Musical logic puzzler Beat 'N' Path has a demo live now

Beat 'N' Path is a game that sees you combine together your creativity and logic to create machines to play music, it looks wonderful and there's now a demo available.

Battlefield V now broken on Steam Deck / Linux with EA anticheat live

That's all folks. EA anticheat has now been added into Battlefield V, so it's the end of being able to play it on Steam Deck and other Linux systems.

Will Fedora Linux Go Full KDE Plasma!?!

When you think of Fedora workstation you think of GNOME, but does that have to be the case or is there a world where KDE Plasma is the flagship desktop inste...

MangoHud 0.7.2-rc1 adds Wayland keybinds, a time label and bug fixes

The next version of the Linux performance overlay MangoHud is close, with a release candidate up now and ready for testing with MangoHud version 0.7.2-rc1.

Linux Mint 22 moves to Pipewire, will ship newer kernels after release

Some good news coming out of camp Linux Mint, as the upcoming release of Linux Mint 22 is set to be quite a good one for bringing it up to standard like other distributions on newer tech.

Escape Simulator adds VR support in the latest free update

Escape Simulator from Pine Studio has proven to be popular, so much in fact that they hit 1 million sales in less than a year and multiple expansions later there's another big free upgrade.

Cozy Space Survivors is a sweet time survival roguelite in space

Cozy Space Survivors is an upcoming simple cozy time survival roguelite in spacem, a game for people who don't have all that much free time.

Superstar Strategy is a turn-based tactical RPG you can play with or against friends

Talberon Games have recently put up a brand new and improved demo for Superstar Strategy, a turn-based Tactical RPG that you can play alone, or brings friends along to play with or against them.

The Open Source Software Supply Chain Isn't REAL!!

Everytime something bad happens in the open source world there is talks of securing the Open Source software supply chain, the issue here is all the people b...

Of Life and Land is a promising settlement-building game with rich simulation out on Steam

Released into Early Access today is Of Life and Land (prev called Circle of Kerzoven), a settlement-building game from developer Marco Burri made in Godot.

257: GNOME 46, Linux 6.8, KDE Security Warning, Fedora 40 Beta & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital

On this episode of TWIL, we've got a brand new kernel to talk about with Linux 6.8. GNOME 46 has been released bringing a ton of desktop related goodies...

Get famous or die trying - grab Content Warning free for the next few hours

Content Warning is the latest release from Landfall Publishing (Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Clustertruck), which seems like a mix of Lethal Company with a blend of being a YouTuber. It's also free to claim until 4PM UTC.

Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024

Thanks to all of Valve's effort with Proton, Steam Deck and their funding of people working on various other bits of Linux code like GPU drivers - the Linux share on Steam as of March 2024 bounced back to a near multi-year high.

Flathub now prominently notes unverified Flatpak apps

After all the issues with Canonical's Snap package scams lately, it seems the Flathub folks are continuing to ensure their platform is trustworthy.

Heroic Games Launcher v2.14 has GOG and Amazon fixes, category customization improvements

The Heroic Games Launcher version 2.14.0 has been released and with it some category customisation improvements, to make them easier to work with. Along with fixes for their GOG and Amazon integrations and plenty more.

Free Settlers II inspired strategy game Widelands version 1.2 is out now

It's free, open source and full of features. Widelands, a game inspired by The Settlers II, has a big new release out now with version 1.2.

My Plasma 6 Feature Wishlist

As Plasma 6 progresses there's a bunch of things I'd like to see added into Plasma 6, whether that'll happen or not is still to be seen going into the future...

A Neat Linux Kernel Feature You Will Never Use

It's easy to forget that the main use for Linux is in the business world as such a bunch of changes get made that don't really matter for the desktop user bu...

The REAL Truth About Wayland

Wayland is set to be an important graphical protocol going into the future of Linux but does that really make sense and is there perhaps more going on than w...

The KDE Plasma 6 Experience

I've been talking quite a bit about my experience on KDE Plasma 6 but since I have a developer here he seems like the perfect person to chat about the proble...

The XZ Linux Backdoor Is Incredibly BAD!!

Of all the times for a massive vulnerability to come out did it have to be over the Easter Weekend, I just wanted to take a break and here we are talking abo...

Downgrading packages

XZ tools and libraries compromised with a critical issue

There's been an urgent security bulletin sent out in a few places today in the Linux sphere that relates to the XZ tools and libraries with liblzma, as certain version have been compromised.

Proton Experimental updated for The Finals, Red Alert 2, deals with high core count CPUs

Valve has released a new Proton Experimental update that pulls in some nice fixes for Linux Desktop and Steam Deck gamers, and this update should improve quite a few games!

Maniac is classic GTA meets Vampire Survivors - out now on Steam

From Transhuman Design we have the next survivor-like game with Maniac, that puts it into a classic GTA setting while you go on a bit of a frenzy.

Multiplayer comes to Cassette Beasts on May 20th

The fantastic monster collection game Cassette Beasts is adding in online multiplayer, with a Beta available now with the full update due out on May 20th.

Simplifying The Configuration Of Immutable Distros

A lot of people have this assumption that immutable distros can not be configured but that's not exactly the case, in fact they can be it's just done at a ve...

KDE Global Themes Are Fundamentally Changing

After the recent KDE Global theme situation things need to change with how KDE handles global themes thand thankfully that seems to be happening with a coupl...

Squad-based online shooter Enlisted: Reinforced now on Steam with Linux support

Gaijin Network (War Thunder) and Darkflow Software (CRSED: Cuisine Royale) have today released the online squad-based shooter Enlisted: Reinforced into Early Access on Steam.

Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps

After repeatedly suffering issues with scam apps making it onto the Snap Store, Canonical maker of Ubuntu Linux have now decided to manually look over submissions.

PUNKCAKE Délicieux just added Linux support to a whole bunch of games

PUNKCAKE Délicieux are a game dev duo that release small fun games around once a month, and they've just now given all of their available titles the Linux (and macOS) treatment.

SDL 3 will prefer Wayland Over X11, if certain protocols are available

Less than a week ago, SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) developers restarted the discussion regarding whether Wayland should be configured as the preferred over X11, but now Wayland will be sticking if certain Wayland protocols are available.

Requirements To Become An Official Ubuntu Flavour

If you're distro is an official Remix you can sort of do whatever you want but if you want to become an official flavour there's a few more requirements that...

4D Golf is making my brain melt away

Released on March 22nd, 4D Golf is about exploring higher dimensions through Golf. It's absolutely wild visually and I think you need to see this.

Building A Tiling Focused Ubuntu Flavour

I'm honestly surprised there isn't already a tiling flavour of Ubuntu Linux, there is one for Fedora but somehow the biggest distro in the world doesn't have...

Red Hat Tries To Make Better OPEN NVIDIA Drivers

If you wanted to use open source Nvidia drivers your only option for the longest time was Nouveau but a couple of Red Hat engineers are aiming to change that...

Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy from the ATOM RPG team has a demo and Kickstarter live

The team behind the post-apocalyptic ATOM RPG have launched a demo and crowdfunding campaign for Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy, a fantasy cRPG inspired by Infinity Engine titles like Baldur's Gate 1, Icewind Dale and other classics.

KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files

In another of their regular update blog posts, KDE's Nate Graham has highlighted some recent new KDE Plasma features coming soon to the desktop.

Sci-fi deck-builder Hyperspace Deck Command has a demo out now

Hyperspace Deck Command is the next game in the Hyperspace Anthology from Sleeper Games that includes their two previous games Swirl W@tch and ---Red---Tether-->.