Boiling Steam Wiki: Content Index

This Wiki page indexes most of the content we have published as posts over the years (except news-related articles), making it hopefully easier for you to retrieve more info or uncover some less recent essays or reviews.

Top 10 Most Viewed by Year

2021

1. Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games to Run on Linux
2. Out of The Top 50 Games, 70% Work on Linux Now
3. The Pyra Handheld Linux PC is Shipping
4. Sid Meier: More than Just Civilization
5. 7 Reasons Why I use Lenovo Thinkpad Laptops (for Linux)
6. Steam on ChromeOS: Not a Rumor Anymore
7. Aya Neo: A New Challenger for Handheld PC Gaming
8. The State of Virtual Reality on Linux
9. OpenTTD Went to Steam to Solve a Hard Problem
10. Emulating Nintendo Switch Games on Linux

2020

1. Proton Has Brought About 6000 Games to Linux So Far
2. Emulating Nintendo Switch Games on Linux
3. We Are Trying Out PeerTube
4. Proton 5.13: A Massive Update
5. A 100$ Quest to Build a Linux Gaming PC
6. Arch & Manjaro Still Going Strong
7. Steam Machines: Was it All in Vain?
8. ProtonDB Ratings, Revised
9. It’s in the Air: The Corsair HS70 Wireless Headset & Linux
10. Odroid-GO Advance: Best Emulation Device of 2020?

2019

1. Valve Breaks the Shackles of Proton
2. We Don’t Game on the Same Distros No More
3. Proton: One Graph To Sum It All
4. Rocket League with D9VK: Better Than Native!
5. Solus, Arch, Rolling In The Deep
6. The Progress of Proton’s Compatibility
7. “Just Switch to Linux” Is The Loser’s Game
8. Proton Keeps Making Its Way in Compatibility
9. New Games Working on Proton in July 2019
10. Bayonetta with D9VK: Smooth!

2018

1. I Finished Witcher 3 Thanks to DXVK
2. No Need to Wait for a Witcher 3 Port Anymore
3. An Interview with Peter Mulholland, ex-VP
4. Proton Is Getting Electric
5. MGS V: (dx)V(k) Has Come To
6. [TGS 2018] Amazing Holographic Displays
7. DXVK is Making Great Progress
8. LinuxvanGOG Talks About GOG’s Stance on Linux
9. Is Valve Working on a Windows Compatibility Layer?
10. Steam Play: The Whitelist Grows

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The Writers at Boiling Steam

• Boiling Steam: Powered by Gitea
• podiki’s Introduction to Linux
• podiki’s 2021 AMD Build
• How Boiling Steam Games

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Tutorials and Guides

• Emulation
  • Emulating Nintendo Switch Games on Linux (2021)
    • Older version (2020)
• Gamepads
  • Gamepads on Linux: Overview
  • DualSense LED Configurator
  • Making Third-Party Gamepads Work With Steam Games
  • Making Gamepads Work with Wine
  • Dealing with Controllers Not Recognized by Steam
• Rescuing a Frozen Linux System
• Install Mods for Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
• Upgrade PinePhone PCB
• Use Epic Games Launcher with Legendary
• Stream PS4/PS5 Games to Linux with Chiaki
• Supercharge Steam with SteamTinkerLaunch
• Use Discord Through Matrix
• How to Use AMD’s FSR Feature
• How to Use Proton GE
• Get a Better Experience of Cyberpunk 2077 on NVIDIA
• Enable Freesync on NVIDIA

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Hardware Reviews

• Laptops
  • Tuxedo Computers
    • Tuxedo Stellaris
    • Tuxedo Polaris
  • System76
    • Galago Pro
    • Darter Pro
    • Serval WS
  • Pine64
    • PineBook Pro
• Valve Index
  • Review by cow_killer
  • Review by podiki
• Controllers
  • Controllers on Linux: Overview
  • Fusion Pro for Xbox One/Linux
  • Xbox One
  • Xbox Series X
  • DualSense
  • DualShock 4
  • Steam Controller
• Graphics Cards
  • AMD 6700 XT
• Headsets
  • Corsair HS70
• Phones
  • PinePhone — UBports Edition
    • BraveHeart Edition
• Handhelds
  • GPD Win 3
  • Odroid GO Advance: Black Edition review by ekianjo
  • Odroid GO Advance review by cow_killer
  • Portable Steam Machine DIY
• Other
  • Razer Anzu: “Gaming” Glasses
  • PineTime Smartwatch from Pine64
  • Overview of VR by Patola
  • Launch keyboard by System76

