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News - KDE's 2025 fundraising has been a huge success
By emphy, 10 Dec 2025 at 11:26 am UTC

Kde will most certainly get its share of my yearly open source donations.

I may not get along with plasma, but there's still a fairly long list of kde stuff that I am using on my xfce installs, from okular all the way down to kupfer.

Recent (for me) high point: kdeconnect.

News - KDE's 2025 fundraising has been a huge success
By Szkodnix, 10 Dec 2025 at 11:15 am UTC

I donated as well. KDE team is doing an amazing job! emoji

News - Hytale will run on Linux PCs via Flatpak but Steam Deck will require more work
By hardpenguin, 10 Dec 2025 at 11:02 am UTC

AppImage was created by a bad person acting in bad faith in the open source community emoji

News - Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
By hardpenguin, 10 Dec 2025 at 10:37 am UTC

sad that you can't disable the discords own titlebar
Agreed, I prefer the app to use my window manager's titlebar. The new one is missing some features like "middle click to maximize the app vertically"

News - War Thunder is getting infantry combat
By hardpenguin, 10 Dec 2025 at 10:30 am UTC

Yeah okay this is VERY interesting to me.

News - Overwatch 2 with Season 20 has some very annoying crash-bugs on Linux / SteamOS
By pazzoeo, 10 Dec 2025 at 10:07 am UTC

Wait. Is it the same bug I've been having for months, where every time the mouse cursor appeared/disappeared, the game had a random chance to crash? I posted about it on Reddit a few days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/s/oTYhDYeb1p

It's been absolutely driving me crazy, I can't wait to get home and see if that's actually it

News - War Thunder is getting infantry combat
By Tuxee, 10 Dec 2025 at 10:03 am UTC

Quoting: Tethys84I've heard nothing but bad things about this game. That the monetization is predatory, and that it's totally a P2W game. I see this and World of Warships get mentioned together a lot as games to avoid.
Must have been a WoT player...

I have been playing WT for 11 years now (exclusively on Linux) and can assure you that it is anything but P2W*. Investing real money reduces the grind considerably. That's pretty much all there is. As far as monetization goes: I do have a premium account which you get twice a year for a 50% discount, which comes then down to about 30 Euros per year. That's it. Every now and then I might buy a premium vehicle (again when there is a sale).
If you don't want to invest any money stick to tiers I to IV and just have a good time. At these stages the grind is easy to endure.

[*]As for P2W: Sales season can be horrible. Your team can be full of noobs in their shiny premium vehicles which they somehow believe are "better" (which they rarely are), only to get slaughtered by experienced players already accustomed to the peculiarities of high tier battles.

News - Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
By Eike, 10 Dec 2025 at 9:08 am UTC

Quoting: tohur
Quoting: tpauI wish we could replace this with element&matrix.
sadly will NEVER happen as will never be enough people using either to gain traction
I just read an article that governments are interested in using Matrix - and funding it.

News - The RAM price and availability situation is going to worsen as Micron pull their Crucial consumer business
By Eike, 10 Dec 2025 at 9:07 am UTC

Quoting: walther von stolzing
Quoting: EikeIf enough people do want it, they sell us what we want.
Assuming that it's profitable, no matter the wants, or even the *needs* of consumers; and also assuming that possible satisfactions of such wants/needs can't be manipulated. In consumer electronics, 'products' are slowly turning into further 'revenue streams', or portals for indefinitely extended rentals.

For example -- "If enough people do want" ... perpetual licenses as opposed to subscriptions ... would "they sell us what [they] want"? They wouldn't, and they don't; and those smaller companies that do sell perpetual licenses weasel their way out of it the moment they get bought out.

As luxury/specialist items, vinyl players, or even penny farthings can be produced at smaller scales; what's at issue here is mass production at scale, of things that have everyday use -- things that you can't just "vote with your wallet" not to buy, because you *need* them; things that you can't get from the 'competition' ... because there's no competition when it comes to the large-scale trends like what we're seeing with electronics right now. 'Competition' is at best a short term illusion, when the model requires the bigger players to keep swallowing the smaller players, or at the very least constrain the possibilities with which they have to work.
You're right. What I said was simplified (and vinyl probably was a bad example). The company satisfying customer wants has to economically survive, which might e.g. lead to luxury products due to small scale.

