Light privacy security focus, Linux desktop and user experience and gaming preferred, all other FOSS and Linux news welcome. I used to listen to a few podcasts back in the late 10s through about ‘21, but I’d like to see what people are listening to now.

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i have a problem after the core 20 base snap and gaming-graphics-core24 snaps got updated all my games started crashing in steam and idk why but when i tried to run them with the PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%

launch command it worked and games started running again and i checked i don't have any Vulkan or driver issues on my system neither do you guys have these issues as well if you use the snap version of steam or not?

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C'è qualcuno che sa come bypassare Anti-Cheat per apex legends su pc

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Wir begrüßen Euch recht herzlich zum 18. Türchen im Holarse Linuxspiele-Adventskalender 2025! Im nunmehr schon zwölften (!) Jahr verlosen wir unter allen Linuxspielern und denen, die es noch werden möchten täglich ein natives Linuxspiel. Je nach Tag (z.B. Advent oder Nikolaus) können sich auch mehrere Spiele im Türchen verstecken. Dann haben mehrere Kommentare die Möglichkeit ein Spiel zu gewinnen.

Wie mache ich mit?

Teilnehmen kann jeder, der Lust auf Spielen unter Linux hat! Ihr benötigt zum Teilnehmen nur ein Holarse-Konto, damit wir euch den möglichen Gewinn per PM zuschicken können. Schreibt dazu einfach die Antwort zu der Frage des Tages hier unten in die Kommentare und schon seid ihr dabei!

Unter allen, die bis 20 Uhr unten in den Kommentaren antworten, wird dann der Gewinn oder die Gewinne verlost. Bei mehreren Spielen gibt es natürlich auch mehrere Gewinner!

Seid ihr durch random() ausgelost worden, dann erhaltet ihr den Geschenk-Link (Humble Store, dort benötigt ihr dann ein Konto) oder direkt den Steam-Key zum Einlösen per PM hier auf Holarse zugeschickt. Wenn ihr den Gewinn nicht bis zum 31.12.2025 eingefordert habt, rutscht er automatisch wieder in den Lostopf fürs nächste Jahr.

Wenn ihr bereits das Spiel habt, oder es euch nicht interessiert, ihr aber dennoch kommentieren wollt, schreibt einfach in den Kommentar dazu, dass ihr nicht teilnehmen wollt.

Frage des Tages

Welches Kolonie- oder Aufbauspiel hat dich unter Linux am meisten gefesselt?

Was gibt es zu gewinnen?

Im heutigen Adventskalender-Türchen versteckt sich diesmal:

• Türchen: Surviving Mars, gesponsert von comrad.

Auflösung

Heute um 20 Uhr wird die Kommentarsektion geschlossen und danach der Gewinner ermittelt und hier nachfolgend bekannt gegeben.

So for the past 4 years, I've been running an Intel NUC 11th gen extreme kit, which has room for an entire dGPU, albeit with restrictions on width, limited to 2 slots. It was running a 3060 ti. I'm big on SFF, and outside of the GPU, it was all Intel, so when I switched to Linux over a year ago, shit worked flawlessly when I wasn't dealing with the GPU, which, while functional, often had little issues, like the HDMI audio refusing to function well, or webGL running like ass on Firefox without patchwork fixes, or many games on steam having graphical glitches or otherwise when they worked flawlessly on Steam Decks AMD iGPU.

So, I purchased a Gigabyte 9060xt, which by all means should have fit in the case. It didn't. It's small enough, but won't actually sit right, and the 8 pin power connector is recessed, so I can't actually connect the 90 angled cable.

So I guess I'm making a new build. I was probably gonna go with a 7600x3D, the issue right now is the mother board.

I have an mATX case coming, but I was gonna stick an ITX in it for future compatibility with SFF cases. The issue is the motherboard. None of them really give out what kind of cards they actually have on them. There's so much Mediatek shit and even on windows I never trusted that. I know how to troubleshoot and tinker, but I would rather stick to open source drivers already available in the kernel. And then there's all the proprietary RGB shit. And... It wouldn't hurt to look nice.

