Here is my old post. At that time we already reached 532k due to 66.000 new members last year. And now we got 44.000 new members in just 13 days! Something seems to be going on folks.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1p76avx/in_case_you_missed_it_we_have_over_half_a_million/

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Hey guys, I'm pretty new to Linux gaming and running into an issue I can't figure out. Hoping someone can help me out.

My setup:

• Laptop with Intel i5-6300U and Intel HD 520 graphics
• Running Zorin OS 18
• Trying to play Left 4 Dead (non-Steam version with SmartSteamEmu crack)

The Game:

• Game: Left 4 Dead (non-Steam version)
• Source: DODI Repack (based on CS-Steam Release)
• Crack: SmartSteamEmu v1.4.3 included
• Launcher: SmartSteamLoader.exe
• Game Files Location: ~/Games/Left 4 Dead/

The problem:
When I use Wine-GE in Bottles or Heroic, the game works perfectly.

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But when I switch to GE-Proton, I get this error:

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Engine Error: Steam is not running. You must start Steam in order to play this game.

What's weird:

• Same game files, same settings, just different "runner"
• Wine-GE works, GE-Proton doesn't
• Even tried running actual Steam in background - still fails

What I've tried:

• Different GE-Proton versions
• With/without DXVK
• Windows 7 and Windows 10

My questions:

1. Why does GE-Proton fail when Wine-GE works on the exact same game?
2. Is there a way to "trick" GE-Proton into working with cracked/non-Steam games?
3. Should I be using DLL overrides or something similar?
4. Do I just accept that GE-Proton is only for real Steam games?

What I want:
I'd like to use GE-Proton because people say it has better performance for some games. But right now I can only use Wine-GE for my non-Steam games.

Has anyone gotten GE-Proton to work with SmartSteamEmu or Goldberg emulator games? What did you do to fix the "Steam is not running" error?

Thanks for any help! Still learning this Linux gaming stuff.

Why it's confusing: Everything else is identical - game files, settings, everything. Just swapping Wine-GE for GE-Proton breaks it. Makes me think GE-Proton is "checking" for Steam in a way that Wine-GE doesn't.

❗❗ UPDATE / INTERESTING FIND: I just discovered that Dead Space 1 (another DODI repack from 2008) runs perfectly with BOTH Wine-GE AND GE-Proton on the same system. This makes the Left 4 Dead issue even more confusing - why does GE-Proton work with some repacks but not others?

Has anyone else noticed GE-Proton being picky with certain games/cracks?

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Oh no, it's going to pull me back in isn't it? War Thunder is finally adding infantry combat to its roster of war games in a future update.

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I submitted this issue to the gamescope repo after I drilled down the issue to gamescope headless mode. For whatever reason, in Expedition 33 specifically, the shadows look blocky and it's really distracting. Running this game with a gamescope wrapper on gnome or plasma looks fine, so I think this is specifically related to the gamescope compositor but I really don't know.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope/issues/2017

In my experience with gaming on Linux, there's some dependency I'm missing or something but I just can't figure it out. Does anyone have any ideas of things I can try? Hardware is in the github issue.

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A lovely blast from the past of 2015, Nuclear Throne from the revived Vlambeer has update #100 out now with some major additions and improvements.

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Hello guys, I hope some of you can help me. Unfortunately I am new to linux :*) Thanks in advance:

Running ts3server is giving me problems: ❯ sudo /usr/bin/ts3server [sudo] password for <USER>: 2025-12-09 10:46:08.255477|INFO |ServerLibPriv | |TeamSpeak 3 Server 3.13.7 (2022-06-20 12:21:53) 2025-12-09 10:46:08.255566|INFO |ServerLibPriv | |SystemInformation: Linux 6.18.0-1-cachyos-bore #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:57:29 +0000 x86_64 Binary: 64bit 2025-12-09 10:46:08.255590|INFO |ServerLibPriv | |Using hardware aes 2025-12-09 10:46:08.256005|INFO |DatabaseQuery | |dbPlugin name: SQLite3 plugin, Version 3, (c)TeamSpeak Systems GmbH 2025-12-09 10:46:08.256030|INFO |DatabaseQuery | |dbPlugin version: 3.11.1 2025-12-09 10:46:08.256180|INFO |DatabaseQuery | |checking database integrity (may take a while) 2025-12-09 10:46:08.256678|CRITICAL|DatabaseQuery | |setSQLfromFile( file:create_sqlite/create_tables.sql) failed

So it took me ages to get to this point already. I had difficulties creating the .ts3server_license_accepted in the 'working directory'. Only understanding by coincidence that ~ in my konsole was the working directory. And that ~ was actually referring to /home/<USER>/ . So I obviously have difficulty interpreting logs and errors in the right context as just telling me to go to /home/<USER>/ is apparently not how linux communicates.

