A bit of gaming history returns to modern platforms with the release of Exodus: The Colonization of Space now available on Steam.

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I’m trying to decide if i should switch to linux or stay with windows 10. With my nvidia gpu i heard switching to linux might actually hurt performance, but linux has all the games i need, and i wanna get away for all the bloatware and windows os in general. I feel like my pc is really underperforming a lot and i’ve tried everything and i just think its windows fault. I also use SSD’s so maybe somehow that’s the problem idk anymore. My specs are AMD 9800x3d, 4090, ddr 5 64 gb 5200MHz

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Easily one of the best ways to try out a form of Arch Linux, the popular EndeavourOS has a new release with Ganymede out now.

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CachyOS using heroic games launcher
Hi, I downloaded lsfg-vk from cachy's package installer but sometimes it doesn't work. Process list shows "gamethread" instead of the game's .exe (The video I watched showed the .exe, 1 month ago) Cyberpunk is working fine, but other games isn't, the id changes when I reopen the game so it doesn't apply. Is there a fix?
edit: I tried putting these but it also didn't work: enable_lsfg=1, lsfg_multiplier=2, lsfg_perf_mode=1

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It's a fresh month and that means we can take a look and see what's been popular for players on Valve's SteamOS powered handheld the Steam Deck.

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- the game is playable since August on Linux, and it's using BattleEye anti-cheat

- I can confirm it works fine on CachyOS and Nobara

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Hi, I found something like RADV_USER_ENABLED_OPTION_STRING=antilag+ on ProtonDB today, and I can't find anything online about whether this launch option even works. I tested it in Doom: The Dark Ages, and I feel like the lag may be lower than before. Can anyone tell me if this is legit?

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Hi folks,

A few weeks ago I took my old PC that couldn't be updated to Win11 and installed Arch on it. The system has a Ryzen 5 2400G, 16gb of ram and an RX 5700 XT. I replaced the 256 GB Win 10 SATA SSD with a new 256 SATA SSD and installed the OS on that. I also have a 1 TB SATA HDD that has all my media, including my Steam library on it. I installed Arch and Hyprland and I've been having fun configuring things and learning. I installed Steam, Gamemode, MangoHud, Gamescope and things have been going well. I pointed my Steam install to my library on the HDD. So far games like Assassin's Creed Odyssey and the 3 Tomb raider games have been running great.

The one exception so far is X-Com 2. It runs, but holy smokes it takes forever to load resources... I think. It takes well over 5 minutes just to get to the main menu screen. Loading levels takes forever and even in the middle of gameplay when a voice over or something like that is going to play, everything just kinda freezes. I never ran into this issue on Windows 10. I'm pretty sure that moving the game from my HDD to my SSD will help, but will it help much? Is this just an issue with the way Unreal 3 loaded resources from disk in combination with Proton Experimental not being optimized to work with this way of loading resources? Are there any switches or flags I could specify in the command line parameters that could help?

Thanks

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hi guys, i just want to share my experience with you, sorry for my language i am not a native english speaker

with the radeon 9070 xt can have (achieved) average tdp tgp (total graphic power) between 35 watt and 65 watt in 3 games. for example mechwarrior online (ultra graphic settings 1080p) -> 35 watt average(v-sync on, 60 fps) , splitgate 2 -> 45 watt average(fps limit 75 1080p low graphic settings), warhammer: vermintide 2 -> 65 watt average total graphic power. (fps limit 90, extreme graphic settings)

how to do it:

install lact 0.8.3 on linux (ubuntu 25.10) -> enable overclocking -> set performance level to manual -> set power profil mode to POWER_SAVING -> gpu clock offset -500 Mhz -> maximum vram clock 1750 Mhz

only 140 watt power spikes , temperature only 33 celsius gpu, memory 44 celsius in a 20 celsius temperature room.

also tried war thunder, it's the same, around 45-50 watt with v-sync on, max 75 fps

lact historical charts shows these numbers.

around 500 watt power spikes with default settings in lact and with default clock speed

mesa 25.2.3 -1ubuntu1 driver

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When I try to shut down steam using the "exit Steam" button, it often closes the window and removes the icon from the system tray but does not actually shut down Steam. Why does it do this? How can I fix it?

OS: Debian 13 (testing)

DE KDE Plasma 6.5.1 on Wayland

CPU: 12th gen Intel core i7-1255U

Graphics: integrated Iris Xe

RAM: 16 GB

Device: Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 14IAU7

https://preview.redd.it/57mh031gil4g1.png?width=430&format=png&auto=webp&s=ae9d136795b4a0a0d146a9c975cdb1670f518d59

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My friend was showing me the mod menu he bought, and he mentioned that it disables Rockstar's anti-cheat to avoid automatic bans. Would it be possible to do this to be able to run GTA Online on Linux?

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I'm new to Linux Ubuntu (24.04.3 LTS) starting mid-to-late October as of this year (2025) after moving from Windows 10. I've ran into a problem trying to start Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2 from Steam (shared via Family library if it helps), it goes something like this:

1. I hit play.
2. Easy Anti Cheat initializes.
3. Screen goes black.
4. 10~ seconds later the screen minimizes and the game closes itself. No obvious error or crash notification.

I didn't run into this problem when I was on WIndows 10, being able to even play the game with specs lower than my current ones. GPU drivers (RTX 3060) are up to date, BIOS is up to date, I've tried:

• Proton Experimental [bleeding edge]
• Proton Hotfix
• Proton 9.0-4
• -dx11
• -dx12
• Steam deck=1
• Moving files from HDD to SSD
• Verify files integrity

Any ideas, suggestions would be appreciated. I don't know if there is some sort of log I can look into i haven't been able to access yet. Assume I run Everything on a fresh out-of-the-box Default if I need to change, tweak or install something.

