So I've been using Fedora 42 on my new PC since the end of last year. It was smooth experience so far, for context I've been using Linux back and forth since the past 13 year from Linux Mint to Ubuntu to Arch to Linux Mint then to Fedora which I prefer and decided to stick with the distro. Most of the packages it has relatively more up-to-date compare to Ubuntu and it's derivatives, which is really good plus Flatpak for 3rd party package which unavailable in official repo. Most if not all of my game have been exclusively in Steam such as:

• DOOM (2016, Eternal and The Dark Ages)
• Dead Space (remake)
• Plant vs Zombies

I use ProtonUp-QT and then Proton Plus to installed ProtonGE for my game. I use Flatpak heavily for 3rd party software such as Discord, Obsidian, Peazip, OBS (Screen Capture (Pipewire)) and Sticky Notes. Later I would like to install Zoom for call meeting and Spotify but I'm not sure if I should use Flatpak. If anyone prefer other way or other packaging (AppImage or Snap) to installed these 3rd party software please feel free to share it in the comment.

For virtualization I use VMWare Workstation since it's much easier to installed and configured Windows on it, I know Linux has better virtualization such as QEMU/KVM but it can take some time to configure Windows 11 properly with all the settings. But if anyone here already have better virtualization setup that can utilize GPU passthrough, hey feel to share it here. I would like to learn how to do that as well.

Everything works including built-in Wifi OOTB, Bluetooth I haven't tested but I think I don't need it. The only gripe that I have with Linux are gaming mouse and keyboard support, but it's not really Linux fault. I use Logitech G915 TKL Lightspeed Keyboard and Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 Dex Mouse. My mouse suffered serious erratic cursor movement bug which forced me to rely on my Windows laptop to download and install G Hub for firmware update. So I had to do that to fix the issue. Second is my mouse isn't supported on https://github.com/libratbag/libratbag/tree/master/data/devices, so using Piper isn't an option to configure my DPI. I configured my mouse DPI to be 900 by default on G Hub but it immediately switch to 800 after I plug-in back to Fedora 42, so I had to activate on-board memory on the mouse even after configured it on G Hub.

Nevertheless, I hope someone on Logitech would take a look on the issue and hopefully (wishful thinking) we can have better peripheral support in the future ;)

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Ignore the laying down while moving, that's a speedrun trick 😭.

Save-quitting resolves it temporarily

CachyOS (arch based)

Plasma (Wayland)

Using the Linux native version

Hardware:

AMD 5600X

Radeon RX 6600

32 Gb ddr4 ram

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getting "social club failed to initialize graphics device. error code: 18." when trying to launch rdr2 using proton-cachyos or proton-ge10-34. im on cachyos using kde plasma wayland.

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I’ve been busting my ass on modding cyberpunk for something like close to 10 hours and I still can’t make it work. In the first hour of game, wether that’s near meeting Jackie or when going after the Maelstrom, my game crashes. An immediate freeze resulting in my having to alt+f4 and trying to launch the entire thing again, until it crashes the second I’ve entered the mission. When I force quit it, the whole screen goes grey and I get a pop up saying the mod Cyberpunk (app ID : xxx) has ceased to work and I can try to restore it or shutting down, causing data erase. I’m exhausted, no matter how much time I spend trying to disable x/y/z mod or re compiling everything from source under Claude’s guidance, the problem keeps coming back 😔

I’ve had to restart the campaign from zero almost a dozen of time by now and this is making me lose my shit. I really want to play a heavy modded CBP 2077 and it’s not as if my battlestation can’t handle it: i5-14600kf/RX 7700 XT 12gb VRAM/16gb DDR5, I can run CO Exp 33 and the Morbid Metal Demo at 70-90 FPS both in 2k ultra 4k High with Proton Experimental, so it doesn’t seem like technical limitations right ? Opensuse Tumbleweed under KDE Wayland has been smooth like butter for gaming ever since I started my Linux gaming journey in January. It’s an extremely convenient, intuitive, not complex to maintain, fun and interactive playground to experiment in. I can have it do anything I feel like doing so far… except modding.

