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Fallout "Tale of Two Wastelands" Linux install method?
I'd like to revisit the wastelands as its been some time; however, from what I see the prevailing "Linux install" method is to install it on Windows and migrate that to a Linux.
Just asking if anyone has already gone down this road and if there's a way to do it from Linux natively.
In case you're wondering WTF is Tale of Two Wastelands is their FAQ says it best:
"Tale of Two Wastelands is a total conversion project that seamlessly merges Fallout 3 and its DLC into Fallout: New Vegas, allowing both games to be played in a single playthrough. It upgrades Fallout 3's mechanics to those of FNV, while balancing both games to feel like you're playing one full game (instead of two different games using the same character)."
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Small appreciation post for Faugus Launcher Works great with Mods of games!
When I was doing research into linux gaming I came across Faugus launcher and alot of people also commenting why they need another launcher when theres Heroic. I have been using it for battle .net and also Mods like Age of the ring, all in one BFME launcher and they all work flawlessly Using Proton GE no weird lutris scripts. So far it seems to be running better than on windows!
one thing to keep in mind when running mods like all in one BFME is you usually need to run the installer then go back and have it run the .exe in the prefix folder. And also open firewall ports to be able to join games in Starcraft.
Any way Shout out to the devs. I can now play my random obscure games with friends that I never would've thought would worked. Because of this I got rid of my windows boot as I no longer need it.
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Games from HGL do not display image when trying to stream through steam Link
I'm using the flatpak version of HGL on bazzite and have "add games to steam" so I can have all my games in a single location, but when I try to play HGL games through steam Link I can only hear the sound but no video, just a black screen
Adding the game's directly into steam make them work as non-steam games but it's kinda annoying and defeat the point of having HGL
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DS4 bluetooth not working but connecting
i’m running mx and i’ve been in home streaming from my pc dedicated to game and file hosting. if i plug my ds4 controller into my thinkpad it works 100%. if i connect using bluetooth, it does connect and even says it’s been paired as a game controller and all, but steam doesn’t see it and no inputs are recognized. i’ve tried using antimicrox but still no dice. any suggestions?
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New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with My Winter Car - 2026-01-03 Edition
New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients, including DunHero - 2026-01-07 Edition
Steam and NTFS volumes on Ubuntu Noble Numbat
I am at my wits' end attempting to get this to work; I can't seem to get the user permissions changed from "root" to my user in any fashion. My whole games library is stored on an 8tb ntfs drive and I have no interest in reformatting or relocating these files, which are present in the full steam library directory (/mnt/games/steamapps/common). I have thus far tried:
Editing mounting options in Disks to add "uid=1000" and "gid=1000" and turning off user session defaults
Editing my fstab by hand to add mount parameters
Pointing Steam to the drive in Steam's console
Updating drivers for my 1080TI to the "580" version from Ubuntu's recommended "535"
When the volume is seemingly mounted and steam sees my games inside those folders, it will not launch them with the error in Terminal saying "/mnt/games/steamapps/compadata/ is not owned by you" and fails to launch the game.
The games ran fine without steam using a 64bit Wine Prefix, I just need to launch them with steam now.
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My wife got a new gaming PC for Christmas and chose Linux as the OS! Her perspective and experience as a newcomer.
Context
She is a very casual gamer who has a hard time even identifying as a gamer. Her Linux experience consisted of hopping onto my desktop from time to time and using her Steam Deck. I asked her if she wanted to stick with Windows on her new rig, and she said she wanted Linux! I decided to use her experience as a window into what a casual user would think and do. I made an effort to intervene only for the install and when help was requested.
Distro Choice
I know damn well she doesn’t actually care which OS she runs, so I asked her why she wanted Linux. She replied, “It works for you and my Steam Deck, so why not?” When I asked if she had a distro preference, she said, “The pretty one.” Based on those technical requirements, I chose the desktop edition of Bazzite with GNOME. Once it was installed, I left her alone and observed.
The Experience
She had a lot of fun customizing GNOME. Bazzite comes with a bunch of pre‑installed extensions that she really liked. Personally I avoid GNOME and its extensions because of past experiences, but Bazzite’s implementation seems to be pretty solid so far. The “app store” was very easy and intuitive for her to use. She also enjoys the quick‑access buttons in the top‑right corner for easy controls.
Productivity
Another uneventful story. She discovered Photopea and hasn't asked about Photoshop since. My biggest worry was our NAS. In my experience, apps (especially flatpaks) don't play well with a NAS unless it's mounted in fstab. I was curious to see how my wife would access her share. Surprisingly she had no issues whatsoever. Bazzite or GNOME seem to have figured something out, because using only the files app she browsed to our NAS, put in her password, bookmarked her share, and used it like she would on Windows. All her apps work flawlessly.
