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Quoting: The_Real_Bitterman"Reduce duplicate efforts", "replacing Lutris with fagus launcher" ... Nobody forced them not to use Flatpaks...

This really sounds like a self inflicted issue caused by point-releases and their cravings to package everything downstream instead. Then call it a win to form an organization to fix what they caused themselves...

I mean nobody prohibited them to push their modifications to the mainline kernel even before.

While I also came to learn that all these "gaming tweaks" and "optimisations" usually don't deliver any real differences or significant improvements over something not having these "gaming optimisations".

Flatpak launchers have many issues including gamescope/scopebuddy not working and using their own outdated Mesa, as well as being affected by the Nvidia Flatpak driver issues, this is why a built in launcher is greatly preferred

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Personally I don't care if they use AI or not in their artwork. I go there to buy games and as long as they keep releasing new stuff then I'm buying.

I'm probably in the minority here regarding this. What if they want to save a bit of money on artists and instead focus their funds on more important things? They can draw the promo page in mspaint and doodles for all I care.

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Quoting: PaldinoXWhats wrong with Fedora?

Quoting: AsciiWolfWhy? Fedora is one of the best polished and easy to use distros nowadays.

The better question is, what is not wrong with Fedora. But also I am not willing to discuss this with random strangers in the GoL comments section. Sounds like a waste of effort.

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"Reduce duplicate efforts", "replacing Lutris with fagus launcher" ... Nobody forced them not to use Flatpaks...

This really sounds like a self inflicted issue caused by point-releases and their cravings to package everything downstream instead. Then call it a win to form an organization to fix what they caused themselves...

I mean nobody prohibited them to push their modifications to the mainline kernel even before.

While I also came to learn that all these "gaming tweaks" and "optimisations" usually don't deliver any real differences or significant improvements over something not having these "gaming optimisations".

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[quote]For too long, the Linux gaming ecosystem has been fragmented. Individual distributions have spent countless hours duplicating efforts on kernel patches, input tooling, and essential packages.

no shit sherlock

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well dang! I have been on v2.17 forever cuz 2.18 broke EVERYTHING for me and I had to rollback. It conflicts with Steam open for some games, and controller goes crazy in the menu from time to time.

I may have to give 2.19 a try since "improved gamepad" would be a big deal.

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I recall Bazzite being very early with Steam Deck / handheld SteamOS-alternative, so I think that was why they use HHD? But InputPlumber being what Valve uses made it not a surprise it is what the rest of the community standardized on instead of HHD.

I did saw one person complained about CachyOS not supporting HHD, that it meant that it's less flexible than Bazzite, and they're right but it is clearly a double-edged sword given the maintenance burden of not using what everyone else is using.

The rest of the Open Gaming Collective is interesting. Notably, CachyOS isn't on that list, despite Nobara which had been based on a lot of what CachyOS did (and PikaOS I think is based on Nobara) being on the group.

Oh, and Faugus is good but I had issues with portals on Game Mode but I was also using a jank NixOS + Jovian setup on my ROG Ally so idk. Still, dropping Lutris? Hm, has Lutris Flatpak version matured enough? I feel like Lutris is still a core of getting many non-Steam non-Heroic games running.

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Quoting: poiuz

Quoting: F.UltraAFAIK this have only been rumoured by Epic. But if you have any links with data then provide them.

There are quotes buried in court files - I'll have to look for it myself.

Quoting: F.UltraYet when I google it I get back that Apple takes 30% (and 15% for small publishers) and Sony takes 30%...

Fortnite & the App Store ring any bells? Maybe search for EU DSA?

Good luck trying to find that in their lawsuit (they are not), the only thing that they presents is in their FAQ where they claim that Valve is doing this with weasel wording trying to avoid the fact that is all about Steam Keys. We all went over this in 2024 when they filed it.

The Fortnite vs Apple suit was because Apple forced Fortnite to use their payment system for in app purchases. So far I have no idea how this somehow makes LupertEverett:s comment that both Sony and Apple take 30% incorrect.

