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But... but... Microsoft loves Linux, don't they?

Microsoft loves the money Linux makes to them

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The offline installers are fine-ish, but in some cases, they can lag behind the game versions available in Galaxy (or alternate clients like Heroic, obviously).

Interesting, I didn't know this.

Btw, for anyone looking to backup their offline installers definitely check out [lgogdownloader](https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader).

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I love Balatro and this looks pretty sweet though I feel very overwhelmed by the amount of content in the base game already. 16 new characters may as well be 100000 new characters. I've got a few of the DLCs and I've barely touched those yet.

I'm gonna hold out for the next update and see if there's a better way to visualize and progress through the content

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Pre order DLC skins not available for GOG release. It's enough to call it a deal breaker in my book.

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However, the cynic in me says this suggests that it's a step towards Mojang eventually retiring Minecraft Java and going all-in on the modern Minecraft: Bedrock Edition (which doesn't have Linux support).

But... but... Microsoft loves Linux, don't they?

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@Jarmer

Look, you don't need to state the reasons why you don't reply. But you seem upset, so why don't you huh. You could maybe start with plans on how to stop this AI phenomena. I'd be all ears dude. That kind of "reply" makes no sense and also does not help!

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I'd much rather trust a project that acknowledge LLM-based tools and handle them appropriately than one which pretends they don't exist and nobody uses them.

This seems like a false dichotomy. Surely a project can acknowledge that LLM-based tools exist, and then choose not to use them on practical or ideological grounds (or both) - one doesn't really exclude the other.

The "LLMs are just tools" argument is one that seems to go around a lot, but rarely with any context or further explanation. A hammer is a tool, but if companies started selling hammers built through unethical labor, using materials that destroy the planet, and directly funnel money into megacorporations, it doesn't really matter if the hammer in a vacuum is just a tool or not. The context matters, and in this situation it really is impossible to separate the product from the process of creating the product and the immense harm it is causing to the planet and society at large.

Even this is ignoring the biggest issue of LLMs however, which is that we are inviting these technologies to become essential to day-to-day life and work, ignoring the fact that this puts our lives in the hands of a few companies who do not have our best interests at heart. Even if there were no ethical concerns regarding LLMs whatsoever, it is still incredibly dangerous to embrace commercial products as public services, as we have seen again and again through the advance of Big Tech.

To be fair, a lot of these problems have more to do with the underlying fabric of Big Tech more so than LLMs specifically. In that sense LLMs really are just a tool, but a tool towards an end purely benefiting Big Tech and not those who actually use them.

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I remember, back in my days, when Mojang wasn't Microsoft, and they had "full mod support" in their promises. And when they hired people making buckit. And when these people where told to not work on mod support but on unrelated stuff.

I've since then moved away from Minecraft towards more… amenable engines, but this remain a great news for people that are all-in on it with extensively modded servers.

Also, if this is the premisces of the Java Edition being retired, well… it might not be a bad thing, depending on how its done. So many stuff have been built on it over the last… too long period of time, that I don't see it disappearing. If Microsoft is kinda handing it to the people (let's dream…) in favor of developping the "real" game with bedrock, all the better.

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Now they are spinning a 90s style downsizing as the AI revolution. AI is not making content for this game, no one is, because they were fired.

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Check also Slots & Daggers ;)

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@dziadulewicz .............. wtf? I just don't even know where to begin. I'm guessing you're a bot though, so I won't even begin.

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Across our businesses, we're delivering great customer experiences every day

As one of said customers for a small number of Amazon services, this is absolutely delusional.

When Amazon works well, it's an invisible service. Plumbing. I don't think "gosh, I'm glad I picked Amazon for this". When it doesn't work, it's a car crash. Getting to speak to anyone, ever, is already near-impossible. And now there will be fourteen thousand less people who care about "great customer experiences", and more AI that definitely won't shift the dial.

This entire AI rollercoaster is like a fascinating real-life, global study of "Locked In Syndrome" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome). When you spend $10Bn in a company, you absolutely need it to succeed.

The disparity of expectation between normal people and big tech here is absolutely mind-boggling.

