Weekly News Recap (Kernel 6.2, CryoUtilities 2.0, Ubuntu Drops Flatpak)

Steam Deck⌗
- Wednesday’s beta client update gets a fix for LAN transfer
- Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe works great
- Decky Recorder now available in the Decky Loader store
- you can upgrade the SSD for $60
Software Updates⌗
- Kernel 6.2 adds official DS4 support, faster Btrfs, and tons of other features/improvements
- CryoUtilities 2.0 gets new interface, support for more performance-boosting options, get re-written in Go
- Bottles 51 gets lots of bug fixes
- Mesa 23 adds OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.3 support
Other⌗
- beginning with Ubuntu 23.04, OOTB Flatpak support will be removed
- Totally Accurate Battlegrounds gets new anti-cheat; supposedly it now works with Proton/Steam Deck
- GNOME and KDE to “promote diversity and sustainability” by adding payment options to Flathub
- think the GNOME devs are toxic and have horrible coding practices? You’re not the only one who feels that way
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