Leider hatte sich mein BTRFS-Dateisystem nach vorherigen 14 Jahren Dienst ohne Zwischenfälle nun verabschiedet. Damit fiel auch meine bisherige openSUSE Tumbleweed-Installation, die ich seit mehreren Jahren dank Rolling Release immer wieder aktualisiert halte auch dem virtuellen Datenfresser zum Opfer. Zeit also für eine frische Neuinstallation, dabei wollte ich gleich die Gelegenheit nutzen einmal zu dokumentieren, welche Tools man so unter Tumbleweed als Gamer geschenkt mit dazu geliefert bekommt und an welchen Stellen man etwas nachbohren muss.

Erstmal dazu, was openSUSE Tumbleweed überhaupt ist. Im Gegensatz zu openSUSE Leap ist openSUSE Tumbleweed ist ein getestetes Rolling Release. Hier gibt es also keine Releases im klassischen Sinne, wo dann einmal alles auf den neusten technischen Stand gebracht und dann ausgiebig getestet wird, sondern hier werden sogenannte Snapshots erzeugt und diese dann zu updatefähigen Paketen zusammengeschnürt. Alles im allem aktualisiert man im Prinzip die ganze Zeit und erhält so natürlich ein topaktuelles System. Arch Linux macht es ähnlich und auch bei Fedora kann man davon sprechen und mit Siduction ist das Prinzip auch für Debian verfügbar. Leider bringt die technologische Speerspitze der allerneusten Pakete auch oftmals einige Bugs und Probleme mit sich. Hier kann Tumbleweed jedoch mit einer einzigartigen offenen und freien Infrastruktur aufwarten:

Alle Pakete, die für Tumbleweed bereitgestellt werden, gehen durch ein automatisiertes QA auf Basis von OpenQA. Dabei wird zum Beispiel geprüft, ob die Software sich starten lässt, ob Abhängigkeiten ausserhalb der durch das RPM definierten fehlen. Bei grafischen Programmen werden dann auch einige interaktive Tests durchgeführt.

Das System

Alle Versionsangaben entsprechen dem Stand der Installation, hier Mitte April 2024 was dem aktuellen Snapshot openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240412 entspricht. Hardwaremäßig steht hier ein AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (6 Kerne, 12 Threads) mit 48 GB RAM und einer NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER mit 8GB VRAM zur Verfügung. Die Installation verlief per USB-Stick. Über die openSUSE-Downloadseite steht ein aktuelles ISO-Image für AMD64 zur Verfügung, dass man direkt auf einen USB-Stick bannen kann. Davon gebootet und den Installer durchgeklickt, schon geht es los mit dem ersten Boot.

Entschieden habe ich mich bei meinem softwareseitigen Gameing-Setup (wieder) für KDEs Plasma 6 und direkt in der Wayland-Variante. Im Login-Screen lässt sich aber bequem zwischen Wayland und X11/Xorg umschalten. Nach dem Login begrüsst uns der Willkommensbildschirm von KDE und openSUSE. Dann wollen wir mal das System gamingtauglich machen. Wenn nicht besonders angegeben funktionieren alle Kommandos oder Paketnamen mit den Standard-Repositories, die mit TW mitkommen.

Treiber

Da im Rechner eine NVIDIA-Karte verbaut ist, war zunächst ein Update notwendig. Hier hat das System selbstständig festgestellt, dass die NVIDIA-Treiber vorliegen. Das Repo war bereits standardmäßig eingebunden, so dass beim Update die G06-Treiber vom Hersteller nachinstalliert wurden. Einen Neustart später gab es dann Hardwarebeschleunigung mit dem Treiber in Version 550.67. Das Konfigurationstool "nvidia-settings" musste man über den gleichnamigen Paketnamen händisch nachinstallieren.

Vor den Spielen

Bevor wir uns Spiele auf die Platte ziehen, wollen wir Übersicht. Dazu ziehen wir uns erstmal ein paar Game-Clients auf das Gerät. Hier gibt es ja mittlerweile eine größere Auswahl, mindestens für jeden Shop einen eigenen. Die beiden ersten Pakete könnt ihr entweder in YaST eingeben im Bereich "Software installieren", über KDE Discovery oder direkt an der Konsole:

sudo zypper in -y steam lutris

damit landen schon einmal Steam und der freie Game-Launcher Lutris bei uns. Letzterer lässt sich übrigens neben der Paket-Variante auch über Flatpak installieren. Flatpak ist eine gute Wahl, wenn man neuere Software-Versionen haben möchte, oder diese in kurzen Abständigen häufiger wechseln. Mit Steam aus dem Repository habe ich allerdings noch nie Probleme gehabt.

