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Valve’s Latest Steam Client Release Brings Faster Download of Updates on Linux

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update on April 1st, 2025, to further improve the download speed of Steam Client updates on Linux and fix various bugs.
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Make Steam App Look Modern & Native in Ubuntu

Want to beatify your Steam app window in Ubuntu or other Linux. Here’s a free open-source project to do the job in GNOME. It’s Adwaita for Steam, a skin to make Steam look more like a native GNOME app. With it, the title and tool bars will be merged into a compact GNOME Client-Side Decoration […]

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Proton 9.0-4 Adds Total War: Shogun 2 & Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 Support

Proton 9.0-4 is now available with support for Total War: Shogun 2, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, Welcome to Dustown, Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2, ScarQuest, and other Windows games.
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Valve Releases Steam Client Update to Further Improve Native Linux Gaming

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update to further improve native Linux gaming, the new Game Recording feature, Steam VR, and more.
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New Steam Client Update Adds Game Recording, Improves Native Linux Gaming

New Steam Client update improves native Linux gaming, makes detection and passing of commands faster, and fixes multiple bugs. Here’s what’s new!
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Ubuntu Gamer? The Steam Snap Now Runs Better Than Ever

If you’re using Canonical’s Steam snap to game on Ubuntu you may be pleased to hear that a number appreciable performance improvements have begun to filter out. Valve recommend Ubuntu users stick to the official Steam DEB for the best exper…

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Proton 9.0-3 Released with Support for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Farlight 84

Proton 9.0-3 is now available with support for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer, Farlight 84, Flatout 3, KinitoPET, and other Windows games.
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New Steam Client Update Improves Compatibility With More Linux Desktops

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update that brings numerous improvements and some new functionality to further enhance your gaming experience on Steam and bring compatibility for more Linux desktops.
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New Steam Client Update Improves Compatibility with More Linux Desktops

A new Steam Client update is now available for download to improve support for more Linux desktops and the latest NVIDIA graphics drivers.
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Valve Steam Deck as a Stepping Stone to the Linux Desktop

This Linux-powered handheld gaming console is great for gamers and is a gateway to Linux desktop users.
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Proton 9.0-2 Brings Support for Alpha League, Helldivers 2, and Other Games

Proton 9.0-2 is now available with support for the Alpha League, Helldivers 2, Black Desert Online, FreestyleFootball R, Hero’s Land, Iragon, SimCity 3000 Unlimited, Warlords Battlecry III, and Battlezone Gold Edition in VR mode games.
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Steam Client Update Adds 150% Scale Factor by Default for 4K Monitors on Linux

Valve’s latest stable Steam Client update changes the default scale factor from 200% to 150% on 4K monitors on Linux systems, adds new Steam Input features, improves Remote Play, and fixes many bugs.
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Proton 9.0 Released with Support for THE FINALS, Lord of the Rings: Gollum

Proton 9.0 compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine is now available for download with support for more Windows games to play on Linux, as well as various improvements.
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Ubuntu 24.04 Makes Tiny Tweak to Hugely Improve Gaming

Gamers can look forward to more epic top-tier titles working out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, which is due for release in late April. Following a user suggestion Ubuntu developers have massively increased the distro’s virtual memory mapping li…

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Valve Releases Steam Audio as Open Source

Game developers should be happy to learn that Steam Audio SDK, including all of its plugins, are now covered under the Apache-2.0 license.
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Latest Steam Client Update Improves Steam Overlay for CS2 and Other Games on Linux

For Linux users, the new Steam Client update fixes several bugs in the Steam Overlay that caused rendering to stall in some video games, such as Watch Dogs, and some crashes in other titles, as well as to improve double click handling and mouse clicks …

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Oops – Ubuntu 23.04 Broke 32-bit App Support (And No-One Noticed)

Turns out that installing the Steam client from the Ubuntu repos on a new Ubuntu 23.04 install doesn’t work – and barely anyone noticed. Which is kind of surprising given the popularity of Steam, but also kind of not — and I’ll get to why i…

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How to Play Games on Arch Linux Using Steam: A Complete Guide

Discover the ultimate guide to setting up Steam and Proton on Arch Linux, so you can play any Windows game flawlessly.
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Breaking Barriers: Linux Outranks macOS on the Steam Platform

Linux makes gaming history: As of July 2023, it outranks macOS for the first time as the preferred gaming OS on Valve’s Steam platform.
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FOSS Week In Review: ‘Maddog’ on Red Hat, Cooking With Mint, Linux’s Big Mac Attack & more…

In this week’s news roundup, our Christine Hall tells you what she thinks has gone wrong at Red Hat, and again tries to wrestle Elon Musk to the floor. In between, she covers some more of this week’s FOSS news.
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