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Linux Gaming! We cover the PC Gaming world on Linux, whether it's on a regular PC or on the Steam Deck! We do Industry Trends Analyses, Hardware and Software Reviews, Interviews, Podcasts, and more... Find it all on https://boilingsteam.com.

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Free Software Awards Winners Announced: Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, Govdirectory: https://www.fsf.org/news/2024-free-software-awards-winners

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"Use Cloudfare, it makes your site more resilient"

Guess what happens when Cloudfare goes down?

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Valve announced a Steam Machine home console/pc running SteamOS that can achieve 4k 60 fps in most games (using FSR of course). It comes in a small form factor (not upgradeable).
No info about the price yet. What do you think?

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Evolution of Linux Distros from 2018 to September 2025 (gaming context). How Things Have Changed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtph3HbN5X4

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Gaming on the Framework Desktop: Impressive! (Fedora 42, Steam, Proton) - Full Recap with Multiple Games Tested: https://boilingsteam.com/gaming-on-the-framework-desktop/

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Framework is having a livestream about their new Framework 16 design, right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIginPllRjc

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They just mentioned that the new Nvidia module works very well on Linux for the new Framework 16. They will be publishing guides on how to set things up.

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25 Mins of Cyberpunk 2077 running in High Details preset (Full HD) at around 100 FPS (FSR off) on the Framework Desktop. Pretty impressive for integrated graphics! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpYopsOudiw

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CachyOS is Making Leaps in the Distro ranking used for Gaming, and Ubuntu is sinking (Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_r9eiOUWJg

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Linux Distros for Gaming: CachyOS Takes Over according to ProtonDB (and Ubuntu goes down the drain): https://boilingsteam.com/distro-for-gaming-cachy-os-takes-over/

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Reason 10 To Choose Linux 😍

Linux 🐧 is more private, by default

Own and control your data!

Your operating system won't record your key strokes or dictation, collect lists of devices and their Wi-Fi details, or webcams, printers and anything else plugged in and then send that back to Big Tech HQ.

It's possible to avoid data collection altogether, from the start.

With YOU decide how to share YOUR data.

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@Endof10 not if you use a web browser...

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@nanianmichaels @Endof10 I am aware but at the same time I dont know any Linux user who does not use web browsers and they leak much more private data than your OS

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@nanianmichaels @Endof10
I mean, don't lie to your potential users by pretending a new OS is a miracle solution for your privacy, when it's obviously not if you do anything online.

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If you're still on X11, I want to know why, I don't want theoretical things you could do but don't actually care about. But the actual real reasons that X11 is keeping you on it.

Why are you still an X11 user in 2025?

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@BrodieOnLinux There are many good reasons to still use X - it's way more flexible and ultimately a protocol that is much more simple than Wayland, and works across the network if you need it. Wayland's relationship with compositors is way more complex (and messy) at the end of the day

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@BrodieOnLinux @w Netsurf had a release end of 2023 last. Are you saying it's not OK to use it? https://www.netsurf-browser.org/downloads/gtk/

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I often see people take "don't break userspace" at face value, in the same way I see "UNIX philosophy", it might be time to actually explain what this was supposed to mean

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@BrodieOnLinux It's not that complicated. Ensure that the kernel has stable APIs, interfaces, and system calls that behave the same way over time so that your applications on user space don't break after a kernel update

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@BrodieOnLinux maybe I missed something. Who is talking about it when the kernel is not concerned?

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Fedora Linux Just Terrified Linux Gamers https://youtu.be/3VRKdMYBQPY

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@BrodieOnLinux the small minority of Linux gamers that use Fedora. FTFY

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What distros can you run on Microsoft Azure? RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE, and even their own distro, Azure Linux (which by the way uses bits of Fedora).

Microsoft working more closely with the Fedora Project will improve their service for your organization's Linux needs.

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@fedora LOL you guys are now advertising for Microsoft? I hope you get money for that

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Valve's Steam Deck updates to Plasma 6.2.5!

The games console has a slow update cycle to guarantee stability for users, but announced yesterday that both the base system and the desktop environment are being updated to new preview releases.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/529841158837240756

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@kde kde@lemmy.kde.social icon KDE
you guys forgot that the Steam Deck has a bezel before making your image edit

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Oops, I had a bunch of old Electron versions installed breaking my Arch update, luckily they're just hold overs that never got uninstalled. Not sure how those never got cleared out, nothing depended on them

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@BrodieOnLinux balena-etcher depends on a outdated one, at least until recently.

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I'll be doing a video on the Rust linux stuff, but the short story is Linus needs to put his foot down and decide what's happening with Rust, the way things are going can't be allowed to keep happening.

Either say you changed your mind Rust is not happening and tell the Rust fans to piss off and shut up about it, or tell the people trying hard to stop Rust to grow up and learn to work as a community. Sitting around watching these fights happen over and over again is a waste of everyone's time.

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@BrodieOnLinux there's always the obvious option to fork instead of bitching all day long. but that's a lot more work than bitching on social networks

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The state of Linux on mobile, I have one of the devs remoting into my phone because there's some issues with my carrier

EDIT: To be fair it is an actual issue with my carrier but it is funny to be sitting here with the devs in a Telegram chat whilst they do this

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@BrodieOnLinux its cool that it's possible to remote into your phone in the first place..

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That's an impressive game crash, I swap TTY and the game cursor is still visible

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@BrodieOnLinux framebuffer ouput

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People who scream at people using bluesky on here are just pushing more people off fedi completely and onto bluesky exclusively

So maybe stop that shit

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@eniko People want so bad to go back to centralized network again? Amnesia is pretty fast these days