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Linux has improved massively. It’s not the clunky, old-fashioned Gnome2 people still picture. Modern distros are polished, fast, and thanks to Proton and Steam Deck, even gaming is no longer a niche experiment. Yet despite all that progress, the user base isn’t really growing as fast as it should.

Part of the problem is still installation. It’s easier now, but it asks users to make choices they’ve never faced before: partitions, desktop environments, disable secure boot, drivers… But the biggest issue starts earlier.

When someone decides to try Linux, maybe after hearing “it runs games great now,” they immediately face a wall of options: Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!_OS, Nobara, Fedora, Arch… and the community’s response is always the same: “any distro is fine.”

That might sound inclusive, but in practice it’s confusing. Not all distros are equally good for gaming or for beginners. Some handle drivers and proprietary software better, others need more tweaking. A gamer just wanting to install Steam and play shouldn’t have to read ten forum threads first.

What Linux really needs is a strong, straightforward answer to the eternal question: “Which distro should I install?”

Until that exists, Linux will stay caught in its own paradox: powerful, capable, and full of potential, but too fragmented for the average gamer or casual user to take the leap.

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A list of quality mystery puzzle adventures from Cyan Worlds is here with the Myst & Riven Complete Collection Humble Bundle.

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I am currently running an HP Omen 15-EK0357ng with an rtx 2070 max q, i5 10300H and 8gb ram

I’ve been using it with Linux for years for years but recently most of my games don’t run/ crash on startup (I.E. rdr 2, gta v, just cause 3/4) some games like ready or not still work but run very badly and when trying to develop on Gondor I get terrible performance. No matter if I use arch or Ubuntu 25.x, the only distros that still work kind of fine are based on Ubuntu 22.04 (currently running on pop os 22.04) does anyone have a similiar issue or fix

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With Evil Empire now in control of the future of Brotato, the first free content update under their wing is out now and it really sounds great.

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The Crusader Kings III: All Under Heaven expansion has released and to much surprise, it seems finally Paradox are back on form with players loving it.

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let me know if you relate to this: you start up a new or older game and the launcher is tiny, meaning you need to get really fucking close to the screen to read anything. Let's say you need to use an installer for a mod or some kind of tool and you need to run it within the proton prefix: same deal. Only way to fix it is to manually set your DPI for literally every single newly generated proton prefix.

Two things: steam should allow us to set a default EPI for any new proton prefix created. I have only 1600p and 2160p displays in my house, there is no reason it should be defaulting to a DPI suited to 1080p. I almost feel like they don't mess with stuff like this because this is such a glaring issue with the end user experience for anyone who is doing anything except literally just playing the games without messing with anything. Older titles especially you need to sometimes run a patch or something. I know it's possible because my default wine prefix has a DPI set to my liking so anything I opened with the normal wine program loader loads properly with DPI that I can actually read. it's incredibly annoying to have to do this for literally every single game. Heroic and even Lutris which is from what I understand semi abandoned let you do this, there's no reason valve can't implement the same thing.

The second thing I would like which is less related to this but also seems like a very necessary feature as the ability to browse wine prefix just like again heroic and lutris. The way it works now you basically either need to go to PC gaming wiki to get the actual proton prefix ID that the folder is titled with or I recently found this out you can just go to proton tricks and it will have the name there. We should be able to write click see an option for "browse prefix" just like there's an option to browse local files. It's especially important for games that for example store their saves within the prefix or literally anything done in the actual prefix.

Sorry that I'm coming across really annoyed, that's because I am lol I feel like I'm going crazy in that I don't see how no one else has complained about this yet. if this is added or fixed anytime soon I will be incredibly fucking grateful and it will massively decrease my annoyance with steam. if anyone knows of some way to set a DPI for all prefixes steam wide let me know.

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Vampire Survivors just dropped a massive content update that includes a free Balatro crossover DLC, online co-op is live and more added.

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Timberborn is a city-builder full of beavers, in a world where humans are long gone. It's properly great, and now it's finally about to hit the big 1.0.

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Here we go again, yet another hotfix release for the GE-Proton compatibility layer for running more Windows games on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

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This game was released on 27th October. It sounded like my kind of thing, so I picked it up last night with a small discount from Gamesplanet.

