Enable GameMode to Boost your Linux Performance on Demand

Cyrus Kao21 Jan 2022

In my opinion, this is the kind of things that Linux ecosystem lacks the most. And I don't mean gaming, but quality of life kind of thing. Switching CPU governors back and forth just for juicing out the last bit of performance is no fun. Nevertheless, GameMode provides much more than just CPU tweaking.

Play Hearthstone on Linux Natively (Without Wine/Lutris)

Cyrus Kao17 Jan 2022

Most of the guides online use Wine/Lutris to play the Windows version of Hearthstone on Linux. But unlike other Blizzard's games, Hearthstone is actually developed with Unity, which supports Linux. Though they didn't release the official version of the game for Linux, there is a creative way to build your own native client.