Quoting: eggroleAs everyone has said, I see no issue with the 30% cut, but I think the more important part, that has a bit of merit IMHO, is the off-platform competition restriction. If my game is for sale on steam for $50, why can't I sell it direct on my website (or any other platform for that matter) for $40?

This *feels* very anti-competitive, but what do I know.

AFAIK that is not what Valve does not allow, what they do not allow is you seeling Steam keys for $40 on your website if you have a sale at Steam for $50.

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making illustrations with ai, instead of hiring artists, is the same as making games drm-free with cracks, instead of buying them from gog. hopefully gog will stop sloppifying itself, because it is one of few digital game stores that actually has its mission, purpose and reasons to exist.

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Just to clarify, the project **is** a Linux Kernel distribution, but what is less common is that it was built as designed to be "immutable", which is another trait to consider, since some do and I believe a Linux Kernel instance must be mutable and modular in the first place, including custom middleware/drivers for the hardware you have in your environment, and for personal more straightforward and transparent audits, too.

Since every single environment is unique and must be maintainable conveniently and independently of the vendor.

Meanwhile, this is incredible indeed, of course! Let's wish them success, stability, less piracy and more prosperity, peace, and safety to eventually unveil even more miracles of ineffably magnificent art of people in the infinity of the world...

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe basic question is whether the 30% cut generates windfall profits. If it does, then lawsuits that successfully reduce that cut will leave Valve in place but reduce costs for the consumer.

It most definitely will not. It's not a "tax" that gets added on top of the game price like Tim Sweeney would want you to think. And developers/publishers won't lower their prices because why would they pass up extra revenue ?

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i swear by this distro after mostly using endeavour for years. i still like eos, but I lean toward installing cachy on everything from now on

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: wit_as_a_riddleCopyright law is very outdated for current technology.

So is capitalism. But if we're going to insist on capitalism, then within that framework I'm not sure what's going to stop anyone who creates anything from starving without copyright. We can fix copyright if we fix the overall system it's in.

For me, the strongest case for sticking with markets is the historic drop in extreme poverty: from high 60s–80% globally in the 1970s down to under 9% today. That's real progress in human well-being that I'd hate to reverse. I find inequality to be irrelevant when compared to the absolute gains in living standards — health, longevity, basics — people have realized. That just matters a lot more than relative gaps or resentment toward the ultra-wealthy. We can tackle the flaws (like price fixing) without abandoning what’s lifted so many.

I don't worry about creative people, creators adapt, they'll find creative ways to sustain themselves. Direct fan support models like Patreon or similar patronage systems and the massive access to consumers that is the internet will continue paying more and more artists. Not saying that's the end-all and be-all, just an example of artist prosperity not reliant on copyright - and a reason I don't worry about what will become of artists amidst the rise of generative AI.

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and I was just beginning to build a library on their platform. Not purchasing from them again they hard pivot away from this sort of slop.

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Quoting: CaldathrasAnd I've been holding off on 580.126.09 because someone here mentioned problems with XFCE.

Do you happen to have any more info on this? I'm running LXQT, which uses Xfwm, and I've also avoided the last couple of updates because of general weirdness.

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Quoting: wit_as_a_riddleI'm sure there were people complaining about the jobs of sled makers when the wheel was invented - ultimately fruitless.

There were math teachers protesting against introducing the newly invented calculators in school classes, because apparently not doing math with paper and pencil makes you dumb.

I am the last person to adopt every change without questioning it, and not every change is progress. But I will never understand their desire to fight literally ANY change, until they have no other choice left.

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I find the moral indignation over what others do with their own hard earned money to be performative. Good luck with that authoritarian desire to control the choices of others, maybe you can bring bureaucracy in to regulate, spend some of your taxes on that. I'm sure there were people complaining about the jobs of sled makers when the wheel was invented - ultimately fruitless.

