leopold

Sketchup has always worked pretty well with Wine. It's always just been installing a couple of things with winetricks (like vc runtimes) and then it usually works fine.

Uh, no. Not the majority. Not by a long shot.

Kinda insane how many people in a nominally open source community are defending this guy for switching to a proprietary license. If DuckStation gets shut down then I say good riddance. It is not the only PS1 emulator in town and I will not miss the endless flow of Stenzek-related drama.

You mean VHI bug? Says there are still 36 15 minute bugs.

What problems do you anticipate? Wine, which Proton is just a modified version of, implements file dialogs. If it didn't, just about every application that isn't a game would be broken. Needing to open files is pretty ubiquitous, after all. You need file dialogs for that.

It isn't significant. Wine already supports the vast majority of MediaFoundation codecs with GStreamer. This is just an alternative backend that uses FFmpeg instead of GStreamer. GStreamer already has an FFmpeg plugin, so this doesn't add any new codecs to the table. It seems there's just a long term plan to move away from GStreamer for whatever reason.

Wine's MF support used to be much worse, which is why Valve had to do their workaround shader hack. Not sure what exactly the current status on that is, but I do know things like mf-install or Proton-GE are rarely if ever necessary anymore, even with non-Steam games (which I have plenty of).

Well, Steam and Proton both already run on top of FEX or Box64 on ARM Linux, but it's nice to see an official effort from Valve.

Also, does ARM still have better battery life when all of the machine code has to be translated from x86? That adds a not insubstantial amount of CPU overhead, which does hurt battery life.

And perhaps most importantly, is there any ARM chipset out there that can deliver performance on par with the Steam Deck's CPU (even after factoring in the overhead of the x86 JIT) at a viable price for a Steam Deck successor?

Obviously. ES6 isn't out yet. The point is that there are many things ES6 could improve over Skyrim if they tried.

Dunno, I think I prefer patents. Unlike copyright, patents usually last a flat twenty years. Copyright expires either after 95 years or 70 years after the death of the author, which is ludicrous. Both are constantly abused, but at least patents expire in a reasonable amount of time.

Unless they changed it, mobile Firefox is locked to a limited set of extensions unless you:

1. Use Nightly.
2. Create a Mozilla account.
3. Log in to that account on the Add-Ons site and create an add-on collection with all the extensions you want to install.
4. Set that collection as your source of add-ons in the Firefox settings.

You're also unable to use about:config unless you're using Nightly (or maybe Beta). So Nightly is really the only version worth using since it doesn't have nearly as many artificial restrictions as the stable version does. This is also true to a lesser extent on desktop where you have to use Nightly to install unsigned extensions.

You also can't open any offline HTML files for whatever reason and on devices with very little RAM (like 2GB) Firefox isn't viable, but Chrome-based browsers work mostly fine. Firefox is still the best mobile browser though, mostly because it supports extensions at all.

I'm surprised you could even run a Linux distro with X11 and KDE1 on 8MB of RAM.

Qt1 came with two default themes. One of them mimicked Win95 and the other mimicked Motif. KDE1 defaulted to the former in order to look more familiar. To this day, the "Windows 9x" theme still ships with Qt and can be selected on any Plasma 6 install. Starting with KDE2 they started using their own custom themes for everything, tho.

GNOME 1 actually looked very similar, which isn't surprising because its main goal at that point was to offer a replacement for KDE that didn't depend on then-proprietary Qt. GNOME 2 and KDE 2 is when they really started building a distinct identity.