Hello you guys I have been gaming on Linux for about two years now on a deck and a desktop. I recently setup a new desktop and I have been trying to add a non steam game into my library. I have done this before on the other desktop with 0 issues. However on this new desktop I go to “add non steam game” browse to the location of the .exe file, click select, but the game does not populate into the steam program selector to add to steam. I have been trying to get this to work for about 6 hours now. I have tried: fedora, mint, Ubuntu, bazzite. I have tried about 8 kernels. I have adjusted the folder permissions and ensured that the .exe is chmod’ed as an executable file. Again I have never had this happen and now I can’t get it to happen at all on this new desktop. I have a ryzen 5600 and and arc b580. Has anyone had this happen please let me know I am going crazy and I need help.

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Stable Steam Client 19.12.2025 released for Linux Desktop and Steam Deck https://playingtux.com/articles/stable-steam-client-19122025-released-linux-desktop-and-steam-deck?lang=en #Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming

Hi so im using linux mint and ive been playing zzz using bottles for a while but ever since the new patch ive been unable to play the game ive tried using other ways such as lutris with proton experimental but nothings worked im at a loss pls help me

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i bought arc raiders on steam yesterday and it runs very smooth using proton 10.0-3. But it keeps crashing on random intervals, sometimes after only a few minutes in game and sometimes after 40 mins. The crashes can happen in the menu, after loading in or while playing a match. i have tried changing the vm.max_map_count, ive tired using protonGE, and ive tried 1 or 2 launch commands, and none of it has worked. this is extremely frustrating and makes the game almost unplayable.

im using linux mint aswell btw

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Like the title says, I’m not running any crazy hardware, just a r5 3600 and a GTX 1060 but I’m constantly bouncing between 120 and 30-40 fps with terribly inconsistent frames times.

Is cs2 just ass on Linux?

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I have minecraft by TLauncher (no, I can't buy original minecraft) and I'm trying to host a server with mods for friends who have minecraft as much as the original and TLauncher. I followed the tutorial of the video "How to install a Minecraft Forge server on Linux" by FelixOS on youtube, install the forge launcher even. The server works, even with mods, but I don't know how to access it from TLauncher. Please help.

EDIT: btw i am on debian 12. I made the server from the terminal on my own enviorment, not a virtualbox

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Hi all! I got a really nice Lenovo laptop for black Friday and now I am ready to convert it to Linux. Here is my problem. I am not super advanced with terminal commands, custom kernels, etc. required to make any distribution I want work better with Nvidia GPUs. This makes it harder to pick a distribution for me as I have only been using Linux consistently for more than 6 months. The laptop has an intel i9 CPU with a mix of P and E cores with an RTX 5070 laptop GPU (this is really just a desktop 5060Ti)

With that out of the way, here are some distributions I was looking at because I either have tried them in the past and enjoyed them or I have heard good things and they have a DE I don't hate like standard Gnome:
- Linux Mint (Cinnamon edition as it is my favorite DE except for the lack of finished Wayland support)
- Pop_OS (I used to use the Gnome versions back when it was up to date and want to try out cosmic once it is stable enough to daily drive)
- Nobara (All around great gaming support but I don't know anything about performance on Nvidia and Intel CPUS with E and P cores)
- Fedora (I use this on my main PC already as Linux Mint struggled with my multi monitor but loved it anyway)
- Bazzite (I like the idea of an immutable distribution but I realized how much frustration it caused me just to enable scroll lock for keyboard lighting before giving up on it on another device. It simply doesn't have enough preinstalled packages to be immutable yet)
- Zorin (hesitant on this one as it has always been buggy on my desktop when tried and has misleading marketing on their site)

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....I take it this is fairly common. How does it usually play out? Proton updates, or GPU updates come around and bring them back up usually? I know this isn't unknown in gaming writ large, but since Linux gaming relies so heavily on Proton, that seems like an extra layer of things-that-may-need-fixing-from-time-to-time. I applied Gamemode and it helped, but I ended up having to lower settings quite a bit, and it seems that the dip happened overnight.

