I for one am really happy about this. 2 years on fedora and so far it's been a bliss compared to all other distro I tried.

(as for the AI part, posted my opinion in the other post as that was more relevant than here)

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I hate the AI circlejerk, the models are built by greedy corporations appropriating the work of thousands without a second thought. Then they sell it to the mass (keeping the money for themselves ofc). Then most people proceed to use "AI" to generate a flood of approximate junk they smear all over the world. The noise makes it harder to reach quality information and reinforces the use of LLM models.

But with that said, LLMs are just tools. Whether they're used for good or bad is in the hand of the wielder.

For example, Daniel Stenberg publicly (and rightfully) denounced a flood of "ai slop" security reports to cURL [External Link]. But the same person also acknowledged [External Link] the relevance of a massive report openly built using "AI-based" tools [External Link].

If anything, open source projects are the most rightful beneficiaries of LLM-powered improvements since most available models heavily leverage open source code.

I'd much rather trust a project that acknowledge LLM-based tools and handle them appropriately than one which pretends they don't exist and nobody uses them.

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If there already is a native port, it is always better to fix that port (if possible/feasible) instead of just nuking it and relying on the Windows version running using Proton.

To me, adding new content and fixing bugs make a game better. Changing how my computer reads the 1s and 0s, does not. As such I'd rather they spend whatever resource they have making the game better, rather than the binary more linux-y.

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The problem is not specifically Linux users cheating, it’s Linux being a platform repeatedly abused by cheat makers to run them. So it makes Linux an easy target to just block. Low hanging fruit in the fight against cheaters.

Also implementing kernel-level anti-cheat on linux would...

• require skilled linux kernel devs


• require extra maintenance


• not increase sales much


• likely be easier to circumvent due to the kernel being open source

In short it would be a terrible return on investment.

I still have some hope for valve or a government to label kernel level anti-cheats as the terrible security liability they are and ban them.

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A few picks from my collection (good games which ran great for me on linux):

- The wandering village
- Deep Rock Galactic (all DLCs are purely cosmetic)
- Wildmender
- Bastion
- Transistor
- FAR: Lone Sail
- Pine

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Let us hope the next gem by hazelight is not published by EA. Thankfully they're not a subsidiary so there is hope.

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Looking forward to playing that one! I can never get enough of these coop adventure games.

Also can I just point out that it really irks me when people use reviews as a grievance form for what's obviously a bug.

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I haven't looked too much into it but apparently people have already modded the demo.
Wouldn't be surprised if we get an offline patch within launch week.
Still absolutely ridiculous but at least SEGA incompetence might come to the rescue.

Unfortunately I'd wager denuvo will prevent moders from fixing the game.

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1. The proper way to do age verification is for the government of a nation to provide a service which other parties can use to verify that a person is old enough to access said content (so not 'is this person at least 18', but 'is this person old enough that they are allowed to access this type of content').

It is also really important that the government service is not used directly by the content provider but by the end user, so that the government does not know what the verification is being used for.

This could work something like this:

- government has a website which you can only access after registering and proving who you are (plenty common already for voting, taxes and whatnot)
- on that website you can generate a time-limited token which proves your age (or anything else for that matter)
- any website can validate that said token has been emitted by the government and is therefore valid, without a request to the government services

It is essentially asymmetric cryptography which is widely used and not that hard to implement.

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Got accepted in the play test a couple weeks back and was not impressed.

Some of the ideas look pretty fun and interesting, but after over 3h playing there was still none of that. Only slow, boring, resources gathering and survival which was about filling need bars every so often.

I really hope they work on the first impression/early game before releasing the demo. If your game is built around a core idea, don't make people grind for hours before experiencing it.

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