Much like Epilogue did with the GB Operator for playing actual Game Boy cartridges, they've recently revealed the SN Operator for the SNES.

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I have a laptop and handheld PC using Bazzite. Laptop will change cause their dev mode sucks, waiting on LinuxMint, hated cachyOS didn't behave smoothly. Laptop hardware is newer.

Anyways not discussing that I'm here for help with my gaming desktop. My goal for the month of January is to switch to Linux.

AMD 5800X, 3070.

I pretty much just game, watch content, and play with excel on the desktop. I don't want to tinker with my OS it needs to be stable for gaming, I'll keep a Windows drive as insurance (hope to never use it again) pretty much all the games/apps I use work on Linux or I can find new ones. Is there a nice up to date info graphic that shows the pros/cons of the popular distros for gaming?

I was thinking of Bazzite since I know it, however with that 3070 I'm just not sure what the best choice would be. Will probably be the first and last time I buy nvidia.

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Hello, I am currently on Linux Mint 22.2 after switching from plain ol' Debian. My CPU is a 13th Gen Intel i7-13700K, and my GPU is an RX 6600 XT, and as the title says, I am having issues where Steam games encounter diabolical frame drops, most notably in the 2 games I play, which are Team Fortress 2 (running with native steam runtime) and Cyberpunk 2077 (proton experimental).

To be specific, in Cyberpunk 2077, the lag spikes occur after an hour of playtime, and in TF2, the lag spikes occur once there are too many things on screen (eg, players on fire or just plain ragdolls ragdolling and whatnot). Considering my specs, I don't think this is normal, and I have tried the traditional fixes of setting gamemoderun or LD_PRELOAD launch options to no avail (specifically in TF2 since it doesn't require me to sit for hours for the lag spikes to kick in).

I have been using different Linux distros for 11 years and have never seen this before, so any help is appreciated :D

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Now that 2025 is done and finished with, we can see what the most popular games were overall on Steam, and for Steam Deck the list is no big surprise at all.

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I ran a speedtest on Linux, I get around 2Gbps. But when I download through Steam, it always hovers around 100MB/s, even if I change to next nearest server. Sometimes it'll go even lower. I thought it was holiday throttling by Steam, but when I went into Windows to test, Steam is downloading around 200MB/s there.

Any ideas? I've tried some Google "fixes" (found some Steam console commands) but they didn't improve anything.

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A fresh update on the upcoming game Hytale which will no doubt be quite popular, and it will have what they now say is "experimental" Linux support.

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I tried any method from ProtonDB, and in most cases gam freezes my PC on loading screen.

In one combination I was able to launch game but with broken graphics.

I tried use Proton and Native versions and bot of them sucks

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The very popular gaming-focused Bazzite Linux has a fresh release out that ended 2025 with a little spring cleaning, and I've finally joined the ranks.

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Another loss for game preservation and history, River City Ransom: Underground is being delisted from stores.

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Another fresh release of the community-made compatibility layer GE-Proton, bringing fixes for some popular games and an issue with spatial audio.

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Hi guys, so it start when I found that my favorite client feather is not available on linux, so I am creating a new minecraft client with launcher that will have linux native optimization (no plan to expend to windows) and we'll, distribute as appimage. And well i am making the launcher for now but its way too hard bc its my first time with go and qt6. Tho I have very good practice with java mod. I wanted that can anyone help with with the launcher. If you are interested in my project, you can join my discord and we can work togather. https://discord.gg/vvkke4TY4v

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Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for December 2025, bringing with it a fresh look at how Linux / SteamOS are doing on Steam.

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The first bug fix release of 2026 for the open source graphics drivers Mesa is here with Mesa 25.3.3 out now.

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So I started playing Expedition 33 and the audio constantly stutters during combat and cutscenes. I looked around online for a solution and found that setting the sampling rate to 44100 should fix this issue. But when I set the global sampling rate in pipewire config to 44100, pw-top shows that Expedition 33's sample rate is still 48000. I even tried forcing it with

pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.force-rate 44100

It changed everywhere else except Expedition 33.

I also tried the launch option (with different values)

PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=50 %command%

and

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dsound=n,b"

I also looked around in Proton Tricks, but I didn't find an option to change the sample rate there.

Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

I have ClairObscurFix installed for uncapping cutscene FPS, but the audio issue was there before.

I'm running Arch with Linux kernel and KDE Plasma (Wayland).

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And the solution is to restart the game which is not really practical while playing a multiplayer game.

Is there a solution to this?

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So I am not talking about the overlay of course but about steam windows taking the first position on screen. So it is like when a windows restart or reload and that appears in front.

How do I fix this?

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Hey guys, I don't know if any of you ever played Tiny Death Star, but I really liked it.
It has been some time since I played it, and I thought that I wanted to play it again.
I thought about installing an apk of the game, because the official version got taken down.
Sadly I couldn't get it to work on my android phone with Android 16 and I saw that there was also a Version for windows which maybe could run on Linux, or maybe I could run the apk somehow on Linux.
If you have any ideas, please let me know, it would make me really happy to play it again :D

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