Initially Valve's Steam Hardware & Software Survey for December 2025 showed Linux at 3.19%, but they appear to have amended it with a nice boost for Linux.

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Finally! One of the most annoying issues is your system going to sleep while gaming with a controller, and KDE Plasma 6.6 will solve it.

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Along with announcing a Native Linux app for GeForce NOW, NVIDIA also revealed the new DLSS 4.5 with Dynamic Multi Frame Generation.

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AMD had plenty to reveal at CES 2026 with a bunch of new processors, including the new AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D as the "the fastest gaming processor on the market".

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NVIDIA already added Steam Deck support for GeForce NOW and they're now expanding it with a dedicated Native Linux app for desktops.

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I finally acquired an original Lenovo Legion Go and of course I had to put Linux on it and get rid of Windows, so I finally got to see the fuss over Bazzite.

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Intel have done their CES 2026 presentation and if you're going to be in the market for CPU and GPU power together, they might have something for you.

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Games For Everyone is a new podcast series from Linux For Everyone, something that should be a monthly thing to talk about the world of Linux gaming.

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Get some brutal retro-FPS goodness to start off 2026 with the recently released 77 map Quake Brutalist Jam III.

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Here is your up to date list of what distro you should be picking if you want to start gaming on Linux in 2026. The latest edition of you telling me I'm wrong.

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It's a new year, so here's some games that should release on PC during 2026 that I'm excited for.

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Keeping classic video game ideas alive, OpenTTD is based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It's free, open source and now better than ever with v15 out now.

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Baba Is You remains as one of my all-time favourite puzzle games and the developer looks to be moving on, with what should be the final big update for it.

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Command & Conquer - Combined Arms is an excellent free and standalone classic RTS game, with release 1.08 out now adding plenty new.

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Generative AI is everywhere, and now it may be in your browser plugins too. The popular Augmented Steam recently had some backlash due to VaporLens integration.

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The time is here - you helped to pick the nominations and then you voted for your favourites. The 2025 Steam Awards winners have now been revealed.

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A fresh new Humble Bundle to begin 2026 with some quality games and they're highly rated too, and they should all work on Linux / SteamOS.

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The D7VK project for providing Direct3D 7 support on Linux with Wine / Proton has expanded in the version 1.1 release to add experimental Direct3D 6 support.

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Much like Epilogue did with the GB Operator for playing actual Game Boy cartridges, they've recently revealed the SN Operator for the SNES.

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Now that 2025 is done and finished with, we can see what the most popular games were overall on Steam, and for Steam Deck the list is no big surprise at all.

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