Brodie Robertson | Linux Tips & Tricks on Odysee

Valve has just announced 3 new pieces of hardware, a new version of the Steam Machine, a new Steam Controller and a new VR headset to replace the now quite aging Valve Index called Steam Frame.

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Steam Hardware Page: https://store.steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Controller: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller
Steam Machine: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
Steam Frame: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe

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#Linux #SteamDeck #OpenSource #FOSS #LinuxGaming #GamingOnLinux

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GTK2 went EOL back in 2020 and finally in Arch Linux it is being cleaned up and moved down to the AUR

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Announcement: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2BDHYLEFSYQBDTMUOZT5J6AFTA5M3FO6/
Hexchat: https://hexchat.github.io/
Artix Post: https://artixlinux.org/news.php#GTK2_status_in_Artix
Artix Forum: https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,8864.new.html
Calf Issue: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/calf/-/issues/3

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Today I wanted to talk about why I cover the projects that I do, why I talk about so many FOSS repos, why I talk about projects like Wayland as much as I do.

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KDE Linux has been around for a while now and recently Nate Graham released an article on why the distro is using an immutable system and doesn't have a package manager.

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Wesbite: https://kde.org/linux/
Blog Post: https://pointieststick.com/2025/10/25/kde-linux-deep-dive-package-management-is-amazing-which-is-why-we-dont-include-it/

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After multiple years the ability for apps to position there own windows is still being debated in Wayland protocols and it got temporarily derailed after this went south once again.

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Kwin Zones: https://invent.kde.org/automotive/kwin-zones
Fedora Package: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-e6b4381621
Wayland Protocol: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/264

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If we think long into the future, 10 years from now what Linux distros do you think are still going to be important and relevant.

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It's been a long time to get here but we're now almost at the release of both the stable version of the COSMIC desktop and the next version of PopOS.

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Phoronix Post: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Pop-OS-24.04-Beta-COSMIC-Beta
Cosmic Epoch Repo: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/tags
Cosmic Package: https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/cosmic/
Carl Richell Post: https://x.com/carlrichell/status/1983529491524976807

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Recently there were these reports of 90% of Windows games working on Linux and that's true to an extent but the ports don't show the full picture.

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Steam 3% Linux: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-gamers-on-steam-finally-cross-over-the-3-mark/
Boiling Steam Article: https://boilingsteam.com/windows-games-compatibility-on-linux-is-at-a-all-time-high/
ProtonDB: https://www.protondb.com/dashboard

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You may have heard about Debian forcing the introduction of Rust into the apt package manager and you have heard about how bad this was going to be, and they're are problems but it's not as bad as you've heard

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Debian SupportedArchitectures: https://wiki.debian.org/SupportedArchitectures
Debian Ports: https://www.debian.org/ports/
Debian Announcement: https://lists.debian.org/deity/2025/10/msg00071.html
LWN Post: https://lwn.net/Articles/1044496/
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There's a programming with a lot of programming themes, a lot of theme try to blind you with Christmas lights and completely miss the point of what syntax highlighting should be doing but it doesn't have to be like this.

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Syntax Highlighting: https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/

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