Linux is now used by 3% of gamers on Steam, as handheld PCs and rising Windows frustrations fuel fresh momentum.

As highlighted by Boiling Steam, almost 90% of Windows games now 'manage to launch' on Linux, according to data drawn from ProtonDB. In short, it's now the case that when gaming on Linux - ...

Valve released Proton 10.0-3, the latest main stable version of the compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux / ...

Now, a new open source project is seeking to extend Linux interoperability further back into PC gaming history. The d7vk project describes itself as “a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7 ...

Valve's new Steam Machine won't be able to play some of the most popular multiplayer games due to its operating system ...

Sentry is a toolkit for game devs to monitor errors, performance and more and now it should work a lot better on Linux / SteamOS with Wine / Proton.

I'm looking to set up a mini pc (probably a Beelink, but I'm also open to suggestions there) in my family room for casual controller-based gaming with my wife. Nothing super graphic-intensive. Stuff ...

Highly anticipated: A few years after introducing Linux support for Apple's custom-designed Arm chips, Asahi developers are now shifting their focus to gaming. Getting modern Windows games to run on ...

CrossOver, the commercial Wine tool, is now available for Linux ARM64 devices in preview, allowing Windows games and software to run on ARM-based systems.

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Linux still has rough edges, but Zorin OS 18 continues to impress in that it makes Linux much more approachable and even Windows-like.