Valve took the Wine Windows compatibility layer for Linux, integrated it into Steam as Proton, and unlocked Windows-only games for Linux users. All those games you couldn't play without Windows ...

Native Port . Thanks to the popularity of the Steam Deck—which runs on Linux—more and more developers are actually shipping their games with na ...

In six days, nearly 1000 Windows-exclusive Steam titles became perfectly playable on Linux. What happens in the next six months?

Valve introduced Proton to try and get thousands more Windows-only games playable on Linux without developer support. Two months on and it's clearly working as 2,663 games are already Linux ...

Browser tests show a drop in Microsoft's Game Pass cloud gaming quality when using Linux versus Windows.

Linux gamers do much more effective bug reporting for games than their Windows counterparts, according to game dev Kodera Software. The number of bugs as well the quality of reporting are superior.

You needn't pick sides when it comes to Linux and Windows anymore. If you want to work on Linux and game on Windows then you have options available to you in 2021.

I converted my Windows living room PC into a Linux desktop, and I game a bit on that without many issues. I think SteamOS would be worth a try, and there are a few gaming-oriented distributions.

That's not to say gaming on Linux is a headache. No, native gaming is a snap. Install GOG or Steam for Linux, download your favorite available games and enjoy. But Linux has a fraction of the ...

For years, game support on Linux has seriously lagged behind Windows, to the point that the OS was basically a non-option for anyone who wanted to game on a PC. In recent years, that's begun to ...

More than 300 games are available for Linux today. However, plenty more are out there that are available only to Windows users, and if there's one thing Linux users don't like to accept, it's that we ...