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.   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         ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX   Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.   1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/latenightlinux         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here