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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: KimyrielleNot sure how I feel about the forced switch to Wayland. I know, I know! It's the future. But I am still not 100% convinced it's fully ready to take over yet.

Oh, well, I won't have to deal with it until December anyway - which is when this release will make it into Mint 23.

Look back at the first time Canonical said they would make Wayland the default. It's actually pretty funny.

9 years ago?

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/ubuntu-will-run-wayland-default

They are really rushing it...

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Quoting: KimyrielleNot sure how I feel about the forced switch to Wayland. I know, I know! It's the future. But I am still not 100% convinced it's fully ready to take over yet.

Oh, well, I won't have to deal with it until December anyway - which is when this release will make it into Mint 23.

Look back at the first time Canonical said they would make Wayland the default. It's actually pretty funny.

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Not sure how I feel about the forced switch to Wayland. I know, I know! It's the future. But I am still not 100% convinced it's fully ready to take over yet.

Oh, well, I won't have to deal with it until December anyway - which is when this release will make it into Mint 23.

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it's now Wayland-only

I'm still running 24.04 with X11, so wonder how smooth the upgrade will go, and what will break.

But yay for the fresh Kernel (this time round I was always too lazy to manually install a more recent one, and from my experience with 22.04 at some point the version of glibc present on the system prevented further upgrading anyway, and then you're stuck without security fixes). Using an up-to-date Mesa from a PPA isn't a big deal though, and will soon enough be required for 26.04 as well.

Gnome 50 will likely again break half my extensions (as did Gnome 46), and since I do little more with the system than browsing the web and playing games, I don't think any of its features really make any difference to me. Perhaps if I had a display with HDR support.

Nonetheless, upgrade I will come 26.04.1.

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Always wait for the .1 release for server usage.

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I'll give it about a week then upgrade. Just making sure no major bugs like last time, when they had to temp pull upgrade.

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Might be worth noting about Rogue Trader: the Deluxe version doesn't include the season pass, you'll want the Voidfarer edition for that.

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Quoting: doragasu

Quoting: AlveKattI have a feeling this isn't an LLM but an actual specialized AI system. The companies keep conflating different machine learning cases to drive their AGI narrative.

It's LLM, and might be nothing special, just marketing as usual: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/

+1 for that article. It's a hugely interesting blog in general.

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I've seen this floating around for a bit now, but this is the first I've heard of the source port on itch. Will have to give this a go later.

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An excellent game, which I've played on Steam and XBox for over a 100 hours and still have lots to do in it

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Quoting: VardyComparing MS Paint to online platforms makes no sense. This isn't about how you use software, it's about how you regulate online platforms. Roblox, Minecraft and Steam are not "games" per se (unless you stick to single player Minecraft). Just thought you should be made aware of a very simple difference. Grooming, for example, has been widely reported on Roblox.
Also, you can use your printer to print whatever you like. You shouldn't be able to parade around promoting your hate speech and using your printed hate symbol in public. It's a serious debate, and sadly it seems a bunch of people commenting here don't even seem to understand the nature of the subject itself. I personally believe in banning n*z1s and groomers everywhere possible (by the same argument hardpenguin stated), but I don't know, that's my non-n*z1 non groomer perspective.

I am pretty sure the only thing I compared to any platform was Australia Post. You were definitely not reading carefully there.
Now, I doubt you will deny that Australia Post is a communication platform…

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They could give at least the server protocol just in case someone wants to create a FOSS server.

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It certainly won’t run in offline mode. That really should be a requirement to be 'verified'. The Steam Deck is a portable device after all.
And the software being restrained by anti-tamper provisions and being leashed to a spyware account is a strong determent, too.
Especially the anti-tamper corset completely runs against proton compatibility.
Though I am sure it will sell well anyway…

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I'll chime in with others here to "diagnose" some of us with some issue 😀:

I feel as if many of us here are quite upset and stressed. Likely about this particular topic as well as many other worrying changes going on in our shared and personal worlds. I'd be happy if more us can find it in themselves to trust that it is quite unlikely for any of us to be intentionally shilling, trolling or otherwise furthering some malicious agenda. Most peoples' agenda is quite simply to express their perspective and feelings. So please let's not call each other idiots. "Ignorant/uninformed/shortsighted on the subject" is welcome 😌. The further our culture on GoL moves on the spectrum of interpersonal attacks (and such toxicity), the less I want to partake in these discussions. I need not be here, but be mindful of what you select for in an ecosystem.