Just tell me if those stories of you guys with 800+ mods running v2.3 aren’t all fables. How ? How do you do it ? Is nexus mod app still relevant ? Or do you use vortex via bottles or winetricks ? Or do you compile everything manually ? Just tell me what magic spell you throw at your terminal, what launcher do you use…. For real, this is so insanely frustrating.

Thanks in advance, I just don’t wanna give up on Linux for gaming right now.

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I use an Xbox Elite 2 controller, connected via Bluetooth. On initial boot of my system, I can turn on the controller just fine and it works perfectly with all of my games. However, if I turn off the controller and turn it back on later, it is detected by Steam (the "This game works great with your controller!" message appears, and in games it's detected (ex: Cairn shows the "Press Any Button" prompt instead of the "Press Any Key" prompt), however controller input does not work.

The controller still works with other software (like Dolphin), just not Steam or games installed with Steam.

I have tried:

• Using/Disabling Steam Input; Steam doesn't accept controller input during the Steam Input setup window. Disabling it doesn't do anything either.
• Installing game-devices-udev
• Installing xone (I had already been using xpadneo)
• Installing and setting gamescope arguments
• Plugging the controller in via USB
• Restarting Steam

Nothing short of restarting my system gets the controller to work. I have a fresh Arch install (kernel 6.19.0-arch1-1), using Wayland with KDE Plasma. Any help would be appreciated!

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Hi.

Since some time ago, I'm having a problem every time I want to start Gears 5 on Steam. It crashes after displaying the Xbox logo and I can't understand why. I'm using Endeavour OS with Plasma, and Wayland, and I own an RTX 3060 with a Ryzen 7 5700G.

Also I reported it on Github where I attached the log file. I tried with several Proton versions, and every update of the Nvidia driver, switching between Wayland and X11, lots of Proton options, and the issue is still present.

I just checked the ProtonDB page where there are some people using a Nvidia and can play Gears 5, but I can't, and I noticed that someone else has the same issue.

Is there a solution? Is it happening to someone else here?

Thank you in advance.

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When I am in Steam, my page will sometimes freeze for a few seconds when I am going through the menus. This only happens on Steam. Every other program is fine. Restarting my PC fixes it the problem temporarily.

I have the KDE version on a desktop PC.

Does anyone have a solution to this?

I have tried the following:

Disabling smooth scrolling in web views

Disabling GPU accelerated rendering in web views

Trying the beta client

Reinstalling Steam

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Hey all, any help or advice would be appreciated, my husband and I are nearing week 3 of troubleshooting this. So the setup here: I have an Intel i7-6700k 4.0ghz, with 32gb DDR4 RAM (8x4), GeForce GTX 1080, using Nvidia 580.119.02 drivers, HP 2B4B 1.04 motherboard, a 250gb internal HDD and 12tb external HDD. I've been running PopOS 22.04, with Flatpak Steam, Proton Hotfix, using Flatseal for the occasional tweaks if something misbehaved a little. Thus far, I have had little to no issues playing several games on Steam with this setup; I've played SWTOR, Planet Coaster 1 and 2, House Flipper 2, Palia, Skyrim SE, etc etc.

Now the problematic setup; my husband has an Intel i7-7700k 4.20 ghz, 32gb DDR4 RAM (16x2), GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, was previously on Nvidia 470.256.02 drivers and attempted to upgrade to my version, the 580.119.02, a 655 gb internal HDD and 2 TB external HDD, and an MSI Z270 SLI Plus CMS-7A59 motherboard. He has been using Flatpak Steam as well, though using ProtonGE 5-9, and it ran SWTOR smoothly with the 470 driver and ProtonGE 5-9. He has been fighting to get Skyrim SE running well on this setup and it's been a nightmare.

