Microsoft paid $20 million to protect one letter from Linux
…After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to technician for all computer issues, he found his passion for writing and decided to use his skill…
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Proton compatibility support is expanding, but some Linux gamers are reporting serious AMD-related storage corruption issues that impact switching and stability.
The Steam client was hurting PC gaming on Android — Valve's VR headset accidentally solved it
…Both GameHub and GameNative handle login and game downloads through JavaSteam, a pure-Java reimplementation of the Steam protocol that talks directly to Valve's content servers, no Wine involved. The difference…
Xbox Game Pass games might soon work on Linux thanks to this open-source project
…The project can download and decrypt MSIXVC packages; the team is working on SDK and Xbox Gaming Runtime recreation for Wine. This could be a big win for Linux gaming if Xodus…
After nine years, Linux gamers can finally join Minecraft Bedrock servers without the headaches
…Xbox Friends, invitations, cross-play servers, and Realms now work via WineGDK's native Xbox identity. For years, Linux gamers who wanted to play Minecraft Bedrock had to use a pretty restrictive…
Linux is the only OS that respects your aging gaming hardware
…For instance, the developers behind the gaming-oriented distro Bazzite revealed the Open Gaming Collective , where devs can share tips and tech to help games run better. We're also seeing Wine…
I stopped recommending Bazzite after realizing any Linux distro can game just as well
…7, 2026, rebasing Steam Play on Wine 11.0, and Wine 11.0 brought NTSYNC support along with the completed WoW64 architecture. If you game on Linux or plan to at all…
Linux gaming works without touching the terminal, and that matters more than any benchmark
…configure Wine or Proton versions to use for each game if needed, but in general, it does a solid job making sure things just work, and again, no terminal required. Related Heroic…
Valve isn't ditching Windows or x86, but it's quietly making both optional
…Wine 11.5 added syscall user dispatch support, helping with direct-syscall edge cases that previously broke games like Detroit: Become Human and Red Dead Redemption 2. And with Arm64EC configuration options…
Linux 7.1 just killed one of dual-booting's biggest headaches
…Related Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive Wine 11 is the biggest jump for Linux gaming in years. Linux 7…
This Nvidia Linux driver update finally fixes a frustrating Wayland display problem
…Related Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive Wine 11 is the biggest jump for Linux gaming in years.