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delegatevoid

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I'm a C#/.NET developer living on Ubuntu Linux.
I don't use Windows and certainly no Apple products. I build and deploy solutions for and on MCU's, SoC's, Desktops, Servers, Mobiles, etc....

For my job I spend nearly all my time inside VSCode, Godot, Blender, KdeNLive, etc...

I am not a game developer

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AngryAnt, to random
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@chrism Hey Chris I came across one of your Nix videos (thankyou for spreading the good word!) and noticed a Keybase icon in your dock.

In case you had not come across it, I figured I would toss a http://keyoxide.org recommendation - nicely handling the identity side of the Keybase equation.

I established myself there before someone at Zoom HQ trips over a cable, not bothering to plug it back in.

delegatevoid,
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@AngryAnt @chrism could you expand a little on this?
Keybase got taken over by zoom did it not? And it's now in the hands of ... How does keyoxide fit into all of this?

delegatevoid,
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@AngryAnt @chrism so it's all about identify verification, then I will take a look at it.
I was using Keybase primarily for it's chat and git features. I've never used zoom and things like Signal, Matrix, etc... just don't work here. I remember identity verification in the 90's with PGP public key servers.
Before Keybase I was using/worked on BItmessage for a while, and now I've resorted to using Delta.Chat.

delegatevoid, to windows
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I'm not a fan of #windows but I am jealous of its ability to run #android apps. I'm surprised #linux doesn't have a compatibility layer similar to #wsl (at least that I know of).
All I know for now is #anbox which seems to be abandoned (?) and Waydroid which I can't use yet becuase #wayland just doesn't work for me. Any ideas?

delegatevoid,
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@AngryAnt I can't seem to get my games to work when I switch to Wayland. Maybe because I am using NVIDIA? I'd love to switch, there's some other things that look very cool in Wayland as well, but I do need the games to work.

delegatevoid,
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@AngryAnt when I switch to the first thing I notice is that everything is just really fast, huge difference. But then when I launch steam games, they start and just stop. When I try it starts, but there is a lot of stutter in the mouse movement.

delegatevoid,
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@AngryAnt today I will try to run on #wayland the entire day, see if I can get through my work stuff without issues.

delegatevoid,
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@AngryAnt As another example: I just tried to run the native Linux GLX version of Xonotic. It just stutters (audio and video) . Like 2 or 3 frames per second.

delegatevoid,
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@AngryAnt I'm running GNOME (I am one of those few people who really really like GNOME). I will give the whole gaming thing another try tonight after work.
During the day it's mostly VSCode, Firefox, Edge, Godot. I just tried Blender and it's the same thing... extremely slow and stutter.

I think the main issue is simply that I'm using NVIDIA.

delegatevoid, (edited )
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@AngryAnt Ubuntu 23.10 which is GNOME 45 although, interestingly enough, when running Wayland, the version is indicated as "Not Available"

Update: It also indicates that hardware rendering is simply not available. So that explains a lot

aras, to random
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Not a fan of this, but at least for now creating users here (mastodon.gamedev.place) will require mod approval before you can start posting. Way too many automatically created spam usernames registering otherwise :(

delegatevoid,
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@aras thnx for keeping this server up!

godotengine, to random
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Godot is just checking in! How is the games industry doing?

delegatevoid,
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@godotengine I miss the good old days where we'd buy a game and we'd be able to play them offline or on the LAN without having to be online all the time. These days you can't play games without being online and without an account, even the single player games... guess I don't like the modern game industry :D

aras, to random
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Ever get a feeling like you spend a week reading upon and trying out various clever solutions to a problem, and they are all complex and messy? And then do the stupidest simple thing possible in an hour instead, and it actually works well?

Yeah, me neither. 😭

delegatevoid,
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@aras all the time :p

delegatevoid, to ubuntu
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Been using since the very first releases but now with them forcing on us I may finally have to look for an alternative. Just not sure what that would be. (A modern deb based GNOME desktop)

xahteiwi, to random
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What are things that you were spoiled by in the open source community? As in, things you were exposed to at some point, and accepted as normal, until you found out that in the grand scheme of things they were quite exceptional?

Some of mine are:

  • linux.conf.au: conferences being full of kind people, brilliant talks and inspirational keynotes.
  • OpenStack: "docs or it didn't happen".
  • Linux kernel: "we don't break userspace".
delegatevoid,
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