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KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
17 Feb 2026 at 2:42 pm UTC

Quoting: Stella
Quoting: LoftyFinally! We have an integrated onscreen keyboard under Wayland which has been a much needed accessibility feature for me. I have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard' which has meant missing out on other gaming features & HDR. Now i will have to move from my older existing plasma install to a newer distro that supports 6.6

Not sure which one to choose , needs to be more upto date than mint/debian though but a 'YOLO Update' distro 🤔

Great work 👍
Fedora 44 will get KDE 6.6. Worth noting that there are also immutable variants of Fedora like Kionite or Bazzite/Aurora from Universalblue. The advantage is integrated rollback functionality and the assurance of always having a working system, while staying relatively up to date
I have considered Fedora, never really got into it so far and I've been using Linux for a good long while. I read there are some things missing OOTB that make it not as complete as a distro such as Mint, Ubuntu or even Manjaro.

KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
17 Feb 2026 at 2:36 pm UTC Likes: 3

Finally! We have an integrated onscreen keyboard under Wayland which has been a much needed accessibility feature for me. I have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard' which has meant missing out on other gaming features & HDR. Now i will have to move from my older existing plasma install to a newer distro that supports 6.6

Not sure which one to choose , needs to be more upto date than mint/debian though but Not a 'YOLO Update' distro 🤔

Great work 👍

Steam Deck completely out of stock in the US, Canada and Asia
16 Feb 2026 at 11:45 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy
Quoting: Lofty
Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThe logical choice is ARM-based processors
And then after that the Ultra logical choice is RISC-V opensource license free architecture.
But do they have the maximum power / minimal power usage benefits of ARM? Anything partially or completely "open" is always a benefit; but it'd be a step backwards if they couldn't offer the power of ARM, whilst using minimal power like ARM...
it was more of a joke , but also with some optimism & idealism thrown in.

who knows, in the future it might become an alternative even if it's not class leading.

Steam Deck completely out of stock in the US, Canada and Asia
15 Feb 2026 at 10:35 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyThe logical choice is ARM-based processors
And then after that the Ultra logical choice is RISC-V opensource license free architecture.

Death Stranding 2 for PC and lots more from Sony State of Play (February 2026)
14 Feb 2026 at 6:26 pm UTC

Quoting: CatKiller£70/€80 is way too much for the base game of Death Stranding 2. That's $95; although European customers are subsidising US customers because they're only charging $70 in the US. £50/€60 would still be an expensive game, but not insane.
These games are getting so expensive that even on an aggressive sale i wouldn't consider purchasing. At best id watch a play through in 4k 😄

Dino Crisis 1 and 2 arrive on Steam but they need tweaks to run on Linux / SteamOS
14 Feb 2026 at 5:55 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: suchDRM in fn Dino Crisis? Just install Duckstation, problem solved.
And using the right combo of setting it probably looks better. There are also texture packs for the PS1 game that will run via duckstation..

However.. Look into the drama surrounding duckstation and the main Dev. He is literally blacklisting certain Linux Distro's in the source code ( Which by the way is not fully FOSS & has a strict license )
Not to mention not supporting AUR or Flatpak. At some point i would not be surprised if he entirely stopped supporting Linux altogether. Fortunately before it was locked behind a restrictive license the code was essentially all complete. So a Fork will be possible at some point, even if it takes some time to get upto Duckstation's quality.

Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War gets a satisfying demo and release date
13 Feb 2026 at 9:21 pm UTC

i know there are online Starship Trooper games. But i do think a local split screen option would be great.

Steam Deck completely out of stock in the US, Canada and Asia
13 Feb 2026 at 2:08 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe big AI firms do have some revenue, but far, far less than their operating expenses, certainly nothing like enough to pay back their debts.
good point, i often forget about the operating expense. Maybe this time it will crash ? I still believe those data centers will exist to perform yet even more short-lived grifts & ofc Ai isn't going away. However if the economic effects are profound as usual i expect we will see privatize the gains socialize the losses situation. Leaving the bag holders & the public to pick up the pieces.

Lets hope for a return to normal soon.

Wireless VR streaming levels up on Linux with the latest WiVRn release
13 Feb 2026 at 12:33 am UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: CorbenI hope Valve will improve the Steam VR experience, maybe they did in the meantime.
Im fairly sure for the complete novice anything is better than the current dumpster fire landscape that is VR.

even your post is quite revealing no ?

WayVR
Envision
Monado
XRizer
OpenComposite

and all sorts of tweaking , software settings & correct vulkan , rust versions & so on.. and that above does not include half a dozen other jargon terms in relation to VR to bamboozle the user. let alone installation of lighthouses with valve or requiring meta accounts.

But for VR to be a total success ? :

Step 1. Press play on Steam game with wireless dongle connected.
Step 2. Place battery charged headset on & pick up controllers.

Step 3. Play game.

if that is what valve achieve with the frame, then it will be a success imo.