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With the Demolisher you can literally rock and roll and stone!

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Quoting: KimyrielleNot sure how I feel about the forced switch to Wayland. I know, I know! It's the future. But I am still not 100% convinced it's fully ready to take over yet.

Oh, well, I won't have to deal with it until December anyway - which is when this release will make it into Mint 23.

Wayland is a DE thing, so this doesn't mean anything for Mint. Since they're a lot more conservative with changes, they'll probably take a year or two to release Cinnamon with Wayland and then keep X11 for a while too.

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPoint

This is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol

I mean, there's many people that don't hate Windows entirely, they just hate Modern Windows so they can definitely still have a nostalgia for the classics.

I get your point, see this is more of an FYI:

Microsoft in the 90s were at their absolute worst. I grew up with this stuff too, of course, but once you learn the damage they caused it's hard to look back at it with love.

Multics (predecessor to unix) in the 60s had shared objects (dlls), filesystem permissions, multiple users, multiple processes etc, everything that is "modern" in windows. DOS in the 80s had nothing. Remember the viruses? Vista 35+ years after multics was the first windows to actually support multiple users.

They set back operating systems by decades. Maybe if Gates had actually stayed in school and took an OS course...

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Punk and Knuckle Paradise seem veeeery interesting!

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Inspired by the old Windows 95 theme and classic PowerPoint

This is one game that's not going to be popular here, lol

I mean, there's many people that don't hate Windows entirely, they just hate Modern Windows so they can definitely still have a nostalgia for the classics.

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• GL: reverted dlsym changes that caused crashes with nvidia drivers.

Yep, this was the big one. Mangohud was causing a number of my Native Linux games to crash on exit (except AppImages, oddly). I had to shift to the v0.8.3 beta to stop this.

Unfortunately, v0.8.3 doesn't seem to work in Mint 21.3 / Ubuntu 22.04 so I'll have to put up with the crashing until I'm ready to try upgrading to Mint 22 again.

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and a big one - it's now Wayland-only.

Just a reminder, only the standard/main edition of Ubuntu that will be Wayland-only, simply because the GNOME 50 desktop is Wayland-only. All the other desktop flavors will still be able to use an X.org session. Canonical confirmed this during the beta.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/ubuntu-26-04-lts-beta-released-with-gnome-50-linux-kernel-7-0-mesa-26/?comment_id=292566

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Quoting: benstor214It certainly won’t run in offline mode.

I don't know about that. The Ubisoft launcher does have its own offline mode. I use it with Assassin's Creed 2. You have to be online to "activate" on initial install, but afterwards, offline works. I don't know about Proton though -- I installed AC2 in Win10 just to avoid complications. Have you seen any indication that there will be an always-online requirement?

I'm more worried that they are going to delist the original version of the game. It will run on my laptop whereas the Resynced version most definitely will not.

It's probably a pipe dream but I would love to see the original game show up on GOG...

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I recently tried it out on a whim and enjoyed it so much that our first run was 411 h long! It'll be a while before we have another go though, might try a start in a different climate.

Cause we're unemployed with dwindling savings, we used the old-fashioned self-imposed trial. But now I will spend what little I have to pay the authors + supporter add-on.

For anyone new to it - the mod support is great and adds so much!

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Quoting: KimyrielleNot sure how I feel about the forced switch to Wayland. I know, I know! It's the future. But I am still not 100% convinced it's fully ready to take over yet.

Oh, well, I won't have to deal with it until December anyway - which is when this release will make it into Mint 23.

Look back at the first time Canonical said they would make Wayland the default. It's actually pretty funny.

9 years ago?

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/ubuntu-will-run-wayland-default

They are really rushing it...

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Quoting: KimyrielleNot sure how I feel about the forced switch to Wayland. I know, I know! It's the future. But I am still not 100% convinced it's fully ready to take over yet.

Oh, well, I won't have to deal with it until December anyway - which is when this release will make it into Mint 23.

Look back at the first time Canonical said they would make Wayland the default. It's actually pretty funny.

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Not sure how I feel about the forced switch to Wayland. I know, I know! It's the future. But I am still not 100% convinced it's fully ready to take over yet.

Oh, well, I won't have to deal with it until December anyway - which is when this release will make it into Mint 23.

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it's now Wayland-only

I'm still running 24.04 with X11, so wonder how smooth the upgrade will go, and what will break.

