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News - Factory building sim Shapez 2 hits the big 1.0 in April with major upgrades
By Jarmer, 4 Mar 2026 at 3:15 pm UTC
YESSSS!!!! This is so exciting!

Although: I'm a little scared. Maybe a lot. April is usually a busy work month. I should just pre-email all my contacts and be like "sorry stuff is delayed, I'm playing Shapez leave me alone"

This game is gonna be SO GOOD on release! I mean it already is but Manufacture Mode sounds wonderful.
News - Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
By Jarmer, 4 Mar 2026 at 3:11 pm UTC
Quoting: Stellawhat about Docker containers???? Do I need to enter my age for every single Docker container that gets created? In companies they get created and destroyed by the thousand each day. This is beyond ridiculous.
Of course my friend this is an easy solution! We the benevolent hyper intelligent best ever government of all time United States of Murica will simply dispatch a government monitor employee lizard I mean human being to help you click the proper boxes that we will mandate that totally exist when you are creating those docksners so the lizard I mean human being can report back and ensure everything is on the up and up.
News - Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
By fenglengshun, 4 Mar 2026 at 3:11 pm UTC
Quoting: CarollyHonestly just slap a "not legal to use in California" label on the OS and be done with it.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I mean. They could still sue you. Your Terms of Service and EULA is only as good as your legal team and how much money you have.

I feel like everyone is so optimistic that they can't be sued because the alternative is taking it seriously and it's scary, as well as involves compromises on things that traditionally we don't care for (but now have to because law is law).
News - Bazzite gets a big update with KDE Plasma 6.6, Mesa 26.0.1 and more
By fenglengshun, 4 Mar 2026 at 3:07 pm UTC
Quoting: Stellathe only reason they used Ptyxis in the first place was because of Konsole's seriously lacking container support, which are very important for the immutable distro workflow.
I personally dislike Discover as it feels slow and bloated due to the many different backends it supports and despite being called Discover, the discoverability of apps feels lacking in comparison to Bazaar. I even started using Bazaar on my Steam Deck.
What counts as "seriously lacking container support" here? I've been using konsole with distrobox just fine even before I got on ublue, and that's before we even have Bazzite and only had ublue-kinoite. I can enter my container pretty quickly - just use an alias or zsh-autosuggestions if you want to do it quickly.

re: Discover and Bazaar
Spoiler, click me

I don't care about Discover's problems with Flatpak and others. I just want to be able to keep my applets, themes, and kwin scripts updated. If it bothers people so much, just include Bazaar, pin it in favorite, hide Discover in Utility category.

What I hated was Discover being removed when Bazaar still sucked. I did give it a try back then - it locks the entire app if you clicked Update, it was still pretty slow, I know it crashed on other people, and I find the way it loads on each keypress while searching to be rather uncomfortable as I am a bit sensitive to flashing screens. It wasn't ready, it was shoved in my face, and what I needed was removed while restoring it isn't as straightforward as with Konsole. The last time an operating system didn't something similar, I left and learned an entirely new operating system.

Honestly, I don't even want to talk about Bazaar anymore - it just keeps making me angry remembering how it was implemented in the ublue ecosystem. I don't even care how good it is now, the initial introduction left such a bad taste in my mouth.
News - Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
By Carolly, 4 Mar 2026 at 2:55 pm UTC
Honestly just slap a "not legal to use in California" label on the OS and be done with it.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
News - Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
By tohur, 4 Mar 2026 at 2:45 pm UTC
As someone thats making a Distro.. good TF luck getting that $7k per "child" from me.. and as a Coloradian I am ASHAMED of my state!.. this has NOTHING to do with "protecting mu kids" and everything to do with pushing us to mass surveillance, just like NONE of these age verification laws rather it be the UK, Brazil, or ANYWHERE else has ANYTHING to do with "protecting mu kids" and has EVERYTHING to do with mass surveillance of everyone
News - Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
By fenglengshun, 4 Mar 2026 at 2:42 pm UTC
Quoting: Stellawhat about Docker containers???? Do I need to enter my age for every single Docker container that gets created? In companies they get created and destroyed by the thousand each day. This is beyond ridiculous.
Presumably, no. Fedora has the right mind of how it'll look like - docker can just inherit the user age bracket data as part of its initialization process. Could also just check for user's group, since they also care about `docker` group anyways.
News - Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
By fenglengshun, 4 Mar 2026 at 2:41 pm UTC
Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeReally don't see how they can enforce it, particularly on linux distros
It's pretty simple: they see a company not doing anything to comply, they sue. Now, whether it'll hold up in Supreme Court, that's a question - though not one that's anyone eager to answer, especially of the lawsuit started first on a red state that implements a similar law.