It's a 'native' Unity3D game which is always preferred. Whilst I've only played about 30min so far, I've survived the first night and have solved the initial puzzle! Controls are the usual mouse/WASD style with the pointer changing where things can be interacted with. Supernatural mysteries are right up my street, so I will report back later when I've progressed further.

Recommended :-)

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Title. Recently I've been install multiple linux distros in different machines of my end for trying to create a entire linux-only environment. I tried multiple laptop and some desktop and did some gaming to test if the driver is correctly installed or the performance is decent enough.
I've tested linux mint, arch linux, LMDE and Fedora (42). All my machines have Nvidia hardware (few RTX 4070 ti and 4080 mobile). In theory, all distros with correct installed driver (580.95.05) would be able to use Nvidia SM without any problem. However, in fedora 42, if I use the system package of steam, not only in mangohud, there will be no "double" numbers show in the steam overlay and mangohud. And the "feeling" of double the framerates also didn't exist. Luckily, I solved this issue by installing steam using flatpak, and everything turns out great.

I haven't meet any issue on other distro and I guess flatpak works because it might be a sort of packaging mechanism of the nvidia driver is different from the one in rpmfusion.
Do you guys have similar issues on fedora or what's your situation? Thanks in advance.

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Am on Mint 22.2, I found some guide on arch wiki and enabled 10bpc (my monitor and pc both support it, I ran it in win 10 before I swapped). Most things seem to work fine. I could launch steam, discord, browser. From games zzz and btd6 worked but for some reason it bricks wuthering waves, elden ring and satisfactory.

Does anyone know if there's a way to fix it or at least make it so that 10bpc is on for most stuff but it reverts to 8 while playing those games.

Edit: Gunfire reborn, Honkai star rail and genshin also work. Heroes of the storm via lutris doesn't (interestingly if I launch hots directly bnet shows up, if I try launching bnet it shows up as a black box instead).

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its happens when i'm looking to someone, also everyone are headless

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I get first splash screen launching, then the game goes into full screen mode and I get something like this
And then a crash, really strange stuff, this is the only game on Linux Mint so far that has issues launching.

https://preview.redd.it/q38ipcdm30yf1.png?width=241&format=png&auto=webp&s=e296283dc7427f8c17a56265e352431658ede0c1

Does anyone know what is going on with the game?

I saw other people play this game on Linux Mint successfully

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I’m using the Minisforum Ai X1 Pro, which has a Radeon 890M and a Ryzen 9 HX370. The Outer Worlds 2 runs smoothly out of the box, but I experienced inconsistent performance on my hardware. As a result, I ended up using XeSS 2.1 with XeSS Frame Generation and medium settings. I recorded the outdoor area instead of the intro, which is primarily indoors, because the outdoor performance is more demanding. With the settings I am using, I'm almost able to achieve 60 FPS. However, with VRR, the gameplay feels smooth.

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Hello everybody,

Since 2K26 is on sale (and Proton DB doesn't have that many testimonies), does anyone have any experience with the game on any Linux distro?

My specs are more than enough for medium settings on Windows (10400f, 6700 XT, 16 Gigs of RAM), but can it run without lag - and does the EAC play nice with Linux Mint?

Thanks in advance!

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Hey, guys

I am new to Linux Mint, and although I can boot into the game just fine using Proton Experimental, I have no sound. I tried editing config file to give audio a value 4, instead of 1, as Google suggested. I tried another Proton version (Hotfix) that also didn't give sound.

I disabled HDMI output, and left only my audio device as the main source of sound, but still nothing.

I get sound in other Steam games, and I am also getting sound in browser and system.

Do you know how to fix this issue?

I already deleted Proton folders, and reinstalled Proton. I also deleted setting folders for Battlefield 4 in Steam directory to make sure setting are reset to default, still no sound.

Thanks!

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why does mil sim games like linux but not games like bf6 it seems like the mil sim games allaw linux no probmel but not games like bf6 both squad and arma reforger allaws linux zero problems but games like bf6 dosent. i will never run windows havent even dule bootted for years only linux. but i find it intresting why mil sim games seems to work very often. I have never encounterd cheaters in squad or arma. Mby those devs are more freindly

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