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News - Framework greatly expand their open source event and Linux distribution sponsorships
By Numerfolt, 9 Dec 2025 at 3:38 pm UTC

That's good to see.

Unfortunately they lost quite some people that now thinks that framework is fine with sponsoring fascists :/

News - Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
By dibz, 9 Dec 2025 at 3:34 pm UTC

I long ago gave up using the actual client, I don't need fifty different browsers disguised as apps running.

Works fine, and frankly better performance-wise, as a pinned tab in Firefox.

News - Total War: MEDIEVAL III announced by Creative Assembly
By such, 9 Dec 2025 at 3:32 pm UTC

It's in pre-pre-production. Terribly exciting. In the current industry climate that leaves at least half a decade of dodging cancellations, and that's assuming Sega doesn't get profoundly sick of CA regardless of how well the Medieval 3 development is going.

This entire announcement reeks of insincerity, desperation and damage control.

News - Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
By mr-victory, 9 Dec 2025 at 3:32 pm UTC

Quoting: tpauI wish we could replace this with element&matrix.
There is an open source discord clone (not 3rd party client, it's own thin called "stoat"

News - War Thunder is getting infantry combat
By scaine, 9 Dec 2025 at 3:30 pm UTC

Call of Thunder! CodThunder! Battlethunder!

If they get this right, I suspect it will swell the War Thunder numbers significantly!! We'll end up with videos like that @GnarSasquatch guy on Arma Reforger!

News - Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate
By Shmerl, 9 Dec 2025 at 3:24 pm UTC

Wine really had huge progress this year, so many things got fixed and implemented especially for winewayland.

What's so far is broken still is this:

* https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57456
* https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461063

But formally, it's a KDE bug.

News - GE-Proton 10-26 released with FEX included, improvements for DLSS and game fixes
By GustyGhost, 9 Dec 2025 at 3:22 pm UTC

[Adversarial Interoperability](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability), for those interested.

News - Hytale will run on Linux PCs via Flatpak but Steam Deck will require more work
By Szkodnix, 9 Dec 2025 at 2:48 pm UTC

Finally more developers using Flatpak ;) That's a good sign.

News - The Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless mouse is a great reasonably priced pick
By Arehandoro, 9 Dec 2025 at 2:03 pm UTC

Have had the MX Master for a while, and dunno if I would be able to go back now.

News - Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
By Highball, 9 Dec 2025 at 2:00 pm UTC

Wow, I wonder how many other mainstream projects switched gears because of Valve's Steam Machine and Steam Frame announcement.

News - Total War: MEDIEVAL III announced by Creative Assembly
By Penguin, 9 Dec 2025 at 1:54 pm UTC

Since Medieval III is in pre-production stage, maybe we'll get a Medieval II remaster before that. Just wishful thinking. Medieval II on a 64-bit engine would do wonders for the modding community.

News - Classic roguelike top-down shooter Nuclear Throne major update 100 out now
By Penguin, 9 Dec 2025 at 1:51 pm UTC

Great game! emoji Someday I'll beat it. Or not, as this is the kind of game that gets harder and harder to do well as you age and your reflection time goes down. Oh well... emoji

News - Hytale will run on Linux PCs via Flatpak but Steam Deck will require more work
By scaine, 9 Dec 2025 at 1:47 pm UTC

Quoting: Xpanderflatpak emoji

no appimage?
i guess someone can extract the client from it and build an actual package

nice to see linux support though
I love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users. emoji

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.

News - Framework greatly expand their open source event and Linux distribution sponsorships
By scaine, 9 Dec 2025 at 1:42 pm UTC

It's hard to be upset at the Hyprland donations, I suppose, in the face of the all the good they're additionally doling out on a monthly basis. Still wish they'd drop Gnome for KDE though (and by extension, also drop Hyprland), as this feels like the direction of travel these days.

I might just be blinkered there though. I suspect Gnome still has a huge mindshare, probably as a combined result over decades of Ubuntu and Fedora.

News - POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gets cancelled over generative AI with Goonswarm Games shutting down
By scaine, 9 Dec 2025 at 1:35 pm UTC

Quoting: BoldosSo, if I understand it correctly: People/users do not like AI stuff in games? emoji
Incredible, eh? Who'd have thought?? /sarcasm

Specifically though, it's genAI that's so hated. ML/AI has been around for decades without burning the planet, stealing jobs, pirating books, abusing copyright, talking kids into bad situations, or kick-starting a new nuclear era during a climate crisis. I could also point out the price of Nvidia GPUs, or 32Gb of RAM, I suppose, but I feel like it's already earned its derision by this point. Screwing up gaming/computing generally is just icing!

News - Total War: MEDIEVAL III announced by Creative Assembly
By TangoBaker, 9 Dec 2025 at 1:33 pm UTC

The "creative" part of their name is becoming increasingly less relevant.

News - Netflix want to acquire Warner Bros. but they have to fight off Paramount
By scaine, 9 Dec 2025 at 1:29 pm UTC

Selfishly, I have Netflix (albeit debating keeping it much longer after I ditched Spotify a couple of months ago), and won't ever take Paramount, so hopefully this hostile bid fails completely. Also, as others have noted, this is backed by Jared Kushner apparently - Trump's step-son, with additional backing from the middle east.

According to the FT, Paramount are on the hook for only (!) $12bn, while $24bn is secured through several middle eastern sovereign wealth funds (who are still separately diversifying from oil through initiatives like PIF's investment in EA e-gaming), and the remainder is a debt through a combined commitment from the Bank of America, Citigroup, and Apollo.

News - Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
By Xpander, 9 Dec 2025 at 1:28 pm UTC

sad that you can't disable the discords own titlebar. waste of space on my screen tbh
Before i could at least toggle the borders off from my WM and it was clean, but now the discords own titlebar thing is still wasting the space.

not the end of the world ofc, but yeah.

News - POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gets cancelled over generative AI with Goonswarm Games shutting down
By Boldos, 9 Dec 2025 at 1:18 pm UTC

So, if I understand it correctly: People/users do not like AI stuff in games? emoji

News - Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 gets a first Release Candidate
By mrdeathjr, 9 Dec 2025 at 1:01 pm UTC

​This wine version give a curious bug with transformers the game in my case, appear a some white borders (also appear without mangohud)

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News - Framework greatly expand their open source event and Linux distribution sponsorships
By grigi, 9 Dec 2025 at 1:00 pm UTC

I have to say, for all their flaws my Framework purchase isn't regretted. The hardware isn't perfect. The firmware isn't perfect.
But they try.
And mostly succeed.

News - Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
By tpau, 9 Dec 2025 at 12:48 pm UTC

I wish we could replace this with element&matrix.

News - Hytale will run on Linux PCs via Flatpak but Steam Deck will require more work
By Xpander, 9 Dec 2025 at 12:08 pm UTC

flatpak emoji

no appimage?
i guess someone can extract the client from it and build an actual package

nice to see linux support though

News - Epic and Steam banned it but HORSES is out now on other stores
By Cybolic, 9 Dec 2025 at 11:25 am UTC

Quoting: EikeI don't wanna fuel, but web archive might have an old version of the FAQ to check the text.
Unfortunately, they only have one snapshot, from December 6th. That's actually what lead me to try and find the oldest article referencing it instead, which so far seems to be the IGN article linked above.
I had an older version of it open in my tabs for a while, allowing me to compare it to the current version, but unfortunately my system has crashed since then (the dreaded AMD CPU-core issue). Remember to back-up your tabs as well, kids! emoji

News - Netflix want to acquire Warner Bros. but they have to fight off Paramount
By hardpenguin, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:35 am UTC

Oddly enough, Netflix has already sent out emails to its consumers confirming the WBD acquisition.

It is sad to see WBD driven to the ground by its visionless and soulless leadership.

And I am not supposed to root for anyone in this fight, they are all large corporations that prioritize dollar over quality. But learning recently who is backing Paramount made me hope it's not them who win.

News - POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gets cancelled over generative AI with Goonswarm Games shutting down
By williamjcm, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:31 am UTC

Bit of a shame RWS cancelled the project entirely, instead of asking another studio. For example, the studio behind Vampire Hunters could have been a decent fit.

News - Netflix want to acquire Warner Bros. but they have to fight off Paramount
By lordheavy, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:04 am UTC

And Trump supports Paramount. Let me think that's a dead end for Netflix.