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November marked 7 months of Linux rising on Steam & 5 months above 1%

By Liam Dawe, 2 Dec 2021

I think we can now firmly say that we are the 1%? Another month is down as so the latest Steam Hardware Survey numbers are out and it continues being very positive for Linux gaming.

PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 shows off big game fixes

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2021

RPCS3 continues advancing to truly nail-down the experience of playing classic PlayStation 3 games emulated on modern platforms and a fresh video shows lots of fun.

Collabora announced Venus, 3D accelerated Vulkan in QEMU

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2021

Well this is quite exciting. Collabora, the open source consulting firm that often works with Valve, has announced the experimental Venus driver for 3D acceleration of Vulkan applications in QEMU.

Your monthly catch-up post is here for November 2021

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2021

Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for November 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news.

As GOG struggles, Steam hit a new high of 27M people online

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2021

Recently we had news that DRM-free store GOG has been struggling with losses, and here's Steam continuing to just smash through previous records.

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KDE developer suggests Plasma needs to be simpler by default

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2021

KDE developer Nate Graham, the same person who recently said they may become the "Windows or Android" of the FOSS world is back again with more thoughts - this time about keeping it simple.

GOverlay for editing MangoHud gets a new Steam Deck friendly UI

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2021

GOverlay is an application that helps to manage Linux gaming tools like the MangoHud performance overlay, the Vulkan post-processing layer vkBasalt and the video capture tool ReplaySorcery.

GOG to go through some reorganization after suffering losses

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2021

While Steam continues to do well with it being the most popular games store, it seems CD PROJEKT Group's store GOG is really starting to struggle.

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Valve puts up official developer FAQ for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2021

With the Steamworks Virtual Conference: Steam Deck over now, Valve has put up their own official set of answers to various common questions.

Canonical want your feedback on Ubuntu Gaming

By Liam Dawe, 26 Nov 2021

Looks like Canonical, the creator of Ubuntu, want to get in on more Linux Gaming with their Desktop Product Manager starting a new series of blog posts and your feedback is needed.

Creator Day is live on itch.io giving 100% to developers

By Liam Dawe, 26 Nov 2021

The anti-Black Friday event is live once again on the itch.io store, where developers get 100% of purchases as itch forgoes its cut for a day.

Godot Engine gets AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution

By Liam Dawe, 25 Nov 2021

The free and open source Godot Engine recently had support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution merged into the code, ready for the next big release.

Humble puts up the Best of Sandbox bundle with some good picks

By Liam Dawe, 25 Nov 2021

They might not actually be the "best" but still pretty good. The Humble Best of Sandbox Bundle is live now.

Steam Play Proton 6.3-8 out with initial BattlEye support, CEG DRM and more games

By Liam Dawe, 25 Nov 2021

Probably one of the more exciting releases of Proton lately, with lots of what was previously in Proton Experimental now in the main release with Proton 6.3-8 out now.

Steam Autumn Sale 2021 is live now

By Liam Dawe, 24 Nov 2021

It's that time of the year again. It's getting cold outside, dark and so you should keep warm with some new games. The Steam Autumn Sale 2021 is up.

Two years on, Stadia seems to have no direction left

By Liam Dawe, 22 Nov 2021

What initially seemed like a really promising idea, to give you gaming on any device and wherever you are has turned into something of a let-down overall.

The Humble Choose Wisely Bundle has some adventure treats

By Liam Dawe, 22 Nov 2021

Ready for your next adventure? Looks like Humble Bundle has a reasonably nice set of games available in the Choose Wisely Bundle live now.

Steam Client update adds CEG DRM support for Proton, VA-API hardware encoding

By Liam Dawe, 22 Nov 2021

Valve have released the latest big update to the Steam client, after a good while of Beta versions bringing with it some major new features - especially on the Linux side.

KDE Discover gets update to prevent you breaking your Linux system

By Liam Dawe, 20 Nov 2021

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I must say, I appreciate the attention to make things not only simpler but less breakable lately. First we had APT being patched to stop users removing essential packages, now the KDE Discover software manager gets a similar upgrade.