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Games: New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients and GNU "Linux PC Gaming Is On The Rise While Windows Trips Over Itself"
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Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients - 2025-11-12 Edition
Between 2025-11-05 and 2025-11-12 there were 73 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 801 games released for backdoored Windows on Steam, so the GNU/Linux versions represent about 9.1 % of total released titles. There’s a LOT of games that made it to the market in that past week, but at the same time, nothing completely outstanding either. I will let you have a look at our selection:
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Boiling Steam ☛ Upgrading Fans with a Custom Shroud on a RTX3090 - Goodbye Fan Noise!
I have a Nvidia RTX 3090 on my main workstation, and while it’s a great card for many types of uses, including LLM and image models outside of gaming, my model from Zotac has poor quality fans. Push the GPU a little too much and this is like a plane is taking off in your room. Turbojet sound? No, I would like to do without, please. I was considering different options, and through my search I discovered that someone on Etsy makes custom shrouds for a number of GPUs, to make it possible to attach big ass fans to replace the existing ones. We are talking about 120 mm fans, similar to what you get on the Framework Desktop. The shroud is just a few pieces of plastic with some screw holes - that match exactly the position of the screws on your GPU’s heatsink model, and allow for two 120mm fans to be fixed and stabilized effortlessly. I gave it a go. This is a description of what the steps look like. And the results, too, at the end.
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Linux PC Gaming Is On The Rise While Windows Trips Over Itself
For months I have watched the internet argue about PC gaming, with the never-ending Windows versus Linux debate always being mentioned. And ever since Linux gaming has taken the bullhorn, thanks to Valve’s involvement, the conversation is louder than ever.
You can barely mention PC gaming without someone jumping in to praise Linux or remind you that Microsoft’s Windows is constantly taking 1 step forward and two steps back. I have wanted to speak on this for a long time, but I usually held back because the pushback never stops. I am past that now. It is time to talk honestly about what is happening.