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Open source non-profit platform Codeberg "suffering from hate campaigns due to far-right forces"

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2025

Codeberg are a "non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects" and they've recently had a major problem from what they say are far-right forces engaging in a hate campaign.

Tomb Raider II open source re-implementation adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2025

TRX, the Tomb Raider I & II: Community Edition open source re-implementation project, has continued advancing and a fresh release of both are out now. With the Tomb Raider II side adding Linux support.

A workaround for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on Linux with NVIDIA GPUs has been found

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2025

While Final Fantasy VII Rebirth can work on Linux with AMD GPUs (like Steam Deck), the situation with NVIDIA GPUs has been messy. Open source to the rescue though, again.

Fedora threatened with legal action from OBS Studio due to their Flatpak packaging

By Liam Dawe, 14 Feb 2025

If there's one thing you can always count on in the Linux world it's that packaging can be a nightmare. The OBS Studio team are not happy with the Fedora folks due to Flatpak problems and threatened legal action.

Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol finally merged

By Liam Dawe, 13 Feb 2025

After years of work across many areas, lots of discussions and more work - the Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol has been merged!

Linux gaming overlay MangoHud version 0.8 is out now with Intel GPU support, improved Wayland keybinds

By Liam Dawe, 11 Feb 2025

After a short testing period, the Linux performance overlay MangoHud had version 0.8.0 released today to bring new features and fixes to one of my favourite open source projects. This also powers the built-in overlay on the Steam Deck.

KDE Plasma 6.3 is out now with big fractional scaling improvements, drawing tablet upgrades and more

By Liam Dawe, 11 Feb 2025

KDE Plasma 6.3 has been released and it's another beautiful sounding release! Filled with new features and fixes for my favourite Linux desktop environment. Plasma is also used on the Steam Deck for the Desktop Mode.

Popular game launcher Playnite will get Linux support but it's still a while away

By Liam Dawe, 10 Feb 2025

Playnite is a very popular free and open source video game library manager, one used a lot on Windows and a developer has confirmed they will be working on Linux support.

Blender Studio announced Project DogWalk, a "Micro-Game" made with Godot

By Liam Dawe, 10 Feb 2025

Blender Studio, the creative unit of the free open source Blender project, recently announced work has begun on their second video game with Project DogWalk.

Decky Loader for Steam Deck gets a store upgrade to show currently installed plugins clearly

By Liam Dawe, 9 Feb 2025

Decky Loader, the popular plugin system for Steam Deck / SteamOS, has a fresh release out making the plugin store a bit more useful.

GE-Proton 9-24 released with a new save game detection feature (and now GE-Proton 9-25 too)

By Liam Dawe, 9 Feb 2025 [updated]

GE-Proton 9-24 is out now bringing with it the usual assortment of fixes, plus as interesting change that will help games detect saves from other games. Update: GE-Proton 9-25 hotfix is also out now.

Wine 10.1 out now with fixes for Battle.net and more Bluetooth driver work

By Liam Dawe, 9 Feb 2025

With the huge Wine 10 release out, the Wine team have moved back to their regular biweekly development feature releases with Wine 10.1 out now.

The huge free Command & Conquer - Combined Arms RTS just got upgraded

By Liam Dawe, 6 Feb 2025

Powered by the always impressive OpenRA game engine, the standalone and entirely free fan game Command & Conquer - Combined Arms RTS has a brand new release out.

Valve fixes up The Finals and No Man's Sky VR with Proton Experimental

By Liam Dawe, 4 Feb 2025

A fresh Proton Experimental update from Valve has landed fixing up issues with two games for Linux / Steam Deck so here's what's new.

Nexus Mods app makes improvements to Collections, fixes Baldur's Gate 3 Script Extender on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2025

The newer open source and cross-platform Nexus Mods app has another update out, this time with more UI changes and improvements to the Collections system along with bug fixes.

PS2 Emulator emulator PCSX2 should get Wayland support "in the coming months"

By Liam Dawe, 3 Feb 2025

PCSX2 is a free and open source Sony PS2 Emulator, and it seems they're working towards ensuring it has full support for Wayland on Linux.

Linux performance overlay MangoHud 0.8.0-rc1 out now for testing with Intel GPU support and lots of improvements

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jan 2025

MangoHud is a performance overlay you can use on Desktop Linux, and it's what powers the built-in overlay on Steam Deck. A new release candidate is now available for testing for an upcoming stable release with version 0.8.0-rc1.

FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH should work better on Linux / Steam Deck with the latest Proton Hotfix

By Liam Dawe, 31 Jan 2025

Even though FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH is rated as Steam Deck Verified, it did launch with some problems on Linux / Steam Deck but Valve's Proton developers are moving quickly to improve it.