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Stupendous

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  • System76 Continues Driving More Improvements Into The COSMIC Desktop

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  • I've tried running it twice full-time and ended up going to Kubuntu. My bad on judging KDE Plasma from my experience with it when Plasma 5 was new. I just used Gnome all this time. A decade later KDE is actually what I was hoping Cosmic would become someday. Really polished up compared to early Plasma 5 days

    I still keep pop_os on an old laptop to monitor progress. I like it. Just needs a lot more fleshing out

  • Epic Games App Now Available Globally on Android

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  • It's been a year and there's still no library view. Just scroll a long page of all the games available in the store where the games you own are mixed in. At this point I feel like it's got to be an idiotic intentional design choice to hope users spend more money during the time it takes to find the games they own

  • RPCS3 Simulator Now Supports Over 70% of PlayStation 3 Games

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  • PS3 and X360, the two platforms that once they're 95% of the way there would cover practically everything I'd want to play not for sale on PC yet

  • Bethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster on why he left, Starfield's 'communication breakdowns', and how he wanted The Elder Scrolls 6 'to be The Empire Strikes Back'

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  • Meta cuts over 1000 jobs in Reality Labs as focus shifts from VR to AI

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  • There's practically no moat right now for VR operating systems. Meta had the closest because of their studios. Wide open again for Valve and SteamOS/Linux

  • GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026

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  • An official API for third parties to pull games/ownership would be ideal to me. So handheld/TV environments could pull those for a launcher. Shouldn't be so reliant on Steam for a good TV/handheld environment. Should be store agnostic

  • Do we need more users ?

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  • Edit: One thing I notice that is annoying are whatever conflicts between moderators and instances and seeing communities close with a message saying to join some new community on another instance. We're too small to be restarting communities because of whatever arguments mods have with instance admins. Most people do not care what instance they are on. I'll see people stereotype others based on what instance their account is based on and I'm at a loss that some people have already tribalized themselves based on fediverse instance they made their account on

    The best stuff on social media is random hobbies. That needs to grow a lot. We want the people that are really into random stuff. Like maybe they're just really into fallen tree branches and for some reason there's a community out in the world all about fallen tree branches, we should want that. Over on reddit I enjoy the treelaw community. Get to learn about peculiarities of trees and property

    As a start, fediverse would be nerdy. Going to be tech and privacy nerds. Gamers. Great, grow that. Be active. Get the food communities growing. Get the gardening communities growing. Bird watching. Whale watching. Train watching.

    I remember earlier reddit. Like 2007-2010 for me. Back then it was nerdy as hell with a growing gaming and professional sports watching communities. A lot more comedy that wasn't global politics centric.

    Lots of science, tech papers got big discussion and were the foundation for the community to grow. They had hobbies. They watched sports. Played video games. Gardening. Cooking. They'd talk about that too. Fun/educational communities

    We have to be a lot more than just politics and grouches. If I just went by the grouches opinions TikTok would just be propaganda and then I see friend's on it and it's mostly cooking and comedy skits. Lots of anime memes. -- Growing the anime/manga community would be pretty big for the fediverse. Anime/manga fandoms are hyperactive posters

  • As The Division 3 development continues, Ubisoft announces layoffs at Massive Entertainment and Ubisoft Stockholm as part of 'a proposed organizational restructure'

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  • Too many games every year to play anything from Ubisoft

  • [Steam] Save 90% on GreedFall on Steam

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  • It's a solid game. I don't remember how any of the plotlines resolved just that they were abrupt and weirdly clean endings. Still it's the closest in feel to kotor era bioware for me. Writing is not great and gameplay isn't great. Neither are bad though. It's a significant level above what Piranha Bytes were doing with Risen as ELEX in the AA RPG space

  • Aeryn OS Continuing To Focus On Tooling & Infrastructure In 2026

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  • Don't know what's special about this one. Ikey Doherty though is well known for starting new distros. Managing to get them into a relatively stable and semi-popular state. Then leaving and starting a new distro. Seems very capable. No idea what happens behind the scenes for him to keep dropping out from the distros he founds

  • Aeryn OS Continuing To Focus On Tooling & Infrastructure In 2026

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  • I remember when Solus (I think it was called Evolution or Evolve OS first) and people were calling Ikey leaving the project to start a new one eventually. Always happens

  • AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028

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  • Depending on location. Same city 3 years ago no data cap. Current neighborhood first had a data cap that had overage fees or pay an extra $50 a month for uncapped. Now with a service provider that does throttling after a point during congestion

  • AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028

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  • Depends on how close you are to the server and your Internet connection. For me when my Internet isn't having a bad day, the latency is good even for twitchy shooting games. I wouldn't rely on it for a competitive game full match length, but anything single player is good. Pretty much anything that isn't super fast paced twitchy is good. GeForce Now is how I first tried Cyberpunk path tracing. Worked great

    I remember trying out games on GeForce Now, Gamepass, and Luna around the same time. GeForce Now and Luna latency wasn't a problem for me. Gamepass was frequently really bad

    I'm not subscribed to anything anymore. Just wanted to try them out. Only when there's a deal. Forgot to subscribe for one month 50% last month so I'll wait again. Probably a summer month when I want to game but not use my desktop

  • AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028

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  • GeForce Now performs well but it's already seeing further limits put in place. Gamepass already saw price hikes. Amazon Luna has a terribly small library. Smaller players have to buy GPUs, memory, and processor's too and contend with AI data center induced rising power costs. Plus data center location matters a huge amount and that's still a work in progress for game streaming services and a lot of the world

    Plus my Internet throttles after like 1.5TB a month. Fine for ~15mbps Netflix. Not so good for ~100mbps game streaming. Others have data caps or overage fees. There certainly are those with uncapped/unthrottled internet. I wish my neighborhood had that

    Game streaming is going mainstream going to get worse short term too. Mostly pricing and worse usage limits

    A midrange phone these days are power competitive with a PS4. Makes more sense for Steam's future support android APKs because of the Steam Frame to make way for Steam to be an Android game store and devs target Switch-PS4 hardware on the low end and PS5 mid/high end. Don't even entertain the idea of a PS6 level min requirements game for a game releasing this decade. Probably not even for the first half of the 2030s

  • I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop

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  • It's funny to frame it as bravery. Maybe that's clickbait strategy. Regardless desktop Linux is great. Only a handful of kernel level anticheat games are a problem. No you don't need adobe suite for your YouTube, Instagram, Tiktok influencer aspirations. Even open source applications that don't stack up to Adobe or Avid or whatever exceed what's needed to succeed in social media. More than enough for what amounts to solo projects

  • PC Gamer: make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop

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  • In 2010 MacBooks were joked about as expensive Facebook machines. Web browsers. I legit think Linux desktop can grow within a shrinking PC market (mobile induced shrinkage). Also I was still surprised the first time a friend told me they wrote an essay for a class on their phone. People are really proficient on their phones these days

  • Hytale's Co-Founder and Tech Director, revealed that Hytale will offer experimental x64 Linux support via flatpak at launch, with plans to enhance it based on community feedback

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  • That's cool. Maybe someday this year we'll see further news about paid applications in Flathub

  • The Witcher 3 could receive a major DLC in May 2026

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  • For me, it's all quality of life stuff. There are quest mods that people seem to like but I haven't tried any. The mods I use all all stuff like infinite stamina horse running. Zero inventory weight limits. Full experience from every quest regardless of how overleveled you are. No weapon degrading. No fall damage so I can jump down from heights in novagrad. That basic stuff I grab off steam workshop so it's always ready for my new game+ saves where I have an insane inventory. Nexus when I feel like trying the cooler stuff

    Here's the quest mods sorted by endorsements on nexus

    https://www.nexusmods.com/games/witcher3/mods?categoryName=Quests+and+Adventures&sort=endorsements

    I hope the new expansion sparks a new mod era for witcher 3. Would love witcher 3 as the base game for quest mods rather than skyrim. Witcher 3 graphics just so nice to look at

  • Honor launches Win and Win RT gaming-focused smartphones with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and massive 10,000 mAh battery

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  • Besides the high end gacha games and a handful of PS3 era ports, it's all about emulation. PC gaming with Gamehub improves as FEX/proton/wine improve along with graphics drivers

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7v40tYqPYmiS-eDzrTnmpaAvebJsJfdz

    Open source graphics drivers for the snapdragon 8 elite GPU's should be hitting early next year but is pretty good now. There are early emulators for android for PS3 and X360 just even worse compatibility than on PC so right now the high end and pretty good compatibility platforms for android are Nintendo Switch and PC