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The question is how much control will you have over the game in a self hosted server? And more importantly, will you be able to disable the EAC requirement on a self hosted server? If so, it would be a major step forward in this game's future preservation and my interest in actually trying it out. Because if I look at the reviews and see multiple instances of people losing all their work because they didn't play for a week removes any interest I might have in the game.

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This is one of the first games I played when Steam came to Linux. In fact, the achievements say about a week after I created my Steam account. Good memories!

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Oh, nice, I hope they fixed the achievements, as I remember some not working.
Will the native build be updated, though?

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Hmm I should go back to this game. I remember it being quite fun.

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30-years old game and it still lives on and keeps improving thanks to this project 💯

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Suzerain is one of my most beloved games!

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Quoting: g000h

Quoting: AndrewDon't fucking use Epic, I had all sorts of games and skins and shit on Epic and there games. But I got hacked and there not FUCKING HELP! I lost everything, Stick with steam at least they will help. Linux will run Steam, Please stay away from Epic!

I feel your pain, but at the same time Epic practically forces you to use OTP (two-factor authentication) to login so I'm curious how you managed to get 'hacked' with this 2FA in place?

Also, hacking generally occurs because the user's PC is compromised, e.g. a Remote Access Trojan stealing your session login cookies, or like the recent CPU-Z exploit - Stealing Chrome Browser credentials after a person has installed malware-infected software.

Otp's get phished just as easily as passwords nowadays. Their only advantage is that they can protect against a simple "(educated) guess the password" attack.

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Picked it up. I like Tower Defence games (and I haven't succumbed to American spellings, heh).

My own favourite TD game is "Tower Dominion" which isn't in this collection, and I highly recommend it. Tower Dominion is somewhat roguelike / procedurally-generated so you can keep on playing fresh levels forever.

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Quoting: AndrewDon't fucking use Epic, I had all sorts of games and skins and shit on Epic and there games. But I got hacked and there not FUCKING HELP! I lost everything, Stick with steam at least they will help. Linux will run Steam, Please stay away from Epic!

I feel your pain, but at the same time Epic practically forces you to use OTP (two-factor authentication) to login so I'm curious how you managed to get 'hacked' with this 2FA in place?

Also, hacking generally occurs because the user's PC is compromised, e.g. a Remote Access Trojan stealing your session login cookies, or like the recent CPU-Z exploit - Stealing Chrome Browser credentials after a person has installed malware-infected software.

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Can confirm that it doesn't work at all on linux. I never played it and it looks insane, but man the guide is huge and I've a one yar old daughter and a very time consuming job, so I really don't gave the time for that now, a simpler installer would be amazing !

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneBut Linux is already "owned" by big tech companies. Google is one of the biggest contributors to kernel, Canonical is also contributing a majority to Debian while the company has the reputation of "Microsoft of the Linux world" (at least what some people write about),

You forgot Red Hat (IBM), Oracle Corporation and, technically, even System76 and Tuxedo Computers ...

😃

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I... had no idea about this whole Framework association. I'm also not totally sure I see the connection between DHH and Hyprland? I know DHH from creating Ruby on Rails if memory serves. It also seems like they are involved with a distribution that uses Arch and Hyprland called Omarchy. Are they also a contributor to/maintainer of Hyprland?

If so, that would be a big blow... I really liked Hyprland from what I've heard of it a year or so back, but not closely following any of the behind-the-scenes. I also really liked Ruby on Rails, and also am (was?) the proud owner of a Framework 16 and their vision.

I certainly hope Framework either reevaluate their support, or perhaps Hyprland becomes better managed.

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Quoting: STiAT

Quoting: CaldathrasYes, I have a Kepler GPU (the GeForce GT 730M, specifically). There are a lot of us Kepler users out there.

Especially in a time of game streaming and trying to retain hardware longer, I agree here. It's sad nvidia actually stopped the support for those GPUs (but well, they're like 12 years old).

But I guess Bazzite is generally a bit more focused on more recent hardware than other distributions. I guess "not for me" is the right term here. It seems to have a different audience in mind.

Yep. The problem is that Bazzite is being pushed by reviewers and YouTubers as the alternative to Windows. So, you have all these Windows users who are not willing to replace their legacy hardware just to upgrade to Win11 looking at Bazzite -- and not everybody is going to do the advance research like I did. Bazzite is not going to give them full performance on their legacy Nvidia GPU because the only option available is the Nouveau driver in Mesa. As I understand it, the immutable nature of Bazzite will not allow the user to install the proprietary driver -- that has to be done by the devs or not at all. As a result, these Windows users will be frustrated by the experience and blame Linux in general rather than the distro reviewers who mislead them.