We both are using Vortex modding for our setups, and mine just somehow seems to work. We also both have our Steam/Skyrim/Vortex paths on our external drives, so that they all point to/share the same virtual C drive Steam uses for non-Linux games. His however, on the 470 driver, was slightly laggy, the graphics weren't terribly good, and his main issue was experiencing a blur effect anytime he moved his character or camera, not just in the distance, but up close, which was hurting his eyes. As well, several mods wouldn't work at all for him because he was forced into using ProtonGE 5-9 instead of the latest, due to his 470 drivers. In his troubleshooting, he attempted some tweaks in the Skyrim.ini files pertaining to the LODFieldofView settings, and some of the loading distances, which seemed to actually worsen the effects. He then tried just updating his driver to my version and this is where we hit the worst walls.

Apparently at the beginning of 2026, Nvidia changed up their driver meta packages, so that the latest Legacy drivers you can get is the 470. Every other package has been made so that while it might say you're getting the 580 driver, what it actually is giving you is 750.x/850.x drivers. Since he has a 1080 Ti, a Pascal architecture, these newer drivers don't play well with his GPU. While the 1080 Ti does have some settings my 1080 doesn't, it still is considered the 10-series card, and the 750 and newer drivers attempt to add various settings and services his card simply doesn't have. Each time we attempted to get the 580 drivers, and even 570 and I believe 550, they came with hidden 850 and/or 750 drivers in the meta packages.

What this would do is when he loaded up Skyrim SE on his Flatpak Steam, first using his ProtonGE 5-9, then Proton Hotfix, Proton Stable, Proton GE 10-2, GE 9-whatever, etc etc, if it even recognized that he was using the SKSE launcher to load his modded Skyrim, the mouse was horrendously laggy, loading into a save game showed a frozen PC and NPCs, awful and broken graphics, and would freeze, etc, while loading into a new game save would stutter and freeze with the same awful graphics and would refuse to load his previously working Alternate Start Live Another Life mod and always begin where vanilla Skyrim new game begins, on the prisoner wagon heading into Helgen.

Every time his game would freeze, it basically held the monitor hostage until we booted into the TTY (using Ctrl+Alt+F3) and killed all Skyrim and Steam related processes (using killall -9 SkyrimSELauncher.exe, killall -9 steam, etc), then Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get back to the desktop, which typically would still be held hostage by Skyrim, and we would have to use Alt+F2, type r in the box, and Enter, which would refresh the desktop and usually kill all the Steam and Skyrim processes. (His SkyrimSELauncher.exe is actually the SKSELauncher.exe renamed to the Skyrim exe in order to load his mods.)

We have tried remaking his ini files back to a clean slate, his Skyrim 489830 game folders back to a clean slate, his entire Vortex and Skyrim folders, and fully uninstalling/reinstalling Skyrim and Vortex from Steam (and the entire PC). We have tried adding gamemoded %command% into the Steam Launch options, he never has used game overlay on Steam so that was never an issue, and various Winedlloverride commands and Gsync commands to disable those setting the driver attempted to make his 1080 Ti use while playing Skyrim. We have tweaked various settings in his Xserver app for Nvidia to turn off these extra settings the 580 drivers insist (incorrectly) his 1080 Ti should be able to use.

As I said, we are entering Week 3 of this tech hell and now considering that PopOS may just simply not have been the right choice for his setup. According to numerous Google searches and combing through Linux forums, my PC setup is some strange anomaly that maybe shouldn't work but somehow does. His setup is continuously hitting what our Google keeps referring to as the Pascal wall, where his GPU is not playing nice with the driver/OS/Flatpak Steam setup. (Many mentions online say not to use Flatpak Steam, but this was the only way we could get Vortex to run on Linux, which was needed for our Skyrim mods. We did try to use Mod Organizer 2, but it became a whole other hell on its own, and he switched to Vortex which worked much better with his previous setup, hence our use of Flatpak Steam.)

