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How to Run Diablo II with the GLIDE-to-OpenGL Wrapper

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Diablo II is usually a breeze to run on Linux, thanks to WINE and so often times you need no special tricks. However, if you're like me and experience a few glitches and washed out colours in the standard fullscreen mode, you have two options: run the game in windowed mode and go without…

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Getting Divinity: Original Sin to Run on AMD Graphics

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If you're running an AMD graphics card with Mesa (open source) drivers and tried playing the great RPG Divinity: Original Sin, chances are you simply ran into a crash upon launching the game. Thankfully, the community comes to the rescue and there is a work around. Here's how. To be perfectly…

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Fixing Screen Resolution in The Book of Unwritten Tales 2

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KING Art's point-and-click adventure, The Book of Unwritten Tales 2, is a beautiful game. But you might have a hard time seeing much of the game properly if you ran into the problem I did - a wonky, improper fullscreen resolution that meant I couldn't even browse the settings menu and actually…

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Getting Baldurs Gate 2 Enhanced Edition to run on Linux (GOG Games)

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If you are fortunate enough, your new shiny install of Baldurs Gate 2 Enhanced Edition will Just Work™. If you're on a fairly, what I call "late-model" distribution such as Arch Linux or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or even one of the latest (non-LTS) versions of Ubuntu, you might run into…

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Pangolin Reverse Proxy Moves to Dual Licensing With New Enterprise Edition

Discover how Pangolin Reverse Proxy's new dual licensing model enhances flexibility with its Enterprise Edition, catering to diverse business needs.

The post Pangolin Reverse Proxy Moves to Dual Licensing With New Enterprise Edition appeared first on Linux Today.

Fedora Opens the Door to AI Tools, Demands Disclosure and Oversight

Discover how Fedora is paving the way for AI tools while advocating for transparency and oversight in technology. Explore the future of responsible AI.

The post Fedora Opens the Door to AI Tools, Demands Disclosure and Oversight appeared first on Linux Today.

DietPi 9.18 Adds NanoPi R3S, R76S, and M5 Support

Discover the latest features of DietPi 9.18, now supporting NanoPi R3S, R76S, and M5. Enhance your lightweight OS experience today!

The post DietPi 9.18 Adds NanoPi R3S, R76S, and M5 Support appeared first on Linux Today.

SuperTuxKart 1.5 Open-Source Kart Racing Game Released with Major Changes

Discover the exciting updates in SuperTuxKart 1.5! Explore major changes and enhancements in this open-source kart racing game. Join the fun today!

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VirtualBox 7.2.4 Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.18

Discover the latest features of VirtualBox 7.2.4, now with initial support for Linux Kernel 6.18. Upgrade your virtualization experience today!

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Clonezilla Live 3.3.0-33 Adds Support for Cloning MTD Block and eMMC Boot Devices

Discover Clonezilla Live 3.3.0-33, now featuring enhanced support for cloning MTD block and eMMC boot devices. Streamline your backup process today!

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS “Resolute Raccoon” Daily Builds Are Now Available for Download

Discover the latest Ubuntu 26.04 LTS "Resolute Raccoon" daily builds. Download now to experience cutting-edge features and improvements in your system.

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The Complete Guide to Best Linux Distros for Beginners in 2025

Discover the best Linux distros for beginners in 2025 with our comprehensive guide. Find the perfect fit for your needs and start your Linux journey today!

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How to Dual Boot Windows and Linux on the Same SSD

Discover the step-by-step guide to dual boot Windows and Linux on the same SSD. Maximize your system's potential with this comprehensive tutorial.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Internet Radio

Discover the Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC, your ultimate solution for internet radio. Stream your favorite stations with ease and enjoy high-quality sound.

The post Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Internet Radio appeared first on Linux Today.

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Former Humble Bundle staff launch new bundle site Digiphile to "benefit users, creators, publishers, and charity"

Coming from veterans of Humble Bundle, a new bundle site has launched named Digiphile as the creators want to help you discover new games and support…

KDE Plasma 6.6 to get a great new feature - limit virtual desktops to the primary screen

The work never ends to improve the KDE Plasma desktop environment for Linux, and with Plasma 6.6 a fun new feature is coming to tweak virtual…

Pill-popping medical horror Side Effects from Free Lives arrives November 21

I love the idea of Buckshot Roulette meets medical horror, so I'm keen to see what all the pill-popping fuss is about with Side Effects..Read the…

Instead of racing in Backseat Champions you manage an AI driver like an auto-battling racer

Backseat Champions has a pretty clever idea, bringing the worlds of auto-battlers and roguelites to racing games with you managing an AI driver..Read…

