Late Night Linux – Episode 312

SteamOS is probably going to ship on 3rd party hardware, there’s a remote chance that games with anti-cheat will work better on Linux, new Raspberry Pi hardware divides opinion among us, AI security reports burden FOSS developers, Xfce gets a bit closer to a Wayland future, KDE Plasma’s donation notification really worked, and more.

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Valve’s master plan for Steam Machines is finally coming into focus (theverge.com/2024/12/6/24315098/valve-steam-ma…)

Lenovo might soon announce a SteamOS handheld (theverge.com/2024/12/13/24320477/lenovo-legion…)

Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat (notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-paves-the-way-for-…)

Halo for PC Uses Ogg Vorbis! (postneo.com/2003/10/14/halo-for-pc-uses-ogg-vo…)

Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now (raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-500-and-rasp…)

£4 more (plus a keyboard) (amazon.co.uk/PC-Desktop-Computer-512GB-Support…) for a LOT more performance (cpubenchmark.net/compare/6054vs5157/BCM2712-vs…)

New era of slop security reports for open source (sethmlarson.dev/slop-security-reports)

Xfce 4.20 released (alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_14.html)

Longtime Xfce users will love it. Folks on the outside looking in won’t see any reason to switch (floss.social/@bluesabre/113656738888559882)

The new release certainly had a ton of work, but it won’t drum a lot of conversation or interest (floss.social/@bluesabre/113656791651351666)

KDE Korner

I think the donation notification works (pointieststick.com/2024/12/02/i-think-the-dona…)

This Week in KDE Apps: Gear 24.12.0 incoming (blogs.kde.org/2024/12/08/this-week-in-kde-apps…)This Week in Plasma: Oodles of features! (blogs.kde.org/2024/12/07/this-week-in-plasma-o…) & Better fractional scaling (blogs.kde.org/2024/12/14/this-week-in-plasma-b…)

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