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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.

ARC Raiders is now Steam Deck Verified
21 Nov 2025 at 10:37 pm UTC Likes: 5

Good, lets get rid of these terrible companies like Activation/Blizzard etc that block Linux and release terrible games.
From what I understand, Blizzard is actually one of the few if not the only Dev out there to do anti-cheat right. Overwatch uses a server-side anti-cheat last I checked.

ARC Raiders is now Steam Deck Verified
21 Nov 2025 at 12:33 pm UTC Likes: 4

What is the correlation here, where actually worthwhile and not predatory multiplayer games, made by passionate devs and not a committee work on Liunx ? :whistle:

Hello from Fedora KDE
19 Nov 2025 at 4:12 pm UTC Likes: 2

Sometimes I feel like I WANT Fedora KDE to break on me.... It's too damn stable :woot:

VKD3D-Proton 3.0 brings FSR4 support, shader backend rewrite, lots of bug fixes and performance upgrades
17 Nov 2025 at 6:29 pm UTC

Wonder if some of the Proton forks like GE will include the FSR4 flags for other GPUs, or is this not how this works ?