Let’s start with gaming. For years, gaming was easier on Windows, but a growing number of Linux distros are great for gaming ...

The viability of Linux as a gaming platform has come on leaps and bounds in recent years due to the sterling work of WINE and Proton developers, among others, and interest in hardware like the Steam ...

With Wine 10.19, support for these reparse point mechanisms has been implemented in key filesystem APIs: for example ...

"There are no plans to support Proton or Linux," said McFarlane. "It's a vector for cheat developers, and one that would be poorly maintained by both us and EAC due to the low user base. When we ...

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

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 ...

With SteamOS and Linux, Valve has polished away many of the things that make PC gaming unapproachable to some people. Want to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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