#97 Fedora Workstation’s State of Gaming – A Case Study of Control (2019)
Closed: scheduled 2 years ago by glb. Opened 2 years ago by glb.


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2 years ago

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2 years ago

Thanks Akashdeep.

Having lots of images in the article does make it look nicer. But we have to be careful with the licenses. I did a quick search for your first image and I found that it appears to have been obtained from theverge.com. If you scroll down to the bottom of that page and click on the "Licensing FAQ" link, you will be taken to a page that contains the following text:

We love that you love our content and want to share it with your communities. However, we do not grant individuals permission to translate and reprint, repost, or upload our content on personal YouTube channels, social media, blogs, websites, etc. Please note that any unauthorized translations and publications of our work will be treated as a violation of our intellectual property rights and be dealt with accordingly. From time to time, our content may be published on a platform that enables community translations through the services of that tool (e.g. YouTube’s community translations). You must comply with the guidelines for use of that translation tool at all times. We do not approve translations sent to us directly or respond to requests for such tools to be enabled.

Again, using images is great. But we need to comply with all the licensing requirements. I think we need to stick with images that are either public domain or under one of the free licenses listed here. Also, please provide appropriate attribution in the caption for any image that is not your own work.

Thanks!

Hi @glb, I changed some of the images and replaced them with the original ones taken from my desktop's GNOME software and Lutris applications. With those, I added some captions as well. You can find the changes here https://gist.github.com/t0xic0der/e6958f9404d395705a8b67a1ab39d024#file-main-md.

Do let me know if any more changes are needed.

Thanks Akashdeep. The revised images LGTM.



What I ended up finding surprised me, and I like to think that it would be just as pleasing to both, enthusiasts who have been playing video games on GNU/Linux distributions and to newcomers who have been scoping this, alike.

That is a somewhat long and complex sentence. For readability, it is better to try to state one idea or thought per sentence. I would suggest starting a new sentence in place of the first "and".

What I ended up finding surprised me. I like to think that it would be just as pleasing to both, enthusiasts who have been playing video games on GNU/Linux distributions and to newcomers who have been scoping this, alike.

Also, the remaining commas are unnecessary (ref. https://www.quora.com/If-I-write-was-lauded-by-the-scientific-community-and-the-press-alike-should-there-be-a-comma-before-alike).

What I ended up finding surprised me. I like to think that it would be just as pleasing to both enthusiasts who have been playing video games on GNU/Linux distributions and to newcomers who have been scoping this alike.



For that matter, if you factor in some performance scaling with respect to the handheld nature of the device and the optimized Proton compatibility layer - this article can be representative of what the Steam Deck is capable of when you use Fedora Workstation[5] as a platform of your choice for playing your favourite video games.

You should probably match the commas around the subclause "if you factor in some performance scaling with respect to the handheld nature of the device and the optimized Proton compatibility layer".

For that matter, if you factor in some performance scaling with respect to the handheld nature of the device and the optimized Proton compatibility layer, this article can be representative of what the Steam Deck is capable of when you use Fedora Workstation[5] as a platform of your choice for playing your favourite video games.



Please do note even when OBS Studio introduces a certain overhead to the performance, the comparison still remains valid as in both the platforms, the recording software is configured identically.

Commas can be a bit subjective, but I would recommend the following.

Please do note, even when OBS Studio introduces a certain overhead to the performance, the comparison still remains valid as in both the platforms the recording software is configured identically.



Please feel free to let your inner enthusiast loose in the statistics and try sharing as many performance differences as you have inferred so far in the comments section below.

You might want to provide a link when you reference "the comments section below" since some feed readers will duplicate the content of the article but not the comments.



With VKD3D, the average CPU usage in the menus is around 1.47% lesser than the equivalent Windows platform and the same in the game is 1.62% more. VKD3D is a great choice for handheld devices.

s/lesser than/less than/ (ref. https://www.google.com/search?q=lesser+vs+less&oq=lesser+vs+less&aqs=chrome..69i57.3462j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)

With VKD3D, the average CPU usage in the menus is around 1.47% less than the equivalent Windows platform and the same in the game is 1.62% more. VKD3D is a great choice for handheld devices.



With VKD3D, the average GPU usage in the game is around 8.13% more than that on Windows and the same in the game is around 9.34% lesser, thus helping save battery on handheld devices running these video games.

s/lesser/less/

With VKD3D, the average GPU usage in the game is around 8.13% more than that on Windows and the same in the game is around 9.34% less, thus helping save battery on handheld devices running these video games.



Let me know your thoughts down below!

Perhaps another good place for a link to the comments section of the magazine. The link should point to the article "slug" + "/#comments".



The above comments are just suggestions. Please feel free to accept or reject as many or as few of the suggestions as you like. Also, do you have any ideas for a cover image?

Other than that, it looks good to me. If you can upload it to our WordPress instance, we should be able to run this article right away.

Thanks!

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2 years ago

@t0xic0der: Wikipedia has a Creative Commons licensed image of a Steam Deck: wikimedia.org - Steam Deck. Do you think that would make a good cover image for your article?

@t0xic0der: Wikipedia has a Creative Commons licensed image of a Steam Deck: wikimedia.org - Steam Deck. Do you think that would make a good cover image for your article?

I like it @glb . With the article title overlaied on the screen. :-)

I've attached the aforementioned Steam Deck image with the article title overlaid. The image still needs a background texture applied.

gaming.png

@glb, this image looks great. I just wanted to confirm if it is okay for us to change the Steam Deck's picture to our liking.

Here's a public preview. I did not add the link to the comment section as that is something I would have after it is published.

EDIT - I just realized that I did not provide the link to the public preview so here's one https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=36142&preview=1&_ppp=6adffed906

Thanks Akashdeep!

@glb, this image looks great. I just wanted to confirm if it is okay for us to change the Steam Deck's picture to our liking.

Thanks for double-checking. I believe "remixing" is allowed by the Creative Commons license. You'll see it listed if you scroll down to the "Licensing" section of the page that I got the image from:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steam_Deck_(front).png

I'll go ahead and run this at 08:00 today.

Thanks!

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2 years ago

The cover image has been set. I also preset the article slug and made the appropriate text hyperlink to the comments section. This has been scheduled for 08:00 UTC. But I'll leave this card under "to edit" to be sure that you can still comment if you spot any last minute revisions you'd like made.

Thanks!

Thanks @glb. I have no more changes that I would like to make it.

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2 years ago

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