295
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2026
295 points (91.1% liked)
Linux Gaming
28026 readers
63 users here now
Discussions and news about gaming on the GNU/Linux family of operating systems (including the Steam Deck). Potentially a $HOME away from home for disgruntled /r/linux_gaming denizens of the redditarian demesne.
This page can be subscribed to via RSS.
Original /r/linux_gaming pengwing by uoou.
No memes/shitposts/low-effort posts, please.
That includes posts generated by LLMs. It doesn’t matter if you “don’t have the time” or “would’ve written the same anyway”, or if “everyone’s doing it geez get with the times”.
For now it’ll also include “AI”-assisted projects that haven't had at least two months of (public, verifiable) dev time behind them.
Resources
Help:
- ProtonDB
- Are We Anticheat Yet?
- r/linux_gaming FAQ
- Fork of an earlier version of the above
- PCGamingWiki
- LibreGameWiki
Launchers/Game Library Managers:
General:
Discord:
IRC:
Matrix:
Telegram:
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Oh my god. Push to talk.
:o
Holy fuck.
Linux didn't have the most basic voice chat function up to now???? :O
They STILL don't???
What the actual
Checks original release date for ventrilo
It was an issue with Wayland. Before that we had X11, where global shortcuts wasn't an issue.
They were an issue because it was the wild West and any app could keylog any other app and respond to anything. Now we actually have UX around this.
Apple phones used to have headphone jacks, removable batteries, and expandable memory.
How is this relevant to our discussion?
They lost everything, you lost the shortcuts to everything
We didn't lost shortcuts to everything. It's only about global shortcuts, all other still work. And given the Wayland global shortcuts are now functional and officially supported, its not the same situation anymore. The difference to iPhones is, that you cannot do anything about it on iPhone. On Wayland however desktops environments such as KDE, GNOME and Hyperland could implement a custom variant (or the draft version of the portal) and have it functional; it was just not a standard.
So no, the situation is not entirely comparable. We are not at mercy by one single company.
Ahhh, blame it on Wayland. I see how it is.
You know that the Wayland portal for global shortcuts took 10 years discussions before they finally settled in, right? Off course it is to blame the Wayland devs (those responsible for this portal), not Discord.
Portals are dbus actually. a different IPC mechanism.
HOLY FUCK
This person on the internet gives a shit! Going back to your webshit browser only adds .25 seconds on tiling and .5 on floating. So much time to do useful stuff, like playing your games with strangers on the interwebs!
Also
WHO the actual FUCK submitted voice chat to the Linux mailing list? Was it some
@redhat.comguy again? Or was it some LLM owned by Broadcom? Torvalds accepts anything at this point, he got the AI psychosis. Oh, you are talking about Discord, and specifically the .deb files from their website people fuck with to run, only to have another copy of Chromium? Holy fucking shit.