Friday Facts #408 - Statistics improvements, Linux adventures | Factorio
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Hello, welcome once again to the world of facts.

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.

  • PsyhackologicalOP
    10•5 months ago

    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]English
      2•5 months ago

      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.

      • PsyhackologicalOP
        5•5 months ago

        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.