Other News about gaming on Linux

Canonical call for testing their Steam gaming Snap for Arm Linux

Gaming on Linux - 10. Januar 2026 - 14:30
Doing something similar to what Valve will do for the Steam Frame, Canonical have announced a Steam gaming Snap package for Arm.

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Mouse using controller not working anymore on Bazzite

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 14:28

Hi I'm playing with Bazzite for home made steam machine in my living room

So as I use it 99% from the couch with my controller this is a very important issue to me Also because I've started using Unifydeck and there's the install button that only works clicking it with the mouse

I used to use it but now the steam button + rt it's not working anymore I can still move the mouse using steam button + analog right but no luck with the click

Any help? Thank you in advance for your help 🙏🏻🙏🏻

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winetricks issue, how do i rectify this?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 14:22

https://preview.redd.it/tae0zlc1wicg1.png?width=507&format=png&auto=webp&s=baa31e0676058526d9c7635930d6e07c465b99ac

i have been trying to fix the issue in the post linked below for a long time now and i cannot find anything but this! so i wonder if this is the issue that causes the lack of text?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bazzite/comments/1n1iaum/help_trying_to_play_cod_bo2_and_text_characters/

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Issues with Steam on Zorin OS

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 14:12

I am currently having issues with steam creating libraries on Zorin OS. I enjoyed Zorin on my laptop so I figured I would make the switch to desktop. Ive gone full clean install including my nvme and hard disk drives that I specifically use for games.

Steam is not allowing me to create a library on the nvme drive. It just wont. I have an event on a game in four hours that I promised I would be a part of (friend is a twitch streamer) and I'd really like to get this going ASAP!

Any help would be appreciated

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Are there any good HWinfo alternatives for Bazzite?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 14:04

I like to monitor my temps in the background while I game. I found an application called Psensor that has the min/max/current values for few sensors, but even after running sensors detect it only shows tctl, tdie, Ram usage, cpu usage, gpu core, hotspot, and vram. I used OCT to do some benchmarking and it has far more sensors showing. Is there anything that will show all of them in a table with min/max/current and possibly average?

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PSA - Optiscaler can tank performance in some games just by being installed into it

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 13:06

If you're like me and usually install Optiscaler in most of your games, be aware that it might tank the performance in some games.

On my system I was having problems with both Alan Wake 2 and Spider man 2 with very bad performance and constant stuttering I initially suspected Optiscaler, but disabling upscaling didn't change anything so I though it might be something else, until I decided to remove Optiscaler completely from those games and all the problems were gone, install again and back to low fps and stuttering even without any processing being done by Optiscaler, just being installed causes the game to lag.

Spider man supports dll replacement so it's just better to do that, Alan Wake doesn't so you're stuck with FSR2 there.

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Modding on Linux.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 12:32

Is there any way to mod games on Linux? If so, what are some good apps to do it or maybe good videos that explain how to do it for people like me who never tried modding a game on Linux?

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Why I switched back to Windows

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 11:30

Over the holidays, I installed Linux to try it out. I initially went with regular Ubuntu, but while the live environment launched fine, the installer would not start. After that, I switched to Kubuntu, which installed without issues.

Positives
  • Installation (once on Kubuntu) was straightforward.
  • Everything generally worked.
  • All the games I play installed and launched fine.
  • Discord screen sharing worked.
  • Drivers mostly worked — some faffing around with NVIDIA, but nothing unexpected.
  • KDE is genuinely very nice. Clean, flexible, and pleasant to use.
Death by a thousand small cuts

None of these were dealbreakers on their own, but together they added up:

  • Discord push-to-talk was unreliable. Sometimes it worked, other times it didn’t. A few times, I was talking, got no response, and realised PTT hadn’t activated again. This varied by game.
  • Discord overlay simply does not work.
  • Some odd audio behaviour: game audio was fine, but if a Proton game was running and I opened something like YouTube, the audio would stutter every second, as if it was constantly resetting.
  • Too many indirect launchers. Steam was fine, but Battle.net needs its own launcher, FFXIV has another, etc. It all works, but it feels clunkier than on Windows.
  • Lack of overall polish. KDE itself is great, but many applications and system utilities feel inconsistent or rough around the edges.
  • Some of the apps I'm used to simply don't have Linux versions (e.g. Whatsapp)
Overall

I was honestly impressed with how far things have come compared to a few years ago. For me, though, Windows still wins for the moment. However, I do think Linux is getting very close, and all the issues I mentioned will likely be sorted out sooner rather than later.

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AMD RDNA3+ on Kernel 6.18 - how's your experience?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 11:05

If anyone is running 6.18.x with RDNA3 (or newer), can you share your impressions?

