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Quoting: dpanterC'mon Clem, throw Mintbuntu in a ditch and go full LMDE already. It's long overdue.

At this point, with the direction that Canonical is going with Ubuntu, it might be a lot less work for the dev team if they focused on Debian instead.

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Good! Glad to see they're prioritizing their users, their reputation, and human creativity over money, and I believe that is of the utmost importance for a major Free/Open Source project like Blender.

If this turns out for the better, Mozilla ought to learn a lesson or two from this.

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Over to you in the comments - what have you been playing the most recently?

I've mostly been playing Bloons TD6 on the Deck recently. Being able to do co-op on that with the little one when we had car trouble on a long journey was an absolute sanity saver.

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Quoting: benstor214

Quoting: melkemindI'm always impressed with how fast they work. They put out an initial workaround with Proton Hotfix on the same day it stopped working, and now they already have it in Experimental.

Makes you wonder how easy it would be for the devs to test the update before pushing it. 🤔

Sadly, they didn't try for Linux at all, even for Steam Deck verification. Meanwhile, they released a native MacOS version. The studio execs clearly have a bias since it can't be about Macs having a bigger player base in 2026.

Probably more of a "this is the way it has always been" mindset. They're not looking at the change in statistics. They know Windows and MacOS ... and consoles. It's what they're comfortable with. Linux is a big confusing world of distros and versions, by comparison. Why change their time-tested processes?

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: LoudTechieYou're making the same mistake I made.

Where I make a mistake? The context was clearly not about NPC behavior, but about the marketing term "AI", which I usually avoid.

The context was AI based anti-cheat.
AI based anti-cheat is also older than the prolifiration of LLM's and the implicit connection between machine learning and AI.
Minecraft anti-cheat is the most known example of AI based anti-cheat and precisely as algorithmic and deterministic as you're proposing.
It just emulates human like analysis by looking at cheating incentives and realistic human behavior.

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At the point where your hardware is so new that Linux Mint can't support it, you're better off with a distro that ships newer packages, such as Bazzite.

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As much as the original Subnautica was one of my favourite games of all time, I'm gonna sit this one out and see what the reviews say. There's been too many troubling signs to trust this will even live up to Below Zero, let alone the original, and Krafton's declaration they're now an "AI First" company a few months ago does not fill me with confidence.

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Thanks! Unfortunately still too old (the changes I need were added in 257.10).

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C'mon Clem, throw Mintbuntu in a ditch and go full LMDE already. It's long overdue.

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Oh, wow!

I loved this game growing up - definitely my favorite of the C&C-likes. Just the weirdness of it all is so charming.

Definitely putting that on my wishlist to keep an eye on it.

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I remember this sitting on the shelf when I worked at Electronics Boutique 👴

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Quoting: AsciiWolfDoes anyone know what systemd version SteamOS 3.8 uses? I'm asking because of a certain udev rules update. Thanks!

Just checked on my OLED, it's 257 (257.7-2.3-arch).

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Does anyone know what systemd version SteamOS 3.8 uses? I'm asking because of a certain udev rules update. Thanks!

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: doragasuUnfortunately there's a growing probability of Denuvo moving to kernel level DRM. And if that happens, it's game over for Linux users. Not a problem specifically for me, I don't buy games with Denuvo DRM, but for the platform itself, it might be a big hit.

Do you have a source? Hope this doesn't happen

No source, that's just me guessing. But with Denuvo pricing reported as $25K per game per month + 50 cents per game sold, I am sure they are doing all they can to stay relevant, it's big money in here. And given their protection seems completely defeated, I suspect going to kernel level might be the next step.

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Bureaucracy is how society learns, remembers, and improves.
We need to systematize and create lasting institutional knowledge, or we'll just continuously make the same mistakes on every project and process. Part of that is learning to make and improve standards and processes. Learning how to learn better.

Actually, it's funny. "Learning how to learn" is one of those concepts the "superintelligence" doomsday guys are really scared of...

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For anyone who wants to compare against the Steam sale:
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/mt42026

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Quoting: LoudTechieYou're making the same mistake I made.

Where I make a mistake? The context was clearly not about NPC behavior, but about the marketing term "AI", which I usually avoid.

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Does anyone have good experience with VRR and/or HDR (games and video) in Fedora KDE? I'm looking for a different distro for a new AMD desktop.

I've used a docked Steam Deck occasionally, but obviously that's not especially capable for higher-end gaming. I assume I'd want to stick somewhat close to the SteamOS mould, and the work Valve have put into. . . is it mainly Plasma and Wayland?

I've used Mint Cinnamon a fair bit in a pretty casual way, and like the user experience. But I don't think they focus all that hard on modern display or gaming features.

I was considering Bazzite for a while. I briefly used Bazzite GNOME on a Steam Deck LCD (KDE wouldn't install), and didn't have a great time with it. Some of their dev team shenanigans have been a bit off-putting too.

