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Hello everyone, let's first introduce ourselves a little. My name is Yaroslav (not my real name, but you can address me this way).

In short, I can't install programs with the "setup" address on my PC (I don't know, it's probably over 15 years old). For example, when I try to download Steam from the official website, it gives me a file (SteamSetup) in the download folder. When I try to install it, the following happens: the update program opens (there are several files to install), the installation starts, and then after that, the installation finishes, after which everything closes. I've downloaded some information from the computer and found that most of the problems are caused by the emergency interruption of the Google Updater function.

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Hi guys, I'm planning to buy a new gaming laptop for christmas which comes with FreeDOS installed.

First of all I want to buy a laptop because I don't stay at home for most of the day, I usually spend much of my time at my gf house, I have a rog ally at home which I use as a desktop because ofc I cant go with the peripherals everywhere(one of the worst purchases I made for the use I give it, but that was what money could buy at my old job).

My question is what distro or operating system should I use, I'll use the laptop mostly for gaming and coding on the go, I never used other OS besides windows and I hear it is pretty bad (or atleast not optimal) for gaming and coding.

So what OS or distro would you recommend?

PC specs:

MSI Katana 15 HX B14WGK-086XES

Price ~ 1365€

CPU - Intel Core i7-14650HX 16 cores

GPU - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 8GB GDDR7

RAM - 32 GB DDR5

Internal Memory - SSD NVMe PCIe 4.0 de 1 TB

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Swapped over to CachyOS (Arch-based) recently, and I'm trying to get my Thrustmaster HOTAS 4 to work. The drivers can be downloaded from the Thrustmaster website, but those are windows-only, and I can't seem to figure out how to get drivers from anywhere else. It's not in the kernel- modprobe usb:044f-b67b gets me an error message telling me that the driver wasn't found at all.

I found one place to get the drivers from, but it has nothing for Arch, only for Ubuntu/Debian and a few other distros. I tried to do it myself with a button remapper, but it didn't detect the joystick twisting at all. Anyone know where I could get the drivers from?

submitted by /u/TH3GR3ATPAPRUS
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How do I go about getting the necessary script files in order to get split screen running so me and my dad can game

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Hey guys, complete Linux beginner here.
I am having some trouble running Arc Riders on Steam. After I click "Play", a little window with the game banner, the EasyAntiCheat logo and a loading bar appears (I have no idea what it's called) alongside a blank terminal windows that is running "EasyAntiCheat_EOS_Setup.exe". Steam says that the game is running. The loading bar progresses a little bit, then both windows are closed and Steam once again shows the "Play" button. This has been happening ever since I downloaded the game, 4 days ago.

Here's some info on my system:
OS: Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon
Linux Kernel: 6.14.0-37-generic
GPU: GTX 1080
GPU Driver: nvidia-driver-535
GPU Driver Version: 535.274.02-0ubuntu0.24.04.2
Proton versions that I have tried running the game on: Proton Experimental, Proton Hotfix, Proton 9.0-4

Help would be appreciated!

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submitted by /u/Much_Artist_5097
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Hi,
I’ve been trying to get my T500RS working on Linux, but without any success so far. I tried tmdrv and read through the entire GitHub thread about T500RS support, but nothing helped.

Is there anything else I can try to get force feedback working on the T500RS, or am I at the point where I should just consider buying a new wheel?

submitted by /u/Poxiaczek
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This has happened twice now after connecting to a match. I'm not sure what information I can provide other than the screenshot

submitted by /u/xander5610_
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I am getting 10-20Mbps download speed on Steam on Arch Linux. Windows laptop right next to it gets 300-400Mbps.

I already tried changes suggested in the link.

Any advise or suggestions?

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Switched from Windows to Linux this year after 25 years. Wanted to keep using Epic Games, Battlenet, my heavily modded Skyrim, and well, all my Windows applications without terminal commands, Wine voodoo, or keeping Steam running.

Over this past year I've built and hardened SteamLess Proton - a GUI that uses Proton (Steam's compatibility layer) for any Windows .exe. This tool has been my daily driver for 6+ months.

How it works:

Right-click any .exe → guided setup → done. No Wine, no winetricks, no terminal.

