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Post #611415

2025-11-12 20:50 UTC

Cat's out of the bag: FEX, an emulator I've been working on these past 4 years, is going to be part of the Steam Frame to bring x86 Windows games to an ARM Linux VR headset! ๐Ÿ˜Š https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKrKTwtukE&t=205s Really happy to have been part of the journey and of the team that got FEX to where it is today. Can't wait for the release and community reception! #steamframe

Replies (23)

  • @janelith@hol.ogra.ph 2025-11-12 21:39

    @neobrain@mastodon.social thank you so much for your work! When i saw it was ARM and saw it was gonna play games natively i instantly knew your work would be involved. im so excited to see the pieces come together for Linux to be the premier gaming platform, thank you for being a major part of that!

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  • @jrt@infosec.exchange 2025-11-12 21:49

    @neobrain@mastodon.social I'm excited for your #39c3 talk!

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  • @shlee@aus.social 2025-11-13 00:13

    @neobrain@mastodon.social Thank you. :fistbump:

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  • ever since the leaks about fex on steam came out a while ago , have been immensly hyped to see where it would go

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  • @ljrk@todon.eu 2025-11-13 00:39

    @neobrain@mastodon.social It's so cool to see incredibly ambitious community projects that could've just as well dried out over time... instead be incorporated into such a great product, including financial funding. Congratulations on your journey!

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  • @whynothugo@fosstodon.org 2025-11-13 00:52

    @neobrain@mastodon.social Congrats on an amazing achievement!

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  • @ari@fedi.arimelody.space 2025-11-13 04:28

    @neobrain@mastodon.social i'm only hearing of FEX today after hearing the announcements, and i'm genuinely excited to try running x86 games on my raspberry pi 4 when i get the chance. thank you so much for your development efforts, and that of the whole FEX contributor team! <3

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  • @aburka@hachyderm.io 2025-11-13 05:38

    @neobrain@mastodon.social I hope Valve paid you!

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  • @Zelfir@noc.social 2025-11-13 05:49

    @neobrain@mastodon.social I can't wait to test the device. Congratulations for your work on FEX.

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  • @SunDancer@metalhead.club 2025-11-13 06:32

    @neobrain@mastodon.social Nice!

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  • @ctietze@mastodon.social 2025-11-13 07:24

    @neobrain@mastodon.social cool! Four years isn't nothing, but for the result this is really fast. Congrats

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  • @PaulaMaddox@mastodon.social 2025-11-13 08:26

    @neobrain@mastodon.social very nice!!! Iโ€™m in

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  • @neobrain@mastodon.social Congrats!

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  • @petitmote@toot.aquilenet.fr 2025-11-13 10:50

    @neobrain@mastodon.social ping @canardpc@mastodon.social Well done, that's a great work, and we can't thank you enough for making it open source. Does it mean we can chain windows game -> wine -> fex? A few years ago, I had the luck (quite randomly, because open source people are so nice) to make people port OptiX on wine, I wonder how it would go with fex.

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  • @bebna@chaos.social 2025-11-13 17:05

    @neobrain@mastodon.social thanks ๐Ÿช

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  • Hey @neobrain@mastodon.social ! I'm writing an article about FEX and Windows emulation on Android for publication tomorrow, and I'd love to ask a few quick questions about your work if you have a minute. Either way, congratulations!

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  • @utahcon@fosstodon.org 2025-11-13 22:18

    @neobrain@mastodon.social and @changelog@changelog.social need to sit down and discuss this immediately!

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  • @globalc@chaos.social 2025-11-14 07:39

    @neobrain@mastodon.social Awesome. I start to look at the device as kind of the first 3D headset which Linux and OpenSource fans will start to play with. Reminds me of how Apple iphone was followed by Android and more open devices.

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  • @redhat421@infosec.exchange 2025-11-14 17:13

    @neobrain@mastodon.social Wow. FEX is incredible tech, it sounds like science fiction. Running x86_64 binaries on Arm at native speed is something I would not have thought was possible before I saw this announcement. Amazing work!

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  • @neobrain@mastodon.social just so people know the handle is @FEX_Emu@mastodon.social

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  • @szkodnix@sk.szkod.ovh 2025-11-17 15:09

    @neobrain@mastodon.social That's a huge accomplishment. Congratulations and thanks for your hard work! โ€‹:FernHappy2:โ€‹

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  • @neobrain@mastodon.social the amount of work that has been poured into open source gaming tech over the last few years by you and by so many others is absolutely unreal, and watching it all come together right now to help us abandon enshittified platforms is just perfect. Thank you!

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  • @Azarilh@mastodon.social 2025-11-17 16:14

    @neobrain@mastodon.social Did Valve compensate your team?

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