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I am a little late, but Happy Birthday nonetheless!

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Wait, 3? What's that?

Correction: ...over "2 Years: Episode 1" ago.

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Removed Make War not Peace mission after Paranid Civil War story, unless already started.

Didn't play X4 that much so not sure what that mission was about but removing missions in updates is relatively rare...

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First they start off with trying to distract from what is actually being asked,

that reminds me of an epic Red Hat Commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE00uo3o_MU


speaking of it, the new generation dont even know what FLOS fighted for, if we had won our battle, video game preservation would not even be a question of IF it would be a certainty.
i think we lost from the moment that we demanded just be able to play the games, we should have fighted to have 150% of it (eg: source code access) then setle down when the companies gave us just 110% (play + mods), that is how you do business ask for more than you want then settle on a midle ground, but we arent talking about business here, we are talking about changing the law so... yeah, it might be better to compromisse.
than to risk not have the law passing.

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Bazzite is the bomb, and I am driving it daily. It is not an official distro in the traditional sense.

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Well... since the perfect time to release the controller was over three years ago alongside the Steam Deck, I'd say: YES, its certainly Valve Time.

Wait, 3? What's that?

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I love the game Stray, but this does not look anything like it.

Huh. I disagree. It was immediately brought to mind when I saw the visual style and characterisation of the playable character. The opening 30 minutes of Stray are also set in a heavily forested area, but sure, very different games. I don't think I was arguing it was the same game, just a similar visual style that reminded me of a fantastic experience while playing Stray.

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I would also like to add that what the user is getting at could be better more attributed to sovereignty, rather than real privacy and security gains. Something that is still totally valid and I do support that position myself, but it's best to be aware of the broader state of privacy and safety if one does care.

While the EU is absolutely better for privacy/security than the US (America is probably the worst place for that, it was never really a contest), that doesn't make the EU saints or that they don't have intentions undermine their own citizen's privacy/security; see the EU plan to kill encryption, CSAM, and their future plan to ban Monero (private, digital cash) etc. If I were to summarize the EU's stance on privacy rights, I'd say their actions are that they don't want no company to have unrestricted access to user data, but they do want that data for themselves (the governments).

What truly ensures one's security and their right to privacy here is using the right open source tools. Nationality or HQ location is a concern for sure, but what's a bigger concern is using closed-source tools or even FOSS tools that aren't properly audited. Yes, this is the zero-trust strategy, since the idea of "trust me bro" or "it's fine, covert data collection is illegal here" are not at all enough to give one a real sense of what we're discussing here, only a promise.

This is why I don't mind the fact that, for example, the Signal private messenger is based in America, because any 3 letter agencies in the whole world can be my guest and spend all day long trying to decrypt that quantam-resistant cryptography of the Signal Protocol, and they won't succeed. This level of assurance is achieved thanks to the fact Signal is open source.

Coming back to Fedora/Bazzite being based in the US, this is one example of changing districts not doing anything to one's privacy, as Fedora already doesn't collect information on users by default, the code is open source so we don't have to take their word for it, we verify that ourseleves. What does hurt Fedora being in the US are other topics that are real show-stoppers (their paranoia of not pre-installing essential non-FOSS packages due to fear of the copyright police), but nothing that relates to privacy or security.

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Would this help with games which don't support HiDPI Screens? Still lots of SDL-based games are nearly impossible to play on HiDPI-Screens without manually chaning the resolution.

Personally, I would use gamescope for that.

Gamescope is okay, but it uses only FSR1, which is ancient. Instead of Gamescope (and Lossless Scaling), a better option is to use Optiscaler, which supports upto FSR4 (if your GPU supports it), or FSR 3.1.4. It even supports DLSS and XeSS! Basically it looks at whatever method your game is using, and allows you to inject the DLLs for whichever scaler you'd like to use, so it's pretty flexible, and gives you a better result compared to Gamescope.

Of course, this is assuming your game has a native scaling option.. if not, then you'd have to resort to using Gamescope. But in such a situation, there's a good chance there may be a mod available for your game to add higher resolution/scaling natively. And for old DirectDraw games you could use cnc-draw.

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We can say "It's time, Valve". But, is it Valve Time?

Well... since the perfect time to release the controller was over three years ago alongside the Steam Deck, I'd say: YES, its certainly Valve Time.

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From what I know the guy that leads the project lives on a boat, so there might be a semi-decent basis to argue this is actually international waters rather than the US. You could also try to convince him to sail out a bit further just in case.

Sorry, couldn't help myself given that bit of trivia :)

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Looks cool. I love to see the creativity. I hope it comes together well.

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This could be nice for getting GOG Galaxy Overlay and tracking working. Heroic Launcher does provide access to GoG cloud saves and some provisional achievement tracking but Galaxy would be strictly better.

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Ooohhh...
One of the best games ever made!

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"AMD discovered several transient scheduler attacks"
Nice... Assigned CVE and all, disclosed and fixes.
This feels like AMD gained another round of trust.

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Biggest issue I have with Bazzite is that it is based in the USA.

