League of Legends likely unplayable on Linux / Steam Deck soon due to Vanguard anti-cheat

A day we expected to come but now Riot Games have formally announced that their Vanguard kernel-level anti-cheat is coming to League of Legends, and so it will make it unplayable on Linux.

THE FINALS now appears to work on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux

Well this quite a surprise. THE FINALS is one of the most popular new online FPS games that uses Easy Anti-Cheat from Epic Online Services, and as of a recent update — it works on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux.

Lutris game manager v0.5.15 brings lots of overall improvements for game installs

Lutris is a game manager and helpful game installer for Steam Deck and Desktop Linux that brings together your game library from Steam, Humble Bundle, GOG, EA, Emulators and more.

Noxious Weeds takes Vampire Survivors and adds in angry veggies

Love horde-slaying reverse bullet-hell survival games like Vampire Survivors? Noxious Weeds is another that's now available in Early Access and it comes with Native Linux support.

Weird UNIX World Of Whacky Wheel Wars

Nowadays most of us operate on single user systems but this is a fairly recent phenomenon, in the past it was common to have multiple users remote into the s...

This Other Ubuntu Linux ISO Is Going Away

Did you know that Ubuntu Linux offered source ISO images, well that may not be the case for much longer as these are very likely going away soon==========Sup...

Bluetooth Battery Meter - GNOME Shell Extensions

#202 Solving Wayland's Multi Window Problem | Matthias Klumpp

I've spoken quite a bit about multi window apps on Wayland and today we have the Matthias Klumpp the man himself who is trying to solve exactly this problem ...

Linux Mint 21.3 released with Cinnamon 6.0 and experimental Wayland support

One of the easiest Linux distributions to use, Linux Mint, has a major new release available with Linux Mint 21.3 'Virginia' now officially released. This is probably one of their biggest releases in quite some time.

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Bayonetta, Ground Branch and more

The first update of 2024 for Valve's Proton Experimental has landed, bringing with it new game support along with fixes for multiple games so here's what's new for Linux and Steam Deck.

Old World - Wonders & Dynasties is a content-filled DLC out now

Old World is easily one of the best 4X games to be released in recent years, that is still quite largely overlooked compared to others in the genre and it only keeps getting better. A big new content DLC Wonders & Dynasties has just been released.

AYANEO Next Lite with a customized SteamOS-like HoloISO fully revealed

AYANEO has now revealed the specifications and pricing for the Linux powered AYANEO Next Lite, which will be using the SteamOS-like HoloISO, although customized by AYANEO for the handheld.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Get 12 Years of Updates

Canonical revealed the extension of software updates for Ubuntu LTS. And, we didn't know that until now...

Thunderbird's Relationship With Mozilla

Thunderbird was once a part of the Mozilla project and then it wasn't and then it was again so what exactly does the relationship between the 2 entities curr...

Linus Was Right, Never Break Userspace

Recently this Reddit post was floating around about deprecated functionality in grep, specifically fgrep and egrep and whether it's ever ok to actually break...

ELDEN RING gets patched to fix up anti-cheat on Steam Deck SteamOS

While no doubt many of you are waiting on more news about the upcoming ELDEN RING expansion, this is not it. Instead, a small update has rolled out to improve ELDEN RING on Steam Deck with SteamOS.

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Untitled Nerdy Chat Show - Jan 10, 2024

Is Free And Open Source Software The Best We Can Do?

We've been with both Open Source and Free Software for over 25 years and much longer in the case of Free Software and as can been seen from the modern softwa...

AYANEO NEXT LITE handheld announced with SteamOS Linux

Finally we're seeing another handheld vendor jump in with Linux. The AYANEO NEXT LITE was announced today and much like the Steam Deck, they plan to ship it with SteamOS!

How to Use Tiling Assistant on GNOME Desktop?

Wondering how to use tiling windows on GNOME? Try the tiling assistant. Here's how it works.

League of Legends likely unplayable on Linux / Steam Deck soon due to Vanguard anti-cheat

A day we expected to come but now Riot Games have formally announced that their Vanguard kernel-level anti-cheat is coming to League of Legends, and so it will make it unplayable on Linux.

Usurper turns Chess into a deck-building roguelike

If you love strategy games, board games, deck-builders and roguelikes you may want to keep a little eye on Usurper, an upcoming game from Rogue Brain Studios that releases later this year.

Thunderbird's Funding Is The Dream Of FOSS

Thunderbird's last round of funding was the greatest the project had ever seen, but what does that actually mean for the project what can be done now that si...

Check out the demo for the relaxing exploration-trading game Townseek

Available for a limited time during the Steam Capitalism and Economy Fest, you can try out a new demo for Townseek, a casual and relaxing exploration-trading game that looks real sweet.

This NPM Package Has 2.5 Million Dependencies!!

The web development ecosystem is an absolutel disaster and you look no further than a recent event which got some attention an NPM package called everything ...

Desktop Linux Market Share: January 2024

Curious to know the latest market share percentage for Linux desktop? You don't have to do the research, we've done it for you.

Free Command Examples in Linux

The free command in Linux helps you gain insights on system memory usage (RAM), and more. Here's how to make good use of it.

Cross-distribution support improvements coming for Canonical's Snap packages

Well, 2024 should be interesting for Linux packaging! While many distributions use different packaging formats like deb, rpm and others there's also Flatpak for cross-distro support.

Vanilla OS 2 Beta Release Date Revealed: 6 Things to Expect

Vanilla OS 2 beta is around the corner!

Improve Thunderbird To Spend Less Time On Emails

Whilst Thunderbird is already a great product a lot of people spend way too much time responding too emails so perhaps there are ways to improve to reduce th...

Reframing The Wayland Support Problem

We've discussed Probono's infamous Boycott Wayland post many a times but recently Nate Graham put out a blog post that I think you must read with an open mi...

Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 brings lots of improvements and some fun experiments

Heroic Games Launcher is the best way to manage games from Epic Games, GOG and Amazon on Linux and Steam Deck and Heroic Games Launcher v2.12.0 is out now. This new release brings with it a whole bunch of improvements across the entire app.