There have been reports of crashing under load and other issues with newer AMD cards on kernel versions after 6.17, but I can't tell how widespread they are. Some of them are in the context of ROCm, but gaming seems affected too.

Fedora just pushed 6.18.3 to updates and I'm wondering if it's better to wait. I have a stable setup with 6.17.12 and don't want to update if there are known issues.

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how is battlemage on linux?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 10:56

I currently use an old nvidia card, and am considering buying a b850, but I am unsure about Intel drivers on linux currently, I currently use ubuntu but am considering switching to arch.

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RDR-1 on steam ubuntu freezes, help required

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 10:32

I am shifting from windows to linux.
Running ubuntu 24.04.
Predator Helios PH-315-51 (hybrid nvidia intel graphics)
Nvidia gtx1050 ti

Using steam (from apt) and i have tried to run this game (rdr) with proton -> Experimental, Hotfix, 9.0-4, GE-Proton10-28

My launch string is empty.

Everytime game runs for 5 seconds and freezes and then insee the error popup as shown in image.

Please help

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Alt tabbing from games is much quicker on Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 10:19

Ok I don’t see this get mentioned but one thing I really noticed switching back to Linux and using Bazzite KDE for my Nvidia build is how much faster alt tabbing in and out of games is.

On Windows 11 if I alt tabbed the screen would go black and take a good 10 - 15 seconds to get me to the desktop. This is on full screen. On borderless I had issues where the game would stay frozen for long time when trying to alt tab the game back open.

I’ve no idea what Linux does differently to fix this but it’s so much better. I’m assuming every game even non supported get the borderless treatment or the way it outputs it is way more efficient than Windows.

You normally hear Windows just works especially for Nvidia users but in my case Linux is just outright better here.

I alt tab all the time while gaming so this has been a game changer!

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70 fps difference between Linux and windows in overwatch2

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 09:07

Moved to Linux full time recently and I'm playing a lot of overwatch 2 ATM but I noticed I'm getting 70fps less than what I was getting on windows.

I'm running the latest protonGE (on Wayland native), with lutris, on the battle.net version of overwatch and my kernel is cachyos-bore kernel (I also tested zen too but it has the same issue).

I'm still getting around 300fps but I expected bit better especially since other games in my library run practically 1:1 with windows.

I should also mention I'm using an nvidia GPU but my girlfriend's PC with an amd GPU has the same problem.

Anyone else having the same fps discrepancy between operating systems?

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VR Gaming on Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 08:30

I used to play a lot of VR while I was on windows, but not rly since I switched to Linux. Does anyone know how to get Linux set up for VR gaming? I'm on fedora KDE btw. Ive tried to look around online but I haven't been able to find anything rly helpful.

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Have some problems running games

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 08:12

I recently switched to linux and have been trying to set up my gaming stuff again. I ended up going with Ubuntu (24.04.3) because my dad recommended it to me. However, when running some games, the main one I’m having issues with being Deadlock on steam, I have very low frames and textures seem to glitch a lot, blipping in out of existence, and dropping frames a lot. I am not super familiar with how to troubleshoot on linux yet and am not sure what is causing the problem. I’ve tried updating drivers (Using Nvidia because I’m on an HP Omen laptop and don’t think I can use other drivers.) but it hasn’t helped at all. Any help is appreciated

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Keyboard not working?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 08:10

Hi m​y laptop keyboard not working and display the input on the top left conner ​​when playing game on bold steam proton and through wine​​​? 😭 any help would be appreciated!!!​​​​​​

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RX 9060 XT 8 or 16 GB

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 08:03

I mainly play hoi4 and other indie games on my 980 TI on my 4k 60hz monitor, and I would like to know if I should buy a 8GB 9060 xt, or spend another 150 dollars to get the 16GB version.

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Laptop keeps crashing constantly

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 10. Januar 2026 - 07:55

I have an Asus Tuf A17 with a ryzen 7 4800H with a RTX 3050 4GB, 16GB Ddr4 3200mhz ram. Running it on Nobara with proton.(99th fresh install)After 5 minutes it shows a screen like this and I'm not sure what the problem is!! My windows 11 install kept giving me bsods so I thought Linux would fix it. Not really sure what the issue is, I've ran several memtests, the ram is fine. The drivers are all updated.

I want to provide more info about the logs but I'm not sure what would help. Pls let me know what logs you need and I'll edit my post with them. I'm having this issue ever since I removed a Gray plastic off of my ram and nvme ssd. Tried lots of fixes and nothing worked so I would really appreciate it if someone could help me with this.THANKS.

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