Jacob is a Senior Author at XDA with over a decade of experience in digital media. He's written for some of the largest names in the business, including Forbes, Tom's Guide, and Business Insider, and ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

When most people set up their favorite games on a new PC, they use Windows, my past self included. It is the standard in PC gaming, after all. However, gaming on Linux has been steadily getting better ...

Can Linux finally hold its own as a gaming platform? Reluctant Anarchist takes a closer look at how the open source operating system has transformed into a legitimate contender for gamers, breaking ...

In The Witcher 3 at 1080p, the Radeon 9070 XT (currently $749 on Amazon) actually ran a little better on Linux, averaging just over 170 FPS compared to 161 FPS on Windows. The RTX 5080, meanwhile, ...

For years, gaming on Linux sounded like something you tried once, failed at, and never admitted again. This same sentence can be said for the OS and its multiple distros when an experienced Windows ...

In the past few months, gaming handhelds have quickly progressed from an interesting new hobby to a full-blown obsession. Technically, my first handheld was the Windows-based ASUS ROG Ally, but it ...

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 ...

As Linux has improved its gaming support in the last few years, I have wondered how the gap is closing between the experience of using Windows for gaming as opposed to Linux. If we use Windows as a ...

Linux has evolved into a serious alternative for PC gamers in recent years. However, a new comparison by Meta PCs shows that while the open-source operating system can outperform Windows in some ...

Linux gamers have waited seven months for this moment. Nvidia’s native GeForce NOW app for Linux has officially graduated out of beta, giving Linux desktops full access to the cloud gaming service ...