The law itself is pretty clear about what counts as a violation and what's the fine. The problem that isn't clear is how they expect OS vendor to comply, in the technical sense, and what counts as "negligent" and "intentional" violation (I would assume not doing anything at all would count as intentional).

This is unfortunately a legal matter - you can't think as a user or as a dev, you have to think as legal entities.

Again, the only way out really is to get the laws amended or challenged in Supreme Court, neither of which are easy. My main worry is with other countries, especially EU if I'm being honest - they can more likely to overreach with their version of the law and I'm not sure how you'd challenge them.
News - Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
By Lachu, 4 Mar 2026 at 1:43 pm UTC
I am 127 years old. This is my computer and nobody should blame me for lie to prompt shown by my computer.
News - Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
By Stella, 4 Mar 2026 at 1:16 pm UTC
what about Docker containers???? Do I need to enter my age for every single Docker container that gets created? In companies they get created and destroyed by the thousand each day. This is beyond ridiculous.
News - Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
By CatKiller, 4 Mar 2026 at 1:01 pm UTC
Quoting: ZlopezI don't really understand all the "Protect the children" laws as they are usually just a way of control in disguise.
Then you do understand. It's nothing to do with children, and it's nothing to do with parents. The people that are pushing their panopticon just want to be able to claim that those who oppose it "hate children."
News - EA Javelin Anticheat job listing mentions future support for Linux and Proton
By mr-victory, 4 Mar 2026 at 12:29 pm UTC
Quoting: _MarsMaybe some form of remote attestation
No no no no no. That sorta kinda kills the purpose of using linux, plus I need out of tree or custom kernel modules on all PCs I use for at least 1 piece of hardware.
News - EA Javelin Anticheat job listing mentions future support for Linux and Proton
By _Mars, 4 Mar 2026 at 12:02 pm UTC
"I believe it when I see it" kind of situation.
But I had "one large company will at least consider porting their anti-cheat to SteamOS/Linux" on my bingo card, so I'm at least intrigued. Fingers crossed.

But I wonder what the approach will be. They say Linux instead of just SteamOS, so it seems to be a more general solution instead of just focusing on Valve's hardware which is great. And they don't explicitly state kernel level for Linux either(but who knows).

Maybe they'll work together with Valve to provide some kernel module without giving full access to every company. Maybe some form of remote attestation that can later be integrated into other distros?

I'm not gonna get too excited until we actually see some results. But I'll be cautiously optimistic.
I'll gladly reinstall BF1 or Garden Warfare 2 if they go through with it. And maybe they'll bring the Apex Legends devs to adopt this anti-cheat as well.

This could be what many of us have been waiting for. If one company goes through with it, I imagine others will follow.
Let's hope for the best.
News - Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
By Doktor-Mandrake, 4 Mar 2026 at 12:02 pm UTC
Political theater

Really don't see how they can enforce it, particularly on linux distros
News - Hytale and CurseForge team up for a $100,000 USD mod competition
By kellerkindt, 4 Mar 2026 at 11:42 am UTC
Nice. This and their - as far as I have seen - great modding support hopefully creates a sizable modding community.
News - Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
By Zlopez, 4 Mar 2026 at 11:41 am UTC
I still think that things like these should be responsibility of parents and not state. I don't really understand all the "Protect the children" laws as they are usually just a way of control in disguise.
News - Ubuntu and Fedora devs comment on California's new Digital Age Assurance Act
By pb, 4 Mar 2026 at 11:32 am UTC
My understating of the mandate is the same as Jef's and I do think that all the legislators thought of is that a responsible parent, setting the account for their kid, would put a real birth date, which would then be used by apps to decide what content to serve. There are just two tiny problems - it will be facile to circumvent by any half-brained kid, and it will be heavily abused by app providers by shaping the content (especially ads) depending on the age bracket. All around a shitty idea, but completely in line with the times we live in.
News - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive reappears on Steam as a standalone download
By Craggles086, 4 Mar 2026 at 10:53 am UTC
Hoping this is Valves answer to the Stop Killing Games campaign. Which would explain the focus on offline play, but may not be limited to it.

Which could mean it will not be an isolated event.
News - Resident Evil 4 remake has the Enigma Protector DRM removed
By Skaarj, 4 Mar 2026 at 10:35 am UTC
I hope they remove Enigma from other games as well.
News - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive reappears on Steam as a standalone download
By hardpenguin, 4 Mar 2026 at 10:35 am UTC
That's interesting, I thought CS2 and CSGO are the same game, just rebranded.

I suppose it would be good to have CSGO available with just community servers, similar to CS Source and CS 1.6.
News - EA Javelin Anticheat job listing mentions future support for Linux and Proton
By kuhpunkt, 4 Mar 2026 at 10:28 am UTC
Obviously not a fan of kernel level stuff (and who knows how their implementation will work), but it's great for Linux adoption. I mean how often did we hear "Yeah, but can it play Multiplayer XYZ like on console?"

