Post Ak9Tc7TqHrrC321Sca by Linux@linuxrocks.online
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(DIR) Post #Ak7NifKyKh7WkXgxdY by Linux@linuxrocks.online
2024-07-20T09:47:54Z
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🎮 Fallout 3 runs perfect on Linux ✅ -- while on Windows 10 🚫 regular crashes are reported."The Freedom OS" is a savior for many :linux:Many ponder a Linux switch -- Google Trends shows a spike for "Linux", "Ubuntu", etc. :thinkhappy:To add: recent faulty Windows security update (CrowdStrike) took out banks, airlines & big companies worldwide via update *with Linux OS's not impacted*►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyrMxyQ5JVg►https://www.techradar.com/news/live/windows-outage-july-2024-live#Linux #Fallout3 #gaming #CrowdStrike #deleteMicrosoft
(DIR) Post #Ak7Pi6dhXSNf2oJTpg by GabeMoralesVR@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-07-20T10:10:16Z
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@Linux games outright play better on linux these days than windows. A common issue with PC games today is shader compilation stutter, where the game pauses for brief moments of a second every time a new effect is encountered, thousands of times per gaming session.Steam has the ability to get around this problem. When booting a game, it'll first download shaders to eliminate stutter. BUT ONLY FOR VULKAN, not DX12.in linux with proton everything runs on vulkan by design, stutter isn't a thing.
(DIR) Post #Ak7QKnkNiIATkEtBoG by Linux@linuxrocks.online
2024-07-20T10:17:17Z
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@GabeMoralesVR And what more? Running games via Proton / Wine on Linux - instead of in Windows - do translate game bugs all the same - BUT often there's already a Proton / Wine UPDATE addressing the problem - making Linux the winner.Generally can't go wrong running older Windows software in Linux with the translating Proton / Wine does. Current versions of Windows - while claiming "good backwards compatibility" of older software - it IS a gamble especially for games.Linux FTW 💪
(DIR) Post #Ak7QgfZGnuzWkS7Ska by GabeMoralesVR@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-07-20T10:21:17Z
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@Linux when it comes to *really* old PC games, linux is also way better than windows because it can still run Windows 16-bit applications through WINE. Windows lost this ability ages ago. Ironically there's now a ancient project out there to port WINE to windows specifically for these old 16-bit apps. How funny!
(DIR) Post #Ak7S8uhuD5LllSBrUW by GabeMoralesVR@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-07-20T10:11:49Z
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@Linux Same game, on same machine, run in linux vs windows, will run better in linux, thanks to this alone. The way it all works is steam will automatically crowdsource the shaders from other players who have configs matching yours. As more people play, more complete shader configs are produced, and over time, the stutter completely eliminates.This works in windows too, but steam only does it for vulkan games. 99% of games on windows are DX12 not vulkan. In linux, DX12 is converted to vulkan.
(DIR) Post #Ak7S8vybUUIjhX0i9o by GabeMoralesVR@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-07-20T10:13:34Z
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@Linux A classic example of a game with crippling shader compilation stutter, which doesn't have this problem in linux, is Baldur's Gate 3. In windows, it's *awful,* in linux, it's flawless. People attributed the fix early on to the steam deck, but it actually works with all linux distros. The success depends on whether or not your specific cpu/gpu/etc config is widely shared with others.I've been playing games on Linux since the Loki days. Linux gaming is entirely better than windows today.
(DIR) Post #Ak7S8xCov7GdVufZxI by GabeMoralesVR@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-07-20T10:15:54Z
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@Linux I have an arcade machine, and there is a PC inside to download and play games like Mortal Kombat 1. Several years back, a windows update killed the machine. Every time I'd try to reinstall windows on it, it'd blue screen instantly. Just completely unreliable. Tried reinstalling windows dozens of times. Steam Proton released that same year and I switched to linux on the machine. Linux saved the arcade cabinet, the same machine works perfectly with linux but won't boot with windows.
(DIR) Post #Ak7S8y9fOKL4SQCZg8 by GabeMoralesVR@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-07-20T10:17:28Z
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@Linux I got into linux specifically for games. The very first time I installed linux, was Red Hat 5.0 specifically for Quake III. Microcenter was selling Quake III, which was still newish, for $5, provided it was the linux version. Right next to it, they had a boxed copy of redhat. My dad and I had been curious about linux for a while, so he picked up redhat and i picked up quake 3. A friend of ours at a PC Users group helped us set it up. I've been running linux as my daily driver ever since.
(DIR) Post #Ak7S8zL2zV2K80XB3Y by GabeMoralesVR@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-07-20T10:19:14Z
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@Linux I never, ever thought linux gaming would get to this point. I'd hoped it would, naturally, but I realistically never saw this. I was part of that first group which switched to linux for game dev. I cut my teeth on SDL and OpenGL when DirectX was the hotness. I live with gcc and gdb and gnu in general. What proton and Valve has done to linux gaming has been unbelievable. Never in a million years did I think we'd get here. If you haven't paid attention to linux gaming, you'll be shocked.
(DIR) Post #Ak7S90JJNRF58ujIzQ by Linux@linuxrocks.online
2024-07-20T10:37:31Z
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@GabeMoralesVR The merits of Valve being said - thousands of people would absolutely love to support the likes of GOG equally - but GOG store's crew appears to live in past and apparently not needing those moneys :crossed_fingers_hmn_y2: https://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/release_the_gog_galaxy_client_for_linuxOf course GOG client works great in Lutris / Heroic Games Launcher and so on in Linux - but an official Linux client would be a hat tip towards The Penguin.. As things stand - Valve / Steam is getting support 100% here on end 🙂
(DIR) Post #Ak9Tc6IofNRWOXr8nQ by defcon42@loma.ml
2024-07-20T10:49:42Z
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@Linux The outage has nothing to do with the OS, only with the application in question. That the application is only available for Windows environments, is not the fault of Microsoft.Please do your homework. Cheers, an embarrassed Linux user.
(DIR) Post #Ak9Tc7TqHrrC321Sca by Linux@linuxrocks.online
2024-07-21T10:03:24Z
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@defcon42 It was specifically indicated all over the news that macOS / Linux were NOT impacted. So the incident has much to do with the OS (Windows 10) that WAS impacted. Nothing to be embarrassed about bro / sis :thinkhappy: