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A laptop running OnlyOffice through Steam on Linux
Steam is a better way to run Windows apps on Linux than Wine, and it's not just for games

Proton is just better Wine

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steam via steam link on an android tablet
An old Android tablet makes a better Steam Link screen than any handheld I own

Using my gaming PC over the network just makes sense when I want to play certain games

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A laptop running Steam, showing the library page for Apex legends and the settings window with Remote Play options
Steam Remote Play feels laggy by default, but 3 hidden settings can fix it

Four, if you're a Mac user

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I replaced Moonlight and Parsec with Steam Remote Play, and my game streams finally get the quality they deserve

With Steam's addition of the Pyrowave codec, local streaming quality has received a serious upgrade

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A laptop showing the Steam library page for the game Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Steam's latest Beta update makes running Windows games and apps on Linux a lot easier

Add it to Steam and you're good to go.

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I stopped fighting anti-cheat on Linux and started using Steam Remote Play, and I don't miss dual-booting

If I can't completely escape Windows, I can just offload it onto something else

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Steam library on a desktop
I moved my Steam library to a cheap external SSD, and load times barely changed

Inexpensive storage doesn't necessarily mean slow games.

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Valve's new Remote Play codec uses up to 10 times more bandwidth on purpose, and it's the first time streaming has felt like sitting at the PC

The bandwidth requirement is hefty, but if you can meet it, it's really smooth

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A laptop with football manager open
Steam Cloud hit its limit, so I built a better sync system with my home server and two free tools

Steam Cloud is great, but its limits pushed me to set up something even better

Popular games in a backlog collection on Steam.
After Ubisoft banned Linux players from For Honor, someone got a refund for their 2025 purchase

Will it allow more people to get their money back?

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A graphics card on a desk in front of a Fedora Workstation system
Linux gaming's next leap isn't more FPS, it's a working Wayland overlay

Overlays are responsible for more than just friends lists and screenshots

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A Dell-branded Seagate Exos drive installed in a home lab PC
I moved my Steam library to a network drive, and the load times aren't nearly as bad as you'd think

I started using my ZFS mirror as a Steam library, and it freed up a ton of space on my workstation

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Popular games in a backlog collection on Steam.
6 games you might have rotting in your backlog that deserve to be played right now

The "perfect moment" to start playing these gems will never come

Steam's Big Picture mode on a dual-monitor setup.
Steam's best power-user tricks are buried so deep most gamers never find them

Two decades of using Steam and I didn't know about these.

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I stopped buying $70 games after discovering Steam's indie goldmine

It makes my money go a lot further in this current market.

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A Mac Mini in front of a monitor showing Risk of Rain 2
Mac gamers finally have a real solution, and it's running far better than I expected

PixelPort could change the game

Custom Steam library theme with Millennium launcher's plugins.
I discovered the Steam customization rabbit hole, and I'm hooked

Millennium turned my Steam launcher into something Valve never intended

Steam Hardware Survey data.
16GB GPUs finally overtook 8GB despite the memory crisis, but it isn't the good news everyone reported

Is the memory crisis finally over?

a sandisk USB drive held in front of a monitor showing cachyos
I put Linux and my Steam library on the same USB stick, and now any PC is my gaming PC

Portable installs are for more than just productivity

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Steam running on the Nintendo Switch
Linux gamers spent a decade asking for native ports, but Valve gave them something better

Native Linux support is actually undesirable now, and Linux gamers are experiencing that now

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