Diablo 4 is coming to Steam on October 17th (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Another Blizzard game is coming to Steam. I cannot wait until WoW is available so I do not need to use the battle.net client.
Steam Client Beta - Include 64 bit openvr_api.so, enabling the new VR gamepad UI in SteamVR beta. (steamcommunity.com)
Intel Comes Up With A Way For Vulkan Sparse Support On Their Existing Linux Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Dusk HD announced (native) (store.steampowered.com)
The blurb:...
Proton Experimental update (2023/09/29) (github.com)
Now playable: Red Tie Runner...
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Begins Working On Pipeline Caching (www.phoronix.com)
KDE for Gamers – Enjoy Your Games on Plasma and Linux (kde.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5648861...
Linux interoperability is maturing fast thanks to SteamOS (www.theregister.com)
Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.10 Performance On ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 (AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U) (www.phoronix.com)
Even Ubuntu - one of the slowest Linux distributions wipes the floor with windows. Even without huge optimizations that are present in the newest kernels and with the worst CPU governor. Wonder if slower GPU performance is due to mentioned governor?
MangoHud v0.7 out now adding presets support like on Steam Deck (www.gamingonlinux.com)
MangoHud, the awesome tool you can use to get a HUD on top of your games (included by default on the Steam Deck), has released version 0.7.0 that includes many new options so here’s what’s changed.
sdl12-compat 1.2.68 Allows More Games To Run On The Modern Linux Desktop (www.phoronix.com)
A new version of the sdl12-compat library is now available, which serves as an SDL2 portability layer for allowing old SDL 1.2.x games and applications work on modern SDL2 systems.
Awesome tool for backing up game saves! (github.com)
After too much time spent on google I finally found this lightweight GUI + CLI tool that finds locally installed games (yes including non-steam games running under proton) and thought I’d spread the gospel!...
Linux 6.7 Adding New Feature To Btrfs For The Steam Deck (www.phoronix.com)
Wine-GE-Proton8-17 Released (github.com)
HOTFIX:...
Wine-GE-Proton8-16 Released (github.com)
update wine to latest bleeding edge...
GE-Proton8-16 Released (github.com)
imported build changes from upstream proton...
Wayland Color Management Protocol Posted For Weston (www.phoronix.com)
The Wayland Color Management protocol has been years in the making and is needed for a client to specify the color space and HDR metadata of a surface. This color management protocol is ultimately needed for getting high dynamic range (HDR) support working out well within Wayland environments. This week an initial merge request...
Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community (www.phoronix.com)
Mini Royale will have playtest today at 6:00 PM CET, they also offer native port (store.steampowered.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5322096...
LaunchBox 13.6 on Linux with Lutris (odysee.com)
Wine Wayland Driver Updated With Basic Window Management Capabilities (www.phoronix.com)
Double checking compatibility of new PC (www.amazon.com)
I am about to make the switch to Linux fully after a brief test period some time ago. Since you are all most likely more tech savvy than I, I wanted to ask if there were any immediate problems you see with this PC for running Linux Mint. I’m not aware of any, but it wouldn’t be the first time I was wrong....
Gamescope added support for ReShade shaders on Linux / SteamOS (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Gamescope, the microcompositor from Valve that is used on the Steam Deck that can also be used on desktop Linux, just got a major upgrade....
[Nouveau] [PATCH 00/44] drm/nouveau: initial support for GSP-RM 535.54.04 (and Ada GPUs) (lore.kernel.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5142305...