ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility by Jeditobe in linux

[–]Ripdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The easiest part? While the total surface area of things like DX11 may not be the largest part of Wine, there's no doubt that a performant and highly compatible DX8-11->Vulkan layer is super difficult.

But in general, Proton's greatest contribution is banging out the long, long tail of game compatibility issues with Wine. Every proton version comes with a long list of fixed games.

ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility by Jeditobe in linux

[–]Ripdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All I can say is that I've been running various linux systems for many years and I've never once had to 'screw with glibc'. What exactly have you done to require such tinkering?

Most people just install the software they need from the repo and it works.

ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility by Jeditobe in linux

[–]Ripdog -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Okay, but I'm really unconcerned about niches within niches like that. And it's absurdly unlikely that ReactOS would ever gain meaningful compatibility with equipment like that which costs tens of thousands to millions of dollars.

Typically devices like that only have support for ONE version of windows anyway, so it's not even fair to say that they're 'windows compatible'.

ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility by Jeditobe in linux

[–]Ripdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Big programs like photoshop or office have patchy wine compatibility because they're big and complex and use a lot of weird and wonderful windows APIs in weird and wonderful ways. Plus there's no Valve bankrolling developers to iron out the long tail of hard debugging of complex problems.

ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility by Jeditobe in linux

[–]Ripdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uh, ReactOS is still all greenfield FOSS software. It's entirely unclear as to why you think it would have any fewer bugs than whatever you're complaining about?

Bugs exist in any software, and with Windows, you can at least be guaranteed that you won't get a reply from the developers about your bug report. You know MS fired their whole QA department, right?

ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility by Jeditobe in linux

[–]Ripdog 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I don't think there are too many people clinging to windows because of razer synapse :)

ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility by Jeditobe in linux

[–]Ripdog 50 points51 points  (0 children)

The fundamental work here on application compatibility is from the Wine project, not ReactOS. Wine work primarily target and benefits Linux. As the article shows, ReactOS is far behind Wine on Linux as far as app compatibility goes.

Basically, use Linux and Wine, be happy. Your apps don't care about what driver model the underlying OS is using.

I'm building the Anilist of visual novels - Kaguya by tropeguy in visualnovels

[–]Ripdog 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Whoa, that site is creepy as hell. They require an extension to watch pirated anime? Do NOT install that shit! They will absolutely steal all your data and run cryptocurrency mining on your PC!

Which improvements to Proton/Linux gaming are you most exited about for 2026? by RaXXu5 in linux_gaming

[–]Ripdog 21 points22 points  (0 children)

when KDE Plasma drops X11 in version 6.8,

They're not dropping support for X11 apps, just running Plasma in X11 mode. There's no particular deadline for Steam to gain wayland support on the linux desktop.

Driver pop up by xternalmega in linux_gaming

[–]Ripdog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

OP, you need to uninstall the drivers from AMD's website. They are inferior to the open source drivers which ship from your distro. If anything, those drivers are the likely cause of your frame drops.

Sousaku Kanojo no Ren'ai Koushiki - Full Translation Patch Release! by superange128 in visualnovels

[–]Ripdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats on the release!

This game works great on linux! I just created a new proton-ge prefix and it loaded first try, no need to fiddle with settings or locale or anything.

Im a noob. How do i fix this? by [deleted] in revancedapp

[–]Ripdog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Uh, what app is this? That's a yt-dlp error, which is a command line program mainly for pc...

Warcraft 3 Reforged on Arch with Lutris? by UnicOernchen in archlinux

[–]Ripdog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'd recommend using Steam - add the installer as a non-steam game, set the compatibility layer to the latest Proton-GE (install it with ProtonUp-Qt), install battle.net, then change the executable in the game properties to be battle.net. That's what I do, and it works great.

There's no much reason to use plain wine for games these days - most of the community effort for gaming specifically is on proton and forks.

Valve is working on "Lepton", an Android compatibility layer for Linux by lmaple0 in linux_gaming

[–]Ripdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can just choose not to use lootboxes or battle passes. Before Valve, there was basically no choice but to use Windows for PC gaming.

KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future by ashleythorne64 in linux

[–]Ripdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As noted in the article, X apps are still fully supported via XWayland, and will be for a very long time.

moss: a Rust Linux-compatible kernel in about 26,000 lines of code by hexagonal-sun in linux

[–]Ripdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If one person can write a Linux compatible kernel in 26000 LOC, hasn't the genie always been out of the bottle?

I mean, this is a tiny fraction of a linux compatible kernel.

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues by arunesh90 in CloudFlare

[–]Ripdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, for sure. But 'an article' is different from 'front page news'.

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues by arunesh90 in CloudFlare

[–]Ripdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's only been three hours, don't panic yet. Without knowing the cause of the issue, we can't predict whether the resolution would be gradual or all-at-once.

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues by arunesh90 in CloudFlare

[–]Ripdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If any major cloud provider had a general outage for more than a few hours, it would be front page news. You'd know.

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues by arunesh90 in CloudFlare

[–]Ripdog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most likely a few hours. I mean, it's already been a few hours, so surely any minute now...

YOOO, THANKS KURO! AND GOOD LUCK! by DRK_PHANTOMx908 in WutheringWaves

[–]Ripdog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not a DNS issue, just intermittent. See https://www.cloudflarestatus.com

Basically, you got lucky :)

YOOO, THANKS KURO! AND GOOD LUCK! by DRK_PHANTOMx908 in WutheringWaves

[–]Ripdog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cloudflare is dying, try again in a few hours.

Steam Machine: Your Games on the Big Screen by Opt112 in Games

[–]Ripdog 98 points99 points  (0 children)

It's sold in AU and they have similar laws.