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I am preemptively disappointed at these being sold out before I even get a change to load the order page.

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Quoting: GoEsrDoesn't really need to be brought up to "current standards" whatever that means, but there are a few QoL things that could be fixed up with a remake, especially with the excursions or whatever they're called. I've had buildings softlock more times than I care for.

I feel kinda the opposite: Yes QoL update would be valuable already. But on the other hand, if the authors can give the experience beloved by me and you to a larger fraction of the next generation, I'm all for it. Just as we didn't choose to grow up amidst cars and credit cards, current average younglings didn't choose Tiktok and Fortnite as much as they were manipulated into it. Their brains will need different ramps (training wheels) to get to TWoM than we did.

But ofc, overdoing with the mass appeal is a risk for sure (with a less competent studio).

Regarding QoL, if it is a big enough issue (and the game is popular enough), there will be community patches or even open-source game-code remakes.

I'm really curious how the landscape of the latter will evolve with vibe-coding. Since the barrier is way lower to handling everything around LLM prompts like "hey, the output was wrong in this way, given these asset files".

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Quoting: CaldathrasI'm more worried that they are going to delist the original version of the game. It will run on my laptop whereas the Resynced version most definitely will not.

It's probably a pipe dream but I would love to see the original game show up on GOG...

In the first video they mention that the original will be still available. The new creative director says that around the [23rd minute](https://youtu.be/7hkFaTypP1Q?t=1374).

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I just received a new laptop with 26.04 on it. Spent yesterday starting the setup. It's really nice so far!

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Liking the full-screen look. To be (overly) frank, the sidebar is bloating up too much for my taste. Especially as someone who likes to keep spending clearly separate from gaming.

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Regarding PipeWire, virtual devices and routing, there's something a few gamers here may be interested in:

I actually just wanted to play Resident Evil 2 Remastered last weekend. I initially used PipeWire config files for setting up immersive simulated surround sound (like Dolby Atmos for Headphones).

But this process is very tedious, because I had to manually set the virtual surround sink as system output device and set the real headphones in the EasyEffects settings. Also, I had to create a filter chain and restart the audio services after every change, causing EasyEffects to crash every time.

Then I got the idea to build an app that does everything only via the PipeWire C API. Oh my, C++ was quite a ride. I'm more of a C# or Python guy. But at last, the app is finally working, and I wanted to share this!

https://github.com/Berny23/virtual-surround-manager

Flatpak is planned but not working currently. Please help if you're a developer.

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I'm not sure why everyone is excited about the latest Ubuntu. The updated kernel has some very nice features, but the replacement of many of the basic utilities with RUST compiled versions leaves me very concerned. Heck, they couldn't even include the entirety of the suite of utilities that they wanted to replace due to security failures which have cropped up. They to want to recompile/recreate everything in GNU/Linux with RUST. I only ask you to wonder why? The fervor with which they seem to be moving and the control they are exerting on the direction of the GNU/Linux seems extreme. Most of the basic utilities (cp, rm, mv, df, du, ln, ....etc) have been in and working for years. They've been corrected and vetted repeatedly and are as stable as can even be possible, so, again, why replace them with new code written from scratch. The only benefit, I see, is to the corporations like Canonical and Red Hat, and that is to remove the GPL. I am an old IT fart and was around in the early days as I started in IT in 1985. GNU/Linux has become what it is due to the GPL being the way it is. By removing the need for the GPL, I can see a future where Linux will not be a truly free operating system. That corporations will come in and try to direct/mandate things and then eventually charge for aspects or even all of the OS. It will start with this change. Opening the door for copyrighted work to exist inside the core of the OS and an alternate licensing scenario that allows them to start charging. I encourage you to question everything. We've gotten to this point by keeping most of the development as projects of passion, but look at all the current developers which are actually employed by these corporations. They want to make money (what business doesn't), but the question is will it still be Linux? Will it still be a bastion of freedom to code what you want, to implement what you want moving forward, if we stand by and allow business needs and corporate greed to move Linux in the this direction?

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With the Demolisher you can literally rock and roll and stone!

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Quoting: KimyrielleNot sure how I feel about the forced switch to Wayland. I know, I know! It's the future. But I am still not 100% convinced it's fully ready to take over yet.

Oh, well, I won't have to deal with it until December anyway - which is when this release will make it into Mint 23.

Wayland is a DE thing, so this doesn't mean anything for Mint. Since they're a lot more conservative with changes, they'll probably take a year or two to release Cinnamon with Wayland and then keep X11 for a while too.

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Quoting: BrandonGiesing

Quoting: ShabbyX

Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPoint

This is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol

I mean, there's many people that don't hate Windows entirely, they just hate Modern Windows so they can definitely still have a nostalgia for the classics.

I get your point, see this is more of an FYI:

Microsoft in the 90s were at their absolute worst. I grew up with this stuff too, of course, but once you learn the damage they caused it's hard to look back at it with love.

Multics (predecessor to unix) in the 60s had shared objects (dlls), filesystem permissions, multiple users, multiple processes etc, everything that is "modern" in windows. DOS in the 80s had nothing. Remember the viruses? Vista 35+ years after multics was the first windows to actually support multiple users.

They set back operating systems by decades. Maybe if Gates had actually stayed in school and took an OS course...

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Punk and Knuckle Paradise seem veeeery interesting!

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPoint

This is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol

I mean, there's many people that don't hate Windows entirely, they just hate Modern Windows so they can definitely still have a nostalgia for the classics.

