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Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high

Liam Dawe — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:47:43 +0000

Initially Valve's Steam Hardware & Software Survey for December 2025 showed Linux at 3.19%, but they appear to have amended it with a nice boost for Linux.

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The best Linux distributions for gaming in 2026

Liam Dawe — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:52:53 +0000

Here is your up to date list of what distro you should be picking if you want to start gaming on Linux in 2026. The latest edition of you telling me I'm wrong.

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Here's our 2025 GOTY picks

Liam Dawe — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:34:29 +0000

The year is almost over and so it’s time to let you know what we enjoyed the most this year while gaming on Linux.

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Survive an elevator trying to eat you in co-op horror KLETKA when it releases February 19

Liam Dawe — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:52:29 +0000

A bunch of criminals sent down the depths of a massive structure using a living elevator - what could go wrong? Lots and you'll find out in KLETKA.

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Proton Experimental brings improvements for Farlight 84, CHRONO TRIGGER and more

Liam Dawe — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:09:02 +0000

A little holiday update for Proton Experimental from Valve to improve Windows games on Linux, Steam Deck / SteamOS systems.

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Nexus Mods retire their in-development cross-platform app to focus back on Vortex

Liam Dawe — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:54:06 +0000

One of the new Nexus Mods owners posted an announcement noting that they're moving back to Vortex, ceasing development on their newer cross-platform app.

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CD PROJEKT and GOG co-founder Michał Kiciński acquires GOG from CD PROJEKT

Liam Dawe — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:44:23 +0000

GOG is breaking off from CD PROJEKT with 100% of it now owned by one of the original co-founders, Michał Kiciński.

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Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from GamingOnLinux

Liam Dawe — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:20:59 +0000

We're just about to hit the full swing of the holiday season, and so GamingOnLinux will go into its usual holiday hibernation to spend time with family.

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Bazzite Linux gets a spring cleaning update to end 2025

Liam Dawe — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:09:25 +0000

The very popular gaming-focused Bazzite Linux has a fresh release out that ended 2025 with a little spring cleaning, and I've finally joined the ranks.

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GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026

Liam Dawe — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:38:03 +0000

With Linux gaming clearly showing it's becoming more popular, and with GOG under new ownership, there's hope yet that GOG will improve their Linux support.

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Windows compatibility layer Wine 11 arrives bringing masses of improvements to Linux

Liam Dawe — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:35:33 +0000

Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows apps and games on Linux, a major part of Valve's Proton and now Wine 11 is finally here.

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Valve reveal the most popular Steam games of 2025

Liam Dawe — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:46:37 +0000

Now that 2025 is done and finished with, we can see what the most popular games were overall on Steam, and for Steam Deck the list is no big surprise at all.

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Steam Frame and Steam Machine will be another good boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall too

Liam Dawe — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:35:03 +0000

With the Steam Frame and Steam Machine launching with SteamOS Linux this year, we're going to again see a nice boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall.

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Linaro reveal they're collaborating with Valve for the Steam Frame

Liam Dawe — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:14:50 +0000

Here's a small bit of news but an interesting one for the upcoming Steam Frame from Valve, as Linaro recently revealed they're supporting Valve with it.

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Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support

Liam Dawe — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:54:23 +0000

It has been a long road for Hytale but the sandbox exploration RPG is now officially out in Early Access, with Native Linux support.

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Valve's documentation highlights the different ways standalone games run on Steam Frame

Liam Dawe — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:06:49 +0000

With the upcoming new Steam Frame hardware from Valve, they want to get as many games as possible running - and there's multiple ways for developers to do it.

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Mesa RADV driver on Linux looks set for a big ray tracing performance boost

Liam Dawe — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:49:58 +0000

One thing currently a bit lacking on Linux is the performance of ray tracing with the open source Mesa RADV driver, but a big improvement is coming.

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Valve reveal all the Steam events scheduled for 2026

Liam Dawe — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:55:44 +0000

We already had a list of the first lot of Steam events for the year but now we know everything that's coming, as Valve put up the second half.

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NVIDIA announce a native Linux app for GeForce NOW

Liam Dawe — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:42:58 +0000

NVIDIA already added Steam Deck support for GeForce NOW and they're now expanding it with a dedicated Native Linux app for desktops.

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2025 Steam Awards winners have been revealed

Liam Dawe — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:33:21 +0000

The time is here - you helped to pick the nominations and then you voted for your favourites. The 2025 Steam Awards winners have now been revealed.

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