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There was a study done that found it seemed to make people slower at coding . . . but they thought it made them faster

There's a link to that study in my article which I linked in an earlier comment. It's fascinating, the disparity between what they thought would happen and the recorded results.

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Yeah, we covered that on GamingOnLinux earlier this year.

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This is pretty eye opening:

https://bsky.app/profile/letitmelo.bsky.social/post/3m4bxweqs3k2u

the entire time they thought they were competing with steam? what on earth?

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Is it better than playing them in DosBox?

You get more games, including multiple ports
You get arcade versions of the games
You can play online with rollback netcode without additional setup
MK4 Arcade is available to purchase for the first time
You also get MK Trilogy, and two PlayStation spinoffs with options to make them tolerable
You get extensive practice mode that has a huge amount of features to polish your skill, or chease
You get fatality training, or more like finisher training

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AI is here and not going away. It's irreversible. You can either deal with it (and use it as a tool, to achieve enormous calculations and so on - which humans could never match) or keep wasting your energy fighting windmills waving yer anti-AI flags or sum. Geez. It's best to acknowledge the reality to keep also your sanity. Great many "jobs" are not eternal, please understand at least this.

Many things get automated gradually and free time of the people increase. We can then do things machines never could. Much humanitarian work to do on this planet if you haven't noticed. Maybe step outside for a while or take a trip to another all different country and realize. More time with family then too.

AI is not all doom and gloom. We can't control everything, it is what it is and people do what people do. How many people can control themselves 100% 24/7 and by what specifications set by who or what?

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I don't think that's going to work out the way top executives think it will. My prediction: Managers and executives will have the clout to avoid being laid off and will instead lay off people who do the real work. Then, they will find out that AI can't do most of that real work, and a lot of stuff that is supposed to be getting done will not.

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But have they learned how to do key rebinding?

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As to productivity, AI seems to be one of those things like multitasking, where people think it makes them productive but it doesn't. There was a study done that found it seemed to make people slower at coding . . . but they thought it made them faster.

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As time goes on, more and more people are seeing that the AI revolution isn't something to be excited about.

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As always, "AI" stands for "replacing people with robot slaves". Amazon is very into that.

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As unpopular as it is, having at least a policy on it I now feel is a good step. People absolutely 100% are going to use AI tools no matter what, at least it's something for the Fedora team to fall back on if someone is discovered using it and not disclosing it when something happens. Better than ignoring the problem isn't it?

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Aye okay. Ignore all the perfectly valid reasons that many, many people have for despising AI.

I think ssj17vegeta was being practical. It goes without saying that folks are using AI to develop open source that is landing in Linux distributions. That is just a fact.

I don't think you're going to get away from AI in Linux until someone forks a distribution to explicitly remove any AI contributions. Good luck identifying them all.

FWIW I'm not a big fan of AI either. I write enough lousy code myself. I don't need AI piling on.

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Yeah, it's Godot. Still, game engines only provide the base package for developers - easy porting does depend on how much custom stuff they all stick in.

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Oh, and Native Linux and macOS support also landed too

I think Brotato was made with Godot, right? So Linux support was always doable

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If I were Twitch I'd be getting really nervous.

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I assume you mean Epic Games via Heroic, if so that would still use Proton, Epic doesn't carry Linux games.

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I wonder if installed through Heroic would it automatically switch to native Linux or should I reinstall. Or is it Steam exclusive?

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Again, you (and the people freaking out) are missing the point

Someone doesn't agree with you, so they're "freaking out". Why? "For no reason". What else, oh yeah, they're "missing the point".

Aye okay. Ignore all the perfectly valid reasons that many, many people have for despising AI. That's it's driving job losses. That's it's unethically produced. That it's driving a move away from green energy back towards nuclear. That it produces slop that actually reduces productivity. It's consolidating wealth in big tech. It makes you dumber.

I could go on. I wrote a short article on my own website: https://www.scaine.net/site/2025/06/the-ethics-of-ai-june-2025/

But ignore all that. We're missing the point. Somehow. 100%.

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