Some examples having been given are not touched by this, though. There's no strong reason to not have multiple USB ports at a notebook. If people want them and buy them, it's easy for manufacturers to provide them (and maybe sell the laptop for 20 bucks more).

(Which might be the reason they're not "gone" at all: https://preisvergleich.heise.de/?cat=nb&hloc=de&xf=893_2&asuch=&bpmin=&bpmax=&v=k&plz=&dist=&sort=r&bl1_id=30 )

I BTW am looking forward to have a monitor that's a full USB hub with many device inputs and being able to attach at least two computers. I'll attach all my USB stuff to the monitor (which happens to stand conveniently right in front of me), attach the work laptop and the home desktop to it and switch everything from one computer to the other with a single button. I consider this a nice technology development.

News - Hytale will run on Linux PCs via Flatpak but Steam Deck will require more work
By Phlebiac, 10 Dec 2025 at 7:47 am UTC

To add another wrinkle - how about a Flatpak that manages AppImages? emoji
https://github.com/mijorus/gearlever

News - Overwatch 2 with Season 20 has some very annoying crash-bugs on Linux / SteamOS
By shimmy, 10 Dec 2025 at 7:26 am UTC

Does anyone if it happens on DX11/DXVK only or is DX12/VKD3D impacted too? I've been playing on it for months and it's been really good, but I haven't run Season 20 yet.

News - War Thunder is getting infantry combat
By Tethys84, 10 Dec 2025 at 6:08 am UTC

I've heard nothing but bad things about this game. That the monetization is predatory, and that it's totally a P2W game. I see this and World of Warships get mentioned together a lot as games to avoid.

News - Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
By ramma, 10 Dec 2025 at 1:51 am UTC

Quoting: Xpandersad 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.
Why's it a waste of space? Are you getting two title bars?

News - Proton Experimental brings fixes for ARC Raiders, The Finals and various other games
By fenglengshun, 10 Dec 2025 at 1:38 am UTC

Huh. DollFro/Girls' Frontline (the OG one I'd assume) is playable on Steam & Linux? I'll have to try it.

News - GE-Proton 10-26 released with FEX included, improvements for DLSS and game fixes
By Gerarderloper, 10 Dec 2025 at 12:40 am UTC

Can you use FSR4 on NVIDIA hardware? I thought NVIDIA had the HW component but perhaps its not compatible and is still the SOFTWARE hacked FSR4 which is inferior?

Basically asking if FSR4 HW (not hacked SW version) is exclusive to RDNA4?

News - War Thunder is getting infantry combat
By Gerarderloper, 10 Dec 2025 at 12:36 am UTC

That is CRAZY.
BUT I did think it would be cool, however, hmm. Is everyone going to be RPG soldiers? :)
I do hope they have suitable options for each tier because WW1/2 tanks fighting modern infantry, yeah not a good idea!

I still have WarThunder installed, planned to return to it for a little bit now and again, maybe I'll check this update out.

ALSO doesn't Gaijin have a FPS WW2 game already? guessing that one is more focused on infantry thought.

News - Netflix want to acquire Warner Bros. but they have to fight off Paramount
By such, 10 Dec 2025 at 12:06 am UTC

So, not that long ago Sarandos openly complained the theatrical model is outdated. Then, around the time of the WB bid he softened and started saying it'll be preserved at WB. Right after the confirmation he began threatening that changes to the release model are coming... and after this recent Paramount bid he's back to keeping the theatrical model at WB, because it works.

Needless to say, consolidation is never good, and Netflix isn't a good fit for WB. Possibly the worst there is as they clearly don't get movies, aren't interested in movies - just content and slop to sell subscriptions - and they will run what's left of the studio into the ground.

What's even more concerning to me are the archives and the potential physical releases.

Paramount is perhaps marginally better from this standpoint.

News - War Thunder is getting infantry combat
By BalkanSpy, 10 Dec 2025 at 12:05 am UTC

Wait, what?!
Wasn't this supposed to be an April Fool's Day joke?

News - Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
By tohur, 9 Dec 2025 at 11:35 pm UTC

Quoting: tpauI wish we could replace this with element&matrix.
sadly will NEVER happen as will never be enough people using either to gain traction

News - Overwatch 2 with Season 20 has some very annoying crash-bugs on Linux / SteamOS
By greasefang, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:52 pm UTC

Someone apparently fixed it by putting
 [Overwatch.exe] dxvk.hud = compiler 
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1pijkf8/overwatch_2_season_20_crashing/ in their dxvk.conf

News - Overwatch 2 with Season 20 has some very annoying crash-bugs on Linux / SteamOS
By Calinou, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:46 pm UTC

So, stay off the chat entirely during matches and you should still be able to play.
Blizzard accidentally implemented a solution to toxicity in chat, but only Proton users may benefit from it. :P

News - Framework greatly expand their open source event and Linux distribution sponsorships
By mattaraxia, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:44 pm UTC

Quoting: scaineIt'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.
KDE is in there, but they support their conference rather than just a KDE line item.

But GNOME has a lot more than just mind share. It's just not as popular with gamers right now.

News - Classic roguelike top-down shooter Nuclear Throne major update 100 out now
By Cyril, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:43 pm UTC

Quoting: seamooseI own Nuclear Throne on itch as a result of bying it in four charity bundles over the years, but the downloadable binaries have not been updated since 2016, and I doubt they will this time either. I also own the game on Steam so I don't much care but I would not get it on itch.
Unfortunately it's the same for the GOG release:
[https://www.gogdb.org/product/1448617555#changelog](https://www.gogdb.org/product/1448617555#changelog)
No updates since 2019. It's seriously shameful. It should even be illegal! emoji

News - Netflix want to acquire Warner Bros. but they have to fight off Paramount
By Linux_Rocks, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:21 pm UTC

Evil corporations gonna evil corporation. 💰💸

News - POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gets cancelled over generative AI with Goonswarm Games shutting down
By Linux_Rocks, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:03 pm UTC

Quoting: ScottCarammellI love this franchise with my entire pussy
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News - Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 49: One More to Go!
By gbudny, 9 Dec 2025 at 9:44 pm UTC

Thank you so much for the article!

You are definitely better at playing it because I didn't get so far. I'm guessing that PenguinPlay can now cause some issues in Candy Cruncher because this website was closed.

I played the full version of Candy Cruncher 16 years ago, and it's one of the most addictive games for Linux. I was easily losing track of time with Candy Cruncher. I eventually decided I'm not going to play it anymore. I ran it last year, but I decided to play a few times. I didn't want to get stuck playing for hours. Losing motivated me to improve my score. It was too much fun for me.

It's a great game, and it was even more entertaining with PenguinPlay. You could compare your scores with those of other users. This feature wasn't available for Windows and Mac users.

The most interesting part is that the box version of Candy Cruncher was available exclusively for Linux users. The box version of Candy Cruncher for Windows and Mac doesn't exist. Additionally, LGP had been regularly publishing new patches only for the Linux version for many years.

You can also find the PowerPC and Sparc versions on the CD, which is only available for Linux users. You can probably play it on PlayStation 2 (and other PowerPC computers), which is amazing, but I don't have this console. It's the only Linux game where you can see Sparc on the box in the system requirements.

Linux had this advantage over Windows that commercial games weren't limited to x86/x86-64. Companies like Loki and LGP were investing time in porting some games to Alpha and Sparc. Interestingly, Microsoft never tried to port any commercial games, even for Windows NT PPC/DEC Alpha. LGP was one of the five companies that published commercial games for PowerPC. Of course, I have never heard about the company that ported a commercial Linux or Windows game to MIPS.

I was disappointed seeing a piece of paper instead of a manual. LGP didn't include any manuals on the CD.

Lastly, Candy Cruncher for Linux was a much better product back then than the digital versions for Windows and Mac.

@Hamish, you should try playing Madblox! for Linux. I keep it on my Desktop, and play it when other games start to get too annoying for me.

News - The Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless mouse is a great reasonably priced pick
By Dwayne, 9 Dec 2025 at 9:08 pm UTC

I always LOVED this mouse, bought like 3 of them in total.

News - Netflix want to acquire Warner Bros. but they have to fight off Paramount
By elmapul, 9 Dec 2025 at 7:42 pm UTC

Netflix: i will pay 82.7 billions !
Paramount: i will pay 100 billions!
Netflix: i will pay 120 billions!
Paramount: i will pay 150 billions
Netflix: i will pay 200 Bilions!
Paramount: ok we give up (never intended to purchase this anyway, just wanted to make netflix lose more money)

News - Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
By wytrabbit, 9 Dec 2025 at 7:34 pm UTC

Quoting: dibzI 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.
Sure, but no push-to-talk in the browser is a major downside.