though, helps keep all those passionate desktop Linux people engaged in the platform and using it in a mainstreamed fashion, which is super-important for the Linux ecosystem.

• The great gaming masses only care about the games and could care less about the platform. They go where the cool games are and just want it to be as few clicks as possible. This is why Linux won't succeed in this crowd and which is why Valve, as the fewest clicks to play all of your stuff, continues to succeed.

• I'm thrilled Proton exists and happy Valve has sunk the hundreds of thousands (millions?) of dollars into it, but I still have absolutely zero idea why they're doing it, and it seems to make less sense as the years tick away and they don't obviously do anything, well, obvious with it...

So, in summary, gaming on Linux is really just for people like us here, on GamingOnLinux. Linux, and its gaming, has always done best and will continue to do so for us hobbyists, tinkerers, enthusiastics, control freaks, modders, and passionate users who have always been Linux's core and always will continue to be. And that's fine in my view. Those who must have AAA titles on day 1 really should be on Windows, and that's OK, because that's where basically the entire market is.

I continue to believe that AAA on Linux in the distant future will mean having access on our platform to the XBox, Sony, Valve, Stadia, and other streaming services down the line. That's where our fight will be....

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Quoting: BielFPs"start steam with windows" default configuration

Basically, this...

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Thus far, the Epic Store, Stadia, etc don't seem to be blunting their growth as yet. Go Valve!

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Quoting: pete910Them beam weapons still haven't been surpassed in any other game since this !

I was thinking the exact same thing as I read the article. It shows both how great this game was and how much modern gaming has stagnated. I would vastly prefer to play the many community made mods (including the excellent Battlestar Galactica one) for this engine rather than many modern games...

BTW: The last time I tinkered with this was 2-3 years ago, and their Linux documentation was ancient and out of date even then. I hope that's been updated.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: ageresIt's just a line of text or two, isn't it?

It's an extra 11% of vertical space.

The black bars that you're concerned about: it's exactly that much.

I personally love 3:2 even better than 16:10, but those are rare beasts overall, and the few that exist have quirks with Linux...

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Quoting: TheRiddickwell 5.9.12 kernel is meant to work but I tested it and, it does not for my 6800XT card.

Once 5.10 final release is rolled out into distros as the standard kernel version, inc on install isos, then all should be smooth rolling from there on it.

Please somehow keep us updated on your 68000XT experience. I'm hoping this will be my next card. What is your CPU?

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Quoting: BielFPsI can't believe how well is Wayland/XWayland for games...

As a big Manjaro KDE fan (use it on my gaming rig), I have to say I can't believe how much farther ahead Wayland is on Gnome, and Manjaro Gnome Wayland is my daily driver on my work laptop. The Wayland specific Gnome gestures are fantastic, and I now can't live without them. Oddly, animations on Gnome in Wayland, though, don't seem as smooth as on x when I compare them to my wife's Manjaro Gnome install... Overall, though, I agree that Gnome Wayland is surprisingly good right now...

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Quoting: Nick_AvemWow, that looks sexy! Another great DE with multi touch is GNOME + Wayland.

Absolutely. I'm using Manjaro Gnome with Wayland as my laptop daily driver at work and those gestures are terrific. As great as KDE is (and I use it on my desktop), I couldn't go back to it on my laptop. The Gnome Wayland gestures are that good, and they already are more complex and configurable than it sounds like Elementary is doing above.

Now all we need are smoother and more performant Gnome Wayland animations to go with those gestures...

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Very interesting! Definitely putting this on my wishlist...

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Quoting: PublicNuisanceHopefully they use Coreboot.

Good question: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=System76-New-Coreboot-AMD

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