They did mention work on Wayland in the monthly posts so the work is happening under the hood but isn't a user-visible feature so not worth getting too much into it on a post about the new release.

I know the've rebased muffin on a newer version of mutter and reduced the amount of patches they need to carry around so it will be easier to rebase again when necessary for full wayland support

They've also been hacking at a better support for GTK 4/5 apps, which is where the need for a themeable fork of LibAdwaita comes from...

...and in turn the GTK 4/5 apps blending nicely in Mint enables them to offer more recent versions of Gnome apps in Mint repos (without disruption to their userbase from broken theming and etc which LibAdwaita does cause) so these can reflect recent upstream work on those apps for wayland support too

All in all they did what one would expect a small derivate distro dev team to do which is hitch a ride on upstream work as much as possible but also did this in the way Mint users expect those things to happen: under the hood, without significantly turning UI/UX upside down, not even just this once or just temporarily

Which is why all my family's PCs have Mint installed despite it always being 2 and a half years late to every party (it's based on Ubuntu LTS which releases every 2 years, and adds roughly 5 more months of delay to reach users whenever a new Ubuntu LTS is released, to rebase Mint's own stuff onto it)

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my 2 cents:

if they allow multiple games on a single card, it doesn't prevent anyone from placing a single game on each card

also i did own a couple nintendo (nes) cartridges with multiple games, so multiple games on one sd card is still in the realm of canonical console experiences even for very old consoles (heck, even Atari had this)

what they need to do is ensure the menu to select between those games is the worst buggiest jankiest ever, because most multi-game cartridges were terrible at letting us select one game or another 😆
(eg: reset to switch which game, menu that only appeared some times, etc)

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Fixed the "Browse Local Files" option not working for non-Steam games.

OMG, it took them ~10 years but they finally fixed this?

I'm glad for every new feature, device, hotfix, etc and I know they have an insane backlog to work through, but wow! Huge complex stuff in under a week, 10 years for a seeming 5min fix... ValveTime™ indeed!

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Fixed Black Desert launcher rendering all black on Nvidia + Wayland setups.

i'm glad this bug got fixed along a ton other things, but it did seem kind of befitting :tongue:

ps:
i'll leave aside the usual "why do we even need another launcher" argument for a second to say this... why do game devs have such a hard time making well behaved launchers?! it's a windowed app folks, literally any app besides games got this right... it's really not rocket science! you're all embarassing yourselves in front of your customers before they even go into the game!

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They mentioned that not a lot will actually change (famous last words) as they've "already been stepping back bit by bit" with the team taking on more but what's changing now "is simply the formality of it, making sure the right people are in place to guide Nexus Mods into the next era".

seems like some of the most involved community members are the ones who own it now, not some random investment fund the cat dragged in

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my 2 cents:

if it doesn't offer a basic reference website, only an API, users might be distanced from it by a myriad of half-assed privacy-eggregious frontends

if it cares for only european content or it's only for europeans to use it, it's also dead in the water, because even europeans need non-european content to be searchable, etc

fortunately i suspect it's actually all the world's content for all the world but under european legislation, which is probably the best new option we (the world, not just europe) can have right now... yes, there'll be some content filtering, but less so than the reality bubbles Google, Meta & friends have been building around everyone while horning "free speech" against country laws

and given the EU still leaves room for national differences in content restriction rules, i suspect the API will actually allow EVERYTHING to be indexed and searcheable, with each frontend defining its national/corporate/political filter as an option, not at its core (eg: API providing filtering flags for ...&show_allowed_in=UK, ...&pegi=13, show_fakes=false, etc)

there are actually a zillion valid usecases for eg: a researcher or a company to be able to list and explore otherwise banned content, and if they're smart they might avoid "censorship" allegations this way

the obvious caveat is crazies building a campaing for everyone to actually use search.breitbart.eu daily "to avoid censorship" while unwittingly falling into a secondary web UI reality bubble atop a perfectly ok base

but the API license could enforce filtering trasparency as a condition for its usage

anyway, here is to at least a hint of hope for less ad-driven top results 🍻

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about the audio, you can probably set one of the game instances to suppress the soundtrack so only actual in-game sounds are coming in from both players

i'm pretty sure there will be some issues with UX in this trickery due to using 2 fully independent game instances but it is indeed genious level stuff

i also loved that it uses Goldberg Emulator to allow using an online multiplayer stack behind the scenes to make this possible... it's probably going to limit which games this can work with, but what an elegant hackery ❤️

ps: goldberg emulator should allow this to work even after valve and steam themselves no longer exist

@stormtux any suggestions of a GUI app we can use to set each game instance to a separate audio output via pipewire?

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the link above says the attackers use io.uring to bypass detection by monitoring tools, so it seems io.uring isn't an exploitable vulnerability per se, only a way already invaded systems will keep invaded in heavily monitored environments

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cons:
- no game ownership, like any streaming
- no game preservation, like any game that depends on servers to run (streaming or not)
- input lag, like most streaming and several server-centric execution games... is this still realistically an issue or has the tech improved enough to make it negligible?
- bandwidth, like any streaming and some server-centric execution games
- high subscription cost, i bet worse than multi-game streaming offers if you want to subscribe to more than 1 or 2 games this way each on a separate subscription
- what was that again? modding?!! is this something i can eat?

pros:
- no anti-cheat running locally on my machine
- ANY operating system will do
- almost any hardware will do

so i hope it succeeds in replacing the current distribuition model for competitive online multiplayer games that use aggressive anticheat, and flunks at everything else

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Ubisoft is "Triple iii" indie now?

what? where?!

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