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Maui Shell seems like a very interesting KDE graphical environment

By Liam Dawe,
In the mood to try a new desktop shell? Well, the folks behind Nitrux have formally announced Maui Shell and it sure does look pretty.

A look at the top 100 Steam games on Linux - January 2022 edition

By Liam Dawe,
To begin 2022, let's take a fresh look at the current top 100 Steam games and see how well (or not) the run on Linux.

Steam hit a new all-time user count close to 28M to start 2022

By Liam Dawe,
It seems there continues to be no stopping Steam's growth, with it only just recently hitting a brand new all-time high for concurrent users online.

Keyboard and mouse mapping to gamepad tool AntiMicroX v3.2.1 out now

By Liam Dawe,
AntiMicroX is a great open source app that helps you map your keyboard and mouse to gamepad inputs. It's the continuation of the original AntiMicro project, which was abandoned.

Classic open source platformer SuperTux is coming to Steam

By Liam Dawe,
One we don't cover or hear about too often is SuperTux, a free and open source platformer that's been around for some time now and it's getting a Steam release.

Trouble in Solus Linux land as their Experience Lead quits

By Liam Dawe,
Joshua Strobl, who was Experience Lead for the Solus Linux distribution, has officially quit but work on the Budgie desktop environment continues.

Not Actually A DOS Game looks like a retro delight

By Liam Dawe,
Do you love retro games (or just retro-styled) and you're a fan of dungeon crawling? Check out the recent release of Not Actually A DOS Game for your latest fix.

GOG have one last free game during their sale with Iratus: Lord of the Dead

By Liam Dawe,
While the GOG Winter Sale shall be ending soon, they have one last freebie for you with the rather good turn-based tactical roguelike RPG Iratus: Lord of the Dead.

OpenRGB gets greatly expanded hardware support in the 0.7 release

By Liam Dawe,
Controlling all your fancy RGB lighting on Linux can sometimes be a hassle but OpenRGB thankfully can reduce that pain and a new release is out now with OpenRGB 0.7.

Heroic Games Launcher 2.0.0 brings a much improved login system for Epic Games

By Liam Dawe,
Ending 2021 with quite the bang, the unofficial Epic Games Store app Heroic Games Launcher put up a big new release improving lots of features.

Canonical hiring a Desktop Gaming Product Manager for Ubuntu Linux

By Liam Dawe,
It seems Canonical, creator of Ubuntu, is finally looking to get serious and improve Ubuntu gaming with a new Desktop Gaming Product Manager job waiting to pull someone in.

OBS Studio 27.2 enters Beta with official Flatpak support

By Liam Dawe,
Ready for 2022, the OBS team is preparing a major new release of the free and open source livestreaming and recording software OBS Studio.

Steam ended 2021 with a slightly lower Linux user share ending the recent growth

By Liam Dawe,
After 7 months of seeing the Linux user share on Steam continue to grow, December saw 2021 end with it dropping slightly.

Orontes Games creator of DRAG gets acquired by iRacing

By Liam Dawe,
Seems DRAG from Orontes Games has been noticed as something special as iRacing has acquired the team.

Reminder: Update your PC info for the next round of statistics updates

By gamingonlinux,
This is your once a month reminder to make sure your PC information is correct on your user profiles. A fresh batch of statistics is generated on the 1st of each month.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from GamingOnLinux

By Liam Dawe,
It's that time of the year again. 2021 is nearly over after what feels like the longest year ever so let's all hope for a better 2022 shall we?

Get I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream free on GOG for 48 hours

By Liam Dawe,
During the GOG Winter Sale they have another game giveaway and so you can grab the classic I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream for free right now.

Skullgirls: Umbrella gets an Early Access release with the story mode

By Liam Dawe,
One of the best fighting games on PC is expanding again, with the latest character getting a full DLC that's in Early Access right now with Skullgirls: Umbrella.

Play some socially-distanced tabletop games with a new FoundryVTT release

By Liam Dawe,
FoundryVTT version 9 has been released, further improving many big parts of this excellent cross-platform virtual tabletop experience and it's looking awesome.

The classic Naev, a free and open source space sim version 0.9 released

By Liam Dawe,
Time to explore space once again? Naev is an absolute classic. It's free, open source and it continues to mature with some more modern features available in the new 0.9 release.