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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: Stella

Quoting: LoftyFinally! We have an integrated onscreen keyboard under Wayland which has been a much needed accessibility feature for me. I have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard' which has meant missing out on other gaming features & HDR. Now i will have to move from my older existing plasma install to a newer distro that supports 6.6

Not sure which one to choose , needs to be more upto date than mint/debian though but a 'YOLO Update' distro 🤔

Great work 👍

Fedora 44 will get KDE 6.6. Worth noting that there are also immutable variants of Fedora like Kionite or Bazzite/Aurora from Universalblue. The advantage is integrated rollback functionality and the assurance of always having a working system, while staying relatively up to date

I have considered Fedora, never really got into it so far and I've been using Linux for a good long while. I read there are some things missing OOTB that make it not as complete as a distro such as Mint, Ubuntu or even Manjaro.

Fedora is definitely a distro that doesn't really go out of its way to be extra user friendly and it's very vanilla, so it's kinda like Debian with newer packages or Arch without sudden breaking changes, but also the state of vanilla Linux has been so good that people have been calling Fedora a new Ubuntu for a while. Especially if you prefer flatpak apps because Fedora packaged apps have some legal issues with stuff like codecs and hardware video decoding. Also previously mentioned Fedora-based Aurora is a distro that both includes all you should need ootb and is immutable/atomic which means that no matter what you do and how long you use your system, it's guaranteed to always be in the correct state to the point that there is never any difference between an update and a fresh install.

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^ man alive.

if you put together that quote with the 14 fundamental goals of fascism, well ......... OUCH. I mean. Dudes and Dudettes: we're there. Like ....... right now.

When does the next episode of The Running Man come on?

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Quoting: Bumadar

Quoting: fabertaweThe greed of those who already have more wealth than you or I could imagine is insatiable. And it's you and I that will suffer. It's both sad and maddening at the same time.

Here's to the big bang...

It feels this is the build-up to these huge cooperations you see in the sci-fi movies or games that have become so huge, control everything and no governments controls them anymore

Wasn't that the whole point of the dystopian futures depicted in the cyberpunk genre in novels? The huge megacorporations dominating society. I'm thinking of William Gibson (whom I've sadly never read), Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, etc. And then there are all the films too. A lot of these authors had the imagination to foresee what seems to be coming about now.

Wikipedia sums it up nicely: to"Themes typical of a dystopian society include: complete control over the people in a society through the use of propaganda and police state tactics, heavy censorship of information or denial of free thought, worship of an unattainable goal, the complete loss of individuality, and heavy enforcement of conformity."

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^ I mean, with all the fuckery going on left and right nowadays, this is so low on the scale. I would say this is actually the work of normal market forces ... in that nobody has optical drives / players anymore. There just isn't demand for them. For my 85 yr old father who just upgraded his home theater I asked him if he wanted a blu ray player for his new tv and he just said "no thanks, youtube tv for locals, and the other normal streaming apps are all we need, we don't know how to control our blu ray machine anyway"

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: suchHDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

Imagine Blu-Ray & archival disks go out of stock before CPUs or GPUs.

It'll happen in due time since Sony is already starting to discontinue making Blu-ray machines and others will eventually follow. Before you know it, Blu-Ray & archival disks sill start to go away.

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Quoting: fabertaweThe greed of those who already have more wealth than you or I could imagine is insatiable. And it's you and I that will suffer. It's both sad and maddening at the same time.

Here's to the big bang...

It feels this is the build-up to these huge cooperations you see in the sci-fi movies or games that have become so huge, control everything and no governments controls them anymore

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Quoting: Nostalgia_RealmCould anyone enlighten me how this is better than how Proton-GE previously functioned? I am clueless about this topic. All I know is that Proton-GE has always worked fine for me on Lutris.

Let's see: on version 0.5.18, I had to basically employ a workaround to install a game using UMU.

1) Under Add Games to Lutris, I would select Add locally installed game;

2) manually enter the game's name and select the WINE runner in the Game Info tab;

3) enter/select the location of the WINE prefix in the Game Options tab;

4) then make sure to select a WINE version that was either Proton or Proton-GE in the Runner Options tab;

5) I would save the configuration then run the installer using the menu option to Run EXE inside Wine prefix;

6) This would start up UMU, which would configure the prefix and install the game;

7) I may have had to enter the game's launch executable after the install was completed. I don't recall.

As far as I recall, UMU would not initiate if you assigned a Proton runner as the default runner in version 0.5.18.

In Heroic Games Launcher, you enter the game's name, confirm the prefix location and provide the installer. UMU is run automatically and everything is configured for you. As a result, I stopped using Lutris to install Windows games.

With Proton-GE being launched via UMU as the default, this should simplify the process and, at least, put Lutris back on par with Heroic again.

Whether I go back to Lutris remains to be seen. There are some nice QoL features in Lutris that are not yet available in Heroic (like launching the game from its Windows shortcut, for example).

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Quoting: suchHDDs are getting up there as well. I can only assume FDD is next in line, and punch card users should probably start getting ready.

That's not even going into raw materials.

Imagine Blu-Ray & archival disks go out of stock before CPUs or GPUs.

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Everyone is suffering just so dozens of companies continue to re-do the very same mass scale copyright infringement, AKA AI.

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Quoting: JesTech

Quoting: VerglasSo is that the reason they completely pulled the other BSG game from Steam a few months ago?

Either way, as a huge BSG nerd I will definitely check this one out. So say we all.