[rant] As to those GPUs being 12 years old, that is just echoing the corporate mantra designed to keep you throwing away perfectly good hardware to purchase the latest thing the tech corporations have on offer. It encourages a throwaway mentality whose only benefit is to keep the profits rolling in for the corporations. [/rant]

I've said it before and I'll say it again ... Nvidia should open up the drivers, proprietary technology and all, to the community so they can take on full support of these GPUs. If you think about it, the reasoning is really not all that different than that of the Stop Killing Games movement.

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Quoting: JarmerThe Invincible is so good.

Agreed, its not really a game, being so linear and with limited choices, but damn, what a ride, it was so good. It's more like an interactive movie, and a very good one.

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Quoting: CaldathrasYes, I have a Kepler GPU (the GeForce GT 730M, specifically). There are a lot of us Kepler users out there.

Especially in a time of game streaming and trying to retain hardware longer, I agree here. It's sad nvidia actually stopped the support for those GPUs (but well, they're like 12 years old).

But I guess Bazzite is generally a bit more focused on more recent hardware than other distributions. I guess "not for me" is the right term here. It seems to have a different audience in mind.

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Quoting: Termy

Quoting: Purple Library GuyNever get rid of an obsolete thing until you have the thing you wanted to replace it with.

Yeah, generally not a bad idea - though i saw (or rather see) the prices for the Index dropping once the Frame is released. And as VR isn't exactly essential, i thought i can do without it for a few months rather than not getting much anymore when selling the Index. And i'm trying to lessen my clutter anyway 😆

I want to do the same with my Index but: I have no experience selling online, don't know how to price it (since it has a few defects), and struggle with work capability in general.

Oh and in my case, I might not get the Frame asap, since I'm doing worse economically than when I got my Index - so I might do many months or a few years without VR.

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The image looked very familiar to me because I’d recently listened to "The Invincible" as an audio drama. So my interest was piqued. And yes, there actually is a game based on this novel by Stanislaw Lem. For that alone, the bundle is worth it to me, even though I don’t expect much more than a walking simulator here. But if they manage to capture that atmosphere, that would be great.

I really like this old Eastern European-influenced sci-fi from the last century, where spaceships were still real machines and not transcendent structures with sterile interiors.

So thanks for the tip. The last time I bought something on Humble Bundle was in 2018. I think I should check it out more often.

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Quoting: wytrabbitWould this apply to AMD iGPUs too?

AMD integrated GPUs allocate VRAM from regular RAM, so this wouldn't make much sense for it.

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Quoting: CatKillerI'm glad you decided to join us in 2025, though.

😊 Oh my story is actually going back to 2015 trying Linux via dual boot. My story is little bit more complex than just calling a year. The actual decision was made in 2019 and had not even anything to do with Proton. I am just super lucky that my plan was starting in parallel with all these improvements. 2025 was indeed my final step, but I was already using Linux on daily basis on my phone.

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Don't fucking use Epic, I had all sorts of games and skins and shit on Epic and there games. But I got hacked and there not FUCKING HELP! I lost everything, Stick with steam at least they will help. Linux will run Steam, Please stay away from Epic!

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The Invincible is so good.

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Quoting: Linux_Rocks

Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: kaktuspalmeI wonder how the System76 sales have been going since Framework is in the market. I have the feeling they are taking away a lot of their sales.

I'm in the market soon for a laptop ... currently my m1 macbook pro is showing its 5 yr old age. I'm looking for a 13 / 14 in for portability and all amd for linux support / avoid the disaster that is intel.

No MacBook again? I get using Linux more, but macOS is still great with MacPorts and/or Homebrew.

No real complaints about the macbook other than I want to just not use apple whenever possible. I may still wind up back on a macbook as you say, also just because my phone is ios, so ......... it does work together very well. I only use the ios phone for family reasons, if it weren't for that I'd be on graphene or something similar and a linux laptop as well.

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Quoting: Leprotto

Quoting: richarson

Quoting: MayeulCBesides a swap partition, you may consider swapping to compressed ram (zram).

Hi there!

You should not be using zram anymore, zswap is recommended:

https://chrisdown.name/2026/03/24/zswap-vs-zram-when-to-use-what.html

For most users, like me, zram is just a failsafe not a graceful way to setup a swap in RAM. In most modern systems, you shouldn't need a swap space at all BUT, in those edge cases you still need it, zram gets on the rescue. Yes, eventually zram would just OOM but, at that point, things have already gone bad anyway.

It's not that simple, and obviously depends on the use case, but swap is not just "extra RAM" and swap in zram can be worse than no swap, as explained in the article I posted.