Google as of yet isn't much help as I don't understand enough to translate results to my specific install/version, and because in general google changed from something helpful to something that is there to annoy it's user with the irrelevancy of its results. Chatgpt has proven itself to be less reliable than the crackheads in my neighborhood so that is also not an option.

So anyway I think ts3server is not running. I don't know for sure though. Connecting with the client to 127.0.0.1 doesn't work. And I can't find it in btop++. And the following command (ps aux | grep ts3server) returns: <USER> 24473 0.0 0.0 7088 4152 pts/0 S<+ 12:06 0:00 grep --color=auto ts3server

Which according to some search results means it is running, and to others it means that it is not running. Chatgpt is telling me he 'now understands everything' after I verbally abuse it but still doesn't actually understanding anything.

Anyway the main stuff is in /usr/share/teamspeak3-server/ (which is pretty normal I think). Pacman install gave no errors so why is it not running (or is it?) and how do I fix the sql error (and is it even a problem?)

When and if I finally get it to run I also want to a desktop shortcut to start and stop it. As I only want to host it at most 2 day's a month. But solving the first problem will make my day already. Yes I do want to self host it. As I always did in windows.

Thank you all and have good day!

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The developer team at Discord released a new engineering blog post yesterday (December 8th) detailing lots of fixes, along with some Linux improvements.

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With the first release of Hytale finally approaching, the developers are still working through getting it running on Linux and macOS.

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Hey,

Right now I’m running Bazzite in dual boot with Windows. The main reason is NVIDIA + Secure Boot, since some of the games I currently play require it. This works fine for now.

In about a year, that won’t be the case anymore and I plan to move fully to Linux. At that point Secure Boot won’t matter, so I’ll have full freedom to choose a distro.

I’ve been looking closely at CachyOS because of its performance-oriented approach, but I’m a bit cautious. I can’t help remembering what happened with Manjaro, and I’m wondering if CachyOS could eventually face similar issues.

My question is:

If something were to go wrong with CachyOS in the future, would switching to official Arch repos be a viable way to “fix” things?

My goal with this future reinstall is performance and learning, but this would also be my main PC, so I’d rather avoid having to nuke and reinstall the system every few years.

For context, I’m not new to Linux. I’ve been tinkering with PCs forever and have used everything from mainstream Ubuntu to the early, very rough versions of SteamOS on spare laptops.

Thanks in advance!

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My Weekend Project: DOOM in Terminal with OpenTUI

Inspired by the amazing terminal DOOM ports (doom-ascii, terminal-doom), I wanted to learn more about:

• WebAssembly compilation with Emscripten
• OpenTUI's rendering capabilities
• Modern terminal frameworks

So I built opentui-doom! Tech Stack:

• TypeScript for modern DX
• WebAssembly (WASM) for game logic
• OpenTUI framework for terminal rendering
• doomgeneric as the DOOM base

Easy to try:

bunx @muhammedaksam/opentui-doom --wad ./doom1.wad

Still a work in progress.

Not the first terminal DOOM, but a fun exploration of modern terminal capabilities!

Source code: https://github.com/muhammedaksam/opentui-doom

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Developer team EMINOMA have officially rebranded Team Fortress 2 Classic into Team Fortress 2 Classified, and they've set a release date for January 30th.

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I bought motorfest in this steam sale but it does not run at all. I get a wine error debug window and it refuses to run. I have already returned the game and refunded, but i am still interested in it.

I have already seen a video of it running well on a steam deck and thought it will work fine. but after i bought it, it kept crashing. I then looked through protonDB and there are people reporting the issue from last month. The issue has also been discussed in the motor fest steam community, but no solution was found.

If motor fest runs well for you, what OS are you using?
I am running the Lenovo Legion Go with bazziteOS.

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Framework Computer BV have announced a nice big expansion of their sponsorship program with many open source events and Linux distributions benefiting from it.

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Oh dear. Goonswarm Games are shutting down after Running With Scissors cancelled POSTAL: Bullet Paradise due to the use of generative AI.

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While I was off running around the woods for the weekend, Netflix announced their intention to acquire Warner Bros. but now Paramount want to fight.

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The Windows compatibility layer GE-Proton 10-26 has released with a bunch of technical improvements, along with various game fixes too.

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We're on the road to the release of Wine 11 early next year with the first Release Candidate now available for the Windows compatibility layer.

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