Hello,

I just switched over to CachyOS from Windows today and it's my first time trying to game on Linux. So far, most things have been incredibly easy but I'm stuck on one thing: trying to set up a damage meter for FFXIV. I tried installing ACT through Wine, and that worked but it wasn't actually picking up any data and I read that the overlay would be a problem and since I only have one monitor at the moment I really need the overlay. My searches led me to try INACT instead through XIVLauncher and I was able to get that running with no problems, but now I'm stuck again trying to get an overlay. According to the setup guide from INACT, I need to use HUDkit since I'm on Linux. I have that installed now, but when I try to run it I'm getting the error:

Gdk-Message: 14:05:06.011: Error 71 (Protocol error) dispatching to Wayland display.

...and nothing else happens. I've tried searching in this sub but I'm not finding anything, does anybody know of a straightforward way to get a damage meter running with an overlay in FFXIV on Linux?

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After being an Epic Exclusive, the action-adventure Blades of Fire from MercurySteam and 505 Games is arriving on Steam on May 14th.

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GOG has more goodies available for fans of DRM-free gaming with the release of more Total War games, and The Long Dark has returned as well.

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Yo, I’m on a 2.5Gbps line but Steam downloads are painfully slow on Linux. Everything else hits full speed, it's just Steam. For reference i use Cloudflare DNS ipv4 and ipv6, i tried different stuff like disabling http2 as i read here and there.What’s the fix for this? I’m wasting a monster PC here.

Setup: Ryzen 9800X3D + RTX 5070 Ti (Nobara)

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Why does Dark Souls 3 run at 20-30 FPS on Bazzite but 50-60 FPS on Fedora 43?

2x8 GB RAM (16 GB total) G6900 Dual Core 12th Gen 2 HDDs (1300 GB total) Dedicated AMD RX550 2 GB 1080p HDMI TV/Monitor

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While playing Death Stranding i get this annoying lag even though Steam tells me i am at 60fps and my GPU and CPU are not on 100%.

I tried switching proton versions but this did not help and on Experimental and Hotfix it wont even start and it will give me an error.

Specs:

Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit

Intel© Core™ i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz × 6

NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080]

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Hey so I bought a Chromebook to emulate SNES and NES games I found out about retroarch and found that Linux was the best way to go about it so I put my Chromebook into chromeOS dev mode got Linux environment set up got flatpak after doing "sudo update" "sudo upgrade" did the whole chrome flatpak setup with "sudo apt install flatpak" then "flatpak --user remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo" then went to flathub found retroarch and put the command in "flatpak install flathub org.libretro.RetroArch" after about 20 minutes that worked then put in the run command "flatpak run org.libretro.RetroArch" this is where I hit a snag it responds to this command with:

"libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1"

"libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information"

"libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1"

"MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev" "libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen" "The Wayland connection broke. Did the Wayland compositor die?"

This all on an hp Intel Celeron N4500 2021 - 4GB Memory - 64GB eMMC Chromebook if that's relevant

I've never used Linux prior to 2 hours ago and never did much stuff with line based commands like this I'm EXTREMELY inexperienced so I'm sorry if this is a dumb question

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Hi Everyone, i just completed assembling a brand new pc, that i would like to use as a linux gaming machine and media player (HTPC) in my mancave.
I have to install a fresh operating system and i don't know which one to use BazziteOS or SteamOS?

I 've read a lot , SteamOS is more closed and console like experience, Bazzite is more open, and more updated, but in the end, which one you would choose based on my use cases?

I will not use as an office/work machine, i would like to use to play, watch tv/series ecc.

These are my specs

B850M Asus TUF
7800X3D
32GB DDR5 6000mhz DDR PRO (CL42)
LiquidFreezer 3 360
2tb Lexar 790 NVME
9070Xt Sapphire Nitro+

https://preview.redd.it/qrnnfeok23jg1.jpg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52924df6ea1342c4bc4a5c6fbbac359fad00697e

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can you give me some,preferably with steam workshop

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Is there any way to get this working on linux, in my case cachyOS?

Just recently switched from win 11 and like it so much more and most games work totally fine with proton nowadays.

But I aint get this xbox sign in working... anybody knows? Just found super old threads when I was searching.

