Steam Deck⌗

Steam Deck gets keyboard improvements
Valve puts up a video that goes over all the things the company has done since the past month as far as Steam Deck improvements
EmuDeck isn’t the only solution for emulation on the Deck: there’s also RetroDECK
dbrand now has skins for the Deck
Deck client received an update for quicker offline mode, dual trackpad updates, and plenty of other additions
Steam Deck ships twice a week now during certain weeks
Boiling Steam wrote a post on making the Steam Deck a laptop with 3D-printed parts

Software Updates⌗

New version of GE-Proton is out: 7-14 (updated since 7-12)
New version of vanilla Proton: 7.02rc
InfiniTime firmware 1.9.0 released, adding a new terminal-themed watchface
Project Heartbeat game gets massive upgrade with audio engine overhaul
Unreal Engine 5 was released this week, and Ethan Lee got it running natively on Linux via Wayland on NVIDIA
Open-source DDraceNetwork gets Vulkan support
Wine 7.6 has been released, which fixes 17 bugs, brings an update to the mono engine, and some other additions

Alan Pope, ex-Canonical developer, has written an “Unsnap” script that removes Snaps from your Ubuntu system
Nine new Linux-native games were released on Steam this week
HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed should now (theoretically) be cross-platform between Linux and Windows, although some people are still reporting issues
Kopper and Zink are important for the future of OpenGL, as brought out by the GNOME blog post
GPD is taking other people’s videos of the Steam Deck and putting it over their own videos, without attribution
Open-source NVIDIA driver for Tegra-based chips available now