Flatpak ist übrigens bereits direkt installiert und einsatzbereit. Hier empfiehlt sich als Oberfläche KDE Discovery zu nehmen. Das Programm bietet eine Übersicht über alle Pakete aus verschiedenen Paketquellen wie den RPM-Repositories, aber auch Flatpak.

Jetzt können wir noch per Flatpak den Heroic Games Launcher für Epic und Wine-basierte Spiele, Rare (weiteres Frontend für Epic über Legendary) und itch für die Spiele aus dem itch.io-Store dazu. Wer möchte kann hier auch Lutris über Flatpak installieren.
Dabei kommt auch gleich Wine mit. Zur Zeit der Installation in Version 9.6. Das kann nicht schaden.

Kommunikation

Immernoch keine Spiele in Sicht. Nein, wenn wir mit unseren Mitspielern sprechen möchten (bitte nicht im Singleplayer, dann wird man komisch angeschaut, wenn man mit der KI redet), dann brauchen wir noch Voice-Clients. Hier lässt uns openSUSE auch nicht im Regen stehen und spendiert uns direkt Mumble (aus dem Repo und als Flatpak) und Teamspeak 3 und die Beta-Version Teamspeak 5 per Flatpak. Ebenso darüber wird auch Discord als Client angeboten.

Spiele

Jetzt geht es endlich los. Natürlich haben wir per Steam Zugriff auf alle Spiele, über die Einstellung "Steam" -> "Settings" -> "Compatibility" schaltet ihr noch Proton für alle eure Spieletitel frei, indem ihr dort "Enable Steam Play for all other titles" aktiviert.

Wer es etwas freier mag, der wird hier über KDE Discovery und die Anbindung an FlatHub ein riesigen Schatz an freien Spielen finden. Über KDE Discovery steht natürlich das gesamte Portfolio an Spiele im Flatpak-Format über Flathub zur Verfügung.

Daneben gibt es aber noch die eigenen Repositories. Im Standard-TW werden ein paar wenige Spiele mitgeliefert. Der Hauptteil der Spiele befindet sich aber im separaten Games-Repository. Dieses könnt ihr über YaST -> Software Repositories -> Hinzufügen. Dann dort ein Repo unter der URL "http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/" einfügen. Dann stehen euch direkt Titel wie Beneath a Steel Sky, CorsixTH, 7kaa, 0 A.D., Flightgear, Mindustry, OpenE2140, Assault Cube, Augustus und Julius, d1x-rebirth und d2x-rebirth, Darkplaces, dhewm3, Endless Sky, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Freeciv, FreeCol, FreedroidRPG, FreeOnion, FreeSerf, Globulation2, Jagged Alliance 2 Stracciatella, Minetest, OpenCity, OpenJazz, openLierox, openRCT2, OpenTTD, openXcom, Pioneers, Simutrans, Smoking Guns, Speed Dreams, UFO: AI, Unknown Horizons, Urban Terror, The Ur-Quan-Masters, vdrift, Vega Strike, VCMI, Warzone 2100, Battle for Wesnoth, Zod Engine und Dune Legacy. Und natürlich viele weitere Titel.

Neben den reinen Spielen sind aber auch noch Tools wie residualvm, scummvm und viele Emulatoren dabei.

Fazit

Alles in allem bietet openSUSE Tumbleweed durch das getestete (!) Rolling Release immer gute Kompatibilität bei den Steam-Spielen, Probleme wie mit dem glibc-Update bei openSUSE Leap gehören damit der Vergangenheit an. Das Software-Angebot ist riesig, bis auf das Games-Repository muss fürs Gaming erstmal kein weiteres Repo angebunden werden.

Wer auf der Suche nach einer neuen Distribution ist und dabei auf Rolling Release setzen möchte, sollte dringend einmal einen Blick auf openSUSE werfen. Die Basis aus dem im unternehmenseinsatz erprobtem SUSE Linux Enterprise in der Kombination mit den akteullen Paketen und der darüber geschalteten OpenQA erschafft hier ein sehr stabiles, performantes und gut durchdachtes Betriebssystem.

Have fun!

Weiterführende Links

https://www.opensuse.org/#Tumbleweed

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Hello, greatest and most BASED gamers, then we talk about gaming we also mean modding, right? And i wish not only use already done mods, but CREATE as well. So as i have to stick to Ubuntu laptop how now, i set up Creation Kit and it all works, with some exceptions, so i really hope someone could know how to fix some stuff here.

First, dialogue views, on Windows we have one flowchart? dll and it handles it, and we have to launch CK at least once with admin rights to activate it, how we could launch Creation kit on linux/ubuntu as sudo (admin or something) through steam or something?

