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The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released

By Liam Dawe, 28 Feb 2024

The KDE team announced "MegaRelease 6", a big upgrade that includes Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02 with tons of improvements to this popular desktop environment that's used on the Steam Deck for Desktop Mode.

Nintendo goes after Switch emulator yuzu in new lawsuit

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2024

Well, here we go. Nintendo have formally filed a lawsuit against the creators of the popular open source Switch emulator yuzu.

Valve release big stable Steam Client update for Steam / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2024

After a little while of many Beta releases, Valve has today launched the latest stable update to the Steam Client for Steam Deck and Desktop PCs.

PC and handheld gaming with Linux levels up with Bazzite v2.3.0

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2024

Bazzite version 2.3.0 has been released, and it should make installing it a whole lot easier across different devices from PCs to handhelds. The developers think it's the "next generation of Linux Gaming".

Steam Dinos vs. Robots Fest is live with more demos and discounts

By Liam Dawe, 27 Feb 2024

Dinosaurs and Robots, what more could you want? Valve has put up the Steam Dinos vs. Robots Fest which runs until March 4th with plenty more demos and game discounts.

Proton Experimental updated with Proton 9 - adds fixes for Helldivers 2 and more

By Liam Dawe, 26 Feb 2024

Now that the testing is open for Proton 9, Valve have now updated Proton Experimental to move over to Proton 9 along with a bunch of extra game fixes for Steam Deck / Linux.

We can probably say a final goodbye to Roblox on Linux with Wine soon

By Liam Dawe, 26 Feb 2024

After Roblox recently introduced Hyperion anti-tamper, there were some issues running it on Linux, but there's been workarounds and some of the Roblox staff made it to work on Linux with Wine again, but it seems not for much longer.

Wine 9.3 out now with Internet Proxy support improvements, New HID pointer device driver

By Liam Dawe, 24 Feb 2024

Wine 9.3 has landed as another early development release of the Windows compatibility layer on the road to Wine 10 next year. Here's the highlights of what's changed.

Proton 9.0 now in Beta with improved game compatibility for Steam Deck / Linux

By Liam Dawe, 24 Feb 2024

Valve announced that Proton 9.0 is now available for testing, with lots of game compatibility improvements for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux thanks to it now being based on the recent Wine 9.0 release.

Discord Overlay for Linux v0.7.0 should improve idling and on battery power

By Liam Dawe, 23 Feb 2024

Discover, not to be confused with the KDE Discover software store, is a Discord overlay for Linux and the first update in a while is out now with version 0.7.0.

Palworld has now sold over 15 million copies on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 23 Feb 2024

Palworld continues to be an insane success, as Pocketpair just revealed it has now seen over 25 million players for their Early Access game.

NVIDIA 550.54.14 driver released as stable

By Liam Dawe, 23 Feb 2024

NVIDIA today launched the 550.54.14 Linux driver as stable coming with a whole bunch of fixes and improvements, so here's all that's changed.

NVIDIA open source driver to use NVK + Zink for OpenGL on newer GPUs

By nwildner, 23 Feb 2024

A recent merge request on the Mesa Git repository added the initial support for allowing drivers to chose Zink as the translation layer for handling OpenGL.

Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app

By Liam Dawe, 23 Feb 2024

Not the first time this has happened, but recently the Snap store from Canonical hosted a scam bitcoin app that claimed to be "Exodus wallet" that caused a user to lose money.

Fanatical Bundle Fest launched with a new Steam Deck game bundle

By Liam Dawe, 23 Feb 2024

Fanatical has recently launched Bundle Fest again, where a new bundle has been launched each day and there's some good stuff you can grab for cheap like the latest Play on the Go Bundle with all Steam Deck Verified games.

Cross-platform development library SDL3 gets a Vulkan Renderer and camera API

By Liam Dawe, 23 Feb 2024

With development work ongoing for SDL3, some recent exciting improvements include a Vulkan Render backend and a camera API.

CrossOver 24 released with Wine 9.0 - plus CodeWeavers still hiring developers

By Liam Dawe, 22 Feb 2024

CodeWeavers have announced the release of CrossOver 24, their application for managing games and applications designed for Windows installed with Wine on Linux and macOS.

Slimbook reveal the AMD powered Excalibur laptop and KDE Plasma 6 Slimbook

By Liam Dawe, 22 Feb 2024

For all of you who keep asking for more AMD powered laptops, Slimbook have delivered with the brand new Excalibur which also has a KDE Slimbook counterpart.