Fanatical have another chance here for you to build up your Steam game collection with a bunch of lovely indie games all at a great price.

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using the native Linux version on Kubuntu 25.10 on the main screen pops

FATAL ERROR: vulkan encounter unrecoverable error VK_ERROR_DEVICE_LOST.

been trying to fix with deepseek since yesterday to no avail. with -dx11 shows the same error.
I was able to launch through Proton 9 but the performance was awful. vkcube and glxgears run correctly

my /home is mounted on a separate btrfs partition (same disk) if that matters.
here's my laptop specs:

AMD Ryzen 5400U (with iGPU) product: Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0 logical name: /dev/fb0 version: rev c3 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix vga_controller bus_master cap_list fb configuration: depth=32 driver=amdgpu latency=0 resolution=1920,1200 resources: irq:41 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e0000000-e01fffff ioport:d000(size=256) memory:fcc00000-fcc7ffff Devices: ======== GPU0: apiVersion = 1.4.328 driverVersion = 25.3.3 vendorID = 0x1002 deviceID = 0x1638 deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_INTEGRATED_GPU deviceName = AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV RENOIR) driverID = DRIVER_ID_MESA_RADV driverName = radv driverInfo = Mesa 25.3.3 - kisak-mesa PPA conformanceVersion = 1.4.0.0 deviceUUID = 00000000-0400-0000-0000-000000000000 driverUUID = 414d442d-4d45-5341-2d44-525600000000 GPU1: apiVersion = 1.4.328 driverVersion = 25.3.3 vendorID = 0x10005 deviceID = 0x0000 deviceType = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU deviceName = llvmpipe (LLVM 20.1.8, 256 bits) driverID = DRIVER_ID_MESA_LLVMPIPE driverName = llvmpipe driverInfo = Mesa 25.3.3 - kisak-mesa PPA (LLVM 20.1.8) conformanceVersion = 1.3.1.1 deviceUUID = 6d657361-3235-2e33-2e33-202d206b6900 driverUUID = 6c6c766d-7069-7065-5555-494400000000 mesa-utils 9.0.0-2 submitted by /u/Torantes
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Hello, I have a problem with Project Zomboid that on X11 it will launch show the cursor play audio but the main menu is just a black screen. Due to Wayland still being in expromental on Mint the Left shift, cntrl and alt key dont work. Is there a way to make the menu work in X11 or the keys to work in Wayland? Thx

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wine: RLIMIT_NICE is <= 20, unable to use setpriority safely [2026-01-21 10:10:38.394] [MANGOHUD] [info] [blacklist.cpp:83] process 'explorer.exe' is blacklisted in MangoHud err: DxvkInstance: Required instance extensions not supported Monitored process exited. Initial process has exited (return code: 1280) Exit with return code 1280

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Hey,

Basically this. When I play modded Cities Skylines I on steam on my fedora workstation, after a certain amount of assets installed, the kernel kills the game. Thing is that I have 32GB of ram and a very decent CPU. Has this happened to you before? I increased the swap file and tried so that the system would use less ram, but alas.

Perhaps I should buy more ram?

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I switched to Nobara 43 a couple days ago and dual booting with windows for some games that have EAC, i was wondering which kind of games are better on Linux rather than on windows since i saw some videos where on Linux the performance are way worse than windows

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I want to sincerely thank the people of this subreddit! A few months ago I posted this

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux\_gaming/s/BJXxeBg1Qd

asking whether to switch to Linux for gaming. The comments were incredibly helpful and I ended up going with CachyOs.

I’ve had a few problems along the way but this has been a game changer for me. CachyOs is how I imagined operating systems would be in the future 10 years ago. It’s smooth, fast and I love not getting forced updates which sometimes break something. So far I’ve had no issues with the games I’ve played (the modern Doom trilogy, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hades 2 and even some older titles). Not only that but my wireless ps5 controller works better (on windows it randomly couldn’t connect via Bluetooth after some update…). At this point I don’t see myself going back to windows at all (and good riddance).

I recommend anyone who is on the fence to give it a try.

Once again a big THANK YOU to the people of this sub!

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Ghostship was a recent announcement from the HarbourMasters team bringing a new Super Mario 64 PC port, and now there's a fresh release with a Linux version.

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Hello I've tried to install NVIDIA open drivers on my debian 13 with kernel version 6.12.63+deb13-amd64.

I have an rtx 5060 ti blackwell which means according to debian documentation that I can only install the open drivers.

But not matter which kernel version I try:

- 6.12.38+deb13

- 6.12.43+deb13

- 6.12.63+deb13
- 6.18.0-061800-generic

I tried different driver versions too: 575, 580, 590 and also the master branch of NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

I also tried: https://github.com/devleonardoamaral/debian-nvidia-installer
I keep getting the same issue.

Here is a ticket opened on open-gpu-kernel-modules github with more information including logs. I'm open to any suggestions

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/1006

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A few more games are going to be lost to history, as the French indie studio Accidental Queens announced they're closing down.

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Max and Chloe are returning in Life is Strange: Reunion in March for a finale, and it sounds like it's going to be an interesting adventure.

