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News - Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages"
By sarmad, 17 Feb 2026 at 7:01 pm UTC

Everyone is suffering just so dozens of companies continue to re-do the very same mass scale copyright infringement, AKA AI.

News - Space strategy game Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes has a demo out now
By Caldathras, 17 Feb 2026 at 6:56 pm UTC

Quoting: JesTech
Quoting: VerglasSo is that the reason they completely pulled the other BSG game from Steam a few months ago?

Either way, as a huge BSG nerd I will definitely check this one out. So say we all.
Pretty sure the other one had a 10 year license expire and that's what got it pulled from the store. I may have the amount of years wrong, but it didn't seem to be anything due to any kind of upcoming game.

Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock 😊

Figured it might have been something like that...

News - Comedy co-op physics platformer Log Riders adds Linux support and looks hilarious
By rea987, 17 Feb 2026 at 6:53 pm UTC

Welp, just found a reason to argue with my wife in the weekend. 🤣

News - Brotato gets a major update with Paws & Claws adding pets
By RFSharpe, 17 Feb 2026 at 5:51 pm UTC

Brotato is one of my favorite games for the Steamdeck. Unfortunately, I had reached a point where my limited dexterity could unlock any new characters or achievements. Last week, when the full release of Paws & Claws dropped, I played several rounds. I managed to unlocked some of the new characters/pets and got a couple achievements. As evidence by the patch notes, Evil Empire has added a good deal of content with this update and it is FREE! Now I am curious to see what Evil Empire has created with the DLC for Dead Cells.

News - Game manager Lutris v0.5.20 released with Proton upgrades, store updates and much more
By mr-victory, 17 Feb 2026 at 5:30 pm UTC

Quoting: Nostalgia_RealmCould anyone enlighten me how this is better than how Proton-GE previously functioned? I am clueless about this topic. All I know is that Proton-GE has always worked fine for me on Lutris.
First things first I wrote that comment not because of umu but because of Proton-GE. The default runner was Wine-GE until this update which caused installation of Battle.net to mysteriously fail, some Windows apps to detect no available storage etc. I had had enough telling people to use Proton GE in Bazzite discord😆

Now about umu, it does 2 things:

* Running Proton with Steam Linux Runtime: This replicates how Steam runs proton, aiming to reduce unusual bugs.

* Game fixes: Umu contains a database of game fixes for both Steam & non Steam games, launchers capable of parsing the data automatically benefit from the unified effort of assembling game fixes. Things like passing SteamOS=1 to Wuthering Waves, enabling DLLs etc.

News - KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
By mr-victory, 17 Feb 2026 at 5:24 pm UTC

Quoting: PyrateCould 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.
KDE Plasma updates are the few I look up to. Back in 5.24 I was installing betas to get some features early, I haven't installed a beta in years but dammit the changelogs still have gems.

Quoting: LoftyI have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard'
I use wayland but there is a bug not affecting X11: moonlight and seemingly nothing else can disable vsync so I get higher input latency.

https://discuss.kde.org/t/1-frame-latency-on-moonlight-only-on-wayland-cannot-turn-off-vsync/40157

News - Brotato gets a major update with Paws & Claws adding pets
By Linux_Rocks, 17 Feb 2026 at 5:21 pm UTC

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News - KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more
By Linux_Rocks, 17 Feb 2026 at 5:16 pm UTC

It feels like KDE 6.1 just released recently. Where did all the time go? D:

News - Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages"
By Jarmer, 17 Feb 2026 at 5:07 pm UTC

check ebay. HOLY SHITBALLS. used lcd models going for almost $600 usd, used oleds going for nearly $900 usd.

W. T. FFFFFFFF.......................... 😡🤬

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 - Game manager Lutris v0.5.20 released with Proton upgrades, store updates and much more
By Nostalgia_Realm, 17 Feb 2026 at 4:35 pm UTC

Quoting: mr-victory
Proton-GE launched via umu is now the default. Umu takes care of keeping Proton-GE up to date.
About time.
Could anyone enlighten me how this is better than how Proton-GE previously functioned? I am clueless about this topic. All I know is that Proton-GE has always worked fine for me on Lutris.

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 🤷