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• GL: reverted dlsym changes that caused crashes with nvidia drivers.

Yep, this was the big one. Mangohud was causing a number of my Native Linux games to crash on exit (except AppImages, oddly). I had to shift to the v0.8.3 beta to stop this.

Unfortunately, v0.8.3 doesn't seem to work in Mint 21.3 / Ubuntu 22.04 so I'll have to put up with the crashing until I'm ready to try upgrading to Mint 22 again.

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and a big one - it's now Wayland-only.

Just a reminder, only the standard/main edition of Ubuntu that will be Wayland-only, simply because the GNOME 50 desktop is Wayland-only. All the other desktop flavors will still be able to use an X.org session. Canonical confirmed this during the beta.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/ubuntu-26-04-lts-beta-released-with-gnome-50-linux-kernel-7-0-mesa-26/?comment_id=292566

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Quoting: benstor214It certainly won’t run in offline mode.

I don't know about that. The Ubisoft launcher does have its own offline mode. I use it with Assassin's Creed 2. You have to be online to "activate" on initial install, but afterwards, offline works. I don't know about Proton though -- I installed AC2 in Win10 just to avoid complications. Have you seen any indication that there will be an always-online requirement?

I'm more worried that they are going to delist the original version of the game. It will run on my laptop whereas the Resynced version most definitely will not.

It's probably a pipe dream but I would love to see the original game show up on GOG...

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I recently tried it out on a whim and enjoyed it so much that our first run was 411 h long! It'll be a while before we have another go though, might try a start in a different climate.

Cause we're unemployed with dwindling savings, we used the old-fashioned self-imposed trial. But now I will spend what little I have to pay the authors + supporter add-on.

For anyone new to it - the mod support is great and adds so much!

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: KimyrielleNot sure how I feel about the forced switch to Wayland. I know, I know! It's the future. But I am still not 100% convinced it's fully ready to take over yet.

Oh, well, I won't have to deal with it until December anyway - which is when this release will make it into Mint 23.

Look back at the first time Canonical said they would make Wayland the default. It's actually pretty funny.

9 years ago?

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/ubuntu-will-run-wayland-default

They are really rushing it...

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Quoting: KimyrielleNot sure how I feel about the forced switch to Wayland. I know, I know! It's the future. But I am still not 100% convinced it's fully ready to take over yet.

Oh, well, I won't have to deal with it until December anyway - which is when this release will make it into Mint 23.

Look back at the first time Canonical said they would make Wayland the default. It's actually pretty funny.

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Not sure how I feel about the forced switch to Wayland. I know, I know! It's the future. But I am still not 100% convinced it's fully ready to take over yet.

Oh, well, I won't have to deal with it until December anyway - which is when this release will make it into Mint 23.

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it's now Wayland-only

I'm still running 24.04 with X11, so wonder how smooth the upgrade will go, and what will break.

But yay for the fresh Kernel (this time round I was always too lazy to manually install a more recent one, and from my experience with 22.04 at some point the version of glibc present on the system prevented further upgrading anyway, and then you're stuck without security fixes). Using an up-to-date Mesa from a PPA isn't a big deal though, and will soon enough be required for 26.04 as well.

Gnome 50 will likely again break half my extensions (as did Gnome 46), and since I do little more with the system than browsing the web and playing games, I don't think any of its features really make any difference to me. Perhaps if I had a display with HDR support.

Nonetheless, upgrade I will come 26.04.1.

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Always wait for the .1 release for server usage.

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I'll give it about a week then upgrade. Just making sure no major bugs like last time, when they had to temp pull upgrade.

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Might be worth noting about Rogue Trader: the Deluxe version doesn't include the season pass, you'll want the Voidfarer edition for that.

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Quoting: doragasu

Quoting: AlveKattI have a feeling this isn't an LLM but an actual specialized AI system. The companies keep conflating different machine learning cases to drive their AGI narrative.

It's LLM, and might be nothing special, just marketing as usual: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/

+1 for that article. It's a hugely interesting blog in general.

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I've seen this floating around for a bit now, but this is the first I've heard of the source port on itch. Will have to give this a go later.

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An excellent game, which I've played on Steam and XBox for over a 100 hours and still have lots to do in it

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Quoting: VardyComparing MS Paint to online platforms makes no sense. This isn't about how you use software, it's about how you regulate online platforms. Roblox, Minecraft and Steam are not "games" per se (unless you stick to single player Minecraft). Just thought you should be made aware of a very simple difference. Grooming, for example, has been widely reported on Roblox.
Also, you can use your printer to print whatever you like. You shouldn't be able to parade around promoting your hate speech and using your printed hate symbol in public. It's a serious debate, and sadly it seems a bunch of people commenting here don't even seem to understand the nature of the subject itself. I personally believe in banning n*z1s and groomers everywhere possible (by the same argument hardpenguin stated), but I don't know, that's my non-n*z1 non groomer perspective.

I am pretty sure the only thing I compared to any platform was Australia Post. You were definitely not reading carefully there.
Now, I doubt you will deny that Australia Post is a communication platform…

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They could give at least the server protocol just in case someone wants to create a FOSS server.

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It certainly won’t run in offline mode. That really should be a requirement to be 'verified'. The Steam Deck is a portable device after all.
And the software being restrained by anti-tamper provisions and being leashed to a spyware account is a strong determent, too.
Especially the anti-tamper corset completely runs against proton compatibility.
Though I am sure it will sell well anyway…

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