Linux Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs now supports the new Valhall architecture
Good news for fan of Arm devices, as developer Alyssa Rosenzweig has announced that the Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs now supports the new Valhall architecture.
Category: Misc
iFixit have the Steam Deck Battery prices up but already sold out
Recently we had the official iFixit launch for Steam Deck replacement parts but one major bit was missing — the Battery. Now though, it seems the store pages for it are properly live and they're already out of stock.
Gamers Nexus have a fascinating look at the Steam Deck fan situation
For all the hype around the Steam Deck there is one major controversy with the fan. There's two fans being used, with one having a noticeably louder pitch than the other and now Gamers Nexus are attempting to find out why and how bad it is.
Diablo Immortal works on Steam Deck, plus a fix for Battle.net being slow
Since Diablo Immortal is the hot new thing, I decided to attempt to give it a go on Steam Deck. Turns out the Battle.net launcher really hates some connections, here's a fix and a Diablo Immortal video.
ScummVM 2.6 is incoming, devs asking for testing help of more retro games
ScummVM, the excellent open source software that bundles together multiple game engines has a new release coming and now it's time to help test.
Wine 7.10 rolls out with 56 bug fixes
Wine is the compatibility layer that allows you to run games and applications developed for Windows - on Linux (plus also macOS and BSD). A new biweekly development release is out now with Wine 7.10.
There's another big Queer Games Bundle live on itch.io for 2022
Want to support queer creators? Now is a good chance for you, while also grabbing a whole chunk of games too in the Queer Games Bundle 2022.
Steam Deck now lets you override display resolution for games
Have some games on Steam Deck that won't get the right resolution? Now you can force them into what you want.
Valve reveals the top 10 most played Steam Deck titles and they're all fully Verified
Valve just put up another of their round-up posts going over all the recent work on the Steam Deck, and they also revealed the current most popular titles.
System76 and HP bring the HP Dev One with Pop!_OS Linux
As we reported previously, The HP Dev One is a new laptop collaboration from System76 and HP that brings Pop!_OS Linux to even more people. It's now available to order.
Proton Experimental updated for Linux and Steam Deck, improving Final Fantasy XIV Online
Today there's another fresh build of Proton Experimental available, which pulls in some more bug fixes for playing Windows games on Linux and Steam Deck.
Steam Deck already hits over 5% of Linux users on Steam
The latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out for May 2022, and while it sees a tiny drop in the overall Linux user share, we can see the Steam Deck rising up.
Valve delay the Steam Deck Docking Station
In a move that's not exactly unexpected, Valve has now delayed the launch of the official Steam Deck Docking Station.
Steam Client Update released with Remote Play improvements
Valve has released a small update to the stable version of the Steam Client, with it mostly being about fixing up Remote Play.
A quick round-up of what was popular during May 2022
Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for May 2022, 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 that we cover!
NVIDIA stable driver 515.48.07 out now, Gamescope improvements and more
NVIDIA released a brand new stable driver release for Linux, building on the previous Beta that released along with their new open source kernel modules.
The QuickLaunch plugin for the Steam Deck is a great time-saver
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
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.
Corsair driver and UI for Linux ckb-next version 0.5.0 is out now
Have some fancy Corsair hardware that you want to tweak on Linux? You need the ckb-next project, which has a new release out with version 0.5.0.
Get some classics working better on Steam Deck with Luxtorpeda upgrades
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.
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