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News - Open source RTS game Beyond All Reason signs publishing deal with Hooded Horse
By Johnologue, 17 Jun 2026 at 9:27 pm UTC
By Johnologue, 17 Jun 2026 at 9:27 pm UTC
I saw this after having not checked in on BAR for a while. Was surprised, but their reasoning made sense and I'm looking forward to what they make.
Not exactly the same situation, but the Dwarf Fortress Steam version with Kitfox has given me a lot of hope for deals like this, so long as the devs are careful/picky, the terms are well-planned, and the publisher is respectful. That seems to be what's happening here.
I haven't checked, but I'd expect that the community is still allowed to make their own single-player campaign based on the open source base game.
Not exactly the same situation, but the Dwarf Fortress Steam version with Kitfox has given me a lot of hope for deals like this, so long as the devs are careful/picky, the terms are well-planned, and the publisher is respectful. That seems to be what's happening here.
I haven't checked, but I'd expect that the community is still allowed to make their own single-player campaign based on the open source base game.
News - Open source RTS game Beyond All Reason signs publishing deal with Hooded Horse
By Savor592, 17 Jun 2026 at 9:20 pm UTC
By Savor592, 17 Jun 2026 at 9:20 pm UTC
Not really thrilled to see when a publisher takes over another OpenSource game. At the end of the day that's always business added to a project of enthusiasts.
And it already shows ... the solo campaign - announced a long time ago - now basically becomes a seperate, paid only game. This already takes away from the initial promise of having all of that amazing stuff in an open source game and is obviously meant as an "incentive" pushed by the publisher to generate more sales on steam, as people will not get this with the free version.
I am saying this as someone who already bought completely free open source games on Steam to support the devs. But the projects I supported did not gut content from their free version in favor of Steam. Both versions are identical. Talking about Thrive and Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead btw.
And it already shows ... the solo campaign - announced a long time ago - now basically becomes a seperate, paid only game. This already takes away from the initial promise of having all of that amazing stuff in an open source game and is obviously meant as an "incentive" pushed by the publisher to generate more sales on steam, as people will not get this with the free version.
I am saying this as someone who already bought completely free open source games on Steam to support the devs. But the projects I supported did not gut content from their free version in favor of Steam. Both versions are identical. Talking about Thrive and Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead btw.
News - KDE Plasma 6.7 out with per-screen virtual desktops, Wayland upgrades, better support for background apps
By scaine, 17 Jun 2026 at 9:03 pm UTC
No bugs. Ever. Unless you count minor, non-repeatable crashes, usually when setting up a new widget/extension... which doesn't happen often.
How are people finding so many bugs that they feel compelled to switch desktop? Wild.
I could use any desktop at all and be happy enough. It just so happens that Plasma makes me happiest of all. So much so that I donate via the e.V. scheme. Great to see the strength of development.
Also, big shout out to Nate Graham's constant updates to the KDE Blogs (https://blogs.kde.org/) on changes and the constant bug fixing that goes into Plasma.
By scaine, 17 Jun 2026 at 9:03 pm UTC
Quoting: JarmerI really wish the kde team would do a major point release with ZERO new features and just patch like a thousand bugs.Posts like this make me wonder at how people use their desktops compared to me. Over the years, I've tried Gnome2 (loved it), Cinnamon (loved it), Gnome 3 (loved it.. once I added three or four extensions), XFCe (briefly, but loved it) and Plasma (loved it and my current choice for the past couple of years).
There's still SO MANY BUGS for me. Like last time I tried to use it, I had a permanent undismissable notification about the search crawler indexing my system. No idea if it was actually stuck indexing forever, or if it was a glitchy notification, or what. Others had the same problem and it had been YEARS of reporting on the forums with no patch. Had all kinds of bugs setting up my widgets that I liked. Like sometimes they would just randomly reset themselves for no reason at all and become unusable, so I'd have to go redo all their placements. There was one other major bug that I can't even remember right now, and when I got that one, I decided enough was enough and just jumped ship to gnome. I like the Plasma interface a LOT more, but gnome is just more stable (for me at least) and has none of those bugs. Of course that probably comes from the fact that gnome has a LOT less going on compared to plasma, like no widgets for one. Stuff like that.
No bugs. Ever. Unless you count minor, non-repeatable crashes, usually when setting up a new widget/extension... which doesn't happen often.
How are people finding so many bugs that they feel compelled to switch desktop? Wild.
I could use any desktop at all and be happy enough. It just so happens that Plasma makes me happiest of all. So much so that I donate via the e.V. scheme. Great to see the strength of development.
Also, big shout out to Nate Graham's constant updates to the KDE Blogs (https://blogs.kde.org/) on changes and the constant bug fixing that goes into Plasma.
News - Open source RTS game Beyond All Reason signs publishing deal with Hooded Horse
By sarmad, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:39 pm UTC
By sarmad, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:39 pm UTC
Great news for BAR. This game is highly recommended for anyone who is into RTS.
News - The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:35 pm UTC
Edit: On that note, there is something I should've mentioned. People that punish you for asking questions have never been the good guys in history. Be wary of people that purposefully make it difficult for you to further your understanding.
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:35 pm UTC
Quoting: Purple Library GuyFor sure, yeah. There is a difference though, but this is good. Keep going, and keep asking yourself more questions and do your best to answer them.Quoting: Slaxer"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert CamusWell, yeah, but what do you do with a quote like that? Only back people who officially want to harm humanity? Like, it's the alibi of good people too. The welfare of humanity was the alibi of Martin Luther King and Gandhi.
Edit: On that note, there is something I should've mentioned. People that punish you for asking questions have never been the good guys in history. Be wary of people that purposefully make it difficult for you to further your understanding.
News - The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
By Purple Library Guy, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:33 pm UTC
By Purple Library Guy, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:33 pm UTC
Quoting: Slaxer"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert CamusWell, yeah, but what do you do with a quote like that? Only back people who officially want to harm humanity? Like, it's the alibi of good people too. The welfare of humanity was the alibi of Martin Luther King and Gandhi.
News - The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:32 pm UTC
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:32 pm UTC
Quoting: MohandevirYep! Still no examples.Why not just find out on your own? You don't appear to be taking anything I say seriously anyway. I don't really feel like getting into it on this thread, it's a little much.
News - The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
By Mohandevir, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:27 pm UTC
By Mohandevir, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:27 pm UTC
Quoting: SlaxerYep! Still no examples.Quoting: MohandevirI thought you said that you know what you're dealing with? ... Well? Verify everything I said yourself.Quoting: SlaxerIn Canada if you're loud enough, our politicians will freeze your bank account, get you fired from your job, and throw you into a cage if they don't like your opinion. If you honestly believe that these people care about your kids, you are on fucking crack.Please provide examples because, unless you are a criminal, I never heard or witnessed any of this. You seem to live in an alternate reality.
Edit: Or just find out the hard way. Argue with the government loud enough about something they tell you not to talk about, and watch what happens to you.
News - The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:24 pm UTC
Edit: Or just find out the hard way. Argue with the government loud enough about something they tell you not to talk about, and watch what happens to you.
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:24 pm UTC
Quoting: MohandevirI thought you said that you know what you're dealing with? ... Well? Verify everything I said yourself.Quoting: SlaxerIn Canada if you're loud enough, our politicians will freeze your bank account, get you fired from your job, and throw you into a cage if they don't like your opinion. If you honestly believe that these people care about your kids, you are on fucking crack.Please provide examples because, unless you are a criminal, I never heard or witnessed any of this. You seem to live in an alternate reality.
Edit: Or just find out the hard way. Argue with the government loud enough about something they tell you not to talk about, and watch what happens to you.
News - The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
By Mohandevir, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:21 pm UTC
By Mohandevir, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:21 pm UTC
Quoting: SlaxerIn Canada if you're loud enough, our politicians will freeze your bank account, get you fired from your job, and throw you into a cage if they don't like your opinion. If you honestly believe that these people care about your kids, you are on fucking crack.Please provide examples because, unless you are a criminal, I never heard or witnessed any of this. You seem to live in an alternate reality.
News - The security situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a lot worse
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:19 pm UTC
Edit: Actually, I owe you an apology. I misread the quote, and thought you were replying to me. Sorry about that. I owe you a beer.
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:19 pm UTC
Quoting: JarmerJust replying to a guy that said that it was? K there bud. Chill out.
- Arch is not a clownshow (lol who says stuff like this? I mean?)
Edit: Actually, I owe you an apology. I misread the quote, and thought you were replying to me. Sorry about that. I owe you a beer.
News - The security situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a lot worse
By Purple Library Guy, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:18 pm UTC
By Purple Library Guy, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:18 pm UTC
Quoting: JarmerI'm pretty stunned by the Arch hate in this comments thread, and SO MUCH of it is just ignorant ranting that has no basis in reality. People can't seem to grasp the fact that the AUR is not in fact the distro itself, or are confused about what the AUR even is, or how Arch even functions, but still complain about it, or make up a bunch of nonsense like the above. Oof.There's been some odd stuff. To the point where I feel the need to note that while Arch is not my distro and not targeted at people like me and I am not likely to consider using it, I am nonetheless aware that it serves its purposes well and there are skilled people working hard on it and the AUR is not the same as the overall distro repository.
