Dear Youtube reviewers,

If you have never used a linux distro in your life, and are complaining about Windows 11, and moaning about the AI slop, please stop saying stuff like "Linux is fine as long as it's not used for gaming" because you sound just as bad as the AI slop you are complaining about, knowing nothing about the topic.... yet chiming in and spreading misinformation to the general public. Thanks (in reference to a channel called 'Adam Something' with 1.33M subs).

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So I'm using original xbox contoller s series via wifi dongle with driver xone-dkms-git 0.5.0.r0.ge927feb-1.

It's detected system-wide and working correctly but not in wine or proton

If I enable SDL and disable hidraw and restart wine it's starting to work again

Problem is I have to do every time I change proton version I'm doing this through protontricks and it's a little bit annoying

I wonder if I have something misconfigured does anyone else has this problem? Can I force this settings via env variables?

I'm using arch (btw)

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Hello guys, i need help. Installed bazzite on my pc yesterday (trying new shades of gaming), everything was ok, left it for the night to download couple things. This morning i see this shite. The screen is powered on, it has some signal from the pc, but, no image. Im sitting there for 30 minutes. While i was with linux mint (on other pc), and windows 11, there was none of that issue. Im not native so sorry if everything.

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1. Setup vortex for linux either by following my guide or using NaK
2. Launch Skyrim at least once
3. Follow the rest of the official guide

5a. The last step from the guide about launching it through the tools section may not work, if so follow these steps

5b. Open Steam, +add a game (Bottom left corner) add a non steam game

5c. Locate SkyrimTogether.exe, if following this guide, located in "/home/$USER/games/steam/steamapps/common/Skyrim Special Edition/Data/SkyrimTogetherReborn/SkyrimTogether.exe"

5d. right click SkyrimTogether entry on steam, hit properties, shortcut and add this to launch option

STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/home/$USER/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/489830/" %command%

or if using modified install location

STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/home/$USER/games/steam/steamapps/compatdata/489830/" %command%

Could not have made this guide without this amazing video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fEO6UAJuXs

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I’m on Fedora (Workstation) and trying to understand the current state of running Roblox on Linux. I’m aware there’s no official native Linux client and that most Wine/Lutris/Grapejuice approaches have been broken due to anti-cheat changes. Before I waste time experimenting, I wanted to ask:

Are there any working methods right now on Fedora (browser, VM, etc.)?

Has anyone had success recently with KVM/QEMU + Windows VM?

Is browser-based play the only realistic option at this point?

I’m not looking for hacks or shady workarounds — just trying to understand what’s realistically possible on a modern Fedora setup in 2025. Appreciate insights from anyone who’s tested this recently.

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I'm trying to play Arc Raiders on Bazzite (fresh new install) and i can not get over 30. On window 10 (yes I know shut up) I was getting 60 to 100 easy. It seems like something is not using my full hardware capabilities. Is there a setting I have missed?

Specs:

5950x

3070

32 GB @ 4000MHz

Bazzite on nvme

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Hytale runs like a well-oiled machine on Linux Mint. However, I currently have to open the terminal every time I want to boot the launcher for the game. Is there a way that I can have a shortcut on my desktop like the Minecraft launcher that can boot the flatpak? I’m relatively new to Linux so any tips would be greatly appreciated.

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I swear, all I did was run Path of Exile 2 through ProtonGE. My laptop crashed, I rebooted.

Now I'm suddenly on emergency shell and nothings does anything. Then I reboot again and my Laptop's keyboard is blinking while the screen is refusing to turn on. At least when it DID turn on I could boot into a partition where I had arch iso.

Couldn't recover the disk, lost some files on a Gay-Berne Liquid Crystal Monte Carlo simulation but nothing too important.

What the hell dude.

I use Arch btw.

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I know I'm supposed to use timidity. I have a soundfont, but it just won't work. Timidity launches just fine, but when I start the game, there's still no music. My distro is cachyos if that matters.

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Hello!

dont hate me, im at Linux noob.

from what I understand, the reason games like League and Valorant cannot run on Linux is due to their AC being kernel level (as far as I know battleEye, ricochet, easyAC, and whatever thag tencent one is are kernel level as well).

since I have no issue with games having kernel level AC since I have a gaming rig separate from my personal devices (I dont game and store locations of dead bodies on the same device) is there some OS that is light weight and not as bloated as windows that can run everything? is that SteamOS going to work for these games?

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Hi there, I'm currently running CachyOS. While I'm aware I could add "gamemoderun %command%" to the launch options for each game individually, i'd much prefer if there was a way to tell my computer to just run GameMode whenever a game runs through steam. Is there a way to do this?

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This might depend on your specific setup, but I'm writing this in case it helps someone else struggling with no sound from Steam right after installing it.

my setup is: Arch Linux: AMD Thread Ripper 2970WX Nvidia A4000 64G RAM/DDR4 Plasma 6.5.5 Wayland Cranborne Audio 500R8 and essential PC equipment

I have a studio-grade audio interface with a very large number of channels.
I was struggling with an issue where, using Steam Linux (Native/flatpak) + Pipewire/Pluse or Bottles+EA App, the Windows UI sound worked, but crucially, the game audio itself wouldn't play.

Steam's logs offered no clues. However, observing the behavior with qpwgraph, I noticed the game's audio engine would briefly pop up and then disappear.

This sparked an intuition: perhaps it was crashing due to mismanaging channel counts? I created a 2-channel virtual device in "$HOME/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/" and routed it to OpenSoundMeter, where the meter moved correctly.

