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Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl just got a huge free Stories Untold upgrade
18 Dec 2025 at 10:42 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: GerarderloperI'm just holding out until the NVIDIA driver fix because this is one of the WORST affected by the NVIDIA DX12 performance issues. We talking %37 performance drop compared to windows. So if you got 100fps in windows you get 63fps under Linux, its pretty bad!
Strange.. is it affecting only 4000 series?
i seem to get very similar perf (within ~5%) to windows with my aging 5800X3D and RTX 3080, by checking people on youtube benchmarking it with the same hardware and ofc same game update.
590.44.01 drivers...allthough i seem to be CPU bottlenecked in many places where GPU utilization is not even near 100%. But seems on line what people get on windows still.

Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
10 Dec 2025 at 5:38 pm UTC

Quoting: rammaWhy's it a waste of space? Are you getting two title bars?
no i don't. Its waste of space to have the channel name and things up there on top toghether with min,max,close.
Before they added that, it was just starting from where the searchbar is. So i could toggle my WM titlebar off and It was fine. now i cant disable the discords own titlebar.

Hytale will run on Linux PCs via Flatpak but Steam Deck will require more work
9 Dec 2025 at 6:39 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: scaineI love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users. :grin:

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.
Its fine if you like it.
flatpaks are just awful with their runtimes and permissions. Appimage at least is fully self-contained sandbox, not some random runtime this and that here and there with sometimes no access to this or that unless you manually modify things.
each their own. I don't like my distro to become an android device.
native distro packages are prefered for me.

Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
9 Dec 2025 at 1:28 pm UTC Likes: 4

sad that you can't disable the discords own titlebar. waste of space on my screen tbh
Before i could at least toggle the borders off from my WM and it was clean, but now the discords own titlebar thing is still wasting the space.

not the end of the world ofc, but yeah.

Hytale will run on Linux PCs via Flatpak but Steam Deck will require more work
9 Dec 2025 at 12:08 pm UTC Likes: 2

flatpak :sick:

no appimage?
i guess someone can extract the client from it and build an actual package

nice to see linux support though

The RAM price and availability situation is going to worsen as Micron pull their Crucial consumer business
3 Dec 2025 at 7:50 pm UTC Likes: 11

Wonderful news... Thanks AI /s

Hope this bubble will burst soon enough and things can return to normal.
Lets hope everyone who has their current PCs, don't run into any issues that they need to buy new SSDs/nvmes or RAM before the prices will get back to normal levels.

NVIDIA Beta driver 590.44.01 released for Linux
2 Dec 2025 at 3:55 pm UTC Likes: 2

No problems, so nothing in the changelog for me and nothing to really wait in the future except once the vulkan extension for descriptor_heap thing gets actually released and the driver with it comes out. DX12(vkd3d-proton) perf improvement thingy

Linux players on Steam hit an all-time high for November 2025
2 Dec 2025 at 8:51 am UTC Likes: 9

Growth with Bazzite, Mint and Cachy shows that there are lots of new users joining i guess. Since those are distros i see recommended the most on the interwebs

GOG add the huge S.T.A.L.K.E.R. G.A.M.M.A. as a one-click mod install
1 Dec 2025 at 6:01 pm UTC

nice.
though theres gamma-launcher [External Link] also that with few commands sets up everything easily

ARC Raiders is now Steam Deck Verified
21 Nov 2025 at 3:14 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: JarmerWhat's the general consensus here on the AI usage inside Arc Raiders?
I don't know whats called general consesus here, but i'm personally fine if its used for enemy AI behaviour training, or as tool to automate some things and is not really coming up as sloppy art replacement in a game