hellofriend

Now this is gaming

I was thinking physics processing. Cloth/soft body sim, smoke/dust and other particle physics, potentially water physics, and so on.

Who do we think is ZLUDA's new backer? 10 bucks says it's Valve. Tbh I don't really believe that myself since Valve has been pretty transparent in its funding, but who else stands to gain as much?

It's the Dark Souls of installing things on Ubuntu

Yestermorrow

GPU1 is probably your integrated GPU. Look into how you can force the use of your dedicated GPU.

Tried it, no dice.

Gog sucks nuts on Linux though. It's such a pain in the ass to get my Gog games working in Lutris that I opted to install Gog Galaxy as a non-Steam game and then install my Gog games through that.

Bro, I'm too young to miss this. I barely remember XP.

I probably could have phrased that better. Why are the projects that are being funded significant? Apologies.

Can someone give me a rundown on why the projects being funded are significant?

I wouldn't call it unproductive. We live in an era where things "just work," and when they don't then you end up with complications. Would a business switch to Linux if they see that network problems are a possibility? Maybe when they're looking to upgrade their hardware, but even then they'd have to get their IT department to research hardware that will "just work" with Linux. And after that, they need to find a commercial wholesaler to provide the kit or have the company custom build however many PCs themselves, just so they don't end up having financial losses due to failed network connections. Would they put Linux on their current hardware? Hell no. Windows is a known quantity and no business is going to risk losses by introducing a potentially risky operating system to their systems/workflow. It is good to point out the issues with the OS so that those issues can be fixed. It's good to hear the perspectives of the everyman if we want Linux to grow.