Valve has just updated Steam’s client (at least the beta one) to introduce some very welcome changes for Linux gamers. There are two major ones. First, Steam on Linux now allows users to force the use of Proton even for… Continue Reading
Yep, I am still busy looking at the data from ProtonDB. Why? Well… that’s the stuff I like to look at, and there’s always new ways to look at data that provide new findings. This time around, I checked what… Continue Reading
Following my last post on the December 2018 analysis of the ProtonDB data, I went through the free text comments (i.e. what people actually wrote about the performance of the game they tried with Proton), and based on 3541 comments,… Continue Reading
Oh my, did I push finishing this article for so long! Even though I finished Rise of Tomb Raider a long time ago, it left me somewhat indifferent. I can’t say it was a very good game. I can’t say… Continue Reading
There was a new data dump available a couple of hours ago from ProtonDB, so here’s a refresh of the data I shared about november just a few days ago, this time for December 2018. There were less unique contributors,… Continue Reading
While on the whole things are pretty much getting better in many places, sometimes there are two steps back instead of one step forward. The looming disaster for PC gamers in general is store fragmentation. Up until not too long… Continue Reading
Happy New Year 2019 to everyone! Now it’s time to look forward instead of back at 2018. I saw that on GOL they posted an article about their “Top Linux games” of 2018. The wording, and the underlying idea seem… Continue Reading
If you are following the Linux Gaming market closely you are probably aware of ProtonDB by now. This site lets Linux users contribute reports regarding the state of Windows games running on Linux via SteamPlay. There’s a wealth of reports… Continue Reading
It was on Reddit (/r/linux_gaming) last month for a couple of days, so you may have missed it, but Man_With_Arrow did some tests on his eGPU setup and published them for everyone to see. This may be a new term… Continue Reading
The real Santa this year is Valve and Co. To be honest they have spoiled us so much since Q3 2018 with Proton that it’s almost like we were on a never-ending Christmas since then. In December they doubled down… Continue Reading