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Ubisoft just broke their games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck
1 Feb 2023 at 9:44 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: kaimanGood I've been boycotting Ubisoft (and EA) for the past 15 years or so.

Though, I would have been really, really hard pressed to keep it up, had Ubisoft released the new Settlers as originally announced. Luckily, they botched that, too!
I did not. But the last one I really enjoyed was Dragon Age: Origins. All others feel so... same cookbook, and if I even play them through (I rarely do), I have regretted buying them in the end.

Ubisoft just broke their games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck
1 Feb 2023 at 7:33 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: drjoms
Quoting: basedPointless launchers are convenience for the publisher, not the user
I wouldn't argue, if Windows users were affected too. But it is not the case...

Linux users who depend on proton, MUST remember, that at any time their fav game can be broken for any reason.(unless dev specifically supports proton, which I don't know how many such devs are out there)
Quite some actually. The bigger publishers wouldn't give a wet fart though. Those are mostly the ones with the launchers ;-).

But you're right of course, we can not expect support but from Valve, and they only can react and not act proactively.

Budgie 10.7 sounds like a great desktop to use on Linux
1 Feb 2023 at 7:05 pm UTC

Gotta' look up if they still depend on ancient gnome depends or if that was done by now (last time I looked was some releases back).

Josh had plans to do so, maybe they got around doing that by now.

I always liked Budgie. I am by now used to my new workflow in Gnome, but I still disagree with a lot of decisions made where you need extensions (as AppIndicator, which breaks every major Gnome release and makes the Desktop crash).

Raven was a blessing in Budgie, and I considered recently if I want to install it next to gnome and give it a shot again.

Only thing is they suffer from the input shortcomings in mutter as much as gnome, which makes KDE the saner choice for gaming. And all the crashes in mutter... if you asked me 15 years ago I'd have said KWin will never become stable, but is by today rock solid.

[edit] yeah, that was done it seems, no dependencies on old gnome libraries that I can see in the meson files. Nice, will certainly install it alongside Gnome now and check if I like it better.

Lots more EA games get a Steam Deck Playable rating
26 Jan 2023 at 12:41 am UTC Likes: 1

That's why wr got the permanent BF doenloads ... I wondered already

Plasma 5.27 Beta live with Flatpak settings, multi-monitor upgrade, SteamOS updater
22 Jan 2023 at 6:11 pm UTC

Oh. Cool. If that actually fixes my issues with multi monitor I probably will switch back to KDE.

I am fine with Gnome now, though, input lag in windowed mode sucks (works perfectly well in fullscreen).

I'll give it a try, probably my stint with Gnome will end with F38 releasing. Will depend on if updates in discover work properly too (had strange issues there on F36.

Bluetooth support for the Stadia Controller is now live
19 Jan 2023 at 1:26 pm UTC

Okay, that worked pretty neatly from my Work PC with Edge on it.

Though, I'm quite shocked that Steam still has issues with controller configurations not saving etc., it's been years...

System76 teasing new fully AMD powered Pangolin Linux laptop
14 Jan 2023 at 12:04 pm UTC

Hmh, 1300 isn't that much actually. I wonder if there will be ones with german keyboard layouts :D.

Xfce 4.18 desktop is finally here
16 Dec 2022 at 8:51 am UTC

I could never properly use XFCE for their buggy multiple monitor support (in regards of properly setting primary screens when they are the same monitor type).

Will give this one a shot, even though I am pretty happy with gnome nowdays.

Valve has finally fixed the Steam Remote Play audio loss bug on Linux
14 Dec 2022 at 11:30 pm UTC Likes: 1

I'd prefer if they fixed the primary-screen bug...