Steam Deck⌗

I recently compared Ryujinx against Yuzu. Yuzu won, but take it with a grain of salt as it’s using half-resolution
the Portal skin – it’s amazing. Raffle is still going on!
the DeckMate is a pretty nice accessory
new beta Deck client update fixes stuttering and adds keyboard fixes. If you’re opted into the Preview branch, you’ll also get a performance improvement with Forza Horizon 5
we could be seeing an update to the kernel soon
we’ve hit a little over 4.5k verified/playable titles, but Hi-Tech Lo-Life has an interesting take about this
Spider-Man Remastered works great on Deck

Software Updates⌗

ChimeraOS 34 improves handheld gamepad support along with plenty of bug fixes. Works pretty well on Deck!
Heroic Games Launcher 2.4.0 adds GOG cloud save support and games can be added as non-Steam shortcuts
SteamTinkerLaunch 11 adds Flatpak support along with a host of other features and changes
Yuzu finally gets an easy installer for Linux, just like with their Windows version
Wine 7.15 adds RSA encryption, command lists in Direct2D, and fixes 22 bugs
glibc 2.36-2 fixes EAC! The previous version broke it

SokoChess puts an interesting spin on the game of Chess, though I don’t recommend playing it on Deck
Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack is a point & click adventure coming to Linux on August 23rd
33 new titles on Steam

XEL is an okay Zelda-like ARPG, but has quite a few issues that keep it from being enjoyable

Cover image credit: Yuzu developers