So TLDR, we are looking for any help/advice that could help us fix this mess, with the main question being; if he were to switch to a different OS, would this tech nightmare be cleared up? Our main two considerations right now are Mint XFCE, and CachyOS. Primarily Mint XFCE is what he is leaning towards, because it was built on X11, which is what Skyrim was built on as well, and should not then have problems with "oh, we're using Wayland but you want a game built on X11? Hah good luck" and blackscreening. This seems to be one of the main problems with PopOS/his GPU and drivers/Skyrim on Flatpak Steam (we have tried Debian Steam - it's even worse). As well, he would much prefer a lighter weight OS. Originally in 2019/2020 when we first switched from Windows 7 to Linux, we went with Antix because our PCs back then were i3 potato computers with integrated graphics at best, and he developed a love for lightweight OS's that don't have a hundred processes running in the background and the potential for computer breaking conflicts and nightmares.

He hasn't looked into CachyOS much yet, but has heard it's touted as an excellent Linux gaming distro, and Steam is supposedly natively built into it, so maybe less headaches in trying to get everything to communicate in the same language between the hardware and software.

Any help or advice is much appreciated, and if anyone has questions for clarifications let me know, I can get logs and screenshots if need be. Thanks in advance!

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Hello, I'm starting to get fed up with windows and all the problems it has and i wanted to try out linux, so i installed a virtual machine. However, there are a few games i play that wont open (namely games that use easy anticheat). I want to see how they run on linux and cant find a way to do so, is there a way to hide im using a vm? or do i need to find another way

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I'm asking about what do you use (Lutris+wine, Heroic+ProtonGE, Steam, native etc.), what hardware combo you use and how are your numbers looking.

I use Nvidia and AMD on Ubuntu and considering upgrade in April or May. As far on Plasma 5 wayland just does not work for me. I mean, websites works better (embeded elements loads faster, unity web version finally works) but Steam is not loading at all with or without hardware acceleration and games suffer from fps drops going even to 1 fps on any platform or wine version with minimal hardware usage.

Another thing is Nvidia panel does not work under wayland, so managing monitor colors and size gots trickier. I don't belive they will come up with new app very soon, so I'm little bit screwed.

I'm not taking part in X11 vs Wayland war, I just wanna know how is it going on newer display server and if it is worth upgrading or it needs to cook a little bit more and I have to stick with Xorg for now.

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Ive gotten a steam deck recently and I've gotten HSR working. I want to start using mods, but I'm not sure how, or if its even possible. What can I do?

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I wanted to play roblox with a few friends but when i tried opening it it kept closing, Ive reinstalled it multiple times and i dont know why

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What is the best method for getting this to work with the recent changes (UWP to GDK)? I’m running Bazzite on a handheld if that matters at all.

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i want to play with my friends but ican't cause sober is terrible and keeps crashing, how do i fix it? linux mint

sometimes it crashes a bit after entering, other times it crashes when it sends me to adifferent "experience", like pressure for exemple

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so im on linux mint debian. and my sister wants to play with me sooo much on minecraft bedrock edition. is there any way i could play bedrock edition. i tried minecraft bedrock launcher on flatpak ir requires a account that owns minecraft or is there any way i could run android to install apk like bluestacks. ty for helps

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So I installed CachyOS onto my brothers pc because his windows was infected with a rootkit. And the install went smooth, it runs well, the problem is whenever I go to set the drive for steam to use for his games. It refuses to write on the disk. it gives me a message that reads.

Failure: An error occurred when installing (name of game): "Disk Write Error"

I installed all the necessary packages, I did the optimizations, I followed the wiki steps. I've deleted and created a new partition on that drive and a different drive several times. but it just want write onto it. Any help would be amazing, I'm not swapping distros as this is the one I'm using and can help him troubleshoot if he needs.

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Zorin OS. Tried all the proton options, messing with EAC but nothing has worked. Please I need help!

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