Patreon Logo Support us on Patreon to keep GamingOnLinux alive. This ensures all of our main content remains free for everyone. Just good, fresh content! Alternatively, you can donate through PayPal Logo PayPal. You can also buy games using our partner links for GOG and Humble Store.

Latest 30 Comments

News - Overwatch 2 with Season 20 has some very annoying crash-bugs on Linux / SteamOS
By greasefang, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:52 pm UTC
Someone apparently fixed it by putting
 [Overwatch.exe] dxvk.hud = compiler 
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1pijkf8/overwatch_2_season_20_crashing/ in their dxvk.conf
News - Overwatch 2 with Season 20 has some very annoying crash-bugs on Linux / SteamOS
By Calinou, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:46 pm UTC
So, stay off the chat entirely during matches and you should still be able to play.
Blizzard accidentally implemented a solution to toxicity in chat, but only Proton users may benefit from it. :P
News - Framework greatly expand their open source event and Linux distribution sponsorships
By mattaraxia, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:44 pm UTC
Quoting: scaineIt's hard to be upset at the Hyprland donations, I suppose, in the face of the all the good they're additionally doling out on a monthly basis. Still wish they'd drop Gnome for KDE though (and by extension, also drop Hyprland), as this feels like the direction of travel these days.

I might just be blinkered there though. I suspect Gnome still has a huge mindshare, probably as a combined result over decades of Ubuntu and Fedora.
KDE is in there, but they support their conference rather than just a KDE line item.

But GNOME has a lot more than just mind share. It's just not as popular with gamers right now.
News - Classic roguelike top-down shooter Nuclear Throne major update 100 out now
By Cyril, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:43 pm UTC
Quoting: seamooseI own Nuclear Throne on itch as a result of bying it in four charity bundles over the years, but the downloadable binaries have not been updated since 2016, and I doubt they will this time either. I also own the game on Steam so I don't much care but I would not get it on itch.
Unfortunately it's the same for the GOG release:
[https://www.gogdb.org/product/1448617555#changelog](https://www.gogdb.org/product/1448617555#changelog)
No updates since 2019. It's seriously shameful. It should even be illegal! emoji
News - Netflix want to acquire Warner Bros. but they have to fight off Paramount
By Linux_Rocks, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:21 pm UTC
Evil corporations gonna evil corporation. 💰💸
News - POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gets cancelled over generative AI with Goonswarm Games shutting down
By Linux_Rocks, 9 Dec 2025 at 10:03 pm UTC
Quoting: ScottCarammellI love this franchise with my entire pussy
External Media: You need to be logged in to view this.
News - Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 49: One More to Go!
By gbudny, 9 Dec 2025 at 9:44 pm UTC
Thank you so much for the article!

You are definitely better at playing it because I didn't get so far. I'm guessing that PenguinPlay can now cause some issues in Candy Cruncher because this website was closed.

I played the full version of Candy Cruncher for Linux 16 years ago, and it's one of the most addictive games for Linux. I was easily losing track of time with Candy Cruncher. I eventually decided I'm not going to play it anymore. I ran it last year, but I decided to play a few times. I didn't want to get stuck playing for hours. Losing motivated me to improve my score. It was too much fun for me.

It's a great game, and it was even more entertaining with PenguinPlay. You could compare your scores with those of other users. This feature wasn't available for Windows and Mac users.

The most interesting part is that the box version of Candy Cruncher was available exclusively for Linux users. The box version of Candy Cruncher for Windows and Mac doesn't exist. Additionally, LGP had been regularly publishing new patches only for the Linux version for many years.

You can also find the PowerPC and Sparc versions on the CD, which is only available for Linux users, which is amazing. You can probably play it on PlayStation 2 (and other PowerPC computers), but I don't have this console. It's the only Linux game where you can see Sparc on the box.

Companies like Loki and LGP were investing in porting some games to Alpha and Sparc. Interestingly, Microsoft never tried to port any commercial games, even for Windows NT PPC. Linux users had five companies that published commercial games for PowerPC.

I was disappointed seeing a piece of paper instead of a manual. LGP didn't include any manuals on the CD.

Lastly, Candy Cruncher for Linux was a much better product back then than the digital versions for Windows and Mac.

