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  • 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

  • Stellantis Can’t Get Rid Of 2024 Dodges, And It’s Not The Only One With Leftovers | Carscoops

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  • Everyone I know that drives a new Dodge is like age 50+. Younger generations where reliability and cheap parts is where it's at doesn't bode well for the poor reputation the cars have online

  • 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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  • Don't know. I guess. I'm just talking opening up Flathub and seeing anything I can buy. Haven't noticed premium cost applications in Flathub yet

  • 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

  • Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution

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  • Cheap 90s era induction stoves in apartments that are still kicking give induction a bad name. New ones are the closest thing you can get to temperature control and speed of a full burner stove. My ideal would be an induction stove with one zone rounded for a round bottom wok. For a home kitchen, it's the best choice because you're not going to get the amazing jet burner stoves you get in commercial kitchens

  • 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

  • Pixel 10 finally gets its long-promised GPU driver upgrade, but the real test starts now

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  • I'm seeing people online talking about how Genshin Impact has sucked on the Pixel 10 all these months. That's insane. 5 year old game that's incredibly popular. I don't get how Google can be so comfortable being so mediocre as a vertical integrator. Apples transition to internal CPU and later GPU went way smoother than Googles. Apple going from powerpc to x86 and then x86 to arm felt like they both had less growing pains then when google stayed in ARM but started using their in house Tensor chips with mali graphics and now powervr

  • League Of Legends 2 is Real and It’s Reportedly Coming in 2027

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  • I would bet it being like CSGO to CS2 or the DOTA 2 Source 2 update. Better to keep your player base in the same game through a major update rather than split the fanbase between games like how the counter strike community split between CS1.6 and Source for a good decade until mostly converging into CSGO

  • Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up?

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  • Picked up Eastern Exorcist. Got it for free for Android from epic but no gamepad support. So now I buy the Steam version for gamepad support. Solid game

  • Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases

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  • I do buy new games even full price on rare occasion. Regardless of that, there's nothing new games do much better than old games besides graphics and that mattering declined hard once league of legends, counter strike, fortnite, minecraft, roblox, etc became people's childhood to their ongoing adulthood games. I've met people that haven't spent a dime on genshin impact while having played for 5 years

    No one is missing out on the best 2025 games if they're playing the best games of 2015. Time is finite and if it's filled with good, what difference does it make if it's new or old. You're not missing out if you're playing the best games of 2000-2014 in 2025.

    I follow emulation on Android communities and people love playing the greatest hits of the PS2, Gamecube, DS, 3DS, PSP, Vita and it seems to mostly be teenagers. And now we're getting good PC emulation support and PS3 and X360 support is progressing. Switch on Android emulation is pretty good now. Android, Steam Machine, Steam Deck, Steam Frame, Legion Go, Rog Ally, GPD Win, Ayaneo. Even Switch 2. The relatively low power gaming scene is growing and that bodes well for "classic/retro/oldies" gaming.

    It's been 12 years since the PS4 launched. Early PS4 games don't play much different than 2025 games. The classics oldie radio station of games are soon going to be very modern. 2007 Bioshock era games are already very modern and look pretty good too

  • Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up?

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  • Darksiders bundle and Halo Master Chief Collection.

    Sifu. Not that old but cheap enough

  • Steam winter sale is now live

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  • After 16 years of sales, my library is filled to the brim with almost everything that goes 75%+ off that I would want. It's like 3 games a year now that I don't already have finally hitting the impulse buy range for me. Outside of that, fanatical and humble bundles round out my let's buy a game id never otherwise buy and try

  • Lenovo is reportedly planning to release a SteamOS variant of the Legion Go 2 at CES 2026

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  • Was Source ever simply a public download available for developers to use? Same with Source 2? Available to download with licensing terms/revenue share details available for everyone. API documentation. Doesn't seem like they ever made Source or Source 2 readily available to be competitive with unreal engine or unity

  • Epic fails to compete with Steam because “EGS is a shop, Steam is a community”, says Witchfire lead, as Epic has “nothing to do but to buy”

