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
Lenovo might soon announce a SteamOS handheld
Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat
Halo for PC Uses Ogg Vorbis!
Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now
£4 more (plus a keyboard) for a LOT more performance
New era of slop security reports for open source
Xfce 4.20 released
Longtime Xfce users will love it. Folks on the outside looking in won’t see any reason to switch
The new release certainly had a ton of work, but it won’t drum a lot of conversation or interest
KDE Korner
I think the donation notification works
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