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The QuickLaunch plugin for the Steam Deck is a great time-saver

By Liam Dawe, 30 May 2022

With the Steam Deck you can install various third-party games and applications in desktop mode. However, it's a bit annoying adding them all to Steam and so the QuickLaunch plugin can save you some time.

Heroic Games Launcher gets more Steam Deck and Flatpak improvements

By Liam Dawe, 30 May 2022

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games and GOG on Linux and Steam Deck has a new update out, mostly focused on cleaning up some problems but also sprinkles in some new features like a command-line interface.

Get some classics working better on Steam Deck with Luxtorpeda upgrades

By Liam Dawe, 27 May 2022

Luxtorpeda is a Steam Play tool (like Proton) but for running various Native Linux games engines. A fresh update is out, further improving Steam Deck support.

ProtonUp-Qt adds support for Wine manager app Bottles

By Liam Dawe, 26 May 2022

ProtonUp-Qt, the fantastic tool to help you install various community builds of Wine and Proton like GE-Proton or Wine-GE on Linux and Steam Deck just added support for the Bottles application.

Developer of popular noise suppression tool NoiseTorch has dev machine compromised

By Liam Dawe, 19 May 2022

Are you a user of NoiseTorch? It's a popular way of getting some pretty great noise suppression on your microphone, to keep out all that background noise or a hammer hitting your desk. Sadly, the developer had a machine compromised.

Godot Engine 3.5 RC 1 is up with a new asynchronous shader compilation system

By Liam Dawe, 18 May 2022

Godot Engine 3.5 is getting close to release with a first Release Candidate available for developers to test the next version of this open source game engine.

Vector graphics editor Inkscape 1.2 is officially out now

By Liam Dawe, 17 May 2022

Inkscape is great for artists working on pretty much anything be it games, video or just for fun and a big new version has been released.

Heroic Games Launcher 2.3.1 adds themes, platform selection, auto update

By Liam Dawe, 16 May 2022

Heroic Games Launcher 2.3.1 is officially out now, bringing with it some big new features to help you manage games from Epic Games and GOG.

Steam Deck gets some quick fixes, main Steam Client update with Deck Verified Collections

By Liam Dawe, 13 May 2022

Valve have released a small update for the Steam Deck, along with an update to the main desktop Steam client.

XIVLauncher now on Linux, gets FINAL FANTASY XIV Online running on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2022

While the newer official launcher for FINAL FANTASY XIV Online is incredibly problematic with Steam Play Proton, a third-party launcher has recently come to Linux to help with that.

CurseForge modding client comes to Linux in Alpha, only supports WoW for now

By Liam Dawe, 11 May 2022

CurseForge, the popular game modding client, has now officially released an early Alpha version for Linux.

Manage your Linux PC remotely as KDE Connect lands on iPhone and iPad

By Liam Dawe, 10 May 2022

Do you have an iPad or an iPhone laying around or as one of your main devices? Now you can use them to interact with your Linux PC a little easier.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic & GOG gets themes, platform selection, favourites

By Liam Dawe, 9 May 2022

Heroic Games Launcher continues evolving to provide a way to manage your Epic Games and GOG libraries on Linux and other platforms with a fresh Beta release out now.

The deb-get tool helps Ubuntu (and derivative distro) fans grab extra apps

By Liam Dawe, 4 May 2022

While there's plenty of software available out of the box for Ubuntu (and all the derivatives), some developers only provide .deb downloads from their websites - that's where deb-get comes in.

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud has a new release

By Liam Dawe, 4 May 2022

MangoHud is something that Valve use on the Steam Deck, specifically for the performance HUD that shows various details like FPS, frame timing, temperatures and more. It just had a new release with plenty of changes.

Media center and entertainment hub Kodi adds Steam Deck controls support

By Liam Dawe, 4 May 2022

Kodi (originally XBMC), is a free and open source media center and entertainment hub, and the latest release up on Flathub adds in support for the Steam Deck controller.

Wine manager Bottles gets a UI refresh, developers now GNOME Foundation Members

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2022

Lots of news and excitement happening for Bottles, the free and open source application designed to help you manage various programs and games on Linux that need Wine.

Easy GE-Proton installer ProtonUp-Qt now shows Steam Deck compatibility

By Liam Dawe, 29 Apr 2022

ProtonUp-Qt is great. A very simple application that allows you to download extra compatibility layers for Linux desktops and the Steam Deck and now it's even better.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic and GOG on Linux and Steam Deck new Beta available

By Liam Dawe, 25 Apr 2022

The Heroic Games Launcher is a very simple to use free and open source app to manage and download your Epic Games Store and GOG collections on Linux and Steam Deck.