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  • I switched to one you recommended with vulkan renderer eventually, because opengl renderer had some graphical artefacts I couldn’t get rid of e.g this texture fighting

    For some reason in-game screenshots are broken on vulkan renderer (grey rectangles) so I’m using system screenshotter.

    Also the game has pretty harsh mipmapping (or idk how is this called). Is cranking up anisotropic filtering the only way to get rid of it?

    Is it somehow possible to use nearest neighbour interpolation for textures?








  • Classic DOOM has best Linux support of all games in my opinion. Because it was opensourced and plenty of great community-maintained source ports.

    Doom has tons of amazing community-made content (WADs) made within last 30 years. Like what other games have mods that feature whole original soundtracks? It also has pretty competitive speedrunning and multiplayer scene. And some very, very difficult levels.

    So to play the game you need port and also IWAD files containing levels, textures, etc. Official iwads are not free. So your options are

    1. Buy D1+D2 on steam/gog, grab the iwads, ignore official source port and go play much better community ones
    2. Pirate the iwads. Extremely easy, the files didn’t change since the 90s and have been shared all over the Internet.
    3. First episode of D1 is free. Search for Doom Shareware. It’s packaged in some distros even.
    4. Use the community-made iwad replacements from freedoom project. These are completely foss and also the website has some source port recommendations so probably start with them. I myself started playing DOOM with freedoom :)









  • gera@feddit.nutolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Linux tips
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    1 month ago

    Well I can see a newcomer finding a program they want to run on github and there are instructions for compiling the program for e.g. Ubuntu which if they were Fedora user they would be able to adapt to themselves without much trouble. But since they are using a distro that decided that installing packages globally is bad for some reason they are very much on their own. Sure I think it’s possible and there are methods documented somewhere (and maybe it’s even better practice than installing dependencies from package manager), but it seems unlikely that anyone in the program’s community can help unless they have experience with immutable distros.

    I just wonder what are the benefits for which people are chosing distros that so deviate from what most other Linux users use.