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"Obey the laws here on Manaan, human." - Droid on Manaan

"Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope... Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds." - HK-47

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Quoting: benstor214

Quoting: melkemindI'm always impressed with how fast they work. They put out an initial workaround with Proton Hotfix on the same day it stopped working, and now they already have it in Experimental.

Makes you wonder how easy it would be for the devs to test the update before pushing it. 🤔

Sadly, they didn't try for Linux at all, even for Steam Deck verification. Meanwhile, they released a native MacOS version. The studio execs clearly have a bias since it can't be about Macs having a bigger player base in 2026.

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I didn't know that The Sovereign had a tech agency in Germany. I wonder if he dresses up as David Bowie still. I guess this explains Iggy Pop living in West Berlin back in the day. :P

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⚽🏎️🏁

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Can't wait for Re-DENUVO with double and triple the DRM appearing in games.

How long before this software suit requires age verification and constant camera feed to ensure you aren't doing something they don't like... like having fun...

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Quoting: EWGIf a higher price tags equates to higher quality builds and wages for those making it, then I'd be happy to eat a few more peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and wait another pay cheque if necessary to buy something.

You make it sound like having more PB&J sandwiches is a bad thing.

I’ll tell you right now that it is not.

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Dissen bombad.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: sarmadFor example, it should be able to detect that you are aiming precisely at a target behind a wall, or other similar things that are impossible without cheating.

That is a good example why classic algorithms are better than LLMs which are basically algorithmic lossy archive files. It is something like MP3 for all kind of data where the timestamp is the input (prompt, randomization number and so on). The important part is "lossy", because it loses information on the training process. This causes fail predictions as not being able to do correct maths. I just asked CGPT on duck.ai "What is the math result of 13/73²?" and the result was "13 / 5329 ≈ 0.002438 (rounded to 6 significant figures).", while the real numbers are 0.00243948... this was not even a rounding failure.

If we take this approach to your gaming situation, there are precise position parameters and time frames. The server can calculate precise if such an action could be possible - easy triangulating math. Why would you want to predict if it was possible or not if you just can calculate it? And AI probably does not even go the math route, because another one is "easier" (which does not mean more correct).

AI in games is good for things like animation prediction, can save resources while being much more natural than classic systems. But there is no benefit in using it for anti-cheat (except it may costs less at development, but it can damage the companies reputation in return).

You're making the same mistake I made.
[AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence) isn't [machine learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning)
It's the capability of computational systems to preform tasks typically associated with human intelligence.
As proof I will provide an example from the gaming space.
Far for the AI boom we've been calling the behavioral logic behind npcs the AI.
That logic is coded in no machine learning involved, yet we call it AI.

We nowadays associate it with machine learning, because most modern AI companies use mostly machine learning to achieve their goals, but that's just an artifact of our time.

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Quoting: sarmadFor example, it should be able to detect that you are aiming precisely at a target behind a wall, or other similar things that are impossible without cheating.

That is a good example why classic algorithms are better than LLMs which are basically algorithmic lossy archive files. It is something like MP3 for all kind of data where the timestamp is the input (prompt, randomization number and so on). The important part is "lossy", because it loses information on the training process. This causes fail predictions as not being able to do correct maths. I just asked CGPT on duck.ai "What is the math result of 13/73²?" and the result was "13 / 5329 ≈ 0.002438 (rounded to 6 significant figures).", while the real numbers are 0.00243948... this was not even a rounding failure.

If we take this approach to your gaming situation, there are precise position parameters and time frames. The server can calculate precise if such an action could be possible - easy triangulating math. Why would you want to predict if it was possible or not if you just can calculate it? And AI probably does not even go the math route, because another one is "easier" (which does not mean more correct).

AI in games is good for things like animation prediction, can save resources while being much more natural than classic systems. But there is no benefit in using it for anti-cheat (except it may costs less at development, but it can damage the companies reputation in return).

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Quoting: melkemindI'm always impressed with how fast they work. They put out an initial workaround with Proton Hotfix on the same day it stopped working, and now they already have it in Experimental.

Makes you wonder how easy it would be for the devs to test the update before pushing it. 🤔

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: sarmadSingle player games should have no anti-cheat protection.

As I understand it, Denuvo is not anti-cheat. Just looking at its full name, it is anti-tamper DRM -- it performs a completely different function.

Oh, my bad. I thought it was for anti-cheat.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: sarmadMultiplayer games should depend on server-side AI based monitoring

Agree with "server-side", disagree with "AI based monitoring". I would probably one of the first people getting banned for not hacking, because I play games like games and not guided (as 98% of all players these days do). AI is discriminating based on their trainings data. It is common sense that it should not be used for surveillance and Monitoring to filter cheaters is nothing else.

That's a good point. I'm not sure how the AI is trained to detect cheating. But it certainly shouldn't be trained on expecting you to play like everyone else; it should be trained on more raw data that includes the whole game world, not just how the player behaves. For example, it should be able to detect that you are aiming precisely at a target behind a wall, or other similar things that are impossible without cheating.

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