Hi everyone,

Like many of you, moving to Wayland has been great, except for one glaring issue: sharing my screen on Discord (or any browser-based communication app like Element/Teams) meant my friends couldn't hear the game or application audio.

I got tired of manually opening qpwgraph or running

pactl commands every single time I wanted to stream a game to my friends. So, I wrote PipeShare.

What it does: PipeShare is a lightweight, background Rust daemon that completely automates audio routing during screen shares on Wayland.

1. Event-Driven Detection: It listens to PipeWire graph events (pw-dump --monitor). It uses 0% CPU while idle—no polling.
2. Native Prompts: The moment you start sharing your screen (even in a browser), it detects the new ScreenCast node and pops up a native dialog (using kdialog or zenity) asking which application's audio you want to share.
3. Smart Routing: It instantly creates the necessary virtual sinks via PipeWire to mix your real microphone with only the application you selected.
4. No Echo: You hear the game normally, your friends hear you and the game, and nobody hears an annoying echo of your voice.
5. Auto-Cleanup: When you stop the screen share, PipeShare detects it and destroys the virtual sinks, returning your system to normal.

I've been using it myself and it makes Wayland feel so much more complete for daily use. It's built entirely in Rust, handles application pauses seamlessly (using module-stream-restore rules), and integrates directly via a systemd user service.

Link to the project: https://github.com/SavasTanriverdi/PipeShare

This is my way of giving back to the community that has helped me so much. Currently, the UI relies on system dialogs (kdialog/zenity), but I'm looking into building a proper Tauri/GTK native GUI for it next if there's enough interest.

I'd love for you guys to try it out! Any feedback, PRs, or GitHub issues are highly appreciated.

Let me know what you think!

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Is anyone else having issues installing the EA app using Proton? It keeps throwing me an error.

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Im not sure if its a multiple monitor thing ?

I play Minecraft and I get around 180 fps that’s cool but nothing compared to 700 on windows

Marvel rivals I get around half the fps.

Alienware aurora 16x

Inten i9

Nvidia 5060

Hyprland

Cachy os

Wayland

Ax shell dots or whatever the updated version is idk

Is there something I’m doing wrong ? Should i switch to KDE?

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Proton:

• wine bleeding-edge updated
• dxvk updated
• vkd3d-proton updated
• vkd3d updated
• dxvk-nvapi updated
• fex updated
• pulled in upstream misc proton script fixes
• pulled in upstream steam_helper fixes

Patches:

• NEW: Added new wineopenvr patches to allow VR to work outside of steam for non-steam games (examples such as GOG version of ProjectWingman, Overload, Star Citizen). Compatibility tested using Meta Quest 3 with WiVRn. To use, setup WiVRn, then launch games with the additional environment variables WiVRn instructs. Tested flatpak system and user modes as well as standalone package install.
• NEW: Rebased em10/wine-wayland patches, should have some new dead-key fixes.
• Patch added to fix Star Citizen EAC warning popup
• More winepulse patches from Vyrolian
• NEW: Added new umu.exe that works the same way steam.exe does -- this is used now instead of the standard wine start.exe, it should help some 3rd party launchers work better by making them run the same way steam runs them.

Protonfixes:

• add vcrun2022 to fix star citizen 3221225477 code error
• upscalers: add version 4.0.3 of amdxcffx64.dll
• upscalers: add v4.1.0 amdxcffx64.dll
• fix: Assetto Corsa CM missing dotnet 4.8 prompts
• utilities: keep DXVK_FRAME_RATE and VKD3D_FRAME_RATE in the proton environment
• upscalers: add url check and automatic fallback for amdxcffx64.dll
• Do not show the zenity dialog when running the winetricks gui
• Add demo save import for Planet Crafter
• fix: add early stage fixes to run when the module is imported
• utils: do not try to access g_session when in {del,set}_environment if it's not instantiated
• gamefix: set gamedrive early for Duet Night Abyss
• gamefixes: set game drive for Zenless Zone Zero early

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Cada vez que prendo la pc y abro Steam, mis duros de Almacenamiento desaparecen y tengo que agregarlos de vuelta a mano.
Estoy usando Ubuntu LTS.
Tengo los discos En ext4

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I've recently downloaded fedora and downloaded re9 in order to 100% the game(played the game on w11 before) and every time I get the cedarbrook apartment key the game crashes and a wine pop-up error appears. I have tried the proton hot fix,the standard and the 10.0-4, same error.

My specs:

Fedora 43 kde; R5 5500; GTX 1660s; 8gb ram; 500gb nvme.

