As Phoronix had spotted earlier today, Distrobox – a wrapper that creates and uses containers (like a distro) that are highly integrated into the host machine – got a pretty big update with 1.4.0. I won’t go over the changes, but I will say this: there’s now documentation on how to get Distrobox set up on the Steam Deck. Just look under the “SteamOS 3” section on their table. Simply run steamos-readonly disable via the terminal to disable the immutable file system, then follow their installation instructions for Arch Linux or install Podman to $HOME.

KIWI TALKZ interviews various employees (or ex-employees) from Valve and Retro Studios. He was the one who conducted the famous interview with Valve writer Eric Wolpaw, who had expressed his interest in writing Portal 3. Well, there’s also the interview with Portal 2 lead designer Josh Weier. There was one interesting clip where he talks about how Super Metroid influenced the introduction to Portal 2: We had this problem in the game which was if you just played Portal, we didn’t want to make you learn portals all again.

Remember that point-and-click game Splittown that I had talked about a couple of months ago? The Linux port of that game is becoming more and more of a reality. Someone had asked in the Steam forums what the status is as far as Linux support. A developer of the game responded: We’re using Visionaire Studio, which supports Linux porting, so it’s very much a possibility, but we haven’t explored that very much as of yet, since we’re still putting the game together.

Well, this is perhaps one of the strangest games that I’ve ever come across. It’s the year 2000. You play as Jaska, who goes on vacation to a little island known as Muhvijärvi in Finland. You’ve apparently crashed your car into a moose, and someone has robbed your summer cottage. Now you’ll have to find some way to regain your peace of mind, while helping your neighbors “have a nice midsummer festival.

Since the news about Cemu going open-source and available for Linux went viral a few weeks ago, we’re already starting to see improvements to the Wii U emulator with version 2.0-1. To start, the update is mostly bug fix-related. Many of the issues present with 2.0 should no longer be a problem with this update. The patch notes also mention “lots of smaller Linux improvements,” although it doesn’t go into detail concerning what exactly has been improved.

Many games on Steam support cloud saving. Meaning, once you exit the game, your save file will be synchronized with the Steam Cloud. You can then play the game on a different device and quickly resume where you left off. Some games, however, don’t support cloud saves. You’ll usually be able to tell by seeing if there is a cloud icon next to the green PLAY button, or by going to the Steam store page for the game.

Steam Deck Checker is a YouTube channel that covers all things Steam Deck. Though it’s primarily a German-speaking channel, there are a few videos that are in English. One such video is how to stream your Xbox to your Deck. The video has step-by-step instructions on how to get it set up. The process requires getting the AppImage of Xbox Xcloud client, marking it as executable, then adding it as a non-Steam game.

Steam Deck keep your expectations in check when it comes to Steam Deck Verified when buying a MicroSD card, you should be looking for a U3 A2 UHS-I new Deck client beta improves slider controls and adds some other fixes dbrand has revealed the full specs for the Project Killswitch accessory. Seems pretty similar to the DeckMate Native Linux Games apparently the developers are done with Splitgate and are moving on to their next project 25 new Linux games on Steam Software Updates Slippi 2.

Valve’s Steam Deck booklet made reference, not just to Linus Tech Tips’ heatsink installation on the Deck, but also the number of verified/playable games they’ve reached. In the booklet it says 4,500+, but now that number has reached over 5k. Great progress, right? Well, here’s a pet peeve of mine. The Internet goes wild whenever this number increases. Yes, we might have hit 5k verified/playable games on Deck. But here’s the problem: not all of those games that have received the green check mark or the yellow exclaimation point actually work on Deck.

We haven’t seen an update to Slippi since February. But today we finally got one! New features include desync detection and m-ex support (allows expansion of content). The modifier key should now work with keyboard setups, the performance warning is now more clear, and the quickchat feature has been refactored to C rather than ASM. One particular bug fix for Linux users is that building the project (or using it) on newer systems with ffmpeg 5 should now work!