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According to NetMarketShare during April we saw a big bump in Linux use - Ubuntu gains big

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on May 9, 2020 7:47 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
It appears that during the Coronavirus lock-down, the Linux market share according to website NetMarketShare has seen quite a large bump.

xrdesktop continues expanding the Linux desktop into Virtual Reality with work sponsored by Valve

The codies over at Collabora announced the release of xrdesktop 0.14, a Valve Software sponsored effort to bring Linux desktops into the VR world.

Castle Game Engine looking to improve gamepad support thanks to SDL2

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on May 7, 2020 8:34 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Castle Game Engine might not be as well known as other free and open source game engines, however it does look rather useful and the developers continue to pull in improvements.

The Linux 'Desktop Entry Specification' gets a way to automatically use a discrete GPU, merged into GNOME

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on May 6, 2020 4:24 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
For some time now, the GNOME desktop has had the ability to launch specific games and applications using a more powerful GPU if you're in a multi-GPU environment and now it's advancing further.

Vulkan 1.2.140 spec out and NVIDIA has a new Vulkan Beta Driver up with new extension support

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on May 6, 2020 7:07 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Two bits of Vulkan related news to share today. Recently the Vulkan specification was bumped again with new extension and today a new NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver went up.

Manjaro Linux and Star Labs team up for their Linux-focused hardware

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on May 5, 2020 2:17 PM EDT)
Star Labs, a small Linux vendor from the UK has teamed up with Manjaro Linux to offer Manjaro as an option on their custom Linux laptops.

Manjaro Linux 20.0 Lysia released with Xfce, KDE and GNOME editions - Snap and Flatpak support included

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Apr 27, 2020 7:02 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Manjaro Linux 20.0 Lysia has been released today, as the latest major refresh for this Arch Linux based distribution.

Lenovo are to start shipping Fedora Linux as an option on their ThinkPad laptops

As a nice win for open source, hardware vendor Lenovo are going to begin offering Fedora Linux on their ThinkPad line.

There's now over 6,000 Linux games on Steam plus thousands more playable with Steam Play Proton

Seven years ago, Valve officially released the Steam client for the Linux desktop and since then the amount of games playable on Linux has continued rising. Thanks to Steam Play Proton, that's grown drastically too. Here's a brief look at how Linux gaming is doing right now.

Steam Play Proton 5.0-6 is out to help DOOM Eternal, Rockstar Launcher and more on Linux

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Apr 16, 2020 8:19 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
After a short Beta period to help find issues, today Valve / CodeWeavers have release the latest version of Steam Play Proton.

GRID (2019) is showing signs of coming to Linux

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Apr 11, 2020 1:57 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
GRID, the 2019 racer from Codemasters is showing some signs that a Linux port may be on the horizon going by some info taken from SteamDB.

You can help show Gaijin demand for a Linux version of their upcoming MMO 'Enlisted'

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Apr 8, 2020 3:34 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Gaijin Entertainment have teamed up with Darkflow Software to create a new squad-based MMO called Enlisted, and they're taking a survey of what players use.

FOSS app 'GOverlay' for managing Linux gaming overlays adds early support for vkBasalt

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Apr 8, 2020 6:54 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
GOverlay is fast becoming an incredibly useful free and open source Linux gaming application, giving you an easier time working with the MangoHud overlay and now the start of vkBasalt support too.

NVIDIA released the 440.82 stable 'Long Lived' Linux driver - helps DOOM Eternal on Steam Play Proton

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Apr 7, 2020 11:28 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Today, NVIDIA released an update to their stable driver series with driver version 440.82 now available in their 'Long Lived' branch.

The big Stadia round-up from the 'Google for Games Keynote' - Splash Damage exclusive, open source and more

Recently, Google held an online Google for Games Keynote and quite a lot of new information came out of it including new games to come to the Linux-powered Stadia. Plus some new open source projects.

Collabora partnered with Microsoft to get OpenGL and OpenCL on DirectX

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Mar 25, 2020 6:14 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
A very interesting use of open source in action here from the incredibly smart team over at Collabora who teamed up with Microsoft engineers to get OpenGL and OpenCL via DirectX.

Death and Taxes goes open source after selling 'pretty well' to help others

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Mar 19, 2020 12:59 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Death and Taxes, a narrative game about choosing who lives and who dies as the Grim Reaper is now officially open source.

Half-Life: Alyx support for Linux aiming to arrive with Vulkan support post-release

Today, Valve replied to our message asking about the situation with Half-Life: Alyx and Linux support and we got our answer. The game will be playable on Proton with DX11 at launch. Post-launch, we'll be aiming to provide Vulkan and Linux support through subsequent updates.

Say hello to your new best friend 'LVI' - another security flaw in CPUs for Intel

Security? What security? Say hello to 'LVI' (Load Value Injection), a new class of' transient-execution attacks' exploiting flaws in modern processors and it defeats all existing countermeasures.

A sweet new build of 'Minigalaxy' is out for easy GOG game managing on Linux

  • GamingOnLinux; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Mar 12, 2020 6:05 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
No GOG Galaxy on Linux? Not so much of a problem right now with handy open source apps like Minigalaxy and a big new release is up.

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