SteamTinkerLaunch – the massive Swiss army knife when it comes to managing your Proton-based games on Steam – hit a new milestone with the release of version 10, codenamed “Bagatelle.” One major feature that was added is initial Steam Deck support. Though the script doesn’t get installed as a Flatpak, you can simply download the steamtinkerlaunch script from the project’s GitHub and start it as deck user. You can actually navigate across the different options with the Deck’s built-in controls.

It was my last day at work. It’s early morning, around 7 o’clock, and the usual gang of employees who do nothing for the first hour are standing in a circle. Some of them have a cup of coffee in their hand, listening as the manager of the company is talking about something. What that something was, I can’t remember. Probably what he did over the weekend. I happened to enter the “circle” just a few minutes before I clock out.

YouTuber The Phawx recently uploaded a video that lowers the Steam Deck’s refresh rate to 40 Hz for smoother gameplay. However, it was done through Windows. Well, now it’s possible to lower the refresh rate on the Steam Deck than the default 60 Hz with Valve’s SteamOS. Additionally, users have better control over the device’s fan “to improve the experience in low usage scenarios.” Here’s the patch notes for SteamOS 3.

Though it has been confirmed that the Delta varient of the Steam Deck contains the whining fan noise, and though iFixit is trying to secure replacement fans, there’s a relatively easy fix that you can do right at the comfort of your own home, and chances are you’ll already have it available: electrical tape. A Redditor made a post about it. They recorded before and after the fix. All they did was take the back plate off the Steam Deck (just eight screws) and put some electrical tape behind the Valve logo.

Ryujinx – the Nintendo Switch emulator – will no longer be supported on Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and even builds of Windows 10 from 2018 and older, beginning June 1st. After that, the emulator won’t even run on those systems. The development team mentioned in their Tweet that “it’s not feasible anymore” to support these versions of Windows. Their reasoning is as follows: Graphics driver updates have ended for these systems.

So, those of you who may have been turned off by the fact that I initially went with Twitter can now rejoice, since I’ll primarily be using Mastodon as a means of social media for LGC. Twitter will be a backup in the event I need to get a hold of someone that otherwise isn’t available on Mastodon. Not going to get into the whole Musk buying Twitter thing, but that was part of the reason for the move.

Pop!_OS – the Ubuntu-powered distro created by none other than the geniuses at System76 – has just released 22.04 LTS (long-term support), shortly after the release of Ubuntu 22.04. There’s quite a few exciting things going on with this release, so let’s go over the changes. Software Upgrades As far as base upgrades are concerned, the kernel is using 5.16.19 (kind of surprised they didn’t go with 5.17), Mesa drivers have been upgraded to version 22, and the desktop environment is based off of GNOME 42 with System76’s COSMIC UX spinoff.

Gardiner Bryant, for those of you who aren’t aware, is a YouTuber who started out as The Linux Gamer back in 2014. As he’ll explain in this interview, he went from initially talking about native Linux games to talking about Linux in general. And now since he got a Steam Deck, that’s pretty much all he’s been talking about in his newer videos. I have occassionally pitched in and helped him with the scripts to some of his videos.

General Linux Gaming Ubuntu is falling behind, but apparently the newly released Ubuntu 22.04 is “absolutely stunning.” We’re starting to see less and less games that are borked through Proton. Thanks, Valve and CodeWeavers, for all the hard work that you do 21 new games have been released on Steam with Linux support You can update the firmware on your DualSense controller with Sony’s new FW updater app. Works great with wine-ge-custom or GE-Proton The game Overgrowth has now gone open-source Steam Deck Looks like Metroid Prime Trilogy works very well with the Deck You can customize the theme on Steam The Deck was the Steam top seller for the week ending April 17 Variable refresh rate switching is “coming soon” Small Deck client update went out, adding a few bug fixes and some other features The dock, now called a “docking station,” has upgraded ports.

Following hot off the heels of the official Proton 7.0-2 release yesterday, the developer of GE-Proton has followed up with GE-Proton7-15. Included in this release is a few protonfixes for State of Decay 2 and Fall Guys. The former no longer crashes, and now apparently the Fall Guys EAC works on Proton! You no longer have to apply those weird tweaks anymore. WINE_DO_NOT_CREATE_DXGI_DEVICE_MANAGER is a video fix that was enabled for the following titles: