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Anyone see the irony of this situation? Linux users have been enticing Windows users to start using Linux because Microsoft has the audacity to block users of older technology from using the most recent version of its desktop OS. Meanwhile, Linux distros are on the verge of doing the very same type of thing. You know, some folks would probably still prefer to use typewriters, carbon paper, and whiteout. Does that mean the rest us should keep that stuff around, just in case?

I think that the situation is the opposite. Windows doesn't kill anything, it keeps very old components for decades that makes the operating system extremely heavy and inefficient. By other hand, some Linux distros try to kill old components to only maintain modern and maintained components and to lighten the operating system.

Many people say that IBM is turning Linux into Windows, but are the nostalgics who try to transform Linux into Windows dragging tons of old components.

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Impressive one. So much take to linux users

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Wouldn't be surprised if parts of their drivers and even the changelogs were AI generated - their terrible driver quality in Windows is an indication of this. Or they just don't bother testing any more

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Slow news day, huh?

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Yep — that's the entire changelog.

They surely did their best

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Just finished off Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (one of the best games I've played yet), and I am getting back into CrossCode. I've lost my saves, but since I've forgotten most of the game, I don't mind that much.

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What a turnaround from this: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/10179

This is hilarious:

PCSX2 still supports Wayland. It just prefers the XCB/XWayland platform by default. You can set the I_WANT_A_BROKEN_WAYLAND_UI environment variable and experience the brokenness for yourself on the AppImage builds, or add the wayland socket to the flatpak.

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Don't you think Flatpak will face the same problem as Ubuntu and Fedora?

Why would it? That's antithetical to the concept of Flatpak itself. The purpose of it is to provide sandboxed environments for applications that contain the exact dependencies they need. These dependencies are not installed to the system resources directory (/usr) like typical libraries, and it would make absolutely no sense to disallow the use of i386 libs since they aren't actually touching the base OS.

There's no problem with "touching the base OS". 32 bit and 64 bit can reside side by side all fine.

The problem is that 32 bit libraries are more and more unmaintained, more and more difficult to build.
(Fedora people are saying this in 2025 - and Ubuntu people have been saying this in 2019 already! (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/intel-32bit-packages-on-ubuntu-from-19-10-onwards/11263/2)

What's "antithetical to the concept of Flatpak" here?
Delivering maintained software? (Sorry, I could absolutely not resist.)

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I picked up Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller during the sale and it's pretty neat. The graphics during gameplay and in-engine cutscenes are a bit ugly and the characters' movements seem programmed rather than motion captured, with all the silliness that goes along with that approach... but overall it's been a great adventure game (no 'combine a cactus with a whoopee cushion to make a fragmentation grenade'-style puzzles) and the first of the 5 cases took me about 7 hours to solve, so if that keeps up I'm definitely going to get my money's worth out of it.

I've also bounced off Elden Ring, I'm just not enjoying it as much as Dark Souls 1 & 2. Either I'm just bad at reading the tells from the ER enemies or their attack patterns have a different rhythm than the DS 1 & 2 enemies.

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When the cheapest graphics card in my house cost $329.00 RTX 3060 8GB. Go back a few generations prior and the cheapest graphics card in my house was $100.00. I don't want to spend any more money on new graphics cards.

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I really like Sunshine/Apollo/Moonlight, etc etc. Problem I have is, I have 2 different PCs in my house and I can't seem to figure out the port forwarding to make them both work without conflicting with each other. I've only ever been able to get my personal PC to work outside the network, and it has been spotty at best.

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Anyone see the irony of this situation? Linux users have been enticing Windows users to start using Linux because Microsoft has the audacity to block users of older technology from using the most recent version of its desktop OS. Meanwhile, Linux distros are on the verge of doing the very same type of thing. You know, some folks would probably still prefer to use typewriters, carbon paper, and whiteout. Does that mean the rest us should keep that stuff around, just in case?

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It's a really cool handheld. The lack of rear buttons makes me lose interest, though. I appreciate the effort, especially the dual trackpads. Maybe future versions of this will have rear buttons.

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A little more info in the Phoronix article (though much of it was covered in the comments already):
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-Linux-Driver-Last-HW

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ALL items/keys have an expiry date

That's annoying, but at least it's clear up front. Worse was when an expiration was added after the fact (fortunately rare).

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Good, hopefully they'll support 32-bit for as long as possible. I don't understand how the people behind the proposal were completely unaware of how the same proposal was received and handled when it came from Canonical. And then blaming people reporting the news is lame. The 32-bit support goes beyond games, it affects a huge amount of other software, and this has to be treated sensibly, that's all.

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So is it now safe to uninstall Bazzite and use native Steam OS image on the Rog Ally X?

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That was the state of things back then, so no surprise things have changed. People who enjoy the Wayland/X11 drama tend to overlook how each project has its own priorities, and many of those are unrelated to, and bigger than, the display server. Especially in the case of an emulator that's supposed to support thousands of games, it's easy to understand why they would prioritize emulation quality.

