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@Cyba.Cowboy

You might want to reread the second paragraph or check out the Nvidia link. Both say that the upcoming 580 series will be the last for Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs. It's not happening immediately.

@mi1stormilst
Or, in my case -- since I game on a laptop -- I don't want to to spend any more money on a new laptop ...

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I hope I am wrong, but a change in ownership of a popular platform never ended well as far as I can tell/remember.

PayPal is doing better than it would have under Thiel and Musk. Minecraft is doing better than it would have under Notch.

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@Stella Small open source projects tend to be very tricky to work with and be difficult to use, build and whatnot. This is going to be true in any OS, but they are much less common in Windows . . . small open source projects are usually Linux based. It has little to do with whether Linux is "viable as an application platform".

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Sunshine completely stopped working for me. The deb package was never supported on Ubuntu 25 and just generates errors when you try to install it. The devs recommend 'self compiling it' as a fix
And flathub package used to work on KDE Wayland but doesn't anymore.

I feel like Linux still needs a lot of work to be viable as an application platform, because my experience is that stuff constantly breaks. All the time. And then you have to wait for a fix, if it even is ever fixed

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Let the enshittification begin! It didn't even took them a month to start.

Sure, part of the excuse is laws, but they are also putting stuff behind a paywall:

"Images which contain Pornographic content or contain Extreme violence must be posted to the supporter image share".

Not that I care about the images, or the extreme violence, not my thing, but it's clear they are going to change more so that the free users are being forced to start paying.

I hope I am wrong, but a change in ownership of a popular platform never ended well as far as I can tell/remember.

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What I'm really concerned about with this approach is that to verify, one usually has to use some kind of a technology/software which is usually available/working only on so called "supported" platforms...

So what if you are not using the "supported" platform that techbros so generously have chosen for you?

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Not sure what the bit Steam Input should be doing.

I tested HITMAN running with Wine-Wayland for that sweet HDR, and even with the latest 10-8 release, controller still doesn't work, until I manually turn off Steam input for the game.

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I'm curious... desktop doesn't work, Steam Deck does - what about the Legion Go S?

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Next step fingerprint verification, and for even naughtier content, a blood sample.

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Thank you for doing these kind of articles Liam! It's so helpful to have these guides, not just in the moment for the game at hand, but also because it introduces interesting projects and commands we might not be aware of (example: protontricks).

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Hell yeah, go nvidia! 😂 love to see it

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Dang, Helldivers in the top 25??! Incredible game, but how do people play that game so much on deck?? Between the complex button mashing and 720p I can only do a couple hours in that game before my eyes and wrists beg for mercy 😂 maybe I need to revisit my controls / graphics settings!!

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Oh, that looks interesting! "Somebody wake up Hicks."

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Ah, I guess the tearing in VR that got introduced with 570 got fixed in this one, right?
Or the headset tracking delay that's happening since 440 got this minor fix, right?
And for sure the asnyc reprojection issues where only needing this minor fix as well.

Obviously!



550 club reporting.

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I don't know....
It is hard to explain, but this *feels* like some kind of a new low...

I mean like "-Does it run on my overpowered&expensive Linux gaming rig? -Well, sure, we do support Steamdeck" low...

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Ah, I guess the tearing in VR that got introduced with 570 got fixed in this one, right?
Or the headset tracking delay that's happening since 440 got this minor fix, right?
And for sure the asnyc reprojection issues where only needing this minor fix as well.

Oh, the ppa doesn't have this driver for any Ubuntu version prior to 25.04. Maybe it'll come with the update from 575.51 to 575.64 then.
But for now... frick, cannot test. Too bad.

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Steam Input no longer works on Wayland.

Why am I no longer surprised by this..

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Well, another crappy developer added to my ignore list.

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Valve are probably going to have to do better testing since this

SteamOS:
This game runs successfully on SteamOS

isn't really true. Only Deck. And potentially only LCD Deck if it's like the others that use this anti-cheat.

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More like Linux anti-cheat break

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There is hope, Wuthering Waves uses the same anticheat and it's playable on Linux. Hopefully someone figures out the trick. or if it's up to game devs to enable support, well, hopefully they do !

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What kind of break is this? More like summer break, limit break, or dragon break?

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

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

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

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Impressive one. So much take to linux users

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

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Slow news day, huh?

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Yep — that's the entire changelog.

They surely did their best

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

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

This is hilarious:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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