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Latest Comments by Pyrate
The Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless mouse is a great reasonably priced pick
4 Dec 2025 at 2:05 pm UTC

What I can't figure out is how stagnant the budget wireless headset market is. It has been the case for like 3 years now that the Logitech G435 is the best (also the only) option at the given price range. It's as if the other brands don't even intend to compete in this sector, leading to the G435 occasionally having erratic price hikes; I got the better one G535 off Currys for 55 quid, no sale, just the regular price at the time. Then a couple years later I found the worse one G435 for 60 quid in the same retailer. Strange.

Valve have been funding FEX to get x86 games on Arm Linux
3 Dec 2025 at 3:39 pm UTC Likes: 14

Started and funded 7 years ago ?

They're two steps ahead.

Half-Life Legacy arrives December 12 but you'll need Proton on Linux due to Native Linux issues
3 Dec 2025 at 3:35 pm UTC

Thanks for clearing that up! ;)

No, seriously: Thanks both for your opinions!
It honestly comes down to how you view these things, if you consider them as a work of art or as mass produced fastfood-tier entertainment.

Half-Life Legacy arrives December 12 but you'll need Proton on Linux due to Native Linux issues
3 Dec 2025 at 12:10 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: EikeLet me take this opportunity...
What would be the best way to get into HL nowadays?
First, you need to possess the ability to count.
Afterwards, you play Half-Life, then Half-Life 2.

Quoting: EikeWould that be Black Mesa then?
Absolutely not. Black Mesa is a terrible choice for a first time player. Playing Black Mesa ruins at least half of the experience of Half-Life 2 when you get to it, since it uses the same engine to remake the first game. It breaks the fundamental ways Half-Life and Half-Life 2 were meant to be played.

Black Mesa is for fans who have already experienced the games for what they are.

Valve's version of Android on Linux (based on Waydroid) is now called Lepton
2 Dec 2025 at 11:49 am UTC Likes: 1

Is there any indication of this working differently than Waydroid when it comes to ARM-only APKs ? Currently on Waydroid, only x64 APKs work, ARM ones work only after installing an inadequate emulator.

s&box from Rust developer Facepunch is now open source
26 Nov 2025 at 9:11 pm UTC Likes: 13

Me to Facepunch:


Fedora proposal put forward to improve "production stability and incident management"
26 Nov 2025 at 2:20 pm UTC Likes: 3

Whew, must've missed this one whenever it happened.
Turns out, laziness in updating pays !:woot:

xorg-server 21.1.21 freshly released to fix some annoying regressions
25 Nov 2025 at 1:48 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ScottCarammell
Quoting: legluondunetIs wayland mature today for a day by day use and for a gamer config?
Alien: Isolation crashes on startup
I played Alien: Isolation start to finish on Wayland last year. Could be something else youre facing, or a recent regression.

Igalia detail their open source work for Valve's Steam Frame and Steam Machine
24 Nov 2025 at 10:52 pm UTC Likes: 6

Even as I write this, I still don't think I truly grasp the ramifications of this. How Valve is so ridiculously ahead of the entire industry including Microsoft, Apple and Google with making computing (and gaming) on ARM a thing.

I don't know how more popular these little ARM chips are going to be in the future, but thanks to the open source community and largely Valve, the platform just got a whole lot more viable now.