3. [...] this isn't some "anti wayland" crusade. It causes issues, most of which are caused by QtWayland, some are caused by the protocol itself. I want nothing more than to see Wayland succeed, but at the moment, it is unusable for a majority of users.

It's really great seeing this emulator getting so much refinement and better compatibility with newer technologies, while preserving support for the older ones too. Their change log looks fantastic. :)

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What a turnaround from this: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/10179

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Getting flashbacks to the absolute shitshow 2 years ago when Fedora had another brilliant proposal that people went to war over, I thought I recognized Fabios name from the discussions. If you forgor, perhaps purged your memory banks or just live under rock-sized boulders, you may interwebsearchnaningans the following: F40 Change Request: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide)

I saw the writing on the wall then and abandoned Fedora. It's unfortunate because the software is great but the developers have become toxic to the user and say what you want but there is a clear influence by RedHat and it's not a good one. It's totally legitimate for users to say they will leave if they feel abandoned by the product and Fedora is abandoning the well being and needs of the users. They are becoming like Microsoft where they think they know what is in the users best interest better then the users themselves do. Anything they decide to do is correct because THEY THINK it is in the best interest of the users even if the users don't. Some of these developers seethe with contempt for users while claiming to be looking out for their best interests. It's fine if you're going to have that perspective, it's your right. But it's against the history and values of what Fedora used to be. Granted they've removed some of the privacy language since the telemetry fiasco but at this point they might as well say it's made by developers, for Redhat but you're free to use it if you want. I've comfortably settled in Debian since then and I'm much happier.

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Glad it's the series! I have a 1070 and when in built it 6 years ago, I was expecting to keep it for 8-10 years.. oh well. It still runs everything I want to play (and probably almost everything on the market). I guess I should research AMD's offerings and see what's out there. Hopefully nothing too expensive, lol!

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Flatpak ain't the answer this time either.

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Interesting. I've heard of pcsxr but not of pcsxc2.

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Don't you think Flatpak will face the same problem as Ubuntu and Fedora?

I do not understand what you want to say by this? You mean removing 32bit support from flatpak?

Well if this should ever be the case. Then I would agree with all of your denying the removal of 32bit. For me Flatpak is all about compatibility. But I do not see this happening any time soon (hope this will age well). But forcing every distribution to drag around 32bit libs just for Steam ... I don't think Valve should be allowed to hold us all hostage with this.

I mean they [Valve] can do 64bit. Apple already forced them to do so for MacOS as they nuked 32bit a long time ago (With no compatibility, Linux at least has it)

If you visit Steam for Linux forums regularly, you see people having all sort of problems with Flatpak, like no access to other hard drives or the microphone not working. I'm sure this all is solvable, but it does create additional problems for people that the "pure native" (I'm missing a good expression here.) version does not have.

No surprise this is what a sandbox is suppose to do. There are indeed ways to solve this.

a) Valve to update Steam to make use of Protals or
b) To grand the missing access using Flatseal or KDEs build-in application permission tool

The first one would not just make it work more streamlined with Flaptak but also make it much more distribution and desktop environment agnostic.

While other than grand access to additional drives I never had any interferences with flatpak as a whole. Mic, Webcams, Capture cards, Stream Decks etc. do work fine though.

I think this whole discussion would be a lot more calm if ppl would have adopt Flatpak at a larger scale and therefore knew how to use it.

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Don't you think Flatpak will face the same problem as Ubuntu and Fedora?

Why would it? That's antithetical to the concept of Flatpak itself. The purpose of it is to provide sandboxed environments for applications that contain the exact dependencies they need. These dependencies are not installed to the system resources directory (/usr) like typical libraries, and it would make absolutely no sense to disallow the use of i386 libs since they aren't actually touching the base OS. Also, the other things you described are trivial problems to work around. The Steam forums are going to be filled with Windows users, so of course they're not going understand it. If they had any semblance of understanding, they wouldn't be asking for help on the Steam forums. Y'know, a traditionally unreliable source of technical information.

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Cast n Chill
Keep Driving

will probably get into some Signalis on the upcoming trip we have planned.

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They still do get the next driver. The next driver series. So I think it sounds more dangerous than it is at the moment.

That's not what this article says though... It explicitly states that NVIDIA will be ending driver support for the aforementioned cards.

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Wow, this actually looks really good. I'm not a big tactical gamer but might need to make an exception for this one. They certainly nailed the feels.

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First they charge more money and now with the latest bundle from today (1st July) ALL items/keys have an expiry date:

Must be redeemed by July 1st, 2026 by 10:00 AM Pacific Time.

Sick move. Previously this only happend for selected titles probably where the publisher forced them to do but now it appears to be their.. wait for it.. choice?

I wonder if this is against the law (at leats in the EU) to just take away things from you that you actually bought.

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Does the 1650 series not count as Pascal?

When Turing came out there was market demand for chips on the new architecture but without ray tracing capability so the price could be lower; that's the 1600 series.

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