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Bazzite Linux is easily one of the most popular gaming-focused Linux builds to run on handhelds and gaming PCs, with a major new update launched. With Bazzite being based on Fedora, they’re also gearing up towards the upcoming Fedora 44 release that’s due next week. So we can look forward to even more improvements there once they rebase their packages onto Fedora 44 too.

With all the different countries and US states expanding age verification laws for various devices, here’s what the Debian Linux team had to say about it.

Valve launched the latest upgrade to Proton Experimental, their staging ground for all the latest fixes for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS.

Wine is the base for Proton, which lets windows games run on the Deck.

Improved streaming quality and connection stability for an app like this can actually be pretty meaningful, so I figured it was worth sharing.

Basically you can now manage the download screen of your deck from a PC client. I haven’t gotten to try it yet, but my understanding is that the deck needs to be on for this to work, but it will work if the deck is already in the “screen off downloading updates” state.

Important to note that the results are a bit weird though for the last couple months.

Fancy a new type of simulator? How about flying your own seaplane? Lakehopper has launched into Early Access on Steam with Linux support.

Developer Martin Wimpress has announced their intention to move on from Ubuntu MATE, and so the distribution is looking for fresh faces.

One missed from the other week is The 7th Guest Remake got announced, bringing the classic haunted mansion adventure into modern times. Coming from Vertigo Games and Exkee, if you love exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky setting this might be one to stick on your wishlist.

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sudo apt purge lutris r.i.p.

A user asked on the official Lutris GitHub two weeks ago “is lutris slop now” and noted an increasing amount of “LLM generated commits”. To which the Lutris creator replied:

A user asked on the official Lutris GitHub two weeks ago “is lutris slop now” and noted an increasing amount of “LLM generated commits”. To which the Lutris creator replied:

If you want to do livestreaming or video recording on Linux, OBS Studio is easily the best free and open source app you can get for it and v32.1.0 is out now

There’s a bit of drama going on with the popular game manager Lutris right now, with users pointing out the developer using AI generated code via Anthropic’s Claude.

There’s a lot of age checking / age assurance bills going around right now, and System76 have entered the fight in Colorado to help open source.

This update, among other things, adds support for VK_EXT_descriptor_heap, which should bring significant performance boost to Nvidia cards, once it’s properly implemented.

One big issue with Linux / SteamOS gaming is a lack of anti-cheat support, and it seems Electronic Arts (EA) have future plans for supporting the platform.

Bazzite has a big new update available for your PC gaming handhelds and desktops with some major packaging upgrades to play with.

The Godot Engine team recently posted about more issues with “AI slop”, including various pull requests that have become a big drain on resources.

Rocket League is set to get Easy Anti-Cheat in April, as the Epic Games owned studio Psyonix just recently announced.

Lutris is an all-in-one open source game manager for launching games from various stores on Linux, with version 0.5.20 out now.

Note: Steam Deck OLED may be out-of-stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages. Steam Deck LCD 256GB is no longer in production, and once sold out will no longer be available.

Return to Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle are classic Macintosh games from the 80s, and they’re getting a bundled definitive edition re-release on Steam.

Protontricks is a useful tool for Linux gaming, but it’s a bit on the slow and complicated side that Prefixer aims to solve.

Have a VR headset and want to do some gaming from your Linux PC? WiVRn has a new release out that should make the experience even better.

The KDE developers are working towards the first Beta release of KDE Linux, their own home-grown immutable operating system. The eventual plan for it is to be a version of Linux suitable for most use-cases and as a “reference implementation” of KDE Plasma and KDE apps.

Guess where I am not going to buy games any more.

Epic Games have release their 2025 Year in Review for the Epic Games Store, and they appear to be doing doing quite well compared to previous years. Be sure to check out our guide to play titles from Epic Games Store on SteamOS / Linux.

To be honest, I expected RAM prices would push back the release date. But AMD would know more about than I would.

With a fresh month here now it’s February 2026, here’s your most up to date look at what has been popular for players on the Steam Deck.

The Open Gaming Collective (OGC) was an interesting announcement recently from a few bigger names, but the CachyOS team opted out of it and now we know why.

Also 36% of devs use generative AI, and 52% of companies use generative AI

You’ll own nothing and like it, even on Linux.