@Hamish, you should try playing Madblox for Linux. I keep it on my Desktop, and play it when other games start to get too annoying for me.
News - The Logitech G305 Lightspeed Wireless mouse is a great reasonably priced pick
By Dwayne, 9 Dec 2025 at 9:08 pm UTC
I always LOVED this mouse, bought like 3 of them in total.
News - War Thunder is getting infantry combat
By Orkultus, 9 Dec 2025 at 7:49 pm UTC
This will be amazing.
News - Netflix want to acquire Warner Bros. but they have to fight off Paramount
By elmapul, 9 Dec 2025 at 7:42 pm UTC
Netflix: i will pay 82.7 billions !
Paramount: i will pay 100 billions!
Netflix: i will pay 120 billions!
Paramount: i will pay 150 billions
Netflix: i will pay 200 Bilions!
Paramount: ok we give up (never intended to purchase this anyway, just wanted to make netflix lose more money)
News - Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
By wytrabbit, 9 Dec 2025 at 7:34 pm UTC
Quoting: dibzI long ago gave up using the actual client, I don't need fifty different browsers disguised as apps running.

Works fine, and frankly better performance-wise, as a pinned tab in Firefox.
Sure, but no push-to-talk in the browser is a major downside.
News - Linux players on Steam hit an all-time high for November 2025
By ScottCarammell, 9 Dec 2025 at 7:16 pm UTC
Quoting: GustyGhost
Quoting: EikeDebian is back in town! emoji
I'd been wondering how one of the most well established distros had even disappeared from the stats at all.
Most people just use distros based on Debian rather than Debian itself. Which is a shame - I love Debian's simplicity and ease of use, and honestly it could probably work as a baby's first distro too. Either way, glad to see it back on the charts, love to see my Debian getting the recognition it deserves.
News - Framework greatly expand their open source event and Linux distribution sponsorships
By TheSHEEEP, 9 Dec 2025 at 7:14 pm UTC
I ordered another Framework one just a few weeks ago. Is taking its time, unfortunately...

Quoting: NumerfoltUnfortunately they lost quite some people that now thinks that framework is fine with sponsoring fascists :/
Some people are generally not missed after they are "lost".
Those who will call others all kinds of names for having a differing opinion from theirs, even the most lukewarm of differences (such as "maybe don't try to push a political ideology through entirely unrelated software?"), are very high on that list of "won't be missed".

In the end, Framework seems to be doing just fine, so all that is just the usual tempest in a teapot social media brainrot.
News - Linux players on Steam hit an all-time high for November 2025
By Philadelphus, 9 Dec 2025 at 7:13 pm UTC
Quoting: lucinos
Quoting: Philadelphusbut Trixie was released November 15 last year so I suspect
Trixie made it to stable only this August. Most people won't bother with testing/unstable.
Ohhh, thanks for that! I thought I remembered it coming out around the middle of the year (I'm on stable), but a quick search listed that as the release date so I figured my memory was just going. emoji I think that fits with what I outlined above even better.
News - POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gets cancelled over generative AI with Goonswarm Games shutting down
By ScottCarammell, 9 Dec 2025 at 7:06 pm UTC
That's a shame. Happy they don't wanna do business with studios comfy with AI, but cancelling a project altogether? That kinda sucks. Hope it can resurface without the AI garbage someday, I love this franchise with my entire pussy
News - POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gets cancelled over generative AI with Goonswarm Games shutting down
By Cley_Faye, 9 Dec 2025 at 6:47 pm UTC
Dang. And they tried to double down on it before walking back. Bad move.

I hope we reach some equilibrium soon. I'm not 100% against AIgen for specific use cases (or dare I say, new use cases?), I'm also all in favor of keeping creativity to the humans, and all this needs discussions. But doing something you *know* will put you in hot water, then putting up a straight faced lie, is not the way forward.
News - Hytale will run on Linux PCs via Flatpak but Steam Deck will require more work
By Xpander, 9 Dec 2025 at 6:39 pm UTC
Quoting: scaineI love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users. emoji

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.
Its fine if you like it.
flatpaks are just awful with their runtimes and permissions. Appimage at least is fully self-contained sandbox, not some random runtime this and that here and there with sometimes no access to this or that unless you manually modify things.
each their own. I don't like my distro to become an android device.
native distro packages are prefered for me.
News - Hytale will run on Linux PCs via Flatpak but Steam Deck will require more work
By 0ttman, 9 Dec 2025 at 5:53 pm UTC
Quoting: scaine
Quoting: Xpanderflatpak emoji

no appimage?
i guess someone can extract the client from it and build an actual package

nice to see linux support though
I love how ridiculously divisive we all are as Linux users. emoji

Dare I ask... why the hate for flatpak (a puke emoji, no less!)? If I can't install something directly, I want a flatpak. I'll use an AppImage and resent it, because it (often) doesn't create a menu item, it requires me to find a place for it to live (I usually bung them in ~/Misc/Apps or something), and doesn't update with the rest of my system. I won't use snap, as I'm not interested in YAI (yet another installer) when I already have flatpak.
I love AppImage because I can treat my applications like data. I can organize them in my own custom structure, back them up, copy them between any of my Linux machines including my kids Steam Decks and they just work most of the time.
News - Total War: MEDIEVAL III announced by Creative Assembly
By KohlyKohl, 9 Dec 2025 at 5:35 pm UTC
After the whole fiasco with Three Kingdoms and the cancelled sequel I will not be buying anything from them again.

