So I thought I’d have a little fun today and present a summary of the stats LGC has received over the past eight days since the Plausible Analytics went live. I will probably make this a thing at the beginning of each month where I summarize the stats for the month prior. I’ve had 3.7k unique visitors and 5.6k total pageviews in just a week. That’s a lot for a site that’s brand new.

News Some drama going around concerning the workforce behind the elementaryOS project. Cassidy James, one of the core developers behind the distro, recently left after working on the project for over 10 years It’s possible to run x86-based games on ARM thanks to box86 A game that’s been out for a few years recently got a Linux port: HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed. It’s also Steam Deck Verified. Just be aware that, for the time being, the Linux servers are not yet cross-compatible with Windows servers.

Well, here comes a shocker. It seems like Nintendo has finally given up the battle. After DMCA-ing the crap out of YouTubers who post videos of the Steam Deck emulating Nintendo Switch games, as well as shutting down unofficial, fan-made projects that make use of their IP, I think Nintendo is finally giving their fans what they want: a proper port of one of their first-party titles on a platform other than their own.

Ever wanted to use SteamOS 3.0 on a device outside of the Steam Deck? Well, winesapOS makes that possible. The name of the project is derived from Wine, the compatibility layer that allows Windows software to run on Linux, and also how the developers “develop on Macs and ship drivers for them.” The distro was created by Luke Short, a sales engineer at VMware and technical writer for Android Police.

UFD Tech recently put out a video that answers the question: can you use the Steam Deck with an external GPU? The short answer is yes. The extended answer is: this was only tested on Windows any GPU from NVIDIA didn’t work AMD GPUs work but they are bottlenecked by the speed of the M.2 slot on the Deck The process is simple: just take a M.2 cable that goes into the M.

My acquantance Gardiner Byrant recently released a video that, in part, goes over why Valve should slow down the Steam Deck Verified process. As it currently stands at the time of writing this, we’re at 1,929 titles on the Steam Deck that are either Verified or Playable, according to ProtonDB. Over 1,000 of those titles are Verified, while the rest are Playable. That’s a big jump from the 825 that we had a month ago with the Deck’s launch.

Got quite a few new things going on at LGC, so let’s get started. Logo Added to the Top I got the logo added to the top of the page. Doesn’t look great on the left, I know, but I’m hoping to get it centered once I figure it out. Still better than just text I would argue. Updated Plausible Analytics I have updated the Plausible Analytics to bypass ad-blockers. The Brave web browser still blocks the analytics, to my testing and to my knowledge.

Someone had recently wrote a ProtonDB report for Fall Guys that adds instructions to get the game to work through Proton. When Easy Anti-Cheat was added to the game a few years ago, unfortunately the massively popular game would no longer work on Linux with Proton. According to the new ProtonDB report, the good news now is it’s apparently playable on Proton once again. The report adds the following instructions:

Tunic is an isometric, Zelda-like game that was in development for some seven years. Most of the development of the game, including programming, 3D modeling, and map design, was all done by one guy: Andrew Shouldice. Andrew would later recruit other team members to help with the music and sound effects. Tunic released a few weeks ago on Steam and Xbox. Here’s my thoughts. You play as an adorable Fox, clothed in green garb (a nod to Link in the Zelda series).

A Portal 2 mod that’s been in the works for several years is Portal 2: Desolation. It’s a fan-made mod that features a brand new campaign, a new model for shooting portals, new characters, and more. From the looks of it it’s set to be the community’s version of Portal 3, set years after the events of Portal 2 (I wonder if J.K. Simmons will re-prise his role as Cave Johnson).