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Latest Comments by Jarmer
Steam Beta adds Remote Downloads Management
3 Apr 2026 at 12:48 pm UTC

I can remember back a LONG time ago when I had a bunch of downloads to do, and I was thinking "where is the download all button" just not even comprehending the concept that there might not be one, I was just thinking I couldn't find it. Spent a good few minutes hunting then searched the web and was flabbergasted. Still to this continue to be amazed every time I go click every single title one after another.

Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time
2 Apr 2026 at 2:54 pm UTC Likes: 4

Thank you thank you thank you Microsoft for your miserable obsession with AI, your continued march to make Windows the worst possible OS ever conceived, and your seething loathing hatred for every single human that uses any of your products! All of us in linuxland love you so much for all these wonderful things :) Keep on keeping on MS!

Mesa 26.0.4 open source graphics drivers released for Linux
2 Apr 2026 at 2:49 pm UTC

I'm running mesa 26.0.3 which I think has the recent big RT improvements but I haven't really played a game that would benefit from any RT (also I'm not entirely convinced that rt itself isn't just marketing nonsense). I might fire up Greedfall 2 soon which I think would indeed have some RT stuff, so we shall see!

If you love horror boomer shooters keep BLIGHTEN on your radar
1 Apr 2026 at 1:45 pm UTC

LOVE IT! instawishlist. I'll get to it "soon" I swear.

Ubuntu MATE seeking maintainers as the creator looks to move on
31 Mar 2026 at 2:29 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: XpanderWhat distros are dropping X11 support? there are still things that dont work on wayland some people require, so i doubt X will go anywhere soon. If that time comes we will see.
All of them...

Fedora
Ubuntu
Opensuse
Popos
Mint
Gnome (I know not a distro, it's a de, but still relevent) is fully wayland only, no x at all.
^ this is just off the top of my head, I could look up more, but it's pretty much all the major parent distros.

I'm sure you can add X back in to some of these if you want, but that's not the point. X will of course still be used by the legacy people, but every day that passes that percentage will go down and down until there's a stable like 0.1% or something.

Ubuntu MATE seeking maintainers as the creator looks to move on
31 Mar 2026 at 1:33 pm UTC

Mate itself is still stuck on x isn't it? With all the distros dropping x and going wayland only, if mate doesn't migrate to full wayland support as cinnamon is doing, will it even have a future at all?

Heretic II has a new reverse-engineered source port
31 Mar 2026 at 1:26 pm UTC

huh interesting. I thought these old heretic / hexen games all ran on the doom engine.

Story-driven action RPG The Expanse: Osiris Reborn gets a new trailer and release window
27 Mar 2026 at 2:00 pm UTC Likes: 3

This game is gonna be SO AWESOME! However, this is your friendly public service announcement:

THIS IS OWLCAT. The game will be wonderful ... eventually. If they say 2027, this probably means 2028 release, but even then it'll be a beta version they slap a 1.0 on. But they continually dev for a very long time, so my recommendation would be to wait until 2029 to actually play this game, as it'll have enormouse balance / skill updates and patches etc.

Rogue Trader was an absolutely phenomenal game... after a while. At launch, it had some pretty big issues, but they fixed them! The game you play today is nothing at all like what they launched 1.0 with. Which is a good thing that they continually dev.

Steam Client Beta bring fixes for the new Linux SteamRT3 Beta
26 Mar 2026 at 1:01 pm UTC

This could pair wonderfully with the Epoch 2 release of Cosmic later this summer / year. If this 64b containerized steam comes out of beta around then, I will flash to an entirely new cutting edge system wooo!

Forza Horizon 6 confirmed to be playable on Steam Deck / SteamOS
25 Mar 2026 at 7:42 pm UTC Likes: 2

Man I'm such a sucker for these games. Mexico was a blast, and now Japan should be awesome! I think I will wait a bit though, patches / updates, and a discount sound good to me.