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Game Reviews

• Adventure
  • Epic Chef — PROTON
  • Life is Strange — NATIVE
  • Life is Strange 2 — NATIVE
  • Thimbleweed Park — NATIVE
  • Her Story — PROTON
  • Chicken Police — PROTON
• RPG and Open World Games
  • The Ascent — PROTON
  • Horizon Zero Dawn — PROTON
  • Ocean’s Heart — NATIVE
  • Indivisible — NATIVE
    • DLC review
  • Steamworld Dig 2 — NATIVE
  • Mad Max — NATIVE
  • Metal Gear Solid V — PROTON
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider — NATIVE
  • Tomb Raider (2013) — NATIVE
• Fighting
  • Legend of Tianding — PROTON
  • Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl — PROTON
  • Guilty Gear -Strive- — PROTON
  • Lethal League Blaze — NATIVE
  • Slap City — PROTON
  • Bounty Battle — PROTON
  • Streets of Rage 4 — PROTON
  • Them’s Fightin’ Herds — PROTON
  • Gang Beasts — NATIVE
  • Skullgirls — NATIVE
• Shooter
  • Anger Foot — NATIVE
  • Black Ice — NATIVE, Early Access
  • Black Mesa — NATIVE, Early Access at the time of review
  • Ballistic Overkill — NATIVE
  • Police Infinity (AKA Vengeance) — NATIVE, Early Access at the time of review
  • Max Payne 3 — PROTON
  • HITMAN — NATIVE
• Racing
  • Codemasters:
    • F1 2017 — NATIVE
    • DIRT Rally — NATIVE
    • F1 2015 — NATIVE
    • GRID Autosport — NATIVE
    • DIRT Showdown — NATIVE
  • Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered — WINE
  • Hot Wheels Unleashed — PROTON
  • DRAG — NATIVE, Early Access
  • PocketCars — NATIVE, Early Access
  • HotShot Racing — PROTON
  • Art of Rally — NATIVE
  • Road Redemption — NATIVE
• Survival
  • Grounded — PROTON, Early Access
  • Near Death — NATIVE
  • ARK: Survival Evolved — NATIVE, Early Access at the time of review
• Sports
  • Rocket League — NATIVE
  • Golf With Your Friends — NATIVE
• Puzzle/Mystery
  • Submerged: Hidden Depths — PROTON
  • Roboggled — NATIVE
  • Bridge Constructor — NATIVE
  • The Stanley Parable — NATIVE
  • SuperHot — NATIVE
• Rogue-like
  • Hades — PROTON
  • Loop Hero — NATIVE
  • ScourgeBringer — NATIVE
• Strategy
  • Monster Train — PROTON
  • Civ 6 — NATIVE
  • Dawn of War 3 — NATIVE
  • Total War: Shogun 2 — NATIVE
  • Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun — NATIVE
  • Stellaris — NATIVE
  • XCOM 2 — NATIVE
  • Prison Architect — NATIVE
• Platformer
  • Wonderboy III — NATIVE
  • Inside — NATIVE
  • Broforce — NATIVE
  • Goatpunks — NATIVE
  • Clustertruck — NATIVE
  • A Story About My Uncle — NATIVE
  • Owlboy — NATIVE
• Visual Novel
  • Danganronpa — NATIVE
• Rhythm
  • Friday Night Funkin’ — NATIVE, Open-source

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Distro Reviews

• GNU GUIX
• ChimeraOS (formerly GamerOS) — console-like distro based on Arch
• DraugerOS — based on Ubuntu with XFCE
• SalientOS — based on Arch with XFCE
• SteamOS Brewmaster

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Software Reviews/Picks

• Heroic Games Launcher
• GNOME Extension Recommendations
• AppImageLauncher
• Microsoft Edge Review

