As of January 2024 - 75 of the Top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck
Here's an up to date look at the current state of the most played games on Steam, and how many of they run on Steam Deck and Linux as a whole.
Category: Misc
Steam Deck officially hits over 13,000 games Playable and Verified
Not too long after hitting 12,000 games, the Steam Deck now officially has over 13,000 games rated either Verified or Playable. There must be a little something for every type of gamer now right? My backlog is terrifying.
Proton 8.0-5 has a Release Candidate ready for testing
Early last month Valve put up a Release Candidate for the next version of Proton, which it seems went completely under the radar. Due to this they've not had much feedback for Proton 8.0-5 so time to get testing.
MSI teasing a handheld gaming PC like the Steam Deck
Begun, the handheld wars have. It seems like every company now wants a piece of the pie doesn't it? Even MSI appear to be jumping into the fold now with an announcement due at CES 2024.
Linux Mint planning an upgraded EDGE ISO with kernel 6.5
For people wanting to install Linux Mint on newer devices, the Linux Mint team have announced a plan to update their EDGE ISOs with a later Linux kernel in the latest blog post.
SteamOS 3.5.12 Preview and new Steam Deck Beta and Steam Desktop Beta released
Catching up from the end of the holidays, Valve recently released SteamOS 3.5.12 Preview and today there's also a new Steam Deck and Desktop Beta release.
Marvel's Midnight Suns and Two Point Campus headline Humble Choice for January 2024
Humble Choice for January 2024 is a pretty damn good selection of games, so here's a run over what's included and the compatibility for Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
Here's the top Steam Deck games for December 2023
Recently Valve revealed the top Steam Deck games overall for 2023, but they only just posted up what the most-played were just for December 2023 which we have now.
KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal
The KDE team are currently running a funding campaign to help bring in more monies to support Plasma desktop development, and thankfully well ahead of the Plasma 6 release they've managed to hit the initial goal.
Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter
According to Statcounter, which should be taken with a pinch of salt of course like any sampling, the Linux share on the desktop hit nearly 4% in Decemeber 2023.
ScummVM 2.8.0 released with new game support and plenty of upgrades
Just before the end of 2023 the ScummVM team released ScummVM 2.8.0 bringing with it support for running various new games along with improvements to other already supported classics.
Baldur's Gate 3 wins Game of the Year in the 2023 Steam Awards
Not really a big surprise here and thoroughly deserved! The 2023 Steam Awards are over and Baldur's Gate 3 has won Game of the Year. Here's all the results for you.
Linux use on Steam ends 2023 with a multi-year high (thanks Steam Deck)
Valve's latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out now for December 2023, and it shows that Linux and Steam Deck overall finished 2023 on a very positive note.
Here's the most played Steam Deck games of 2023
Valve has released the annual Best of lists, and so we can see what the most played games are across the whole of 2023 for the Steam Deck so here's what's up.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from GamingOnLinux
It's coming up on Christmas now, and so GamingOnLinux will be going into it's usual mostly hibernating state to take a little break to recharge.
Steam Deck Verified picks for the 2023 holiday season
Need some fresh games for the holiday season? Got you covered here with some more games that have recently become fully Steam Deck Verified so you can click play and enjoy.
Godot 4.3 dev 1 brings major rendering changes - plus W4 Games on console support
The team working on Godot Engine have released the first snapshot of Godot 4.3 which brings with it some big rendering changes that sound quite exciting overall.
Steam Winter Sale 2023 is live, along with The Steam Awards voting
It is that time again! Valve launched the Steam Winter Sale 2023 and The Steam Awards are also open for voting for your favourite titles now too.
Check out this great overview of NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver
Developer Faith Ekstrand has given a holiday update on the state of NVK, the unofficial open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver and how it's coming along that's worth a read as it's all quite exciting.
KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing
Getting exciting now! We're closing in on the final release of KDE Plasma 6.0 with a second Beta now available for testing to ensure it's ready for your Linux desktops and eventually Steam Deck too.
- There's now an unofficial GUI for Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation on Linux
- Valve restores the Steam page for Old School Rally after it got hit with a DMCA
- Steam Beta upgrades the in-game performance monitor for Linux
- GeForce Infinity is a new app for GeForce NOW on Linux
- Fallout: Bakersfield looks like an awesome Doom total conversion with a new trailer
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