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

By Liam Dawe, 9 Nov 2023

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 Dawe, 23 Aug 2023

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.

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

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2023

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 Dawe, 15 Aug 2022

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 Dawe, 21 Jul 2022

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 Dawe, 18 Apr 2022

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 Dawe, 14 Feb 2022

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 Dawe, 30 Nov 2021

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 Dawe, 24 Aug 2021

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 Dawe, 26 Jul 2021

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 Dawe, 12 Jun 2021

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 Dawe, 9 Jun 2021

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 Dawe, 24 Mar 2021

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 Dawe, 14 Dec 2020

Canonical (Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE) developer Martin Wimpress has announced a fresh PPA for Linux gamers.

The monthly roundup - November 2020

By Liam Dawe, 1 Dec 2020

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 Dawe, 26 Nov 2020

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.