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So Teamspeak, Vent, or Mumble back in style yet????!

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"Kingdom of Candy"

LOL! I had to share that one with my wife after laughing like a hyena.

Also, UGH! GoL is pretty much ALL of my Discord interactions.

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I just want to remind everyone that Blizzard-Activision is now a subsidiary of Microsoft.

The same as GitHub, Mojang and others.

The blob grows.

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Having recently spent 120 hrs playing a ue5 game and absolutely loving every minute of it, and also at the same time having zero issues whatsoever, I can say that it 100% depends on the developer's skillset with the engine.

Obsidian must be the #1 unreal engine developer on earth right now.

... anyway ... I'm just saying that it being unreal engine itself isn't always a bad thing. Worthless pointless remakes/remasters/rewhateverthefucks is DEFINITELY a bad thing.

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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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A tentative yes is effectively a no. It reveals a lack of commitment.

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Not to mention Bruce Schneier's blog about a new rootkit "discovered" (read: written) by ARMO:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/new-linux-rootkit.html


ARMO claim that they have a product to stop this type of attack.

Or one can simply disable io_uring by running sysctl kernel.io_uring_disabled = 1 as root to disable it temporarily, or adding the following line in /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf:

kernel.io_uring_disabled = 1

and reboot to disable it altogether.

Edit: forgot kernel

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I don’t really understand all the negativity about this.

I look at this from a technical standpoint.

If they’re trying to improve their proficiency with a new game engine, best way is to recreate something they’ve already done so they can compare “Apples to Apples” and make sure it reacts exactly as they expect.

There are also times where devs are working on a new game and will back-port new features to the old game. Things like FSR, DLSS, new render engine, physics, etc.
It not only, potentially, improves the old game, but is a sneaky free testing environment that will help the new game.

Also, the devs can do whatever they want with their game 🤷‍♂️

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Everything needs to be UE5 these days because everyone's dumping Unity over certain shenanigans. And lots of people aren't ready to go to Godot, let alone other open source engines; in some cases, Godot may even not be ready for their project.

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Promise Mascot Agency is another collectathon crazy adventure from the guys behind Paradise Killer. Once again they nailed it on the strange setting and humour. It was released a few days ago and already had overwhelming positive.

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Just to let you know the story is probably the most complex and unique thing Dave Gilbert has ever written. Probably my favourite game of his that designed and coded in the Wadjet Eye library.

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That looks pretty interesting. Snowepiercer indeed. Also has Co-op which is nice for games like these.
Added to wishlist!

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Great. Another game to be run on the blurry unoptimized UE5 crap.
Tbh i just don't understand the "everything needs to be UE5" these days.
Welcome to upscalers, framegens and blurry mess.

Oblivion Remaster from the recent ones seems another UE5 slop again. Performs bad, looks pretty blurry and awful.
Compare that to something like KCD2 that looks a lot better and performs twice as good.

Ohh well...

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For Doom 3 (if it's BFG edition ?) there is also native Linux port/mod : https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG
Unfortunately you need compile it from source but it works very good... ;)

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I want aware Steam has integrated voice chat.

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For once I was lucky I updated my drivers this morning ^^

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Just echoing the comments about certain communities existing solely on Discord. Many game mod communities have no other home than their Discord channel, and some of them release Discord-exclusive mods unavailable elsewhere. Other servers I follow are the only place of live discussion around that topic. I avoid Reddit since 2023, and the alternatives like Lemmy just became deadzones.
Given the amount of users I see nearly daily say things like "I'll pay money for beta access to this mod", "I will pay $100 to someone to help me solve/navigate this SteamOS issue", "who do I have to pay to get help around here", or the increasingly common "I just want to donate money to [alleviate weird American-sensibility that everything has to have a dollar cost]", it seems to me that many Discord users will be happy to pay $10/m for Discord access. That will freeze out users like me who are unwilling to pay sub fees for server access, or other users unhappy with shitty corporate policies designed to encourage LineGoUp revenue behaviors.
The enshittification train is battling towards us and there are no brakes.

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A direct replacement would be TeamSpeak, and TS6 looks to be very promising, if only it didn't take several months for each update to come out for this supposedly "in development" and "beta" version of the software. The foundation is super solid; the voice comms part is generations ahead of Discord and similar services, but smaller things like screen sharing are pretty new to the software so that needs some work (currently can only share camera feed on Wayland).

I've been looking into alternatives to Discord before it became cool, since at least 3 or 4 years ago, when I learned the app records literally every single click you make in it, as well as god knows what else it collects from the PC (we do know at least it monitors every foreground app including its usage time). I just hope this new development of them going public will finally make users wake up.