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Hopefully we see more multiplayer games support linux in the future.

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Another chance for you to score a whole lot of games, while also supporting charity in the "No ICE in Minnesota" bundle on itch.io.

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THQ Nordic have just revealed that the Gothic 1 Remake is now set for release on June 5th.

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Hi, recent Microslop refugee here (but also ex Linux user, so I'm not completely in the dark).

Finally made the switch to Fedora (GNOME) and it's been going well so far other than some minor issues I've managed to resolve myself; I've finally ran into something I'm not sure how to solve though.

I don't do much gaming besides a bit of Minecraft, so I didn't really consider that in my distro choosing, but now I'm seeing far lower performance compared to Windows, and I'm not sure why.

My system specs are: https://pastes.dev/pzQbRlETEp

I'm running Minecraft via Prism Launcher installed as a Flatpak, and I can confirm that it does use the 4070 after toggling that setting in Prism as it lists it in the in-game debug menu.

For the drivers, I'm using the proprietary Nvidia drivers from RPMFusion.

I tried a simple rough performance test by making a fresh instance with all default settings (other than vSync -> off and FPS cap -> none), and logging into the same server in the same spot on both Windows and Fedora.

On Windows, Vanilla was around 480-500 FPS, Fabric + Sodium was around 650-700, and I got the following nvidia-smi output while running MC: https://pastes.dev/OxU0dC1ZBW

On Fedora, Vanilla was around 340-350 FPS, Fabric + Sodium was around 400 (with both often dropping lower though), and nvidia-smi was: https://pastes.dev/7cEo98Ug2W

I'm happy to provide any further information ofc, just let me know (and I'm aware these are ok numbers on Fedora as well, but performance tanks for both if I do more demanding things so the near 2x is a big difference).

Thank you to all who help!

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I'm very new to linux (Ubuntu) and I'm facing a LOT of stuttering while playing non steam games through proton. I have used the command that disables the recording, I have tried almost every proton version including GE and I even downgraded the gpu driver and nothing works.

note : all the games I tried I was already playing on windows without any problems.

my hardware:

intel core i7 11850h

RTX a3000 6gb which is really near RTX 3060 for laptops

32 gb ddr4 for ram

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The Godot team announced that Mike Klubnika, the developer of Buckshot Roulette and s.p.l.i.t, has become a major funding donor for the open source game engine.

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So I've been using windows since it was at vista, I'm extremely used to windows, but as of recently I've been hating what microslop is doing, bringing out shit updates, forced bloatware + AI and quite frankly I don't wanna see any of that.

I'm looking at moving my Rog ally X and also my desktop pc to both steamOS as I'm primarily a steam gamer. I have played WoW so the battle.net client isn't an issue as a non steam game app added. I play FFXIV so I'm also aware of getting that setup. I do not play anything with kernel level anticheat so I'm not bothered by that whatsoever.

some of my concerns are, if there's an easy way to move files or saves over from my current devices to my new steamOS devices. I've got some steam games that don't have cloud saves, I've got clone hero scores and I've also got random pictures and files that I need to move over. For the files and pictures I'll probably just move it via my NAS but as for games and save data I wouldn't know since root files are different on windows / Linux so if anyone has advice for that I'd be very appreciative.

Finally, I'm a composer and I wonder if there are any music DAWs that work well on Linux or that are Linux exclusive? I've used Logic Pro X for many many years (not windows I'm aware) so if there happen to be any Linux DAWs that happen to be like logic OR if there's a way to get logic working on Linux. that would also be amazing.

happy to answer any questions and thank you for reading! (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠❤

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My Discord: discord.gg/nefe9vdgXm

Hi,
I’d like to share a short showcase video of my custom version of HydraLauncher that I’m currently working on.

The goal of this project is to simplify gaming on Linux and provide better visibility into game compatibility. The launcher combines Proton and Steam API into a single interface and adds functionality that is often missing from standard launchers.

Current features:

• Proton support without requiring the Steam client
• Ability to launch games via Steam API directly from HydraLauncher
• Separate Proton prefix per game
• Installing additional libraries / runtime dependencies per game
• Displaying anti-cheat information (EAC / BattlEye, etc.)
• Overview of Proton compatibility status for each game

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