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Hi guys, idk if the flair Is correct for this post. Also, i'm sorry, i know you get these questions a lot. I just want to know: Is there any real performance difference between Bazzite and CachyOS? I was planning to switch to Linux, but i am still not sure where to land. I will use this PC mainly for gaming, watching films and listening to music, i have a separate laptop for work and uni. My points are: i won't be doing much tinkering anyway, so a distro like Bazzite Is fine, but i'm willing to use CachyOS If overall It's better in terms of performance. Also, i have a thermalright cooler (Frozen warframe pro 360) with an integrated display. I don't know if coolercontrol (which can be installed with ujust, i checked) can interact in any way with the display, so i searched online for another software to do so. On GitHub i found one, but It Is not packaged for any distro (you need manually compile It from source). The thing Is: idk if i can do this on Bazzite itself. I know i can use and Arch distrobox container with a USB passthrough, tho i need to do some try and error to set It up. What do you suggest?

Edit: as pointed out in the comments, the bleeding edge nature of CachyOS Is not to be underestimated. I am on AM5 (ryzen 7 7700), with a Radeon RX 9070XT GPU. Is Bazzite good enough? Or do i need more of a bleeding edge solution?

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So I just started dual booting with cachyos with the aim of eventually having it take over (9070 XT with 9800X3D user). Spent some time setting up Clair Obscur (hopefully at some point redstone upgrade will be more straightforward) and had a few questions:

• One issue I seemed to have is that audio during proton games seems to briefly cut out at times. Can't work out if this is a caching thing or a scheduling issue, but I ended up mitigating it by changing my Pipewire config to use 192000hz bitrate (why isn't this just configurable within KDE?)
• Is there anyway to simply set certain launch options as default for Steam games (so I'm not having to put mangohud and fsr4 upgrade launch options on every game)?
• Similarly is there a way to have per game profiles for mangohud (i like to have an fps limit of 139fps for games on my primary monitor and 116fps for my TV to keep with the recommendations for optimal setup of VRR)?
• When connected to my TV I have a passthrough 5.1 sound bar. Is there a way to do Dolby Audio (I'm assuming the answer is no given licensing)?

EDIT: For background context, I have some previous experience with desktop Linux (lots of experience with server linux) but admittedly most of it comes either from my early Arch days back when Wayland was this niche thing that was considered Ubuntu's pet project that the rest of the community thought would never take off or from my Steam Deck usage.

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I’ve been looking at modding GTA V again after switching to Linux. As most people familiar with GTA V modding know, OpenIV is required for many mods, but it has no native Linux support. I’m aware there are workarounds, but to be honest they’re beyond me.

I’m considering the following steps and would like to know whether it’s viable:

1. Create a Windows VM (VirtualBox)

2: Install Steam, GTA V, and OpenIV inside the VM

1. Use OpenIV to install mods into the GTA V directory

2. Copy the fully modded GTA V directory from the VM to my Linux system

3. Run the modded directory through Proton/Linux

The intention would be to play the game on Linux via Proton, not inside the VM. I understand VirtualBox doesn’t support GPU passthrough, which is fine since the VM would only be used for modding.

I got VirtualBox set up with 8 GB RAM, 4 cores, and 150 GB of storage.

As a side note, if anyone has experience running Photoshop in a similar VM setup on Linux, I’d be interested to hear about that as well.

Thanks in advance.

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I've been out of the Windows ecosystem for three months now, and it's been wonderful... Until I switched from Linux Mint to Cachyos (let me explain).

It all started when, after switching from Mint to Cachy/KDE, I realized that the menus were sometimes running at 20 FPS instead of matching my 144 GHz. It was a sudden and horrible change. But that wasn't the worst part; the worst part was the video games. Many performed better... RDR2, Cyberpunk, MULLET MAD JACK... The problem was with some of the more unusual games. Vintage Story ran TERRIBLY, a game that is graphically simple... Noita ALSO ran terribly... It was unsustainable. After doing some research, I found out that it was “Wayland” and “X11,” something I didn't even know existed. I ended up realizing that KDE used Wayland by default (unlike Mint) and that it didn't work very well with my RTX3070, FOR SOME REASON I DON'T KNOW (one of my friends who helped me migrate has a RTX4070 Super and it works great for him). The solution? Switch to X11 and continue using KDE... AND IT WORKED! IT'S GREAT!

My fear comes when, while searching for information, I realize that people are proclaiming (without me knowing why yet) that Wayland is the future and that X11 is so outdated that KDE is going to drop support for X11 in the next version! What can I do? I don't want to abandon X11, it works really well for me...

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I am specifying steam because Heroic is able to view and access the files and I am trying to manually put it in the steam app. I am confused as to why it isn't able to use the folders on the ext drives though (2HDD). Any help would be appreciated :)

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Finally Gamescope on Ubuntu 24.04 doesn't need to be compiled anymore. 3v1n0 from Github has just packaged Gamescope for Ubuntu 24.04, and added a PPA repository. Now you can:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:3v1n0/gamescope sudo apt update sudo apt install \ wayland-protocols \ vulkan-tools \ gamescope

and test it with

gamescope -- vkcube

source:

https://gist.github.com/russiantux/592b1267591c011bf765b14590774a5f?permalink_comment_id=5949196#gistcomment-5949196

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