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News - Hello from Fedora KDE
By beaiouns, 19 Nov 2025 at 1:36 pm UTC

Lmao I'm glad I'm not the only one that does stuff like this! I think my latest one was when I couldn't figure out why cachyos was suddenly compiling OpenSSL from the AUR, and ended up breaking enough stuff that it was easier to just pick a different distro.

Currently running steamOS on my desktop to celebrate the new steam machine announcement, and fedora kinoite on the laptop with the nvidia graphics, because it kinda reminds me of steamOS. Until the next distro hop!

News - Steamworks SDK adds support for Linux Arm and Android, and it seems we know the first Android game on Steam
By satoridepon, 19 Nov 2025 at 1:30 pm UTC

Strange that still no Windows arm64 support. So Windows developers can't ship arm64 builds on Steam to run without FEX on Frame or other future arm devices.

News - I have finished Dispatch and now I'm at a loss so I'm going to play it again
By Chrisznix, 19 Nov 2025 at 1:06 pm UTC

Damn, i have to get it then... i noticed three members of the critical role show in there (Matt Mercer, Travis Willingham and Laura Bailey) while playing the demo. So many games... no time. I'll end up like the "old" guy in this game. :)

News - Hytale has been saved as Hypixel acquired it from Riot Games
By Chrisznix, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:49 pm UTC

Hmm, that is interesting. I thought that some of the hytale devs are now working on Vintage Story.

News - Megabonk from vedinad has withdrawn from The Game Awards 2025
By Ehvis, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:46 pm UTC

I, too, think that it is a mistake. If that is the desired criterion for the Debut category, it is practically impossible to find (and confirm) suitable candidates. I assume that most of the other games would face the same issue – it is practically impossible to be able to sell the first game or any piece of software made without prior experience.

A bit different here since because since launch people have speculated that this is DaniDev (with a reversed name), a youtuber that has made several games on Steam. If that is true, then it would be a bit too problematic for the future.

News - Megabonk from vedinad has withdrawn from The Game Awards 2025
By Xpander, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:44 pm UTC

Sorry, but does anyone even care about Game Awards really?
The real award for the developers is when their game is enjoyed by people.

Just random selection of games into arbitrary categories and pick the winner doesn't really chime with me.
I never understood the awards thing tbh. Might be just me problem ofc.

News - Megabonk from vedinad has withdrawn from The Game Awards 2025
By Klaas, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:37 pm UTC

I, too, think that it is a mistake. If that is the desired criterion for the Debut category, it is practically impossible to find (and confirm) suitable candidates. I assume that most of the other games would face the same issue – it is practically impossible to be able to sell the first game or any piece of software made without prior experience.

News - JSAUX are teasing Steam Machine front panels with built-in screens
By ttyborg, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:36 pm UTC

It is probably going to be a self-contained product, with no wires. Built-in battery, and a microcontroller with wifi (Esp32?), so it can connect to the Steam Machine or the internet, to display SM status, weather forecast or something like that.

News - Megabonk from vedinad has withdrawn from The Game Awards 2025
By DrNick, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:30 pm UTC

It should definitely still get some nominations for other categories. The game is a more entertaining Vampire Survivors.

News - Steam Deck gets display-off low power downloads in a new stable update
By Zlopez, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:19 pm UTC

it's so funny, I updated my deck yesterday and went looking for this feature but couldn't find it. Now today here it is! Love these updates :)

Maybe you didn't restarted after the update.

News - JSAUX are teasing Steam Machine front panels with built-in screens
By grigi, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:18 pm UTC

I'm thinking maybe access to an internal usb header? If so, it's possibly USB2, so too slow for a proper high-res LCD display.

Worst case you'd need to mod the case and route a cable through to the back so you can plug into something there.

News - JSAUX are teasing Steam Machine front panels with built-in screens
By hardpenguin, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:08 pm UTC

JSAUX please come to Mastodon, some of your target audience is there emoji

News - JSAUX are teasing Steam Machine front panels with built-in screens
By Gazoche, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:08 pm UTC

I’m curious how this plugs into the box’s power and systems. Is there an internal usb connector dedicated to the front panel?

News - Steamworks SDK adds support for Linux Arm and Android, and it seems we know the first Android game on Steam
By hardpenguin, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:07 pm UTC

The Frame is an interesting frankenstein. With Proton + FEX + whatever compatibility layer they are using for Android (like Waidroid or similar, I suppose).
Tech is just stacking building blocks on each other. This case specifically is made possible thanks to the power of open source ❤️

News - Steamworks SDK adds support for Linux Arm and Android, and it seems we know the first Android game on Steam
By doragasu, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:03 pm UTC

The Frame is an interesting frankenstein. With Proton + FEX + whatever compatibility layer they are using for Android (like Waidroid or similar, I suppose).

