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Here is a look back at the 10 most popular articles on GamingOnLinux for January 2017, an easy way to for you to keep up to date on what has happened in the past month for Linux & SteamOS Gaming! If you wish to keep track of these overview posts you can with our Overview RSS.
We published a total of 175 articles last month! You can see who contributed articles on this page.
Here's what was most popular with our readers:
Exclusive: Civilization VI now fully confirmed to be coming for SteamOS & Linux and soon too
9 January 2017 at 12:00 pm UTC - Views: 78,486
It’s been a bit of a ride, but we now have it confirmed for sure that Civilization VI is coming to Linux, and the release isn’t far off. We are able to confirm this with permission before the official announcement from Aspyr Media that is due later today.
Some thoughts on switching from Ubuntu to Antergos for Linux gaming
18 January 2017 at 8:26 pm UTC - Views: 29,788
I did it, I jumped ship from Ubuntu to Antergos and I honestly can’t see myself going back. Here’s some thoughts on that.
Rich Geldreich, a former Valve developer, has an interesting blog post about Valve supporting Linux and OpenGL
4 January 2017 at 8:11 pm UTC - Views: 23,261
It's always interesting to read about what happens inside of Valve. Rich Geldreich, who previously worked at Valve has blogged about his experience inside Valve during Valve's push towards Linux.
Feral Interactive are teasing a new Linux port again
27 January 2017 at 4:54 pm UTC - Views: 21,704
Were you alarmed that Feral Interactive didn't have any new Linux ports listed on their radar? Worry no more, as a new UFO (Unidentified Feral Object) has appeared over Linux.
NVIDIA announce 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan
10 January 2017 at 9:18 pm UTC - Views: 16,334
NVIDIA has put out what they call 'VkHLF', a high level abstraction library on top of Vulkan. Looks like it's under a BSD-style license too.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is about to get ~70% better performance with RadeonSI
3 January 2017 at 10:08 am UTC - Views: 14,665
Marek sent in a patch for RadeonSI that will look to increase performance of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided by around 70%.
Multiple statistics have shown Linux market-share doing better than ever
7 January 2017 at 8:29 pm UTC - Views: 14,042
Good news for Linux fans, as multiple big websites showing off statistics have shown Linux is on the rise!
Here’s some interesting answers from Gabe Newell and Valve from the reddit AMA
18 January 2017 at 12:02 am UTC - Views: 12,210
Gabe Newell and others at Valve are doing a reddit ‘Ask me anything’ and I have compiled a list of some good stuff to read.
OpenGL 4.3 now available in Mesa for nouveau (NVIDIA) for Maxwell and above
12 January 2017 at 2:33 pm UTC - Views: 9,782
Samuel Pitoiset (Valve developer) just put some fresh work into Mesa-git that enables OpenGL 4.3 with nouveau (NVIDIA) for Maxwell and above.
Appreciating how far Linux gaming has actually come in the past few years
21 January 2017 at 8:20 pm UTC - Views: 9,474
During the livestream I did last night I had one of those moments where you fully appreciate how far Linux gaming has come.
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What was your favourite Linux Gaming news from January 2017?