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XWayland gets DRM leasing support for helping VR on Linux
A big improvement has been merged into XWayland called DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) Leasing, which should allow good VR support under Wayland. Something we've been waiting on!
Category: Misc
RetroArch 1.9.14 out, with more emulator cores landing on Steam
The RetroArch team have released RetroArch 1.9.14, and recently they've been expanding what emulator cores are available on the Steam version with 26 now available.
SteamOS-like Linux distribution ChimeraOS 28 is out now
ChimeraOS is a Linux distribution aimed at gamers who primarily want a more console-like big-screen experience.
Decentraland is the latest to help fund Blender development
Decentraland joins a long list of companies and individuals helping to fund Blender, the excellent free and open source 3D creation suite that just recently released the big 3.0 version.
itch.io has another great charity bundle to help World Land Trust
Need more games and you're on a budget? Want to help charity and get some games at the same time? The World Land Trust Bundle on itch.io looks great.
Wine 6.23 is out now continuing the PE conversion work
Another two weeks and more fixes coming in, the Wine 6.23 release is officially out now with new features and bug fixes.
Blender 3.0 is out now with a visual refresh, huge new features
A true showcase for not only how good open source software can be but also how to successfully manage every part of it. Blender 3.0 is officially out now.
Steam could launch for Chromebooks soon, mentions game compatibility reports
We're seeing more reports of Steam for Chromebooks coming and Luke Short writing for Android Police thinks it will be soon.
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) sees a first major release, Linux support in preview
Open 3D Engine (O3DE) from the Open 3D Foundation is what was once Amazon Lumberyard, now open source it's just had a first major stable release.
Steam Next Fest gave developers a '500%' increase in converting wishlists to sales
Valve has written up a short blog post going over how their Steam Next Fest has improved things for developers, and it seems by a huge amount in some cases.
Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games appears popular with over 100K downloads
Despite the Epic Games Store not offering Linux support at all, it still seems to be somewhat popular with Linux users as the unofficial Heroic Games Launcher hit a big downloads milestone.
The Jingle Jam 2021 Games Collection is live to help charity
Want to help good causes and get some awesome games at the same time? The Jingle Jam 2021 Games Collection is live for another year with plenty to love.
November marked 7 months of Linux rising on Steam & 5 months above 1%
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
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
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
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
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.
KDE developer suggests Plasma needs to be simpler by default
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
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
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.
- It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
- NVIDIA have discontinued Quake II RTX
- Valve put up a release candidate for Proton 10.0-4 with lots more Linux / SteamOS gaming fixes
- Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases
- GOG formally announce their GOG Patrons subscription donation system
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