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Does anyone treat this clown's views seriously these days? Tim Sweeney is just trying to make everything in the opposite way to Steam.

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But I can surely entertain the idea that the concept should be reversed: not an "AI generated content" badge but rather an "AI content free" one.

This is the most logical approach. And maybe a category to search by "Human-made".

If a game uses AI models that have been trained on material without the content of their authors (Spoiler, all of them) I consider that game to be built illegally, and as such, I will obtain it and play it via "illegal" methods.

I've long grappled with the idea whether the eye patch is truly a form of protest. For example, simply owning and playing the game lends player numbers, time and attention for a project even if you avoided paying for it. If a game promotes some harm, is it preferable to avoid it entirely and let it rot in lonely silence?

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I’m waiting for them to add key bindings

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Quoting: syylkOwner of a featureless store claims the features of the featureful competitor are irrelevant.

News at 11.

"Doing something is pointless so we are actually ahead of the curve for once because we are doing jack shit."

;)

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If a game uses AI models that have been trained on material without the content of their authors (Spoiler, all of them) I consider that game to be built illegally, and as such, I will obtain it and play it via "illegal" methods.

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Quoting: tohurThis one the reasons I moved on to developing my own distro. I based it on Debian sid

You might be interested in Siduction then.
https://siduction.org/

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"Allot of users won't notice the difference."
No just the apox half of them now suffering a broken deskto. 🙄

Seriously dude.

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Quoting: einherjarThis article reminded me, that I switched to Wayland out of curiosity about half a year ago.
I just forgot about it, everything seems to work.

I use an AMD graphics card though, I have no idea how well it works with Nvidia.

Work's lole s***t and there n lies the problem. Seems as though he has chosen to forgot about half+ the marketshare.

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Quoting: ScottCarammellWhuff, seems a bit premature to me but I guess I'm not as smart as the people working on this. Hopefully they'll fix non-mouse-controlled cursors not wanting to show up on Wayland by then or else X4 is cooked for me.

something starting to feel shady about KDE love affair with this broken pos compositor if you ask me. There's nothing wrong with your tale on this. I agree.

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Breaking half the graphics cards what TF is he on. Wayland is a hot mess. Whatch how quickly I'll be reinstalling x again.

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I think game developers, filmmakers, music artists, and others should go the other way and make a point of trumpeting when their product doesn't use any kind of generative AI. The following disclaimer could become the mark of quality and artistic integrity:

"No generative artificial intelligence was used for the creation of this work."

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As always he doesn't lose a chance to advocate for less transparency and worse customer service.

But I can surely entertain the idea that the concept should be reversed: not an "AI generated content" badge but rather an "AI content free" one.

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As long there is considerable consumer demand for these labels, they should exist.
Even when there're liars at least the consumer can call them out(including at court for misleading advertising)
The consumer pays and is thus the boss. If you don't want to play by their rules a healthy market must punish you.
Otherwise the market loses its primary selling point compared to government involvement: competition leads to motivation to offer better products.

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Great stuff! Although I'll wait until it comes out of Early Access.

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Owner of a featureless store claims the features of the featureful competitor are irrelevant.

News at 11.

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Wow, that dude is hardline.
You make it harder to debug: keep yourself stable.
You start bitching: do it yourself.

Still I think he made legally the right choice.
Steam is DMCA protected any research published to find what crashed it is publishing works aiding with rendering effective technical measures ineffective and thus illegal.

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It's the unfortunate truth. I've already seen many steam games with *obvious* traces of AI art that don't have the AI disclosure. Tracking and enforcing it is futile. (Which doesn't mean we shouldn't at least try.)

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Oh nice, and yes, same for me... this immediately reminded me of Desert Strike. Aaaaww, good old memories. I was playing Desert Strike with my cousins on their Amiga back then, night after night

edit: even more nostalgia! Did I just see the Airwolf and Blue Thunder helicopter models in there?

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Is it called Soulframe because it is a Soul's like game that runs on the Steam Frame? xD

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Quoting: MayeulC

Quoting: syylkviewport/video memory sharing

Now I don't understand this. We already have dma-buf.

Screensharing / screencasting still don't work natively in Wayland, while it works on X11.

Examples:
- Discord streaming your game screen to the other people in your voice call;
- Teams sharing your screen or a window it doesn't "own" while in a videocall;
- OBS capturing stuff from other program's GUIs and casting in Twitch or other streaming service.

I'm sure there are not the only edge cases. And I'm equally sure there are workarounds. But this is the behavior out of the box for me (Nobara 43, Plasma 6.5.2 on Wayland, ofc).

I understand program isolation and sandboxing. But if the walls of the sandbox are too tall, then one program cannot grab what another is showing, and redirect the stream appropriately.

And this is what I mean for lack of feature parity with X11. X11 can do all of the above by letting one software somehow peek at the private graphic structures of another.

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Death Stranding... some call it a boring FedEx simulator, I say it's one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.

I'm waiting to be able to guide Sam Porter Bridges again on his journey, reconnecting people over the continent and figuring out what the heck has happened to the world.