[https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/17k6y1t/the_sequel_to_three_kingdoms_allegedly_was/](https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/17k6y1t/the_sequel_to_three_kingdoms_allegedly_was/)
News - Framework greatly expand their open source event and Linux distribution sponsorships
By Jarmer, 9 Dec 2025 at 5:16 pm UTC
This is so great to see!

@numerfolt do what now? Can you link me to some info? Oh it's the hyprland/omarchy toxic communities. I have never been there or spent any time with either, so I have no personal experience but from what I've read: they can F right off and I know for sure I won't be using either ever.
News - Netflix want to acquire Warner Bros. but they have to fight off Paramount
By Jarmer, 9 Dec 2025 at 5:00 pm UTC
The ultimate crime is how Zazlov (sp?) gets to run one of the biggest, oldest, most storied media business straight into the ground with pure idiocy and incompetence, then get to cash out a GIGANTIC check at the end as a reward.

He should get exactly $0.00 and all of whatever was supposed to go to him should instead go to all the employees of wb who've been royally fucked over throughout the past years with him in charge.
News - Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 49: One More to Go!
By Hamish, 9 Dec 2025 at 4:52 pm UTC
Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
[https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part49.html](https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part49.html)
News - Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
By Kithop, 9 Dec 2025 at 4:10 pm UTC
Quoting: tpauI wish we could replace this with element&matrix.
I used to think the same, but I kind of gave up on that fight. Technical issues with maintaining my own server coupled with [how long this meta-issue has been open](https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/discussions/723), plus their list of paying customers (who, of course, really drive their development)... honestly, good old Mumble is probably still my favourite, with just running my own Nextcloud instance with Talk/Spreed what I'm currently trialling.

I still deleted my Discord account entirely last month, though - my friends are fine just pinging me directly on Steam, which apparently has similar drop-in persistent voice channels in group chats, now?! It's still janky in the same way that the Steam client itself is janky, but still. emoji
News - POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gets cancelled over generative AI with Goonswarm Games shutting down
By Chrisznix, 9 Dec 2025 at 3:59 pm UTC
Goonswarm... do they originate from the eve online faction with the same name? If so, then i have no questions anymore. :)
News - POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gets cancelled over generative AI with Goonswarm Games shutting down
By Purple Library Guy, 9 Dec 2025 at 3:57 pm UTC
Quoting: BoldosSo, if I understand it correctly: People/users do not like AI stuff in games? emoji
They also appear to be iffy about people concealing and then blatantly lying about it when called out.
News - Classic roguelike top-down shooter Nuclear Throne major update 100 out now
By seamoose, 9 Dec 2025 at 3:55 pm UTC
> Official links:
> GOG
> itch.io
> Steam

I own Nuclear Throne on itch as a result of bying it in four charity bundles over the years, but the downloadable binaries have not been updated since 2016, and I doubt they will this time either. I also own the game on Steam so I don't much care but I would not get it on itch.
News - Netflix want to acquire Warner Bros. but they have to fight off Paramount
By Purple Library Guy, 9 Dec 2025 at 3:54 pm UTC
That's the current moment for you--even when you get to watch people you don't like fighting, whichever of them wins, we lose.
News - Total War: MEDIEVAL III announced by Creative Assembly
By pb, 9 Dec 2025 at 3:47 pm UTC
> pre-pre-production

they're probably assessing genAI models
News - Framework greatly expand their open source event and Linux distribution sponsorships
By Numerfolt, 9 Dec 2025 at 3:38 pm UTC
That's good to see.

Unfortunately they lost quite some people that now thinks that framework is fine with sponsoring fascists :/
News - Discord gets improvements for video on Linux PCs and Steam Deck
By dibz, 9 Dec 2025 at 3:34 pm UTC
I long ago gave up using the actual client, I don't need fifty different browsers disguised as apps running.

Works fine, and frankly better performance-wise, as a pinned tab in Firefox.
★ Support Us
Popular this week
Search or view by category
Contact
Latest Guides
MorrowindHow to setup OpenMW for modern Morrowind on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck
By Liam Dawe,
9
Hollow Knight: SilksongHow to install Hollow Knight: Silksong mods on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck
By Liam Dawe,
1
> View more Tips & Guides
Buy Games
Buy games with our affiliate / partner links:
Misc