They have a different architecture so it comes down to preference.
Docker runs a daemon that you talk to to deploy your services. podman does not have a daemon, you either directly use the podman command to deploy services or use systemd to integrate them into your system.
To play Proton games you only need the latest gamescope from git, the HDR layer and environment variables are no longer needed for gamescope
Just set the launch arguments on Steam for any game to: gamescope --hdr-enabled --nested-refresh 165 --fullscreen --steam -w 3440 -W 3440 -h 1440 -H 1440 – %command%.
Don’t forget to set your refresh rate and resolution.
If you want to play videos files in HDR (YouTube also works) you need to use mpv together with the HDR layer.
After installing the layer you can run mpv like this: ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 mpv --vo=gpu-next --target-colorspace-hint --gpu-api=vulkan --gpu-context=waylandvk “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ”.
Thanks, appreciate the write up. Definitely sounds like HDR under Linux has a long way to go to reach the “just works” level.
It’s not as long as you might think, by the end of the year we should have out of the box HDR on Linux. At least for Proton games. All the puzzle pieces are there, they just need to be put in place.
could you use gamescope and mpv under Gnome and get HDR support or is KDE’s HDR support essential here?
No, not until GNOME implements their HDR support. You can however run gamescope and mpv directly in tty instead of KDE/GNOME.
Gog is objectively giving you more value for your money
What value do they give you exactly?
The games are mostly priced the same, they don’t have integrated modding support, no input remapping, no remote play, no in-home streaming, no steamcmd for server operators, no VR client, no Linux client and no Steam Deck support.
The only thing they do give you is no DRM, but nothing stops a developer from adding a DRM-free game on Steam.
Steam is only DRM if Steamworks is required for the game to launch, e.g. I can copy my Baldur’s Gate 3 files to a different PC and launch them without Steam.
It’s up to the developer how they behave if Steam is not present.
Since KDE plasma 6 with hdr support came out recently, I decided to check how some of the hdr tagged movies I’d watched previously look with that. I was surprised to see that they are rather dark, even in scenes under direct sunlight. I ‘tested’ the brightness by opening the movie in hdr and sdr at the same time and...
Which monitor do you have? ABL is unfortunately fairly aggressive on OLED screens, e.g. my screen only reaches about 250 nit with a 100% white window, which is only 10-20 nit brighter than the maximum for SDR content.
I can’t speak for Star Wars but Dune is pretty bright so you might just run into your monitors ABL very easily. You can test by making mpv really small against a black background and then maximizing. If the image gets dimmer you’re getting limited by ABL.
You might want to grab a 4k remux for something like The Greatest Showman or Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse to benchmark with. They have a lot of colorful but dark scenes to really bring out the HDR highlights.
I just built the Vulkan layer and gamescope from git and then started my native Steam installation normally. Then I just set the launch parameters to ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 gamescope --hdr-enabled --hdr-debug-force-output --nested-refresh 165 --fullscreen --steam --output-width 3440 --nested-width 3440 --output-height 1440 --nested-height 1440 – env ENABLE_GAMESCOPE_WSI=1 DXVK_HDR=1 DISABLE_HDR_WSI=1 %command%.
While I’m glad Boy and Heron won the Oscar for more visibility for anime, I definitely would not have picked it. It wasn’t even my favorite anime of 2023 (that was Suzume) and certainly wasn’t my favorite of the nominees. I would have rather Nimona or Across the Spiderverse won.
I think Across the Spider-Verse was robbed in this case. Outstanding animation through and through.
I noticed my home servers SSD running out of space and it ended up being my Jellyfin Docker container which wasn’t clearing the directory for transcodes in /var/lib/jellyfin/transcodes correctly....
1440p high refresh rate gamers unite. I have an Alienware AW3423DWF and boy are those new OLED panels beautiful. Expensive but beautiful. I still remember playing Left 4 Dead right after I got it and even without HDR I was baffled by the credits at the end of the match. Just white text floating in nothingness.
They also recently released the AW3225QF which is 4k@240.
His recent video on the Fairphone is what did it for me.
His “deal breaker” is that the notification sound is too loud? Replacing a battery by heating up your phone, prying it open, disconnecting the flimsy battery cable and prying out the glued in battery is apparently just as easy as using your hands. Seriously?
But the HMG is not a support weapon and the railgun is? I don’t quite get the point.
We can take down 4 chargers at the same time with this strategy with 2 people with recoilless. More than that and the orbital laser or railcannon have to come out.
Unfortunately not since Valve is (understandably) keeping pretty quiet about how they implemented anti-cheat.
However, due to Wine/Proton always running as the current user, it is impossible for it to run anything in kernel space outside of the user-accessible part of the kernel API. Meaning it cannot install kernel modules, access memory of foreign processes or read anything your user does not have access to. It can’t even get a full process list if the process does not want to be listed by users.
If you use Wine/Proton inside of Flatpak it cannot even read most of what your user has access to or any processes outside of the current Flatpak sandbox. So your Steam flatpak has no idea that you are running the Firefox flatpak on the same system with the same user.
Docker - what use is it?
I see Docker mentioned every other thread and was wondering how useful it is for non development things, and if so what they are.
Plasma 6: How to use HDR with games?
As the title asks, how does one actually use HDR for games after upgrading to Plasma 6?...
What music video do you wish was a full movie?
Ones that come to mind for me are Telephone by Lady Gaga and Money by Cardi B
The Steam Spring Sale is now in full swing (www.destructoid.com)
Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' (www.pcgamer.com)
Movies too dark in HDR?
Since KDE plasma 6 with hdr support came out recently, I decided to check how some of the hdr tagged movies I’d watched previously look with that. I was surprised to see that they are rather dark, even in scenes under direct sunlight. I ‘tested’ the brightness by opening the movie in hdr and sdr at the same time and...
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Stuck on Let's Encrypt certificate issuance due to firewall issue even after opening necessary ports
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Tip: mount Jellyfin transcode directory to hard drive!
I noticed my home servers SSD running out of space and it ended up being my Jellyfin Docker container which wasn’t clearing the directory for transcodes in /var/lib/jellyfin/transcodes correctly....
Wine 9.4 Released (gitlab.winehq.org)
The Wine development release 9.4 is now available....
Mouse cursor changes size when it hovers over some applications
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AMD calls time on the 60Hz gaming monitor era (www.pcgamesn.com)
That's LTT in the bottom (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
We get it, it hit 4% (programming.dev)
In all seriousness it’s very exciting, I just don’t need to see the same information worded 20 different ways from random clickbait sites lol
Helldivers 2 gets its first rebalance patch (www.destructoid.com)
Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition PC specifications revealed, out March 21 (blog.playstation.com)
Media center under 100€ capable of 4k video
Does anyone knows of a device irregardless of it being sbc/mini-computer/arm/x86… that is capable of running 4k video....
Helldivers 2 will use a rootkit anti-cheat, nProtect GameGuard
50/50 chance this breaks Deck and linux support, especially since the commenters’ inquiries about it have gone unanswered....