CK fixes - on windows it handles all startup errors, but here we still need to press yes to all few times, is it a bug or a feature?

Entering mod edit in CK (loading esp) here is quite slow, much slower than on windows, is it because of billion layers of virtualization and translation through wine/proton?

About scripting - is it possible to use VS code for it on linux?

Also about scripting - internal code editor messes text on scaling, if i ctrl+scroll it

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And should i ask about it here, or better move to r/skyrimmods or something? after all, that that windows dudes can know about it, yes?

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I've noticed stuff is getting pretty wild in the Linux world when it comes to the desktop in general, but nVidia (I disapprove of them changing their styling) and gaming in particular.

First of all Mint 22 will be moving to Pipewire, which should provide better audio quality by default, at least compared to default Pulse audio with really low quality remixing. And it will start having more regular Kernel updates by default too, so it will be more viable for newer systems and thus gaming. And 23 may even bring about Wayland support (not just experimental) in Cinnamon!

Next up though PopOS which is already great for nVidia gaming, should launch COSMIC (and presumably Wayland), which should provide a much more secure and responsive DE.

Making that more viable is the imminent release of explicit sync support for Linux drivers.

And finally, Fedora moving to Wayland default for Gnome and KDE should also be pushing ahead the overall move toward Wayland and making transition viable for gamers relatively soon!

All quite exciting developments for Linux gamers and desktop users in general.

Personally, I think the "Year of the Linux Desktop" was actually when Windows 11 launched and now we are just moving along ever further. But could 2025 be the year of the Linux Gaming Desktop?

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how can i install fivem on linux ubuntu with q4wine

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In the KDE settings in Input Devices -> Game Controller I can see my Guitar Hero controller working perfect, every button works as expected.

However, launching Guitar Hero World Tour Definitive Edition via Bottles, I cannot map some of the buttons. I suspect this is because some driver/app is mapping the device as Xbox controller. I've obviously tried to shut down Steam completely and I tried the desktop and game modes on the Steam Deck, both exhibit the same issue.

What can I do to stop Steam messing with the controller? Or could there be something else to this?

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Is there any features at upcoming plasma 6.1 like Auto hdr but using gui app?

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After burning though my 3 month Gamepass trial I'm looking to put a Linux distro on my ROG Ally.

I want to dual boot with the default windows install to keep the Armoury Crate app and the firmware/bios updates that it manages.

My default option would have been ChimeraOS except it doesn't natively support dual booting. I have found a guide that will (apparently) let me do that, but before I go through all that extra effort I was wondering if anyone had other good options.

For the most part I want to treat this device like a console where I don't have to dock it every week to apply updates. So happy with something Arch based as long as the distro handles the complexity of updates so they can be automatic (e.g. like ChimeraOS) I've done my fair share of distro hopping and use Mint on my main mahcine, but again I want this like a console that basically boots into game mode.

Most of the games I'll play are on Steam, but bonus points if it somehow supports GoG and/or PS Remote Play out of the box / simply. Emulation isn't required but would be nice.

Thanks for any advice people have

P.S. I also want to take a factory disk image before I start messing around, years ago I would have used Clonezilla, but that was always a little complicated and it's been a while since I've tried so don't want to stuff anything up, so if there's a good image backup util that would be good too

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Now, a lot of games today, particularly online games, are chalk filled with egregious monetization practices. I don't even call them games for real gamers. Just games for wallet gamers; whales who keep on whaling. It's depressing. And the Western AAA companies literally get their input from whales; which is extremely troubling I find. Western AAA game companies have gone down the tubes for the most part.

But, no real loss to me. Time for more Indies that are more fun! The only real success I ever heard with AAA gaming in recent days has been games that are from FromSoftware; which is not Western. And they made a some Western game companies very jealous (like Ubisoft) with Elden Ring. 😁

Anyway, this site here https://macrotransactions.org/ is cool for listing in detail about how egregious the micro transactions are for a lot of popular games. And those certain games made by certain game companies, where the devs refuse to support Proton score an E, or a huge F. I won't play a game with so much as a single B rating if I decided to ever venture with online gaming. Only A rating will do. The guy is awesome for making this site. It would be great if more people can help him add more games to his site; beyond the scope of the popular ones that also share the same tactics. If you find anything that is no longer relevant with a game you play, then please contribute to this guy's efforts. It's a site only run by one person. So, the more help, the better.

And when I compare those low scoring games to this site https://areweanticheatyet.com/ where it lists games with anti cheat that support Proton and ones that are not, it kind of levels out to be honest.

