Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions and used by millions of people. The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use. Latest: Ulyssa (20.1).

 

Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation.

 

Games library manager.
Supports: Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, Humble Trove, Wine and RetroArch
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An online game marketplace and community. Also an app which manages downloading and updating of games acquired through the website.

 

Lutris is an open source gaming platform for GNU/Linux. It allows you to gather and manage (install, configure and launch) all your games acquired from any source, in a single interface.

 

Run Windows software on Linux and other supported systems in an advanced Windows runtime rather than emulation.

 

Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on Linux kernel and macOS operating systems. It uses Wine to facilitate this.

Most users will prefer to use Proton provided by the Steam client itself. The source code is provided to enable advanced users the ability to alter Proton. For example, some users may wish to use a different version of Wine with a particular title.

Getting Started with Proton from Steam Play
Make sure you are opted into the Steam Client Beta!
Proton requires graphics drivers that are more recent than what is typically packaged in most distributions; please read the list of requirements and quickstart for Ubuntu 18.04 users: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_3.7/PREREQS.md
Install and play games! Please refer to this post for more information: https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561

 

A Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 10/11 which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine.

For the current status of the project, please refer to the project wiki.

How to use
In order to install a DXVK package obtained from the release page into a given wine prefix, run the following commands from within the DXVK directory:

export WINEPREFIX=/path/to/.wine-prefix
winetricks --force setup_dxvk.verb
This will copy the DLLs into the system32 and syswow64 directories of your wine prefix and set up the required DLL overrides. Pure 32-bit prefixes are also supported.

Verify that your application uses DXVK instead of wined3d by checking for the presence of the log files d3d11.log and dxgi.log in the application's directory, or by enabling the HUD (see notes below).

Build instructions
Requirements:
wine 3.10 or newer
Meson build system (at least version 0.43)
MinGW64 compiler and headers (requires threading support)
glslang compile
Building DLLs
The simple way
Inside the DXVK directory, run:

./package-release.sh master /your/target/directory --no-package
This will create a folder dxvk-master in /your/target/directory, which contains both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of DXVK, which can be set up in the same way as the release versions as noted above.

Compiling manually

64-bit build. For 32-bit builds, replace

build-win64.txt with build-win32.txt

meson --cross-file build-win64.txt --prefix /your/dxvk/directory build.w64
cd build.w64
meson configure

for an optimized release build:

meson configure -Dbuildtype=release
ninja
ninja install
The D3D10, D3D11 and DXGI DLLs as well as a shell script to set up DXVK for a specific wine prefix will be located in /your/dxvk/directory/bin.

Notes on Vulkan drivers
Before reporting an issue, please check the Wiki page on the current driver status and make sure you run a recent enough driver version for your hardware.

 

A Vulkan post processing layer. Currently, the only effects are:

Contrast Adaptive Sharpening
Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing
Enhanced Subpixel Morphological Anti-Aliasing
Deband/Dithering.

 

CoreCtrl is a Free and Open Source GNU/Linux application that allows you to control with ease your computer hardware using application profiles.

 

Linux (GTK3+) GUI to view detailed information about and configure AMD GPUs settings.

 

Open source RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software.

 

Collects and logs details about game performance in games using OpenGL/Vulkan. Can display live statistics in overlay.