Valve Releases Proton 6.3-7 with Support for Life is Strange: True Colors, DXVK 1.9.2

Coming about five weeks after Proton 6.3-6, the Proton 6.3-7 release is here to add support for the Life is Strange: True Colors, Quake Champions, Divinity: Original Sin 2, eFootball PES 2021, EVERSLAUGHT VR, as well as WRC (World Rally Championship) 8, 9 and 10 video games. This means that you’ll now be able to […]

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Major Steam Client Update with New Downloads Page, Linux Improvements

The biggest new feature of the new Steam Client update is a brand new downloads page that’s easier to use and has a new design. The new download page now displays the total progress, including disk allocation process, when downloading or updating a game, as well as a faded progress bar and percent completed for […]

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Proton 6.3-6 Adds Support for Blood of Steel, Guardians VR, and Many Other Games

With Steam Deck coming to gamers everywhere later this year, Valve is putting a lot of effort on making their Proton compatibility tool for Steam Play support as many Windows games as possible. In fact, Valve said that they plan to make all Windows games in the Steam library compatible with Linux systems before the […]

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Valve and AMD Join Forces, Developing an Improved Linux CPU Driver

Valve and AMD are working together to develop a better CPU performance scaling driver for Linux, targeting the Steam Deck gaming console. The new driver will allow the processor in the Steam Deck to quickly ramp up to a higher performance state when ne…

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 18th, 2021

This week has been slow in news and I was busy traveling for personal matters. Despite that, we got some very hot news, such as the release of Firefox 90, the Ubuntu Touch OTA-18 software update for Linux phones, and Valve’s own gaming handheld powered by Arch Linux and KDE Plasma. On top of that, […]

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Valve Unveils Steam Deck Gaming Handheld Powered by Arch Linux and KDE Plasma

Steam Deck Gaming Handheld promises to put your entire Steam library in your pocket so you can play your favorite games wherever you go. The device is powerful enough to run the latest AAA games, and the best part is that it can also act as a controller if you connect it to a big […]

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Valve’s Steam Deck is 7-inch Handheld Linux Gaming PC

Today Valve announced the Steam Deck, a handheld Linux gaming PC that’s loaded with a custom-built AMD chip for top-tier AAA gaming action. And it looks pretty frickin’ special! Companies like GPD, oDroid, and Nintendo have proven there&#82…

Steam Client on Linux Has Been Updated, Here’s What’s New

Valve continues to polish the Steam Client, and a new version has been released. On the Linux side, there are several changes and fixes. Here’s what’s new.
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