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Is cachyOS stable for gaming in the longterm without needing constant intervention after updates?
I added a non-steam game to steam and it's an installer, I don't know where the game got installed after finishing downloading
It may be a very silly question, I browsed on internet for some time to find the answer but I still am very confused - remember I'm not very good with this type of thing and please be patient.
I used Proton for this as you may already imagined, I ran the installer - but it told me that it's able to only install in the C: drive wich I know that is not a Linux's drive prefix but Widnow's, I don't know what to do with it.
I have a separate disk that could've worked but it's only about 300 mb and the game is 4gb so I can't use it.
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Need latest Mesa Driver on Linux Mint
So there was a bugfix in the Mesa Driver for a plugin in Runescape's 3rd party client Runelite to prevent it from crashing. The plugin in question is 117HD, a 3rd party graphics plugin to make the game look a bit nicer.
This bugfix was implemented in Mesa 25.2.6, and appears to work well. But I am using Linux Mint, and the stable version of the driver that is currently in the Repo is Mesa 25.0.7-ubuntu.0.24.04.2. This makes sense, because you don't necessarily want to always push the latest drivers.
Oddly enough however, I did see an update for Mesa. However, that update seems to have only been to update the OpenGL version that Discord uses through Freedesktop.
Is there a way for me to, without entirely breaking the system, use the latest of these bugfix drivers as well in order to get these fixes?
For frame of reference, I am on an AMD GPU (7900 XTX) + am using Bolt to have a native Runelite client. I'd like to use the plugin, but not to the detriment of my entire system.
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Why Steam Machine MUST Cost More Than Consoles
I've noticed that no one on the internet has talked about this, so I wanted to share my opinion and my take on things. Right now, there's a lot of speculation about the price of the Steam Machine, and quite a few people have expressed negative views about the fact that the pricing won't follow the classic console model; where hardware is sold at a loss upfront, and that "loss" is recouped later through games and monthly subscriptions. My opinion is that it had to be this way. The reason is that many people forget: this isn't a console, it's just a pre-built PC, which means it can do anything a regular computer can. You could install Windows 11 on it, play video games, stream video content, browse the internet, do video and photo editing... But it could also mine cryptocurrencies and train AI models.
If the Steam Machine were cheaper than a PC with the same performance that you'd build yourself, the main customers wouldn't be gamers, but miners and AI "enthusiasts," which would eventually lead to the same mess we saw with graphics cards: stocks running dry and prices skyrocketing (if Valve doesn want to go bankrupt ofc). I think Valve's decision to go with 8 GB VRAM instead of 16 factored this in because you can definitely play games on 8 GB VRAM, but mining or training AI with it is just not cost-effective. If the price were lower than average PCs, everyone except gamers would abuse it, and we'd be the ones feeling the fallout again, us gamers.
Something like this has happened before. You can find info online about how various organizations used video game consoles to build supercomputers because it was more cost effective and powerful hardware at a lower price. It mostly happened with the PS2 and PS3, back when Sony's hardware was more open and even allowed Linux installation. In 2010, the US Air Force built a supercomputer out of 1,760 PS3s for analyzing high-resolution satellite images; it was the fastest interactive supercomputer in the U.S. Department of Defense at the time and ranked 33rd on the global list. That was over 15 years ago, when needs and perceptions around computers were totally different from today, way before the big hype around AI and crypto. Just imagine what people would do now if you could buy a whole computer that's capable for training or mining, for $200–400 less than building it yourself, with Linux pre-installed.
The only way to prevent this and keep that "affordable console price" would be to lock down the entire system, hardware and BIOS so that no modifications are possible. In other words, ban any software not approved by Valve, which is completely the opposite of what they want and clashes with their vision for Steam Hardware and their ideology. That way, the platform wouldn't be open-source, you couldn't install Windows on it, or any other software outside the Steam store. Then it wouldn't be a PC anymore, it'd be a real, classic gaming console like the ones we all know and don't love.
My take is that Valve doesn't want that, and one way to avoid it is by pricing it like a normal PC. Not because of corporate greed or wanting more money (Valve, no matter what, will seriously profit from Steam in the end), but for the sake of gamers. That's at least my opinion, feel free to share yours. I'd genuinely love to hear what others have to say about this :)
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about a year and a half ago i had trouble running some distros well on this laptop.
