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Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash
12 Mar 2026 at 11:06 am UTC Likes: 11
12 Mar 2026 at 11:06 am UTC Likes: 11
Oh, this is finally blowing up now? I actually skipped the entire section where the Mathieu glazed AI in The Linux Destination podcast. It was pretty long.
Look, I get it, people use AI. I personally don't mind if he generates codes, checks it, rewrite it into something that fits with the rest of the code in the project. Others' lines might differ, but as long as the program didn't become slop, I am willing to tolerate it.
But this:
Although I do find it rather ironic that Lutris, in the same podcast, is claimed to be a platform for game preservation, and yet he uses AI, which Myrient (a game preservation site) has cited to be a reason why they're shutting down.
Look, I get it, people use AI. I personally don't mind if he generates codes, checks it, rewrite it into something that fits with the rest of the code in the project. Others' lines might differ, but as long as the program didn't become slop, I am willing to tolerate it.
But this:
Anyway, I was suspecting that this "issue" might come up so I've removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what's generated and what is not.Is absolutely the wrong way to handle it.
Although I do find it rather ironic that Lutris, in the same podcast, is claimed to be a platform for game preservation, and yet he uses AI, which Myrient (a game preservation site) has cited to be a reason why they're shutting down.
CachyOS update brings improvements for PC gaming handhelds, the installer and more
9 Mar 2026 at 6:27 pm UTC
9 Mar 2026 at 6:27 pm UTC
Been using CachyOS for a month since migrating from Bazzite. It's been pretty smooth so far.
Octopi seems rough at first, being more like Synaptics or dnfdragora, but once I got used to it I actually quite like it due to how fast and to-the-point it is - it's kinda like having an ultra efficient search engine to Arch packages and AUR.
I still do install stuff on Distrobox and Flatpak for mitigation reasons. But the host system overall is pretty well thought out. It feels like they just set Arch up for you, include many optimization in the backend, and otherwise unintrusively give you Arch with just a couple of nice-to-have and decent out-of-box-experience.
I think that's what makes it stand out from Manjaro, Garuda, Endeavour. It still feels like Arch, as the nice-to-haves and the defaults feels seamless even though they absolutely set things up for you... Arguably pretty aggressively. I think it's because it feels unopinioated regarding stuff that people notice, while actually setting things up for you.
Octopi seems rough at first, being more like Synaptics or dnfdragora, but once I got used to it I actually quite like it due to how fast and to-the-point it is - it's kinda like having an ultra efficient search engine to Arch packages and AUR.
I still do install stuff on Distrobox and Flatpak for mitigation reasons. But the host system overall is pretty well thought out. It feels like they just set Arch up for you, include many optimization in the backend, and otherwise unintrusively give you Arch with just a couple of nice-to-have and decent out-of-box-experience.
I think that's what makes it stand out from Manjaro, Garuda, Endeavour. It still feels like Arch, as the nice-to-haves and the defaults feels seamless even though they absolutely set things up for you... Arguably pretty aggressively. I think it's because it feels unopinioated regarding stuff that people notice, while actually setting things up for you.
Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
7 Mar 2026 at 5:30 pm UTC
With Canonical and Red Hat covered, if the law moves forward, I can see happening is the dbus gets implemented anyways. Downstream distro not in US can likely avoid it.
Another alternative I could see is an opt-out during install process. Insert disclamer that installing user is above 18, blablabla, and it gets installed without the age confirmation subsystem.
The question then becomes how long until they force application to have to check for the user age bracket indicator as well. Because the law, from my reading, isn't just for OS distributor, but also application creator.
7 Mar 2026 at 5:30 pm UTC
Quoting: CarollyA majority of distros aren't even based in the US, so good luck with that.A good majority of them are still doing business in the US, if not outright in California/Colorado. There is also the question of organization and hosting/mirroring - I doubt it'd get enforced to THAT extent, but it is possible for them to order non-compliant OS to be dropped by hosters and mirrors. Even gitlab likely gets a decent amount of money from users / companies in California / Silicon Valley, nevermind the direct donations that major distro like Arch receives.