I say this is great. And why Linux is great for gaming. Because it filters out a lot of awful games with egregious micro transactions. And the quality games generally don't have an issue with working on Linux.

Honestly, I am quite happy about it. It's progressive when people are being forced to play better quality games and move away from those lazy and greedy game companies. If they are so determined to move over to Linux entirely because of how chaotic Microsoft is today, that is. And I have to say Valve is doing a great job at making gaming on Linux go even further.

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For all the whales coming here, who are going to flip out at me more because they can't handle me saying the truth as to where a lot of AAA gaming is headed today with the monetization, watch this video before commenting, please. That guy might actually make you think about what kind of dystopia you are actually supporting. ☺️

Also, I won't be responding to anyone this time. Because 'humans' who are in denial will comment so they can attack me, 'another human', for saying some truth; saying that I am coping because certain games don't work on Linux. Not the case. In fact, I am glad I never considered playing those games with shady monetization practices. So, those can stay on Microsoft's terrible operating system.

FINALLY, if mods remove this post, then I know they really don't want gaming on Linux to succeed. Because the games companies that refuse to support Proton tend to have to worst monetization practices. It goes hand in hand, after all. And this monetization of gaming has really ruined AAA gaming as a whole. People need to acknowledge this fact more.

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Hello. Linux newbie here. I am a lifetime Windows user and I wanted to give Linux a spin as my main OS. However, after a quick search, I am torn between a few distros:

• Kubuntu
  
• Fedora
  
• OpenSUSE
  
• Nobara
  

My primary usage would be gaming but I want a future proof OS that is also well suited for any other type of usage. I want something noob proof that will work out of the box with the least amount of tweaks possible. The only preference I have is KDE.
I also have a few specific questions:

• What's better for a beginner between stable and rolling releases?
• Which OS will give me the best chance to find solutions on forums thanks to a large user base?
  
• Will Kubuntu have compatibility issues if I install FlatPack support? And are snaps really as bad as the community makes them out to be?
  
• Should I be worried about Nobara not being future proof enough and not having as much support available being a smaller scale project than Fedora?
  

I know that's a lot of questions but any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

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Just a little over a month ago I started using Linux (Ubuntu 20.04), I've been trying to play rdr2 these last few days and the system just freezes. my computer is not very powerful and that could be the reason, but I'm not sure. I tried to change the lunch options but nothing. I have an i5-10300H and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX™ 1650. Could someone help me?

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Ok, so I was trying to add Flatpak so I could do Flathub. I was following a guide and the last part of part 1 of 2 was to add this into the terminal.

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Well apparently at some point in that part I put Flathube instead of Flathub. So now when I try to follow part 2 instructions to install mincreaft bedrock edition through flathub, it won't work because of the mistake I made back in part 1.

So is there anyway to correct that mistake? Because I tried to go back, and re-enter the correct line in terminal, but apparently that doesn't override the mistake.

Thanks for any help!

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Hi everyone,

I'm fairly new to Linux and I'm encountering freezing issues with CS2 on Linux Mint 21.3. The game starts normally, but after playing a few rounds, my entire computer freezes and becomes unresponsive. I'm forced to perform a hard shutdown by holding the power button, or sometimes "CTRL + ALT + Backspace x2" brings me back to the login screen.

Troubleshooting Steps Taken:

• I've already significantly reduced in-game graphics settings, even below the recommended settings, but the freezing persists.
• I've tried both the latest NVIDIA drivers (550.54.14) and the recommended ones (535.171.04), with no improvement.
• I've verified the integrity of the CS2 game files to ensure no corruption.

System Information:

• OS: Linux Mint 21.3
• CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-11400H @ 2.70GHz
• RAM: 8GB
• GPU: NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile]

Question:

I'm wondering if anyone else has faced similar freezing issues with CS2 on Linux, or if there are any known workarounds. I've seen some users suggest switching to a gaming-focused distro like Nobara, but I'm unsure if that would definitively address the problem.

Any insights or suggestions would be much appreciated!

Thanks ;)

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I tried playing a 1.20 mod pack on Arch and the sound came out really distorted, it took me a while to find out what it was but it turns out my launcher wasn't using the System OpenAL, so I wanted to make this short newbie guide just in case anyone else had the same problem.

I was originally getting "[ALSOFT] (EE) Failed to set real-time priority for thread: Operation not permitted (1)", though I found out this was just a warning message and didn't really mean anything.

For ATLauncher, it is "Use System OpenAL?" in the "Java/Minecraft" in the Settings tab.

For PolyMC/Prism Launcher, it is in Settings --> Minecraft --> Tweaks --> "Use system installation of OpenAL"

If you have another launcher and you wanna add it in the comments you should do so. :D

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