Pretty sure the other one had a 10 year license expire and that's what got it pulled from the store. I may have the amount of years wrong, but it didn't seem to be anything due to any kind of upcoming game.

Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock 😊

Figured it might have been something like that...

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Welp, just found a reason to argue with my wife in the weekend. 🤣

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Quoting: F.UltraThey could take 0% and still violate the DMA so no (IE was included for free in Windows, this still violated their monopoly situation in EU). This is about abusing your position as a gatekeeper and not about some specific cut. Funnily enough you have now changed your tune from 30% to (or some other amount) so it seems like you are in agreement that this is not about the 30%.

No, you just have it backwards: It's not like the commission conceived rules & then checked which companies are violating them. No, there were complaints by (European) companies (like Spotify) that Apple is hurting their businesses. It was recognised that some big players are abusing their market power & then constructed rules to counter said effects - like taking 30%. All other concessions by Apple (taking less) became effective after the DMA was already in progress (but nowhere near being passed) or after being in effect (to conform with the DMA).

So yes, the DMA has parts specifically about Apple's (& Google's) cut which was 30% when it was initially conceived.

I think the Internet Explorer was never in dispute for the DMA because it was already dying/dead but yes, there are other provisions to counter different effects, too (like bundling software). Obviously the DMA is not all about Apple.

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I've just installed it but it couldn't find my steam games. When I gave it the exact directory it complained that it cannot load them and I should make my profile public (whatever that means). So I tried GOG and it found my games at least but for the installation it prompted which file I want to install ..

Whatever the functionality may be, it feels like you need to read the code to just configure the program. No tool tips, no manual, no hints. Deinstalled, IMHO not really usable.

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I've been playing this on my Deck and having a blast. The best Advance Wars spiritual successor I've played.

There were sudden disastrous performance issues on my Deck after a certain mission. Submitted a bug report. The most recent patch fixed those issues. So I like how they handle feedback and didn't just leave us Deck users in the cold.

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Brotato is one of my favorite games for the Steamdeck. Unfortunately, I had reached a point where my limited dexterity could unlock any new characters or achievements. Last week, when the full release of Paws & Claws dropped, I played several rounds. I managed to unlocked some of the new characters/pets and got a couple achievements. As evidence by the patch notes, Evil Empire has added a good deal of content with this update and it is FREE! Now I am curious to see what Evil Empire has created with the DLC for Dead Cells.

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Quoting: Nostalgia_RealmCould anyone enlighten me how this is better than how Proton-GE previously functioned? I am clueless about this topic. All I know is that Proton-GE has always worked fine for me on Lutris.

First things first I wrote that comment not because of umu but because of Proton-GE. The default runner was Wine-GE until this update which caused installation of Battle.net to mysteriously fail, some Windows apps to detect no available storage etc. I had had enough telling people to use Proton GE in Bazzite discord😆

Now about umu, it does 2 things:

* Running Proton with Steam Linux Runtime: This replicates how Steam runs proton, aiming to reduce unusual bugs.

* Game fixes: Umu contains a database of game fixes for both Steam & non Steam games, launchers capable of parsing the data automatically benefit from the unified effort of assembling game fixes. Things like passing SteamOS=1 to Wuthering Waves, enabling DLLs etc.

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Quoting: PyrateCould say this about a lot of Linux projects, or just any open source project really, but Plasma is the gift that keeps on giving. No enshittification, just continuous improvements. We can't stop winning.

KDE Plasma updates are the few I look up to. Back in 5.24 I was installing betas to get some features early, I haven't installed a beta in years but dammit the changelogs still have gems.

Quoting: LoftyI have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard'

I use wayland but there is a bug not affecting X11: moonlight and seemingly nothing else can disable vsync so I get higher input latency.

https://discuss.kde.org/t/1-frame-latency-on-moonlight-only-on-wayland-cannot-turn-off-vsync/40157

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It feels like KDE 6.1 just released recently. Where did all the time go? D:

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🥅⚽🏎️

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check ebay. HOLY SHITBALLS. used lcd models going for almost $600 usd, used oleds going for nearly $900 usd.

W. T. FFFFFFFF.......................... 😡🤬

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is it that hard to make a clone game of a car hitting a big ball into a goal ? it's some magic gameplay formula 😆

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Meanwhile, you can join Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Lip-Bu Tan, and Sanjay Mehrotra on the Games for No One show. Sponsored by Microsoft and Xbox Game Pass.

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Same. I played a lot until it moved to Epic exclusive. It could be weird as i also play a lot of game exclusive on Steam, but at least Steam does things for me, as a Linux gamer.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Proton-GE launched via umu is now the default. Umu takes care of keeping Proton-GE up to date.

About time.

Could anyone enlighten me how this is better than how Proton-GE previously functioned? I am clueless about this topic. All I know is that Proton-GE has always worked fine for me on Lutris.

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Could say this about a lot of Linux projects, or just any open source project really, but Plasma is the gift that keeps on giving. No enshittification, just continuous improvements. We can't stop winning.

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I've been waiting for this one! Lots of great improvements!

Now awaiting the Arch repo updating...

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A Peertube mirror would be still nice.

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Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: hardpenguinThis game has kinda fallen into obscurity since they moved to Epic 🤷

Lol, not correct at all.

Correct for me. I used see this game all the time 5-6 years ago, now I've forgotten the game even existed its been so long since I've heard about it.

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im investing in guillotine stocks.

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