But Now Im very happy with these rusults (top is linux, bot is win11)
Asus zenbook 14 oled with Ultra 7 155H (meteor lake)
Im also getting better battery life
setup:
Linux:
arch with kde via archinstall
installed power-profile-daemons and set to performance
installed and enabled thermald
some ricing unrelated to performance
windows:
installed windows with asus image via cloud recovery wich took about two hours (asus problem)(for some reason installing it with normal windows usb doesnt work well as i had some problems that are too many to list here)
removed some Asus related bloat and services(the uneeded ones since a lot of them are needed for performance), disabled some startup services, used ctt windows utility to tweak and remove more bloat and disable services and telemetry things.
set fan profile to performance on myasus app
set windows power profile to performance.
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The Nightdive Studios enhanced Quake II re-release is now Steam Deck Verified
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The multiverse is a mess so you and friends will get cleaning in S.K.R.U.B. Squad
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Play dice against the guardian of the underworld in Dice of Kalma
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Logitech G mouse button customisation on Linux?
Maybe not directly related to games but I use a Logitech Hyperion (g405 I think it is), but I haven’t been able to map my buttons according to my use case (game shortcuts when playing, or have the alt + left/right rest of the time), is there any decent work around/alternatives for that?
I do suppose there would be tools that just set the onboard stuff to a default, but it was hoping something with profiles even if it doesn’t automatically detect apps and switch.
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NodalBastion is a delightful mixture of tower defense and incremental progression
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I know that I am really late to the party, but 1440p is a game changer!
Hey!
I hopped on the Linux train in June and my experience has been great. I never though changing from Windows would be so smooth for someone who likes gaming. Yesterday I pulled the trigger and got myself a 1440p 27" monitor and holy crap it is such a difference. Both for games and work. I have for many years been having a dual 1080p setup.
If there are any people out there who has been thinking on pulling the trigger on 1440p, then I advice you to go for it.
I would like to add that the monitor change has been flawless with Fedora KDE plasma. It worked out of the box with my AMD card.
Edit: I have sometimes connect my PC to my 4k TV and yes it is beautiful. But nothing I use as a daily driver. Plus I prefer having higher fps than even more resolution.
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Dune: Awakening gets a limited time free trial and the biggest discount yet
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What Finally Fixed 'Mouse Escapes Game to 2nd Monitor' for me
I've been using Linux exclusively for more than three years, and there have been a lot of improvements regarding gaming in that time.
However, one issue I've had to deal with the whole time is that, in many games that require the cursor to be locked to the game (e.g., for camera movement), the cursor would randomly escape to my second monitor. Also, it would not get locked to the game window after I tabbed out and back in again.
Even worse were games with parts that require a locked cursor and parts that allow a movable cursor (like Blue Prince, for example). This would usually unlock the cursor from the game window.
What I tried:- Exclusive full screen, borderless window, and window.
- GameScope
- I also tried all the recommended Game Scope options, like --force-grab-cursor.
- Using Lutris and Steam
- Trying a multitude of different Proton versions
- Using protontricks/wine config in Lutris, etc., to enable cursor lock to the window.
I even swapped my GPU from Nvidia to AMD, though not to solve this issue, but rather to have a better GPU.
- Reinstalling the OS (Fedora Gnome).
However, no matter what I tried: Nothing changed. The cursor would not reliably stay locked to the game window. It was really infuriating.
What solved it in the end?I went into Gnome's display options, set the scaling for both monitors to 100%, and made sure the bottom edges of both monitors were perfectly aligned. Suddenly, the cursor stayed locked to the game, and tabbing into the game reliably captured the cursor every time.
I hope this trivial solution helps someone else who struggles with the same problem!
To still have a sort of scaling on my monitors I used gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1.25
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ARC Raiders is now Steam Deck Verified
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Nvidia performance
hello everyone, are Nvidia GPUs still loosing performance on Linux due to closed drivers? this is the only thing keeping me from switching
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The current state of launchers
I am confused, I have been using lutris for a long time (since I started using Linux), but recently I’ve encountered crashes and bugs which prompted me to simply find a good alternative, and my god do people have strong opinions.
During my search, I found people surprised that lutris has not been updated for a year now, and a lot of saying bottles don’t work and hard and bad and they scared me as I’ve used it and it seemed really good (and things related to bottles next I don’t get). I also found a launcher called faugus but it seems really new and I’m unsure if it has what lutris or bottles have in terms of stability and features.
I am simply looking for something that is still being updated, has almost the same features as lutris, so access to windows games and launchers like epic and Ubisoft and so on, and importantly, easy to manage the proton and dependencies versions. I am currently using protonup-QT to install the latest proton on steam so lutris could use it.
What do you use and why? I understand this question has been asked a lot but the why is important in such questions to understand why one launcher was chosen over the other.
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winetricks in bottles?
so i wanted to play rdr2 (the illegal version) and since i have to set render to vulkan in winetricks , is there alternative way to do it in bottles instead of changing my launcher to heroic or lutris?
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