As someone who lives in Europe, and who takes data privacy seriously. I have moved away from any application that is US centric. I've had to do this to ensure my data security and also to ensure that GDPR is actually enforceable. I moved to Linux to get away from all the Windows/MacOS Spyware and ensured all my security applications are EU based. At the moment I'm using CachyOS which is based in Germany and uses Arch - based in Canada. This way I can be sure to maximise my security and ensure that my data is not held any place within the USA. Fedora/Red Hat/Ubuntu are all really rather suspect, as once something stops being really FOSS, then there is an instant conflict of interest.

That all said, I trialed Bazzite and really loved its smoothness and easy of working (although the install was a little troublesome). Had it been a EU based distribution, I may have stuck with it, but then the fact it is Fedora based would always represent an issue.

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Some older games have SERIOUS engine issues and simply don't even run well at 4k on 5090

Serious Engine games actually run very well on modern high-end PCs, in my experience. :P

...I'll see myself out.

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Since I use Bazzite on my desktop with Plasma, I don't like how many GNOME/GTK programs they throw in the image. I just recently noticed that they replaced KDE Partition Manager with GNOME Disks; and I already knew in advance they'd be replacing Discover with a GTK software center. Although the one they mentioned before was flatpost; Bazaar is the new GNOME software center. Great.

Part of me wonders if I should rebase to Aurora, or return to Kubuntu. The former means I'd have to rely on the Steam Flatpak, and the latter means I'd have to yet again go through the motions of removing Snap (and I have to do this every OS update).

For better or worse, it looks like I'm stuck with Bazzite on my desktop.

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Finally: OBS catched up with latest v4l2 version on Linux and works again.
That was my most anticipated bugfix.

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This is exciting! Been waiting on 1.0 release for a long time. This update sounds great as well.

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Though I'm still a big fan of the Steam Deck, since I installed Bazzite on the ROG Ally (2023) and on the Legion Go (not S), I'm using those devices more than before. I do have some issues on the ROG Ally though, e.g. I get controller disconnects from time to time in No Man's Sky and Fall Guys. For No Man's Sky there is a workaround by opening the virtual keyboard shortly, for Fall Guys I have to restart the game. Sometimes twice. This did not happen on the Legion Go so far.

I was lucky to aquire the XG Mobile 6850M XT (2022) for the Ally and it works also on Linux (I still boot into Windows to enable it via Armory Crate though), and I'd like to get VR running there too. So far I wasn't able to get VR running in desktop mode, but I haven't tinkered enough with it yet. On Windows Mini-Corben was enjoying VR via Steam Link and his Quest 3S already a lot.

I thought about installing Chimera OS first, yet Bazzite seems to have taken the lead on PC gaming handhelds?

The only issue with installing Bazzite I had was shrinking the Windows partition (so it's not a Bazzite issue). Eventually with using the free and foss version of UltraDefrag I was able to move those unmovable files.
Otherwise the installer went smooth (needs a keyboard/mouse attached though), it just took the free space and did its thing.

Bazzite is running really great on the ROG Ally and Legion Go, and the HandHeld Deamon tool works splendid to limit battery charge to 80%, configure the RGB lights and boot back into Windows (for whatever reason).

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How to see SteamOS compatibility in the store on desktop Linux? I only see "Steam Deck Compatibility."

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Been using Bazzite for over two years now. It's been a very stable experience so far. A nice combination of a rock solid immutable foundation while still providing the option to install system packages if needed. The only problem I remember was that there was a bit of a performance regression at one point that caused some noticeable stutter. I could've tried to rollback but it was resolved in a few weeks anyway.

Other than that, it really feels like a great distro for most people unless you want to really dig deep into configurations. Then the immutability will be a huge issue. But for most users? Works well. I was even able to setup up some coding stuff on it without issues.

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Nice Titanfall 2 reference .

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Fixed V4L2 virtual camera start failure on Linux [stephematician]

That's my favorite bit 🫶

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I installed Bazzite on my ROG Ally X after obliterating preinstalled Windows and it works really well! I'm genuinely impressed with this distro. Nice to see it continue to get better!

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I would really like to say what I think about Video Games Europe and policy makers, but I don't want to get myself in trouble.

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Had a good time with the update. Built some pretty extensive stuff and almost filled up all the belts going into the vortex. Which made the fps drop below 30. The only thing left to do is add generic crystal support to my Make-Anything-Machine, which is going to be a very complicated task.

The most pressing matters for the game seem to be rendering performance in certain situations, some QoL stuff and "production stuttering" when parts of the factory come into view (my guess is that this is related to off-screen optimisation vs. on-screen belt fitting).

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It's time for... Deckard!

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I don't think I ever meddle with it myself but NVIDIA's "Resizable BAR" and AMD's "SAM"(Smart Access Memory) on AMD side should be a toggle in bios. It's all a feature of the PCIe standard, so try searching somewhere inside PCI settings.

Motherboard vendors handle this differently as usual, but as for ASUS, it's actually called Resizable BAR in the BIOS (UEFI) even on my all-AMD system, and the setting is right at the top of the "EZ Mode" dashboard.

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