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SteamOS 3.9.5: Plasma 6.7, Linux 7.2, Better Handhelds

Valve's first stable SteamOS 3.9 release brings Plasma 6.7.3, Linux 7.2 and Steam Frame fixes to Deck and handhelds. Here's what to check first.

26 Oct 20264 min

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Linux

GE-Proton 11-11: The 12-Hour Hotfix That Brought Star Citizen Back to Linux

GloriousEggroll shipped a hotfix barely 12 hours after GE-Proton 11-10 to stop Easy Anti-Cheat from kicking Linux players out of their own games. Here's what broke, what the fix reveals about running Windows games on Linux, and the Proton hygiene drill that keeps your library playable through the next hotfix.

20 Oct 20265 min

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gaming

Linux

NVIDIA 615.78.08: The Linux Driver Update That Finally Cares About Your Latency

NVIDIA's 615.78.08 New Feature Branch build targets Linux gamers head-on: lower Proton latency, a Wayland HDR crash fix, and smarter suspend handling. Here's what actually changes on your machine, and how to upgrade without surprises.

9 Oct 20264 min

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cachyos

Linux

CachyOS Dethroned SteamOS on Steam — Desktop Linux Gaming Has a New Center of Gravity

September's Steam survey puts an Arch-based enthusiast distro at 18.12% of Linux gamers. The upset matters less as a ranking than as a changing of the guard.

4 Oct 20263 min

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gaming

Linux

Liquorix 7.2-14: The One-Line Scheduler Fix Behind Smoother Heavy Loads

Liquorix 7.2-14 landed October 1 with a tiny but telling scheduler tweak for fully loaded systems. Beyond the patch itself, here's what an enthusiast kernel buys you — and how to test-drive one without risking your boot.

1 Oct 20264 min