FOSS Fun Wednesday 21: Heroic-ally, WINE 7.22 and NVIDIA Driver All Out Now

FFW 21.1- Team Behind Heroic Launcher Releases Major, New Version

What is the Heroic Games Launcher? A tool designed to make managing your non-Steam games (eg: from Epic game store or Good Old Games) easier, it is cross-platform and sometimes works better to launch Windows games on Linux than Proton. What’s new?

Download Manager
New Themes
Custom User Theme Support
How Long To Beat data
Support For Other App Launchers and Games

Also added fixes and tweaks in these areas:
Detect if a game is available or not (and mention if it is a supported game).
Legendary v0.20.30.
Settings re-organized.
Redesigned login screen.
Improvements to Cloud Saves.
Various bug fixes.

Good stuff, Heroic Launcher team! Any of you guys use it?
https://news.itsfoss.com/heroic-games-launcher-2-5-0/
#FFW #heroic #newrelease #updates #gamesfordays #news #TechFreedom

When was the last time any of us (myself included) really took the time to make the Word a part of our life through memorization and meditation? I don’t remember the last time I really sat down and intentionally committed Scripture to memory. Do not hear this as condemnation from me. Even if I were in the habit of simply learning passages or chapters, I would not lord it over you. That would miss the point in many passages, wouldn’t it? Let’s have a chat with the Holy Spirit and ask Him what you should do about the situation. St. Chrysostom would strongly encourage you to memorize the Word as much as you can, but heed the Spirit in this, not a long dead human.

#FFW #memesplanation #quotes #churchfathers #patristics #Bible #memorization #read #chrysostom #TechFreedom

FFW 21.2: WINE 7.22 Out Now

Tasty, this is their big, yearly release. WINE is a Windows compatibility layer which enables Linux and MacOS users to run some Windows programs and games, it is the backbone of Steam’s Proton, and makes life far more pleasant for Linux users in general.

What’s new in this release?

32-on-64 chunks for both Vulkan and OpenGL. (will eventually mean that we’ll be able to run old, 32-bit programs and games without the i-386 libraries installed on our systems)
OpenLDAP library bundled and built as PE.
Support for the RAW print processor in WinPrint.
More progress on the long types print format conversion.
Various bug fixes.

Good stuff. I am excited about the 32-on-64 work, as that will make it that much more painless to run legacy apps and games on Linux.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/wine-722-out-now-with-more-32bit-on-64bit-work/
#FFW #WINE #proton #linuxgaming #TechFreedom

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FFW 21.3: NVIDIA Releases Latest Driver 525.60.11

What’s new?

Dynamic Boost now available for AMD CPUs
Support for the EGL_MESA_platform_surfaceless extension
Performance improvements for PRIME render-offloaded apps
Support for OTA Proton Updates (still not on by default, though)
Support for Quadro Sync, Stereo, rotation in X11, and YUV 4:2:0 on the NVIDIA Turing GPU architecture
Many bugs were squashed, including one in Spiderman – Remastered...

Sounds like good stuff. Makes me wish I had something newer, though I think in large part, I’d rather go all Team Red with a Radeon card for my next build, coupled with an AMD processor. The only thing that makes me question that logic is a question of how close the AMD video encode/decode logic/chips stack up with current-gen NVENC. I don’t know when I might have time or other resources to make those upgrades mean something for me though.

https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-525-60-11-linux-graphics-driver-adds-dynamic-boost-support-on-amd-laptops

#FFW #Linux #NVIDIA #drivers #gfx #gaming #TechFreedom