A round-up of popular GamingOnLinux articles through July 2021

Here is a look back some of the most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for July 2021, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux gaming, open source and other general Linux news that we cover! If you wish to keep track of these overview posts you can with our Overview RSS.

Here's what was popular with our readers:

• Valve has formally announced the Steam Deck, a portable handheld console with SteamOS
  • Well today is the big day. Valve has now formally revealed the Steam Deck, a portable handheld gaming console powered by a new version of their Linux-based SteamOS operating system.
• The Valve Steam Deck, lots of excitement and plenty to think about for Linux gaming
  • Now that Valve has actually revealed the Steam Deck, we finally know what all their recent Linux work has been for over the last few years. We have some thoughts to share on it both positive and negative.
• Faster Zombies to Steam Deck: The History of Valve and Linux Gaming
  • Well, Valve and Linux Gaming together have come a very long way since the early blogs posts about getting Left 4 Dead 2 running fast on Linux to the new Steam Deck. But just how far have they come? Let's do a little reminiscing.
• Feral no longer porting A Total War Saga: TROY to Linux, citing less demand since Proton
  • Well, the writing was on the wall for some time but this confirms it - it seems Feral Interactive aren't likely to do more Linux ports with the official port of A Total War Saga: TROY for Linux cancelled.
• Valve talks performance of the Steam Deck, Big Picture UI being replaced and Gamescope
  • Need even more information on the upcoming Linux-powered Steam Deck from Valve? We've got some more that has trickled through to talk about.
• Valve corrects the RAM specs for the Steam Deck, games should run nicely from SD Card
  • It seems that Valve had incorrect details on the specification sheet for the Steam Deck, and as a result we now know the RAM is more impressive.
• Frozenbyte are now telling Linux users to use Proton, even for their older games
  • Frozenbyte being the developer behind titles like the Trine series, Shadwen, Has-Been Heroes and the upcoming Starbase talks a little about Proton and future native Linux support.
• The SteamOS-like Linux distribution GamerOS becomes ChimeraOS with a new release
  • Getting a console-like big-screen experience with Linux gaming was a thing with SteamOS until Valve stopped updating it, then came along GamerOS to carry the torch which has evolved again with a new name of ChimeraOS.
• Ryan Gordon and Ethan Lee on Proton and the Steam Deck
  • For anyone who has been around Linux gaming for a while, the names Ryan "Icculus" Gordon and Ethan Lee will be well known as developers who port games to Linux and work on the tech behind tons of games.
• A new Valve game for the Steam Deck? It's not out of the realm of possibility
  • With the Steam Deck upcoming, what do we think the chances are that Valve will reveal a new game to go along side it?
• A chat with Joshua Strobl of the Solus Linux distribution
  • With Solus seeming to go from strength to strength along with a recent big release, it was time to sit down and have a chat with one of the team about the Linux distribution.
• Linux Foundation launches the Open 3D Engine based upon Amazon Lumberyard
  • This could be the start of something truly big for game development (amongst other things), with the Linux Foundation pulling together some huge names to launch the Open 3D Foundation and the Open 3D Engine based upon Amazon Lumberyard. UPDATED.
• NVIDIA shows off RTX and DLSS on Arm using Arch Linux, DLSS SDK adds full Linux support
  • Today NVIDIA put up a rather exciting blog post talking about RTX - with Arm. Not only that, they've showcased it using Linux too which is pretty amazing.
• XWayland 21.1.2 is out now with support for hardware accelerated NVIDIA on the 470 driver
  • A day many have been waiting for is here. Following on from NVIDIA releasing the NVIDIA 470.42.01 Beta driver that finally supports hardware accelerated OpenGL and Vulkan rendering on Xwayland, a brand new release of XWayland is out now.
• AMD releases FidelityFX Super Resolution source code
  • As promised when AMD revealed their answer to NVIDIA's DLSS, FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is now officially open source and available under the MIT license.
• VKD3D-Proton 2.4 is out with performance improvements for Direct3D 12 to Vulkan
  • VKD3D-Proton is the project that Valve funds to act as a translation layer between Direct3D 12 to Vulkan for use with Steam Play Proton and a big new release is out.
• Muck is a crazy-popular free procedural survival game out now for Linux
  • What seems to have come out of nowhere is Muck, a brand new survival game that blends in some random generation to make each playthrough different and it's now on Linux.
• Wine 6.12 is out now with theme work, Network Store Interface beginnings
  • The Wine 6.12 development release is out now, containing plenty more new features and bug fixes to help run Windows games and applications on Linux.
• Heroic Games Launcher 1.8.0 'Arlong' is out now and goes multi-platform
  • Not only does the alternative open source Epic Games Store client Heroic Games Launcher have a new release out with 1.8.0 'Arlong' it's also gone multi-platform.
• Valve has released an updated Steam Client with some Linux improvements included
  • After another while of releasing Beta builds for users to test, Valve has now pushed out the latest stable Steam Client upgrade for everyone and some Linux improvements are in.
• NVIDIA puts out a new release of their open source NVAPI interface
  • With the absolutely huge NVIDIA 470 driver release now out the door, NVIDIA has just put up a fresh release of their open source NVAPI interface.
• Heroes of Might and Magic II reimplementation sees a big AI improvement
  • fheroes2 is ensuring that the classic Heroes of Might and Magic II can never die, and with the latest version out now it's more interesting to play than ever before.
• In a surprising move Adobe joins Blender Development Fund
  • It was announced today that Adobe has officially joined the Blender Development Fund as a corporate Gold member to provide funding for future Blender development.
• The System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard is tiny, sturdy and very slick
  • System76 sent over a review unit a few weeks ago of their System76 Launch Configurable Keyboard, so here's what I thought about this tiny yet weighty device.
• An interview with Joshua Ashton, developer on the likes of DXVK, VKD3D-Proton and more
  • Time for another GamingOnLinux interview! This time, we have someone who many that follow Valve and Steam Play Proton will be familiar with - it's Joshua Ashton.
• Proton Experimental adds VKD3D-Proton 2.4 and some more fixes
  • Another smaller update to Proton Experimental has arrived, the special version of Proton where the latest enhancements come in before rolling out to the main Proton builds.
• 12 years ago we appeared online, Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux
  • 12 years ago on July 5, the GamingOnLinux website was created. Who would have thought it would still be going this long, in the face of overwhelming odds. Happy Birthday to us!
• Proton 6.13 GE-1 is out now with AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, Resizable BAR
  • Proton GE, the community-made version of Proton with a bunch of enhancements has a new release out with Proton-6.13-GE-1 pulling in a bunch of advanced features and fixes.
• Free and open source space trading game Endless Sky gets a 0.9.14 polishing release
  • Bringing the fun of the original Escape Velocity series, the free and open source Endless Sky has another release out with version 0.9.14 with an aim to polish it up a little.
• OpenRCT2 the reimplementation for RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 has a fun update
  • Another wonderful open source game engine reimplementation has a major upgrade. OpenRCT2 is a modern game engine for playing RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 and it just got better.

No surprise to see plenty of Steam Deck news being popular.

We published a total of 152 articles last month! You can see who contributed articles on this page.