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Surely a yard (3ft, ~90cm) is the most equivelant to a metre, not a foot

Heroic Games Launcher has been improving a lot, now having install scripts like Lutris, more platforms available, and a lot less janky than it used to be.

Bottles I don’t have much experience with for games, but it’s a really good program a lot of people use, and if you like Libadwaita apps it’s pretty amazing.

If you only need Lutris as a game launcher (rather than the install scripts, WINE/Proton-GE, and such), Cartridge is a nice little GTK4/Libadwaita launcher too. But it is just that - a launcher, nothing more.

Ngl a 90s PC beige steam deck would be amazing to run emudeck on

I tried this but even permanent marker kept rubbing off

Idk where you live, but a number of countries give you a 14 day cool-off period where you can return purchases for any reason.

Yeah I get that SteamOS wouldn’t, but Valve themselves have explicitly stated people should use Flatpaks, not distro repos or Snaps (perhaps with an exception for Arch repos if what you say is correct).

Seems very weird to me.

I assumed this was already the case but regardless this is a great change!

I hope more developers get their apps verified. It boggles my mind that the Steam flatpak isn’t verified, for example (even more bizarre is that Valve encourage people to use the Steam flatpak despite it being unofficial!)

Hopefully the Flathub website, Gnome, Cinnamon, and now Plasma showing verified app status will be the kick up the arse devs need.

That’s interesting.

I’m not sure what the real-world difference will be, since Fedora already seemingly puts just as much effort into Plasma as they do Gnome, but even as a symbolic move it’s pretty cool.

A lemmy.ml mod, being an absolute joke of a mod? Say it ain’t so!

Yes, Gnome and KDE have some level of commercial backing.

They still operate on a budget of hundreds of thousands.

Microsoft operates on a budget of tens of billions.

Additionally, don’t Gnome and KDE already have this feature?

E: yes. Gnome at the very least has had this for a long time. I’m struggling to find info on Plasma, as when I search for it I mainly just find endless bug reports (half of it Nvidia-related) clouding the results.

and 40fps feels like it’s a lot closer to 60fps than it really is.

Counter-intuitively, 40fps, not 45fps, is the mid point between 30fps and 60fps, so it really is closer than what a lot of people think.

On the surface that seems impossible, but looking at frame times tells the story.

Let’s divide 1 second by 30, 40, and 60:

• 1 / 30 = 0.033s per frame

• 1 / 40 = 0.025s per frame (0.08s less time per frame than 30fps)

• 1 / 60 = 0.017s per frame (0.08s less time per frame than 40fps)

I was just banned from lemmy.ml for not enthusiastically supporting Russia/Putin on the .ml version of this community, which has this same submission lol.

Let’s hope this discussion doesn’t also get brigaded with people supporting the Russian state.

what

I mean it more in terms of wider API support than in terms of outright performance. GPTK games, when they work, certainly run faster.

Channel? I think you may be thinking of the other tech Linus

Or does Torvalds have a channel now

The work the Asahi team have done boggles my mind.

They’ve got further with gaming on Apple silicon than Apple has with their game-porting-toolkit.

Despite:

• being on a completely unsupported OS

• running through a virtual machine

• having to rewrite all the hardware drivers from scratch, without the benefit of having hardware schematics/documentation

• not having the benefit of using APIs that were made from the ground up to work well on this hardware specifically

And probably some other stuff I’m completely in the dark on because their work is so beyond me.

I think anything with an ambiguous pronunciation, where someone has to stop and think “wait… is it pronounced this way or this way?” isn’t the best name.

Good that they’re changing from Minetest, but this new name hardly rolls off the tongue. Maybe I’ll get used to it.

Being the creator of the most successful open source project in history gives you a bit of leeway.

Besides, Linus had a major personality change years ago and has since endeavoured to be a lot more polite to people, and it certainly shows.

Yes, there are ways to install newer versions in a way that shouldn’t cause any issues (as opposed to adding a bunch of unstable repos): Flatpak.

IMO Flatpak has made Debian a lot more usable. You get the stability of the Debian base system but can have newer apps if you want to, without unnecessarily complicating matters with PPA repositories that seemingly always fuck up.