Letter from the owner - our stance on generative AI Generative AI seems like it's everywhere now right? So here's a letter from the owner (me, hi!) formally setting out the GamingOnLinux stance on it.

Letter from the owner - our stance on generative AI
#AI #GenAI

Hah, the gall of Russell to accuse Ferrari of being selfish when his team are sitting pretty on a compression ratio advantage.

Absolutely infuriating.

You're the one acting like this. I'm just pointing it out. But let's block each other and move on, I reckon.

Thank fuck Windows and Mac users are all saints, eh? Just 2-3 billion people all looking out for each other, quietly suffering those obnoxious Linux dudes.

Haha, I've just commented on another thread that was bemoaning how shit the "Linux" community is! 😅

It really depends on the specific community, I think. Some are super-helpful and welcoming. Others... not so much!

I don't know what the "Linux" community is, and I've been using it for a long time.

Specifically though, the Ubuntu community was great. Mint, not terrible, but not brilliant. Arch... no. Debian, pretty fine.

But some of these communities expect a certain level of knowledge, which is frustrating.

Good luck! I dual-boot for several years before 2013. It's the safest way to find your feet!

CachyOS has a nice feature of defaulting to BTRFS during install, then integrating snapper snapshots into the boot menu. So if an update breaks your system, just reboot into a slightly earlier version.

But, like you, I'm nearly six months in and never had to use it yet. Don't even know if it works!

I've been using it exclusively since 2013 (when Steam launched for us), so I'm very biased about it. But there are still plenty of potholes to be filled, and still a few total barriers, like kernel-level anti-cheat in games, or Adobe, Ableton, or CSP.

It keeps getting better though, which is nice!

Curious why you say "unpredictable"? My experience is the opposite. It's very precisely designed and entirely predictable and stable (as in, repeatable behaviour and rarely crashes).

I wonder if I've been lucky these past two decades, or you've been unlucky!

I do stay on mainstream distros tho.

GitHub - TibixDev/winboat: Run Windows apps on 🐧 Linux with ✨ seamless integration Run Windows apps on 🐧 Linux with ✨ seamless integration - TibixDev/winboat

It's possible WinBoat does this? I haven't used it, but I think the idea is that it spins up an invisible VM and then presents you with the app's window.

github.com/TibixDev/win...

Got a lot of visibility and media coverage a couple of months back.

Maybe. But I don't think a music player is the same sticking point as a tool that you use for your living!!

Hopefully they've changed up the installer option that offers Grub, SystemD-Boot, rEFInd and Limine.

But if you choose anything other than Grub or Limine, you don't get the snapper integration. Urgh. Drop rEFInd and SystemD-boot, please.

wiki.cachyos.org/installation...

Great otherwise.

Right up there with Uh-buhn-too. Listen to Mandela, people. It's oo-boon-too! 😅

It's always either Ableton, Adobe or Clip Studio Paint that pushes folk back to Windows.

Perhaps one day we'll have native versions of those tools, but until then, your best option is to find alternatives.

Trying to force these tools through wine rarely works out well, sadly.

Valve Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Unauthorized Music Use on Steam - Delimiter Online The Performing Right Society (PRS) has initiated legal proceedings against Valve Corporation, the owner of the Steam digital distribution platform. The lawsuit alleges that Valve used musical works re...

Super confused by this. Valve is a hosting platform. Surely it's the publishers of each commodity on that platform to ensure the relevant licensing is in place?

delimiter.online/blog/valve-p...

And Royal Road, where a lot of these stories originate. Some are good for 10-12 books (e.g. Cradle or Divine Apostasy), while others are clearly never going to end. I run out of patience with the longer series, tbh.

I'm still hooked though...

I read He Who Fights With Monsters, then Dungeon Crawler Carl, then Cradle. Then five years had passed and all I'd read was around 40-50 LitRPG books a year.

I now find it difficult to read non-LitRPG books.

Here's a few more suggestions. You're... welcome??

www.scaine.net/site/2025/07...

Not cool. That's the kind of thing that drove me away from Windows!

Pretty sure Ubuntu is we/us.

Meanwhile I'm playing Slay the Spire 2 on my Linux desktop.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

i hate this stupid fucking system more than anything in the world. a system that benefits nobody, actively harms everybody, could be changed at literally any point in time, YET WE STILL KEEP DOING THIS MADNESS ANYWAY. YEAR AFTER YEAR WE DO THIS STUPID SONG AND DANCE FOR NO GOD DAMN REASON

Yeah, it's always audio tools (Ableton mainly) and either Adobe or Clip Studio Paint that sends folk back to Windows. Maybe those tools will support Linux some day.

Then, all Valve needs to do is address the kernel-level anti-cheat bullshit and the migration will be much smoother in general.

Yep. I was being kind! 😅

If they're playing games in Bottles, you know that they're running back to Windows before the day is out.

Some folk have the weirdest impression of what Linux can do, and what it probably shouldn't.

I guess my tech background skews my experience a fair bit.

The idea is that if the minor tries to access "bad" content, the O/S will know their age and prevent it.

Totally unworkable, tbh, but this is what happens when technical laws are created by non-technical conservative optimists.

Noita. And Skyrim (of course).

Dishonored is still a beautiful game and the gameplay really hasn't been surpassed when it comes to combining combat with stealth. And that level-design!