And some swap can also be beneficial, again, Chris Down (who's a kernel developer working on this precise area) has a longer and much better explanation than anything I could say:

https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html

Anyway, we're going off-topic now so I'll shut up 😊

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: CatKillerNothing has fundamentally changed about Linux gaming since then - there have been incremental improvements, sure.

That is half right and half wrong. Linux itself just improved, nothing fundamental new. That is correct. But the society started to fundamentally change and that is the core point. That many people switched to Linux shortly before W10 EOL and all the months after is a direct result of the society change in 2025 (which is the result of all what you wrote).

Let's explain it in another way: what would have been if 2025 would just be a year as every other one? Nobody outside the Linux bubble is speaking about Linux beside Steam Deck. Linux would just die again over time, because Steam Deck is no topic any longer at some point. Some people may switched and that's it. The few people still switching would not make a huge difference.
But all the things happened in 2025 (nothing fundamental new, but all together seen) made Linux a topic to speak about. Even my dad who was never interested in Linux told me he wants to try it (I did not even ask). That is the core of 2025. It is not just the speech itself, what I value here. It broke through a wall that cannot be closed again. Even if Windows 11 becomes "fixed", they cannot return the time and people know about Linux now and a lot of them are still interested to at least try it out.

That is also my point. To quote myself from earlier in the thread:

Quoting: CatKillerThere's been such a difference in the conversation about Linux gaming from the gaming press, YouTubers, and general tech people since Valve released their high-profile Linux gaming demonstration device. Even if you've never held a Deck in your hands you know that Linux gaming is awesome - something that we've known for ages, but the wider population needed to be shown.

I agree with you that things have changed - to borrow gradyvuckovic's metaphor, the snowball is gaining momentum now. If Windows were marginally less terrible, that change would still be happening. You can see it in the data. There are certainly some people that are contemplating switching now because of the change in mood about Linux gaming that potentially wouldn't be if Windows were more comfortable for them than it is - I don't doubt that Microsoft's choices are an amplifier for Linux gaming growth. But Windows has always been pretty bad, and we didn't have that growth before the mainstream conversation changed.

I'm glad you decided to join us in 2025, though.

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Quoting: LinuxwarperYes, but these companies interests sometimes align. Take Entertainment Software Association, games, they all would LOVE TO normalize 70$ pricing. And after 70$ they would love to normalize 80$. So these companies who rely on Linux may all see benefit for them all in something bad, e.g data logging (just as a pure example). They will then be able to use their collective influence to more easily get said thing injected into Linux kernel or whatever major project it is.

First of all, please fix your quotations. The wrong name is quoted.

And what I tried to say was more like these companies are users by themselves. For example Debian. What do you think happens when companies try to enshittificate it? Other companies that rely on it (because great server software) would stop it. Arch on the other hand is so deep in control of the community, I don't think there is a high risk. Ubuntu, POP!OS and Fedora? Another story. To destroy Linux you need to attack more central infrastructure and that is not easy. Attacking Mesa would be a huge issue, but if hardware works not great any longer, other companies would also complain about it. At least it is much harder than destroying Windows, Mac, iOS or Android.

Quoting: CatKillerNothing has fundamentally changed about Linux gaming since then - there have been incremental improvements, sure.

That is half right and half wrong. Linux itself just improved, nothing fundamental new. That is correct. But the society started to fundamentally change and that is the core point. That many people switched to Linux shortly before W10 EOL and all the months after is a direct result of the society change in 2025 (which is the result of all what you wrote).

Let's explain it in another way: what would have been if 2025 would just be a year as every other one? Nobody outside the Linux bubble is speaking about Linux beside Steam Deck. Linux would just die again over time, because Steam Deck is no topic any longer at some point. Some people may switched and that's it. The few people still switching would not make a huge difference.
But all the things happened in 2025 (nothing fundamental new, but all together seen) made Linux a topic to speak about. Even my dad who was never interested in Linux told me he wants to try it (I did not even ask). That is the core of 2025. It is not just the speech itself, what I value here. It broke through a wall that cannot be closed again. Even if Windows 11 becomes "fixed", they cannot return the time and people know about Linux now and a lot of them are still interested to at least try it out.

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Heroic is great! I've been playing Rocket League since day one and I wouldn't be able to play my favorite game now on Linux without it. Releasing the knowledge to the community is the best way to handle this. Thank you!

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: CatKillerThe way I interpret the data is something like this:

You forgot 2025, the year of Linux and Proton.

Proton released in 2018. I haven't forgotten.

Nothing has fundamentally changed about Linux gaming since then - there have been incremental improvements, sure.

