Category Archives: linux gaming

2026 still isn’t going to be the Year of the Linux Desktop, but…

Posted on December 31, 2025 by baudattitude

…well, maybe it will be my year.  With some caveats. I spent a lot of time this year working on homelab projects that involved Linux in one form or another – Proxmox and Unraid, Bazzite and Omarchy – and while … Continue reading →

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Cracking open the EDID black box.

Posted on July 28, 2025 by baudattitude

OK, so.  History time! I’m typing this while in front of a high-resolution monitor.  It displays a picture that is 5120 pixels wide and 2880 pixels high, and it can update the screen up to 60 times per second.  I … Continue reading →

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Homelab updates: Bazzite is pretty cool!

Posted on July 6, 2025 by baudattitude

A few days ago, I mentioned that one of the services I was adding to my home lab was game streaming, with me repurposing a 5700U-based micro PC as a Bazzite box. Side note: Serious props to the Bazzite team … Continue reading →

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Prepping for the next homelab project

Posted on June 23, 2025 by baudattitude

So, my homelab experiment is running generally quite well.  I keep running into an annoying Proxmox bug that makes the ethernet controller hang up, and hopefully they will fix that soon, but I have a lot of self-hosted services now. … Continue reading →

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Linux Gaming, Bioshock Infinite, and gamepads

Posted on October 18, 2018 by baudattitude

A couple of days ago, I mentioned that I had accidentally deleted every game installed on my Linux PC.  Which, you know… well, I won’t kvetch too much because technically I DID tell the upgrade to go ahead and remove … Continue reading →

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