News - The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:17 pm UTC
Some of the countries that already have or will impose age restrictions on social media:
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
France
United States (some states, though there has been effort at the federal level)
New Zealand
Turkey
Greece
Denmark
Germany
As I've said in my first post, take note that all this interest towards "protecting children" has spontaneously appeared within 2025-2026. Vim vs Emacs, Nvidia vs AMD, iphone vs Android, domestics vs imports, GabeN vs Sweeney, Debian vs Fedora. If you got a bunch of nerds in a room together, you'd have yourself a nerd fight. They're guaranteed to fight over the dumbest shit, and it takes time and a conscious effort to negotiate to convince everyone to row the boat in the same direction.
Now out of the goodness of their heart, these politicians across different nations who usually waste everyone's time arguing and bullshitting everyone suddenly believe that they all need to get together to protect children from Facebook. In Canada if you're loud enough, our politicians will freeze your bank account, get you fired from your job, and throw you into a cage if they don't like your opinion. If you honestly believe that these people care about your kids, you are on fucking crack.
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:17 pm UTC
Quoting: nohurryAlright, let's get back on topic.Yes, what I've brought up is a little bit off-path, but analyzing what our governments have been up to provides context on what we can reasonably assume is their motivation for deploying government imposed age restrictions on the internet.
Some of the countries that already have or will impose age restrictions on social media:
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
France
United States (some states, though there has been effort at the federal level)
New Zealand
Turkey
Greece
Denmark
Germany
As I've said in my first post, take note that all this interest towards "protecting children" has spontaneously appeared within 2025-2026. Vim vs Emacs, Nvidia vs AMD, iphone vs Android, domestics vs imports, GabeN vs Sweeney, Debian vs Fedora. If you got a bunch of nerds in a room together, you'd have yourself a nerd fight. They're guaranteed to fight over the dumbest shit, and it takes time and a conscious effort to negotiate to convince everyone to row the boat in the same direction.
Now out of the goodness of their heart, these politicians across different nations who usually waste everyone's time arguing and bullshitting everyone suddenly believe that they all need to get together to protect children from Facebook. In Canada if you're loud enough, our politicians will freeze your bank account, get you fired from your job, and throw you into a cage if they don't like your opinion. If you honestly believe that these people care about your kids, you are on fucking crack.
News - The security situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a lot worse
By Jarmer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:06 pm UTC
I'm pretty stunned by the Arch hate in this comments thread, and SO MUCH of it is just ignorant ranting that has no basis in reality. People can't seem to grasp the fact that the AUR is not in fact the distro itself, or are confused about what the AUR even is, or how Arch even functions, but still complain about it, or make up a bunch of nonsense like the above. Oof.
By Jarmer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:06 pm UTC
Quoting: mercsterArch is a clownshow, I've been saying it for years. It became the choice for newbies because it intentionally makes installing it laborious, so they feel like they're hacking the Gibson or something. "Hey look at me, I survived installing Arch Linux." Yeah, congrats, the list of things you typed in using a guide, and that you won't remember, are pretty impressive. Maybe it's a better idea to run a "newbie" (i.e. well engineered) distro like Ubuntu or Fedora after all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Wow this is one helluva comment. I think you deserve a gold star for getting SO many things wrong all at the same time! quite incredible really, I'm pretty impressed. Let's see, where shall we begin?
- Arch is not a clownshow (lol who says stuff like this? I mean?)
- Arch is not the distro of choice for newbies and never has been
- Arch does not intentionally make installing it difficult
- Fedora is not a newbie distro, are you confusing this with mint or something?
I'm pretty stunned by the Arch hate in this comments thread, and SO MUCH of it is just ignorant ranting that has no basis in reality. People can't seem to grasp the fact that the AUR is not in fact the distro itself, or are confused about what the AUR even is, or how Arch even functions, but still complain about it, or make up a bunch of nonsense like the above. Oof.
News - The security situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a lot worse
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:49 pm UTC
So you downloaded a dirty package from the AUR? Now you've learned, and you won't do that again, right?
TL;DR - Arch is not a clownshow.
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:49 pm UTC
Quoting: mercsterArch is a clownshow, I've been saying it for years.Arch is only a clownshow if you don't know what you're doing, and you go into it unaware of its DIY ethos. When I was a beginner, I didn't know what I was doing. I made mistakes, and I broke my installation a few times - but I've learned, and I had fun learning. I don't even remember the last time I experienced any problems on my Arch box, and if I do run into any problems again, it's not gonna matter cause I'll know how to fix it. I owe a lot of my Linux sysadmin skills from the experience I gained from using Arch.
So you downloaded a dirty package from the AUR? Now you've learned, and you won't do that again, right?
TL;DR - Arch is not a clownshow.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:39 pm UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:39 pm UTC
Quoting: tarmo888You are choosing to be ignorant of what all the models are trained on. You can’t even make a correct basic comparison. RSS wasn’t made and trained on the stolen works of everyone else. Enough of this argument bait it’s stupid.Quoting: Liam Squires-HandI’m not sure why you think a developer (poncle) reconsidering a partnership due to generative AI with UE and Fortnite is a gotcha. It just makes me appreciate them more.Why would you appreciate someone who also didn't understand what was announced? It doesn't generate assets, it lets other software (LLM) communicate with the editor and place the assets from existing library into the level. Both of you are hating on feature that let's 2 softwares communicate with each other. That's like hating on RSS feed.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By tarmo888, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:34 pm UTC
By tarmo888, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:34 pm UTC
Quoting: Liam Squires-HandI’m not sure why you think a developer (poncle) reconsidering a partnership due to generative AI with UE and Fortnite is a gotcha. It just makes me appreciate them more.Why would you appreciate someone who also didn't understand what was announced? It doesn't generate assets, it let's other software (LLM) communicate with the editor and place the assets from existing library into the level. Both of you are hating on feature that let's 2 softwares communicate with each other. That's like hating on RSS feed.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:29 pm UTC
Yes, the title mentioned AI because it is a hot topic. Epic mentioned it many times and focused on it a fair bit - so the article has it noted. That’s how news works.
I’m not sure why you think a developer (poncle) reconsidering a partnership due to generative AI with UE and Fortnite is a gotcha. It just makes me appreciate them more.
By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:29 pm UTC
Quoting: tarmo888I very much do understand the context, thanks. Not a very good way to argue a point to try and put down the other person is it. Once again, you are letting your own clearly pro-AI bias affect how you’re reading into things.Quoting: Liam Squires-HandYes, but you don't understand the context you are reporting because you are blinded by the hate. Or you do understand and you are intentionally making clickbaity titles for other AI-haters. The AI thing (MCP) isn't even UE6 feature, but UE 5.8.Quoting: tarmo888Liam's AI-hate is showing.What an odd thing to say. The article is mostly quoting Epic directly when it comes to the AI stuff. I didn't give even a single personal written thought on the AI side. You're blinded by your own bias.
What it actually does is that you prompt any AI of your choosing and Unreal Editor has API for LLMs that can allow them to control the editor.
Like seriously, AI-haters are this dumb that it's not even funny, more like scary https://old.reddit.com/r/VampireSurvivors/comments/1u8c1he/a_vampire_survivors_fortnite_collab_is_on_the_way/os7ubrp/
Yes, the title mentioned AI because it is a hot topic. Epic mentioned it many times and focused on it a fair bit - so the article has it noted. That’s how news works.
I’m not sure why you think a developer (poncle) reconsidering a partnership due to generative AI with UE and Fortnite is a gotcha. It just makes me appreciate them more.
News - Wine Wayland gains fractional scaling support
By Sethox, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:25 pm UTC
By Sethox, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:25 pm UTC
Quoting: JarmerThis is great! With so many distros now wayland only, this helps a ton for all of us.There is also this [Pull Request](https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/11172) from the same user, what it does is the beginning to add HDR for Wine Wayland.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By ottergauze, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:19 pm UTC
By ottergauze, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:19 pm UTC
Quoting: doragasuLooks like they want to make their own Roblox. But Roblox ran even on that budget tablet from 2021 you threw to the bin a year ago, and this will require one of those pricey computers with plenty RAM and even there it will stutter.Fortnite IS their Roblox. Except whenever anything crops up that isn't atleast slightly similar to the gameplay of Fortnite's Battle Royale mode, nobody plays it. Epic wants people to see Fortnite like Roblox, but people come to Roblox for the varying games on offer, people come to Fortnite for, well, Fortnite.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By doragasu, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:00 pm UTC
By doragasu, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:00 pm UTC
Looks like they want to make their own Roblox. But Roblox ran even on that budget tablet from 2021 you threw to the bin a year ago, and this will require one of those pricey computers with plenty RAM and even there it will stutter.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By tarmo888, 17 Jun 2026 at 6:50 pm UTC
What it actually does is that you prompt any AI of your choosing and Unreal Editor has API for LLMs that can allow them to control the editor.
