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News - Rocket League is adding Easy Anti-Cheat, Psyonix say Linux will still be supported with Proton
By Lofty, 17 Feb 2026 at 5:02 pm UTC

is it that hard to make a clone game of a car hitting a big ball into a goal ? it's some magic gameplay formula 😆

News - Check out the full second episode of Games For Everyone
By Linux_Rocks, 17 Feb 2026 at 4:49 pm UTC

Meanwhile, you can join Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Lip-Bu Tan, and Sanjay Mehrotra on the Games for No One show. Sponsored by Microsoft and Xbox Game Pass.

News - Rocket League is adding Easy Anti-Cheat, Psyonix say Linux will still be supported with Proton
By Tchey, 17 Feb 2026 at 4:40 pm UTC

Same. I played a lot until it moved to Epic exclusive. It could be weird as i also play a lot of game exclusive on Steam, but at least Steam does things for me, as a Linux gamer.

News - KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
By Pyrate, 17 Feb 2026 at 4:24 pm UTC

Could say this about a lot of Linux projects, or just any open source project really, but Plasma is the gift that keeps on giving. No enshittification, just continuous improvements. We can't stop winning.

News - KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
By Galactic-Man, 17 Feb 2026 at 3:51 pm UTC

I've been waiting for this one! Lots of great improvements!

Now awaiting the Arch repo updating...

News - Check out the full second episode of Games For Everyone
By Julius, 17 Feb 2026 at 3:49 pm UTC

A Peertube mirror would be still nice.

News - Rocket League is adding Easy Anti-Cheat, Psyonix say Linux will still be supported with Proton
By PaldinoX, 17 Feb 2026 at 3:46 pm UTC

Quoting: Leopard
Quoting: hardpenguinThis game has kinda fallen into obscurity since they moved to Epic 🤷
Lol, not correct at all.
Correct for me. I used see this game all the time 5-6 years ago, now I've forgotten the game even existed its been so long since I've heard about it.

News - KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
By Lofty, 17 Feb 2026 at 2:42 pm UTC

Quoting: Stella
Quoting: LoftyFinally! We have an integrated onscreen keyboard under Wayland which has been a much needed accessibility feature for me. I have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard' which has meant missing out on other gaming features & HDR. Now i will have to move from my older existing plasma install to a newer distro that supports 6.6

Not sure which one to choose , needs to be more upto date than mint/debian though but a 'YOLO Update' distro 🤔

Great work 👍
Fedora 44 will get KDE 6.6. Worth noting that there are also immutable variants of Fedora like Kionite or Bazzite/Aurora from Universalblue. The advantage is integrated rollback functionality and the assurance of always having a working system, while staying relatively up to date
I have considered Fedora, never really got into it so far and I've been using Linux for a good long while. I read there are some things missing OOTB that make it not as complete as a distro such as Mint, Ubuntu or even Manjaro.

News - KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
By Stella, 17 Feb 2026 at 2:38 pm UTC

Quoting: LoftyFinally! We have an integrated onscreen keyboard under Wayland which has been a much needed accessibility feature for me. I have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard' which has meant missing out on other gaming features & HDR. Now i will have to move from my older existing plasma install to a newer distro that supports 6.6

Not sure which one to choose , needs to be more upto date than mint/debian though but a 'YOLO Update' distro 🤔

Great work 👍
Fedora 44 will get KDE 6.6. Worth noting that there are also immutable variants of Fedora like Kionite or Bazzite/Aurora from Universalblue. The advantage is integrated rollback functionality and the assurance of always having a working system, while staying relatively up to date

News - KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
By walther von stolzing, 17 Feb 2026 at 2:38 pm UTC

There isn't anything on the changelog about the overview screen appearing blank on a duplicated display.

It's the issue in this 'resolved' bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481222

Though maybe the fix isn't yet merged for this release?

News - KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
By Lofty, 17 Feb 2026 at 2:36 pm UTC

Finally! We have an integrated onscreen keyboard under Wayland which has been a much needed accessibility feature for me. I have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard' which has meant missing out on other gaming features & HDR. Now i will have to move from my older existing plasma install to a newer distro that supports 6.6

Not sure which one to choose , needs to be more upto date than mint/debian though but Not a 'YOLO Update' distro 🤔

Great work 👍

News - Check out the full second episode of Games For Everyone
By Jarmer, 17 Feb 2026 at 2:10 pm UTC

oh man, those are some spicy topics. Could be some good discussions! I'll give it a listen this week :)

News - Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages"
By Jarmer, 17 Feb 2026 at 2:08 pm UTC

shit, I just checked the US store, and every single model is gone. All sold out. Nothing avail.

WTF I hate AI SOOOOO much. Moreso I hate that the corrupt markets are being corrupted even more by the billionaire class. This is not normal market stuff happening here.

