Microsoft trained people into believing that updates are dangerous.

Such an advice can only come from a Windows user…

I use GIMP since 2.8 version, which is ages ago. Used it to edit my photography, to create price tags for my local shop, create web banners, memes… lot of memes, editing pixel graphics, and more.

To be honest it was not a good experience editing photography, especially as it didn’t have some standard features like layer effects. And the missing standard features like shape tools and such is also a big deal for me. Also for printing the price tags the color space was a problem too, as it didn’t support CMYK. I also wish there was a simple “record and playback macros” functionality, which I saw in Photoshop years ago.

All in all these points and many other are addressed or are being addressed right now. GIMP is still not as good as Photoshop and there are pain points. But it is improving and already has improved ton of a lot.

I have several hundred hours in Paladins. The game has some unique features, but it suffers from some issues it had. Someday it stopped working on Linux. Also the developers stopped updating and working on the game, as far as I know, so it’s effectively dead.

I noticed, that’s why I gave some examples to what “I” understand under that term. Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll open a tab and look at Deeprock Galactic. I know the name of the game, but never looked how it functions.

The tags explains it a lot. I do not agree with the users or developers giving this tag to those “random” games. Most of these are not Hero Shooters in my book.

Every one of those work on Linux, I’m literally in comp queue in Rivals right now.

Me too. I type while waiting for matches. These games were just mentioned as an example what I understand as Hero Shooter. And we don’t have many to choose from. I didn’t say they don’t work, i played each of them for hundreds and thousands of hours.

Wait what? Those are totally randomly picked games, that do not meet the criteria of being Hero Shooter. And you even eliminated one that has at least hero shooter elements to it, Apex Legends. I do not think that Gears 5, Titanfall 2 or Quake counts as Hero Shooters, at least not what I am envisioning. Also Call of Duty??? Really?

Edit: Maybe I should be more specific, as the term Hero Shooter seems to be understood too broadly. What I understand under this term is Team Fortress 2, Overwatch and Marvel Rivals. Deadlock is an hybrid and that is okay too. I also like Apex Legends, even if its main gameplay loop is not. With these constraints, I don’t have many to choose from, that also play on Linux.

Yes, I know I am in the minority. Hero Shooters and anything going in this direction are my favorite online multiplayer games. And we don’t have too many to choose from, at least stuff that is also playable on Linux. Therefore I am always open to any new game that goes into this direction and want to see if its for me.

There it goes… one of the few new games I was interested into… this will surely not work on Linux (or Steam Deck) then.

I probably won’t buy any Nvidia card again too (but never say never). You never want to (yes I contradicted myself right after the previous sentence… sigh) have less competition. I hope Nvidia loses its market leader position and operates head to head with AMD and Intel. BTW this is a similar reasoning as to why I don’t want Xbox to go away from console market, regardless of what you or I think about the company.

I don’t know how to do a screenshot of the entire window that scrolls outside the view… i know skill issues. :D Well in Flatseal some relevant settings are X11 windowing system = ON, Wayland windowing system = OFF, Fallback to X11 windowing system = OFF. GPU acceleration = ON:

• xlsclients returns “freetube”
• With the enabled acceleration features using cmdline: “Media” activity is active (as soon as I play a video)
• Without the extra features: “Media” activity is 0%

Unfortunately if I enable Wayland (just reverse ON / OFF X11 and Wayland setting in Flatseal), the Media activity is unused. Following settings and results are…

X11 windowing system = OFF, Wayland windowing system = ON, Fallback to X11 windowing system = OFF. GPU acceleration = ON:

• xlsclients returns “” (empty)
• With the enabled acceleration features using cmdline: “Media” activity is 0%
• Without the extra features: “Media” activity is 0%

For whatever reason the arguments got additional quotation marks 'run --branch=stable' which messed up the command… deleting the quotation marks runs fine now. Weird… probably a bug from KDE when I tried to add the other options. Well thanks, now it runs with the original shortcut again. Thanks for the screenshot, helped me seeing the issue instantly.

I don’t know why, but the shortcut in the “Start” menu of KDE does not longer start FreeTube… Its Command-line arguments is 'run --branch=stable' --arch=x86_64 --command=/app/bin/run.sh --file-forwarding io.freetubeapp.FreeTube @@u %u @@ . I have uninstalled FreeTube, deleted the shortcut so it is created from scratch and still does not start. It only starts from either commandline with regular flatpak command, or when I create a new shortcut with the arguments run io.freetubeapp.FreeTube --enable features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs

I think I found it. Didn’t bother to look this up until your post and can confirm by default the “Media” is not utilized. Looking into a bug report about exactly that from Feb, 2025 (a year ago from now) https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/6786 the developer says a set of flags is needed to pass in and a user suggests following: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/6786#issuecomment-2832299878

flatpak run io.freetubeapp.FreeTube --enable-features=AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxZeroCopyGL,AcceleratedVideoDecodeLinuxGL,VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs

I can confirm this will use some “Media” activity. But comparing (unscientifically) the GPU and GFX in fdinfo, the utilization doesn’t seem too different. So overall I am not sure if that is actually hardware acceleration. Also make sure FreeTube has permission for “GPU acceleration” under “Device” set with Flatseal.

I’m not talking about the development, but specifically the reception of the first trailer.

Wow. That’s quite a small galaxy brain move. Well there is only one thing I can think of why they did it with Battlefield, so the player base is “forced” to play any newer version that is currently supported. In case of Anthem, it makes no sense to me, because there is no replacement. Usually companies go after games and services like these, if they offer an alternative to sell.

It would be so funny if EA shuts the mod down, of a game they stop selling and want to shut down. This would be peak AAA gaming company behavior in 2026.

And what do you think caused the stonks? The user reception was so bad that they had to pull it back and rework it. It is all about user reception.

I wish fans wouldn’t have reacted this negative in the first reveal of the Remake. I said it before, this will probably lead into cancelling the project and I was right. Even if the graphics didn’t look fantastical good, I would rather played that version over not playing it. I never played Sands of Time and was waiting for this Remake. I’m a bit sad this is the outcome, but was expected (at least by me)…

There are a lot of people abusing DMCA takedowns on YouTube, have you not heard about it before? Look up copyright trolls DMCA on YouTube if you want more info on it.

This is what I am actually asking. Does CD Projekt Red abuse the DMCA system here?