Like seriously, AI-haters are this dumb that it's not even funny, more like scary https://old.reddit.com/r/VampireSurvivors/comments/1u8c1he/a_vampire_survivors_fortnite_collab_is_on_the_way/os7ubrp/
By tarmo888, 17 Jun 2026 at 6:50 pm UTC
Quoting: Liam Squires-HandYes, but you don't understand the context you are reporting because you are blinded by the hate. Or you do understand and you are intentionally making clickbaity titles for other AI-haters. The AI thing (MCP) isn't even UE6 feature, but UE 5.8.Quoting: tarmo888Liam's AI-hate is showing.What an odd thing to say. The article is mostly quoting Epic directly when it comes to the AI stuff. I didn't give even a single personal written thought on the AI side. You're blinded by your own bias.
What it actually does is that you prompt any AI of your choosing and Unreal Editor has API for LLMs that can allow them to control the editor.
Like seriously, AI-haters are this dumb that it's not even funny, more like scary https://old.reddit.com/r/VampireSurvivors/comments/1u8c1he/a_vampire_survivors_fortnite_collab_is_on_the_way/os7ubrp/
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By walther von stolzing, 17 Jun 2026 at 6:09 pm UTC
By walther von stolzing, 17 Jun 2026 at 6:09 pm UTC
Verse is the brainchild of Simon Peyton Jones, of Haskell fame; Tim Sweeney collaborated with him personally at the beginning, etc.
Ignoring the 'metaverse' fantasies, the technical dimension of it is fascinating, honestly: https://youtu.be/UBgam9XUHs0
Ignoring the 'metaverse' fantasies, the technical dimension of it is fascinating, honestly: https://youtu.be/UBgam9XUHs0
News - NVIDIA 595.84 released as the new Recommended Driver for Linux
By drucifer, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:36 pm UTC
By drucifer, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:36 pm UTC
I feel cautiously optimistic that 610 will FINALLY fix VRR being broken in wayland. (Screen flicker at edges as refresh rate changes in desktop AND games)
I've been using frame gen as a bandaid for over 6 months now since it was broken in a previous driver.
I've been using frame gen as a bandaid for over 6 months now since it was broken in a previous driver.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By Kimyrielle, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:19 pm UTC
By Kimyrielle, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:19 pm UTC
Seriously, I thought that was the first time Liam was sort of neutral about AI when writing about it... I don't think you have read any of his other posts about AI! 😂
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By PlayingOnLinuxphone, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:17 pm UTC
A game is not just done by the engine team, but also the game studio and both have to care for performance. When a game studio thinks "oh nice an engine that takes away annoying work from us, so I do not need to optimize anything", than it is the fault of the game studio, not the engine. Same for studios that want to optimize, but did not learn the new optimization methods.
I don't want to defend Epic, especially nowadays when they start to enshittify their engine. I could not use UE5.7 on my Linux system, because they broke the whole GUI!! That is what we should cry about. Some slop-coded stuff that makes the engine unusable. Every action became a double-, triple- or quad-click, window drag and drop is no longer etc. People saw it on the source code change (months before 5.7 got released) and Epic did not care about. Some people on Windows are also affected btw. Furthermore their Epic Games launcher had similar issues that also include ingame "browser" used with Epics integration and even Meta Human on 5.6 Windows version where many people could not login into the metahuman stuff. These are the real issues, not the performance. Performance issues are pure misinformation and/or misconception.
But I indeed worry about UE6. They open the gates for slopification and a microtransaction hell. Hey, it will be so great to sell ugly generated skins in a skin generating game, so that it can be used in Fortnite and other games. I could make money without spending much money, nice. ... I knew Epic will destroy the engine at some point. And UE6 seems to be the start.
By PlayingOnLinuxphone, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:17 pm UTC
Quoting: Jarmerue5 is already the worst engine on earth for performance, still to this day.It is not. Just look at Gothic Remake, made with UE5.4, which runs performant as many customers told. Except game crashes I heard nothing bad ... and this is something the dev-team will work on beside other things.
A game is not just done by the engine team, but also the game studio and both have to care for performance. When a game studio thinks "oh nice an engine that takes away annoying work from us, so I do not need to optimize anything", than it is the fault of the game studio, not the engine. Same for studios that want to optimize, but did not learn the new optimization methods.
I don't want to defend Epic, especially nowadays when they start to enshittify their engine. I could not use UE5.7 on my Linux system, because they broke the whole GUI!! That is what we should cry about. Some slop-coded stuff that makes the engine unusable. Every action became a double-, triple- or quad-click, window drag and drop is no longer etc. People saw it on the source code change (months before 5.7 got released) and Epic did not care about. Some people on Windows are also affected btw. Furthermore their Epic Games launcher had similar issues that also include ingame "browser" used with Epics integration and even Meta Human on 5.6 Windows version where many people could not login into the metahuman stuff. These are the real issues, not the performance. Performance issues are pure misinformation and/or misconception.
But I indeed worry about UE6. They open the gates for slopification and a microtransaction hell. Hey, it will be so great to sell ugly generated skins in a skin generating game, so that it can be used in Fortnite and other games. I could make money without spending much money, nice. ... I knew Epic will destroy the engine at some point. And UE6 seems to be the start.
This sounds like it's going to be such a massive change that developers may need to do a fair bit of relearning with it, or switch to something else (like Godot perhaps).If I need to relearn things, it is still easier to stay on UE6 than switching to Godot, which has a completely other and worse workflow. Don't get me wrong, Godot is a cool project and I also used it for a project, but it makes things more complicated. It is like switching from Adobe Photoshop to GIMP. At least on the current state.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:12 pm UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:12 pm UTC
Quoting: tarmo888Liam's AI-hate is showing.What an odd thing to say. The article is mostly quoting Epic directly when it comes to the AI stuff. I didn't give even a single personal written thought on the AI side. You're blinded by your own bias.
News - European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames
By vic-bay, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:12 pm UTC
By vic-bay, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:12 pm UTC
Remember: there is no corruption if you call it lobbying.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By Dmitri Seletski, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:02 pm UTC
By Dmitri Seletski, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:02 pm UTC
Did they get paid by Nvidia?
lemme guess, you want UE6 games, you gotta have 32GB video card?
On the other hand, AI generated narratives, I see how it could work.
lemme guess, you want UE6 games, you gotta have 32GB video card?
On the other hand, AI generated narratives, I see how it could work.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By Ehvis, 17 Jun 2026 at 4:57 pm UTC
By Ehvis, 17 Jun 2026 at 4:57 pm UTC
So UE5+UEFN+AI plugins. Basically just added a few already existing things together. Pretty much what was already said that it would be.
News - Open source RTS game Beyond All Reason signs publishing deal with Hooded Horse
By Johnologue, 17 Jun 2026 at 9:27 pm UTC
By Johnologue, 17 Jun 2026 at 9:27 pm UTC
I saw this after having not checked in on BAR for a while. Was surprised, but their reasoning made sense and I'm looking forward to what they make.
Not exactly the same situation, but the Dwarf Fortress Steam version with Kitfox has given me a lot of hope for deals like this, so long as the devs are careful/picky, the terms are well-planned, and the publisher is respectful. That seems to be what's happening here.
I haven't checked, but I'd expect that the community is still allowed to make their own single-player campaign based on the open source base game.
Not exactly the same situation, but the Dwarf Fortress Steam version with Kitfox has given me a lot of hope for deals like this, so long as the devs are careful/picky, the terms are well-planned, and the publisher is respectful. That seems to be what's happening here.
I haven't checked, but I'd expect that the community is still allowed to make their own single-player campaign based on the open source base game.
News - Open source RTS game Beyond All Reason signs publishing deal with Hooded Horse
By Savor592, 17 Jun 2026 at 9:20 pm UTC
By Savor592, 17 Jun 2026 at 9:20 pm UTC
Not really thrilled to see when a publisher takes over another OpenSource game. At the end of the day that's always business added to a project of enthusiasts.
And it already shows ... the solo campaign - announced a long time ago - now basically becomes a seperate, paid only game. This already takes away from the initial promise of having all of that amazing stuff in an open source game and is obviously meant as an "incentive" pushed by the publisher to generate more sales on steam, as people will not get this with the free version.
I am saying this as someone who already bought completely free open source games on Steam to support the devs. But the projects I supported did not gut content from their free version in favor of Steam. Both versions are identical. Talking about Thrive and Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead btw.
And it already shows ... the solo campaign - announced a long time ago - now basically becomes a seperate, paid only game. This already takes away from the initial promise of having all of that amazing stuff in an open source game and is obviously meant as an "incentive" pushed by the publisher to generate more sales on steam, as people will not get this with the free version.
I am saying this as someone who already bought completely free open source games on Steam to support the devs. But the projects I supported did not gut content from their free version in favor of Steam. Both versions are identical. Talking about Thrive and Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead btw.
News - KDE Plasma 6.7 out with per-screen virtual desktops, Wayland upgrades, better support for background apps
By scaine, 17 Jun 2026 at 9:03 pm UTC
No bugs. Ever. Unless you count minor, non-repeatable crashes, usually when setting up a new widget/extension... which doesn't happen often.
How are people finding so many bugs that they feel compelled to switch desktop? Wild.
I could use any desktop at all and be happy enough. It just so happens that Plasma makes me happiest of all. So much so that I donate via the e.V. scheme. Great to see the strength of development.