WD said it's entire 2026 stock of hdd's is all gone already. We're 6 weeks in out of 52. I was going to build a new home media plex server next year with a steam machine and rack mounted array with new WD Reds, but if this keeps going, I doubt I'll be able to afford to. WD Reds will be the cost of a new car by then. All I can do is randomly go whisper into my current machine with the old reds in it: "please don't die"

News - Astro Protocol is a tactical space 4x game designed for people with little time
By Jarmer, 17 Feb 2026 at 2:04 pm UTC

huh this seems perfect for me. The time commitment is pretty much the only reason I don't play more of these. Well, and the insanely steep learning curve. But if the time commitment is softer on this one, could be awesome.

News - KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
By mr-victory, 17 Feb 2026 at 1:36 pm UTC

The ability to have virtual desktops only on the primary screen.
An optional new login manager for Plasma.
Whaaaaaaaa

Optional automatic screen brightness on devices with ambient light sensors.
Interesting, I wonder if that works on my intel macbook. (it does on bootcamp)

News - Rocket League is adding Easy Anti-Cheat, Psyonix say Linux will still be supported with Proton
By scaine, 17 Feb 2026 at 1:24 pm UTC

Quoting: Leopard
Quoting: hardpenguinThis game has kinda fallen into obscurity since they moved to Epic 🤷
Lol, not correct at all.
Correct for many. Correct for me. I don't have an Epic account and never, ever will.

News - Rocket League is adding Easy Anti-Cheat, Psyonix say Linux will still be supported with Proton
By Leopard, 17 Feb 2026 at 12:30 pm UTC

Quoting: hardpenguinThis game has kinda fallen into obscurity since they moved to Epic 🤷
Lol, not correct at all.

News - Rocket League is adding Easy Anti-Cheat, Psyonix say Linux will still be supported with Proton
By hardpenguin, 17 Feb 2026 at 12:27 pm UTC

This game has kinda fallen into obscurity since they moved to Epic 🤷

News - Game manager Lutris v0.5.20 released with Proton upgrades, store updates and much more
By mr-victory, 17 Feb 2026 at 12:20 pm UTC

Proton-GE launched via umu is now the default. Umu takes care of keeping Proton-GE up to date.
About time.

News - Game manager Lutris v0.5.20 released with Proton upgrades, store updates and much more
By Occisor, 17 Feb 2026 at 12:03 pm UTC

A month ago I had to switch to Heroic Game Launcher because there was no news from Lutris until the end of 24th year.

News - Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages"
By Johnologue, 17 Feb 2026 at 11:43 am UTC

Billionaires stole all our stuff with taxpayer money and will now sell it back in the form of nuclear autocomplete

News - Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages"
By Chrisznix, 17 Feb 2026 at 11:38 am UTC

It is starting here, too. In Germany you just can get the 1TB OLED Model, the rest is sold out.

News - Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages"
By such, 17 Feb 2026 at 11:30 am UTC

HDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

News - Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages"
By fabertawe, 17 Feb 2026 at 11:26 am UTC

The greed of those who already have more wealth than you or I could imagine is insatiable. And it's you and I that will suffer. It's both sad and maddening at the same time.

Here's to the big bang...

News - Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 50: Dawn of Civilization
By amatai, 17 Feb 2026 at 10:43 am UTC

Isn't GNULactic/Konquest a Linux exclusive ?

News - Comedy co-op physics platformer Log Riders adds Linux support and looks hilarious
By Eike, 17 Feb 2026 at 8:44 am UTC

Supports Linux, looks fun, is cheap, they seem to have addressed what negative reviews said...

... bought.

News - OldUnreal add new installers for Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament: GOTY and Unreal Gold
By Chrisznix, 17 Feb 2026 at 7:40 am UTC

Veeery nice! I remember when on a lan-party (anyone remember fiddling with the 10BaseT Coaxial cable madness and those forsaken windows drivers back then? Blessed those who had the original 3com ethernet card) someone gave us "copies" of the pre-release of Unreal Tournament and we all were totally hooked. It was so smooth, the music was awesome, the announcer epic. But even back then i hardly could keep up with the two older guys that were completely stoned all the time, but their aim was perfect. After remembering this i spun up UT3 from my library, and it ran perfectly without issues. Good times!

News - Space strategy game Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes has a demo out now
By Chrisznix, 17 Feb 2026 at 7:25 am UTC

I got to check it yesterday, and i had to use Proton Experimental to start it on EndeavourOs (Ryzen/Nvidia mix). After that i had no more issues.
The Tutorial has no real save points, so make sure to have an hour or so to play with it.
My first impression of the demo is really good. It got the vibes right, has a decent tutorial and seems to have at least some depth. So if you like to shoot some toasters, this might entertain you.

News - Xfce is getting a brand-new Wayland compositor called xfwl4
By EWG, 17 Feb 2026 at 5:18 am UTC

Quoting: Jarmerhaha it's so funny how our inside voices are so different. I pronounce it exffice!
Thank you for using your inside voice. 🤓📚