Category: Open Source

The Heroic Games Launcher has a bug-fix released out with v.2.17.1 bringing some essential fixes, like games not launching.

Watching YouTube on Steam Deck / SteamOS? You need to grab VacuumTube which makes the whole experience a lot nicer.

We already have Ludusavi, but now we also have SaveState, another attempt to create a user-friendly and versatile game save backup manager.

GE-Proton 10-4 for running Windows games on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck has released with numerous fixes and AMD FSR4.

The Wine 10.9 development release is out now for the Windows compatibility layer, bringing new features and bug fixes.

OBS Studio 31.1.0 Beta 1 has been released for testing, bringing new features to the popular open source video recording and livestreaming app.

Canonical recently announced Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has been upgraded to improve support for modern Intel GPUs.

Developer Eric Engestrom announced the Mesa 25.0.7 release, finishing off the 25.0 series of open source Linux graphics drivers.

To aid testing and ensure future Ubuntu (and Kubuntu etc) releases are in good shape, Canonical have announced monthly snapshots.

Gates of Skeldal (Czech: Brány Skeldalu) originally released in 1998 and recently it gained a Native Linux version along with a source code re-release.

On Valve's official public GitLab, they've recently put up SteamOS Manager under the open source MIT license following the SteamOS 3.7 release for more devices.

OpenTESArena is an in-development open source game engine remake of The Elder Scrolls: Arena, with a big new release out now as the developer continues working towards making it actually playable.

Luanti (formerly named Minetest) has a big new release out with v5.12 bringing SDL2 for the Window and Input Handling along with numerous other big additions. This release has been years in the making for the switch to modern SDL2, away from the very outdated Irrlicht.

CoreCtrl is a popular Linux app designed to let you get more control over your GPU and CPU. Sadly, the creator has put it into maintenance mode with no new features coming.

Valve released a brand new and exciting update to Proton Experimental for Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck gamers. This brings some new fixes, as well as an interesting change for their Xalia integration.

A new draft patch series for the Linux kernel has been submitted, which should hopefully bring up expanded support for the MSI Claw handheld.

Developer Eric Engestrom announced today the release of Mesa 25.1.1 graphics drivers, a bug-fix release for the latest major version of the open source drivers.

The Nexus Mods team just launched the latest update to their in-development cross-platform open source Nexus Mods app. This is the one that will eventually replace Vortex, and now it has full Cyberpunk 2077 support.

GSC Game World have released the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition now which includes S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky - Enhanced Edition and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition.

Microsoft announced the Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. It doesn't necessarily mean much for traditional desktop Linux but still a nice move.