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And nothing of value was lost

You can have mixed emotions.

“DUDE it would be so rad if we supported Linux! Gotta get a bunch of things cleared first and get permission to take on the extra overhead for testing and… But LINUX SUPPORT!”

That meme doesnt really work the way you want it to here. I get what you’re going for but that’s one hell of a stretch.

Nvidia drivers

Thats cool, but it doesn’t clear the onus of proof.

It doesnt really matter and they owe us nothing, but it sure would clear up a LOT of the kiwi farms drama if they did. At present, kiwi farms has better evidence than you do.

That’s definitely a picture of a laptop.

What you’re referring to as Linux is actually SystemD/GRUB/GNU/Linux/Wayland+Pipewire+XDG/Desktop Environment Window Manager Stack

Written by Michael Larabel in Radeon on 10 April 2025 at 05:46 AM EDT. 12 Comments RADEON Mesa’s Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” is now exposing its emulated ray-tracing support by default for older AMD Radeon GPUs even without any form of hardware-accelerated ray-tracing in order to run the new Indiana Jones game. It turns out even the emulated RT mode is fast enough to allow various older AMD Radeon graphics cards to be playable with this title.

Natalie Vock has landed the change to expose the emulated Vulkan ray-tracing extensions by default when running Indiana Jones and The Great Circle “TGC”. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was released for Windows back in December and powered by the Motor Engine. It requires ray-tracing support but it turns out RADV’s emulated support is good enough for allowing older GPUs to enjoy this action-adventure game.

Indiana Jones The Great Circle logo

Vock explained in the merge request:

"Various people have been playing Indiana Jones: The Great Circle with RADV_PERFTEST=emulate_rt on GFX9/GFX10. RT support is required to launch the game, and performance is okay even with emulation, so enable it by default to make the game playable for everyone running older (GFX8-10) GPUs."

AMD GFX8 is for the Polaris GPUs along with Volcanic Islands and Arctic Islands. Amazing to see AMD Radeon RX 480/580 Polaris GPUs still working for newer games on Linux.

This change is now in Mesa 25.1-devel while those on current Mesa releases with older Radeon GPUs can always set the RADV_PERFTEST=emulate_rt environment variable to achieve the same behavior.

Don’t reject connections to port 22, honeypot it and ban on connection attempt.

Emacs is a lovely operating system used by many. I think it also has a text editor.

It’s a text editor?

Emacs

We literally have /var/log/ as a well-known standard though. Almost every piece of linux-standard software dumps to a subfolder by the app name in there. Systemd should at the very least have the capability to mirror there so you can get at the logs in a sane way.

Been using systemd for at least 6 year now, and yes it is indeed quite stable.

But making startup services is hot garbage, and accessing system logs is even worse. journalctl is an unapproachable mess, and I really don’t like the idea that systemd is kind of slowly replacing the linux kernel in its entirety.

It doesnt affect my day to day as a normal user, but when I switch to power user mode its… It makes maintaining my system very unenjoyable.

Average journalctl avoider

Steam VR mostly works. It’s one of the areas that takes a massive stinky performance hit, and there is no motion smoothing yet (somehow), but it does work. I’ve put thousands of hours into vrchat in it, played through all of Alyx, etc. all on Linux.

Or go back to the good old days and download/rip what you like to .mp3, .ogg, or .flac depending on your peference.

I have several thousand songs on my phone that I can listen to without the need for an internet connection, subscription fees, accounts, or anything.

There are tons of good FOSS local music player apps out there that you should check out. I use Auxio from the F-Droid store but have used others in the past.

On desktop, I use Elisa.

You can make sure your library is always up to date with your desktop by using syncthing.

I almost always do it facetiously and for meme purposes.

Hint: the answer lies within the last 3 letters of their post. And is probably a joke.

You forgot to attribute your quote. Abraham Lincoln originally said that!