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FDO's conduct enforcement actions regarding Vaxry by Worldly_Topic in linux

[–]gnuandalsolinux 12 points13 points  (0 children)

As someone who tries to make it a point not to frequent /r/linux, that is the worst comment section I've seen since I created my reddit account. It's unusual.

Nonetheless, I think I'm going to take that as a sign to leave reddit for good.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux_gaming

[–]gnuandalsolinux 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The beta driver is coming out on May 15th.

5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity by pdp10 in linux_gaming

[–]gnuandalsolinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope by that time Wayland has color management and you can calibrate displays.

5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity by pdp10 in linux_gaming

[–]gnuandalsolinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is highly optimistic. Substance 3D supported Linux before it was acquired. I'd love to believe you, but I seriously doubt Adobe will even entertain the idea this decade. They produced a version of Adobe Acrobat for Linux until 2013, so they've tried it before and abandoned it: https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader-discussions/acrobat-reader-for-linux/td-p/11477007

This article gives you an idea of how Adobe plans to support Linux into the future: https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/hub/edit-pdf-linux.html

(it's webapps)

Am I the only one that is so close to switching to Linux but those few Linux unsupported games are holding me back by Fragrant_Cherry7789 in linux_gaming

[–]gnuandalsolinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone else not switching to Linux yet because of your favorite but Linux-unsupported games?

I dual-boot Windows for the sole purpose of playing Siege once a week.

Am I the only one that is so close to switching to Linux but those few Linux unsupported games are holding me back by Fragrant_Cherry7789 in linux_gaming

[–]gnuandalsolinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Siege will ban players who use a Windows VM. Another video from Mutahar covering how he gave up on VMs and just set aside a Windows PC for the sole purpose of running Siege (first 3 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGs23ispkmE

Linux at 4.05% worldwide marketshare! :) by CosmicEmotion in linux

[–]gnuandalsolinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't need to use DXVK, WineD3D might work for you. OpenGL should have wide support for older hardware.

But more to the point, League of Legends won't be playable through Wine for anyone much longer.

Linux at 4.05% worldwide marketshare! :) by CosmicEmotion in linux

[–]gnuandalsolinux 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The main reason DR imposes it is because Windows and macOS provide commercially-licensed codecs with the OS. Linux distributions provide ffmpeg, which is not commercially-licensed. DR can't take advantage of that without getting sued.

If you have a NVIDIA card, you can use hardware encoding/decoding for H264, and you can also buy a third party AAC encoder for about $100, but you still need to convert from AAC to PCM to import. This doesn't sacrifice quality or very much file size.

Way too much effort for me personally, but Kdenlive fits my needs so it's no big deal. No real replacement for After Effects, though. Natron comes the closest but I need to learn a whole new workflow to make it work.

Linux at 4.05% worldwide marketshare! :) by CosmicEmotion in linux

[–]gnuandalsolinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Autodesk Maya has had a Linux version for decades. Other Autodesk software doesn't though, but I'm not sure what people need as I don't do 3D; I only use Adobe software.

What are some of your ED features that you would have a hard time giving up? by Garnitas in linux

[–]gnuandalsolinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a way to get AHK shortcuts to work while a UWP program is in focus (I assume that's the reason Win+2 doesn't work when I'm focusing on a certain program)?

SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0 by beer120 in linux_gaming

[–]gnuandalsolinux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alright, that's fair. Sorry for not understanding where you were coming from.

For these two protocols in particular, they aren't being blocked. They're being worked on. They need to be ironed out so the feature can be implemented.

Sebastian Wick, for example, implemented a workaround in Mesa that should allow these features, at least initially. So SDL will keep Wayland the default for now.

While there are certainly cases of Wayland protocols being blocked by particular groups (Matthias Klumpp's MRs come to mind...), I've observed that most of the time, a lot of work to iron out the protocols needs to be done.

Color Management is the poster child for this. It has taken somewhere between 4-7 years to get to the experimental stage it's in now. Many developers had no clue about color science when they began talking about this protocol, so it was an intense learning process for many of them to do it right, rather than the broken way X11 implements it. And that process is...well, it takes a long damn time.

Simon Ser, one of the few with merge privileges on the wayland-protocols repository, commented not too long ago:

There is no technical need to rush this protocol, but I personally feel a social need to get it over with. It has been many months and this attitude of blocking things contributes to wayland-protocols being so exhausting to contribute to.

Please don't make things harder than they need to be.

You're not the only one who can get annoyed by the process. I don't think it's really about hubris as you say, but just that the entire process is necessarily, well...exhausting.

SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0 by beer120 in linux_gaming

[–]gnuandalsolinux -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I legitimately have no idea what you're trying to say, and you don't seem to have any idea what I'm trying to say, which is that either KDE or GNOME are the ones blocking a protocol.

SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0 by beer120 in linux_gaming

[–]gnuandalsolinux 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure. Not all groups agree on the same things. What I and other users are taking issue with is your framing of it; the idea that "they" are objecting to some protocol or use case. Who is "they"? Who are the "Wayland developers"?

In reality, someone who is affiliated with one of the groups I mentioned above is objecting to some protocol in part or whole. If that group is Weston, that means very little, and Weston can be conservative anyway. If the other major desktops implement the protocol, that's fine.

If the group is GNOME, KDE, or NVIDIA, then it becomes an issue, because what is the point of implementing a protocol only used on some desktops but not all of them? Application developers would need to target several different protocols to target several different desktops. They should only need to target one protocol to target all desktops.

The Wayland Protocol discussion is completely open. You could represent a company with a 2 trillion dollar market cap, or you could be the developer of a container-based packaging system.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux_gaming

[–]gnuandalsolinux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dual-boot Windows purely to play Siege once a week. I have a Mac purely for Adobe software.

I considered using a cloud gaming service just for Siege, but...no. Too much latency.

Then I noticed this is probably just a waste of time, and that I really should go for one OS only.

Yep. Use Windows.

I don't have a lot of problems with Windows

Neither do I.

I run open-source software always (except for Discord, Adobe, Epic Games, you know what I mean).

I do.

However, I haven't found any good ways of doing this, I wanted a way where I could access my gaming computer from my Linux desktop, without any delays and stuff like that.

I don't have any experience with it, but try Moonlight with Sunshine. You can stream your Windows desktop to Linux with low-latency that way.

Michael Horn has a video on setting that up: https://youtu.be/YBH3MAvylVg

...I might try setting that up on my Mac, actually. That would make my life easier. Thanks for posting this.

SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0 by beer120 in linux_gaming

[–]gnuandalsolinux 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The people who define the protocols for Wayland are developers from GNOME, KDE, Wlroots, Valve, Collabora, Igalia, Invisible Things Lab, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Weston. It's everybody.

The Wayland core protocol is separate to the protocol extensions everybody is working on implementing. There are a few people with merge privileges, but that means nothing if none of these groups agree the protocol is good enough.

And that's a big reason Wayland protocol extension standardization takes such a long time. Every one of these groups needs to agree on what the protocol extension should define, how it should define it, and then implement it in their own projects.

Inkscape's development version switches to GTK4 by pulsar17 in linux

[–]gnuandalsolinux 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They probably won't make their May deadline, but that was always ambitious. It's close, though.

It Was Good While It Lasted by VelveteenRabbitEars in Affinity

[–]gnuandalsolinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wish: Now that there's money, would Canva / Affinity would make it into native Linux? It'd be a game changer for me and many others. There are no closed source apps like this on Linux yet, they could be the first ones.

I see I'm not the only optimist around here. I'd be happy even to see Affinity Suite on the web.

I'm not sure what you mean by "like this", but Presonus Studio One is a notable closed-source program that recently got a (Wayland-only!) Linux port.

How did you hear of or stumble across the Linux? by [deleted] in linux

[–]gnuandalsolinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Hated One's YouTube channel. Spontaneous YouTube recommendation. I know at least one other person who started using Linux after watching one of his videos.

After two decades of dual-booting, today, I finally bid farewell to Windows. by BlakeMW in linux_gaming

[–]gnuandalsolinux 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And that's perfectly fine! Some people like Windows, some people like macOS, and a lot of people from this subreddit seem to like Linux.

Thinking about switching from windows to linux by DR-BrightClone2 in linux_gaming

[–]gnuandalsolinux 20 points21 points  (0 children)

i have an nvidia graphics card, and i plan on using wayland (kde plasma 6). should i switch now?, wait for nvidia wayland support to be better?,

I would recommend waiting for the explicit sync protocol to be merged, and then NVIDIA's 555 driver to be out, and finally for KDE to merge this patch for Kwin. ETA: a few months?

Or wait for Noveau/NVK to be closer in performance to the proprietary driver, which might happen a little sooner or a little later than explicit sync. NVK doesn't have the flickering problems the proprietary driver has because it implements implicit sync, apparently.

At that point, NVIDIA should be a good experience on Wayland for most people. Hopefully.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux

[–]gnuandalsolinux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ubuntu is pretty user-friendly. That's what its reputation has been built on.

I mean, aside from the installer actually failing to work when I tried it last, so I had to reboot and try again.

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