I finally got a chance to try this out and couldn't get it to work then I realized you mentioned this was git only right now, and I am all Flatpak'd up, so I need to wait.

What is the specific commit that adds the magic since the last release?

Wait, anti-cheat? Wtf?

I have some bad news for you about the sales of Midnight Suns….

Fingers crossed on the out of the box support.

Thanks again for the knowledge.

Thanks, appreciate the write up. Definitely sounds like HDR under Linux has a long way to go to reach the "just works" level.

I asked this in another thread but I would be curious to get different perspectives; could you use gamescope and mpv under Gnome and get HDR support or is KDE's HDR support essential here?

So what is the benefit of KDE's HDR support at that? Could you do something similar under Gnome and get HDR support in games?

Oh really? That sucks, how do you work around that?

Nice, this appears to allow me to enable HDR at least in Resident Evil 8.

Is there a distinct command if the game is native Vulkan versus using the Direct3d to Vulkan layer?

Edit: Lojcs is saying this only allows you to enable it but it isn't actually working, https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/comment/8535260

To add to this, I was doing some testing since this is on my mind and I am also unable to get HDR working on Youtube under either Firefox or Chromium.

This may be orthogonal to running games or it could be related.

Great detailed answer. One pedantic nitpick is the Apple typically supports Macs longer then 5-6 years, with the operating system getting security patches for a few years after the last one was released.

Their support cycle has been shorter lately because they seem pretty hell bent on phasing out Intel Macs.

I used to use Fluxbox back in the day, what’s the modern equivalent?

Here is my understanding of this now I've got everything working on my Flatpak install of Steam:

MangoHud

• Mangohud is installed as another Flatpak, org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.MangoHud
• I don't think I ever installed this manually, I believe the Steam Flatpak will bring this as a dependency
• To tell a game to use MangoHud you add MANGOHUD=1 %command% to the Steam launch options of the game
• Alternatively you can use like Flatseal to add MANGOHUD=1 to the Steam FlatPak to get this working in every game by default

Gamemode

• You need to install the Gamemode daemon, gamemoded as a system package
• Once that is installed you can add gamemoderun %command% to the launch options to run the game with Gamemode enabled

Yeah going to mine as well. I am both excited and a little scared. Some folks have reports some serious issues when upgrading so let's hope the Tumbleweed folks sit on this until they feel it's ready for general availability.

You know, I am fine with it. One of the reasons I am using Tumbleweed is for the additional testing they do, so if they aren’t cool with shipping it yet I can wait.

Was going to but someone beat me to it - https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/3608

No resolution yet, still unconfirmed

What menu are you referring to? An in game one?

The Flatpak is probably going to move faster but the trade off is it is harder to configure some things until you get a handle on Flatpaks.

Up to you ultimately.

What distro are you on?

Great tip. It looks like the Flatpak has a newer version then even Tumbleweed, so that answers my initial question, thanks!

Thanks for the heads up. That's a shitty limitation.