I'm really considering switching my laptop's operating system to Linux because it's a low-performance laptop, but I've heard that multiplayer games that use Easy Anti-Cheat don't work on Linux. Is that true? And if so, is there any way to fix it?

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As the title suggests, has anyone able to use the function on a Linux Distro? for me when i click on the purchase button it loads then goes back to the BP. Im quite new to this OS. I am using Bazzite if a question pops up about it.

Using Heroic Launcher / Epic store to launch the game and play it.

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to whom it may concern, as im tired of getting redirected to other subs only to get ignored and posts deleted for "ignoring guidelines", I JUST WANT HELP

I have officially defected from windows to Nobara official. The main troubles Im having are drivers for game capture and Multi RTMP by SoraYuki. Im not an expert as Im new to Linux (just spent an entire day trying to learn how to tweak games to work properly) but Im not seeing a way to get these things to work anywhere on the forums. I got the capture card because it was the only card that could capture console gameplay at 4k 60 with no issues even though I knew it wouldn't be Linux compatible. But I did originally run the card through the OBS plugin instead of the app, so Im thinking there could be a loop-hole somewhere? Multi RTMP seems simple enough as the way i saw it used on windows was less of an app and more of an actual plugin so I figure it would be easy to install... but again Im struggling to find a flatpack version because the default is a windows .exe instead of flatpack.

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So I did some research on different package managers as I just recently transitioned to linux from Windows and the first thing that got my attention are package managers like APT, pacman, XBPS etc.

From what I learned, they are basically app stores that u can download your applications from. Unlike Windows and Mac where u download the applications on the website itself, you complie the packages and install them into your system.

So whats the benefit of doing this instead of just downloading the web version like Windows?

And people have also shared different opinions about different package managers, Debian APT being more stable than Arch pacman and Aur and Xpbs being super fast and lean. I am currently using cachy os and I don't really see any stability issues. Also being stable like APT means, your software wont be updated often?

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Imagine you have to choose one Linux distro to use for the rest of your life. The catch is that you can never perform a clean installation from an ISO again. If the project evolves, you update or rebase, but if development ceases, you’re simply stuck with that final state forever. This single OS must run on every PC you own, from your main gaming rig and HTPC to your Steam Deck (excluding only mobile and smart ecosystems like Android or WebOS). No more distro-hopping; just one environment to maintain until the end.

I suspect my choice would be a community-maintained project with a long track record like Debian or Arch, but I genuinely have many doubts about which one would actually be the safest bet for the long haul. I know this is the ultimate r/DistroHopping question, but I’m posting it here because I’m specifically interested in the perspective of the gaming community regarding long-term reliability and hardware support. I'm very curious to see your thoughts.

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I started out using lutris but I wanna move over to bottles is tehre away I can move all my lutris pfxs to bottles without having to redo everything?

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Expect lock outs and other issues. Likely will refund this now

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Steam was running entirely fine yesterday, until it crashed while i was play sts 2. My computer froze and i had to shut her down, and after that steam has been refusing to run, only showing this message. Im on Ubuntu 24.04.3. I've had steam for years on this laptop and it is only now that it stopped working. I tried googling for similar issues, but they all seemed to be with recent installations of Steam, not it suddenly ceasing to work, and none of them seemed to have these specific libraries missing

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So i riced hyprland on omarchy with some random waybar i found, and then this happened with steam.

It looks really good since my whole system is made to fit the gruvbox theme, but it disappeared after an update and idk how to get it back. Any ideas?

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Im looking for a soundboard that works with Team Fortress 2.

I tried Soundux and some tinkering with Helvum but ultimately ran into the issue that, try as I might, my microphone was broadcasting ALL audio, not just the one from the Soundux app. Soundux allows you to select an application through which to send sound but it can only detect Team Fortress 2 when I am holding down the push-to-talk button ingame. Also Soundux is abandoned judging by the GitHub page...

Can anyone recommend a good soundboard app?

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Available now in Mesa 26.0.2, the latest bug-fix release for the current main stable version of open source graphics drivers for Linux.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

The popular top-down tactical shooter RUNNING WITH RIFLES is returning with RWR 2 (RUNNING WITH RIFLES 2) just announced.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

does the new FSR4.1 work on the steam deck like the older FSR4.0.2 ?

and if so what optiscaller version do i need to use?

i tried different versions of optiscaler but they all failed to show the fsr4 option or stright up crash

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Hi all, after seeing the recent 2nd round of LTT Linux challenge and the discourse around it, I decided to finally dump my thoughts into words as one short blog post around current state of Linux Desktop from a user pov, why distributions don't matter that much, and where I think people (the users!) should demand better to have a better ecosystem for the end users.

Link to said blog is here: https://wsap.dev/posts/best-linux-distro

Everything I wrote about there are either first-hand experience, or seen/heard people experience over the years. I may have missed some stuff, or have mistakes on some parts. Please let me know your thoughts in the comments!

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Hi, hoping to get some advice and that someone else has had some problem like this and can offer a solution.

System Specs: Ubuntu 24.04. on a system76 laptop with an AMD Ryzeb 7 7735U with Radeon Graphics × 16

The problem: Trying to play most games results in the game running horribly slow and my CPU usage jumping to ~100%. This doesn't seem to be a temporary problem (like if the shader's were being cached), I've left games running for 30+ minutes with the problem unresolved. Some games (this has specifically only happened with Deadlock and TF2) won't open at all. Games without any 3d graphics (specifically I've noticed this with RPGMaker games) still seem to run fine. This occurs for both steam games and at least 1 linux native game (factorio).

Background: I've been gaming with Linux for about 2 years and have never had an issue like this before. For the past two days trying to run practically any game results in my CPU throttling to max and the game running extremely slowly. This all occurred after I was trying to get an RPGMaker game to work, and in the process of getting it to work I ended up manually adding dxvk to wine and installing Lutris to get it to work. I'm not actually sure if that's the root cause of this, but I can't think of anything that has changed to cause this issue since I didn't have any system updates or other changes since the last time my system worked. I ended up completely uninstalling+reinstalling wine and completely uninstalling lutris which didn't help. I had originally thought that the problem was confined to steam/proton and completely uninstalled and reinstalled steam (and this is including deleting all files in .steam/ and .local/share/Steam and reinstalling games), which didn't fix the issue, and after testing with factorio I found that the problem wasn't unique to steam anyways. In terms of caching shaders the steam console output seems to suggest that that's happening (I'll post a screenshot in the comments), but even after leaving games open for 30+ minutes it remains laggy and the CPU remains at ~100%. So, I suspect I've done something stupid and somehow disabled dxvk or something, but I can't find anything to fix this.

Attempts to Fix: Completely uninstall/reinstall wine and steam. Updated mesa and also tried switching to the kisak/turtle release. Completely uninstalled lutris and also any packages installed with lutris. For steam games I've tried launching with several different proton versions (experiment/v10/v9) (I've also tried a handful of settings when using proton but I don't recall everything I tried).

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