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A round-up of our Steam Deck content — the videos keep coming
2 March 2022 at 4:53 pm UTC

I'd be interested to see how it performs docked. I have a couple Dell USB-C docks and really hope that's a viable way to play.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive updated, more tweaking for Steam Deck + Vulkan
19 January 2022 at 6:40 pm UTC

Tried it on two different distros using mesa on my 5700xt and got instant crashes. I'll have to do some more investigating, but if anyone has a suggestion I'd appreciate it.

Humble Bundle decides you need another launcher for parts of Humble Choice
12 January 2022 at 11:11 pm UTC

Quoting: TuxeeJust got this mail


QuoteWe want to give you a heads up that starting February 1, Mac and Linux versions of the DRM-free games currently in the Humble Trove will no longer be available.

As a Humble Choice member, you can still download them to keep for your personal collection until January 31. Windows PC versions of many of these games will still be available to download in the upcoming Humble app, alongside the brand-new Humble Games Collection.
Yeah, just got that as well. I was supposed to have three months of Humble Choice for $6, but the cost had shot up to $19.99 so I promptly cancelled and I think that's it for me. Humble Bundle was so great 10 years back. Sooo disappointing to see its slow descent into mediocrity.

Mozilla looking to improve Twitch playback in Firefox
5 January 2022 at 3:09 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quotecertain areas seemingly at random fail to load
Yeah, I get that as well. Also video occasionally just doesn't load and requires a refresh of the page. In an attempt to de-Google my life, I've switched fully to Firefox and it's been a MOSTLY good experience.

Ubisoft are keeping an eye on the Steam Deck, will release on it if it's big enough
20 July 2021 at 7:50 pm UTC Likes: 17

When the first Humble Bundle started, I bought every bundle and owned damn near every Linux native game I could get ahold of and I thought it was finally happening. Then Steam started supporting Linux and I thought NOW it's finally happening. Then SteamOS, Proton, and Steam Deck. Went from only a handful of opensource games and a couple commercial games back in the early 2000's to an almost endless number.

I now have waaaaay more games than I will ever be able to play and am a *little* concerned about the planned move-in of my girlfriend and her finding out exactly how into videogames I am. Definitely downplayed it a bit so far.

Looks like Trust Factor in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Linux is fixed for Mesa
20 May 2021 at 1:11 pm UTC Likes: 2

Well that explains why after switching from an nvidia card to AMD it takes over an hour to join a Blacksite Danger Zone game that ends up being nearly all hackers.

*EDIT* Tested it out and I can now instantly get into a Danger Zone game that doesn't appear to be all hackers. Hurray

The final version of the free FPS, Wolfenstein: Blade of Agony, is out now with Chapter 3
1 May 2021 at 3:31 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: mcphailI've put up a 3.0 version of the snap. If you experience bugs or problems, please blame me in the first instance rather than the mod authors! You can raise issues at https://github.com/mcphail/boa/issues and I'll do my best to help.

Thanks to Tormentor667 and the rest of the team for a great game!

Thanks for packaging it up! Runs perfectly on my system without issue.

Ubuntu 21.04 is out now with Wayland by default and a new dark theme
22 April 2021 at 2:34 pm UTC Likes: 5

QuoteAn enterprise partnership with Microsoft, to bring native Microsoft Active Directory integration with the support for Microsoft SQL server, deployed on-prem or through the Azure Marketplace
An Active Directory, to help developers manage workstations through configure system settings, directly from an AD domain controller
Now I just need to convince my org's head of security that I should be able to use Ubuntu instead of Win 10...

Take a look at some differences in the upcoming Total War: ROME REMASTERED
31 March 2021 at 6:00 pm UTC Likes: 1

I wish that I enjoyed these Total War games more since I've purchased so many of them wanting to support Feral's porting. Maybe it's time revisit and give them a second chance.

Play Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory with the new release of ET: Legacy
1 March 2021 at 5:36 pm UTC

This and bzflag were the first games I played on Linux. Apparently bzflag is still being developed, but looks the same as it did in the 90s. Crazy that this can run on a Raspberry Pi--it barely ran well enough to be playable on the brand new PC I had when it was released.