I don’t think that’s ever going to be in the plan, because the issue with Nouveau was the older cards, or more specifically, that the code was based on older architecture.
NVK was able to utilize newer code from the newer RTX cards to get a more performant base to build upon (or at least, that’s my understanding). Even if they wanted to, I don’t think they can actually go back.
The issue actually is them being unable to control the older cards power state due to Nvidia being dicks (as always). That’s the only thing stopping them because it’s a shitload of work to reverse engineer Nvidia’s fuckery (Nvidia REALLY put a lot of effort into it to make it very hard to actually do)
It’s an older interface than DP and has “better” support for audio (I.e. all of those proprietary passthrough audio formats that home theater setups support) so it became dominant in TVs. Monitors are still DP first but likely have a HDMI port as well.
That kind of makes sense though. I figure they assume you’ll have one computer hooked up and then a bunch of consumer devices that all use HDMI. And if you need a second computer hooked up you can also use HDMI if needed. Probably makes the most sense to the most people as having more DP in place of HDMI would just mean the average user couldn’t hook up as many devices since (almost?) no consumer devices use DP unfortunately.
That also includes money to upgrade, for example, display equipment in virtually every office conference room, classroom, home theater, etc. It took a long time to shake VGA in those settings and now that that’s largely been dropped in favor of HDMI it’ll be a tall order to chase after the next best thing with no benefit noticeable to 99.9% of people.
I know it’s probably for cost cutting. But the monitor does indeed have a DP input option. Maybe the HDMI is included because it has inbuilt speakers and as far as I know those aren’t usable thrpugh DP and I don’t know if it has a separate audio input.
In my experience, its cause monitors are already over priced, and adding a display port to it seems to add at least another 100 on top of that.
Which is why I prefer HDMI. Less cable headache too, since I only have to keep one type of cable in stock and so i can easily switch for testing/diagnostics/layout change purposes.
I didnt say they did, I said they seem to, since in my experience every monitor that had similar spec, but had a display port, was about 100 dollars on top of whatever the hdmi only one had.
Just a thought:
Isn’t that logo a bit weird? One proton but it looks like two electrons, and what’s the extra layer around the proton?
That is neither a Proton ion or a valid atom.
I guess graphically it looks OK, but it doesn’t make much sense IMO.
Stop it, no one cares…making it look like something recognizable to the masses is the idea. No one cares about it looking like a real proton or electron.
Thanks. 😀
I know that most probably don’t care, but I kind of do. Not in a big way, but enough that it irks me a bit.
I’m guessing there are others with a slight streak of introvert autism OCD that feel the same way, or at least find it funny that they’d make such an erroneous logo. 😋
That said, of course I’m all for Proton getting a logo, even if it’s a tad stupid.
On a post about the logo, I should stop commenting on the logo! Is that what you are saying? Really?
Apparently someone cares, you wrote your trash comment, that’s caring too. And some upvoted my post, probably either because they found it funny, amusing, interesting or even informing.
I’m guessing your intellectual curiosity is at the low end, for sure your tolerance is.
I don’t see why there shouldn’t be room for an observation regarding the logo design???
Because it’s a pendantic and contrarian remark that makes you look like some kind of self-indulgent prick. The fact that you can’t just say “you’re stupid” and had to make sure you sound intellectually superior just reaffirms my observation.
Who is or isn’t intellectually superior isn’t the issue here. You may find my comment pedantic, which you are entitled to.
But what do you think entitles you to ask/demand me to stop commenting my observation? When it regards the subject matter, and was all polite and only described a couple technicalities?
How do you claim to know nobody cares, and talk on their behalf, on a post that was already upvoted when you commented?
Seems to me that you are the one who has a sense of entitlement and is pedantic and a prick here.
I wrote earlier. “I’m guessing your intellectual curiosity is at the low end, for sure your tolerance is.”
Seems I was spot on.
I think their original intent back when Proton originally launched was to just show generic Linux compatibility on any titles if it worked with Proton and was approved by Valve. I'm not sure why they stopped doing that.
Probably they understood that they couldn’t realistically check every new and old game out there and that people could patch games themselves, so it would be kind of misleading and pointless. Just like SteamDeck now: you get the “not-compatible” warning with working games that don’t have a nice starting UX but that works just fine
ProtonDB isn’t a Steam product though, it’s a crowdsourced community effort built and maintained by users. Steam pulling that into their official infrastructure would immediately put a ton of technical stress on the project. It would also be pushing on that boundary between a corporation supporting a community project and drafting all its volunteers as unpaid labor.
Doesn’t seem like a bad idea but Steam Deck + Xreal Air is what I would (and did) choose over something like that. That way I have the option of using the glasses but they’re not strictly necessary.
Also the 8840HS makes the same mistake as other handhelds with almost zero regard to battery life.
Flatpak apps don’t have access to your system packages, so you need to install mangohud as flatpak. Once it’s installed it’s available to Steam flatpak and can be enabled like system mangohud in system Steam.
Edit: Switching from system Steam to flatpak Steam is simple and it’s always possible to switch between them. Just make sure to give flatpak Steam access to the existing SteamLibrary through flatseal.
Personally I have my SteamLibrary at ~/Games/SteamLibrary and give flatpak Lutris/Steam access to ~/Games.
Yeah chalk this up to me needing to read that manual.
I took the instructions there and replaced the Steam flatpak with Lutris and it worked - though Mangohud is not reading my existing config even though it has access according to Flatseal.
It’s weird to me that Flatpaks cans interact with other Flatpaks but not system packages. I would assume sandboxing would prevent both of those cases.
I don’t use flatpak but I didn’t have to configure Lutris or Steam in any way for that.
If you look around goverlay you’ll find that there are two ENVs that you can set up in X/wayland service to have MangoHud automatically in every context it can render in.
So first try running with MANGOHUD=1 env exported. If that doesn’t help, try https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MangoHud.
If I understand correctly, flatpack run in some kind of container, so it’s possible that you might need to set the env or the command, so it happens inside the container
I tried to play Vermintide 2 on Linux after Windows kept giving me issues, but I couldn’t get the Easy Anti-Cheat to stop freaking out about me playing on Linux.
I never found a fix for it, has that changed or is it just luck?
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