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July 26 reminder - GamingOnLinux needs your support

GamingOnLinux, a reader-funded site approaching its 17th anniversary, is urging its community for financial support to sustain operations amid rising paywalls and AI scraping. The site aims to reach $2K monthly on Patreon to disable ads for all users, highlighting the importance of direct reader contributions.

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July 26 reminder - GamingOnLinux needs your support
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Hello readers - here's your reminder that GamingOnLinux is reader-funded and we need your support now more than ever. We're coming up to 17 years on Sunday, something I never thought would have been possible - but thanks to our supporters we continue going strong.

If you wish to support the continued content on GamingOnLinux and ensure we stick around, the best way is monthly support ** via Patreon**. In the age of increasing paywalls blocking access to information, AI scraping articles, and search engines continuing their AI mode push to stop you ever visiting other websites - your direct support is absolutely vital. We cannot do it without you! We're currently doing a Funding Drive, hoping to get up to $2K a month on the Patreon, and if we keep it there we can disable adverts for everyone.

Funding GamingOnLinux ensures we can continue to work on providing timely news tips, opinions, reviews, guides and whatever else we can throw at you full time.

You can also buy games using GamingOnLinux affiliate / partner links:

You can find all the links to support GamingOnLinux on this dedicated page any time.

Follow GamingOnLinux across:

Thank you for reading and for being part of the community. Let's get to a nice round 20 years and beyond.

Here's a note on some things that have changed / been added recently:

  • Where it makes sense, we include external source links at the bottom of articles now. The same place for all articles.
  • Added Hardware and Benchmarks categories back to the restored Forum. - Modernised the mobile navigation menu.
  • Updated the desktop navigation menu with clear social buttons, and a Reviews drop-down.
  • Added a review scoring system.
  • We have a new emoji reaction system. Hover over the likes button to see more options. Hold it down on mobile.
  • The Daily / Weekly mailing listhad a big upgrade with nice images. - Gamepad selection for your PC info on your profiles is now a multi-select box, so you can boast about all those you use.
  • Mastodon / Bluesky profile links returned, with our newer external link safety warning.
  • Our anti-cheat compatibility pagegain some nice filters. - The homepage / news feed image up gained some new tricks - so it now loops through different file formats for the best size - to save you some data and time.
    • various other website and server optimizations.

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