Welcome to my “Gaming on Linux” corner — where penguins meet pixels and GPUs work overtime just to prove Linux can game. From nostalgic classics to modern shooters, I test, tweak, and sometimes overheat my poor GPU — all in the name of smooth frames, open-source glory, and a bit of chaos.
Running Steam on a dual-GPU Linux machine can feel like herding pixels through quantum chaos. In this guide, we’ll untangle NVIDIA offload magic, identify which GPU is doing the work, and show how to make Steam—and your games—use the right one every time.
Armed with a few free days, a Steam sale, and a Linux server that definitely wasn’t built for gaming, I decided to relive Assassin’s Creed. This is the story of how three Ubisoft games, too many CPU cores, and a stubborn fullscreen mode turned into a surprisingly satisfying Linux gaming puzzle.
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Gamescope is Valve’s lightweight nested compositor for Linux gaming. It lets you control resolution scaling, FPS limits, HDR, and adaptive sync with almost no overhead—acting like a smart performance layer between your game and the desktop compositor.
Black Friday brought new games to my Steam library, and one of them was God of War. I’m not much of a gamer—I'm more interested in how games run on Linux. Here’s my full guide on installing, configuring, and playing God of War on Linux with Proton.
A deep, practical guide to installing, configuring, and supercharging GameMode on Ubuntu for smoother, faster gaming. From GPU drivers to per-game tweaks, this post walks you through squeezing every last drop of performance out of Steam and Proton.
Running Ubuntu 25.04 and want to game with Steam? This guide walks you through GPU drivers, Proton setup, 32-bit libraries, audio/input fixes, and more—everything you need to turn your Linux box into a smooth gaming machine.
Want better compatibility and performance for Windows games on Linux? This guide walks you through Proton-GE from scratch: installation, updates, Steam and non-Steam launchers, advanced tweaks, and fixes for the most common problems.
You can’t optimize what you can’t see. MangoHud is the performance overlay that finally tells the truth about your FPS, GPU load, CPU bottlenecks, and frame times. In this guide, we install it, configure it, and use it with Steam games and glxgears — calmly, step by step, without panic.
With a few unexpected days off work, I decided to revisit Counter-Strike 2 and finally measure what GameMode really does. No miracles, no magic—just real benchmarks, real configs, and honest results from a system I know very well.
Running Crysis Remastered on Linux turned into a deep dive into broken settings, stubborn FPS locks, odd fullscreen behavior, and baffling stutters. This post explores every issue I found—and the strange fixes that sometimes worked.
vkBasalt lets you add sharpening, SMAA, FXAA, color filters, and more to your Vulkan games on Linux. This guide walks you through installation, configuration, GOverlay integration, and per-game activation on Steam, Lutris, and standalone launchers.