One argument less against Linux and something like the Steam Machine. Will be interesting to see how this is developing.
News - EA Javelin Anticheat job listing mentions future support for Linux and Proton
By hardpenguin, 4 Mar 2026 at 10:28 am UTC
Nice, I would like to be able to play Battlefield and EA Sports FC on my Linux computer
News - EA Javelin Anticheat job listing mentions future support for Linux and Proton
By Yasri, 4 Mar 2026 at 10:24 am UTC
Coming soon from EA, Linux "battlefield VIII Doritos Baja Blast edition" kernel to play the latest gaming slop.
News - EA Javelin Anticheat job listing mentions future support for Linux and Proton
By Ehvis, 4 Mar 2026 at 9:59 am UTC
It wouldn't surprise me if they still have the idea that they could make some sort of integration into the Linux kernel to make it as "safe" as the windows version. They might be possible if you limit yourself to a single target (like Steam Deck), but I don't think it is feasible in general.
News - EA Javelin Anticheat job listing mentions future support for Linux and Proton
By Szkodnix, 4 Mar 2026 at 9:59 am UTC
Okay, I gotta admit: I didn't expect that o_O
News - California law to require operating systems to check your age
By LordDaveTheKind, 4 Mar 2026 at 9:32 am UTC
It makes sense if you consider that Americans BigTechs (Apple, Google and Microsoft) are trying to lobbying all the Governments worldwide for their anti-competitive practices.

Comment found it on the web:

Since Apple and Google convinced the whole world that "app stores" are the only way to install software, that means according to politicians, every computer must verify age. For the app store that everyone must be using.

An app store is an anti-competitive moat, designed to use censorship to optimize the profits of a company. The government has now enshrined into law a protection for these quasi-monopolies. Of course "they're not a monopoly" because "there are two companies". But we didn't used to need app stores at all. Computers used to allow anyone to install and run anything they wanted. Not anymore though. You will only do what The Companies allow you to, because Profits.
This is the only sensible comment I see in this thread. I would just add Microsoft to the list, as they are still trying to enforce their ecosystem (failing repeatedly of course, but still trying).
News - Aquarium building sim Megaquarium gets a big free update and new DLC
By Philadelphus, 4 Mar 2026 at 8:35 am UTC
Quoting: CaldathrasThis looks like it could be fun, especially if it sticks to real species instead of made-up ones.
It has admittedly been a while since I last played, but I'm fairly sure Megaquarium uses all real species.
News - Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 51: It’s Not Easy Being Green
By dubigrasu, 4 Mar 2026 at 7:48 am UTC
Quoting: gbudny@Hamish

Thank you for the article.

Can you play Quake: The Offering for Linux with GeForce2 MX 400?

Quoting: dubigrasuThat Nvidia white splash brings back sweet memories, the first "serious" card that I used for gaming on Linux was a Geforce4 MX, and it was the card I used to play Doom 3 with.
You reminded me of how painful it was to play Quake 4 on Linux with this graphics card back in 2005. I remember that Doom 3 didn't have a better performance, but it was a long time ago. I started to enjoy playing both games when I had a more modern computer with an Intel 2 Core Duo.
Well, at the ridiculous (as we see it now) resolution of 640x480 it wasn't that bad. Probably the framerate wasn't also that great, but something like 30 fps was so sweet for a PS1 player like me, accustomed with 24 fps or less, add some overclocking, some graphical tweaking, the TV placed 2 meters away (less sensitive to low fov and fps)...it was great! 😄

From what I understand Quake 4 was more graphically intensive than Doom 3, but I did played it with the same card (...I think?), both awesome games. Apparently these Linux versions had some features disabled, which would explain them running better on Linux, but my eyeballmeter couldn't see a difference back then. It still was a blast.
News - California law to require operating systems to check your age
By Eike, 4 Mar 2026 at 7:32 am UTC
Quoting: Mountain ManTo be fair, we're still far behind Europe where you can and will be arrested for posting "offensive" messages on social media.
You can be punished for say calling someone an a**hole. Not for stating an actual opinion. (You do not really believe that a person is a backside - it's not an opinion, it's all insult.) I fail to see a problem with that.
News - Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 51: It’s Not Easy Being Green
By Hamish, 4 Mar 2026 at 7:07 am UTC
Quoting: omer666My Linux PC at the time was a Pentium III too, but it was equipped with a Matrox G200, which I was very satisfied with. I don't really remember what kind of performance I was getting though...

[Edit] Or maybe it was a G400... now I can't remember 😅
On my list of nice to haves would be, alongside any kind of Voodoo card to experiment with, a Matrox G400 Max as it seems like it would be a good showcase of the best the free graphic stack was capable of at the time. Good luck not breaking the bank on any of those though.
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