Steam Deck⌗

DeckCleaner is a great utility for freeing up some of your hard drive space
SteamOS beta improves FSR frame pacing, plus a new update for the stable Deck client with tons of changes
curious how the repair process works? I’ve documented it
Valve says “we don’t consider the Nintendo Switch to be a competitor”
Canadians, you may temporaily be on hold as far as your reservation is concerned

Native Linux Games⌗

System76 unveils a rebranded Thelio desktop with swappable front accents. If all goes well I should be getting a review unit sometime next week

SteamTinkerLaunch 11.11 brings Deck improvements along with several bug fixes
Steam desktop client improves Vulkan video capture and reduces network usage on startup
ChimeraOS 35 adds GNOME desktop, fixes for a few handheld PCs, and basic update notifications on the Deck UI
Proton Experimental 9.20.2022 enables NVAPI support for many titles, including CyberPunk 2077
Rare 1.9.0 adds plenty of fixes
NVIDIA driver 515.76 adds a few fixes
Mesa 22.2 adds better Intel Arc support, ray tracing improvements, Vulkan improvements for vkd3d-proton, RDNA3 support, etc.
Minigalaxy 1.2.0 adds plenty of fixes. 1.2.1 adds even more
GNOME 43 adds a Quick Settings menu along with plenty of other enhancements
Firefox 105 adds better Linux performance under memory pressure
Wine 7.18 adds Wow64 support in the Mac OS driver

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