Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

Wine 11 brings near-native performance to Windows games on Linux. Thanks to NTSYNC, performance bottlenecks are a thing of the past. Wine 11 is now available in most distro default repositories. I ...

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...

Steam revolutionized digital distribution for PC games, but Valve's more recent push toward Linux and Proton-based gaming—whether through the Steam Deck or Steam Machine—is its most ambitious move yet ...

For years now, Valve has been slowly improving the capabilities of the Proton compatibility layer that lets thousands of Windows games work seamlessly on the Linux-based SteamOS. But Valve’s ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. As a pure PC gaming platform, Linux has come a long way, thanks in part to Valve and its efforts with SteamOS and its Proton compatibility layer for ...

I remember well when saying the words "gaming on Linux" would get you laughed out of the room. Then the original Steam Deck came out in early 2022 running SteamOS (a Linux distro) and using the ...

Windows has always been the operating system to play games on. Be it the latest MMORPG entry looking to knock World of Warcraft off its decades-long pedestal or a classic game no longer available.