The Nvidia drivers are already updated

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I js did a dual boot of windows and linux mint, Im new with this, on windows everything runs js fine but now me pc cant run deadlock, well it can but it lags a lot. The only other game I tried was p5r and I was js running. Me pc isnt the problem bc on windows is js fine. I installed all the drivers, have it updated. Is there anyhing missing? Since Im new idk what info would be useful so aks for anything

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For me, the frustration started around Windows 7, when it began to feel like the OS was being designed more for mobile than for desktop use. These days, I have to jump through hoops just to avoid signing in with a Microsoft account, and features like OneDrive feel forced. From what I have heard, Copilot is on the horizon and I'm sure there will be even more annoyances in the future. At this point, I am starting to feel like Windows is no longer designed with the user as the customer.

The main reason I have stayed on Windows is gaming. As a PC gamer, it has always been the default choice for compatibility. But lately I have been hearing that, largely thanks to Steam, that is no longer necessarily the case.

So I have a few questions. Is it safe to assume most of my Steam library will run fine on Linux? What about games outside of Steam, like Star Citizen, Escape from Tarkov, the DZSA launcher for DayZ, Vintage Story, or Red Dead Redemption 2 through the Rockstar launcher? How well do games that require their own launchers work? Is Minecraft fully playable on Linux? And can I stream my screen to friends on Discord smoothly, including using the in-game overlay?

Thanks in advance for any insight. As frustrated as I am with Windows, I do not want to end up with even more annoyances or troubleshooting when, at the end of the day, I just want to play.

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So, I spent pretty much all day today trying to troubleshoot why Helldivers 2 will not work on my system and I'm completely out of ideas.

The problem: trying to launch the game takes an ungodly amount of time, as for some reason, every single time I hit "Play", it takes 20+ minutes trying to download some sort of VC++ Redistributables and Dx11. And when that's finally done, the game is detected as "running" but I don't see any windows popping up. Eventually, after a few minutes, the game process is terminated, and I get a tab on my browser that leads to GameGuard's FAQ page, directing me to send them some log files.

I've tried a lot of things:

- Reinstalled the game like 2-3 times

- Restarted my PC several times

- Switched my DE session from Wayland to X11

- Tried several versions of proton. Specifically: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, Experimental, Experimental (bleeding edge)

- Downloaded 32bit drivers and libs after feeding the proton logs to Deepseek

- Manually deleted the GameGuard files in the install directory and let Steam redownload them

System info from fastfetch:

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At this point the only thing left for me to try is GE Proton, and if that doesn't work, I can only assume Arrowhead hates me specifically and doesn't want me to play their game. I haven't been able to find anything like my case on the internet all day, so this is my last ditch attempt at getting some fresh ideas for troubleshooting before I give up.

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I've been thinking about switching over to Linux completely for a while now and have already done so quite successfully for my living room multimedia pc which has been running bazzite for some time now. There are a couple of things holding me back from making the switch on my desktop pc though.

I'm not exactly disabled but I have some problems with my hands so I use one of those kinesis advantage keyboards that have an unusual, ergonomic layout. Many games support remapping but some don't so on Windows I have been using AutoHotKey to remap my keyboard inputs and as useful to create complex macros for repetitive actions, sometimes involving screencapture and image search to detect certain UI elements. For some games I use voice control via VoiceBot.

Are there any reasonably polished options to replace AHK or VoiceBot on Linux? I'm not opposed to learning Python if I need to and I have some background in computer programming but I work enough hours to kill a horse so I want to spend as little time as possible on setting things up.

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Assuming I probably don't care about it being easily mountable from Windows. I just want to be able to distrohop without caring about where Steam is installed.

I'll still have to tell Steam where to find the steamapps folder, right?

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Hey, I’m trying to find a way to stay AFK in Roblox (so I don’t get kicked for inactivity), but I also want to be able to use my PC normally at the same time.

I’m on Linux using Wayland (Hyprland), and most solutions I’ve found either don’t work on Wayland or require focusing the Roblox window, which defeats the purpose.

Does anyone know:

• Any AFK tools, scripts, or methods that work on Wayland?
• Ways to simulate input (like small movements or clicks) without interrupting what I’m doing?
• Or any workaround specific to Roblox on Linux?

I’m not trying to exploit or anything, just avoid being kicked while grinding. Any help would be really appreciated 🙏

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Hello,

I have bought every FIFA game since 2021. However, in 2025, I switched to Linux, so now I can't play FIFA anymore. I only want to play Career Mode, but since Career Mode is offline, I had an idea theoretically, could I download a cracked version of an older FIFA from before they introduced anti-cheat (like FIFA 22) and then mod it to modern standards?

My plan is to run it through Bottles on Linux to try and get both the mod launcher and the game running somewhat reliably. I've been trying to find a good, reliable download link, but I can't seem to find a real one. Can anyone help?

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