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Wow. A bunch of grumpy pessimists here.

I pay cold hard cash to Kagi for a much better search experience. I hope they can use the new API to further improve their service. It would also be great to have a Kagi-like service based outside of the USA.

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Also on itch: https://pixeljam.itch.io/utopia-must-fall/
comes with a steam key.

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So funny that GOG can do what Steam cannot: Support good security.

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i know its probably an joke, but:

 
Great! Question. Can I install it on Linux? 

yeah, its called distrobox and have been arround for a while

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@stella - a client isn't needed. in fact i hate clients since its unnecessary just to run a game. steam drm ruined pc gaming with drm and clients being forced.

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@Cyril happy for you, not relevant to me lmao

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So, can you play this single player?

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@fenglengshun On my side I didn't have to wait for email code, because my ISP provides me static IP address.

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I would be sceptical of anything the European Union does, but a new search engine is sorely needed.

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I'll get Everspace2 once they bundle it with DLC with a decent discount.

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Fxcking finally. It was always annoying having to wait for the email. Makes it easier when setting up Heroic as well - I can keep my phone open on the same app ready to put in the code right after logging in to Epic.

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Great! Question. Can I install it on Linux?

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If you have the vk_hdr_layer package for kwin, it may screw up HDR for some people, especially those using ITM feature in Gamescope, will cause artifacting etc.. So something to be wary of when updating to Proton10.

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Microsoft doesn’t own a trademark on “Mineshaft”. And the game is nothing like Minecraft. There is nothing they can do.

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They must have done it for a reason which in typical Microsoft fashion only benefits themselves.

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We really have come a long way from the Microsoft of old.

I'm going to have to disagree. Microsoft open sourcing anything is like a serial killer stabbing you 10 times then offering a sticky bandage.

They'll never change. None of the billionaire-owned mega-corps will.

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These seem like good choices, there are a lot of pages of stuff on sale, great find

https://fanatical.com/en/game/doom-and-doom-ii?ref=gol

https://fanatical.com/en/game/golf-with-your-friends?ref=gol

https://fanatical.com/en/game/ion-fury?ref=gol

https://fanatical.com/en/game/carrion?ref=gol

https://fanatical.com/en/game/starship-troopers-terran-command?ref=gol

https://fanatical.com/en/game/pac-man-championship-edition-dx-all-you-can-eat-edition?ref=gol

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Although, to be fair in the other way, IIRC, DuckDuckGo, for example, does primarily use Bing, although not strictly so.

DDG was down when bing was down a while ago, so was yahoo and pretty much all "alternative" search engine.

Just look at recent news, with Microsoft cutting off access to Bing Search APIs on August 11 2025 as they continue to pivot to AI.

Ironically this could be a huge boon for openwebsearch. Since several search engines rely heavily on bing APIs, they will need to find an alternative. Whether intentional or not, good timing on their part.

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Pretty fun game, you can get to blindingly ridiculous levels of on screen chaos! There is a demo available if you want to try before the full release.

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Honestly it's about time they added this.

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Do you still get credit if I follow your link, but purchase something else?

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my 2 cents:

if it doesn't offer a basic reference website, only an API, users might be distanced from it by a myriad of half-assed privacy-eggregious frontends

if it cares for only european content or it's only for europeans to use it, it's also dead in the water, because even europeans need non-european content to be searchable, etc

fortunately i suspect it's actually all the world's content for all the world but under european legislation, which is probably the best new option we (the world, not just europe) can have right now... yes, there'll be some content filtering, but less so than the reality bubbles Google, Meta & friends have been building around everyone while horning "free speech" against country laws

and given the EU still leaves room for national differences in content restriction rules, i suspect the API will actually allow EVERYTHING to be indexed and searcheable, with each frontend defining its national/corporate/political filter as an option, not at its core (eg: API providing filtering flags for ...&show_allowed_in=UK, ...&pegi=13, show_fakes=false, etc)

there are actually a zillion valid usecases for eg: a researcher or a company to be able to list and explore otherwise banned content, and if they're smart they might avoid "censorship" allegations this way

the obvious caveat is crazies building a campaing for everyone to actually use search.breitbart.eu daily "to avoid censorship" while unwittingly falling into a secondary web UI reality bubble atop a perfectly ok base

but the API license could enforce filtering trasparency as a condition for its usage

anyway, here is to at least a hint of hope for less ad-driven top results 🍻

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PCGamingwiki can be really helpful in determining anti-consumer features, also developers have to declare Denuvo and other DRMs on the store page itself now, as well as third-party accounts and kernel-level anticheat

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Games with Denuvo work on Linux with Proton, as long as you [don't repeatedly change](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/denuvo-will-lock-you-out-of-games-on-linux-steamos-steam-deck-if-you-keep-changing-proton-versions/) the Proton version on the same day. Denuvo is not listed on Steam for that particular title.

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Doesn't Dragon Ball Z Kakarot have Denuvo?

I really wish we had a ProtonDB to better identify games with DRM and anti-consumer features like "Always Online".

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I really hope this doesn't suck! Been using DDG for many years, and it works for me, but would prefer an European funded alternative that doesn't depend on Bing.

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Can we change the name? It's confusing, "Windows subsystem for linux". The name implies (for me) that the windows is running on top of linux.

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About time. Kinda ridiculous that it's taken this long. But better late than never.

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It would be great for the sake of more options, but I like the qr code login with the steam app.

@Stella
You can download games via the website as well, no need for the app for that. :)

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WSL 1 or 2? Which one did they open sourced? WSL 1 was basically reverse Wine while WSL2 is a Hyper-V virtual machine. Which opens the question, which parts of Hyper-V did they opened up? I think none and I suspect this might be just the hyper visor as all Linuxes you can run with it are open source already.

Call me an idiot but this sound more like a PR stunt then actual meaningful open source contribution to me.

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