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Valve broke Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Linux, Vulkan may come soon
13 December 2021 at 2:49 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: NitsugaThis damn game has been crashing for months now, it all started with the ironic "Broken Fang" update.
L4D2 native crashes a lot as well. It truly feels like a joke.

I was about to say it. This is not the first time this happens with CS:GO on Linux.

Also L4D2 on Linux is more crashy than before, and is not only on Linux. My friends on Windows occasionally crash too, but less often than me.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 & American Truck Simulator get big upgrades
10 December 2021 at 1:00 pm UTC Likes: 4

All of these improvements only occur because of the funding from the DLC they release. This is one of a few games I pay for DLCs with gusto, since not only I receive new content that wasn't available at launch, but the core game continues to receive meaningful improvements on a regular basis.

System76 creating their own desktop environment written in Rust
9 November 2021 at 11:20 am UTC Likes: 6

Quoting: drmothI'm keen for this. The decision by gnome to cut a bunch of features and then push everything to buggy, javascript extensions has made my desktop experience worse than it was 10 years ago. Sure, it looks a lot prettier, provided you don't break your experience with lots of extensions.

I want a slick, highly usable, modern DE, that preferably doesn't look like Windows. Gnome is the only decent contender at the moment, but it's not great. Canonical's Unity, once the bugs were fixed, was actually really good. We need something like this again.

It is shocking how much bridges the Gnome devs burned over the years. Canonical only went back to them after facing bankrupt and still their developers do have friction issues. I wonder who back them up inside Redhat to continue in this path of scorched earth.

System76 creating their own desktop environment written in Rust
9 November 2021 at 11:15 am UTC Likes: 3

I don't know if this will succeed. Making a competent, feature rich DE is a massive job. I will not be surprised if they realize their "Blender Moment" (fine, I will make my own DE, with blackjack, and hookers), and simply start to work growing a smaller DE, like XFCE, based (or completing the port to) GTK3 and implementing Wayland support.

Diablo and Hellfire source-port DevilutionX gets a big upgrade
3 November 2021 at 4:19 pm UTC Likes: 3

Unless a developer want to do a update to the graphics in a new launch (and even that is debatable), I find this type of project a big win for the publisher. They sell a new copy for those who want to pay (unrepentant pirates will never do) and at the same time have zero costs with support, since the player know they will not get any from the start.

Interplay updating many classic titles on Steam to add support for Linux
15 October 2021 at 11:24 am UTC Likes: 1

Screamer 2 is already available for Linux, huuuuuummmmm. The only arcade rally game to ever come close to the sweet Sega Rally controls, at last in my mind...

Also, MDK is already there, but only for Windows. Lets hope they release it to Linux soon.

But beware: there is plenty of people complaining about the quality of the DOSBox setup, so make sure the game you want was already bug-fixed after the launch.

Get a look inside the Steam Deck in Valve's latest video
6 October 2021 at 9:55 pm UTC Likes: 4

Before this video, I had the impression the M.2 slot was difficult to access. That is nothing. Actually is more difficult to open a Xbone or PS4/5 controllers.

Anyway, congrats to Valve for having the balls to do something like that, even to acknowledge the mistake of the anti-static strip. That felt very informal and at same time informative.

Valve cancels Dota 2 live audience and refunds ticket sales for The International 2021
4 October 2021 at 11:25 am UTC

I still remember specialists in public health estimating the pandemic would roll for a couple months... Boy did they underestimate the public effort in not cooperating with the recommendations of health organizations.

Help make the next Ubuntu version awesome with the final Ubuntu 21.10 Beta released
25 September 2021 at 1:29 pm UTC

Probably not the answer you guys want, but you can actually run Firefox from your home directory. Just download the file from Mozilla, decompress it wherever you want and execute the binary. I used it that way for years because Canonical usually take a week to release a package of the new version.