MangoHud performance overlay for Linux gets a first v0.8.2 release candidate

The popular MangoHud performance display for Linux has a new release coming that's now ready for testing, with v0.8.2-rc1 now up..Read the full…

Final Sentence is a unique horror battle royale where you're all on typewriters

Type accurately and fast, as your life depends on it in Final Sentence. It's a unique blend of battle royale and horror with typing game…

The classic Unreal Tournament gets a big upgrade with the v469e patch from OldUnreal

The team from OldUnreal have put up a rather big patch for the classic Unreal Tournament, bringing lots of improvements and fixes to the classic Epic…

Sentry gets improved crash reporting for games running via Proton / Wine on SteamOS / Linux

Sentry is a toolkit for game devs to monitor errors, performance and more and now it should work a lot better on Linux / SteamOS with Wine /…

Talking point - what have you been playing lately?

Hello GamingOnLinux readers! It's time again to open up the floor as they say so jump into the comments and give your latest recommendations..Read…

Crimson Freedom could be one to watch for single-player RTS fans

Do you like single-player RTS games with a proper narrative to go with it? You may want to keep a close eye on the upcoming Crimson Freedom..Read the…

The EasySMX X05 Pro wireless controller is cheap, feature-filled and comfortable with a big flaw

The EasySMX X05 Pro was sent over for review and after spending weeks with it, this little device nearly turned into a favourite..Read the full…

D7VK brings Direct3D 7 to Linux using Vulkan based on DXVK

We've have DXVK and VKD3D-Proton for various versions of Direct3D on Linux, but now it seems we're also getting Direct3D 7 as well..Read the full…

THRASHER is thoroughly weird and it's out now as the follow up to THUMPER

I'm not entirely sure what I thought of THRASHER but it's certainly a unique experience and it's officially out now with Linux / Steam Deck…

Halls of Torment is still probably the best survivor-like with The Boglands DLC and free update out now

Possibly still the absolute best action-roguelike survivor-like ever made, Halls of Torment has expanded with The Boglands DLC and a big free…

Get The Sinking City Remastered and a lot of Sherlock Holmes in this Humble Bundle

Need some more adventures? How about The Sinking City Remastered and a bunch of Sherlock Holmes? Check out the Lovecraft and Sherlock classics…

Linux Mint to get an upgraded System Information tool and a spruced up system menu

A new blog post is out from the Linux Mint team going over some recent work, with the newer Cinnamon Menu coming along nicely and a new System…

The popular Easy Effects app swaps from GTK over to Qt, QML and Kirigami with a big new release

Originally known as PulseEffects, Easy Effects is an audio manipulation tool for Linux that provides many different useful effects and filters..Read…

GZDoom successor project UZDoom gets a first preview release

After the GZDoom implosion, the rest of the developers split off to form UZDoom and the first preview release has rolled out with some essential…

The Godot Engine 2025 showreel is out

Showing off a bunch of what's capable with the free and open source game engine Godot, the 2025 showreel has been released..Read the full article on…

Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop (VTT) is now free to play

Previously known as Fantasy Grounds Unity, the developers at SmiteWorks have now made Fantasy Grounds VTT free to play..Read the full article on…

Proton Experimental gets fixes for multiple Xbox Game Studios titles, ARC Raiders and various other games

Valve released a new Proton Experimental update for November 7th with a nice batch of game fixes for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck gamers..Read the…

Steam's wider store page refresh is live with plans to improve the home page on the way

For a while now Valve have been tweaking Steam store pages, including making them a fair bit wider which is now actually live everywhere for all…

OpenMW 0.50.0 for Morrowind is out with more enhancements and better gamepad support

Morrowind just got even better with the new OpenMW 0.50.0 release, as the free and open source game engine reimplementation has some big fancy new…

Mass Effect's SSV Normandy SR1 Returns to No Man's Sky with a re-run of previous expeditions

Hello Games are giving us all another chance to grab some cool stuff in No Man's Sky, like Mass Effect's SSV Normandy SR1 with various…

Lexispell is a roguelike word game where strategy meets physics

Now this looks like a cool mix, Lexispell brings some roguelike strategy flavour to word games with physics and the trailer easily sold me..Read the…

Grab the Telltale Collection from Humble Bundle

If you love adventuring the Telltale Collection Humble Bundle could be a good deal for you..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is getting delisted starting November 15

Slitherine / Black Lab Games have announced that the excellent strategy game Battlestar Galactica Deadlock is going to be removed from all…

