Steam Deck⌗

SteamOS 3.4 shipped to stable
Tuesday’s beta Deck client update adds search tab to controller profile configuration, adds a few additional fixes
JSAUX announces the ModCase – versatile utility for adding and removing accessories to your Deck. They’re also selling a transparent back plate
we’ve hit 7k verified/playable titles
seems like everyone and their brother sees the Deck as their hardware of the year. I guess you could also say the Deck has finally put the “Year of the Linux Desktop” joke to an end

News⌗

Steam Winter sale is live from now until January 5th
NVIDIA to shut down GameStream in February
Epic Games to pay $520 million for “privacy violations and unwanted charges”
Intel to work on a new Xe graphics driver
AMD to improve “the Linux experience” when running new GPUs without proper driver support
SerpentOS releases its first public ISO

did an interview with an Ubuntu kernel developer. Highly recommend giving it a read if you haven’t already; it’s very candid and open

I did a review on a GameCube controller that uses an open-source PCB
PhobGCC 2.0.2 makes FW updating easier and adds a more reliable connection to C-stick
Portal with RTX can supposedly run on AMD-based systems

SteamTinkerLaunch v12 is massive, gets tons of Steam Deck improvements and initial support for Hedge Mod Manager
ProtonUp-Qt 2.7.7 adds two new compatibility tools, and you can check ProtonDB rankings for your games
Proton Experimental 12.21.2022 allows the next-gen upgrade for The Witcher 3 to run, improved steering wheel support
Proton 7.0-6rc adds compatibility to eight new titles, fixes 20 bugs
GE-Proton 7-43 fixes audio issues with Immortals: Fenyx Rising, enables hairworks on The Witcher 3 (although from what I’ve been told hairworks still apparently works without this)
Wine 8.0-rc2 fixes 50 bugs, many of which pertain to specific games
NVIDIA beta Vulkan driver adds support for the 4k series cards
Mesa 23 enables Vulkan mesh shaders for AMD’s 6k series
Manjaro 22 gets kernel 6.1 support

Cover image credit: Ikey Doherty (no, he’s not related to me; the spelling of the last name is different)