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Easy Anti-Cheat not as simple as expected for Proton and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 9 Jan 2022

Even though Epic Games announced recently how they expanded support for Easy Anti-Cheat to have full support of native Linux, plus Wine / Proton (and so the Steam Deck), it seems it's not as easy as we hoped.

Easily install and upgrade Proton GE or Luxtorpeda with ProtonUp-Qt

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2022

There are certain games that work better with the community-built unofficial Proton GE, plus using Luxtorpeda for Native Linux game engines can give a lot of benefits too - here's how to easily download or upgrade them using the fab ProtonUp-Qt.

3D rendering engine OGRE 2.3 released adding Vulkan support

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jan 2022

Even more Vulkan goodness came recently with OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine) releasing Ogre-Next 2.3.0 Deadalus just before Christmas.

A look at the top 100 Steam games on Linux - January 2022 edition

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2022

To begin 2022, let's take a fresh look at the current top 100 Steam games and see how well (or not) the run on Linux.

Heroic Games Launcher 2.0.0 brings a much improved login system for Epic Games

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2022

Ending 2021 with quite the bang, the unofficial Epic Games Store app Heroic Games Launcher put up a big new release improving lots of features.

OBS Studio 27.2 enters Beta with official Flatpak support

By Liam Dawe, 3 Jan 2022

Ready for 2022, the OBS team is preparing a major new release of the free and open source livestreaming and recording software OBS Studio.

Play some socially-distanced tabletop games with a new FoundryVTT release

By Liam Dawe, 23 Dec 2021

FoundryVTT version 9 has been released, further improving many big parts of this excellent cross-platform virtual tabletop experience and it's looking awesome.

My favourite 2021 games played on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2021

Here we are, the year is ending so here's a few of what I consider to be my favourite games played on Linux that had a release during 2021.

The beautiful Linux distro elementary OS 6.1 is out now

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2021

elementary OS is easily one of the best looking Linux distributions around, with such an incredible attention to the finer details and a big new release is up now.

Steam Deck 'on track' for February, Valve hopes for millions by end of 2023

By Liam Dawe, 17 Dec 2021

Seems Valve really are expecting big things from the SteamOS 3 Linux-powered Steam Deck handheld, according to a new report from PC Gamer.

Amazon hiring for Proton / Wine and Linux developers for streaming service Luna

By Liam Dawe, 15 Dec 2021

Despite Luna originally using Windows for Amazon's game streaming service, it appears they may be moving over to Linux and they're looking to hire people to work on Proton / Wine and give back to open source.

Pop!_OS 21.10 rolls out with new Application Library

By Liam Dawe, 14 Dec 2021

System76 has rolled out Pop!_OS 21.10 today, the latest major upgrade to their Ubuntu-based operating system designed to be used by everyone - professionals and gamers alike.

GNOME Shell 42 to have better mouse input that will help gaming

By Liam Dawe, 9 Dec 2021

The GNOME team has announced that with GNOME Shell 42 that will release in 2022, things are going to get better for mouse input which is a nice win for gamers.

Wine 6.23 is out now continuing the PE conversion work

By Liam Dawe, 4 Dec 2021

Another two weeks and more fixes coming in, the Wine 6.23 release is officially out now with new features and bug fixes.

Minecraft set to be 30% faster on Linux with Mesa drivers

By Liam Dawe, 2 Dec 2021

If you're using the open source Mesa drivers on Linux (mostly AMD/Intel) and you're a fan of Minecraft, the next Mesa release is going to give you a big performance uplift.

November marked 7 months of Linux rising on Steam & 5 months above 1%

By Liam Dawe, 2 Dec 2021

I think we can now firmly say that we are the 1%? Another month is down as so the latest Steam Hardware Survey numbers are out and it continues being very positive for Linux gaming.

Your monthly catch-up post is here for November 2021

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2021

Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for November 2021, 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.

Valve puts up official developer FAQ for the Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, 30 Nov 2021

With the Steamworks Virtual Conference: Steam Deck over now, Valve has put up their own official set of answers to various common questions.

Canonical want your feedback on Ubuntu Gaming

By Liam Dawe, 26 Nov 2021

Looks like Canonical, the creator of Ubuntu, want to get in on more Linux Gaming with their Desktop Product Manager starting a new series of blog posts and your feedback is needed.

Steam Play Proton 6.3-8 out with initial BattlEye support, CEG DRM and more games

By Liam Dawe, 25 Nov 2021

Probably one of the more exciting releases of Proton lately, with lots of what was previously in Proton Experimental now in the main release with Proton 6.3-8 out now.

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