protanopia

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protanopia··on Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift

Feral Interactive has managed to port many games to Vulkan. They even updated their port of Mad Max to Vulkan after release.

protanopia··on Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift

Wine has supported DX11 for over 2 years at this point[1]. However, how is that relevant? Did the Mac and Linux versions use Wine?

[1] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/wine-3-0-released-direct...

protanopia··on Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift

Rocket League is made with Unreal Engine 3 so if they wanted to port the game to using Vulkan they would also have to upgrade the game to Unreal Engine 4.

protanopia··on Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shift

Proton works great for single player games but isn't that great of an idea for multiplayer games. Their anti-cheat system could end up banning proton users. I believe this has happened to Destiny 2 and GTA:O players.

protanopia··on “My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print on Tuesdays” (2009)

BeFS does use MIME types.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2001/08/metadata/9/

protanopia··on Five Years of Btrfs

> Redhat for example choose to deprecate btrfs for unknown reason

According to Josef Bacik, RH deprecated btrfs because he was the engineer in charge for Btrfs and had left the company.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14907771

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