News for April 30-May 6 (FF7R Runs Great on Deck, HoloISO, Wine 7.8, Jason Evangelho Now Marketing Manager for Thunderbird)

Steam Deck⌗
- over 2,600 verified/playable titles
- Final Fantasy VII Remake runs great
- small update adds more keyboard layouts
- PowerTools is a plugin that enables the user to tweak even more power settings
- Kodi adds Deck control support
- want to try an unofficial version of SteamOS 3 on a device outside of the Deck? Try HoloISO
Software Updates (Wine, Bottles, MangoHUD, FNA, Ryujinx, etc)⌗
- Wine updated to 7.8 with plenty of bug fixes, X11 and OSS drivers converted to PE, and a few other features
- Bottles gets an update with a crashing bug fix. Also, the developers are now apparently GNOME Foundation members
- MangoHUD v0.6.7 comes with bug fixes and new features, including battery/connection status for supported gamepads
- Tails 5.0 upgrades to Debian 11 packages and adds Kleopatra
- Kdenlive 22.04 adds stability, polishing, and UI enhancements
- Firefox 100 apparently hides scrollbars by default
- FNA 22.05 updates FNA3D, FAudio, and SDL, while also adding a few bug fixes
- Ryujinx 1.1.112 adds ARCropolis/Skyline support
Native Linux Games⌗
Other⌗
- Jason Evangelho now the marketing manager for Thunderbird
- Square Enix sells all of its Western game studios—and their games—to Embracer
- Microsoft joins the Open 3D Foundation
- Linux market share on Steam in April hit its second highest percentage in years
- you can now play Fortnite on Linux with Xbox Game Pass. The best part? No subscription required
- GOL had an interview with Aaron Honeycutt from System76
- Microsoft open-sourced their old 3D Movie Maker from the 90s
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