Gaming
The very first issue she had, ironically enough, was with a Linux native game. Her favorite jigsaw puzzle game was having weird issues with alt-tabbing and switching to Proton fixed it. I explained that some games run the windows version better, but I could tell she was annoyed she had to do any of that in the first place.
Her second issue is that the main Steam window will take over her screen at random while gaming. We "fixed" it by closing the steam window completely whenever it steals focus. Luckily it happens rarely, but again, super annoying that she has to do any of this. As I type this I wonder if an extension is to blame. I'll probably try to nudge her into looking into it if she cares enough.
A surprising issue that's more of a PC gaming thing than a Linux thing is the lack of a universal framerate limiter. In theory VRR should take care of frame rate fluctuations and screen tearing without any user intervention. For most of the casual games she plays, she hits her monitors refresh rate without issue (or so I assume without a framerate counter present). We were trying out Fallout 76 together and she complained about how bad the game felt. I asked her what she meant. "I feel like theres a delay between me and the game and it's annoying". I tried it out but honestly didn't feel that much of an input delay, I was surprised how sensitive she was towards it. I turned off Vsync, set graphics to medium, and limited the monitor refresh rate to 120 at the OS level. I know I could have used Mangohud but it doesn't work on some titles without a launch option, and I didn't want to get into all of that. It would be nice if steam implemented a per-game FPS limiter alongside their performance monitoring suite in the desktop client regardless of OS.
TLDR
My beautiful amazing sweet angel of a wife uses Bazzite on her new gaming PC. I decided to help her out as little as possible (only when asked) and it's surprisingly gone pretty well. I apologize if this post comes across as boring. I hope this sub enjoys hearing about a successful conversion and how close we are to a completely turnkey experience for new users.
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Ubisoft games not launching
Hello y’all! I just upgraded to a AMD 9070 XT from a Nvidia RTX 3060 and all my Ubisoft games on steam will not launch. When I click the play button it says it’s running and then after 30 seconds it goes back to the green play button. I put my Nvidia card back in and Ubisoft connect launches and so does the game. I’ve used many proton versions, nothing’s worked so far. I have no problems with all my other games, just Ubisoft. I’m on Linux Mint if that matters.
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Does Batocera support this?
I got a old rig laying around collecting dust I'd like to turn into a lower tier emulation box. it has Ryzen 3600 and a GTX 1050 2 gig card in it.
i cant seem to find if the card drivers would be supported? I've looked around on the website still can't find anything. would this be a no go for that card? or would you recommend another front end? any help would be appreciated thanks!
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Making the switch but will my mods work?
I’m heavily debating switching from windows 11 over to Linux on my desktop after receiving a Steam deck and seeing what is all possible. My main concern is that my PC is used mainly for modding games like Skyrim and Elden Ring. I’m not super familiar with different Linux programs and everything I’ve seen has seemed to be extremely complicated to get programs like MO2 and ME3 working without completely deleting and reinstalling everything (which I am trying to avoid specifically with MO2 due to using Lorerim with over 3k mods).
Will it be a huge pain in the ass and potentially break more things along the way switching to Linux? If I back up my folders for these games onto a separate SSD, can I just drop them into a folder in Linux and tweak from there? I may just be overwhelmed with Linux’s ability to access damn near anything you want it to do but I don’t want to go through all the trouble just to find out I shouldn’t have left windows. Am I being irrational?
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Popular mobile creature collector EvoCreo now available on PC
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Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping - Review on Steam Deck
Mesa RADV driver on Linux looks set for a big ray tracing performance boost
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Minecraft Help FPS Stutter
https://reddit.com/link/1q6ix32/video/6duwh3up5ybg1/player
Having a strange stutter in modded Minecraft java. Using Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, Prism Mincraft Launcher 10.0.0
Things I've tried:
-vsync on/off
-different settings and un/capped frame rate
-Different versions of Prism(Debian,Flatpak,Appimage)
-More and less RAM allocated for minecraft java
-different versions of Java
-many different Java arguments
-performance mods
Any help or suggestions are welcomed and appreciated.
Edit:modpack is Vault Hunters Official Pack (3rd Ed.)-3.20.3.0
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Games running very slow when not in foreground
This is a kinda weird issue, for most games it'd even be a non-issue, but the problem is I like to have idle games running in the background.
For roughly every three minutes that pass in real time, only one minute will pass in the idle games.
I tried downloading gamemode, rebooting, then setting the launch options for one of my idle games to "gamemoderun %command%" but that didn't work.
To be clear, my current cpu and ram and gpu aren't even phased by these idle games, they're ... graphically minimal. Nor am I under any sort of load elsewhere.
Oh, I'm using Ubuntu 24.04
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See the new trailer for Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional taking survivor-likes to an infested family computer
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