Co-op climbing game PEAK gets a big update with a new Roots biome

Easily still one of my favourite co-op games, PEAK just expanded with another big free content update so get ready to slide and fall some more..Read…

Hollow Knight: Silksong Patch 4 is out now with lots of bug fixes and a major controller input change

Team Cherry have released Patch 4 for Hollow Knight: Silksong bringing with it more bug fixes, along with a big change to how controllers are…

New games to claim from Amazon Prime via Luna for November 2025

With the Prime Gaming branding being retired, you now claim your monthly Amazon Prime games via Amazon Luna - here's what you can expect for November…

SteamOS 3.7.17 released with fixes for Baldur's Gate 3, OS Updates and Discover

Valve released the latest stable system update with SteamOS 3.7.17 now available bringing bug fixes, but also disables wake-on-bluetooth for Steam…

NVIDIA adding lots of titles to GeForce NOW during November

NVIDIA have revealed a whole lot is coming to their cloud gaming service GeForce NOW during November 2025, so here's everything you need to…

CodeWeavers launch a new CrossOver Preview adding Linux ARM64 support

Gaming on Linux with ARM64 is about to get more interesting, with the team at CodeWeavers announcing a new CrossOver Preview..Read the full article…

Get a bunch of Devil May Cry and Monster Hunter in two new Humble Bundles

Two chances to build up two entirely different collections with the Devil May Cry Humble Bundle and the Monster Hunter Series Humble Bundle for…

The Falconeer gets a huge Revolution Remaster upgrade but drops Native Linux for Proton

The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster is now available bringing a massive upgrade to the action-adventure game, but Linux gamers will now need to use…

Luanti (formerly Minetest) joins up with Open Collective Europe for funding

Hopefully making this excellent open source voxel game engine project more manageable, Luanti (formerly Minetest) has joined up with Open Collective…

The open source FOSDEM event for 2026 will have a Gaming and VR devroom

FOSDEM is an important event for the open source community, and it seems like FOSDEM 2026 is going to be interesting for Linux gaming fans too..Read…

Steam Deck tweaked to fix delays with the screen-off downloads, and other Desktop Linux fixes recently

Valve put out another small Beta to fix up an issue with the new Steam Deck screen-off downloads, and some other Desktop Linux fixes that came…

Terminator 2D: NO FATE delayed yet again into December

Terminator 2D: NO FATE has a delay once again with the developers pushing it back into December due to issues with the physical releases..Read the…

The Crew Motorfest is Steam Deck Verified with the Season 8 update out now

As Ubisoft said it would be when they announced it recently, Valve have given The Crew Motorfest the green tick of Steam Deck approval..Read the full…

Scribbly, open-world action adventure Scrabdackle arrives December 2

Follow along the misadventure of a novice wizard in Scrabdackle, a scribbly-art open-world action adventure when it arrives on December 2nd..Read the…

Sonic fan game Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers gets a big upgrade

Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers is a thoroughly great kart racing game made by fans of the Sonic universe, and a big new upgrade makes it better…

Humble Choice for November 2025 has Total War: WARHAMMER III

Want another good deal? Humble Choice for November 2025 has Total War: WARHAMMER III and some other wonderful looking games..Read the full article on…

Sonic Rumble has arrived on Steam and works on Linux / Steam Deck

Sonic Rumble from SEGA has arrived on Steam, and although it has anti-cheat it is enabled for Linux / Steam Deck so you're good to go on this…

ARC Raiders has seriously exciting gameplay that has firmly hooked me in

ARC Raiders is the new hotness in town and thanks to Embark Studios enabling Proton support for Easy Anti-Cheat, I've been putting hour after hour…

Steam Deck gets a new low-power screen-off downloads mode

Probably the single most requested Steam Deck feature since release is now in Beta, allowing you to get your downloads going with the screen…

HYPER DEMON PVP brings a free 1v1 FPS like no other out now

From the developer of Devil Daggers and HYPER DEMON comes HYPER DEMON PVP, taking the wild visual style to a competitive 1v1 online FPS..Read the…

Warhammer Survivors announced as a licensed Vampire Survivors game

Oh wow, that's certainly a surprise. Warhammer Survivors is coming from Auroch Digital as a licensed version of Vampire Survivors..Read the full…

NVIDIA driver 580.105.08 out now for Linux as the new recommended version

NVIDIA today released the latest recommended / certified stable driver for Linux with version 580.105.08..Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Get more scary treats in the Horror Icons Showcase Humble Bundle

With a promise of more games coming to it later, the Horror Icons Showcase Humble Bundle has launched with a nice selection already..Read the full…