Therefore, by writing a .conf file like this and routing the 2-channel audio to the first monitor output of my 30-channel Cranbone Audio 500R8, the sound now works properly.

```

nano ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/99-gamesink.conf If you use this configuration, run "pactl list sinks | grep “Name:” " to obtain the audio device name and route from the virtual device to it.

context.modules = [ { name = libpipewire-module-loopback args = { node.description = "Game Audio to Cranborne" audio.position = [ FL FR ] capture.props = { media.class = "Audio/Sink" node.name = "game_sink" } playback.props = { node.name = "alsa_output.usb-Cranborne_Audio_Ltd_500R8-00.pro-output-0" node.target = "alsa_output.usb-Cranborne_Audio_Ltd_500R8-00.pro-output-0" target.object = "alsa_output.usb-Cranborne_Audio_Ltd_500R8-00.pro-output-0" audio.position = [ AUX0 AUX1 ] stream.dont-remix = true node.passive = false } } } ] ```

Additionally, after verifying whether this error reproduces across various channel counts, I found:

• It occurs frequently in games from the 200x-1x era
• The crash threshold channel count varies by game
• Unity/UE + FMOD or Wwise implementations often intelligently recognize channel counts

For now, create a safe 2-channel virtual device that won't produce such sounds.

Then set it as the Default Audio device in Pavucontrol. Launch the game and check if its meter moves to verify it works.
```

nano ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/99-test-2ch-sink.conf This config does output no sound.

context.objects = [ { factory = adapter args = { factory.name = support.null-audio-sink node.name = "null_stereo_sink" node.description = "Null Stereo Sink (2ch)" media.class = "Audio/Sink" audio.channels = 2 audio.position = [ FL FR ] audio.rate = 48000 } } ] ```

I hope this method, which worked for this setup extremely rare audio device for Linux gamer, proves useful to someone.

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I just got my first full linux machine after spending the last few years dualbooting it, and now I'm trying to set up my Quest 2 (with a link cable) for my PC. Is there a way that I can do that? I tried using the meta quest app on PC but it doesn't seem to be linux compatable.

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Trying to stream my screen on discord for friends and this is what they see when they tune in. Please help

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1. Install Bottles flatpak
2. Install Flatseal and give bottles permission to use your home folder
3. Make a new bottle, use the default preset for applications
4. In the new bottle's settings, set sys-wine-10.0 as runner, then advanced display settings, and change screen scaling to 100
5. Install Vortex mod manager in your bottle using the +Add Shortcuts button
6. Shut down steam, click on 3 dot menu for vortex, and add to steam
7. Open Steam, then settings -> storage and make a steam directory at /home/user/games/steam, put the games you want to mod here.
8. On vortex, go to Settings -> Mods, turn off Automatically use suggested path, then set mod staging folder to /home/user/games/Vortex, then go to Settings -> Download and set download folder to /home/games/Mods. You can place your downloaded mods here

Notes

• Browser links don't work

• Launching game with mod manager doesnt work, relies on steam shortcut

• To use SKSE or similar, add as a shortcut to steam

• The install location is different from default because wine explorer doesn't show hidden directories like the default install in /home/user/.local

• Confirmed working with Skyrim and Oblivion

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I upgraded from a 7900xt to a 4090 recently i have had had this problem on both amd and nvidia

somtimes randomly during gaming in certain games in certain areas gpu usage can drop quite a bit then other areas its back at 95% to 100 what coude cause this.

Definatly not an nvidia issue since this also happend on amd also.

This issue got less dramtical on nvidia grayzone warfear was unplayebale on amd but not on nvidia.

In grayzone warfear on amd i got constant lag spikes and gpu use was at like 10% had to wait in spawn for 5 min to just not lag evry 1 meeter on grayzone warfear my amd gpu only got to 70% at peak util while my nvidia gpu is at 100% and no lag spikes. But i still have this problem on nvidia on other games just way less dramatical.

My cpu is an r9 7900 and GPU is rtx 4090 in 4k this cpu shoudent botelneck 4090

Most games run completly fine utalizing 95% gpu but some are bugged or i dont know what is up. This issue was also not present on amd in most games also but more games had the issue in total

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DISCLAIMER:

Bedrock edition does NOT work under Linux.

\**The video below is for people trying to install Minecraft-launcher directly from* https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download \*\**

Installing Minecraft through Prism or PolyMC also works, but that is NOT the point of this post. This is strictly for people trying to install Minecraft-launcher from https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download

[The Link]

https://youtu.be/875VG_bDOrw

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I've searched Google and I've searched through Reddit. I'm not really sure if I'm poising or correctly, but I am getting random performance degradation system-wide, and it's not my distro, DE or install. This has happened to me across several different installs and I'm not sure what is occurring.

It happens during gaming, primarily (as in, I only notice in when I'm gaming, and then I can notice it in certain other applications until I fix it). My performance will just randomly drop or it will start out that way when I launch a game, and the only thing I've found that fixes it, is setting my system resolution to anything else, and then changing it back. This can happen multiple times during a session. It can also, not occur.

It's not distro-specific, de-specific, compositor-specific. It has to be something with my monitor, right? This has happened to me on Mint with X11, Fedora 41+42 with Gnome on (X)Wayland and it's happening on Arch KDE with (X)Wayland.

I'm rocking: GPU: 6650XT 8GB CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X 32GB RAM

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