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Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster is the next Nightdive Studios release
21 Aug 2025 at 12:35 am UTC Likes: 2

Where are you, Marshall? You are outnumbered!

Fun game, but original works relatively well anyway?

Soundtrack for the game is an all time classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80u82h35neg&list=PLqcGvP7TBm_muGvK8jqjL4Jceo6kCptsF [External Link]

Wine 10.13 released with improvements for WoW64, BCrypt and more
17 Aug 2025 at 4:27 am UTC Likes: 1

Esync patches are still disabled in this release. Sticking to 10.10 until NTSync makes an appearance.
Yep, that's exactly what I'm doing. Unfortunately ntsync progress hit a snag and it will take some time before they'll sort it out.

I don't expect esync to be re-enabled though. They merged part of nstync preparations which I guess makes maintaining esync patches a mess and they don't want to do it. But on the other hand I wish they still did it, since ntsync is delayed.

I'm disappointed that there hasn't been any (visible) progress on ntsync patches merge request.
They are working on it. Apparently there were some problems with the current version which they still didn't resolve.

See: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/8445#note_112308 [External Link]

THE FINALS broken on Linux - again
15 Aug 2025 at 8:13 pm UTC

Easy Anti-Cheat
The usual culprit. It's good that developers at least are trying to remedy it, good contrast to the likes of Roblox who don't care about Linux support at all while pretending that they are "testing" it.

Debian 13 trixie released with Linux kernel 6.12
11 Aug 2025 at 4:33 pm UTC Likes: 3

Congrats to the Debian team and all Debian users! Waiting for Debian Sid and testing repos to unfreeze now

FYI, you can get OpenRGB now: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openrgb [External Link]

The Drifter is easily my new favourite point and click adventure
4 Aug 2025 at 10:47 pm UTC Likes: 1

Looks interesting. Adding it to my wishlist.

According to one source Linux hits over 6% desktop user share
22 Jul 2025 at 1:12 am UTC Likes: 1

May be Lenovo selling more laptops with Linux preinstalled is having an effect.

GE-Proton 10-9 released with NTSYNC and FSR4 upgrade support
15 Jul 2025 at 2:28 pm UTC

ntsync isn't ready upstream yet (around 1/3 of code is merged). Kind of bad taste to "jump the gun" benefiting from other people's work like this. Let developers finish their work and release it first.