Becauae that's What keeps baffling me every time, and I'm sure I brought this up in one of the older articles, is how it feels like allll the tech/privacy conscious people just completely give up when it comes to Discord. Like, I can successfully replace nearly every service I use for something free and open source, but not Discord, and everyone just continues to use it, as if it doesn't have these issues, or that they don't literally break the GDPR by refusing to remove your messages from their servers when you decide to leave the service. I'm not making this last part up.

I've looked at every alternative out there, and I keep following how they develop over time. Other than TS6 which I already mentioned, Matrix looks like the best bet, if going strictly for open source. It still lacks in the screen sharing department and I read voice calls aren't super good either, but it's a good candidate for if TeamSpeak fumbles this golden ooportunity of capturing a good userbase from Discord migrants.

Mumble doesn't have screensharing or video calling at all, and the UI isn't something my friend group will appreciate. Arguably the best voice comms though, even better than TeamSpeak's probably.

I also looked at the Slack/Slack-like services and none of them meet my criteria (I just want something for my group of 10-12 people to hang out, with voice chat and proper screen sharing, I don't care about the social "communities" part one bit).

Revolt looked promising but I don't like that it's literally Discord but open source, like it's a carbon copy to the point I can see Discord taking them to court for copypasting everything. Besides, the project doesn't seem to have a lot of manpower and it's been the most stagnant out of all the others I mentioned.

Edit: I saw it mentioned in the comments above but I didn't write about it. Steam chat, I have also tried. The good part is that voice comms are surprisingly very good, I remember I was in a call with a friend on Discord and during the call we switched to Steam Chat, and the differnece in audio quality was significant when put face to face like that. The bad part is that although it exists, screen sharing is separate from Steam Chat and trying to stream your game on Steam in general is convoluted and appeared to actually be broken on Linux, at list it looked like it the last time I tried it. If Steam Chat gets just a little more attention from Valve, I can see them easily taking over Discord for some people. The idea of having voice communications through the same Steam overlay shortcut and not a separate program is fantastic.

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I don't understand why they need to make a pointless trailer 2 years before game is even coming out.

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The game is great, remaking it a worthless waste of time. What a shame.

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Revolt seems cool yes, but I still prefer Matrix.

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Behold the enshittification of Discord.

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Chains of Freedom looks pretty neat, and it has a demo!!

oh, and like with so many other big game launches these days, oblivion might SAY it's verified but it's a dirty lie. I don't know why they keep doing this but .... it's pretty ugly on the Deck. Far better off to play the original w/ mods on Deck.

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hot damn that looks amazing. It's like snowpiercer and stranger things had a freaky baby and I am HERE FOR IT.

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Thank you Pyretic, i didn't not know about the Fedora thing. I keep hearing about Ubuntu and Arch as well. I have a soundcard from EVGA and some beta drivers meant for ubuntu, is fedora and ubuntu compatible?

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One alternative to Discort that I find interesting (although I haven't used yet) is Revolt ( https://app.revolt.chat )... It seems like a good alternative with fairly active development, but I haven't seen anyone I know using it so far.

The developers are rewriting the whole thing and it seems like they're making good progress, check the latest version highlights in Github: https://github.com/revoltchat/frontend/releases

I also heard some sort of controversial things about their developers, but no proof or evidence of it (https://alternativeto.net/software/revolt-chat/about/#post-146274)...

I'd like to know people's opinions here.

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I prepared Telegram as a replacement long ago, then when they went down the shitter, I looked to Signal as my alternative.

I don't use Discord servers or voice/video chat. I actively avoid servers and voice/video chat on all platforms. The only thing I might miss is Screenshare, which it seems [Signal already supports](https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/5369688043418-Screen-Sharing-with-Signal-Desktop-Calls).

Farewell, Discord. I stopped enjoying the experience in 2018, now I have a good excuse to leave.

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Great. I'll start looking for an alternative.

(Edit)
My guess is that Steam Chat will be it for most people

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I am curious if they will keep using Monogame and/or Haxe, or if they will use a different engine (maybe I just didn't see it if it was mentioned)

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@d3Xt3r

happy to report that it's been running flawlessly on my GPD Win Mini 2024

Impressive little machine. I also like the form factor.

I don't get all the negative comments here.

I'm down on it because of the inflated system requirements. This game should be able to run on much older machines than they've allowed for. 4K means nothing to me, so it's wasted storage space.

Why can't these developers separate the high quality texture packs into free DLC? Set the base textures at 720p and let the user select to download the 800p, 1080p, 2K or 4K texture packs if they want them.

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