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Get a whole lot of Fallout games in this Fanatical bundle
2 April 2024 at 12:18 pm UTC

Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition works like a charm. Played almost nothing else over the last 3 months 🤓

GE-Proton 9-2 released, ULWGL gets renamed to umu (Unified Linux Wine Game Launcher)
28 March 2024 at 11:36 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: elmapulthey lose the opportunity to call it uwu
That's what I read on first glance too 🤷

Fedora Workstation 41 will drop GNOME X.Org session as fallback option
7 March 2024 at 11:05 pm UTC

Quoting: CatKiller
Quoting: ssj17vegetaI always wondered. What's in it for the end-user ? (Wayland)

Support for multiple monitors of varying refresh rates, HDR support, and eliminating round trips between the display server and the compositor because the compositor is the display server are the headline desirable features.

The first two only really came about during the long, long development of Wayland, admittedly, and the primary motivation wasn't about features, but just that everyone that was capable of doing anything with Xorg no longer wanted to do anything with Xorg.

Also stuff like streamable v4l devices (hello PipeWire :))

Yes, we totally want this!

Linux on the desktop breaks 4% for the first time on Statcounter
6 March 2024 at 8:18 am UTC Likes: 1

I'm not really into the loop but even I picked up on this: A shiton of YTberscontent creators… influencers, that never touched Linux before, started show-casing Linux. Think this starts to show.

Proton 9.0 for Steam Deck / Linux got a small Beta update, plus Proton Experimental too
6 March 2024 at 7:50 am UTC Likes: 1

> Fixed Escape from Monkey Island getting minimized on a mouse click.

Some bugs I'm really in awe and wonder how and why this could ever happen. What is the game doing that this can result in such weird bugs o0

All older games being sold in Germany on Steam now require a content rating
5 March 2024 at 2:07 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: pb
Quoting: bekoOur harmless maxr ( Mechanized Assault & eXploration Reloaded ) is on a block list used my most schools. That's right: The website can not be accessed from such networks 👏

Must be because of ASS in the name. Can't have kids looking at asses in school time.
You know… you may be right there

All older games being sold in Germany on Steam now require a content rating
4 March 2024 at 8:05 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: pbWait so Germans can't buy any of the new small indie games that don't have a rating?

_Grown ups_ can.

They are not forbidden.

This is not a "new law". It's old. Steam just managed to fly under the radar, because the office in question was busy switching from FAX to MAIL</sarcasm>. Means it's slow but will eventually catch up, like everything that is "digitalization"

Also yes - it is a pain for FOSS games as well. Our harmless maxr ( Mechanized Assault & eXploration Reloaded ) is on a block list used my most schools. That's right: The website can not be accessed from such networks 👏

We poke a lot of fun at this within the team but it's how it is.

Edith says: Fixed link

Proton Hotfix updated to support HELLDIVERS 2 on Steam Deck / Linux
12 February 2024 at 7:54 am UTC Likes: 2

Heh, this seems to have all the humour of Starship Troopers [but with capes] :D

X.Org and Xwayland get new releases due to security issues
17 January 2024 at 8:19 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: LoudTechieBut are you a generation X gamer.
I'd have to look up what that means.

Does that answer your question?

X.Org and Xwayland get new releases due to security issues
17 January 2024 at 10:26 am UTC Likes: 1

Tell me. I'm an X [X4 currently] gamer. That's ruining my childhood memories of the X-Verse.

…or on any 4X game, of course.