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I am pleased to notice this is not an EA or Ubisoft game! Now we're talking.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: elmapulthe licence alllow to implement this on wine/proton/dosbox?

I imagine FreeDOS is miles ahead of this ancient code. It's only interesting for historical purposes, especially with MS-DOS 4.0 also available.

probably, and probably that is why they relased it, to become "the heroes of preservation", when the truth is, we already had this.

but still, there might be some conner cases where a few games or apps dont work and this solves it.

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Quoting: someonewasn't me ;)

holy wow it's someone! dude I'm a huge fan

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Quoting: someonewasn't me ;)

Username checks out😆

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I'm always impressed with how fast they work. They put out an initial workaround with Proton Hotfix on the same day it stopped working, and now they already have it in Experimental.

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What kind of silly moron cheats in Rocket League of all games???

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wasn't me ;)

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And what exactly happens to legitimate players in 5-10 years time where the online check servers are killed or compromised and you can't renew your 14 day license to play the game you bought? Nothing, that's what. You just can't play it anymore. But the corporations won't care about that.

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Quoting: GerarderloperBet Sony spending a fair bit of money trying to patch all these holes out.
Bit of a scenario of them shooting themselves in the foot because having a way to install Linux on these consoles will make them MUCH more popular and people will naturally buy the games for them anyway.

BUT they won't see it that way; gotta waste money and ruin everyone's fun, the corporate motto!

It's probably the same thing as smart TV manufacturers. They sell you the TV to get you in the door. The TV doesn't actually make them anything. It's a loss. Selling your data and tracking your every habit is where they make the money.

Same thing with the PS5 most likely. The console is to get you in through the door. Once you're in, they want you buying games and subscribing to PlayStation Plus just to play online. They want you to pay them to you use the internet you pay your ISP to. A middleman extorting you for money to make a TCP connection to another companies multiplayer servers with your own internet.

Quoting: GerarderloperI've read they are now putting more DRM into consoles; wonder how long until Age Verification comes and you are required to have Face and ID scans to even turn the things on.... what a world!

That's already happening or is being tested with the PS5 in some regions, notably the UK. To use the social features from now on, you'll need to verify your age. It's been revealed by accident a week or so ago.

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I'm so excited. I finished the first game to 100% achievement completion exclusively on Arch Linux using an Intel Arc A750. I used the native Linux version too. The game did warn me my GPU was unsupported on every launch but nothing was broken and I played at the highest settings at 1440p. Perfect native Linux build. I even played natively on Wayland with "SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland" variable. It was one of the most intense but also graphically pleasing games I played. Speaking of graphics...

Sadly, I'm not too pleased about them using Unreal Engine 5 for the sequel. I watched a lot of developer commentaries for this game and I loved how the devs talked about their in-house engine for the first game. They put a lot of love into that game. I fear the same will not happen with the sequel. I also don't know if I can handle yet another UE5 mess on Linux. They're bad enough on Windows. Performance aside, I'm more worried about the art direction and the look of the game. The first felt special since it was their own creation. This may be another UE5 clone.

The AI and the gameplay will probably be great, but the "look and feel" of the game, I fear that will be lost with UE5.

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Quoting: ChrisznixHow is everyday life with bazzite? I installed it on one of my kids' laptop (Thinkpad X260) and it my first impressions were quite nice. I wonder if this could be a good daily driver. I really don´t have any experience with immutable systems, though.

Very easy to use, (almost*) no nonsense distribution if you aren't a power user / developer. If you *are* one then it gives you specific tools to get the job done so there is an adaptation process coming from non atomic distros.

* a developer added drivers for fan control on my desktop, then removed it due to safety concerns then the dev was dismissed by the team and I still don't have fan control lol

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New brew installer for Sunshine via ujust. Sunshine is no longer preinstalled in-image.

Wow this could be a breakage for me at the wrong time. I sometimes remote to my desktop and when I do so I don't have physical access, plus Bazzite updates automatically applying changes on reboot and I use Wake on Lan to turn the desktop on remotely.

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Quoting: doragasuUnfortunately there's a growing probability of Denuvo moving to kernel level DRM. And if that happens, it's game over for Linux users. Not a problem specifically for me, I don't buy games with Denuvo DRM, but for the platform itself, it might be a big hit.

Do you have a source? Hope this doesn't happen

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Quoting: Juergi_HodiHi,

is HHD removed?

Yes, they removed it a while back and replaced it with InputPlumber.

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Quoting: Phlebiac"brew package" / "brew installer" - this sounds like something diverging from Fedora. Is that akin to something like "homebrew" on macOS?

It's the same project as the Mac version. Well, technically the Linux version was originally forked from the Mac version back in 2012 and was called "Linuxbrew". But it didn't really gain any popularity, until around 2019 when it was merged back into the main project. And then in 2021 the brew experience became a lot more streamlined and faster, with version 3.0.

Brew (which is the actual command used btw) isn't diverging from Fedora, it's just an alternate way to get packages independently of your main OS - basically you can get most apps - without root access - and without needing to write to a core system path. All the files live inside your home folder. This makes it ideal for immutable distros, because you can't write to the root partition.

Before brew, Bazzite used to pitch Nix for the same purpose (of course, in addition to Flatpak, Distrobox etc). I don't know what happened along the way (maybe it was all the drama in the Nix community) but they eventually stopped recommending Nix completely, and started baking in Brew into the image and recommended users to switch to Brew instead.

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Windows 95 next please.

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Hi,

is HHD removed?

For Zotac Zone there are better options.

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Quoting: elmapulthe licence alllow to implement this on wine/proton/dosbox?

I imagine FreeDOS is miles ahead of this ancient code. It's only interesting for historical purposes, especially with MS-DOS 4.0 also available.

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"brew package" / "brew installer" - this sounds like something diverging from Fedora. Is that akin to something like "homebrew" on macOS?

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Quoting: Linux_RocksI remember running Fedora 3

Never existed. You mean Fedora Core 3? I remember when the rumors starting flying that Red Hat 9.0 was the end of the line. It was true; Fedora Core replaced it. At this point, I no longer remember when they dropped "Core" and then started with the sub-branding, like "Workstation".

Ah, Wikipedia remembers: Fedora 7 dropped "Core" because it merged in the "Extras" repository; I think that's what remains as EPEL for the server variants to this day. Same article says "Workstation" didn't come until Fedora 21.

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Crazy that people will pay so much for little pieces of plastic vinyl with adhesive backing.

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Thank you everybody for the great input! I'll give it a closer look then, especially for the kids laptops and see how it goes. My Main has an NVIDIA Card, so this (together with my addiction of the AUR) might be keeping me on Endeavour.
Isn't that a great time to live in - so many excellent choices for your digital life!

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Great, I hope it will fix the issue I've been having since I "updated" to the AUR 580xx driver. Using wayland sometimes the computer freezes when tabbing to another window, it happens kinda randomly so it drives me crazy.

Anyway, thank you for the news Liam!

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Bet Sony spending a fair bit of money trying to patch all these holes out.
Bit of a scenario of them shooting themselves in the foot because having a way to install Linux on these consoles will make them MUCH more popular and people will naturally buy the games for them anyway.

BUT they won't see it that way; gotta waste money and ruin everyone's fun, the corporate motto!

I've read they are now putting more DRM into consoles; wonder how long until Age Verification comes and you are required to have Face and ID scans to even turn the things on.... what a world!

I do wish Steam Machines were going to be affordable alternatives, but it seems that won't be happening for quite some time! Onward and Downward into the fiery pits we go!!!! :)

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: LoudTechie- also applies to IOT and servers.

This is the funniest part. Whose age should I set on the fridge? Mine, or the yogurt's? 😆

Anyway it's nothing particularly new. When I set up gmail accounts for my kids, I just added 10 years or whatever, so they don't get blocked from accessing stuff and I don't get pestered with requests for permission or whatever. If I installed such age-requiring OS today, I would do the same.

Well, the yogurt is the one actually using the fridge. It's merely in your house. I think the next question is: how does the age of the bacteria translate into human years?

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I remember running Fedora 3 on a Pentium II 266MHz machine with 384MB of RAM. It had ATI RAGE 128 graphics and some non-Creative sound card. It was a hand-me-down PC from my Grandparents. I was 18 back then. Boy, how time flies, I'm staring down 40 in a month and a half. D:

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Quoting: PhlebiacThey have to make fixes for the EA App quite regularly. It's almost like EA is going out of their way to break it.

This is the same cat and mouse game that Valve has been dealing with since the release of the Steam Deck and it looks like nothing has changed after all this time.

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It's been a long time since I've heard of ZSNES and I'm glad that the original developers are back with Super ZSNES. When I get some time, I might fire up this emulator to see if some of the games I backed up from my own collection works with it.

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if steam deck, and steam machines werent a thing that would be exciting news for me, but now i just want then instead.
i just hope that at least some ps5 owners convert then to 'steam machines" but i doubt it.

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my favorite color is aways black, because it reflect less light from the television allowing me to focus, but im glad we have options!

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