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Guys i just switched to fedora from windows. i loved it but gaming part is problem. i just installed cs2 on my laptop. rtx 4060 with the newest drivers i get 150fps which is so ok. but there is hella ghosting. how can i fix that.

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To preface this, I am terrible at tech. My partner installed Linux for me and had to teach me a few things before I could even use it. If you know what to do, please explain like I'm incompetent lol.

I'm trying to play the Sims 4 from steam, no mods, no piracy, nothing. When I try to run the game it either gets stuck in the launcher on some install thing or says the game's running despite there being nothing on my screen aside from my steam library.

I've tried different Proton versions, uninstalling and reinstalling, and clearing my steam cache. Nothing has worked.

The images are of my system information and pictures of the problem. Let me know if there's any more information needed

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Hopefully this text helps out someone googling their issue in the future!

Premise

Being fed up with Windows, I decided to make the switch and install Linux on my desktop (Ryzen 5800X, Nvidia 3080, 32gb). My wish is to play games on my ultrawide 1440p screen in 120fps. I also have GeforceNow Ultimate, a separate project would be to get that working as well.

I did some research into distro's, which is really fun actually. What are the strong and weak points of each one? Break out that shortlist!

Distro choice

• ❌ Bazzite - Popular, but immutable. Might give me problems when I want to install all kinds of weird packages for programming and such.
• ❌ Pop! OS - Apparently really well marketed as a gaming distro. But reading more about it people do seem to have various issues with it, vibe seems a bit off.
• ❌ Linux Mint - solid distro, but kinda basic desktop focused. Can probably do everything I need after some more config and tweaking
• ✅ Ubuntu - Ole reliable. One I worked with the most, so I would prefer it over Mint when taking the basic choice.
• ✅ CachyOS - Popular buzz online, seems like a good gaming distro with that Arch config deep dive for the true nerd. This is the one I go for.

Installation

The CachyOS installation is fairly straight forward with their Calamares wizard. Prepare a USB with the ISO. Launch the live environment and start the installer. I have the wiki on the side to check off all the steps.

The part which tripped me up was the installation of the bootloader. Spoiler alert: it was actually the partitioning of my drives, due to an installer bug. But the only error I get is "bootloader installation failed, gl lol".

After a bunch of googling and failed installation attempts, I had to dive into the error log like a proper Linux nerd. There I see that the actual failure is an incorrect length of some uuid that gets created. More googling.

Turns out the partitions I setup overlap each other, this fails a check somewhere, this leads to that uuid being wrong, and that leads to the bootloader not being installed.

I have two SSD's:

• SSD A - 1TB
• SSD B - 2TB

The partitioning I had in mind was as follows:

SSD A

• FAT32 /boot - 2GB

• btrfs / - 256GB

• btrfs /home - "the rest"

SSD B

• btrfs /mnt/games - entire drive, 2TB

Having the installer auto calculate that "the rest" part led into an incorrect value which caused overlapping partitions. I resolved it by manually reducing the remaining amount for my /home partition, leaving around 30MB's of free unused space. Fine, the installation ran without problems after that, and CachyOS was now the single operating system on my desktop.

Gaming

The next step was installing their premade package of various gaming tweaks and utilities, plus a bundle of applications like Steam and Heroic. This works exactly as advertised, after this quick install, you are ready to game. The experience from there is pretty much like windows, tweak my desktop a bit, getting familiar with the tricks you can do with KDE Plasma. I predict I will spend more time pimping the desktop than actually gaming.

For games themselves I tried out some smaller titles like that are known to perform well like Hades 2, Factorio, Rimworld. Indeed, perfect performance, 120fps, glorious gaming on Linux!

Next steps

I have some bigger titles in the queue to check out. I play Total Warhammer 3 on the regular, plus some Paradox map painters like Europa Universalis 5, Hearts Of Iron 4. It is nice to check Protondb for tips, so I have that one bookmarked going forward.

A challenge that remains is the use of Geforce Now. On Windows, I was able to stream all the high-end games set to ultra, streaming perfectly 1440p 120fps. The Ultimate tier is a most impressive service, getting that 5080 through a ethernet cable feels like magic, and your desktop remains blissfully quiet during game time.

But on Linux, you only get 1080p 60fps. Capped by Nvidia for reasons. So I am looking into options to resolve this, so a nice follow up project having made the switch, with some options being:

• Use something to spoof that I am actually a windows user, like custom scripts intercepting the traffic to nvidia, or a third party client like Geforce Infinity.

• Install a Windows partition. Honestly, not feeling like having windows on my drive again in general. Dual boot seems like a hassle with the CachyOs installation that I like to keep as the king of the desktop domain.

• Set up a Windows on the Go USB stick or external ssd. This might be interesting if I get it to work. A simple portable Windows installation where I only need to start the Geforce Now client, which is basically a chrome tab. Needs some more exploring of what is possible.

• Get some potato device to be my Windows solution. Ideally something small that can just live close to my monitor so I can switch to it for cloud gaming sessions.

All in all, lots of fun figuring stuff out as expected, but also smoothing gaming out of the box so far!

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I switched from kubuntu to bazzite and now steam doesn't open my steam replays for some reason and either loads forever or says there was a problem while opening this replay

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im looking for a 100%, rgb, reactive keyboard (stuff like pulse or ripple effects when typing) that has its rgb function controlled by an app like openrgb, a native app from the manufacturer or hardware controlled. i just cant find anything. all the keyboards i find like this either are controlled with software for windows/macos or just flat out dont work on linux.

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