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Here's the most played Steam Deck games from March 2024
3 April 2024 at 9:33 am UTC Likes: 2

I just started playing Later Alligator.

It's very silly and very cute. It's also very short, so I try to pace myself. Only play for a while, crocodile!

Get a whole lot of Fallout games in this Fanatical bundle
2 April 2024 at 3:24 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Liam DaweGotta burn off all that chocolate somehow.
You ate yours? Considering the price of cacao i buried all my chocolate next to the gold in the back yard!

XZ tools and libraries compromised with a critical issue
29 March 2024 at 11:48 pm UTC Likes: 12

Oh, this might be bad. Seems like an inside job by the new'ish maintainer:

https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor
https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27

If so, someone needs to go through xz-utils with a fine toothed comb.

Maniac is classic GTA meets Vampire Survivors - out now on Steam
29 March 2024 at 10:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

Getting both some early GTA and original Postal vibes from this one.

SDL 3 will prefer Wayland Over X11, if certain protocols are available
28 March 2024 at 8:57 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: drjomsDoes Proton use SDL at all?
Both Wine and Proton uses SDL. Mostly on the controller side for things like force feedback and rumble support. Not for anything that would impact Wayland like window creation or rendering.

Take-Two Interactive buying Gearbox from Embracer, more Borderlands on the way
28 March 2024 at 2:07 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Linux_RocksHow long until a GTA-style Borderlands game? 🤔
...not until they run out of bubblegum?

Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy from the ATOM RPG team has a demo and Kickstarter live
26 March 2024 at 10:37 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: redneckdrowYup, and Thedas is literally an acronym for "The Dragon Age Setting".
Hah! Did not know that.

It's the Guybrush Threepwood of continents!

Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy from the ATOM RPG team has a demo and Kickstarter live
26 March 2024 at 10:33 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: Purple Library GuySeems kind of . . . standard. Right down to being set in a place called "Draconia".
If you don't like it, try another game?

KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files
26 March 2024 at 9:00 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: BumadarAnd that basically was it, am enjoying it a lot and am mighty impressed with how smooth something as big like this went.
That's good to hear! People with problems tend to be a lot more vocal so success stories can easily be lost in the noise.

Ubuntu 24.04 increases vm.max_map_count for smoother Linux gaming
26 March 2024 at 4:42 pm UTC Likes: 7

Quoting: BlackBloodRumI'm just not sure what the big deal is as in my mind this one is just one of those "Oh, that's the issue? Okay, tweak that, done."
One less thing on the checklist when you're setting up a new system?