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I’m running Artix Linux (runit) with BlueZ + blueman, trying to use a PS5 DualSense controller over Bluetooth. Bluetooth itself seems fine, but the controller never becomes an actual input device. Blueman says it's conected and the controller lights stay on. But that is it, nothing else works, eden and steam does not recognize that there is a controller conected.

As a summary: - The controller pairs, trusts and connects without errors - blueman-manager shows it as connected - bluetoothctl info reports Connected: yes and the HID UUID - RSSI looks normal - lsusb shows nothing (expected since it’s Bluetooth) - Nothing shows up in /dev/input/by-id - evtest never lists the DualSense at all - Games don’t detect it

Kernel related: Linux host 6.17.9-artix1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:44:25 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

• /dev/input exists and has plenty of event* devices
• Other keyboards and mice show up fine in evtest
• The DualSense never appears as an input device

Extra weirdness: - Sometimes bluetoothctl connect fails with:

Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed br-connection-busy

At this point it really looks like the controller connects too early or in a bad state, so BlueZ thinks it’s connected but the kernel never registers it as an input device. Basically Bluetooth says “connected”, but /dev/input never gets a DualSense node.

How can i fix this? Over USBC i get no problems, but BT is really finicky here

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I am probably swapping over to mint (windows 11 is refusing to reactivate my key after a clean install, last straw) what kind of games can I expect not to play? I dont play any games that have kernel level anti cheat. The only few games I worry about are ones like Wuthering Waves (I know path of exile works). What's the barrier to entry for Linux gaming like? How's the title support? Just checking the waters before I fully make the dive.

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I have notice an issue when running online games on heroic. They tend to get a ping spike at random causing rubber-banding. At first I assume it was a WiFi driver issue, but I never seem to have this issue on any of my steam games. I don't believe it is a network issue, due to not being a problem on windows for this games. Details: B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI7, Linux 6.18.1-zen1-2-zen Games Tested: Dead by Daylight(Epic-games), Titian Fall 2(Ea, borderline unplayable)

Was wondering if anyone else experienced this issue, and how you fixed it?

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I am currently transitioning to Linux Mint. I read that it is quite possible (and very easy) to set up and play Windows games outside of Steam via Bottles. Am I right in thinking I have to install both Wine AND Bottles, or just Bottles?

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Sharing my thoughts here on my Linux gaming experience. First, a little background:

I love Linux and I hate Windows. Over the past two years I have went all in on Linux and the open source movement to get away from large companies like Microsoft and Google dominating the market, collecting all of our data, and shoving ads into every pixel of the screen. Every computer I own, and my home server, all run Linux exclusively. Office work, browsing, video conferencing, etc I have dumped windows and use Linux for all of it. Except gaming.

I have been dual booting my gaming PC with Windows and Linux (settled on Mint as it is my go to distro) for over a year. My experience gaming on Linux has been mostly fantastic. Most games run on there with little to no tweaking and they run just as well as on windows. I kept windows to have a fallback because if I am jumping on to game with friends, I don’t exactly have time for them to wait for me to troubleshoot why my game won’t run. Having that dual boot set up has saved many nights of gaming.

Now I love tinkering and constantly have new projects on my server or a couple of test machines I try things out on like new server services or new distros. However, when I fire up my gaming PC I am usually looking to play games, not fight to get a game running. The Linux community and the various distros have really done all they can to get Linux gaming off the ground and they have done a great job! Unfortunately it is just out of all of our hands that many developers just have Linux players as an afterthought if they think about us at all. I want to be part of the market share playing on Linux to help push developers but with me only gaming like 4-6 hours a week I just need my games to work.

I don’t game that much anymore but one game I do play frequently when I get on is Marvel Rivals. I’ve got the game to run pretty good for the most part but still constantly fight crashes, and the new update this week just crashes the game every time I join a match. I am hoping with the steam deck and steam machine picking up market share this will push developers to make sure their games run on Linux. For now I’ve upgraded my windows 10 PC to windows 11 (worked around the required online account part) and will keep the dual boot around to check in on Linux gaming over the coming months with the steam machine on the horizon.