But I'd imagine it would just be thrown out of court regardless. California cannot impose their laws outside of their own jurisdiction. There's a reason that products sold in my country don't carry Prop 65 labels, and there's a reason that most products sold in America don't, either. If it were that simple the California AG would be suing people left, right, and centre for failing to comply with Prop 65 labeling legislation outside of state.
With Canonical and Red Hat covered, if the law moves forward, I can see happening is the dbus gets implemented anyways. Downstream distro not in US can likely avoid it.
Another alternative I could see is an opt-out during install process. Insert disclamer that installing user is above 18, blablabla, and it gets installed without the age confirmation subsystem.
The question then becomes how long until they force application to have to check for the user age bracket indicator as well. Because the law, from my reading, isn't just for OS distributor, but also application creator.
Bazzite gets a big update with KDE Plasma 6.6, Mesa 26.0.1 and more
7 Mar 2026 at 5:14 pm UTC
It was as easy as setting up the profile to start with a distrobox enter. Like so:
7 Mar 2026 at 5:14 pm UTC
Quoting: Stellawith the Ptyxis terminal you can easily open a new container session from a dropdown in the UI, Konsole did not have this until very recently (we're still waiting for the merged commits to land in an actual release, but you'll be able to select your containers if you right click the 'new tab' dropdown)It hasn't landed? I've been just right-clicking tue New Tab dropdown and entering my distrobox just fine this month. Granted, I'm on Arch and I already got 6.6 and I don't remember if I've been using it since before then, so I might be mistaken.
It was as easy as setting up the profile to start with a distrobox enter. Like so:
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Valve gives Steam developer and publisher pages a lot more customization options
6 Mar 2026 at 9:54 am UTC Likes: 6
6 Mar 2026 at 9:54 am UTC Likes: 6
One inch at a time, we are reclaiming and returning the web back into one with personality, instead of javascript-framework-of-the-month slop that it's become.
Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
4 Mar 2026 at 3:11 pm UTC Likes: 3
I feel like everyone is so optimistic that they can't be sued because the alternative is taking it seriously and it's scary, as well as involves compromises on things that traditionally we don't care for (but now have to because law is law).
4 Mar 2026 at 3:11 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: CarollyHonestly just slap a "not legal to use in California" label on the OS and be done with it.I mean. They could still sue you. Your Terms of Service and EULA is only as good as your legal team and how much money you have.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I feel like everyone is so optimistic that they can't be sued because the alternative is taking it seriously and it's scary, as well as involves compromises on things that traditionally we don't care for (but now have to because law is law).
Bazzite gets a big update with KDE Plasma 6.6, Mesa 26.0.1 and more
4 Mar 2026 at 3:07 pm UTC Likes: 1
re: Discover and Bazaar
4 Mar 2026 at 3:07 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Stellathe only reason they used Ptyxis in the first place was because of Konsole's seriously lacking container support, which are very important for the immutable distro workflow.What counts as "seriously lacking container support" here? I've been using konsole with distrobox just fine even before I got on ublue, and that's before we even have Bazzite and only had ublue-kinoite. I can enter my container pretty quickly - just use an alias or zsh-autosuggestions if you want to do it quickly.
I personally dislike Discover as it feels slow and bloated due to the many different backends it supports and despite being called Discover, the discoverability of apps feels lacking in comparison to Bazaar. I even started using Bazaar on my Steam Deck.
re: Discover and Bazaar
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I don't care about Discover's problems with Flatpak and others. I just want to be able to keep my applets, themes, and kwin scripts updated. If it bothers people so much, just include Bazaar, pin it in favorite, hide Discover in Utility category.
