GNOME desktop environment is becoming less customizable with each update. Even after the release of GTK-4, this move has been controversial among many users, as it is quite restrictive when you want to apply a custom theming to your desktop. One such move was that if you pin an app to the dock at the …
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Rare is an open source lightweight frontend for the ‘Legendary’ command line launcher for the Epic Games Store. It can be seen as an alternative for Heroic Games launcher and/or Lutris, which are widely used to install and run games from EGS. Rare is cross-platform, and is available to install on Windows, macOS and Linux …
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Heroic Games Launcher is an open-source tool designed to optimize your gaming experience by allowing you to install and play games from your GOG and Epic Games Store Library. It is cross-platform and is available on Windows as well as macOS along with Linux. It uses the command line based Legendary launcher in the background …
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There are many game launchers available for the Linux Desktop right now, including Heroic, Lutris, and Bottles etc. all with a different set of features. Lutris attempts to unify the GOG, Itch, Steam and Epic games and on the other hand Heroic unifies GOG and Epic Games at one place. Bottles is mostly used to …
Proton, a fork of the WINE compatibility layer for Windows applications and games, is developed and maintained by Valve Software. Predominantly used to run Windows games on Linux via the Steam Store, Proton can also be enabled on platforms like Lutris, Bottles, and Heroic Games Launcher. Also read: How to Play PC Games on Linux …
Gaming on Linux has been a bumpy ride, a challenge taken up by hardcore penguins and deeply compromised gamers alike. In recent times however Linux has been flooded with good publicity and plenty of new recruits and converts… and these dues ex-Macintoshes and Windows lickers need games, dammit. Fortunately, these days they are being catered …
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Designing a video game involves multiple and complex stages. From the inception of an idea to the presentation in the market, it is a massive collaboration of efforts. This objective piece intends to create exposure to these fundamentals at every stage. During its creation, initial ideas are explored that then develop into more comprehensive concepts …
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The purpose of API security is to ensure that API requests are authenticated, authorized, validated, and cleansed while the service is under load. API security differs from ordinary web servers in that a modern application or service has various API endpoints that use multiple protocols and request formats. Still, typical web servers only need to …
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Is your website lagging on shared hosting? Do pages take forever to load, and you’re worried visitors are leaving your site frustrated? You’re not alone. Many website owners on limited shared hosting plans face performance issues, but that doesn’t mean fast load times are unattainable. With a few tweaks, you can significantly improve your website …
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There’s a story that goes like this: Developers at Google designed Go while waiting for other programs to compile. Traditional languages are so slow to compile that it forced Google employees to make their own language, and make their own language they did! The results are quite astonishing. Since go was designed to run on …
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