Skip to content
LinuxLinks

LinuxLinks

The Linux Portal Site

  • Home
  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Series
  • Search

Tag: gaming

AWOW AK41 - DOTA 2

AWOW AK41 Mini Desktop PC – Gaming – Week 5

August 5, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this week’s blog, Luke looks at gaming on the AWOW AK41 Mini PC. This tiny computer uses the Intel UHD Graphics 605, an integrated processor graphics unit from the Gemini Lake generation.

Read more
Linux at Home - Doom

Linux at Home – Take a break with rapid gameplay

June 5, 2020 John O'Donnell Games, Internet

In this series, we look at a range of home activities where Linux can make the most of our time at home, keeping active and engaged. The change of lifestyle enforced by Covid-19 is an opportunity to expand our horizons, and spend more time on activities we have neglected in the past.

Read more
Linux Candy

Linux Candy: tetris – terminal interface for Tetris

March 2, 2020 Steve Emms CLI, Games, Reviews, Software

tetris is a terminal interface for Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov.

Read more
Gaming Chat

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Retro Gaming – Week 17

February 19, 2020 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop, Games

For this week, I’m going to look at a few retro games, all nestling in Raspbian’s repositories. Free and open source gaming.

Read more
Gaming Chat

Best Free Voice Chat Software for Linux Gaming

June 12, 2018 Steve Emms Games, Software

It’s estimated that more than 1.4 billion people play computer games, with about 750 million of them participating in online gaming. That’s a colossal market for Linux to tap. The design of online games is diverse, ranging from simple text-based environments to the incorporation of complex graphics and immersive virtual worlds.

Read more
Go Ollie

24 Addictive Free Linux Games (Part 3 of 3)

December 14, 2017 Steve Emms Games, Software

In this third and final segment, we recommend a further 8 free Linux games that are great fun to play, highly playable and above all have a special addictive quality. We suspect that there will be a few games here that even the ardent Linux gamer will not have tried before.

Read more
Uebergame

24 Addictive Free Linux Games (Part 1 of 3)

October 14, 2017 Steve Emms Games, Software

The purpose of this article is to identify some of our favourite free Linux games which have these addictive qualities.

Read more

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 2

Best Free Software

Document Management Systems
Documents
Web Browsers
Internet
Education
Education
Internet Radio
Audio
YouTube Tools
Video
Paint Palette
Graphics
System Administration
Admin
Docks
Desktop
Productivity
Productivity
Genome Browsers - Web Based
Science
Games
Games
Vulnerability detection
Security
Replacements for du
Utilities
Object Relational Mapping
Coding
Stockmarket
Finance
Web Delivery
Web Apps
Crafting
Other
Programming Books
Books

Data Science

Data ScienceTake our free interactive courses in data science. There are courses for Python using pandas and plotnine and R using ggplot2.

Get up to speed in 20 minutes. No programming knowledge is required.

Recent Comments

  • Steve Emms on rainy – neofetch-like, minimalistic, and customizable weather-fetching tool
  • Torin Doyle on rainy – neofetch-like, minimalistic, and customizable weather-fetching tool
  • Steve Emms on Gazelle – minimal NetworkManager TUI
  • K0RR on Gazelle – minimal NetworkManager TUI
  • NYM on FLOPPINUX – embedded Linux on a single floppy
  • Shachar on KCalc – scientific calculator
  • Steve Emms on 9 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Search the Filesystem
  • joemaro on 9 Best Free and Open Source Tools to Search the Filesystem
  • Archie on 7 Best Free and Open Source BorgBackup Front-Ends
  • Steve Emms on 7 Best Free and Open Source BorgBackup Front-Ends

Programming Books

Read our curated lists of great free programming books. Learn Java, C, Python, C++, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and many more languages.

Alternatively, check out our series of great free programming tutorials.

Feedback

Help expand our coverage of Linux software by completing our:

  • Open-source software form
  • Linux distro form

Your feedback is very much appreciated. Complete our contact form.

Support Us


Donate
to LinuxLinks

Thank you for supporting LinuxLinks. If you like our site, the best way to ensure it remains available is to make a donation.

Small Devices

We’re publishing a series of articles for each of these Linux-based phones, Mini PCs, SBCs, and NAS devices.

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus laptop
BOSGAME M6 HX370 – AMD
BOSGAME M4 Plus – AMD
Minisforum AI X1 Pro – AMD
Minisforum UM890 Pro – AMD
Volla Phone Quintus with UT (ARM)
HP ProBook 440 G8 Refurb – Intel
ASRock NUC BOX-255H – Intel
Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS – Intel
Orange Pi 6 Plus (ARM)
Orange Pi R2S (RISC-V)
Orange Pi RV2 (RISC-V)
Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Max (ARM)
Raspberry Pi 5 (ARM)

Other SBC series are available on our Series landing page.

Replace Proprietary Software

Migrate from large multinational software companies and embrace free and open source solutions.

Google
Google
Microsoft
Microsoft
Apple
Apple
Adobe
Adobe
IBM
IBM
Autodesk
Autodesk
Oracle
Oracle
Atlassian
Atlassian
Corel
Corel
Cisco
Cisco
Intuit
Intuit
SAS
SAS
Progress
Progress
Salesforce
Salesforce
Citrix
Citrix

Reviews

ReviewsWe’ve written tons of in-depth and completely impartial reviews of open source software. Read our reviews.

New to Linux?

NewbieBegin your Linux journey with our easy-to-understand guide designed for newcomers.

Mega Compilations

100 GUI Apps
100 TUI Apps
100 CLI Apps

Recent Posts

  • ecscope – monitor AWS ECS resources from the terminal
  • Cursus – stores your history and makes it searchable
  • 14 Best Free and Open Source Vulnerability Detection Tools
  • ZGrab – application-layer network scanner
  • OneDriveGUI – simple Linux GUI for OneDrive
  • Best Free and Open Source Software: February 2026 Updates
  • Chisel – fast TCP/UDP tunnel
  • ML4W OS – Arch Linux-based distro
  • 11 Best Free and Open Source GUI Batch Renamers
  • ssm – SSH connection manager

Desktops

9 Best Desktops
24 KDE Themes
33 KDE Widgets
42 GNOME Extensions
Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE

Archives

Related

Contact us
Link us
FAQ
Comment FAQ
ForFOSS.com
OSSBlog.org
Privacy Policy

© LinuxLinks 1998-2026: Designed by LinuxLinks.