What I hated was Discover being removed when Bazaar still sucked. I did give it a try back then - it locks the entire app if you clicked Update, it was still pretty slow, I know it crashed on other people, and I find the way it loads on each keypress while searching to be rather uncomfortable as I am a bit sensitive to flashing screens. It wasn't ready, it was shoved in my face, and what I needed was removed while restoring it isn't as straightforward as with Konsole. The last time an operating system didn't something similar, I left and learned an entirely new operating system.
Honestly, I don't even want to talk about Bazaar anymore - it just keeps making me angry remembering how it was implemented in the ublue ecosystem. I don't even care how good it is now, the initial introduction left such a bad taste in my mouth.
What I hated was Discover being removed when Bazaar still sucked. I did give it a try back then - it locks the entire app if you clicked Update, it was still pretty slow, I know it crashed on other people, and I find the way it loads on each keypress while searching to be rather uncomfortable as I am a bit sensitive to flashing screens. It wasn't ready, it was shoved in my face, and what I needed was removed while restoring it isn't as straightforward as with Konsole. The last time an operating system didn't something similar, I left and learned an entirely new operating system.
Honestly, I don't even want to talk about Bazaar anymore - it just keeps making me angry remembering how it was implemented in the ublue ecosystem. I don't even care how good it is now, the initial introduction left such a bad taste in my mouth.
Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
4 Mar 2026 at 2:42 pm UTC Likes: 1
4 Mar 2026 at 2:42 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: Stellawhat about Docker containers???? Do I need to enter my age for every single Docker container that gets created? In companies they get created and destroyed by the thousand each day. This is beyond ridiculous.Presumably, no. Fedora has the right mind of how it'll look like - docker can just inherit the user age bracket data as part of its initialization process. Could also just check for user's group, since they also care about `docker` group anyways.
Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
4 Mar 2026 at 2:41 pm UTC Likes: 2
The law itself is pretty clear about what counts as a violation and what's the fine. The problem that isn't clear is how they expect OS vendor to comply, in the technical sense, and what counts as "negligent" and "intentional" violation (I would assume not doing anything at all would count as intentional).
This is unfortunately a legal matter - you can't think as a user or as a dev, you have to think as legal entities.
Again, the only way out really is to get the laws amended or challenged in Supreme Court, neither of which are easy. My main worry is with other countries, especially EU if I'm being honest - they can more likely to overreach with their version of the law and I'm not sure how you'd challenge them.
4 Mar 2026 at 2:41 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeReally don't see how they can enforce it, particularly on linux distrosIt's pretty simple: they see a company not doing anything to comply, they sue. Now, whether it'll hold up in Supreme Court, that's a question - though not one that's anyone eager to answer, especially of the lawsuit started first on a red state that implements a similar law.
The law itself is pretty clear about what counts as a violation and what's the fine. The problem that isn't clear is how they expect OS vendor to comply, in the technical sense, and what counts as "negligent" and "intentional" violation (I would assume not doing anything at all would count as intentional).
This is unfortunately a legal matter - you can't think as a user or as a dev, you have to think as legal entities.
Again, the only way out really is to get the laws amended or challenged in Supreme Court, neither of which are easy. My main worry is with other countries, especially EU if I'm being honest - they can more likely to overreach with their version of the law and I'm not sure how you'd challenge them.
Bazzite gets a big update with KDE Plasma 6.6, Mesa 26.0.1 and more
3 Mar 2026 at 10:25 am UTC Likes: 3
3 Mar 2026 at 10:25 am UTC Likes: 3
Huh. Can't believe they'd actually restore Konsole and uses Kontainer. I've been using Kontainer myself and has been quite happy with it. Hopefully Discover could return - it's quite useful for keeping applets, themes, and other KNewStuff things updated.
Still, good to see that Bazzite getting good new updates even if there was a bit of an issue. It no longer fits my usecase and I don't think I could trust it, but it is good to see it improving.
Still, good to see that Bazzite getting good new updates even if there was a bit of an issue. It no longer fits my usecase and I don't think I could trust it, but it is good to see it improving.
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