no NTSYNC still :(

Now that you mention it: I never realised that protondb only covers games on steam! maybe they should add a way to add nonsteam games.

quite a few of these links are just:

I installed windows game on the steam deck! Heres How I Managed This Herculean Task Using Arcane Magics: just runs the game with wine/proton

The ideas we explore in concrete work should be informed by what open source licensing proponents seek to restrict (the individual freedom to refuse), the tools they employ (software licensing), the language they attempt to monopolize (“Free as in Freedom”), and what the established systems and cultural norms do in practice

The article doesnt use the wording “Free Software Movement” it uses “open source licensing proponents” which includes the Free Software Movement.

As for the genocide per default part: Its nonsense to believe that if open source didnt exist or was different that it would somehow lead to less genocide.

“We know that there is a clear relationship between corporations which expend focused energy explicitly and implicitly promoting the use of Open Source Initiative-approved licenses to independent developers, and the genocide being committed in Palestine.”

“The Freedom to refuse”

This article is bonkers. It manages to twist the Free Software Movement, that I would argue is intrinsically radically anti-capitalist, to be somehow pro capitalist, because free labour. Completely ignoring the whole mutual benefit and means of production held in common part of the deal. It tries to paint restricions of who is allowed to use the software (breaking F(L)OSS definitions) as a “Freedom”, the freedom to “refuse”. Actual use of Orwellian phrasing there. And then somehow: Open source = Siding against Palestine.

“Europes warmongering stance” This article regurgitates russian propaganda.

You can make lots of money off of F(L)OSS software, see Redhat, SUSE, etc. Its just a different business model, e.g. support contracts, administration, e.t.c.

something something polititians funeral pyre…

I had some bad experiences with wine/proton, especially on older hardware. There are sometimes weird bugs that are very hard to reproduce. For example: I couldnt play starfield for about a year because most textures were missing. No idea what was causing it. After a year it suddenly worked. Generally if you check Protondb for any game you will find that a few people have crazy bugs, even if everyone else says that it runs perfectly. I think I dont have a single game in my library that has a “Platinum” compatibility rating.

I think it boils down to how would you prefer to support linux players: By fixing bugs in your port, or chasing after bugs in wine/proton. The negatives of native ports that other people have raised are because many (larger) developers make the initial linux port, and then forget about it. Civilisation 6 for example has a good linux port. Yay! But they stopped updating it years ago. Many bugs were never fixed, and linux players dont even have access to the newest dlc! Compare it to running Civ 5 in wine. Things mostly work, exept mod support. Most mods just dont work. Who knows why.

I think native ports may have become easier nowadays too, because of the steam runtime. Steam can run linux games in their flatpak-like runtime, so ideally you only have to support that.

If you are planning on open sourcing your game (maybe some time after the commercial release) then a linux port would be very appeciated for packaging reasons. Other than that, your preference.

Yes, this new iteration of Junk Store will be paid software and will be closed source.

And then I stopped reading.

What it feels like to play Gorbinos Quest:

Patente auf Lebewesen gehören verboten, nicht “transparent und fair” gemacht! Indigene Völker haben die Pflanzen schliesslich auch nicht erfunden, und ich würde mal sagen, das die Welt keine bessere werden würde wenn z.B. Heilmittel in Zukunfte eine kompliziertere Patentstruktur haben.

Ausserdem finde ich die Denkweise grundsätzlich Falsch, dass ein ganzes Volk ein Patent auf eine Pflanzliche Wirkung besitzen soll, noch dazu eine die sie seit Jahrhunderten kennt. Laut dem Artikel ist z.B. Stevia ein klarer Fall von “Biopiraterie” weil indigene Völker diese Pflanzen verwenden. Ginge es nach den Biopirat-Gegnern, soll man also eine Zustimmung von Indigenen Völkern haben, dass man eh Stevia verwenden darf, selbst wenn die Pflanze in China angebaut wird! Absolut Grausig, was uns da als “Fairness” verkauft wird.

Hier ein weiterer Artikel dazu: Biopiraterie Stevia

Da ist es sogar noch schlimmer: Den Wirkstoff von Stevia kann man komplett Synthetisieren, also man braucht die Pflanze gar nicht. Indigene Völker wollen aber trotzdem, dass man ihnen Geld dafür gibt. Wegen einem “Patent”, dass sie vor Hunderten Jahren im Nachhinein haben, das für immer gilt, auf das Ganze Volk ausgeschrieben ist und ausserdem nur für den Nutzen einer Pflanze, die einen Wirkstoff enthält. Diese Einigung ist ein weiterer Schritt in die Richtung Patenthölle.

This is really amazing, I never thought that an exotic system so un-linux-like could ever get a proper gpu driver, nevermind run the newest hardware!

Still no NTSYNC…

Yes, its not sold i think, but I found the instructions and a printable version online years ago, i believe on archive.org

Same with guix.

Ah okay! No its not rootless, in fact it can only do fullscreen I think, thats why Im still searching for a better solution!

Its not just for games, you can remote any program(or the entire desktop) with it. Not sure why they advertise it like that.

As for rootless: As far as I know you need some elevated Privileges to be able to capture Wayland, but it does not need to run as root. Not 100% sure though.

Im searching for a solution too. You mentioned wprs, have you tried its predecessor xpra?

And theres always stuff like teamviever, rustdesk, and my personal favorite moonlight/sunshine, although all of these are for a slightly different usecase(full access to a remote desktop).

This is a false equivalence, most courts outside china rule in favor of the GPL, so it can be enforced. Notably china does not particularily care about international intellectual property rights, and that includes the GPL.