Also, big shout out to Nate Graham's constant updates to the KDE Blogs (https://blogs.kde.org/) on changes and the constant bug fixing that goes into Plasma.
By scaine, 17 Jun 2026 at 9:03 pm UTC
Quoting: JarmerI really wish the kde team would do a major point release with ZERO new features and just patch like a thousand bugs.Posts like this make me wonder at how people use their desktops compared to me. Over the years, I've tried Gnome2 (loved it), Cinnamon (loved it), Gnome 3 (loved it.. once I added three or four extensions), XFCe (briefly, but loved it) and Plasma (loved it and my current choice for the past couple of years).
There's still SO MANY BUGS for me. Like last time I tried to use it, I had a permanent undismissable notification about the search crawler indexing my system. No idea if it was actually stuck indexing forever, or if it was a glitchy notification, or what. Others had the same problem and it had been YEARS of reporting on the forums with no patch. Had all kinds of bugs setting up my widgets that I liked. Like sometimes they would just randomly reset themselves for no reason at all and become unusable, so I'd have to go redo all their placements. There was one other major bug that I can't even remember right now, and when I got that one, I decided enough was enough and just jumped ship to gnome. I like the Plasma interface a LOT more, but gnome is just more stable (for me at least) and has none of those bugs. Of course that probably comes from the fact that gnome has a LOT less going on compared to plasma, like no widgets for one. Stuff like that.
No bugs. Ever. Unless you count minor, non-repeatable crashes, usually when setting up a new widget/extension... which doesn't happen often.
How are people finding so many bugs that they feel compelled to switch desktop? Wild.
I could use any desktop at all and be happy enough. It just so happens that Plasma makes me happiest of all. So much so that I donate via the e.V. scheme. Great to see the strength of development.
Also, big shout out to Nate Graham's constant updates to the KDE Blogs (https://blogs.kde.org/) on changes and the constant bug fixing that goes into Plasma.
News - Open source RTS game Beyond All Reason signs publishing deal with Hooded Horse
By sarmad, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:39 pm UTC
By sarmad, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:39 pm UTC
Great news for BAR. This game is highly recommended for anyone who is into RTS.
News - The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:35 pm UTC
Edit: On that note, there is something I should've mentioned. People that punish you for asking questions have never been the good guys in history. Be wary of people that purposefully make it difficult for you to further your understanding.
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:35 pm UTC
Quoting: Purple Library GuyFor sure, yeah. There is a difference though, but this is good. Keep going, and keep asking yourself more questions and do your best to answer them.Quoting: Slaxer"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert CamusWell, yeah, but what do you do with a quote like that? Only back people who officially want to harm humanity? Like, it's the alibi of good people too. The welfare of humanity was the alibi of Martin Luther King and Gandhi.
Edit: On that note, there is something I should've mentioned. People that punish you for asking questions have never been the good guys in history. Be wary of people that purposefully make it difficult for you to further your understanding.
News - The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
By Purple Library Guy, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:33 pm UTC
By Purple Library Guy, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:33 pm UTC
Quoting: Slaxer"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert CamusWell, yeah, but what do you do with a quote like that? Only back people who officially want to harm humanity? Like, it's the alibi of good people too. The welfare of humanity was the alibi of Martin Luther King and Gandhi.
News - The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:32 pm UTC
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:32 pm UTC
Quoting: MohandevirYep! Still no examples.Why not just find out on your own? You don't appear to be taking anything I say seriously anyway. I don't really feel like getting into it on this thread, it's a little much.
News - The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
By Mohandevir, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:27 pm UTC
By Mohandevir, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:27 pm UTC
Quoting: SlaxerYep! Still no examples.Quoting: MohandevirI thought you said that you know what you're dealing with? ... Well? Verify everything I said yourself.Quoting: SlaxerIn Canada if you're loud enough, our politicians will freeze your bank account, get you fired from your job, and throw you into a cage if they don't like your opinion. If you honestly believe that these people care about your kids, you are on fucking crack.Please provide examples because, unless you are a criminal, I never heard or witnessed any of this. You seem to live in an alternate reality.
Edit: Or just find out the hard way. Argue with the government loud enough about something they tell you not to talk about, and watch what happens to you.
News - The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:24 pm UTC
Edit: Or just find out the hard way. Argue with the government loud enough about something they tell you not to talk about, and watch what happens to you.
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:24 pm UTC
Quoting: MohandevirI thought you said that you know what you're dealing with? ... Well? Verify everything I said yourself.Quoting: SlaxerIn Canada if you're loud enough, our politicians will freeze your bank account, get you fired from your job, and throw you into a cage if they don't like your opinion. If you honestly believe that these people care about your kids, you are on fucking crack.Please provide examples because, unless you are a criminal, I never heard or witnessed any of this. You seem to live in an alternate reality.
Edit: Or just find out the hard way. Argue with the government loud enough about something they tell you not to talk about, and watch what happens to you.
News - The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
By Mohandevir, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:21 pm UTC
By Mohandevir, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:21 pm UTC
Quoting: SlaxerIn Canada if you're loud enough, our politicians will freeze your bank account, get you fired from your job, and throw you into a cage if they don't like your opinion. If you honestly believe that these people care about your kids, you are on fucking crack.Please provide examples because, unless you are a criminal, I never heard or witnessed any of this. You seem to live in an alternate reality.
News - The security situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a lot worse
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:19 pm UTC
Edit: Actually, I owe you an apology. I misread the quote, and thought you were replying to me. Sorry about that. I owe you a beer.
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:19 pm UTC
Quoting: JarmerJust replying to a guy that said that it was? K there bud. Chill out.
- Arch is not a clownshow (lol who says stuff like this? I mean?)
Edit: Actually, I owe you an apology. I misread the quote, and thought you were replying to me. Sorry about that. I owe you a beer.
News - The security situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a lot worse
By Purple Library Guy, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:18 pm UTC
By Purple Library Guy, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:18 pm UTC
Quoting: JarmerI'm pretty stunned by the Arch hate in this comments thread, and SO MUCH of it is just ignorant ranting that has no basis in reality. People can't seem to grasp the fact that the AUR is not in fact the distro itself, or are confused about what the AUR even is, or how Arch even functions, but still complain about it, or make up a bunch of nonsense like the above. Oof.There's been some odd stuff. To the point where I feel the need to note that while Arch is not my distro and not targeted at people like me and I am not likely to consider using it, I am nonetheless aware that it serves its purposes well and there are skilled people working hard on it and the AUR is not the same as the overall distro repository.
News - The under-16 social media ban marks the end of the open UK internet
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:17 pm UTC
Some of the countries that already have or will impose age restrictions on social media:
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
France
United States (some states, though there has been effort at the federal level)
New Zealand
Turkey
Greece
Denmark
Germany
As I've said in my first post, take note that all this interest towards "protecting children" has spontaneously appeared within 2025-2026. Vim vs Emacs, Nvidia vs AMD, iphone vs Android, domestics vs imports, GabeN vs Sweeney, Debian vs Fedora. If you got a bunch of nerds in a room together, you'd have yourself a nerd fight. They're guaranteed to fight over the dumbest shit, and it takes time and a conscious effort to negotiate to convince everyone to row the boat in the same direction.
Now out of the goodness of their heart, these politicians across different nations who usually waste everyone's time arguing and bullshitting everyone suddenly believe that they all need to get together to protect children from Facebook. In Canada if you're loud enough, our politicians will freeze your bank account, get you fired from your job, and throw you into a cage if they don't like your opinion. If you honestly believe that these people care about your kids, you are on fucking crack.
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:17 pm UTC
Quoting: nohurryAlright, let's get back on topic.Yes, what I've brought up is a little bit off-path, but analyzing what our governments have been up to provides context on what we can reasonably assume is their motivation for deploying government imposed age restrictions on the internet.
Some of the countries that already have or will impose age restrictions on social media:
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
France
United States (some states, though there has been effort at the federal level)
New Zealand
Turkey
Greece
Denmark
Germany
As I've said in my first post, take note that all this interest towards "protecting children" has spontaneously appeared within 2025-2026. Vim vs Emacs, Nvidia vs AMD, iphone vs Android, domestics vs imports, GabeN vs Sweeney, Debian vs Fedora. If you got a bunch of nerds in a room together, you'd have yourself a nerd fight. They're guaranteed to fight over the dumbest shit, and it takes time and a conscious effort to negotiate to convince everyone to row the boat in the same direction.
Now out of the goodness of their heart, these politicians across different nations who usually waste everyone's time arguing and bullshitting everyone suddenly believe that they all need to get together to protect children from Facebook. In Canada if you're loud enough, our politicians will freeze your bank account, get you fired from your job, and throw you into a cage if they don't like your opinion. If you honestly believe that these people care about your kids, you are on fucking crack.
News - The security situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a lot worse
By Jarmer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:06 pm UTC
I'm pretty stunned by the Arch hate in this comments thread, and SO MUCH of it is just ignorant ranting that has no basis in reality. People can't seem to grasp the fact that the AUR is not in fact the distro itself, or are confused about what the AUR even is, or how Arch even functions, but still complain about it, or make up a bunch of nonsense like the above. Oof.
