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Valve's New Deck Verified Program Will Tell Gamers Which Titles Play Well on Steam Deck
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Wine 11.10 Released With VKD3D 2.0, Improved VBScript Compatibility
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Steam is running on the Switch thanks to the latest Proton beta
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Marathon's Free Week is here, but Bungie is still blocking Linux/Steam Deck. Here is how we can take action.
Hi everyone, This week, the new extraction shooter Marathon is running a free-to-play open play week. Unfortunately, Linux and Steam Deck players are completely locked out of the fun. Is this due to a major technical com…
Proton-CachyOS 11 has been released!
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Why can I straight up not install Schedule I on Linux?
I’ve never seen a game simply not allow you to download it on Linux and use proton for compatibility. Anyone know why it does this?
007 First Light — now running on Apple Silicon Mac via CrossOver + GPTK 4.0 beta
Huge thanks to Simon Meacham on the CrossOver forums for figuring this out and sharing the steps. Original post link:Simon Meacham TL;DR: The boot crash was an unimplemented D3D12 function in D3DMetal. Apple's GPTK 4.0 b…
Should I switch from Win 11 to Linux? Gamer + office work, intermediate skill level
Hey all, looking for honest takes before I commit. My setup & use case: • Currently on Windows 11 • Use my PC mostly for Steam gaming, work (Word/Excel heavy), and general browsing • Intermediate skills — comfortable pok…
From the C: to the /Mnt/s, Linux is better than ever for PC gaming – and easier to switch to from Windows
…ProtonUp-QT also gives you access to another handy compatibility tool, Luxtorpeda , which switches games to a Linux-native version; using it on Morrowind, for example, will install OpenMW before launching. It…
Darksiders Warmastered Edition for PC Gets Impressive Update 10 Years After Launch
…The new Vulkan API should improve game performance and compatibility on Linux and SteamOS using Valve's Proton translation layer, but the game already has a silver rating on ProtonDB, with the…
Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
…Valve has already added the NTSYNC kernel driver to SteamOS 3.7.20 beta, loading the module by default, and an unofficial Proton fork, Proton GE, already has it enabled. When Valve…
CachyOS is dethroning Windows at the one thing it owned for decades
…compatible version or if Wine liked it. It felt like way too much hassle to game on Linux when Windows was right there. However, ever since Valve began working on Proton in…
After testing a bunch of VPNs for gaming I'm considering keeping one on 24/7
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Linux gaming still breaks in ways that make normal people give up
…A meaningful slice of modern multiplayer gaming runs on kernel-level anti-cheat systems that either don't support Linux at all or require the publisher to opt in to Proton compatibility…