I am a big supporter of Linux and will still continue using it on all my other machines but for now will be reverting back to a windows gamer. If you’ve made it this far, thanks for listening to my thoughts and please feel free to share yours!

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In Steam, it says it's running, but there is no window. And when I hit stop it freezes and I have to force quit.

Launch options are:

gamemoderun SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland ./BinLinux/BeamNG.drive.x64 %command%

Any ideas?

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I tried switching over but the performance loss was huge… when can I realistically expect the nvidia drivers to be as good as the amd ones? Should I just sell it and get a 9070 xt instead? I’d rather not tbh. Thanks in advance!

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I just purchase one of these ps5 wafer boards and I'm just trying to figure out what power supply I need, I'm new to this and I'm just not sure what I need

https://www.ebay.com/itm/236534277872?_skw=Asrock+AMD+BC-250+16GB+PS5+APU&itmmeta=01KCW9YBDWJAFD0FVQ997RRW1F&hash=item37128aa6f0:g:UjoAAeSwzlpo0kK4&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA4FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1eJdCnn5846TPxa9epDwz6W%2Bc1SiVR9E03tdDqkvicsbkIjWGUyRhsKvDNL%2BhrzWoEmlwEXlQgL9wbVOdx7vG0Y8EKGYFnaW6yVViI1N4ehrohFuYppyq2xpoyLB6Q%2FiS8F7jsMTvY7MBsVQYH6biX2Zr%2F2IX7nwnJ1hoJ%2BkD1LRmnsSpv7zA8ehMiuWQtDBYCoRrgFCaTdHxv0aaJQFN4kp%2BfwxU8uVdzNb5bbemi0uzlptVDZYTpI%2Bgikj%2BXoxsSa5iaOKR1vA9Si56tqgIwc%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR_K3-YnnZg

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My ps4 controller connects to my pc wired and through bluetooth just fine and are recognized by the ingame overlay, big picture mode, and games that natively support ps4 controllers.

When I try to press any buttons in games that require steam input to be enabled, nothing works except for the button to open steam overlay.

It used to work in the past but I noticed it stopped working yesterday for some reason.

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While not necessarily a gaming Linux post, I always felt as if, doesn't matter what DE, Linux felt so strange to me, aesthetically anyway. So I decided to make a couple of Start Menu icons to maybe uplift that situation for me via this "Ultra Luxury" pack, if you will.

For stuff especially like KDE Plasma and Asus ProArt, they are trademarked designs and in no way do i want to take away from that, but rather show appreciation to those brands.

Requests and critique are always welcome. I made these icons for personal use so who knows, they might be faffy.

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Hi All,

I'm newer to Linux and have been trying to get gaming on it. I'm a big wow player and got WoW Running with Faugus pretty easily. However, after installing addons I ran into an issue where I'd launch the game, and could hear the music, but the actual game wouldn't show up on my screen. Alt tabbing would show that WoW was open, but I couldn't select it or navigate to it at all.

After a lot of tinkering, the best I could get was to open the game with the -windowed arguments and then in game convert it to windowed (fullscreen). This isn't really ideal though, and I'm trying to figure out what I can do to change it.

My research has shown a couple of options:

• Using Gamescope to create a fixed window for it.
  • My concern here is I tried something that I think is similar where I forced it into a windowed screen that was the resolution of my screen in the Winecfg in Faugus, but it caused Battle.net to not launch at all. I think it was because the Wine change was applying to battle.net and not wow, and therefore caused Battle.net to crash.
• Using Proton-GE instead
  • I'm kind of new here, but I think I'll try this but I'm not sure this will work.
• Use a different DE
  • I'm using Gnome, and in the past I've had trouble with Gnome and Graphics card management. What I'm reading is that this lost window issue could be due to Gnome not using the nVidia 2080 I have and instead using the iGPU and it failing because of that.

I would really like to stay on Gnome if possible, but trying to see if what other options there might be and if there's any silver bullet that might help me here.

Thanks,

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