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OBS Studio 30.1 out now with AV1 support for VA-API, PipeWire Video Capture
14 March 2024 at 1:19 am UTC
God of War now DRM-freed with a GOG release and discount
13 March 2024 at 3:04 pm UTC
For GOG games I'm using my own scripts. And Wine+vkd3d-proton+esync.
Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 40: The Cyborg Project
12 March 2024 at 11:10 pm UTC Likes: 1
It has a cool soundtrack!
God of War now DRM-freed with a GOG release and discount
12 March 2024 at 3:54 pm UTC Likes: 5
Nice and surprising, but positive trend for Sony.
Plasma 6 lands in Arch Linux, KDE neon teething issues and Plasma 6.1 heating up
10 March 2024 at 5:55 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: PlintslîchoAlso, Plasma 6 takes up quite some noticeable amount of RAM at times, even though the system is idling.

If you aren't using KDE PIM (Kmail and etc.) try to disable Akonadi server - it eats a ton of RAM for something you might not use.
Plasma 6 lands in Arch Linux, KDE neon teething issues and Plasma 6.1 heating up
8 March 2024 at 3:03 am UTC Likes: 1
Meanwhile in Debian

*crickets chirping*.

More seriously, I wish Neon would provide repositories for Debian unstable and testing.
Wine Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation library vkd3d v1.11 released
6 March 2024 at 11:58 pm UTC Likes: 2
I think the key difference is that vkd3d-proton uses Vulkan fully without any limitations which allows it to target good performance. vkd3d uses Vulkan that's crippled by being limited to features that work on macOS's Metal over MoltenVK. Unless I misunderstood the idea.

That means that vkd3d will never be as efficient as vkd3d-proton. So for Linux users it's not even a question what to use.
Sunshine game streaming v0.22.0 adds HDR on Linux, Wayland + NVIDIA improvements
4 March 2024 at 6:18 pm UTC
QuoteFix missing mouse cursor when using KMS capture on a GPU with hardware cursor support.

Sounds suspicious. Did they start using Pipewire + XDG portal or they are still stuck with kmsgrab?
Open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, NVK, is now ready for prime time
1 March 2024 at 5:16 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: CalinouI remember having to run games through Zink just to be able to do that on AMD…

I thought with AMD you could already do it for radeonsi:

AMD_TEX_ANISO=16

For Vulkan it's:

RADV_TEX_ANISO=16

Example:

AMD_TEX_ANISO=16 glxgears
radeonsi: Forcing anisotropy filter to 16x
...
The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released
28 February 2024 at 11:36 pm UTC
Quoting: hardpenguinEh I am not in a rush, my Debian Sid can stay on version 5 for as long as maintainers want to :P

I'd rather that to happen soon. Plasma 5 isn't working well with Wine Wayland and I don't want to spend time debugging it if it's fixed in Plasma 6.
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