But the perception of Linux gaming sure has changed a ton with the coverage of Valve's high-profile Linux gaming demonstration device. So people are more willing to try it. Hence the growth.

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Quoting: whizseYou're a bit off, Proton was released in 2018.

Indeed😂 Anyways the point I made becomes more valid with Proton not have been released. I got confused with years because Valve mentioned that development started as early as late 2015, even though it was released to public in 2018.

Quoting: CaldathrasFascinating (and a highly technical read) but that's really the opposite of what I was talking about. My statement was that, these days, it seems like the Linux tools are better than the Windows tools, with features and compatibility you simply don't see in the their Windows counterparts.

It seems only logical for Linux tools to become better. If you take 1000 developers and spread them across three APIs or software projects (Metal, D3D12 and PS5 API) or unite the 1000 on a single one (e.g Vulkan) - it's obvious to me that Vulkan would likely be better if not by alot. Unless of course there is some super genius coders among the ecosystems of each of the three API projects.

Quoting: whizseThat will never happen. I'm not naive enough to think "people that switch will all value free software"

They are probably less likely to if people dont enlighten them about it. As a simple example, many distros have "Welcome to X Distro" program - a part about free spirit of Linux would be nice. Whether it be effective or not is not the point, the point is that 100% users wont understand or/and realize the importance of free software if they aren't informed of it. What will happen is that they may go many years, if they are youngsters, and learn from experience that they care about free software. Where as ideally you would want users to see value in FOSS/free software from first month of using Linux.

Quoting: whizseBut Linux is already "owned" by big tech companies. Google is one of the biggest contributors to kernel, Canonical is also contributing a majority to Debian while the company has the reputation of "Microsoft of the Linux world" (at least what some people write about), but all the community projects as Debian, Arch and so on will not be destroyed, because otherwise the companies lose their own benefits in such a case.

Yes. And that "ownership" can go down a worse path once user base grows. When Linux had 1% Steam market share it was insignificant and not worth paying attention to but at 10%-50% (France is adopting Linux for government), there will be more incentive to get involved and influence Linux ecosystem. Regardless of the actors being greedy and corrupt or benevolent free spirited companies. It may be difficult and take a long time but I am positive with growing popularity there will be (more) attempts at hijacking and controlling Linux projects and ecosystem. And I repeat what I said, forking a project does not bring with it the developers who revolve around the project.

Quoting: whizseBut I am also aware that it is not a "no risk" thing. Let's face the mesa drivers for example and that they start to accept AI-written patches, which is at least an licensing issue in my opinion (if not more). AMD employees pushing AI code for example while other AMD employees assigning the change (looked into the commits myself). I see the potential issues, but I also see that it is not easy to take over a project while all other companies complaining without doing something against.

Yes, but these companies interests sometimes align. Take Entertainment Software Association, games, they all would LOVE TO normalize 70$ pricing. And after 70$ they would love to normalize 80$. So these companies who rely on Linux may all see benefit for them all in something bad, e.g data logging (just as a pure example). They will then be able to use their collective influence to more easily get said thing injected into Linux kernel or whatever major project it is.

Quoting: whizseYou are totally right about teaching people what free software actually is and why it matters. But I also think once they get Linux in their hand, seeing the positive differences and understand that they can communicate with developers just on forums or chats, they start to realize the benefits. Not everyone needs to know it, but as more as better. Personally I do a lot about it, even without Linux in particular, just speaking about free software or supporting it on the one way or another. Same for open hardware. My hope is a little bit: as more restrictive Big-Tech tech becomes and as more shiny free software and open hardware, as more people realize the benefits. It is much more effective than just talking to them (otherwise they understand it partly and do not care much about as long as their things keep running).

I think a friendly prompt of "This is what makes Linux great! - Click here to read", or something similar, can't hurt. I dont think we should annoy anyone but enlightenment and informing others is something I believe will help in making users more resilient and aware of harmful practices and tactics and what it can lead to.

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Cities: Skylines, RimWorld, and Portal 2 as the example workshops shown in the Valve announcement. They knew what they were doing. 😆

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Quoting: EikeWhich law are you referring to? I found the opposite in the Californian one.

There are a lof of laws out, some in different US states, some in other countries around the world. But they all just want to lay a ground stone to build on top later. The reason why some laws are that weak is to make them more accessible. Slowly moving the acceptance for further laws. It is a pretty well known technique, often used to weaken privacy over time or used for other things the public otherwise would not accept.

It is a lot about experience of the privacy community dealing with law-makers for decades around the world. And there is nearly no exception in what I told just now. Such laws will also not scientific reevaluated once they are implemented.

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