But yay for the fresh Kernel (this time round I was always too lazy to manually install a more recent one, and from my experience with 22.04 at some point the version of glibc present on the system prevented further upgrading anyway, and then you're stuck without security fixes). Using an up-to-date Mesa from a PPA isn't a big deal though, and will soon enough be required for 26.04 as well.

Gnome 50 will likely again break half my extensions (as did Gnome 46), and since I do little more with the system than browsing the web and playing games, I don't think any of its features really make any difference to me. Perhaps if I had a display with HDR support.

Nonetheless, upgrade I will come 26.04.1.

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Always wait for the .1 release for server usage.

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I'll give it about a week then upgrade. Just making sure no major bugs like last time, when they had to temp pull upgrade.

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Might be worth noting about Rogue Trader: the Deluxe version doesn't include the season pass, you'll want the Voidfarer edition for that.

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Quoting: AlveKattI have a feeling this isn't an LLM but an actual specialized AI system. The companies keep conflating different machine learning cases to drive their AGI narrative.

It's LLM, and might be nothing special, just marketing as usual: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/

+1 for that article. It's a hugely interesting blog in general.

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I've seen this floating around for a bit now, but this is the first I've heard of the source port on itch. Will have to give this a go later.

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An excellent game, which I've played on Steam and XBox for over a 100 hours and still have lots to do in it

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Quoting: VardyComparing MS Paint to online platforms makes no sense. This isn't about how you use software, it's about how you regulate online platforms. Roblox, Minecraft and Steam are not "games" per se (unless you stick to single player Minecraft). Just thought you should be made aware of a very simple difference. Grooming, for example, has been widely reported on Roblox.
Also, you can use your printer to print whatever you like. You shouldn't be able to parade around promoting your hate speech and using your printed hate symbol in public. It's a serious debate, and sadly it seems a bunch of people commenting here don't even seem to understand the nature of the subject itself. I personally believe in banning n*z1s and groomers everywhere possible (by the same argument hardpenguin stated), but I don't know, that's my non-n*z1 non groomer perspective.

I am pretty sure the only thing I compared to any platform was Australia Post. You were definitely not reading carefully there.
Now, I doubt you will deny that Australia Post is a communication platform…

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They could give at least the server protocol just in case someone wants to create a FOSS server.

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It certainly won’t run in offline mode. That really should be a requirement to be 'verified'. The Steam Deck is a portable device after all.
And the software being restrained by anti-tamper provisions and being leashed to a spyware account is a strong determent, too.
Especially the anti-tamper corset completely runs against proton compatibility.
Though I am sure it will sell well anyway…

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I'll chime in with others here to "diagnose" some of us with some issue 😀:

I feel as if many of us here are quite upset and stressed. Likely about this particular topic as well as many other worrying changes going on in our shared and personal worlds. I'd be happy if more us can find it in themselves to trust that it is quite unlikely for any of us to be intentionally shilling, trolling or otherwise furthering some malicious agenda. Most peoples' agenda is quite simply to express their perspective and feelings. So please let's not call each other idiots. "Ignorant/uninformed/shortsighted on the subject" is welcome 😌. The further our culture on GoL moves on the spectrum of interpersonal attacks (and such toxicity), the less I want to partake in these discussions. I need not be here, but be mindful of what you select for in an ecosystem.

(My actual personal political views on this topic are most similar to HyperRealisticRock and Purple Library Guy - wild west time is over; not doing anything is a costly choice; doing anything new means likely mistakes; we can't have our cake and eat it too. On the other hand, more discussion on *how* to implement any changes is imperative - I just don't subscribe to "no change".)

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This is awesome. Quality of life improvement when streaming to Moolight.
Current options so far (for me) was to either:
1. use mouse emulation to point to the game to run
2. add the game to Steam and open via Steam when streaming.

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Looks pretty good. Prices are surprisingly ok. But account+denuvNo seals the deal. I'm not relying on Stop Killing Games to take care of my consumer rights.

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Likely the best Ubuntu release ever! All so fresh yet very sturdy. This is also the first time when Ubuntu has a newer Linux kernel than Arch.

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Nice! Kubuntu 26.04 LTS with Plasma 6.6 and Linux kernel 7.0 will benefit a lot of Linux gamers :)

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Valve's strength have never been to get things right the first time, but by improving slowly over time (Valve Time if you will). These are great improvements, hopefully Valve will add Steam Machine and Steam Frame when they launch.

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I keep forgetting this game exists because it is not on Steam and doesn't run discounts 😭

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