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Open Source implementation of GOG Galaxy's Communication Service, Comet sees a first release
12 July 2024 at 8:05 pm UTC

Quoting: dibzHonestly the Galaxy Client itself, ignoring Linux for a moment, feels mostly abandoned as it is. I believe the single person they had maintaining the integrations quit quite some time ago, and was never replaced.
The broken ones are community integrations which you can hardly blame the company for :)

Open Source implementation of GOG Galaxy's Communication Service, Comet sees a first release
11 July 2024 at 6:44 pm UTC

Quoting: RaabenStill wish they had Galaxy working instead but Heroic generally does the job at the level I need it to.
Is there anything you need missing apart from the fact that it doesn't use the wrapper plugins for other stores like Rockstar or Ubi and has a strict focus on reversed backends?

Open Source implementation of GOG Galaxy's Communication Service, Comet sees a first release
11 July 2024 at 6:31 pm UTC Likes: 11

GoG endorsed Heroic Launcher in their Reddit posts and they gave the Heroic Team an affiliate link, so this is rather close to an "official" client

EA SPORTS WRC is adding EA anticheat, breaking another game on Steam Deck / Linux
20 May 2024 at 5:10 pm UTC

Is this something wine can fix like easy anti cheat system calls or is it a Vanguard like Kernel Module that we can't get to on Linux?

NVIDIA switching to open kernel modules by default in future driver update for Turing+
12 May 2024 at 11:30 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: sprocketAs much as I would like this, they have to draw the line somewhere when it comes to old architecture support. For them that is Turing, which made its debut in 2019. And as much as I hate to say it, 5 years is pretty typical for hardware support across most industries.

There is a difference between keeping the necessary files and documentation from the community and writing the whole driver themselfes.
If they give us the , i think pmu it was called, part of the firmware, they could at least get a better standing in the community and say "here you go, figure it out, have fun" and continue with the modern gsp based driver.

Playtron give a bit more detail on the Linux-based PlaytronOS and their plans
9 May 2024 at 8:33 pm UTC

Native linux games usually have the problem that they aren't as tightly integrated with existing storefronts and therefore need more effort to integrate well in your interface.

UK Government replies to petition about requiring publishers to keep games working
7 May 2024 at 5:41 am UTC

I think this should include all raw materials, sounds, music, effects, voices, the project files for the movies and so on. It is not just the immediate game that is important, but tools and other surrounding files like sketches as well. So the spirit and the history of a game also gets recorded.

UK Government replies to petition about requiring publishers to keep games working
6 May 2024 at 5:44 pm UTC

Common Engines like Unity,GoDot and UnrealEngine are available to people so it might be just the diff that is required.
Source alone is not the best thing, raw assets are also helpful if we want to remaster them in higher resolution later on.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available
28 April 2024 at 10:18 am UTC

While we can still package and update important additional applications outside of the ubuntu repositories, i think we need an additional gaming repo that is kind of rolling.
(and we need to get rid of this snap pack nonsense for everything)
Wine-Releases are a huge bonus if you get the biweekly ones from their repo.
There are tools for Cooling & RGB like polychromatic, CoolerControl or OpenRazer that would be beneficial by default as well.
I am actively looking into remixing the official ISO with all these nice little helpers so i can safely give it to friends and all the recommended stuff is already there.
Any idea how i can pre-configure addons&settings for Firefox in this way?

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