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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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Ubuntu Prepares for Stable Steam Snap Release

Canonical has called for help testing the latest release candidate of the Steam snap. If you’re a gamer and fond of Ubuntu, you can help them out.
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How to Install and Use Steam on Arch Linux

Steam is one of the finest platforms for gamers. With the help of Steam, you’re free to enjoy the best games right away! All you need is just tinkering with the system and setting the tools properly. How to install and get started using Steam on Arch Linux is shown.

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5 Linux Distros for Steam Gaming

There are hundreds of Linux distros on the internet, all of which are different and made for their own purposes. Here are the five best for Steam gaming.
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Check Out This Awesome Adwaita Theme for Steam

Are you an avid gamer who loves the look of GNOME’s Adwaita theme? If so, there’s now an unofficial Adwaita theme for the Steam games client — amazing!
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Valve Releases New Stable Steam Client Update With Big Picture Mode

Steam Client is getting a brand-new Big Picture mode ported from the Steam Deck UI. Learn more about how now everyone can enjoy the Steam Deck UI on their personal computers.
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Canonical’s Steam Snap Will Let You Switch Mesa Stacks

The Steam snap app is levelling up its graphics prowess, as Canonical reveals plans to make different Mesa versions available for users to switch between.
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How to Install Steam on a Chromebook

If you install Steam on your Chromebook, you can play many Windows games. Learn how to install Steam on a Chromebook here.
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Valve Releases Proton 7.0-3 with Support for 19 Games to Play on Linux, More Improvements

Arriving one and a half months after Proton 7.0-2, the Proton 7.0-3 release is here to add support for more Windows games that you can now play on your GNU/Linux distribution through Steam Play/Proton. These include Age of Chivalry, Beneath a Steel Sky, Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamer Edition, Cities XXL, Cladun X2, Cursed Armor, […]

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Google Shares Plan to Make Steam Work on Chrome OS with Linux

Steam is coming to Chrome OS? It looks like Google is planning to make Steam work on Chrome OS with Linux. Learn more here.
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Valve Released Proton 7.0 with Support for Easy Anti-Cheat

Valve has released Proton 7.0, an open-source custom version of Wine that enables Linux users to run Windows games directly from Steam. Learn more here.
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Steam Deck to Launch Officially on February 25th, 2022

Announced in July 2021, Steam Deck promises to be a revolutionary gaming handheld powered by Valve’s SteamOS 3.0 operating system based on Arch Linux and featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Initially planned for the end of 2021, Valve delayed their upcoming Steam Deck device for February 2022, but now the company has finally revealed […]

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DXVK 1.9.4 Enables Performance Optimizations, DLSS Support for God of War

Coming less than two weeks after DXVK 1.9.3, the DXVK 1.9.4 release is here to enable performance optimizations and DLSS support for the God of War video game, which needs the Proton Experimental branch of Valve’s compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine. To improve both accuracy and GPU-bound performance, DXVK 1.9.4 also enables […]

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Linux Runs 80% of the 100 Most Popular Games on Steam

According to the protondb.com service , which collects information on the performance of gaming applications in the Steam catalog on Linux, 80% of the 100 most popular games are currently running on Linux. When looking at the top 1000 games, the support rate is 75% and the Top 10 is 40%. In general, out of […]

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