I'm glad that Tim Sweeny and its Epig Games Store is not the market leader.

It's expected, because the tools are still in development and have not reached 100% test covered yet. Ubuntu 25.10 is not a long term version, so ideal for real world testing. But now we can expect copy-pasta ai blog posts all over the place. And personal attacks against the programming language itself.

• Wayland by default? Ubuntu has covered you.
• GNOME by default DE? Ubuntu has covered you.
• Snap by default and used everywhere? Ubuntu has covered you.
• Rust through sudo replaced by sudo-rs by default? Ubuntu has covered you.
• Popular and controlled by a corporation? Ubuntu has covered you.
• Plus some historical stuff people did not forgot: Mir, Unity, Amazon data collection? Ubuntu has covered you.

Ubuntu has it all: The most important controversies in one package.

BTW this reply is more a joke than being serious. I'm not the biggest fan of Ubuntu (anymore), but I also used it straight 13 years since I started; so let me have me my opinion. Besides that, I make just fun of companies and not of the users. People should use what they like.

How many of them were good games and original?

DisplayPort for the win

Native Steam Deck version is actually native Linux version, with settings optimized for Steam Deck. But I really like the tone and expression of developers looking at the Steam Deck as a target, like a game console. This is awesome!

I think not allowing it at all would be worse, because then people start claiming not to use Ai while they secretly do. Allowing it with a disclosure at least makes this process a bit more transparent. You can think about ai what you want, at least handling it this way is better than not allowing it at all.

lol I just found my 7 year old post on Reddit (when Reddit was cool) of a Epig Games logo creation: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckepic/comments/bvw5ru/epig_games/

Long story short, thanks to the ongoing success of Valve's Steam Deck and other handhelds plus Steam Play (Proton) working out so well

... plus people get more and more fed up with Windows.

Isn't this a good thing? Similar to Valve, now the owner of GOG should be independent and not try to please share holders. He is the original founder, so its not like some random ex EA CEO or someone rich from Arabia or like that. Unless there is evidence, I give him the benefit of doubt and hope for the best.

And hopefully he will support Linux... but that is a bit of random thought.

The Winter Sale goes 8 days still, so you have plenty of time. Some games in example from EA and Ubisoft require additional launcher or an account to play them. I usually avoid them.

Steam Deck Verified: 5 games including Cyberpunk for total $47,8

• Cyberpunk: $ 21
• Ace Combat 7: $4.80
• Resident Evil 2: $10
• Subnautica: $8
• Disco Elysium - The Final Cut: $4

More interesting Steam Deck Verified games

• Hollow Knight: $7.50
• Stardew Valley: $9
• Maneater: $4
• Divinity Original Sin Enhanced Edition: $4

Also have a look at games that require additional account or launcher:

• Red Dead Redemption 2: $ 15 (Steam Deck Playable, Requires 3rd-Party Account: Rockstar Games)
• Halo Master Chief Collection: $10 (Steam Deck Verified, Requires 3rd-Party Account: Xbox Live)

With how many new Linux users we get recently, I don't like this joke at all without a disclaimer. Yes yes, its your own fault if you execute commands without knowing what it does. But that should not punish someone by deleting every important personal file on the system.

In case any reader don't know, rm is a command to delete files and with the option rm -r everything recursively will be searched and deleted on the filesystem. Option -f (here bundled together as -rf) will never prompt for any non existing file. The / here means start from the root directory of you system, which in combination with the recursive option will search down everything, home folder included, and find every file. Normally this is protected todo, but the extra option --no-preserve-root makes sure this command is run with the root / path.

Haha I know its funny. Until someone loses data. Jokes like these are harmful in my opinion.

I like that I have to think in Rust before compiling, not after.

Cloudflare has announced its sponsorship of the Ladybird browser, an independent (still-in-development) open-source initiative

Is it still independent?

Calling a "regular" Linux desktop operating system being Black boxed or closed source is a bit too far in my opinion. I do not agree 100%, but I understand the concerns and points brought up in this discussion.

I also recommend to read the source code: https://github.com/rolflobker/recall-for-linux/blob/main/recall-for-linux.exe

How is that a paradox? It's like saying its a paradox that cameras on phone made it much easier to photograph and as a result, people make more photos. That isn't a paradox, that is natural. Same for writing software.

Tim Swiney said on the game product page there should be no disclosure of Ai usage in the games, in response to Steam "forcing" the disclosure of what is being used Ai for. Just shows how I will avoid Epic Games Store even more than before. There are plenty other reasons. Epic will not buy me as a "user" by giving me free games (however I do not blame anyone else doing so, free is a great deal to be honest).

Always have two backups in different places than the original. If not, the least you can do is have one backup copy. How does the government don't have such thing?

Many YouTubers recommend it nowadays, as an alternative to Windows 10 ending its support. Often its said that the look (at least on the surface) is similar to Windows 10. I wonder how much other distributions are affected by this, especially Linux Mint, Bazzite and SteamOS itself.