ashleythorne

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[–] ashleythorne@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I question their motives with Bedrock more than Java. Though there is some stuff like the chat censorship in Java that is questionable.

[–] ashleythorne@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Unfortunate. Though I did find out that Minecraft can use Wayland natively, if you block its access to the X11 socket or don't have Xwayland installed.

[–] ashleythorne@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You could run the game under Wayland before, but it was not default behavior nor provided as an option.

I used to force the game to use the Wayland version 3 years ago to work around a bug in GLFW that caused inputs to be ignored under X11.

But then Minecraft updated to use a fixed version of GLFW so I stopped needing to do so.

[–] ashleythorne@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I ran 1.21.10 and snapshot 25w34a. With xeyes, I was able to confirm that 1.21.10 was using Xwayland and 25w34a was using Wayland.

 

Minecraft snapshot 25w34a introduces this change (not in release notes)

[–] ashleythorne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not sure why Lemmy sometimes does that with the preview, here is the link: https://blogs.gnome.org/gtk/2025/10/23/svg-in-gtk/

[–] ashleythorne@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh wow, I missed that! That's great.

[–] ashleythorne@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's been discussed a bit in the Sodium Discord. At least for now, there are no plans to use mesh shaders in Sodium due to OS incompatibility, driver concerns, and questions on whether it's really necessary for better performance.

So Nvidium will remain relevant and necessary for mesh shaders.

 

There's a mod called Nvidium that makes Minecraft perform better. However, it only worked on NVIDIA cards because only NVIDIA implemented Mesh Shader support on their GPUs. However, Mesh Shaders are now offiically part of the OpenGL spec and so AMD and Intel may soon support it, allowing Nvidium to be used on those GPUs too.

When that support gets added will vary.

Also, fun fact: OpenGL development is pretty much dead, modern stuff should target Vulkan instead (or DirectX or Metal). Despite that, this was merged pretty much exclusively for Nvidium's use.

[–] ashleythorne@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I do keep it on for touchpads, they are too small to used without it. But with a mouse with proper hand space, it's just more consistent to have it off.

[–] ashleythorne@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

The most reliable stats would be the Steam hardware survey.

[–] ashleythorne@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

It's not on the chart.

[–] ashleythorne@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)
[–] ashleythorne@lemmy.world 18 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

Yes. However, it's still very notable that distros like Ubuntu have gone from 40+% to under 10%.

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