By Jarmer, 17 Jun 2026 at 8:06 pm UTC
Quoting: mercsterArch is a clownshow, I've been saying it for years. It became the choice for newbies because it intentionally makes installing it laborious, so they feel like they're hacking the Gibson or something. "Hey look at me, I survived installing Arch Linux." Yeah, congrats, the list of things you typed in using a guide, and that you won't remember, are pretty impressive. Maybe it's a better idea to run a "newbie" (i.e. well engineered) distro like Ubuntu or Fedora after all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Wow this is one helluva comment. I think you deserve a gold star for getting SO many things wrong all at the same time! quite incredible really, I'm pretty impressed. Let's see, where shall we begin?
- Arch is not a clownshow (lol who says stuff like this? I mean?)
- Arch is not the distro of choice for newbies and never has been
- Arch does not intentionally make installing it difficult
- Fedora is not a newbie distro, are you confusing this with mint or something?
I'm pretty stunned by the Arch hate in this comments thread, and SO MUCH of it is just ignorant ranting that has no basis in reality. People can't seem to grasp the fact that the AUR is not in fact the distro itself, or are confused about what the AUR even is, or how Arch even functions, but still complain about it, or make up a bunch of nonsense like the above. Oof.
News - The security situation with the Arch Linux AUR got a lot worse
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:49 pm UTC
So you downloaded a dirty package from the AUR? Now you've learned, and you won't do that again, right?
TL;DR - Arch is not a clownshow.
By Slaxer, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:49 pm UTC
Quoting: mercsterArch is a clownshow, I've been saying it for years.Arch is only a clownshow if you don't know what you're doing, and you go into it unaware of its DIY ethos. When I was a beginner, I didn't know what I was doing. I made mistakes, and I broke my installation a few times - but I've learned, and I had fun learning. I don't even remember the last time I experienced any problems on my Arch box, and if I do run into any problems again, it's not gonna matter cause I'll know how to fix it. I owe a lot of my Linux sysadmin skills from the experience I gained from using Arch.
So you downloaded a dirty package from the AUR? Now you've learned, and you won't do that again, right?
TL;DR - Arch is not a clownshow.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:39 pm UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:39 pm UTC
Quoting: tarmo888You are choosing to be ignorant of what all the models are trained on. You can’t even make a correct basic comparison. RSS wasn’t made and trained on the stolen works of everyone else. Enough of this argument bait it’s stupid.Quoting: Liam Squires-HandI’m not sure why you think a developer (poncle) reconsidering a partnership due to generative AI with UE and Fortnite is a gotcha. It just makes me appreciate them more.Why would you appreciate someone who also didn't understand what was announced? It doesn't generate assets, it lets other software (LLM) communicate with the editor and place the assets from existing library into the level. Both of you are hating on feature that let's 2 softwares communicate with each other. That's like hating on RSS feed.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By tarmo888, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:34 pm UTC
By tarmo888, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:34 pm UTC
Quoting: Liam Squires-HandI’m not sure why you think a developer (poncle) reconsidering a partnership due to generative AI with UE and Fortnite is a gotcha. It just makes me appreciate them more.Why would you appreciate someone who also didn't understand what was announced? It doesn't generate assets, it let's other software (LLM) communicate with the editor and place the assets from existing library into the level. Both of you are hating on feature that let's 2 softwares communicate with each other. That's like hating on RSS feed.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:29 pm UTC
Yes, the title mentioned AI because it is a hot topic. Epic mentioned it many times and focused on it a fair bit - so the article has it noted. That’s how news works.
I’m not sure why you think a developer (poncle) reconsidering a partnership due to generative AI with UE and Fortnite is a gotcha. It just makes me appreciate them more.
By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:29 pm UTC
Quoting: tarmo888I very much do understand the context, thanks. Not a very good way to argue a point to try and put down the other person is it. Once again, you are letting your own clearly pro-AI bias affect how you’re reading into things.Quoting: Liam Squires-HandYes, but you don't understand the context you are reporting because you are blinded by the hate. Or you do understand and you are intentionally making clickbaity titles for other AI-haters. The AI thing (MCP) isn't even UE6 feature, but UE 5.8.Quoting: tarmo888Liam's AI-hate is showing.What an odd thing to say. The article is mostly quoting Epic directly when it comes to the AI stuff. I didn't give even a single personal written thought on the AI side. You're blinded by your own bias.
What it actually does is that you prompt any AI of your choosing and Unreal Editor has API for LLMs that can allow them to control the editor.
Like seriously, AI-haters are this dumb that it's not even funny, more like scary https://old.reddit.com/r/VampireSurvivors/comments/1u8c1he/a_vampire_survivors_fortnite_collab_is_on_the_way/os7ubrp/
Yes, the title mentioned AI because it is a hot topic. Epic mentioned it many times and focused on it a fair bit - so the article has it noted. That’s how news works.
I’m not sure why you think a developer (poncle) reconsidering a partnership due to generative AI with UE and Fortnite is a gotcha. It just makes me appreciate them more.
News - Wine Wayland gains fractional scaling support
By Sethox, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:25 pm UTC
By Sethox, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:25 pm UTC
Quoting: JarmerThis is great! With so many distros now wayland only, this helps a ton for all of us.There is also this [Pull Request](https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/11172) from the same user, what it does is the beginning to add HDR for Wine Wayland.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By ottergauze, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:19 pm UTC
By ottergauze, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:19 pm UTC
Quoting: doragasuLooks like they want to make their own Roblox. But Roblox ran even on that budget tablet from 2021 you threw to the bin a year ago, and this will require one of those pricey computers with plenty RAM and even there it will stutter.Fortnite IS their Roblox. Except whenever anything crops up that isn't atleast slightly similar to the gameplay of Fortnite's Battle Royale mode, nobody plays it. Epic wants people to see Fortnite like Roblox, but people come to Roblox for the varying games on offer, people come to Fortnite for, well, Fortnite.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By doragasu, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:00 pm UTC
By doragasu, 17 Jun 2026 at 7:00 pm UTC
Looks like they want to make their own Roblox. But Roblox ran even on that budget tablet from 2021 you threw to the bin a year ago, and this will require one of those pricey computers with plenty RAM and even there it will stutter.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By tarmo888, 17 Jun 2026 at 6:50 pm UTC
What it actually does is that you prompt any AI of your choosing and Unreal Editor has API for LLMs that can allow them to control the editor.
Like seriously, AI-haters are this dumb that it's not even funny, more like scary https://old.reddit.com/r/VampireSurvivors/comments/1u8c1he/a_vampire_survivors_fortnite_collab_is_on_the_way/os7ubrp/
By tarmo888, 17 Jun 2026 at 6:50 pm UTC
Quoting: Liam Squires-HandYes, but you don't understand the context you are reporting because you are blinded by the hate. Or you do understand and you are intentionally making clickbaity titles for other AI-haters. The AI thing (MCP) isn't even UE6 feature, but UE 5.8.Quoting: tarmo888Liam's AI-hate is showing.What an odd thing to say. The article is mostly quoting Epic directly when it comes to the AI stuff. I didn't give even a single personal written thought on the AI side. You're blinded by your own bias.
What it actually does is that you prompt any AI of your choosing and Unreal Editor has API for LLMs that can allow them to control the editor.
Like seriously, AI-haters are this dumb that it's not even funny, more like scary https://old.reddit.com/r/VampireSurvivors/comments/1u8c1he/a_vampire_survivors_fortnite_collab_is_on_the_way/os7ubrp/
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By walther von stolzing, 17 Jun 2026 at 6:09 pm UTC
By walther von stolzing, 17 Jun 2026 at 6:09 pm UTC
Verse is the brainchild of Simon Peyton Jones, of Haskell fame; Tim Sweeney collaborated with him personally at the beginning, etc.
Ignoring the 'metaverse' fantasies, the technical dimension of it is fascinating, honestly: https://youtu.be/UBgam9XUHs0
Ignoring the 'metaverse' fantasies, the technical dimension of it is fascinating, honestly: https://youtu.be/UBgam9XUHs0
News - NVIDIA 595.84 released as the new Recommended Driver for Linux
By drucifer, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:36 pm UTC
By drucifer, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:36 pm UTC
I feel cautiously optimistic that 610 will FINALLY fix VRR being broken in wayland. (Screen flicker at edges as refresh rate changes in desktop AND games)
I've been using frame gen as a bandaid for over 6 months now since it was broken in a previous driver.
I've been using frame gen as a bandaid for over 6 months now since it was broken in a previous driver.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By Kimyrielle, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:19 pm UTC
By Kimyrielle, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:19 pm UTC
Seriously, I thought that was the first time Liam was sort of neutral about AI when writing about it... I don't think you have read any of his other posts about AI! 😂
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By PlayingOnLinuxphone, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:17 pm UTC
A game is not just done by the engine team, but also the game studio and both have to care for performance. When a game studio thinks "oh nice an engine that takes away annoying work from us, so I do not need to optimize anything", than it is the fault of the game studio, not the engine. Same for studios that want to optimize, but did not learn the new optimization methods.