Please Proton, make this one work on Linux when it releases on PC.

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As long as it allows KDE developers to expedite the development of Wayland, I'm perfectly fine with that change.

I've been running KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland for more than a year now and for me it works mostly fine, besides initial issues with multi monitor setup (some apps not scaling properly or opening on a wrong monitor by default - Window Rules mostly work) and little annoyances with asking me each single time what window to screenshare once I do the screensharing.

Those are not any deal-breakers for me, though.

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Prerequisites: Visual Studio 2026

Not very Linux friendly ...

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Whuff, seems a bit premature to me but I guess I'm not as smart as the people working on this. Hopefully they'll fix non-mouse-controlled cursors not wanting to show up on Wayland by then or else X4 is cooked for me.

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This article reminded me, that I switched to Wayland out of curiosity about half a year ago.
I just forgot about it, everything seems to work.

I use an AMD graphics card though, I have no idea how well it works with Nvidia.

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Quoting: AdutchmanWe're talking about FOSS software here, most people are doing this work in their free time and nobody's perfect, and I can imagine that people get frustrated.

That's true, this is open source, and people volunteer. No one demanded perfection. But if you volunteer to shoulder a responsibility on behalf of a community, then it is not absurd for the community to ask you to take responsibility for what you are doing. No-one in particular were waving pitchforks, they were wondering why it happened, how it happened, and how can we (as a community) do better in the future.

If you don't want to or can't take responsibility, that is absolutely understandable but then you need to say so and make way for someone else who is able to. This is the reason I haven't shouldered that responsibility in the 20+ years I've been part of the overall linux community. I could never handle the responsiblity of maintining a major package in a major distribution, so I contributed in other ways.

Quoting: AdutchmanIf we look at the forum discussion, the moderator was trying to move the discussion back to something constructive. That's not the same as "toxic positivity" imo.

Several people including our own good man Liam tried to be professional and constructive, but were told to shut it.

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I am running a dual PC streaming setup on Manjaro Linux via the wayland session, and have been doing so for some months now.

Game streaming is, TBH a better experience for me than it was on windows, since pipewire allows an audio setup that is far less janky than the rats nest of virtal audio cable drivers I used to deal with. Most games just run, others need minor tweaking, but no outright failures yet. OBS has been great under wayland and pipewire, no issues at all.

As far as day to day app use under wayland goes, everything has been smooth, and a better experience than on my work station where I used to run Manjaro plasma with the X session.

TLDR: It is time to leave X behind. Wayland and Pipewire are leading the charge on the new Linux desktop.

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Quoting: AdutchmanI'm kind off dissapointed in the discourse here tbh (like with a lot of Fedora stuff among other things). Black and white thinking and bad faith takes are more common on GoL comment sections nowadays, which unfortunately makes the whole place less welcoming imo.

Personally, I think people are being quite harsh and unconstructive when they write of the distro after this decision, especially when they are still in the process of finding a solution. Critisizing them for making a SIG is really confusing to me, why would it be a bad thing to bring a attention to it?

We're talking about FOSS software here, most people are doing this work in their free time and nobody's perfect, and I can imagine that people get frustrated. If we look at the forum discussion, the moderator was trying to move the discussion back to something constructive. That's not the same as "toxic positivity" imo.

I have been using Fedora for years now, and it is generally quite stable, I think they're doing a pretty good job, especially considering they're at the leading edge of package versions.

They SHOULDN'T NEED a SIG.. stability should be a thing REGARDLESS considering they make 6 month releases... as much people claim they are "semi rolling" they take the stance of numbered releases.. also they KNEW the mesa package was broken but push it out as an update ANYWAY because in their words Steam is closed sourced so they didn't care

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So, if they are "only" making plasma-shell Wayland only, what are the options, if you have to use X11 due to things Wayland will never support (don't want to go deeper in that regard), but want still keep using KDE applications (mainly Dolphin and Konsole).

It should still use preferably Qt as a base library, so it's LXQt then? Any other options, if I don't want to use GTK based shells?

I'd like to have a similiar task bar at the bottom, no macos-like dock, but a system tray and a start menu.

icewm? WindowMaker? lxQt?

Any other options. that are not Trinity?

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Quoting: LoftyThere still isn't an onscreen keyboard that rivals 'Onboard' or anything close under KDE / Wayland. In fact, im not sure there even is a fully functioning onscreen keyboard under Wayland KDE-Plasma right now


the last i read about it was here (last post 6 days ago):

https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-6-and-wayland-no-on-screen-keyboard-working/17799/53

where the workaround requiring GDK_BACKEND=x11 & adding it to environment variables. Seemingly not working on Fedora. Look at the first post in that thread and see who the kinds of people are effected by the forced switch to Wayland. People are still struggling with this all the way back to the beginning of Wayland's inception. Sure there are workarounds to some extent but it's not a very user friendly solution, when you are telling regular folks to switch to Linux.

I guess valve might use xwayland on SteamOS for the onscreen keyboard ? will that cover every feature of a regular keyboard idk.

Not yet, but ghey're working hard on it: see https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Known_Significant_Issues at Accessibility.

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