Table of Contents

• Top 10 Most Viewed by Year
• The Writers at Boiling Steam
• Tutorials and Guides
• Hardware Reviews
• Game Reviews
• Distro Reviews
• Cloud Streaming
• Interviews and Q&A
• Essays
• Boiling Steam Survey Results
• Other

Top 10 Most Viewed by Year

2018

1. I Finished Witcher 3 Thanks to DXVK | 2018-06-10 | Ekianjo
2. No Need to Wait for a Witcher 3 Port Anymore | 2018-04-09 | Ekianjo
3. An Interview with Peter Mulholland, ex-VP | 2018-07-10 | Ekianjo
4. Proton Is Getting Electric | 2018-12-25 | Ekianjo
5. MGS V: (dx)V(k) Has Come To | 2018-11-14 | Ekianjo
6. [TGS 2018] Amazing Holographic Displays | 2018-10-28 | Ekianjo
7. DXVK is Making Great Progress | 2018-03-08 | Ekianjo
8. LinuxvanGOG Talks About GOG’s Stance on Linux | 2018-02-09 | Ekianjo
9. Is Valve Working on a Windows Compatibility Layer? | 2018-08-18 | Ekianjo
10. Steam Play: The Whitelist Grows | 2018-10-06 | Ekianjo

2019

1. Valve Breaks the Shackles of Proton | 2019-01-21 | Ekianjo
2. We Don’t Game on the Same Distros No More | 2019-11-25 | Ekianjo
3. Proton: One Graph To Sum It All | 2019-04-08 | Ekianjo
4. Rocket League with D9VK: Better Than Native! | 2019-08-02 | Ekianjo
5. Solus, Arch, Rolling In The Deep | 2019-04-02 | Ekianjo
6. The Progress of Proton’s Compatibility | 2019-05-14 | Ekianjo
7. “Just Switch to Linux” Is The Loser’s Game | 2019-04-09 | Ekianjo
8. Proton Keeps Making Its Way in Compatibility | 2019-07-13 | Ekianjo
9. New Games Working on Proton in July 2019 | 2019-08-09 | Ekianjo
10. Bayonetta with D9VK: Smooth! | 2019-08-21 | Ekianjo

2020

1. Proton Has Brought About 6000 Games to Linux So Far | 2020-04-19 | Ekianjo
2. Emulating Nintendo Switch Games on Linux | 2020-07-21 | cow_killer
3. We Are Trying Out PeerTube | 2020-05-09 | Ekianjo
4. Proton 5.13: A Massive Update | 2020-10-16 | Ekianjo
5. A 100$ Quest to Build a Linux Gaming PC | 2020-05-14 | Ekianjo
6. Arch & Manjaro Still Going Strong | 2020-01-21 | Ekianjo
7. Steam Machines: Was it All in Vain? | 2020-10-12 | Ekianjo
8. ProtonDB Ratings, Revised | 2020-02-15 | Ekianjo
9. It’s in the Air: The Corsair HS70 Wireless Headset & Linux | 2020-10-21 | podiki
10. Odroid-GO Advance: Best Emulation Device of 2020? | 2020-03-14 | cow_killer

2021

1. Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games to Run on Linux | 2021-03-05 | Ekianjo
2. Out of The Top 50 Games, 70% Work on Linux Now | 2021-03-13 | Ekianjo
3. The Pyra Handheld Linux PC is Shipping | 2021-01-11 | Ekianjo
4. Sid Meier: More than Just Civilization | 2021-04-16 | Ekianjo
5. 7 Reasons Why I use Lenovo Thinkpad Laptops (for Linux) | 2021-08-27 | Ekianjo
6. Steam on ChromeOS: Not a Rumor Anymore | 2021-06-19 | Ekianjo
7. Aya Neo: A New Challenger for Handheld PC Gaming | 2021-02-21 | Ekianjo
8. The State of Virtual Reality on Linux | 2021-01-15 | patola
9. OpenTTD Went to Steam to Solve a Hard Problem | 2021-04-11 | Ekianjo
10. Emulating Nintendo Switch Games on Linux | 2021-08-09 | cow_killer

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The Writers at Boiling Steam

• podiki’s Introduction to Linux
• How Boiling Steam Games

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Tutorials and Guides

• Emulation
  • Emulating Nintendo Switch Games on Linux (2021)
  • Older version (2020)
• Gamepads
  • DualSense LED Configurator
  • Making Third-Party Gamepads Work With Steam Games
  • Making Gamepads Work with Wine
  • Dealing with Controllers Not Recognized by Steam
• 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
  • Xbox Series X
  • DualSense
  • DualShock 4
  • Steam Controller
• Graphics Cards
  • AMD 6700 XT
• Headsets
  • Corsair HS70
• Phones
  • PinePhone – UBports Edition
    • BraveHeart Edition
• Handhelds
  • Odroid GO Advance: Black Edition review by ekianjo
  • Odroid GO Advance review by cow_killer
  • Portable Steam Machine DIY
• Other
  • Overview of VR by Patola
  • Launch keyboard

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Game Reviews

• Action/Adventure
  • Owlboy – NATIVE
  • Tomb Raider (2013) – NATIVE
  • Rise of the Tomb Raider – NATIVE
  • Life is Strange – NATIVE
  • Life is Strange 2 – NATIVE
  • Thimbleweed Park – NATIVE
• RPG
  • Horizon Zero Dawn – PROTON
  • Ocean’s Heart – NATIVE
  • Indivisible – NATIVE
    • DLC review
  • Steamworld Dig 2 – NATIVE
  • Mad Max – NATIVE
• Fighting
  • 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
  • Metal Gear Solid V – PROTON
  • HITMAN – NATIVE
• Racing
  • Codemasters:
    • F1 2017 – NATIVE
    • DIRT Rally – NATIVE
    • F1 2015 – NATIVE
    • GRID Autosport – NATIVE
    • DIRT Showdown – NATIVE
  • 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
  • Roboggled – NATIVE
  • Chicken Police – PROTON
  • Bridge Constructor – NATIVE
  • Her Story – PROTON
  • Inside – NATIVE
  • The Stanley Parable – NATIVE
  • SuperHot – NATIVE
• Rogue-like
  • 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
  • Broforce – NATIVE
  • Goatpunks – NATIVE
  • Clustertruck – NATIVE
  • A Story About My Uncle – NATIVE
• Visual Novel
  • Danganronpa – NATIVE
• Rhythm
  • Friday Night Funkin’ – NATIVE, Open-source

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Distro Reviews

• 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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Cloud Streaming

• 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
• 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

• 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

  • Distros
  • Linux Gaming Predictions
    • Also this
  • Where People Buy Their Games
  • AMD vs. NVIDIA
  • Cloud Gaming

• 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?

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Other

• Game Picks for 2020
• Game Picks for 2017
• Game Picks for 2016
• Game Picks for 2015
• Microsoft Edge Review
• FFVII Remake Review
• Sid Meier – Review of his Memoir
• Benefits of Ultrawide Resolutions
• Building a PC for $100
• Is It Worth Getting an eGPU?
• Overview of Linux gaming in 2017

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