I don't want to defend Epic, especially nowadays when they start to enshittify their engine. I could not use UE5.7 on my Linux system, because they broke the whole GUI!! That is what we should cry about. Some slop-coded stuff that makes the engine unusable. Every action became a double-, triple- or quad-click, window drag and drop is no longer etc. People saw it on the source code change (months before 5.7 got released) and Epic did not care about. Some people on Windows are also affected btw. Furthermore their Epic Games launcher had similar issues that also include ingame "browser" used with Epics integration and even Meta Human on 5.6 Windows version where many people could not login into the metahuman stuff. These are the real issues, not the performance. Performance issues are pure misinformation and/or misconception.
But I indeed worry about UE6. They open the gates for slopification and a microtransaction hell. Hey, it will be so great to sell ugly generated skins in a skin generating game, so that it can be used in Fortnite and other games. I could make money without spending much money, nice. ... I knew Epic will destroy the engine at some point. And UE6 seems to be the start.
By PlayingOnLinuxphone, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:17 pm UTC
Quoting: Jarmerue5 is already the worst engine on earth for performance, still to this day.It is not. Just look at Gothic Remake, made with UE5.4, which runs performant as many customers told. Except game crashes I heard nothing bad ... and this is something the dev-team will work on beside other things.
A game is not just done by the engine team, but also the game studio and both have to care for performance. When a game studio thinks "oh nice an engine that takes away annoying work from us, so I do not need to optimize anything", than it is the fault of the game studio, not the engine. Same for studios that want to optimize, but did not learn the new optimization methods.
I don't want to defend Epic, especially nowadays when they start to enshittify their engine. I could not use UE5.7 on my Linux system, because they broke the whole GUI!! That is what we should cry about. Some slop-coded stuff that makes the engine unusable. Every action became a double-, triple- or quad-click, window drag and drop is no longer etc. People saw it on the source code change (months before 5.7 got released) and Epic did not care about. Some people on Windows are also affected btw. Furthermore their Epic Games launcher had similar issues that also include ingame "browser" used with Epics integration and even Meta Human on 5.6 Windows version where many people could not login into the metahuman stuff. These are the real issues, not the performance. Performance issues are pure misinformation and/or misconception.
But I indeed worry about UE6. They open the gates for slopification and a microtransaction hell. Hey, it will be so great to sell ugly generated skins in a skin generating game, so that it can be used in Fortnite and other games. I could make money without spending much money, nice. ... I knew Epic will destroy the engine at some point. And UE6 seems to be the start.
This sounds like it's going to be such a massive change that developers may need to do a fair bit of relearning with it, or switch to something else (like Godot perhaps).If I need to relearn things, it is still easier to stay on UE6 than switching to Godot, which has a completely other and worse workflow. Don't get me wrong, Godot is a cool project and I also used it for a project, but it makes things more complicated. It is like switching from Adobe Photoshop to GIMP. At least on the current state.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:12 pm UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:12 pm UTC
Quoting: tarmo888Liam's AI-hate is showing.What an odd thing to say. The article is mostly quoting Epic directly when it comes to the AI stuff. I didn't give even a single personal written thought on the AI side. You're blinded by your own bias.
News - European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames
By vic-bay, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:12 pm UTC
By vic-bay, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:12 pm UTC
Remember: there is no corruption if you call it lobbying.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By Dmitri Seletski, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:02 pm UTC
By Dmitri Seletski, 17 Jun 2026 at 5:02 pm UTC
Did they get paid by Nvidia?
lemme guess, you want UE6 games, you gotta have 32GB video card?
On the other hand, AI generated narratives, I see how it could work.
lemme guess, you want UE6 games, you gotta have 32GB video card?
On the other hand, AI generated narratives, I see how it could work.
News - Unreal Engine 6 is all about Generative AI, Fortnite and the Verse
By Ehvis, 17 Jun 2026 at 4:57 pm UTC
By Ehvis, 17 Jun 2026 at 4:57 pm UTC
So UE5+UEFN+AI plugins. Basically just added a few already existing things together. Pretty much what was already said that it would be.
Guide - Anticheat check - which competitive games actually work on Linux?
By Zakaria_Shalih, 31 May 2026 at 2:44 am UTC
By Zakaria_Shalih, 31 May 2026 at 2:44 am UTC
games whose anti-cheats makes them never works in Linux(even with wine/proton) aren't ended up in my Library for whatever reason
Guide - How to give Valve feedback when Proton games have issues on Linux / SteamOS
By ProfessorKaos64, 30 May 2026 at 8:57 pm UTC
By ProfessorKaos64, 30 May 2026 at 8:57 pm UTC
Quoting: StellaIs that really worth doing though? I uploaded logs and gave really detailed information for 3 different games that have issues with Proton. The Witcher 3, Vampyr, Doom TDA. All 3 are Steam Deck Verified. In all 3 reports, i gave detailed repro steps along with proton logs, and the issue was 100% reproducible. In Vampyr, the report was specifically about a regression in Proton 8 or later on the Steam Deck. I have never heard back from Valve on any of these 3 reports. This effort feels like a waste of time now.😫This. I have a plugin called decky-proton-pulse, and as soon as I started reading this I was excited to maybe work this in some native easy way, but I remembered that so many do these seem to be ignored. Maybe they are not though, and we just don't see what goes in in Valve's world. Perhaps they ingest these etc... for trends and fixes.
Guide - Anticheat check - which competitive games actually work on Linux?
By kaisellgren, 29 May 2026 at 11:29 pm UTC
By kaisellgren, 29 May 2026 at 11:29 pm UTC
If you're completely stuck, want to use Linux for gaming but need specific gamesThe simplest option is to have Windows on another SSD and then you just boot into it for few select competitive games while using Linux for all the rest. This is what I do.
Guide - How to give Valve feedback when Proton games have issues on Linux / SteamOS
By Stella, 22 May 2026 at 10:27 am UTC
By Stella, 22 May 2026 at 10:27 am UTC
Is that really worth doing though? I uploaded logs and gave really detailed information for 3 different games that have issues with Proton. The Witcher 3, Vampyr, Doom TDA. All 3 are Steam Deck Verified. In all 3 reports, i gave detailed repro steps along with proton logs, and the issue was 100% reproducible. In Vampyr, the report was specifically about a regression in Proton 8 or later on the Steam Deck. I have never heard back from Valve on any of these 3 reports. This effort feels like a waste of time now.😫
Guide - How to give Valve feedback when Proton games have issues on Linux / SteamOS
By Cley_Faye, 21 May 2026 at 5:32 pm UTC
By Cley_Faye, 21 May 2026 at 5:32 pm UTC
Ah, there must be a rule somewhere to state that a solution to a problem will show up when you don't need it anymore :D
I was facing an issue with a game last week, and ended up getting proton logs out this way. It was quite helpful. Ubuntu 24.04 have nvidia 595 drivers, but for some reason they didn't ship with the 32 bit builds of the various libraries. The proton logs showed that the game (a 32-bit windows executable) was just not seeing the GPU *at all* and moved to llvmpipe.
Still, a useful post; I'm sure there are issues that can't quite get fixed on our end.
I was facing an issue with a game last week, and ended up getting proton logs out this way. It was quite helpful. Ubuntu 24.04 have nvidia 595 drivers, but for some reason they didn't ship with the 32 bit builds of the various libraries. The proton logs showed that the game (a 32-bit windows executable) was just not seeing the GPU *at all* and moved to llvmpipe.
Still, a useful post; I'm sure there are issues that can't quite get fixed on our end.
Guide - How to give Valve feedback when Proton games have issues on Linux / SteamOS
By Yasri, 21 May 2026 at 2:44 pm UTC
By Yasri, 21 May 2026 at 2:44 pm UTC
You can upload the log file, first I have heard of this. I've just been chopping them up and making dozens of posts per bug report.
/this is a joke, don't do this.
/this is a joke, don't do this.
Guide - How to setup OpenMW for modern Morrowind on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck
By Savor592, 10 Apr 2026 at 1:32 pm UTC
By Savor592, 10 Apr 2026 at 1:32 pm UTC
I would welcome a post (or an edit) introducing https://modding-openmw.com/ and especially showing a setup that works well on Steam Deck.
Their scripts make modding really easy. But unfortunately the Total Overhaul seems to be too much for the Deck. Would be nice to see a configuration close to it which can be run on the Deck.
Their scripts make modding really easy. But unfortunately the Total Overhaul seems to be too much for the Deck. Would be nice to see a configuration close to it which can be run on the Deck.
Guide - How to get Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 online working on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck
By lucasgomesbz, 7 Apr 2026 at 11:44 pm UTC
By lucasgomesbz, 7 Apr 2026 at 11:44 pm UTC
Thanks so much!
Your trick work!
Your trick work!
Guide - How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
By esapolundead, 11 Feb 2026 at 11:37 pm UTC
Close Lutris, then
Open Lutris, start Battle.net. You will have to login again, but it should be working now. Hope this helps.
By esapolundead, 11 Feb 2026 at 11:37 pm UTC
Quoting: iliyalesanitried wine, wine-staging-tkg, proton experimental, proton-ge, proton-tkg, reinstalled battle.net multiple times on different prefixes even cleared appdata and programdata but still nothing. gave VPN and tethering mobile network a shot as well. the result was always the same:This happened to me as well. Looks like the latest Battle.net launcher update broke something. This is how I fixed it in Lutris.
