Why I'm done with Nobara Linux: A Breakup Story with a Tech Twist (open.substack.com)
Followup to why you should switch to Nobara Linux. Also, some scripts I’ve compiled for distro hopping the fedora flavors.
Linux 6.7 Adding New Feature To Btrfs For The Steam Deck (www.phoronix.com)
Bazzite 3.5.0 Update Released (universal-blue.discourse.group)
Nvidia 555 Drivers on Bazzite (Nvidia :heart: Wayland)...
NVIDIA Developer Opens Feature Pull Request For Open-Source NVK Driver (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr further signs that the open source Nvidia driver stack on Linux is getting semi-official support
Minecraft will now require Java 21 and a 64Bit OS, as of 24w14a (www.minecraft.net)
Nouveau Supporting HDMI 2.1 Won't Hopefully Be Too Challenging Thanks To NVIDIA Firmware (www.phoronix.com)
“Even though AMD might not be able to add support for HDMI 2.1, nouveau certainly will as Nvidia’s open source driver also supports HDMI 2.1 so there is no reason to believe that at least some drivers can’t support HDMI 2.1...
Real gaming router (kittenlabs.de)
kittenlabs.de/real-gaming-router/...
Steam Games Made With Unity (store.steampowered.com)
[Guide] Playing Visual Novels on GNU/Linux (wiki.comfysnug.space)
cross-posted from: lemmy.comfysnug.space/post/138679...
NVIDIA 535.86.05 Linux Driver Fixes Excessive Memory Use, Kernel Panic On Full vRAM (www.phoronix.com)
Amazon Games support is coming soon to Heroic Games Launcher (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Team Fortress 2 won't start - Lemmy.world (lemmy.world)
Dwarf Fortress: We have Linux compiling and playable (store.steampowered.com)
Proton Experimental fixes up EA App, Grounded, The Witcher 3 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Games on Whales - Stream multiple desktops and games from a single host (games-on-whales.github.io)
After 3 years in the making I’m excited to announce the launch of Games on Whales, an innovative open-source project that revolutionizes virtual desktops and gaming. Our mission is to enable multiple users to stream different content from a single machine, with full HW acceleration and low latency....
Asahi Lina on Steam (Creator of Asahi Linux) (steamcommunity.com)
Here’s Asahi Lina’s Steam account. I thought I’d share it with you guys as Lina is testing games and fixing bugs, and if you’d like to support her by gifting games, this is her account so you can do so. Proof From Her Last Live Stream
CD Copy Protection & WINE (kbin.run)
Recently I have been trying to play my old games (Worms, Sims, Black & White, etc..) on my Steam Deck....
LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results For Linux Gaming (www.phoronix.com)
VKD3D-Proton 2.12 Released With Initial Support For NVIDIA Reflex (www.phoronix.com)
Update: DXVK-NVAPI 0.7 was also released just now with NVIDIA Reflex for D3D12 support using the VKD3D-Proton entry points. There is also support for Latencyflex on non-NVIDIA GPUs for a few games via spoofing the Pascal architecture for non-NVIDIA GPUs. Plus various other updates and improvements.
FurMark 2.1.0 benchmarking tool is now available for Linux (www.geeks3d.com)
World of Goo 2 launches in May on the Epic Store - but Linux support from their website (www.gamingonlinux.com)
G-Man: Real-Life Confirmed! (packaged-media.redd.it)
Apex Legends Ignite Update broke anti-cheat on Steam Deck/Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Well, here we go again. Apex Legends just launched the Ignite Update, and with it sadly it seems they messed up Easy Anti-Cheat for Steam Deck/Linux.