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Sony PlayStation reportedly moving away from PC ports
11 Mar 2026 at 10:33 am UTC

Quoting: Kimyrielle
Quoting: VreidicusPlaystation never released anything on steam i wanted to play so fine by me, bye bye Playstation..
I can't name you too many of their games I bought either, but I liked Horizon Zero Dawn / Forbidden West.
I love the Horizon series and I have around 325 hours combined across ZD, ZD Remaster, and FW. However, I will definitely not buy a Playstation, even if that means I will not be able to play Horizon 3. I buy only hardware where I can decide what to do with it, what OS to put on it, and where I can freely mod games. This walled garden approach that Sony is now taking will hurt them long term.

Bazzite gets a big update with KDE Plasma 6.6, Mesa 26.0.1 and more
9 Mar 2026 at 10:47 am UTC

Quoting: Aaron SparksGlad to have konsole back- I didn’t really care for Ptyxis and if I need it it’s still there- what’s odd to me about their recent update is that they said they switched to Kontainers to replace distroshelf but I have found that I needed to install Kontainers myself to get it after the update. 🤷‍♂️
Distroshelf and Kontainer are both flatpaks and not part of the image itself. The installer installs the flatpaks, this which is why it's only on new installations. Flatpaks are 'user-territory' and you can uninstall/install to your hearts' content. On the other hand, Konsole is part of the image which is why everyone will get it.

Bazzite gets a big update with KDE Plasma 6.6, Mesa 26.0.1 and more
4 Mar 2026 at 3:56 pm UTC

Quoting: fenglengshun
Quoting: Stellathe only reason they used Ptyxis in the first place was because of Konsole's seriously lacking container support, which are very important for the immutable distro workflow.
I personally dislike Discover as it feels slow and bloated due to the many different backends it supports and despite being called Discover, the discoverability of apps feels lacking in comparison to Bazaar. I even started using Bazaar on my Steam Deck.
What counts as "seriously lacking container support" here? I've been using konsole with distrobox just fine even before I got on ublue, and that's before we even have Bazzite and only had ublue-kinoite. I can enter my container pretty quickly - just use an alias or zsh-autosuggestions if you want to do it quickly.

re: Discover and Bazaar
Spoiler, click me

I don't care about Discover's problems with Flatpak and others. I just want to be able to keep my applets, themes, and kwin scripts updated. If it bothers people so much, just include Bazaar, pin it in favorite, hide Discover in Utility category.

What I hated was Discover being removed when Bazaar still sucked. I did give it a try back then - it locks the entire app if you clicked Update, it was still pretty slow, I know it crashed on other people, and I find the way it loads on each keypress while searching to be rather uncomfortable as I am a bit sensitive to flashing screens. It wasn't ready, it was shoved in my face, and what I needed was removed while restoring it isn't as straightforward as with Konsole. The last time an operating system didn't something similar, I left and learned an entirely new operating system.

Honestly, I don't even want to talk about Bazaar anymore - it just keeps making me angry remembering how it was implemented in the ublue ecosystem. I don't even care how good it is now, the initial introduction left such a bad taste in my mouth.
with the Ptyxis terminal you can easily open a new container session from a dropdown in the UI, Konsole did not have this until very recently (we're still waiting for the merged commits to land in an actual release, but you'll be able to select your containers if you right click the 'new tab' dropdown)

Sony PlayStation reportedly moving away from PC ports
4 Mar 2026 at 3:53 pm UTC Likes: 7

fine, then I will move away from giving Playstation my money

Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
4 Mar 2026 at 1:16 pm UTC Likes: 9

what about Docker containers???? Do I need to enter my age for every single Docker container that gets created? In companies they get created and destroyed by the thousand each day. This is beyond ridiculous.

Bazzite gets a big update with KDE Plasma 6.6, Mesa 26.0.1 and more
3 Mar 2026 at 12:48 pm UTC

Quoting: fenglengshunHuh. Can't believe they'd actually restore Konsole and uses Kontainer. I've been using Kontainer myself and has been quite happy with it. Hopefully Discover could return - it's quite useful for keeping applets, themes, and other KNewStuff things updated.

Still, good to see that Bazzite getting good new updates even if there was a bit of an issue. It no longer fits my usecase and I don't think I could trust it, but it is good to see it improving.
the only reason they used Ptyxis in the first place was because of Konsole's seriously lacking container support, which are very important for the immutable distro workflow.
I personally dislike Discover as it feels slow and bloated due to the many different backends it supports and despite being called Discover, the discoverability of apps feels lacking in comparison to Bazaar. I even started using Bazaar on my Steam Deck.

Discord delay global rollout of age verification to improve transparency and add more options
26 Feb 2026 at 3:12 pm UTC

Quoting: ertuquequeHas anyone tried Stoat (https://stoat.chat/ [External Link]) or Movim (https://movim.eu/ [External Link]) as a replacement for Discord?... I know they are not "feature complete", but they seem to be the most phylosophically close to my ethics options so far.
I tried it, but Fluxer seems far better so far

KDE Plasma 6.6.1 rolls out with lots of fixes for KWin
25 Feb 2026 at 3:37 pm UTC Likes: 16

I'm looking forward to 6.6.6😆

Discord delay global rollout of age verification to improve transparency and add more options
24 Feb 2026 at 6:33 pm UTC Likes: 17

I dont believe a word they say any more. They've been proven to have ties to Palantir and also they work with Persona which does over 250 verification checks on faces, relating to stuff like terrorism and a property called 'SelfieSuspiciousEntityDetection' where it's totally not clear what makes a face 'suspicious'

Hopefully this is the last straw that gives some push to migrating over to alternatives like Fluxer, which seems like the best one so far, even if it's under heavy server load right now. Fluxer is open-source and self-hostable which makes it a great option for FOSS communities and I hope it will eventually gain critical mass.

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/security/security-researchers-claim-persona-the-provider-behind-discords-uk-age-verification-experiment-performs-269-individual-verification-checks-on-user-data-including-those-for-terrorism-and-espionage/ [External Link]
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/ [External Link]

KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
17 Feb 2026 at 2:38 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: LoftyFinally! We have an integrated onscreen keyboard under Wayland which has been a much needed accessibility feature for me. I have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard' which has meant missing out on other gaming features & HDR. Now i will have to move from my older existing plasma install to a newer distro that supports 6.6

Not sure which one to choose , needs to be more upto date than mint/debian though but a 'YOLO Update' distro 🤔

Great work 👍
Fedora 44 will get KDE 6.6. Worth noting that there are also immutable variants of Fedora like Kionite or Bazzite/Aurora from Universalblue. The advantage is integrated rollback functionality and the assurance of always having a working system, while staying relatively up to date