Gabe Cubes And Strife - LGC #687 (Patreon)

Valve just announced a new Steam Machine, a new VR headset, and a new Steam Controller! That is one hell of a way to wrap things up.

Welp, they actually did it. Linux gaming has made its way into the living room and soon everyone will be covering it. Proton has gotten so good that you honestly do not need us anymore. The past couple of years we found ourselves showing up just to say everything still works, and that is not the kind of energy we started this with. We wanted to help push things forward, and now things are moving on their own. So we are wrapping things up on a medium note. No drama and no fuss. Life and other projects are pulling us in new directions, and that is alright.

There is a bit of house cleaning to do since over the years things have kind of just piled on top of Linux Game Cast. The Discord will stay up until the end of the month, and then it will be mothballed when the pause button is tapped on Patreon.

Interfacing Linux and LWDW now have their own Discord and Patreon, and you will see us and other familiar faces in both. The TM2 Crew will be moving over to the Interfacing Linux Discord at the end of the month to continue our acrobatic adventures.

Thank you for the years of support and for spending time with us. It's been a wild ride.

--VENN & JORDAN

LINKS

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLcQPcBMSbM

Show notes: https://linuxgamecast.com/2025/11/gabecubes-and-strife/

Interfacing Linux Discord: https://discord.gg/6QCp3uuEMc

Interfacing Linux Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/interfacinglinux

LWDW Discord: https://discord.gg/uQVckr5gEZ

LWDW Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lwdw

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

02:56 Steam hardware announcement

04:35 Steam VR face-toaster

08:56 Icculus hopeful about native Linux ports

10:31 New Steam controller

14:11 New Steam Machine

30:04 Valve engineer keeping old AMD GPUs alive

35:40 DXV7 making old games go brr

40:05 Hitting the Quake 3 hidden framecap

42:17 That's a wrap