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CRSED: Cuisine Royale devs confirm end of Linux / Steam Deck support
30 May 2025 at 2:00 pm UTC Likes: 13

Never heard of this one, ignore list updated.
Need one of those Steam curator lists but for "Anti-Linux" or "refuse to flip the Linux toggle".

Escape Simulator drops the Linux build to focus on supporting Proton
30 May 2025 at 11:09 am UTC Likes: 8

Instead of asking for pure Native builds, I wish the push was more towards open source cross platform tools like Vulkan over DirectX etc etc.

SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S
28 May 2025 at 9:51 pm UTC Likes: 3

Linux has exactly the same issues as Windows & I think it's usually caused by the firmware (e.g. it got better on Lenovo ThinkPad or HP EliteBook devices after a few firmware updates). Unfortunately S3 often isn't even implemented anymore.
I don't know any of the details, I just know it doesn't happen for my laptop (Dell Inspiron i5 gen 8).

In fact, and this is another thing that came up when I was flexing on my friends; I don't believe I heard the fan noise of my laptop, not even once since I installed Linux on the thing a year ago. When it was on Windows, it would randomly spin up the fans like crazy, usually when I'm away form the computer too, like what's up with this thing ?

SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S
28 May 2025 at 7:28 pm UTC Likes: 2

Makes me wonder if the battery life on regular laptops could also be better with Linux installed?
That's the case here. I pulled out my laptop in front of my friends last night to do something, they were all mindblown the battery was still at %60 having told them I hadn't touched in in a day and a half. They were most surprised it doesn't turn on by itself when I tuck it in the bag, such is the case for the infamous Windows sleep in laptops.

Fanatical's latest Capcom Legends bundle has some good picks for cheaps
23 May 2025 at 12:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

Would've been perfect if it also included the 1-3 DMC collection...

SteamOS 3.7.7 Beta brings a Battery Charge Limit option and improved Lenovo Legion Go S support
22 May 2025 at 9:29 am UTC

Is it not reasonable to expect this SteamOS Beta branch, that's in development to support other devices, to leave the Beta state simultaneously with this Lenovo device release ? It can only make sense for the OS to be in a Stable state when the device comes out, right ?

Manjaro Linux lead gives more info on the new ZOTAC GAMING ZONE handheld with AMD
21 May 2025 at 11:41 am UTC Likes: 4

More devices with Linux pre-installed is welcome news.

Search engines are getting worse, so OpenWebSearch funded by the European Union want to fix it
19 May 2025 at 2:46 pm UTC Likes: 14

I've been using SearXNG for my web searching for a few years now. The other day I had a friend's phone in hand and I looked something up on Google (the default), I was blown away by the amount of crap showing up that wasn't what I was looking for: the first result is an AI generated response, then it's 4 to 5 advertisements, so I had to scroll down to get what I needed. This is the average experience for most people, and it's somehow fine by them.

This project sounds interesting, thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Proton Experimental gets fixes for The First Berserker: Khazan, THE FINALS, The Sims 2, Alpha Protocol and more
17 May 2025 at 12:14 pm UTC Likes: 4

Last week, me and my friend finally proved the hypothetical scenario of Experimental breaking something to be truthful and significant, where before that we used to believe it's all fine, doesn't matter and it's better to stick to Experimental as default.

The issue was that for some reason playing games with Experimental would break Dualshock 4 support and games just don't respond to the gamepad inputs. Proton 9 doesn't have the issue. It was by sheer luck we found that the Proton version was the issue, I could imagine we would've been spending who knows how much time troubleshooting the issue otherwise.

Moral of the story: Do stick with the stable Proton(s).