Category: Misc

Are those some spots I see in the mirror? Must be the teens. GamingOnLinux, the website, is another year older today and I'm still blown away by what we've achieved together. 15 years! I can hardly believe it.

For the GOG fans amongst the GamingOnLinux readership, there's another big DRM-free release available with METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE. Plus, another giveaway.

The team behind the free and open source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin have announced a big change to their plans, along with a new much more rapid release schedule.

Good news KINGDOM HEARTS fans. All of the titles currently available on Steam have now been tested by Valve and given the fancy green Steam Deck Verified tick.

Bazzite, the popular version of Linux powered by Fedora and Universal Blue that's great for handhelds including the Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go and others needs a little manual user effort after a bit of human error.

I wrote about the brand new Nexus mods app before, as it's quite a promising and exciting development for the future of modding (especially for Linux and Steam Deck). And now, they want your feedback.

Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' has a first Beta release available for testing, built on top of Ubuntu 24.04 it will be supported until 2029.

While other vendors continually push out new handheld pc models, sticking similar internals into different shell designs and gradually bumping up RAM or the Processor, the Steam Deck just keeps selling like hot tasty cakes.

With the release of the ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, it has of course ensured ELDEN RING the top spot in the top Steam Deck games of June 2024.

While there's been a clear drop, the Linux user share on Steam for June 2024 still remains about 2% showing the clear upwards trend overall.

NVIDIA released a tiny driver update today with version 555.58.02 that some KDE Plasma users may want to have a look at.

If you're dealing with Linux servers, or you have an active OpenSSH Server on your desktop, you may want to look into regreSSHion.

Supporting Doctors Without Borders, Games Done Quick is back and so is the Summer Games Done Quick Humble Bundle.

Bazzite is one of the best options to get Linux on various gaming handhelds, and the 3.5.0 release is out now that has improvements pretty much everywhere with expanded hardware support.

With the original Resident Evil now on GOG and the later games to come, GE-Proton / Proton-GE has a new release out to fix some issues in it and other games.

Valve released a fresh update to Proton Experimental for June 28th, bringing their usual assortment of game fixes for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.

Wine 9.12 has landed bringing the latest development work into a new release for the Windows compatibility layer, part of what makes up Steam Play Proton.

Block Coding tools are pretty popular like Scratch, where you do visual scripting using blocks instead of typing out code and now Godot Engine has an impressive looking version of this with Block Coding from Endless.

For Steam Deck users if you've had issues updating on Preview / Beta, this one is for you. There's also a few general fixes for all Steam users.

You have to hand it to PlayStation Publishing and their development partners like Nixxes Software and Jetpack Interactive for their impressive ongoing support of PC releases with AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3.1 (FSR 3.1) now added to multiple games.