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The first Hollow Knight: Silksong patch arrives next week - here's what's in it
9 Sep 2025 at 8:03 pm UTC Likes: 2

yeah agree- what are the controller issues? I'm playing on linux in our living room htpc machine with a 8bitdo controller and haven't had any problems (that I know of?) ...?

anyway - I'm glad to see the difficulty reduction! I'm just so bad at these games, but love playing them, making it so I don't have to try every boss 100x times is a welcome change.

Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now with Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck support
8 Sep 2025 at 4:46 pm UTC

Did a second play session with my friend last night: man alive the game is hard. I'm not good at fast action games and I know this, but we still love the genre, so ... here we are! I don't think we ever completed HK1 due to it being so hard, and this is like that but on steroids. Still having so much fun. We are playing it on a 4k oled tv and my god it's just so gorgeous. The audio is top notch as well. The bosses I am not liking very much, like at all, but I guess there's not so many of them, so just power through. Hornet is still so weak right now, she just feels SO fragile, and the bosses taking two hearts just for even the slightest mistake is brutality.

KDE officially release the first alpha of KDE Linux their new reference implementation OS
8 Sep 2025 at 3:57 pm UTC Likes: 2

So what happens to KDE Neon? The site is still up and telling people to download it. Shouldn't they just totally take that down if there's really no support (because it's all going to this new "KDE Linux") ...?

also ... that name. So generic, and confusing. Every single distro out there can be a "kde linux" by just simply using kde on it.

I'm glad KDE has their own in-house distro, there's just so many questions.

Need some games for the week? Check out the Humble Curve Games Care Package Bundle
8 Sep 2025 at 3:34 pm UTC

I haven't played most of these, but I HAVE played The Ascent, and loved it (after a bunch of patches) - so I highly recommend it if anyones thinking about it!

Sci-fi adventure Ultrasound will bring a different kind of body horror
8 Sep 2025 at 3:32 pm UTC Likes: 4

Man - "horrors of the ultrasound" is such a real thing. When we had a miscarriage, it was that machine that delivered the news to us by showing a big empty black hole instead of where a baby should have been, like last time. The nurse couldn't say anything at all, so were just there scared to death wondering, knowing. Oof. Everything went fine with the next two pregnancies, so all good now, but yeah, that's not something you forget. Can't believe someone made a game and referenced that concept!! wow!

Cronos: The New Dawn releases today - Steam Deck Verified with Linux support
7 Sep 2025 at 2:03 am UTC Likes: 1

I've always wondered what it would be like to play as a character with no eyes, ears, nose, mouth ... just a vagina helmet and nothing else. Now ... it's finally happened.

Here's the top 50 most played games on Steam Deck for August 2025 - with Hollow Knight the champion
2 Sep 2025 at 1:46 pm UTC Likes: 1

On Deck, I've been loving Quartet. It's SOOOOO good, can't recommend it enough.

The popular Linux distro CachyOS has a big upgrade and some fun stuff for gamers
29 Aug 2025 at 1:06 pm UTC Likes: 2

@shadowofward

I highly recommend to do the following:

CachyOS - OS
Gnome or Plasma - Desktop (you want modern wayland support and they're the best at it and most stable)
BTRFS - File System (you want / need Snapper support for magical rollbacks, plus it's what is recommended by cachy itself)
Limine - Bootloader (native snapper support)

The popular Linux distro CachyOS has a big upgrade and some fun stuff for gamers
28 Aug 2025 at 1:39 pm UTC Likes: 2

Typing this from my cachy install right now! Loving this distro. So far super smooth sailing. It's blazing fast yes, but also very easy to install and configure and keep up to date.

Although, I thought they recommended to use Octopi to manage packages and updates? Is "cachy-update" different? I'll have to look...

Quartet is a fresh retro-styled RPG out now with Linux and Steam Deck support
28 Aug 2025 at 1:36 pm UTC Likes: 1

Been looking forward to this game for a long time! I think since I did a demo on one of the next fests maybe? SO MUCH FUN! It's perfect for the deck. As soon as I finish up Tainted Grail I'm going to go 100% in on this one.