It feels like at minimum I'm gonna be forced to switch out the Wifi card on anything I get.

What's the best Linux ITX motherboards?

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I am 36yrs old now and just tested gaming on linux. Just as a test. I played GTA V via Steam. I am excited. I don't game anymore but when I was 18 in 2007 I used Ubuntu for but always neede a copy of Windows to game. So much steps the linux community made! Mind blown

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Ive been using mint 22.1 for a little bit, and so far its pretty great. Ive got prism for my mc launcher and havent had any problems with it untill about a week ago when i was playing with some friends via aternos. We chose 1.21.11, and it was fine for a while then i started getting really bad system crashes. So what happens is as follows: both monitors freeze, (supposedly) my character freezes, my friends ask me whats going on over discord, and then i realize.. audio in and out works, discord is still running in the background, my music is still playing, i have no mouse input no keyboard input, gpu monitor goes black then turns off due to no signal, igpu monitor goes white and stays on. Music still plays discord still works i reset my pc loose all my firefox tabs and relaunch mc and it happens 5-15mins later.

System specs-

AMD Ryzen 7900

AMD Radeon 6700XT

MSI X670E Tomahawk mobo

32Gb 6000Mts ram

WD SN770 2Tb nvme

Various other drives, but no programs are running off them in this situation

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I was a dual booter for a good 20 years. Only kept windows around for gaming. Getting the Steam Deck really made me consider making the switch 100% I'm happy to say I've been windows free personally AND professionally for over a year now.

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Operating system is Ubuntu 24.04, processor is AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U w/ Radeon 780M graphics.

Yesterday I was running games seamlessly (smallish stuff, like Reus 2 or Cloud Gardens) with Proton 10.0. Today, whoops! Steam is failing to launch games. I click "start", it starts loading, then just closes again. The only thing that changed since yesterday is that I installed a new browser this morning (Brave).

Here's what the console says when I boot steam:

Testing for explicit PulseAudio choice... ...and PulseAudio has been explicitly chosen, so using it. INFO: filtering /usr/share/ubuntu out of XDG_DATA_DIRS because it is unreachable INFO: filtering /usr/share/gnome out of XDG_DATA_DIRS because it is unreachable INFO: filtering /etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu out of XDG_CONFIG_DIRS because it is unreachable steam.sh[45374]: Running Steam on ubuntu 24.04 64-bit steam.sh[45374]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically setup.sh[45426]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date! steam.sh[45374]: Log already open steam.sh[45374]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables. [2025-12-17 16:36:42] Startup - updater built Nov 22 2025 07:00:25 [2025-12-17 16:36:42] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/cadere/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened' '-no-cef-sandbox' 12/17 16:36:42 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps 12/17 16:36:42 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1763795278)/tid(45480) CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables. [2025-12-17 16:36:42] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/cadere/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin) [2025-12-17 16:36:42] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal [2025-12-17 16:36:42] 1. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 900, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' [2025-12-17 16:36:42] 2. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 400, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' [2025-12-17 16:36:42] 3. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in' [2025-12-17 16:36:42] Verifying installation... [2025-12-17 16:36:42] Verifying file sizes only [2025-12-17 16:36:42] Process started with command-line: '/home/cadere/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-child-update-ui' '-child-update-ui-socket' '8' '-srt-logger-opened' '-no-cef-sandbox' 12/17 16:36:42 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps [2025-12-17 16:36:42] Using update UI: console 12/17 16:36:42 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(45482) [2025-12-17 16:36:42] Create window [2025-12-17 16:36:42] Set percent complete: 0 [2025-12-17 16:36:42] Set percent complete: -1 [2025-12-17 16:36:42] Set status message: Verifying installation... [----] Verifying installation... [2025-12-17 16:36:42] Verification complete UpdateUI: skip show logo [2025-12-17 16:36:42] Destroy window Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/cadere/snap/steam/common/.local/share/Steam/logs [2025-12-17 16:36:42] ProcessNextMessage: socket disconnected [2025-12-17 16:36:42] No more messages are expected - exiting XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf2e6e860 XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf2e6cfc0 12/17 16:36:43 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps 12/17 16:36:43 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamsysinfo)/version(1763795278)/tid(45521) Running query: 1 - GpuTopology CVulkanTopology: failed create vulkan instance: -9 CVulkanTopology: failed to create vulkan instanceFailed to query vulkan gpu topology Failed to query vulkan gpu topology Response: Exit code: -2 Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 45604 bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam Vulkan missing requested extension 'VK_KHR_surface'. Vulkan missing requested extension 'VK_KHR_xlib_surface'. BInit - Unable to initialize Vulkan! Vulkan missing requested extension 'VK_KHR_surface'. Vulkan missing requested extension 'VK_KHR_xlib_surface'. BInit - Unable to initialize Vulkan! Desktop state changed: desktop: { pos: 0, 0 size: 1920,1200 } primary: { pos: 0, 0 size: 1920,1200 } Caching cursor image for default, size 24x24, serial 498, cache size = 0 sh: 1: lsb_release: not found reaping pid: 45481 -- sh

