Category: Misc

Recently I did a guide using the Warpinator tool to transfer files from PC to Steam Deck, here's another way using the wonderful tool Syncthing that you might prefer.

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 development release is out with Wine 7.5.

An eagle-eyed reader in the GamingOnLinux Discord pointed out that it appears Valve are working to bring out a feedback system for Steam Deck Verified. UPDATE: it's live now and there's more updates today.

On Steam, one of the official Valve-picked moderators of the Steam Deck hub has a new post up they've pinned to gather information on problematic Steam Deck Verified titles.

Good news for NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux, as an NVIDIA developer has confirmed that work is in progress to get Gamescope working with their drivers.

With GDC ongoing, there's lots of info flying out from developers and hardware vendors and now AMD has given talks and more detail on FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0.

At GDC the NVIDIA team had plenty of announcement, most of them not interesting to us but Kickstart RT definitely jumps out. A new SDK under the open source MIT license allowing game engine developers and games to integrate Ray Tracing a lot easier.

The latest update to Proton Experimental has rolled out pulling in a bunch of bug fixes, plus added support for multiple more games.

GNOME 42 has rolled out officially today with a bunch of new features, fixes and enhancements to make your Linux desktop experience even better.

Lakka, a lightweight Linux distribution that transforms various small computers into a full blown retrogaming console has a new release out now.

The 7 Day Roguelike Challenge was earlier this month with over 200 games submitted. I've spent the past week and half playing various games and I've also seen some streamed. That still means I've tried only a small number of games and Game Jams tend to lead to more experimental games.

NVIDIA has released the latest update to their Linux driver with version 510.60.02 available now with new GPU support and also some bug fixes.

Steam for Chrome OS is here. For real this time, they've actually released it, unlike when they claimed it was released during their recent developer event.

Want to see who is chatting in Discord on a Steam Deck or Linux desktop, while you're gaming or doing other things? Let me introduce you to the Discover Overlay.

The team behind the very popular and fantastic open source video capture software OBS Studio have done a Steam release. For Linux users though, you should just stick to Flatpak from Flathub.

Valve has again upgraded the Steam Deck Client software with new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. Plus, check out some of our recent videos.

GOG continues taking a leaf out of the book of Steam with their own little demo festival, along with a big sale on tons of games.

Want to play Phasmophobia on a Linux desktop or Steam Deck? Well, it still doesn't yet work fully as the voice recognition isn't there but support for it is coming thanks to the Wine team.

Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 has been released, giving you a stable Debian base with all the niceties that comes from the Mint team.

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the Linux Kernel version 5.17, with one of the most prominent features being the new AMD P-State driver for modern CPUs.