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What is your favourite game with native Linux port? (factorio.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, it's Factorio.

a game in which you build and maintain factories.

It even has Wayland support!

(Version 1.1.77» Fri Mar 03, 2023 3:44 pm)

Graphics

Added support for Wayland on Linux. To enable it, set SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland in your environment. (thanks to raiguard)

What's yours?

EDIT: Great Linux ports* not like some forced ports that barely work or don't.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I see X11 and Wayland as display protocols that tell to render things on the screen, for example to Desktop Environments like Gnome or KDE Plasma. X11 wasn't originally designed for this purpose, and its codebase is very messy and 'hacky,' which led to the development of Wayland.

X11	Wayland
Legacy	Modern
Many issues due to being legacy	Many issues due to being Modern
Old	New
Stable	Experimental

in short.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Ah, so it's like DirectX11/12? That makes sense! How come it's never (presumably?) used on Windows?

Also...

Many issues due to being legacy

Many issues due to being Modern

Lol.

Edit: Okay, looking it up, it's apparent that X11 is not the same thing as DirectX11. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

DirectX is a set of APIs for game and multimedia development on Windows, whereas X11 and Wayland are display protocols that manage how graphical applications are rendered and interact with the desktop environment. DirectX is more similar to Vulkan in terms of providing a low-level API for high-performance graphics rendering or OpenGL.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I knew what DirectX was; I just thought X11 was an abbreviation for DirectX. Lol.