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Steam Play Proton could get direct support for NVIDIA Image Scaling
31 March 2022 at 11:15 pm UTC

Quoting: x4merGlorious Eggroll version of Proton since V6.16(?), already has AMD FSR routines patch for fshack. NVidia now trying to get their routines in to main Proton instead of the AMD ones people have already been using for months via GE.
There was an attempt to add FSR to Proton, it was rejected: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/wine/pull/116

KDE developer thinks they will become the 'Windows or Android' of the FOSS world
16 November 2021 at 7:14 am UTC

I don't know, I tried KDE many times in the recent years and did just recently again. It feels so amateurish at so many Levels, compared to Cinnamon what I use, that I couldn't even use it for a single day without having to tinker at so many things, that I gave up.

NVIDIA 495.44 stable driver is out for Linux, adds in GBM API support
26 October 2021 at 9:55 pm UTC

Quoting: minfaer- Gamescope - even if you run it in an X session, it is a wayland compositor

Gamescope does not need GBM and could have worked since 470, but Nvidia driver still needs support for VK_EXT_image_drm_format_modifier, which is not Wayland or GBM specific.

NVIDIA continues tweaking their work for hardware accelerated Xwayland support
18 February 2021 at 2:58 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: PJshame nvidia still hasn't made their gpus work with Wayland :/ . This annoys me every time. I wonder when this drivers related clutch will come to an end.
That's not correct, Nvidia GPUs work with Wayland, this is about xWayland.

Valve and others fined by the European Commission for 'geo-blocking' (updated)
20 January 2021 at 4:54 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: vhostOnly few eu countries use euro.
It's actually the opposite, the EU has 27 states and only 8 don't use the Euro. Those countries are Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden.

Valve and others fined by the European Commission for 'geo-blocking' (updated)
20 January 2021 at 4:10 pm UTC Likes: 8

Quoting: rkfgThis is very bad and stupid. They basically force Valve to set the same prices everywhere, no matter how strong economic is in certain countries. I

No they don't. They force Valve and other Publishers to redeem keys all over the EU no matter in which EU country they have been bought. If Valve changes the Prices due to this, it's all up to them and not forced by anyone.

NVIDIA has a small update to their Vulkan Beta Driver, plus naming changes to mainline
17 December 2020 at 11:49 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: BeamboomC'mon Nvidia, there's only one extension we're waiting on nowadays.
That extension which fix the crashes in CP2077 does that just by accident. Maybe the extension wouldn't even help on Nvidia in the same way, the actual cause for the crashes is a bug in the game itself.

Furiously intense ball-smashing game 'Lethal League Blaze' is now available on Linux
22 February 2020 at 9:49 am UTC

Hmm, looking on the Store Page screenshots, it has the same levels like Lethal League. And even from the feature description I don't see any new. What exactly is the difference which makes it worth to buy Lethal league Blaze?

Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop progressing well, all-time high donations
3 February 2020 at 1:46 pm UTC

Quoting: BielFPsMy only complaint about Cinnamon is the lack of Wayland support, which I assume it's because their Mint Boxes with shipped Nvidia Cards.

I think it's a waste of time and effort to jump on Wayland now. Not only is Wayland not feature complete yet, most of the used hardware doesn't support it anyway (Nvidia). Especially as a gamer I don't see why anyone would want to use Wayland when the performance will suffer badly because of xWayland.