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Talking point - what have you been playing lately?
12 Nov 2025 at 1:53 am UTC Likes: 1

Vintage Story and BeamNG.

Brutal survival game Vintage Story gets another huge update, plus work on an Adventure Mode announced
27 Aug 2025 at 8:24 pm UTC

Vintage Story is fantastic! I'm going to start a new world with this new version ASAP!

Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers
24 Jun 2025 at 3:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

There's these tons of games needing 32 bit anyway?!?
Is there though? 32 bit Windows games can be run on 64 bit Wine / Proton without the need for 32 bit libraries. In my experience, the vast majority of native games are already 64 bit.

I've been running 64 bit only for two years now, and have yet to come across a game I can't play.

Valve needs to join the 2010's, and move the Steam client to 64 bit.

#DRIVE Rally leaves Early Access on April 16 with Linux support and Steam Deck Verified
4 Apr 2025 at 1:16 pm UTC Likes: 1

Also available on GOG:
https://www.gog.com/en/game/drive_rally [External Link]

Though, there isn't a Linux version there yet.

Chilly survival game BLACKFROST: The Long Dark 2 announced
17 Dec 2024 at 1:36 pm UTC

I thoroughly enjoyed the parts of The Long Dark I played, but it will be cold day in hell before I give Hinterland anymore of my money.

GOG's Black Friday Sale is live now with some big discounts
26 Nov 2024 at 6:23 pm UTC Likes: 2

I had somehow missed that EU-IV was on GOG! 90% off for the base game, and several selected expansions is a pretty good deal...

Valve dev details more on the work behind making Steam for Linux more stable
12 Nov 2024 at 1:36 pm UTC Likes: 8

I'd just like to see Valve move into the 2010's and make the Steam client 64-bit.

NVK driver gets DRM Format Modifiers to work with Gamescope in Mesa 24.1
17 May 2024 at 3:06 pm UTC

Quoting: WMan22I wish there was an auto swap utility akin to prime-run/Nvidia Optimus where I could use the proprietary driver for games that run better with it, and NVK for games that run better with that, like A Hat In Time.

Even if I could use it by just swapping to it like a desktop environment in SDDM, where it'd be like Plasma (NVK Wayland) or (NVK X11)

This way I could like, check on the progress periodically without compromising my core experience, cause hot damn NVK is moving impressively fast in terms of updates and new features.
You can do it at the boot-level. On my old Maxwell based laptop I had grub setup with two entries for the same kernel, one that blacklisted nouveau, and one that blacklisted nvidia. It was a pretty manual process - I had to edit the grub config after every kernel update. Someone smarter than me could probably automate that though.

My current laptop is Pascal based, and nouveau sucks on it. I'm stuck with the proprietary driver. Anything Turing and newer should work fine though.

GOG Winter Sale live - grab a free copy of Legend of Keepers
13 Dec 2023 at 11:00 pm UTC Likes: 2

SiN [External Link] is 75% off ($3.40 for us Canucks). Works well on Linux with this [External Link].

Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK hits Vulkan 1.0 conformance
21 Nov 2023 at 1:40 pm UTC Likes: 1

I'm pretty excited about this. I have a Maxwell GPU that supports manual re-clocking, so the clock speed isn't an issue. Nouveau performance is ... reasonable, except running Vulkan, where it's terrible. With more and more games running Vulkan, whether natively, or via DXVK, it was getting pretty limiting running Nouveau. I'm back to the proprietary driver for now.