Simply install your applications like you would on windows and run via gui or desktop shortcut~

What makes it different:

- Runs WITHOUT Steam (auto-installs GE-Proton when you install SteamLess app)

- Dual-boot users: optionally automatically syncs your game saves between Windows and Linux

- Sideload mods, patches, DirectX installers or other dependencies directly into your game's prefix via the gui, no winetricks needed.

- Each app gets isolated environments - your modded Skyrim won't break your other games

Tested with: Epic Games, Battlenet, FFXIV, Guild Wars 2, Black Desert, EA App, GOG Galaxy, LOTRO, Blender, heavily modded Skyrim, and many more.

Source-available (full auditable code, no telemetry).

GitHub: https://github.com/Sky-Wright/SteamLess-Proton

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Trying to play Assassins Creed Shadows on Cachy OS using proton-cachyos-10.0-20251126, have also tried GE-Proton, I cant get HDR to work at all, have tried

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1

and the option is still disabled, currently playing the game on 9070 XT with this as my launch commands, game runs ok, not as well as on Windows, but I'd really like to get HDR working if possible, any help would be appreciated

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winmm=n,b" PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 FSR4_WATERMARK=1 mangohud %command%

submitted by /u/Jack2102
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Hello!

Yesterday this retro game was launched. I used to play it a lot when I was a kid, but I can't make it work on linux. This is what I have tried so far:

I did the installation of the game through Lutris, and I've tried all the proton versions I can think of, Proton-GE, Experimental, wine-ge, you name it. I have also tried activating dgvoodoo2 in various versions as I've read that the one that comes by default with Lutris is not working properly. This far the game launches and plays sound, but video output is completely absent, showing only a black screen.

I'm a bit lost with this at the moment. Normally what happens with proton and old games is that they just work, but I can't make this work by any means.

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Hello there! I'm looking at wirecutters review for the gigabyte gaming laptop, A16 Pro. Specifically, I use Linux all the time, and would prefer this over windows 11, but I don't know if this gaming laptop is supported well. Are there other suggestions for a Linux gaming laptop? I would love to run local LLM, and have a laptop that would be a joy to use regularly. I would prefer hardware similarly to what I can find on the gigabyte A16 with a fast GPU and memory.

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Hey, so earlier I was playing the PRAGMATA demo using ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1 PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 so that I could play in HDR, but it caused my mouse to no longer being captured by the game, meaning that trying to aim right would actually move my cursor to my 2nd screen (which is on the right).

This obviously makes games completely unplayable with KB+M. Surely this can't just be how it is, so I must be doing something wrong. Could somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

I should mention, I'm using EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma and an Nvidia 4070Ti Super with the latest drivers (580.105.08)

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I heard Hogwarts Legacy (steam) pretty much runs perfectly on linux using proton, but what about Epic Games? The game is currently free on Epic Games, and was wondering how the preformance was before I consinder installing Heroic Launcher.

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I'm on arch kde

and I have done every single thing to try getting this shit to work. But I failed and there is a lot of shit installed on my arch install that I don't know how to get rid of.

both DISABLE_LSFG=1 vkcube

and vkcube run at the same speed

Someone please help me.

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The first time it started but after I did alt F4 I isnt working anymore I have an error in the logs that says error starting a shared library libxrandr so 2. What can I do? I bought the game on gog

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Hi, hi! So, my PC uses Linux, and I've been interested in downloading and playing Subnautica. Knowing how Linux works though, I've realised it may be a challenge. I'm new to the whole Linux thing but I know that wine can be a little iffy sometimes. So, is there anyone who plays Subnautica on their Linux device that could lmk how they did it?

Also, I don't currently have my PC with me as I'm on holiday, so I might not be able to answer some questions. And I kinda sorta don't know much about my device as I'm new to having a PC and not running Windows, and my dad has mostly guided me through everything so far. 😅

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just switched to linux (fedora) and in windows i had a profile setup on DSX with a ton of shortcuts for me to control my pc from bed. for example, i pressed select + start to change from my ps4 profile to my tv profile, the entire controller would have new mappings for me to use and i could switch back if i opened a game or something. i tried input-remapper but its rather clunky and i cant start and stop it at will with a shortcut afaik.

i know this is probably a long shot for this specific use case but i thought it’d be worth it to give it a try

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