Valve just announced a new handheld gaming device running Linux, the Steam Deck. Since I know the first question you’ll have, yes it is running Arch (SteamOS 3.0), with KDE Plasma and a custom Steam interface. It ships in December… Continue Reading
Dear Launch, I found out I’ve missed so much,The day I felt your textured touch. Your LEDs with rainbow shimmerSmile to me with eyes a-glimmer. Your twinkling, smooth aluminum faceFirmly nests in my embrace. Your many layers, one through four;Flexibility… Continue Reading
Hey fellow readers, first Happy New Year 2021! Did you all have a good holiday break? We’ve got a lot of good stuff going on here at Boiling Steam, and we wanted to share some of it with you! First,… Continue Reading
If you are anything like me, you probably check deals for Steam games on a regular basis across different sources – after all, why buy games at full price if you can get them discounted? I also like having a… Continue Reading
Dear fellow Linux gamer, we’d like to take a minute to express our appreciation for you taking the time to visit BoilingSteam and reading our articles. We truly value your feedback, as well as our past and present contributors. Boiling… Continue Reading
Just a quick announcement, you may have noticed that for a few articles we have published our videos as PeerTube embeds. This is an experiment for now, but it looks like it’s working out reasonably well. Note that our Youtube… Continue Reading
Valve is apparently putting an end at the Steam Controller and getting rid of the remaining stocks during the Autumn Sales right now. I must admit I could not care less when they pretty much gave up on the Steam… Continue Reading
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
Just a short update. I am testing Mastodon these days, to move away from Twitter. I don’t really like Twitter to begin with – as most people I am wary of centralization, ads, and the whole business model that goes… Continue Reading
We are starting a new service at BoilingSteam, in collaboration with the talented porter ptitSeb, well known in the OpenPandora and Odroid communities! While you probably have a great amount of commercial software available (see our recommended games list!), there’s… Continue Reading