(My actual personal political views on this topic are most similar to HyperRealisticRock and Purple Library Guy - wild west time is over; not doing anything is a costly choice; doing anything new means likely mistakes; we can't have our cake and eat it too. On the other hand, more discussion on *how* to implement any changes is imperative - I just don't subscribe to "no change".)

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This is awesome. Quality of life improvement when streaming to Moolight.
Current options so far (for me) was to either:
1. use mouse emulation to point to the game to run
2. add the game to Steam and open via Steam when streaming.

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Looks pretty good. Prices are surprisingly ok. But account+denuvNo seals the deal. I'm not relying on Stop Killing Games to take care of my consumer rights.

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Likely the best Ubuntu release ever! All so fresh yet very sturdy. This is also the first time when Ubuntu has a newer Linux kernel than Arch.

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Nice! Kubuntu 26.04 LTS with Plasma 6.6 and Linux kernel 7.0 will benefit a lot of Linux gamers :)

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Valve's strength have never been to get things right the first time, but by improving slowly over time (Valve Time if you will). These are great improvements, hopefully Valve will add Steam Machine and Steam Frame when they launch.

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I keep forgetting this game exists because it is not on Steam and doesn't run discounts 😭

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Fanatical just dropped an amazing "Legendary" bundle too. Multiple high quality games.

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Quoting: fearnflavio

Quoting: hardpenguinNice look but the interface seems tiny compared to the screen size. Definitely not optimized for ten foot aka big TV screen couch gaming.

Yes, we decided to do this like a MVP first and then gather feedback and improve it over time. We will have some settings for it like to increase the zoom size, skip-update or update before launching, installing and uninstalling games and more. This is just the start. We are hearing all feedback so far.

Great stuff, keep up the good work!

Adjusting the size automatically to the screen or window size would be cool, and a slider perhaps as well. Similarly to what Steam Big Picture does.

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I think it's my most played game of the decade, got it in 2017 or 2018. I replay it every 2 or 3 updates, with 100+ mods. I usually start from zero in vanilla, or with a few big ones such as landscape formations, etc, and add and add and add until i need a new game to trigger that new mod, then i WorldEdit to take my home to a new world, and play even more...

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: neolithI am torn... on the one hand I really enjoy Vampire Survivors, but on the other hand I really dislike card mechanics in computer games. What to do? 😆

. . . Go play Vampire Survivors again?

I still haven't gotten all the achievements. 😭

I'll return to it once I've kicked all the Mongols off of Tsushima. 😄

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Quoting: TevurSome kind of remakes/ports of the first SaGa games (aka Final Fantasy Legend) would be great. Really liked their simple but uncommon gameplay

Good luck getting Square Enix to remake the first SaGa game when they rather just sell you something like COLLECTION of SaGa FINAL FANTASY LEGEND instead.

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I checked it out in desktop mode and I like that it instantly switches to that view. I did have some trouble getting the tabs (All, GOG, Epic) to be selected with my joystick and dpad. The mouse can select it. Joystick can't always get "up there".
I'm a little disappointed the only functionality is Play or Cancel.
It's early days though and as this grows and expands it'll be much nicer especially in Game mode on my deck.

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I loved Sudden Strike 4, I would buy it... if it would be cheaper.. at least for me in Argentina its not following the new regional price guidelines... its just marginally cheaper.

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Cute, hopefully it doesn't get in the way of Witchbrook.
And the devs of Nivalis said, the release date will be announced in April. (they have always written blogposts at the end of the month, so I'd say next Wednesday or Thursday)

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I don't have a lot of gaming time these days, so I pretty well only play two games: Vintage Story and BeamNG. Vintage Story is awesome.

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I've talked about how much I dislike how Valve's handled the verification system before so it makes me happy to see they're taking steps to improve it. you love to see it, really

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