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Nearly a decade ago, Ars testing found that Valve’s “Steam Machines”-era version of SteamOS performed significantly worse than Windows when SteamOS’s Linux game ports were tested on the same hardware ...

As Linux has improved its gaming support in the last few years, I have wondered how the gap is closing between the experience of using Windows for gaming as opposed to Linux. If we use Windows as a ...

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For now only officially supported on Ubuntu.

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Following on from the Steam Deck native app, more Linux users can now make use of GeForce Now. In a slowly growing show of support for the operating system, Nvidia has launched a beta version of ...