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Quoting: KimyrielleMy feelings on that are clear: As long as people find it acceptable to use AI for coding (and they seem to), it must be okay to use it for everything else, too.

The biggest difference with coding is that AI is rarely used to generate the end product. It's used for snippets or a starting point and then people iterate on it.

The code is in the end product, too. And we have moved past snippets a while ago. Yes, you have to review AI generated code. You have to do the same with AI generated art.

People try to find any imaginable way rationalize why they defend artists against AI, but not coders. But in the end, it's the same thing, no matter how hard people to try to argue it's not.

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I'm still going to keep buying games on GOG because the anti-DRM stance is more important than 'oh, they used an AI-generated image' (we don't even know whether the model used is an ethically trained model or not) or 'oh, their launcher doesn't run on GNU/Linux' (you can just download the game from the website and there's Lutris and Heroic and Minigalaxy). I also buy games on Steam and Itch because I know any and all of those bastards will stab me in the back when the mood takes them (and seriously, fuck Valve, fuck GOG, and double fuck Itch for stiffing the fucking devs out of the money their fans pay).

Is AI bad? Well, Adobe Firefly is apparently trained on specifically licensed content where Adobe paid the creators for making the materials the model was trained on, there's also Vaisual and Tess and Mitsua and gods know what else. Maybe whoever provided the banner art for GOG used one of those? But no, AI = bad, so let's not use our brains and just condemn; that's always worked out best.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy. . . There are things that still use OpenGL?

Lots? Outside the API translation layers, Vulkan is not popular at all. It's orders of magnitude harder to use than OpenGL.

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"Chinese company from veeery different culture and time zone... They definitely misunderstand something in our Western, over-complicated world..."

Oh, God, people! Don't be so naive! They "poor Chinese people" are clever enough to know what is Bazzite... They are clever enough to use it as advert of their product. And yet, they ignored Bazzite officials comments...

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As long as no one is being defrauded or physically assaulted, "There Is No Such Thing As Bad Publicity." So, a high-spirited verbal match is likely only to lead to more people finding out that Bazzite is the gaming phenomenon that they'd never otherwise have heard about.

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They could have simply paid one of the million starving contract artists on Fiver or whatever forums 20 bucks to get a cool banner. It's insane they chose not to.

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That melting SNES is truly a work of art 🤮

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FeelsMeltingNESMan

But honestly, I barely ever look at those banners, so I guess I can at least understand why they'd use AI art there of all places.
Put something there? Yes.
Spend actual money on real people for something practically no-one will even look at? No.

But then... why have any art there in the first place? Just have text. Or stock art.

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Quoting: Cley_FayeIf someone felt they needed an image to describe their sale, they should have put some effort into it. Just look at how Steam handled this. People are still attached to a random sales mascot character way after it ended.

Background art for Autumn Sale 2024 is still masterful.

I am totally invested in this girl and her cat just out there delivering video games by scooter. What will they be up to next? Where will they go? 😃

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Quoting: KoopaSeems their proprietary driver is quite prone to vulnerabilities, glad I am red team.

Mesa also has its fair share of security fixes across different releases, this isn't unique to NVIDIA.

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Seems their proprietary driver is quite prone to vulnerabilities, glad I am red team.

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Quoting: CaldathrasThe "you can back up your Steam games after they're installed" argument is spurious at best. It overlooks the fact that the game still requires the Steam client to install those games in first place.

It doesn't, you can download the game with steamcmd. It only requires a steam account, just like it requires a gog account to download the game.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD#Downloading_an_App

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To be honest, I wouldn't notice. I am not really into searching every single image on the internet if it's AI generated or not (unless it's obvious).

As for the art: at this point with complaints about AI slop everywhere, I care less and less about that. Stress and anger does no good to me.

It's not cool that they use it in that way, sure, it's hard to agree that it's a good thing, but I'm not going to either condemn or praise them for that anymore.

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