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The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released
28 February 2024 at 4:59 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: whizseThe future:

KDE Plasma 6
• Flying car
• Robot butler

One down, two to go!

Hoverboards too?

The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released
28 February 2024 at 3:54 pm UTC

Quoting: hardpenguinGentlemen*, start your pacmans**!

* and everyone else
** or apt, dnf, nix-env, pkgtools, emerge etc.

Hopefully Debian maintainers will package it soon.

Upcoming GZDoom shooter Selaco will have Steam Workshop support
26 February 2024 at 3:25 pm UTC Likes: 5

Looks cool. Reminds me of Ion Fury. Hopefully they'll release it on GOG too.

Cross-platform development library SDL3 gets a Vulkan Renderer and camera API
23 February 2024 at 5:36 pm UTC Likes: 2

Can someone explain please what does rendering backend mean for SDL? SDL has some abstraction over graphics API?

I thought it's primarily useful for abstracting stuff like WSL / windowing integration and input and such.

Linux gaming performance display MangoHud v0.7.1 is out now
8 February 2024 at 10:19 pm UTC

Nice for them to add present_mode after I proposed that :) But it appears to be buggy and needs more investigation.

Linux gaming performance display MangoHud v0.7.1 is out now
8 February 2024 at 10:17 pm UTC

Quoting: M@GOidLast time I used this it wasn't playing nice with Vulkan and Wayland. How is it behaving now?

Works fine, but I think it doesn't anticipate Wine running in Wayland mode yet judging by some X11 related errors it shows in that case. But it still works.

OBS Studio 30.1 Beta 1 adds Video Capture Device (PipeWire) source, plus more AV1 support
4 February 2024 at 1:34 am UTC

AV1 VAAPI support in OBS is a long awaited addition.

What to Expect From Wine on Wayland in 2024
31 January 2024 at 9:01 pm UTC Likes: 2

I tried it, but it has an annoying bug - you sometimes get half refresh rate on the monitor while game has double the framerate.

It's some subtle bug between Wine, KWin, radv (Mesa) and amdgpu (kernel). I'll revisit it once KDE Plasma 6.0 comes out, since it has a major KWin overhaul and it might be a waste of time chasing that bug before that.

Eidos-Montréal cut nearly 100 staff with new Deus Ex reportedly cancelled
31 January 2024 at 8:54 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: TheRiddickAND the IP goes back into The Vault for another 20years.

Someone should break into the vault 😄

Sort of ironic that a game about dealing with anti-utopian corpo politics is suffering from bad corpo decisions.

Eidos-Montréal cut nearly 100 staff with new Deus Ex reportedly cancelled
29 January 2024 at 8:28 pm UTC Likes: 7

I like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. And it did feel unfinished, so it would be a waste if they'll never make a sequel now.