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Goverlay for managing tools like MangoHud gets a major new release and it's finally on Flathub

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Goverlay is a useful tool for configuring the likes of MangoHud, vkBasalt, and OptiScaler. Recently it arrived on Flathub, and a major new update is out.

MangoHud performance overlay for Linux v0.8.2 released

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The excellent and incredibly useful Linux performance overlay MangoHud has released version 0.8.2 after being in testing for a few weeks with new features.
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MangoHud performance overlay for Linux gets a first v0.8.2 release candidate

By Liam Squires-Hand,
The popular MangoHud performance display for Linux has a new release coming that's now ready for testing, with v0.8.2-rc1 now up.

SteamOS-like Linux package Bazzite 2.0 is out now for Steam Deck and desktop

By Liam Squires-Hand,
If you want an alternative to SteamOS (or Steam Deck OS as Valve sometimes decides to call it) for your Steam Deck, desktop PC or living room gaming machine - Bazzite is an interesting pick.

Bazzite is a new Fedora-based Linux for Steam Deck and gaming PCs

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Want to try something a little different? Bazzite was recently announced as a custom Fedora 38-based Linux image designed to bring the best Linux gaming to PCs and Steam Deck.

GOverlay app for managing the MangoHud overlay gets a bunch of new options

By Liam Squires-Hand,
GOverlay is great! Giving you a real easy way to tweak the MangoHud performance overlay on Linux, along with it also working with vkBasalt and ReplaySorcery.

Wine compatibly layer manager Bottles adds vkBasalt improvements, vmtouch cache

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Bottles is easily the most simple way to manage installing and running Windows games and apps on Linux outside of Steam. A new release is out now with plenty of useful tweaks.

GOverlay for configuring the MangoHud performance overlay new release out

By Liam Squires-Hand,
MangoHud is a great performance overlay for Linux, one that's used on the Steam Deck too and GOverlay helps you configure it really easily. A new release is out with GOverlay 0.9.

Wine manager app Bottles adds a new Library mode, vkBasalt support

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Bottles continues to mature as a way to manage installing applications and games with the compatibility layer Wine. A fresh release is out now showing off some UI improvements and new features.

Vulkan post-processing layer vkBasalt gets a few tweaks in v0.3.2.5

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Vulkan post-processing layer vkBasalt allows Linux gamers to run various visual enhancement features, along with support for running various Reshade Fx shaders.

GOverlay for editing MangoHud gets a new Steam Deck friendly UI

By Liam Squires-Hand,
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.

GOverlay just got an awesome update to make editing MangoHud even easier

By Liam Squires-Hand,
GOverlay, the open source app for managing various Linux gaming overlays just got a fantastic upgrade, with it now having a live OpenGL preview for MangoHud.

Manage your Linux gaming overlays with the latest release of Goverlay

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Another fresh upgrade is out for Goverlay the open source application designed to help you work with the likes of MangoHud, vkBasalt and ReplaySorcery.

The fantastic Linux gaming overlay MangoHud has a new version out

By Liam Squires-Hand,
MangoHud, the all in one solution to show off various performance metrics for Linux gaming, has a brand new version out now with more options.

Manage Linux gaming overlays with the new release of Goverlay

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Want to configure the likes of MangoHud, vkBasalt and ReplaySorcery? Check out the latest release of Goverlay.

GOverlay gets another small release to help you manage tools like MangoHud

By Liam Squires-Hand,
MangoHud is a fantastic way to show off all sorts of details in games on Linux from frame timings to RAM use and plenty more. GOverlay continues making it more accessible with a full UI.

Grab an up to date MangoHud with NVML, GOverlay and vkBasalt on Ubuntu with a new PPA

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Canonical (Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE) developer Martin Wimpress has announced a fresh PPA for Linux gamers.

The monthly roundup - November 2020

By Liam Squires-Hand,
Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for November 2020, 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 that we cover.

Valve updates the Steam Linux Container Runtime for Proton 5.13, helps tools like MangoHud

By Liam Squires-Hand,
With the Steam Play Proton 5.13 compatibility tool being a major upgrade, along with it now using the Steam Linux Container Runtime, it did come with some annoying issues that they're now trying to solve.

Open source Linux game overlay manager GOverlay adds more customization

By Liam Squires-Hand,
GOverlay helps you to manage Linux game overlays including MangoHud, the vkBasalt effects layer and also the ReplaySorcery screen recorder.
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