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Please make it stop - Google Chrome to be reimagined with AI
19 Sep 2025 at 4:57 pm UTC Likes: 8
It's easy to dismiss this and say, "Oh, I'll just use another browser." I'm writing this on LibreWolf at this moment. The problem is that so much of the Web is now centered around Chrome, and Google is dictating the architecture of the Web more than W3C or anyone else. The real danger is that websites might fundamentally change right along with Chrome and force you to use AI features for basic functionality.
Full Circle / EA confirm again that skate. will not support Linux, Steam Deck or macOS
16 Sep 2025 at 8:17 pm UTC Likes: 3
It's funny because people weren't asking for a free-to-play, online Skate game. They wanted Skate 4, and the fact that they keep announcing that Linux and Steam Deck aren't supported also shows enough people are asking for Linux support for them to notice.
AMDVLK has been discontinued as AMD are throwing their "full support" behind RADV
15 Sep 2025 at 7:20 pm UTC Likes: 11
I should be shocked that it took them so long, but I'm not. Also, it'll be interesting to see what "full support" really means. So much happens behind the scenes. I wonder if Valve played any part in this, especially with all their new rumored hardware on the horizon.
Steam Link VR for Meta Quest on Linux now appears to work in the latest updates
15 Sep 2025 at 1:09 am UTC
For me it just stays stuck on connecting but never actually connects.
Steam for ChromeOS Chromebooks is being killed off
9 Aug 2025 at 1:57 am UTC Likes: 9
I have a Chromebook, but it stopped receiving updates years ago, so I put a regular Linux distro on it (can't remember which one). As it's an x86 Chromebook, Steam runs perfectly on Linux. Since then I've also been Degoogling. I don't even use Google as a search engine anymore. I used to think their using Linux would be good for us, but boy was I wrong!
openSUSE Leap 16.0 will need Steam gamers to install some extras due to no 32-bit
5 Aug 2025 at 11:56 am UTC
It's nice that they provide the packages to get it working, but they could simplify it with just one metapackage called "gaming" or something. That would quiet a lot of backlash.
Valve restores the Steam page for Old School Rally after it got hit with a DMCA
22 Jul 2025 at 2:11 pm UTC Likes: 2
Interesting. I would assume the DMCA came from a manufacturer of some of the obviously-identifiable-but-unlicensed car models, and instead it came from someone who copied a design of some car, who thought that a model of someone else who copied a design of the same car was his own. emoji emoji
It looks like they had that part of it covered from the beginning.

"During the early stages of development, Sakis legally sourced certain car models under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license from Sketchfab, a trusted and reputable online model database."
There's now an unofficial GUI for Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation on Linux
21 Jul 2025 at 5:07 pm UTC
I can't figure out how to get steam games to work with the new configuration system, which is what this GUI uses. It still works when I use the legacy environment variables though.
Umamusume: Pretty Derby now Steam Deck Playable / SteamOS Compatible and works on Desktop Linux
17 Jul 2025 at 1:30 pm UTC
This Anime gacha game is all about magical girl horse racing
I think you mean magical horse girl racing. :grin:
The upcoming skate. from EA will be unsupported on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat
16 Jul 2025 at 12:40 pm UTC
Why always online? Skate, Skate 2 and Skate 3 were perfectly fun offline. I don't understand
It's basically an MMO. It's a multiplayer game with the Skate name, so it won't be similar to the singleplayer experience of the previous games. Skate as we knew it is officially dead. Hopefully, another developer will come along and make a true spiritual successor to Skate.