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GNOME 47 'Denver' released with Accent Colours and various System Enhancements
20 September 2024 at 1:58 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Raaben... To me, keyboard. Gnome feels far better and faster than trying to point and click/poke everything.
But you can do that with just about every DE out there, meanwhile, I never managed to figure out how to even navigate the weird menu system with keyboard only in GNOME. Or are you using the console to get things done?

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and Dawn of War II get free Anniversary Edition upgrades
20 September 2024 at 1:36 pm UTC Likes: 1

So they relabeled the GOY editon to Anniversary edition and doubled the price? Or am I missing something?

KDE Plasma 6.2 adding a pop-up for donations, plus they want to make a next-generation KDE OS
29 August 2024 at 10:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: eldakingHmm, as much as asking for donations is perfectly fine and good (I'd consider a distro removing such a benign request to be very rude, almost hostile)... I don't think a system notification is the right place for it. I'd rather have it all the time in the login screen than having it pop up as a notification, even once per year. Having a static donate button somewhere in the settings would be better than a daemon to show a scheduled ad.
Agreed, login screen all year would be fine - they could even offer some alternative styles as customization options as a fun intractable gimmick, but popups however sparse ...make me... not be in a good mood. Which might not be the best time to ask for a well deserved donation.

Microsoft breaks some Linux dual-boots in a recent Windows update
21 August 2024 at 8:31 pm UTC Likes: 4

So instead of blocking their own operating system and displaying a warning message because a user installed boot loader might affect it's security they decided it was ok to overwrite the user installed software in question and block another user installed operating system instead? Sure hope they had their legal team look into this beforehand.

Steam store pages are about to get a lot cleaner, Valve puts an end to game advert spam
14 August 2024 at 3:43 pm UTC Likes: 4

To be honest I do not care how the publishers clutter "their" product page. It is their loss if they annoy me when i try to buy their product. What I do care about, though, is that there still is no official option to remove the "news" section from "MY" library page... :(

Space sim X4: Foundations is getting another huge free update with added accessibility
5 April 2024 at 7:46 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Purple Library GuyDoes temporal anti-aliasing smooth out the flow of time? I hadn't noticed time being jerky, but if someone was having that problem I could see it being amazingly useful.
Looking at the average decline of eyesight over the time of a persons lifespan one could probably argue it does. Blurred vision for the same person at all stages of life (as TAA tends to produce) could be viewed as smoothing the flow of time - or at least its effects, I guess.

AMD FSR 3.1 announced with Vulkan support, upscaling quality improvements
22 March 2024 at 3:54 pm UTC Likes: 3

So many years since crt-monitors and they are still trying to get back what we lost...

Stealthy platformer Kiyo in need of Linux testers
1 March 2024 at 5:37 am UTC

It does start fine now in native mode (had to switch compatibility mode to 'scout' for the first start, but that is a steam issue after using proton before) Game seems to work nicely otherwise, but the sewers still have the slowdown issue with CPU load in the high 90s and GPU load in turn going toward single digit. Same behavior has been previously observed with Proton.

Stealthy platformer Kiyo in need of Linux testers
26 February 2024 at 11:45 pm UTC

GLIBC version is also a problem for everything based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (they ship with version 2.35)
Did a quick test with Proton Experimental instead: ran nicely until the game slowed down to a crawl reproducible by the sneak section in the training area CPU usage goes through the roof.
Textboxes need definitely an increase in size - especially button prompts are hard to decipher on 24'.
Very nice intro, though! ;-)

Steam Next Fest 2024 was the biggest for Valve and game devs yet
14 February 2024 at 12:07 pm UTC Likes: 6

Great to see Demo culture getting a comeback.
Dungeonborne is currently listed as borked on protondb, btw.