"Battle.net Update Agent went to sleep. Attempting to wake it up... BLZBNTBNA00000005".
Close Lutris, then
# pkill -9 Battle.net
# pkill -9 Agent
# pkill -9 Blizzard
# rm -rf ~/Games/battlenet/drive_c/ProgramData/Battle.net/Agent
# rm -rf ~/Games/battlenet/drive_c/ProgramData/Blizzard\ EntertainmentOpen Lutris, start Battle.net. You will have to login again, but it should be working now. Hope this helps.
Guide - How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
By iliyalesani, 11 Feb 2026 at 9:46 pm UTC
By iliyalesani, 11 Feb 2026 at 9:46 pm UTC
tried wine, wine-staging-tkg, proton experimental, proton-ge, proton-tkg, reinstalled battle.net multiple times on different prefixes even cleared appdata and programdata but still nothing. gave VPN and tethering mobile network a shot as well. the result was always the same:
"Battle.net Update Agent went to sleep. Attempting to wake it up... BLZBNTBNA00000005".
same thing with lutris using different versions of wine runners. even tried starting up the agent before and after launching battle.net to no avail:
EDIT / FIX:
using bottles (AUR, not flatpak) with proton-ge 10-30 worked. bottles also applied this launch option:
"Battle.net Update Agent went to sleep. Attempting to wake it up... BLZBNTBNA00000005".
same thing with lutris using different versions of wine runners. even tried starting up the agent before and after launching battle.net to no avail:
WINEFSYNC=1 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2240255771/pfx/" "$HOME/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/Proton-Tkg-2634/files/bin/wine" "$HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/2240255771/pfx/drive_c/ProgramData/Battle.net/Agent/Agent.exe"EDIT / FIX:
using bottles (AUR, not flatpak) with proton-ge 10-30 worked. bottles also applied this launch option:
WINEDLLOVERRIDES="locationapi=d" WINE_SIMULATE_WRITECOPY=1 %command%
Guide - How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
By mr-victory, 23 Jan 2026 at 4:01 pm UTC
By mr-victory, 23 Jan 2026 at 4:01 pm UTC
Proton will also do however the default wine is ancient and does not work. I had to give this info in universal blue discord so many times I started to meme about "days since last Battle.net install failure on Lutris: 0". It is a pet peeve of mine😅
Guide - How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
By tuubi, 23 Jan 2026 at 2:55 pm UTC
Lutris really needs to cut a new release at some point and make this the default.
By tuubi, 23 Jan 2026 at 2:55 pm UTC
Quoting: mr-victoryI forgot this guide existed lol. Option 1 (Lutris) does not work and hasn't for months unless the default Wine version is changed from Wine GE 8.26 to something newer. Other wine versions can be installed by clicking a tiny button that looks like an open box in the main page of Lutris, next to "Wine" button.For most games you'll want to select "GE-Proton (Latest)" instead. No need to download anything manually. Lutris (UMU) will automatically download and manage the latest Proton version for you.
Lutris really needs to cut a new release at some point and make this the default.
Guide - How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
By mr-victory, 23 Jan 2026 at 12:44 pm UTC
By mr-victory, 23 Jan 2026 at 12:44 pm UTC
I forgot this guide existed lol. Option 1 (Lutris) does not work and hasn't for months unless the default Wine version is changed from Wine GE 8.26 to something newer. Other wine versions can be installed by clicking a tiny button that looks like an open box in the main page of Lutris, next to "Wine" button.
Guide - How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
By dbarreda, 23 Jan 2026 at 4:54 am UTC
By dbarreda, 23 Jan 2026 at 4:54 am UTC
I did install Steam thru Flatpak (K)ubuntu 25.10;
Proton 9 did not work, but Proton 10 did. It got stuck on "agent went to sleep attempting to wake it up steam".
The location for the directory is here: `~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/`
Hope this helps someone.
Proton 9 did not work, but Proton 10 did. It got stuck on "agent went to sleep attempting to wake it up steam".
The location for the directory is here: `~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/`
Hope this helps someone.
Guide - How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
By Liam Squires-Hand, 14 Jan 2026 at 12:57 pm UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand, 14 Jan 2026 at 12:57 pm UTC
I've added the Steam Snap path into the guide now, thanks.
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
*mod snip: we prefer note to have user scripts here, especially from an AI*
By jurquizo, 14 Jan 2026 at 12:55 pm UTC
Quoting: Liam DaweThanks 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.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.
*mod snip: we prefer note to have user scripts here, especially from an AI*
Guide - How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
By Liam Squires-Hand, 13 Jan 2026 at 8:25 pm UTC
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.
By Liam Squires-Hand, 13 Jan 2026 at 8:25 pm UTC
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.
Guide - How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
By jurquizo, 13 Jan 2026 at 8:17 pm UTC
By jurquizo, 13 Jan 2026 at 8:17 pm UTC
First 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?
Guide - How to setup OpenMW for modern Morrowind on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck
By Caldathras, 4 Jan 2026 at 7:16 pm UTC
By Caldathras, 4 Jan 2026 at 7:16 pm UTC
This is for those looking for a solution that doesn't involve Flatpak. It is primarily intended for desktop Linux users. Although, I imagine with a little tweaking, It might work for Steam Deck as well.
Option 3) Direct Download
https://openmw.readthedocs.io/en/stable/manuals/installation/install-openmw.html#direct-download
Recently, I discovered that OpenMW offers a Direct Download "installer" on their GitHub site. This archive acts just like the Windows installer, allowing you to keep multiple versions of OpenMW installed in Linux.
The problem is that the installation instructions from the online guide are written very poorly. All they say is "run the install package once downloaded. It’s now installed!". It is not that easy. For one, the "installer" is an archive, not an executable. For two, they assume that you know what file to run once the archive is extracted. Here are my expanded instructions:
1) Download the latest Direct Download archive from the GitHub Releases page.
2) Extract the archive to the folder/location of your choice.
3) Launch the "openmw-launcher" script from within the folder.
.... a) If you are simply upgrading, it will use your existing configuration. You are good to go.
.... b) If this is a fresh installation, the launcher will offer to run the OpenMW Wizard to help you set everything up (see Option 1 of Liam's guide above for the rest of the steps).
4) If the launcher script will not start, then you have very likely encountered the rather infamous glibc issue (you can verify this by trying to launching the script in a terminal).
5) Make sure to download the latest version of the Steam Linux Runtime (currently Steam Linux Runtime 4).
6) To add OpenMW to the Steam client, choose the option "Add a Non-Steam Game ...". You may have to manually point Steam at the location of the openmw-launcher script (I did).
7) Go to the Properties menu for openmw-launcher and select "Install Compatibility Tool". Choose the latest Steam Linux Runtime, which you downloaded in Step 5.
8) Update and customize the Steam Library entry to your preferences. You should now be good to go.
Spoiler, click me
There are many ways to install OpenMW. There is even an unofficial AppImage available. The distro repositories almost always offer an out-of-date version. In the past, I used to install via the LaunchPad PPA (only works for Ubuntu derivatives). The problem with PPAs is that they have to be reinstalled with every major version upgrade of your distro. If you are slow to upgrade, the PPA will eventually update to a version of OpenMW that will not run on your outdated distro. Updating uninstalls the version that currently works and then fails on installing the new version.
Option 3) Direct Download
https://openmw.readthedocs.io/en/stable/manuals/installation/install-openmw.html#direct-download
Recently, I discovered that OpenMW offers a Direct Download "installer" on their GitHub site. This archive acts just like the Windows installer, allowing you to keep multiple versions of OpenMW installed in Linux.
Spoiler, click me
NOTE: By default, all installations share the same saves and configuration. There is a feature that was introduced with version 0.48 that allows you to set up a "portable install", which allows you to isolate a particular version with its own configuration and save files.
https://modding-openmw.com/tips/portable-install/
https://modding-openmw.com/tips/portable-install/
The problem is that the installation instructions from the online guide are written very poorly. All they say is "run the install package once downloaded. It’s now installed!". It is not that easy. For one, the "installer" is an archive, not an executable. For two, they assume that you know what file to run once the archive is extracted. Here are my expanded instructions:
1) Download the latest Direct Download archive from the GitHub Releases page.
2) Extract the archive to the folder/location of your choice.
Spoiler, click me
NOTE: If you want to maintain multiple versions, keep in mind that only one of them can be in your default PATH. In fact, it would probably be better to keep the lot of them out of your PATH altogether. Instead of treating the executable/script like a system command, you will just have to provide the entire folder address to launch the game.
This, however, also makes the installation somewhat portable since you can place folder wherever you want. Combined with the "portable install" feature described above, this means you won't even have to have the game installed in your File System partition at all.
This, however, also makes the installation somewhat portable since you can place folder wherever you want. Combined with the "portable install" feature described above, this means you won't even have to have the game installed in your File System partition at all.
3) Launch the "openmw-launcher" script from within the folder.
.... a) If you are simply upgrading, it will use your existing configuration. You are good to go.
