Boiling Steam platinum (green) rank denotes games that run perfectly, out of the box. Gold (light green) requires just minor ...

PC gaming on Linux continues to improve, with around 90% of Windows games now compatible and most working perfectly out of ...

Wondering if Linux is as good (or bad) as everyone says it is? Well, I’ve been dual-booting Linux and Windows for a decade ...

In the realm of computing, the choice between operating systems often feels like a crossroads. Each path—Windows with its widespread application support and user-friendly interface, and Linux with its ...

In a nutshell: The Wine community has released a new version of the eponymous software, an essential for gamers using a Linux-based OS as well as for the Steam Deck console from Valve. Wine 7.16 ...

The open source Wine project—sometimes stylized WINE, for Wine Is Not an Emulator—has become an important tool for companies and individuals who want to make Windows apps and games run on operating ...

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who can blow a deadline. Linux Torvalds confessed that he'd love to have had "some good excuse for why I didn't do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular ...

Installing Linux and the SteamOS-like Bazzite on the ROG Xbox Ally X delivers up to a 30% performance improvement in some games compared to Windows 11.

I ported a lot of my windows-only programs over to my Linux build a couple of years ago, and they've been running mostly fine. Some loss of very minor functionality in configuration settings was the ...

Wine is not an emulator like Qemu or a virtualization environment like Virtualbox, but a runtime environment that aims to emulate the Windows API on Linux. This API mapping is not complete, but it is ...

Some days, you really need to run a Windows-only program, even if you're a die-hard Linux user -- like yours truly. For those times, I often turn to Wine (formerly an acronym for "Wine Is Not an ...