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GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier"
27 Jan 2026 at 11:01 am UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: ShadowXeldronThe rest of that looks fine... but doesn't AI actively reduce developer efficiency and code quality?
It depends heavily on how you use it and what for....
I guess majority of the market has no idea yet how and where to use it properly. That is because the technology itself is just not there yet; it cannot be used for 'anything' en masse; it makes sense for certain select tasks only...

Canonical call for testing their Steam gaming Snap for Arm Linux
13 Jan 2026 at 8:39 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: sarmad
Quoting: rustynail
Quoting: sarmadThe snap file format and client side tools are completely open source. What's proprietary is the backend, i.e snapcraft.io, which is fine.
Doesn't that kinda mean that snap being open source is pointless to a large extent? It's like an open source client for a proprietary messaging service
Almost. Technically you can fork the snap front end to make it point to other backends, and I think someone has already done that, but practically such a fork won't be popular since the upstream is locked to a single backend and Canonical won't accept such a change to be upstreamed. I think if we didn't already have Flatpaks and AppImages such a fork would've been popular, but at this point Snap is a dying format outside of IoT.
Dying? Oh....
So why is it being installed by users on literally dozens of distros...? 🤔

Canonical call for testing their Steam gaming Snap for Arm Linux
10 Jan 2026 at 6:42 pm UTC Likes: 9

Quoting: _wojtek
Quoting: dpanterSnap? Uh, no. No thanks.
Cannonical is just annoying… What's more - it's not like they created something exceptionally new, they just want to ride the hype wave on something that mostly other created…
I strongly disagree with that statement, but whatever... 😅

From the enduser perspective, I'm very satisfied with snaps and with the 3rd party content it brings.

MicroProse recently revealed the first-person mecha sim Steel Bounty
9 Jan 2026 at 8:02 am UTC

Hhmmm.... Why does this look exactly like an extension gameplay to Carrier Command 2? 😅

Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews
12 Dec 2025 at 12:15 pm UTC

...and these are real stand-alone games only? (meaning without DLCs etc.?)

POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gets cancelled over generative AI with Goonswarm Games shutting down
9 Dec 2025 at 1:18 pm UTC Likes: 3

So, if I understand it correctly: People/users do not like AI stuff in games? :huh:

Unreal Tournament 2004 is getting revived by OldUnreal with approval from Epic Games
4 Dec 2025 at 6:06 pm UTC Likes: 9

Quoting: rea987Well, it's hard to believe that 2 decade old proprietary has a 64 bit native build available for Linux already. It does require a bit library linking but Luxtorpeda automates that perfectly. Regardless, best arena shooter of all times.
Well UT2k4 "always" had a native Linux build; I believe it was just not added to the official DVDs during release...
(I've had the Linux build on old HDDs somewhere for years...)

WinBoat adds support for Podman, UWP, app filtering and more
25 Nov 2025 at 11:43 am UTC

Quoting: GoEsrIsn't the whole point of WinBoat that you don't have to interact with the Windows DE to use the apps? That's a pretty big difference from just using a VM.
Yes, that too... (and it *mostly* works fine)

WinBoat adds support for Podman, UWP, app filtering and more
24 Nov 2025 at 8:08 pm UTC

Quoting: _wojtekWinBoat is super weird… and they still require windows licence so for me it's a huge "no-go" meh…
Well it can/will install windows even without a valid reg. key (into trial mode). So f you need some windows app for only a relatively short time frame (like me, who required m$ office for about a month due to me preparing/modifying a bunch of office docs for an event happening once a year [ISO 27001 certification audit]), it is absolutely great.

So yes and no at he same time :grin: