Late Night Linux – Episode 312

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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.

News

Send us your predictions for 2025

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

This Week in KDE Apps: Gear 24.12.0 incomingThis Week in Plasma: Oodles of features! & Better fractional scaling

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