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Steam Deck gets a 15FPS option, new keyboard themes

By Liam Dawe,
Valve has a fresh upgrade out for the Steam Deck giving you even more performance control, plus you can now buy new keyboard themes in the Points Shop.

Wine 7.4 changes the default theme and more PE conversion work

By Liam Dawe,
Another couple of weeks and even more work has been done on the Windows compatibility layer Wine in development version 7.4 that's out now.

Heroic Games Launcher now on Flathub, even easier to run Epic Games on Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Heroic Games Launcher, the community-made open source app for the Epic Games Store, is now available as a Flatpak on Flathub making it even easier to install and setup on Linux and Steam Deck.

Thoroughly odd sounding free adventure Mondealy: Day One arrives on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Mondealy: Day One from developer uglycoal seems pretty quirky and it's also free, although something of a prologue / demo for an upcoming bigger game.

Getting Minecraft and mods on Steam Deck is nice and simple

By Liam Dawe,
Want to get Minecraft working easily on Steam Deck or a normal Linux desktop without much fuss? Here's one way you could do it and it makes it easy.

Space Crew: Legendary Edition gets Steam Deck fixes, noted as Playable

By Liam Dawe,
Space Crew: Legendary Edition is another game that has been updated for the Steam Deck, with official verification noting it as Playable.

Proton Experimental fixes Apex Legends, Xbox login and more for Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
Proton compatibility with Windows games is going to be an ongoing improvement for many years, and Proton Experimental is where all the latest comes in first for Linux and Steam Deck.

Even Xbox Game Studios are talking about Steam Deck compatibility

By Liam Dawe,
Yes, even a fair few games that Microsoft / Xbox publish will work out of the box on the Steam Deck.

Four nerds talk about Steam Deck, Valve, Linux and more

By Liam Dawe,
I had the absolute pleasure of a very long and relaxed chat with some other Linux content creators: Nick from The Linux Experiment, Jason from Forbes / Linux4Everyone and Gardiner Bryant.

Windows drivers roll out for Steam Deck but Valve won't support it

By Liam Dawe,
Out of the box, the Steam Deck comes with SteamOS 3 Linux and overall apart from early quirks and bugs it does work very well but they're now providing Windows drivers — with a big caveat.

Atmospheric puzzle game The Last Cube is out now

By Liam Dawe,
I remember playing the demo for The Last Cube and being quite amazed at how good it was, and the full game is out now.

Crown of Pain could turn into the next great match-3 RPG

By Liam Dawe,
Do you like Match 3 games? Well, I do! Crown of Pain mixes together the idea of matching tiles but blends in turn-based RPG battles too.

Netherguild brings a turn-based tactical roguelite dungeon-crawling demo to Steam

By Liam Dawe,
Netherguild is a turn-based tactical roguelite dungeon-crawler, where you command expeditions below the earth in a desperate attempt to cure a strange plague. A proper demo is now available on Steam.

Here's how to get the EA App on Steam Deck with Bottles

By Liam Dawe,
Another guide for you today. For those of you who want to use the EA App on the Steam Deck (or a Linux desktop!), here's one of the possible ways to do it using Bottles.

Blender 3.1 is out with better performance, new advanced features

By Liam Dawe,
Blender, the all-in-one tool for 3D creation including modelling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and more has a big upgrade out with version 3.1.

Google plans their own version of Wine to run Windows games on Stadia

By Liam Dawe,
Stadia is something we don't really talk about here too much now, as Google has let it slide considerably from the original aim but it's still going and it seems Google still has some interesting plans for it.

Mesa drivers version 22.0 out now

By Liam Dawe,
More open source goodness coming at you, as Mesa version 22.0 is officially out now for Linux open source graphics drivers.

There's already over 1,200 titles either Verified or Playable for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe,
While there are issues with the Deck Verified system, Valve continues on noting down more titles as being either Deck Verified or Playable.

Steam had a massive year in 2021 with 132 million monthly players

By Liam Dawe,
With competition everywhere, Valve still manages to keep on growing at a rapid pace with the new yearly review up.

Core Keeper is a great blending of Minecraft, Terraria and more

By Liam Dawe,
Possibly one of the best starts for a game I've seen in Early Access for some time, Core Keeper seems like an absolute delight so far.