Steam Deck⌗

• use CryoUtilities? I had an interview with the project founder
• it’s possible to patch in audio support for distros besides SteamOS
• Wednesday’s client beta adds DualSense Edge support
• Thursday’s SteamOS beta update upgrades Mesa to 23.1, adding ray-tracing to DOOM Eternal

Native Games⌗

• Stardust Exile is an RTS set in space that just landed on Steam in early access
• Factorio gets Wayland support

Software Updates⌗

• Wine 8.3 adds low frag heap, fixes stuttering with Path of Exile
• Proton Experimental 2.27.2023 adds fixes for No Man’s Sky, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Pentiment, Locoland, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution
• Godot 4 releases as stable, way too many changes to list here
• Kernel 6.3 gets its first release candidate

Other⌗

• game devs are now only allowed 5K Steam keys
• Wine may soon get a Wayland driver
• I reviewed the best couch-gaming distro
• HP Dev One seems to be sold out

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