.... b) If this is a fresh installation, the launcher will offer to run the OpenMW Wizard to help you set everything up (see Option 1 of Liam's guide above for the rest of the steps).
4) If the launcher script will not start, then you have very likely encountered the rather infamous glibc issue (you can verify this by trying to launching the script in a terminal).
Spoiler, click me
GLIBC Compatibility Issues
One of the big concerns that I have with the OpenMW project is that they don't clearly notify Linux users of a change in system requirements (which they could include with the text for each release on GitHub). The OpenMW Team occasionally increases the version of the glibc library required without clearly advising their Linux users of this change.
For example, the latest version of OpenMW (0.50.0) requires glibc 2.38. This is only available on Ubuntu 24.04 (Mint 22) or higher. (Still running an earlier distro version? Surprise!)
The solution is quite simple. You need to integrate the game into the Steam Client and set the compatibility to Steam Linux Runtime 4, which is based on Debian 13.2 Trixie (and supports glibc 2.38).
One of the big concerns that I have with the OpenMW project is that they don't clearly notify Linux users of a change in system requirements (which they could include with the text for each release on GitHub). The OpenMW Team occasionally increases the version of the glibc library required without clearly advising their Linux users of this change.
For example, the latest version of OpenMW (0.50.0) requires glibc 2.38. This is only available on Ubuntu 24.04 (Mint 22) or higher. (Still running an earlier distro version? Surprise!)
The solution is quite simple. You need to integrate the game into the Steam Client and set the compatibility to Steam Linux Runtime 4, which is based on Debian 13.2 Trixie (and supports glibc 2.38).
5) Make sure to download the latest version of the Steam Linux Runtime (currently Steam Linux Runtime 4).
6) To add OpenMW to the Steam client, choose the option "Add a Non-Steam Game ...". You may have to manually point Steam at the location of the openmw-launcher script (I did).
7) Go to the Properties menu for openmw-launcher and select "Install Compatibility Tool". Choose the latest Steam Linux Runtime, which you downloaded in Step 5.
8) Update and customize the Steam Library entry to your preferences. You should now be good to go.
Guide - How to get Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 online working on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck
By subzero, 19 Dec 2025 at 9:04 pm UTC
By subzero, 19 Dec 2025 at 9:04 pm UTC
Quoting: Liam Daweyes im trying to play battlefield 3, apologiesQuoting: subzeroThis doesnt seem to be working for me, i am on the official steam version of the game and i followed all the steps but for some reason the browser menu doesnt seem to detect the EA app on my computer that's already open, i am on fedora cinnamonSince the guide covers two games, which game are we talking about? Battlefield 3?
Guide - How to get Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 online working on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck
By Liam Squires-Hand, 19 Dec 2025 at 5:57 pm UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand, 19 Dec 2025 at 5:57 pm UTC
Quoting: subzeroThis doesnt seem to be working for me, i am on the official steam version of the game and i followed all the steps but for some reason the browser menu doesnt seem to detect the EA app on my computer that's already open, i am on fedora cinnamonSince the guide covers two games, which game are we talking about? Battlefield 3?
Guide - How to get Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 online working on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck
By subzero, 19 Dec 2025 at 5:47 pm UTC
By subzero, 19 Dec 2025 at 5:47 pm UTC
This doesnt seem to be working for me, i am on the official steam version of the game and i followed all the steps but for some reason the browser menu doesnt seem to detect the EA app on my computer that's already open, i am on fedora cinnamon
Guide - How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft
By Mirrored, 29 Nov 2025 at 9:52 am UTC
By Mirrored, 29 Nov 2025 at 9:52 am UTC
On CachyOS:
I was not able to get the Lutris method to work. The installer kept complaining about a file system error and the Battle.net installer would freeze. I attempted this installation many times (~10) and eventually managed to install it without a file system error appearing, but even then, Battle.net would give either the "Battle.net Agent Went to Sleep" error or the "An error occurred while loading game information" error. I tried changing the Runner configuration to many other options than the default, but they all resulted in Battle.net freezing immediately after launch. I didn't try Jiloup's suggestion of using Proton Plus, though, so look at that if you insist on Lutris.
I was able to get the Steam method to work. Use Steam to run the Battle.net setup exe, and then re-target it to the launcher exe that is installed. However, the suggested Compability setting of Proton 9.0-4 still lead to the "Battle.net Agent Went to Sleep". Once I switched it to proton-cachyos-10.0-20251120, that error went away, Battle.net started normally, and I was able to install games. I then tried Proton 10.0-3, which also worked.
TL;DR: I'd recommend the Steam method, and Proton 10.0+
I was not able to get the Lutris method to work. The installer kept complaining about a file system error and the Battle.net installer would freeze. I attempted this installation many times (~10) and eventually managed to install it without a file system error appearing, but even then, Battle.net would give either the "Battle.net Agent Went to Sleep" error or the "An error occurred while loading game information" error. I tried changing the Runner configuration to many other options than the default, but they all resulted in Battle.net freezing immediately after launch. I didn't try Jiloup's suggestion of using Proton Plus, though, so look at that if you insist on Lutris.
I was able to get the Steam method to work. Use Steam to run the Battle.net setup exe, and then re-target it to the launcher exe that is installed. However, the suggested Compability setting of Proton 9.0-4 still lead to the "Battle.net Agent Went to Sleep". Once I switched it to proton-cachyos-10.0-20251120, that error went away, Battle.net started normally, and I was able to install games. I then tried Proton 10.0-3, which also worked.
TL;DR: I'd recommend the Steam method, and Proton 10.0+
Guide - How to get Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 online working on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck
By Turkeysteaks, 23 Nov 2025 at 5:12 pm UTC
By Turkeysteaks, 23 Nov 2025 at 5:12 pm UTC
Realise this is a bit old now, but I've been playing with BF4 for a year or so and one thing is really annoying - no steam overlay. Which also means no steam recorder.
Do you or anyone have any experience with getting the steam overlay to work with this?
Do you or anyone have any experience with getting the steam overlay to work with this?
Guide - How to install, update and see what graphics driver you have on Linux and SteamOS
By Eike, 17 Nov 2025 at 12:27 pm UTC
Installing nvidia-drivers on Debian is basically
> apt install nvidia-driver
I made I video talking way too long for the easy task of installing Steam plus Nvidia drivers on a virgin Debian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS6mXW7KPoU
By Eike, 17 Nov 2025 at 12:27 pm UTC
Added some notes for Debian.Our wiki is bad.
Installing nvidia-drivers on Debian is basically
> apt install nvidia-driver
I made I video talking way too long for the easy task of installing Steam plus Nvidia drivers on a virgin Debian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS6mXW7KPoU
Guide - How to install, update and see what graphics driver you have on Linux and SteamOS
By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Nov 2025 at 11:58 am UTC
By Liam Squires-Hand, 17 Nov 2025 at 11:58 am UTC
Added some notes for Debian.
Guide - Why are there so many different Proton versions? Proton 8, Proton 9, Experimental, GE-Proton
By vertigo, 3 Nov 2025 at 6:40 pm UTC
By vertigo, 3 Nov 2025 at 6:40 pm UTC
Great write up, very useful for new users. It could be worth adding [proton-cachyos](https://github.com/CachyOS/proton-cachyos) given how popular CachyOS is now.
Guide - An idiots guide to setting up Minecraft on Steam Deck / SteamOS with controller support
By blindcoder, 28 Oct 2025 at 10:07 am UTC
By blindcoder, 28 Oct 2025 at 10:07 am UTC
Thank you, I just setup the Steam Deck using this guide and now my kid and I can play together on my own server! <3
Guide - How to setup OpenMW for modern Morrowind on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck
By Cu5t0m1z3, 19 Oct 2025 at 8:43 pm UTC
By Cu5t0m1z3, 19 Oct 2025 at 8:43 pm UTC
I think you missed a huge part of playing a TES game by leaving out modding. I know modding on Linux tends to be difficult but the website modding-openmw makes it so easy.
I followed their Automatic Installation guide for the Total Overhaul of 589 mods on Linhx Mint and it worked flawlessly with no crashing after a few hours of playing. It downloads mods from Nexus through your terminal into your game install. If you pay for Nexus it'll be quicker and smoother, otherwise you have to acknowledge all 589 mods so it can take a few hours.
I followed their Automatic Installation guide for the Total Overhaul of 589 mods on Linhx Mint and it worked flawlessly with no crashing after a few hours of playing. It downloads mods from Nexus through your terminal into your game install. If you pay for Nexus it'll be quicker and smoother, otherwise you have to acknowledge all 589 mods so it can take a few hours.
Guide - How to setup OpenMW for modern Morrowind on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck
By quot, 10 Oct 2025 at 2:47 pm UTC
By quot, 10 Oct 2025 at 2:47 pm UTC
The next release is focused around their new gamepad UI feature.
https://openmw.org/2025/openmw-0-50-0-is-now-in-rc-phase/
It's not officially released, but the RC releases of OMW are very stable.
https://openmw.org/2025/openmw-0-50-0-is-now-in-rc-phase/
It's not officially released, but the RC releases of OMW are very stable.