Earlier this month Proton 7.0-2 was available as a release candidate. Along with it came several bug fixes and games that are now playable on your Steam Deck. The official release is more or less the same thing as the release candidate, albeit for fixed rudder detection for Microsoft Flight Simulator and fixed video playback for Monster Train, Hardspace: Shipbreaker, Car Mechanic Simulator 2021, and Nine Sols. Here’s the official changelog:

Five people are trapped on a train track. A train is coming and the only way you can prevent those five people from getting killed is by pulling a lever. That lever will cause the train to go onto another track, but the problem there is that track has one person trapped on it. What do you do? Will you let the train go to its default route, killing five, or pull the lever and let it take the alternative way and kill one?

Most of you who read the headlines are probably aware of the fact that as of yesterday, you no longer need to own a PS5 in order to update the firmware on your DualSense gamepad. It’s now possible to upgrade the FW on your Windows PC. But I’ve noticed that, even though some have claimed to get the FW updater to work on Linux via Wine, I didn’t have such luck myself.

I got a hold of the man. The man behind one of the most popular websites out there for Linux gaming. Liam Dawe, the owner of GamingOnLinux (GOL). In this interview he reveals how he got into Linux, why he created GOL, his obsession over the Steam Deck, among other things. He even tells us how he manages to put in so many articles on his site on a day-to-day basis while having a family and other life obligations.

Lutris – a universal launcher for your Steam games, your Epic games, your emulators, and so much more – version 0.5.10.1 was released today. Included in this release is improved Flatpak functionality; Steam, app and desktop shortcuts will launch with Flatpak when necessary. This is important for such devices as the Steam Deck, as the Steam Deck by default can only run Flatpaks outside of Steam. MangoHUD can now be shown or remain hidden with a simple toggle.

Once upon a time, ten years ago, Ubuntu was the de-facto distro used for Linux gamers. That was at the time Steam was released as a beta for said operating system. Ubuntu was the only distro that officially supported Steam. Gabe Newell had referred to this time as “a huge milestone for the development of PC gaming;” he noted Linux as being an “open, customer-friendly platform.” Caonical chimed in on the support of Steam on Ubuntu as well.

I love getting insight with developers as far as what it’s like developing their project. I like the concept of having a distro that transforms a PC into a living room console, which, as Alesh Slovak (AKA alkazar) explains in this interview, is exactly what ChimeraOS does. So let’s take a deep dive into the mind of Alesh and see just what is cooking with this console-oriented distro. There’s two things from this interview that I want you to pay particular attention to, and that is:

Software Updates ChimeraOS 32 was released this week, adding the usual software upgrades, fixes for Aya Neo, and improvements to certain areas openrazer – a collection of Linux drivers for various Razer peripherals – version 3.3.0 released, adding support for a plethora of new devices, improvements to the software, and a collection of bug fixes EndeavourOS, based on Arch, has received the “Apollo” release. This adds new features and bug fixes during the installation process, as well as after the system is installed.

So, if you’re like me you probably read Pine64’s April Fools’ Day blog post and took it with a grain of salt. Well, in today’s blog post by the same company, Lukasz Erecinski clarified about that. No, the unicorns aren’t real, but the PineBuds are a thing. Wireless, Bluetooth earbuds that are similar to Apple’s Airpods (but with the probable exception of it being significantly less expensive, with the added benefit of customizable firmware).

Don’t get me wrong; OBS is a great tool to record your screen, regardless of what operating system your using. But you might have noticed something while trying to record gameplay on Linux: the CPU gets taxed quite a bit, even when using the NVENC encoder on NVIDIA GPUs. As a result, the framerate drops. Introducing a new, open-source screen recorder: gpu screen recorder. The developer of this project claims this significantly reduces CPU usage, “at around 0%” due to keeping the window image on the GPU and sending it directly to the video encoding unit with CUDA.