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News - GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026
By poke86, 14 Jan 2026 at 2:22 pm UTC

They could just contribute to Heroic in some way

News - GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026
By emphy, 14 Jan 2026 at 2:20 pm UTC

That, and GOG Galaxy does not support Linux.
I would vastly prefer for gog to spend the resources on officially supporting existing open source efforts such as heroic, minigalaxy, and lutris.

News - GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026
By eev, 14 Jan 2026 at 2:01 pm UTC

Even without Linux as a factor, Galaxy by itself *barely* feels like something you can put much trust into in terms of functionality. I hope they can get developers that are capable of actually fixing it up, possibly redoing it as a whole, and take that as a basis for Linux support.
One can dream I guess, but I don't really count on much from GOG, just that their installers will be convenient someday.

News - Nexus Mods retire their in-development cross-platform app to focus back on Vortex
By Mariano, 14 Jan 2026 at 1:55 pm UTC

In a previous article someone posted about [Limo](https://github.com/limo-app/limo) but it hasn´t been updated for 9 months.

Now i searched and found an app for helping running Vortex on Proton: [NaK](https://github.com/SulfurNitride/NaK)

News - GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026
By hardpenguin, 14 Jan 2026 at 1:52 pm UTC

* sigh *

Okay, okay, if they need my help, I will make myself available

News - GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026
By LoudTechie, 14 Jan 2026 at 1:51 pm UTC

They'll try again.
Brave.
Lets see them compete.
I really hope it's a success.
It might inspire other stores to follow.

News - Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 arrives bringing masses of improvements to Linux
By TheLinuxPleb, 14 Jan 2026 at 1:34 pm UTC

I wonder what the exclusive fullscreen in the changelogs mean? Does it mean that we can have display mode change through a game now or what? One thing that annoys me with for example Wreckfest is that i have a 4k TV that can do 120hz 1080p, but even when i change to 1080p in the game i can't set refresh rate to nothing but 60hz.

Exclusive fullscreen i think should help with that, but what does it mean now that it's in WINE? So that it works entirely like it's supposed to work or just works which it did IMO before cause i could play games that were exclusive fullscreen.

News - Valve tweak Steam Community Awards to deal with point farming and "attention-grabbing content"
By hardpenguin, 14 Jan 2026 at 1:28 pm UTC

Huh interesting. I didn't know it is such a problem. I enjoy the awards system, especially as a way to show my appreciation for solutions people post on the forums.

News - Nexus Mods retire their in-development cross-platform app to focus back on Vortex
By blindcoder, 14 Jan 2026 at 12:57 pm UTC

Oh come on. I can see the reason, but the argument could just as well have been "ditch the double work on Vortex, focus on the crossplatform". With Steam MAchine on the horizon, this would have been forward thinking.

Guide - How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
By jurquizo, 14 Jan 2026 at 12:55 pm UTC

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: jurquizoFirst of all, great guide. I tried following the steam method and I couldn't find the folder of the Steam installation folder to change the shortcut, I think it is because I installed Steam via snap and I can't find similar paths inside the .snap folder. Could you help me?
Ah, that's an interesting one. Snap is a whole different can of worms.

Could you try looking in: ~/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/steamapps

See if the compatdata folder is there? Once we find the correct path, I'll add it to the guide.
Thanks for the quick reply. The folder compatdata is in ~/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/steamapps, and there are a two folders with random numbers as names with the same created/modified date. In my case it was easy to find the correct because there were only 2 candidate folders.

*mod snip: we prefer note to have user scripts here, especially from an AI*

News - Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support
By wytrabbit, 14 Jan 2026 at 11:52 am UTC

Quoting: MrBelles... or that trees regrow.
Wait what.. really?!? 🔥

News - Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 arrives bringing masses of improvements to Linux
By mr-victory, 14 Jan 2026 at 11:29 am UTC

Quoting: LoudTechieYou run MS365 through Wine.
That's how one recognizes a master of their craft.
It is fairly easy with Crossover. Crossover installs an older version of Office 365, applies some registry edits so the app runs and installs fonts. Then you log in with your MS account and register the product. If you have no license or choose to not sign in, a 5 day free trial starts.

The installed version of Office is made sometime in 2022 for Windows 7 and is 32 bit. It doesn't receive updates.

Using vanilla wine will not work, Crossover's wine has patches related to Office's licensing that vanilla wine lacks, so the app doesn't work on vanilla wine.

News - Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support
By mr-victory, 14 Jan 2026 at 11:17 am UTC

Quoting: CaldathrasI wonder, is this the first example of a commercial flatpak?

(I don't do flatpak, so I don't know...)
Official Minecraft launcher also has a flatpak

News - Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support
By hardpenguin, 14 Jan 2026 at 11:17 am UTC

This looks cool but I need it on Steam for my convenience 🙈

News - Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a combat deep dive and release date
By hardpenguin, 14 Jan 2026 at 11:16 am UTC

Instructions unclear, Tuvix sent as a peace offering to the Borg.

News - Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a combat deep dive and release date
By Phlebiac, 14 Jan 2026 at 7:53 am UTC

Quoting: Mountain Manseason three of Picard was enjoyable since it's essentially DLC for The Next Generation
Seems fitting! Any TNG fans who haven't seen it are missing out.

News - The best Linux distributions for gaming in 2026
By phobeus, 14 Jan 2026 at 7:51 am UTC

Happy Fedora User since well over 20 years now. It's a distribution that is not often mentioned like some off the other distributions, but it is worth a look. I have to disagree that NVIDIA user should avoid it. If you're using Linux since a month, you're installing the drivers quite fast from RPMFusion. But I really like the "opt-in" in Fedora to make it an active decision to choose it, instead of being one day suprised. It's really not much more than adding a repo and using the installer.

NVIDIA driver had been problematic with wayland, so even as a fanboy I switched to AMD GPU and its running amazingly well. Especially with modern games and being performant as well.

That Fedora was took over by IBM and their policy with AI is worring me a bit that things might chance. But the team does have a great bargain collected over the years, so'll I keep trust in their work... and still being on guard.

News - Medieval kingdom builder Earth of Oryn finally arrives in Early Access on January 19
By Phlebiac, 14 Jan 2026 at 7:37 am UTC

Can't decide if the trailer voice is bad AI, or someone who barely knows English...

News - ARC Raiders hits over 12.4M sales - new patch out with weapon nerfs, a free gift and a darker Stella Montis
By Phlebiac, 14 Jan 2026 at 7:18 am UTC

Quoting: Liam DaweI see their use of generative AI as vastly more ethical than most other uses. They hired and paid people for the voices used.
If voice actors are (knowingly) paid to train a text-to-speech generator, rather than say a specific set of lines, is that really so bad? If it happened prior to all this nonsensical "AI" hype, would anyone bat an eye?

News - Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support
By redneckdrow, 14 Jan 2026 at 7:06 am UTC

Being both adorable, and a treating Linux users well out-of-the-gate? I don't care how Hytale is to play, it deserves kudos!🥰

I instantly bought it after reading this with some rather luckily leftover spending money.

I'm a bit sheepish; I hadn't even heard of it before seeing a video about its troubled start last week.

News - Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a combat deep dive and release date
By Linux_Rocks, 14 Jan 2026 at 6:51 am UTC

I like DS9 for the most part. Sisko is a badass, even if I completely disagree with some of his actions against the Maquis and Michael Eddington. How he gets the Romulans to enter the Dominion War is next level.

Voyager is good, but has its meh moments. I feel like we could've had a few more episodes in season 7 too.

Even TNG has its meh moments and Miles O'Brien should've been in First Contact with Worf. They had Reginald Barclay. So not also having O'Brien was lame.

Enterprise could've been better, but it's fine. The whole Xindi thing was kinda stupid though. lol

While TOS is pretty hokey, it's good for the most part.

I haven't watched Picard yet and I don't know when I'll get to it. Star Trek has been a shell of its former self for a while. Paramount pissed me off with the product placement in the reboot movie and them also going against Roddenberry's vision too much with stuff as well. Section 31 was probably a necessary evil from DS9 onward, but they've really done a number on Star Trek since the reboot movies. That's not including CBS/Paramount sucking the Orange Moron off either.

News - Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 arrives bringing masses of improvements to Linux
By poiuz, 14 Jan 2026 at 6:49 am UTC

Quoting: fenglengshunA lot of it seems great. Hopefully, this does mean Steam moving to Wayland and 64bit this year to be possible.
Where comes this idea from that Steam's 32-bitness & X11ness are tied to Proton? I mean it absolutely makes no sense because then we'd be stuck with X11 & 32-bit forever. The system itself would not be able to run deprecated software like Steam.

News - Get ready to enter Winnie's Hole when it arrives January 26
By Linux_Rocks, 14 Jan 2026 at 6:35 am UTC

You have to be careful around mysterious holes. lol