News - Steamworks SDK adds support for Linux Arm and Android, and it seems we know the first Android game on Steam
By hardpenguin, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:03 pm UTC

Android ARM APK on Steam. What a time to be alive. I honestly would love to play some quality ARM games that never made their way from Android to PC before.

News - Steamworks SDK adds support for Linux Arm and Android, and it seems we know the first Android game on Steam
By ShadowXeldron, 19 Nov 2025 at 11:54 am UTC

So, how's this going to work? Is it using something like Waydroid under the hood?

News - JSAUX are teasing Steam Machine front panels with built-in screens
By neolith, 19 Nov 2025 at 11:51 am UTC

What battery is there to kill in the Steam Machine? emoji

News - Hello from Fedora KDE
By lupo_dharkael, 19 Nov 2025 at 11:36 am UTC

I've been using Fedora KDE since 2016 and it has been my main system since then. The experience is stable and everything just works.

News - Hello from Fedora KDE
By Zlopez, 19 Nov 2025 at 11:33 am UTC

As somebody who works on Fedora, I'm glad you like it :-)

I'm myself using Fedora Kinoite as my daily driver, got really in love with atomic editions :-)

News - Hello from Fedora KDE
By fenglengshun, 19 Nov 2025 at 11:30 am UTC

Neat. I recently decided to move my oldest laptop from Ubuntu Server, which I eventually installed KDE on to do some things, straight into NixOS. I thought, "hey, if I only needed my KDE environment sometimes, I can just switch config." A weird thing happened in that my system is way faster now for some reason.

I don't know what was going on with my Ubuntu setup, but even when it was just a TTY, the stutter can be pretty bad. There's likely some other issues with the hardware - RAM stick, SATA SSD, the fan, or the chip's thermal paste (possibility combination of all of them AND aging factor). But KDE wasn't the issue, it's hella lightweight actually.

Regardless, it's good to have a laptop with a decent KDE session. I'm going to be moving my ROG Ally from Bazzite to hopefully (in order of preference) NixOS, SteamOS, or CachyOS as well - depending on if I couldn't figure out the previous ones - all using KDE of course.

News - Hello from Fedora KDE
By hardpenguin, 19 Nov 2025 at 11:13 am UTC

KDE Plasma my beloved

News - Earth 2140 remake on OpenRA engine OpenE2140 gets a first release
By logge, 19 Nov 2025 at 11:07 am UTC

At least, the trilogy is linked. Installation of the GOG version is somewhat cumbersome, and also the Steam version borked out with my AppImage on Linux.

News - Deep Rock Galactic set for new biomes, missions and enemies in Season 6
By ambrosia_enjoyer, 19 Nov 2025 at 10:50 am UTC

Surprising news. I assumed DRG was (understandably) put in maintenance mode while GSG is busy developing its quasi sequel.

News - Playnite may get a Linux version during 2026 as the creator plans a move to Linux
By Sil_el_mot, 19 Nov 2025 at 9:51 am UTC

@LoudTechie
i am not near the point i want to be before publishing it. and i am not sure at all if i should.it is heavily done with the help of ai (did it before without ai but since chatgpt and gemini are a thing i started off from scratch) and therefore the code might be annoying at best

News - Playnite may get a Linux version during 2026 as the creator plans a move to Linux
By tpau, 19 Nov 2025 at 9:28 am UTC

What ton of Features so we get from Play it that we can't get from heroic and RetroArch?
Usually people tell me that they find too many settings confusinf and want a turn key solution

News - Playnite may get a Linux version during 2026 as the creator plans a move to Linux
By LoudTechie, 19 Nov 2025 at 9:27 am UTC

@Sil_el_mot or publish it and hope it helps others.
There seems to be quite some demand.
Doesn't need to be open source or free software, you could publish it under whatever license and/or conditions you would like.
There appears to be demand, maybe you could serve that demand.

News - Playnite may get a Linux version during 2026 as the creator plans a move to Linux
By Sil_el_mot, 19 Nov 2025 at 8:43 am UTC

Great!
Well, so i can stop with my own python based game library.

News - The big new RPG Where Winds Meet release works well on Linux
By hardpenguin, 19 Nov 2025 at 8:38 am UTC

Lost me at "generative AI and not even bothered to write a disclaimer"