I'm suspecting that the unreachable files at the beginning and/or "failed to create vulkan instance" is the issue.

What I've tried so far:

- exited and restarted steam.

- rebooted the computer.

- uninstalled and reinstalled steam.

- couple steps from help forums which didn't have any impact:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers vulkan-tools

sudo apt install --install-recommends steam-installer

I am still very much a noob user, and all I can find either concerns nvidia drivers (not pertinent, I don't have an nvidia graphics card) or is so imprecise as to be completely meaningless to me. Please help!

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I'm using the %command% /WineDetectionEnabled:False to enable Ray Tracing but for some reason it always returns this error when I launch the game however the game works fine if I don't use this command. Using this command to enable Ray Tracing in other RE Engine games like Resident Evil 4 seems to work fine. How would I fix this?

I'm running CachyOS and using CachyOS Proton.

Specs:

CPU: Ryzen 9 7900X3D

32GB RAM

GPU: RX 9070XT

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From march 2025 daily driving Cachy os am so happy 😊.

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Unhappy Windows 11 user here, currently running an RTX 5070 Ti. A few months ago, with a lot of pain, I stopped using Linux (Ubuntu) as my main OS. I never play multiplayer games, and every non-VR game I threw at Linux worked fine. But VR, at least in my experience, just isn’t on the same level as Windows yet.

Maybe it’s a skill issue, but when I tried VR on Ubuntu a few years ago:

• Some games worked on WiVRn, others on ALVR. That was fine, I could live with that. db.vronlinux.org helped me figure out which worked where.
• Games like VRChat had issues with video playback...the screen would just be black. I never really looked for a solution, though.
• Some games stuttered a bit. Things didn’t feel as smooth as they do on Windows.
• I’m running an RTX 5070 Ti (16 GB). Maybe I should’ve gone with an AMD GPU?
• In Alyx, I couldn’t use any controller bindings other than the default ones.
• Viewing my desktop in SteamVR didn’t work, I’d just get a black screen.
• The SteamVR UI itself felt very slow, on Windows it’s quite snappy.

I’m also a huge fan of VR overlays like OVR Toolkit. The closest thing I found on Linux was wlx-overlay-s, but I never managed to get it working. Again, probably a skill issue, or maybe my NVIDIA GPU...or both.

I’d really like to avoid running two operating systems or buying separate drives. I’m currently on Windows 11 Pro, and I honestly hate it, hate it... but VR works so well there. I really want to go back to Linux.

Has anyone figured out VR on Linux to the point where it makes no sense to go back to Windows? VR is the only thing holding me back from fully switching.

I'm very curious in learning what's missing.

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I am trying to mod assassin's creed games but they require the anvil tool kit to extract the .forge files, but Anvil tool kit just doesnt work on my bazzite os due to the .net requirement so is their any way or an alternative

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Near the end of 2024 I switched to Linux, and my goal for 2025 was to not play a single game on Windows this year, and I was able to do just that. Now that windows is permanently off my PC I am ready for the future.

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