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  • Are Trader Joe’s tote bags the last vestige of American soft power?

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  • Also Trader Joe’s is a brand of Aldi

    Specifically Aldi Nord which is a different company from the Aldi (Süd), the one with that orange-blue logo.

  • Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

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  • It's a PR stunt if 99% AI is fine.

  • Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

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  • So 99% AI is OK if the last 1% was made by non-AI, a real dog bark or so.

  • Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support

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  • The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps

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  • Conveniently forgeting the part where valve creates a gambling system for kids, as usual.

    Do you mean loot boxes in Counter-Strike? A) It's not a game for kids. B) And no, I'm not getting involved with parenting of other people's children, so I actually do not care.

    But I get it, the only things that mathers is you.

    I matter to me, yes.

  • The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps

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  • There has actually been a case going around about Valve forcing price parity despite their official ToS not saying so, with emails from employees to devs as evidence.

    They're doing a shitty job at enforcement if your claim is true.

  • The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps

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  • I can’t understand the amount of energy people spend defending Valve.

    Valve uses my money to make the Linux FOSS stack better for everyone, including me. GOG doesn't.

    Buying on Steam instead of GOG serves my personal interests.

  • The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps

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  • What’s wrong Heroic?

    Not officially supported. Using the GUI with a controller is wonky.

  • [Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

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  • [Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

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  • The only time you might “tinker” with gaming is when you want to install, say, an emulator or Heroic from the Discovery store (flatpak) to play your non-Steam games, all of which is optional.

    Playing games from outside Steam is less tinkering in Bazzite than SteamOS because Bazzite supports those out of the box. I don't have a Bazzite install in front of me right now but IIRC it comes with Lutris preinstalled. On SteamOS that's an additional installation step.

  • [Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

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  • Cannot run game bought from itch.io on steam deck because of missing licenses

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  • [Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

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  • Also SteamOS runs Docker containers out of the box just fine because it ships podman.

  • [Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

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  • tbh i havent bothered to attempt gaming on anything other than the steam deck.

    At worst you need to install Steam on other distributions and then compatibility is no different than on SteamOS (on equal hardware, of course) because Steam runs its games inside standardized containers since some time.

  • [Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

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  • SteamOS ships both podman and distrobox.

    distrobox create --image registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/leap:16.0 --name opensuse to install openSUSE, for example, then distrobox enter opensuse to use it. If you like rolling releases, install and then execute opensuse-migration-tool to upgrade to Tumbleweed or Slowroll.

  • [Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

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  • I haven’t had to fuck around with any game.

    Noodle probably only knows Linux from fiddle distros and now thinks that SteamOS is the only one that works out of the box which is just not true. There are plenty of mainstream options like Bazzite.

  • [Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

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  • I just use openSUSE in a Distrobox container on mine. Installation has a needless pitfall because for whatever reason installing TW directly is broken but installing Leap and then using opensuse-migration-tool works fine.

    I'm using this container to evaluate Slowroll.

  • [Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

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  • Support the vast majority of titles with minimal friction right out of the box.

    Games run via Steam Linux Runtime which is the same across all Linux installations of Steam.

    I don’t want to have do dick around and tweak shit when I want to relax with a video game

    If you need to "tweak shit", you have not fully compatible hardware (NVidia or so), something SteamOS won't solve because it's just a regular Linux distribution.

    I want to be able to slap an OS on a PC and have it be Steam Deck But Bigger.

    You already can. The SteamOS recovery image is explicitly for other systems as well since quite some time. People use it on the Framework Desktop, for example, even though the devices list does not feature that PC.

    Don't expect ever formal support for any hardware where Valve cannot control the drivers. They've been fucked by proprietary platform holders in the past, they don't want to repeat this again. So either your hardware is fully supported by upstream kernel/Mesa drivers (which SteamOS already ships because it's just another Linux distribution with absolutely not magic dust) or SteamOS will likely never work on those.

  • [Deck] A Linux Power User Puts SteamOS To Work

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  • What do you expect it would do that other mainstream distributions don't?

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    Russia forces African recruits to become suicide bombers

    www.telegraph.co.uk /world-news/2026/01/12/russia-using-africans-cannon-fodder-ukraine/
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    Steam Frame (Steamworks Documentation)

    partner.steamgames.com /doc/steamframe
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    'Why not Kadyrov?' Zelensky quips on Chechen leader after US capture of Maduro

    kyivindependent.com /maduro-worked-why-not-kadyrov-zelensky-quips-that-additional-pressure-will-make-putin-think-twice/
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    Street Fighter II: It sounds dumb but they really fixed a typo with a human leg

  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
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    Steam Deck Beta Client Update: December 30th

    steamcommunity.com /games/1675200/announcements/detail/500593045099514288
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    Ukrainian Strikes on Russia’s Energy Assets Hit a Monthly Record

    www.bloomberg.com /news/articles/2025-12-30/ukrainian-strikes-on-russia-s-energy-assets-hit-a-monthly-record
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    Steam Deck Client Update: December 19th

    store.steampowered.com /news/app/1675200/view/500593045099513243
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    Ahoy: 2001.

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    Putin's men are in full retreat on one of the hottest battle fronts

    www.telegraph.co.uk /news/2025/12/16/putin-russian-black-sea-fleet-ukraine-submarine-drone/
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    Ukraine: Zelenskyy's Polish visit 'bad news for Moscow' – DW – 12/19/2025

    www.dw.com /en/ukraine-zelenskyys-polish-visit-bad-news-for-moscow/live-75235822
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    Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption - The Atlantic

    www.theatlantic.com /international/2025/12/ukraine-fighting-corruption-trump/685162/
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    ‘Russia-Ukraine deal impossible while Putin is alive’: ex-UK ambassador to Moscow

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    Putin vows revenge after oil tanker blown up in Mediterranean & EU plugs Kyiv’s €90bn budget black hole | Ukraine: The Latest

    shows.acast.com /ukraine-the-latest/episodes/putin-vows-revenge-after-oil-tanker-blown-up-in-mediterranea
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    Investigation: Sick Ukrainian children exploited in fraudulent charity campaigns linked to US, Israel

    kyivindependent.com /investigation-charity-network-tied-to-u-s-and-israel-exploits-sick-ukrainian-children-for-profit-2/
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    Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Dec. 18, 2025 | ISW

    understandingwar.org /research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-18-2025/
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    Ukrainian drones hit a Russian 'shadow fleet' tanker in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time, security official says

    www.businessinsider.com /ukraine-attacks-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-in-mediterranean-first-time-2025-12
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    Putin’s annual ‘circus’: 5 top takeaways

    www.politico.eu /article/vladimir-puttin-russia-kremlin-5-takeaways-from-qa-show/