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Windows has one major thing going for it: it’s best-in-class for gaming. It might even be the greatest gaming platform of all time. Linux and even Mac are gaining ground, but they’ve got a little ways to go.

...is Mac gaming actually gaining ground? From listening to a friend of mine who has a Mac, it sounds like Mac gaming is going steadily backwards. Wine and similar doesn't work very well for them, and Mac compatibility is happening with fewer and fewer games. Game Porting Toolkit isn't really for end users, is it? Is there something else my friend is missing?

will not solve issues with compositors not having it

Many compositors already have patches for explicit sync which should get merged fairly quickly.

graphical libraries not having it

Both Vulkan and OpenGL have support for explicit sync

apps not supporting it

Apps don't need to support it, they just need to use Vulkan and OpenGL, and they will handle it.

Wayland doesn't implement sync of any kind, they probably meant to say "the Wayland stack"

Wayland has a protocol specifically for explicit sync, it's as much a part of Wayland as pretty much anything else that's part of Wayland.

Nvidia is not the only driver that needs to implement explicit sync.

Mesa has already merged explicit sync support.

Yeah this feels like Wizard of the Coast's first response to the OGL drama. Make some changes that are technically better than the first terrible system, but is ultimately still completely unacceptable. WotC eventually had to walk back everything, we'll see if Unity does the same.

Plagiarism isn't just using someone else's work. It's when you use someone else's work and claim it was your own. The programmers aren't plagiarizing as they're being freely admitting it's not their work.

YouTube Music. Google Music doesn't exist anymore.

Yeah, Wine is very strict about this; IIRC if you've ever even looked at the leaked Windows XP source code, you're not allowed to work on Wine.

To replace the battery in the Steam Deck, you need to heat up the adhesive to allow the battery to be removed, which I believe would violate this directive. That said, it doesn't seem like it would be too difficult for Valve to make it a bit easier in the next Steam Deck and comply.

That said, Valve does not support the official Ubuntu way of installing Steam, which is via snap ('apt install steam' will install the snap). So you have to make sure to install the Steam way (manually via the deb) instead.

The first 14 times McCarthy failed to get voted in. They disliked McCarthy so much it took 15 votes to get them in the first place.

You can't move around in them, it's either play or pause and repeat, which sucks (as shorts don't have to be short..)

Oddly enough, this seems to be a desktop limitation. I can scrub backwards and forwards just fine on my phone.

Just to let people know, this is a 6 year old article. Not saying it isn't relevant, but the market of course continues to move over time.

I mean that's barely even concessions, that's pretty much just standard EU membership. Which I agree, the UK will have to take.

It sounds like what would really be helpful is a way to "pin" or "lock" notifications so they can't be dismissed easily. This could be a setting for all notifications from certain apps. That way apps can't abuse it, and users can set it up how they like.

Edit: It could be an app permission as well.

The episodes have been getting longer as the seasons get shorter, tho. I think it's much more likely we get something like 3 90-minute episodes per season (like Sherlock, which was mostly fantastic).

So just like 95%+ of Hollywood?

Nvidia users will also need a DE update, but yeah, we're finally almost there.

It even applies to new installs of existing games.

For it to really stick, it needs to be enshrined in law. Until then it's just a temporary FCC policy that could get easily removed at some point in the future.

Seems like a good redesign.

I agree. I'm not sure whether Amazon should get fines the second a bad seller makes a bad action, but they should definitely have to prove (according to external criteria) that they are making good faith efforts to remove bad actors.

Just to clarify, a few airplanes still use leaded gasoline. The vast majority do not.

I think that's exactly right. I think there is a one-time cost they could pay, but it's a lot more, so they just didn't bother.

If GE received a Cease and Desist, that would be frustrating, but linux gaming would go on. If Proton got a Cease and Desist, that could be catastrophic to linux gaming. Valve could even theoretically get banned from working on linux gaming (like the Yuzu devs got banned from working on emulation). It's just not worth the risk for compatibility/performance for a smaller proportion of games.

I believe when Google lengthened their support period, it only applied to new models of Chromebooks, not already released ones.

Steam works on Linux.

Currently yes, tho Wine has gotten pretty far with Wayland support, so it wouldn't be too surprising to see Wine Wayland be useable for gaming in the next year or two.

I don't think they do much investigative journalism, but I've found Rock Paper Shotgun to have some more thoughtful pieces among their more traditional reporting.

Well, sometimes Windows games depend on propietary codecs, and until Valve can get the devs to make adjustments so the codecs aren't needed, the games aren't going to work properly in regular Proton.

The issue is one of licensing, not technology. There's all kinds of patents in the space, and using free codecs could still infringe them. DirectX doesn't have the same patent protection. I believe in theory you could make a fully open source Linux native version of DirectX.

For more info from someone who knows more than me, see here.

I’m not sure about the latter

I believe it was Xwayland 24.1 that recently released that brought explicit sync support, so you'll need that.

Worst performance of trying to get your money.

Even if it wasn't a gimmick, it still wouldn't be benevolent. Corporations only lower prices when they think the lower price can make them more money overall.

Nvidia already opened their driver, at least to the same extent as AMD, which is why NVK is able to exist.

There are tons of x86 Chromebooks still tho.

Very high priority isn't a number that you especially want low (or high), in fact it's probably not good for it to be 0. It's just what is considered important to work on. Once those are fixed, even if no new problem crops up, they'll just relabel existing bugs that they want to focus on getting fixed.

This is in contrast to the 15-minute bugs, that you do want to go to zero.

It's pretty easy to see on r/askeconomics. All top-level comments there require mod approval, but will add to the number of comments while waiting for approval. So it's pretty common to see posts with 10+ comments listed, but nothing besides the pinned automod comment is visible.

To be fair, we do have single apps for the internet. They're called web browsers.

Hm, what didn't you enjoy about Elden Ring? I started with Sekiro, finished it, and have moved on to Elden Ring (in co-op tho). I have very much enjoyed both.

Discord doesn't have sound sharing on Linux whether X11 or Wayland. They just haven't built the functionality.

Yep, this is what I had to do.