Have a PC hooked up to your TV or need a Linux distribution that might work better on a handheld PC? A new release of ChimeraOS is here, and it's a necessary upgrade. Think of it a bit like SteamOS with fancy extras.
Ah yes, launchers and external online services, what a nuisance they can be for Steam Deck and Linux desktop players. Thankfully, Valve keep working away on Proton to fix up issues.
The Wine 8.5 development release is now available for this translation layer, enabling Windows games and other apps to work on Linux.
The first release this year for OpenRCT2, the open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has landed with version 0.4.4.
Continuing to show how great open source is, the Blender team have released Blender 3.5 with some really fancy new features.
The team working on the free and open source video recording and livestreaming software OBS Studio, have released the first Beta for version 29.1 with a big new feature.
Developer Mike Blumenkrantz has continued blogging about Linux graphics driver improvements, with a fix from developer Samuel Pitoiset landing to stop the AMD RADV (Vulkan) driver eating up RAM.
Giving you another easy way to download and keep it up to date, the Dolphin Emulator for GameCube and Wii is coming to Steam.
AMD had plenty to show off at GDC, and they've done a bit of a summary and some of it is quite exciting for future games.
The Wine team just announced the release of vkd3d version 1.7, their Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation layer.
Another fresh tasty release of GE-Proton is now available, two actually were released in the last day so here's what's new as of GE-Proton 7-53 for Steam Deck and Linux desktop gaming.
With the move between X11 and Wayland still ongoing, and likely won't finish for years, problems keep coming up like screen sharing but XwaylandVideoBridge may help solve this.
Another fresh small update to Proton Experimental has landed on March 22nd, here's what's new and changed for Steam Deck and Linux desktop.
One thing I genuinely hated about GNOME has finally been solved with the GNOME 44 release. It includes some big improvements and new features.
EmulationStation Desktop Edition is a great front-end open source app for managing various emulators. A big 2.0 release went up recently too!
The Wine 8.4 development release is out now for this Windows translation layer, part of what makes Steam Play Proton tick.
Do any of you remember OpenHV? Back in 2020, it was announced as an OpenRA-based free and open source RTS, based on designs from Daniel Cook that never made it into a game planned to be called Hard Vacuum but now it's here and it has a massive upgrade.
Need a fresh party game with simple controls and plenty of mini-games to play? Starship Olympics is free, open source and worth a go.
It's fast, it gives you six degrees of freedom (6DOF) and it's open source too! Fly Dangerous just had it's second big upgrade since entering Early Access.
Vangers is a thoroughly weird racing role-playing adventure originally released in 1998, and it's still being upgraded.
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