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Blender 4.5 LTS arrives with Vulkan fully supported and lots of performance improvements

By Liam Dawe,
A big day in Blender land with the arrival of Blender 4.5 LTS, finally bringing Vulkan up to full supported status with it matching OpenGL.

Lossless Scaling Frame Gen gets a Decky Loader Steam Deck plugin but there's drama

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
There's some drama in Steam Deck land with a Decky Loader plugin, that works with Lossless Scaling Frame Generation from the new lsfg-vk project for Linux.

Open source Medal of Honor: Allied Assault adds better bots and a new master server for online play

By Liam Dawe,
Fancy some Medal of Honor: Allied Assault on modern systems with online play? OpenMoHAA is what you need to check out.

Split-screen game launcher for Linux / SteamOS adds support for multiple keyboards and mice

By Liam Dawe,
PartyDeck is a free and open source split-screen game launcher for Linux / SteamOS, and the latest release sounds great.

GE-Proton 10-9 released with NTSYNC and FSR4 upgrade support

By Liam Dawe,
GE-Proton 10-9 is out now with some exciting sounding new features like NTSYNC and FSR4 upgrade support for gamers on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck.

Wine 10.12 brings EGL backend in the X11 driver, support for Bluetooth Low Energy services

By Liam Dawe,
Wine 10.12 is out now as the latest development release towards Wine 11, bringing new features and bug fixes for running Windows apps / games on Linux.

Proton Experimental updated to fix the Epic Games Store and a few games

By Liam Dawe,
Valve put out a small update to Proton Experimental to begin the weekend, with fixes for the Epic Games Store and a few games for Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck.

Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux gets upgraded to the latest v3.1

By Liam Dawe,
The dev of the popular Lossless Scaling app has been helping the lsfg-vk project that brings Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation to Linux to get it upgraded.

Simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy version 1.4 released

By Liam Dawe,
Minigalaxy is a simple and to the point GOG game downloader for Linux, with a brand new release in version 1.4 now available.

Bazzite gets a new app store, newly supported devices, improved WiFi and more

By Liam Dawe,
The popular Linux gaming image Bazzite has a July 2025 update out with some interesting new features and expanded device support.

OBS Studio 31.1.0 released with Multitrack Video for Linux, explicit sync support for PipeWire

By Liam Dawe,
OBS Studio 31.1.0 is out now with various new features and improvements, and it's a nice release for Linux users too.

NonSteamLaunchers adds real-time Steam shortcuts and teases upcoming Steam integration

By Liam Dawe,
NonSteamLaunchers is a tool you can use on Linux / SteamOS to automatically set up various third-party stores. A new release brings new tricks.

It's now easier to get Mesa 25.1 on the latest Ubuntu 25.04

By Liam Dawe,
Want to upgrade Mesa on Ubuntu, Kubuntu and other Ubuntu-based distributions? It's now a bit easier thanks to a PPA update to get Mesa 25.1 installed.

lsfg-vk aims to bring Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation to Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Lossless Scaling is a very popular application for Windows, and the new lsfg-vk project aims to bring Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation to Linux.

Direct3D to Vulkan layer DXVK v2.7 released with performance improvements and Intel support upgrades

By Liam Dawe,
DXVK v2.7 was released over the weekend with lots of improvements for the Direct3D to Vulkan layer. Here's what's new and improved.

OpenMW 0.49 arrives to enhanced Morrowind and they're looking to support later Bethesda games

By Liam Dawe,
Whew, this one took a while. Around three years of development went into OpenMW 0.49.0 which is now available to play Morrowind with lots of enhancements.

Proton 10.0-2 gets a small release candidate update for Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Valve released a small update to the current testing build of Proton 10.0-2, ahead of the upcoming stable release for Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck.

Mesa 25.1.5 brings more bug fixes for Linux graphics drivers

By Liam Dawe,
Mesa 25.1.5 is the latest bug-fix release for the current main stable version of open source Linux graphics drivers.

Proton Experimental adds fixes for The First Berserker: Khazan, The Riftbreaker, multiple Resident Evil games

By Liam Dawe,
Valve launched a brand new update for Proton Experimental, their testing ground for running Windows games on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck systems.

ProtonPlus makes managing Proton versions on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck simple

By Liam Dawe,
ProtonPlus is a useful tool for managing compatibility layers like Valve's Proton, GE-Proton and more on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck.
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