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Steam Deck

• Gabe Newell: Confident of Deck’s Future
• Preparations before Launch
• Check Verified Titles on Steam
• Teardown Details
• CheckMyDeck
• Optimizing Battery Life with GameScope
• Benchmarks and Battery Life
• Developer kit impressions
• Steam Deck Conference Highlights
• History and Future of Proton/Steam Deck

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Cloud Streaming

• Steam Link: Stream Games to your Phone
• Xbox Game Pass
• Shadow — “Rent” A Remote Windows PC
• Stadia, Luna, GeForce Now, PS Now
• Comparing Steam In-Home Streaming vs. Steam Link

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Interviews / Q&A

• James Ramey — President of CodeWeavers
  • James Ramey and His Thoughts on the Steam Deck
  • James Ramey and Proton 5.13
  • James Ramey — How Proton Came About
  • James Ramey — What CrossOver Is
  • James Ramey — DX11 Support for CrossOver Progress
• Game Porters
  • Ethan Lee — Proton Killed His Porting Career
  • Ethan Lee — Porting Wonderboy III
  • Ethan Lee — Porting Career Details
  • Marc Di Luzio — Dev at Unity, ex-dev of Feral Interactive
  • Peter Mulholland – Ex-dev of Virtual Programming
  • Tim Besset — Valve Dev
  • Ryan Gordon — Linux porter, part 1
    • Part 2
  • Edwin from Feral Interactive
  • Cheese — Linux Porter
  • Cybik — Porter of Skullgirls and Indivisible
• Luke Short: Steam Deck will Change Linux Gaming
• The Growth of Esports with Adam Adamou
• GDKChan, Ryujinx (Switch emulator) Dev
• Box64 – ARM-to-x86_64 Project
• Dev of Proton GE
• Dev of ChimeraOS
• Luke Short — Thoughts of Steam on ChromeOS
• Dev of SteamTinkerLaunch
• Dev of Zink (OpenGL to Vulkan Transition Layer)
• LinuxvanGOG — Stance on GOG for Linux
• ProfessorKaos64 — SteamOS tinkerer
• DirectHex — SteamOS tinkerer
• Introversion Software and the Linux Market

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Essays

• Why Portal Series is Coming to Switch
• Proton Vs. Native — Is There a Difference?
• Assassin’s Greed (Microsoft, Epic, NVIDIA, EA’s dominance)
• Proton: The Native Port Killer?
• Diversity in Open Source and Gaming: Does it Matter?
• 7 Reasons to Pick Lenovo Laptops
• Steam Machines: Was It In Vain?
• The Downslide of “No Tux No Bux”
• “Just Switch to Linux” Is The Loser’s Game
• The Looming Risks of Store Fragmentation
• No Such Thing as “Linux Games”
• Why I Ended Up Ditching SteamOS

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Boiling Steam Survey Results

• Q2 2021
  • Raw Data
  • Popular Tools Used
  • Gamepads that are Used
  • Distros
  • Linux Gaming Predictions
    • Also this
  • Where People Buy Their Games
  • AMD vs. NVIDIA
  • Cloud Gaming
  • VR
• Q1 2017
  • Distros
  • Gamepad Choices
  • GPUs
    • Proprietary drivers vs. open-source
  • Games that Gamers Want Ported
  • Racing Wheels Used
• Q1 2016
  • Overall Results
• Q2 2015
  • The Three Kinds of Linux Gamers
  • Who Are The Linux Gamers?

• Other
  • Popular Predictions for 2022
  • Reviewing Top 7 Predictions from February 2021
  • Overview of Linux gaming in 2017

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Other

• Arcane — TV Show Review
• Linux gaming predictions for 2022
• Evolution of Linux Distros over time (based on reports from ProtonDB)
• NVIDIA Pascal GPUs: Beware of DX12 Performance!
• Sid Meier — Review of his Memoir
• Benefits of Ultrawide Resolutions
• Building a PC for $100
• Is It Worth Getting an eGPU?
• Game Picks by Year
  • Game Picks for 2021
  • Game Picks for 2020
  • Game Picks for 2017
  • Game Picks for 2016
  • Game Picks for 2015
• Non-Linux Game Reviews
  • FFVII Remake Review
• Boiling Steam
  • Mastodon Vs. Twitter

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