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  • It's a moving target. Everything I care about video game stores now I did not care when it was new. Steam itself in 2003, need it to update to latest counter strike. By 2014 years later, I'm done managing updates for individual games by looking on websites online for downlads. I want a store client like Steam to handle that. Didn't care for the first half of Steams life. I was still buying physical PC games when I could up to 2014. That's why I said 2014

    Didn't care about linux Steam because it sucked until Proton. Since Proton I care. Didn't care about big picture mode because steam machines bombed the first time and I didn't use remote play. Now I use remote play and regularly use big picture mode because I buy big phones with OLEDs and remote play is great now because of that. Phones are why I care about 21:9 support as much as I do now.

    Didn't care about Steam Input because I was kb/m all day type of person. I play with gamepads more now. Steam Input is major. Indie games were less common in 2008 and a lot less complex than they are today. Easy to get the good ones because everyone talked about them. Now most good indie games have no reviews on open/metacritic. Steam reviews and curators point me to the majority of my purchased indie games. Also even the studio/publisher pages that Steam has now showing what they have released. That's the other way I find games. Steam has brand pages for a while now. I actually use those like here for koei tecmo

    https://store.steampowered.com/developer/KOEITECMO

    Or smaller game XD. Played Icey and ended up trying a couple games under them through the publisher Steam page

    https://store.steampowered.com/developer/XD

    Library organization. Did not care about the collections feature until this year. Same with the user submitted store page tags. The collections feature can create from those tags and I make custom collections too to organize my big library. I just recently learned you can drag and drop rather than right click add to collection.

    Sounds simple but it sucks on pretty much every PC store platform software besides steam. Managing multiple drives. Moving game folders between drives and the store client handling it well

    numerous other things that come in handy from time to time. Like user created guides. SteamOS is more featureful than the OS's on a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series before even exiting out to the desktop mode. Remember Mixer on Xbox. Steam has broadcasts and has had it for a long time now and it's never been popular but they never killed it and now I occasionally use it to check out how a new game looks. MS would have killed broadcasts like they killed Mixer when it didn't become a mega hit. Steam keeps it's niche features ongoing and generally improves over time even if at a snails pace. MS and other companies, they just kill the feature

    Latest thing that is just as much Valve as it is community. PC gaming on Android. Valve initiated funding for Fex emu and it's paying dividends now that you can run a lot of Steam games on Android now. Same with recent versions of Proton/Wine that now have ARM builds for them. Major boon to Android PC game emulation. Eventually going to be a major plus for Steam in user friendliness compared to the storefronts not putting resources towards easy x86 to ARM translation support

  • Consumer Reports says the 3 most reliable car brands in North America are Toyota, Subaru and Lexus

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  • Honda at 4. I've always just used Honda and Toyotas. At this point I'm too familiar with junkyards selling Honda and Toyota parts to switch

  • Todd Howard says 'Fallout 5 will be existing in a world where the stories and events of the show happened or are happening'

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  • TV show isn't on any different trajectory than Fallout has been since Fallout 2. Ya it's still a big jump in goofiness from 2 to Bethesda 3. But fallout 4 to TV show, that's not huge leap into over reliance on 50s commercial aesthetic and goofiness and snark. I'd be more worried about elder scrolls 6. Skyrim didn't dump out weird lore like oblivion which also had less weird lore than morrowind. Still solid though. Post Fallout 4, 76, Starfield, Fallout TV - I can see the next elder scrolls being a big up in goofiness for entertainment over weird lore that's entertaining. Like lots of "until I took an arrow to the knee" attempts at meme-able characters

  • Wild Terra 2: New Lands Limited Free Promotional Package

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  • If it had gamepad support I'd be all over it. It runs well on Android through gamehub but no gamepad support makes it a no-go for me

  • Nvidia reportedly plans 30-40% cut in GeForce GPU production in early 2026

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  • I bought an RX 9070 since I'm expecting bad for PC parts (consoles too) for the next year and a half at least