Hi all,

My linux gaming experience is *very close to* perfect currently, but I have two big problems with Steam specifically that are holding me back, and I can't find solutions anywhere since they seem pretty specific.

1. Occasionally, the Steam window will close on its own, and will never open again. I can still see the icon in the system tray, and I can launch games from there, but if I need to do something in the Steam window itself I need to restart it completely to get it to show.

2. Not sure if this is related to the above, but occasionally Steam will get into some sort of weird state where random functions will pop up periodically, minimizing my game depending on what they are. Sometimes it randomly opens the "add a non steam game" window, sometimes it asks me if I'm sure I want to uninstall, sometimes it opens a random support page, et cetera.

As far as I can tell, these both happen immediately upon opening a game, though I won't notice until I minimize/close the game or a random steam window pops up.

Has anyone encountered these before, or know what might be going on? I'm using the native version of Steam from the arch repos on GNOME/Wayland.

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I'm using Heroic Game Launcher on Linux Ubuntu 24.04, and after turn on "show FPS" option in GTA 5 settings i see FPS counter but in Rockstar Game Launcher window instead the game. How to change it to show properly in game? I tried add environment variables like DXVK_HUD but with no result.

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For context I have a META Quest 3S, I play wireless over the steam link app to a windows PC. How is steamVR at the time of writing. itching to get back to linux after switching due to well VR

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I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called DarkDiskz.

There wasn't a simple gui for what I wanted to do with setup of a raid 0 and bcache and fstab all in one for peak performance of older hardware. Here it is

It’s an open-source Python/GTK4 GUI tool that combines several disk-related utilities in one place. The goal is to make it easier to see drive information and manage storage setups without juggling a bunch of separate commands.

🔹 Features:

• View detailed disk information (lsblk, lshw)
• Run SMART health tests
• Benchmark disks
• Manage RAID (RAID 1/0)
• Set up and monitor bcache
• Configure fstab entries

⚠️ Important Notice (Please Read):
This is an early project by an amateur coder, so:

• Some functions may not work perfectly.
• There could be bugs.
• You could lose data if you use destructive operations like wiping drives or re configuring RAID.

💡 Please back up all important data before testing or using any of the write/format functions. Use at your own risk.

🎯 About Me:
I’m not much of a programmer—this is my first serious attempt at making something useful for the Linux community. I’m hoping others might try it out, give feedback, report issues, or even contribute improvements. I probably wont change or edit the program any farther maybe the community enjoys this I hope so.

🔗 GitHub Repo:
👉 https://github.com/dark-ant616/DarkDiskz

If you’re interested, I’d really appreciate:

• Testing on different distros (I did all testing on Linux Mint)
• Bug reports and suggestions
• Contributions to help make it better and more reliable

Thanks for taking the time to check it out!

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I don’t think Microsoft will like this. I figured out how to run their Office 365 desktop apps on Linux. For a bit, I switched back to Windows just to get Office. Gaming on Linux was fine, but Excel/Word compatibility was the deal-breaker that pushed me back from 2 year daily driving Linux. There was other factors, but that was a big one making hesitant from going back to gaming on Linux.

Gaming on Linux has been solid before I went to Windows, and most of the time the games I play just work. But needing full Office 365 support pulled me back, until now.

Now that Excel and Word runs on Linux, I don’t really feel the need for Windows anymore. I actually like Microsoft's dev tools and what they do there, but I find Windows clunky and didn't feel as reliable for HPC I run with AI. I also rarely found myself reaching for playing those overly monetized online games that are the biggest culprits in borking games on Linux like LoL and COD.

Bold claims need proof, so here’s a screenshot of Excel running on my distro. It’s not perfect like running on Windows or native LibreOffice performance wise, but so far seems good enough for me to use.

Now I can game on Linux and run full Office desktop apps—no more FOMO. Current game I am enjoying is Elden Ring Nightreign. Cheers folks and don't let the Office 365 be the deal breaker to game on Linux. As its no longer the case anymore.

https://preview.redd.it/2phv8fohi5af1.png?width=1905&format=png&auto=webp&s=1412365424f4348d70c3d447ea1b285c5b7ac4f3

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Hello Recently epic gave out Lego Star Wars the Skywalker Saga for free and I tried installing it with the Heroics launcher it does launch but my controller wont work i couldnt find anyone having a simillar issue so now i hope that anyone from here can help me

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Hi everyone!

New to Linux, currently using Mint, but I've been enjoying it so far. A recommendation I received for running non-Steam games in Linux was to use Bottles. I think it's a neat concept to run Windows software, and I installed both the EA Launcher and Epic through a Bottle I made earlier today. However, despite the EA launcher working fine, the Epic Launcher seems to be rather slow, and gets stuck on "preparing the epic games launcher" screen for quite a while. Wanted to see if this was a normal issue others faced, since it's inconveniently long enough to make me want to post about it.

Thanks in advance for answers!

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Valve have launched the latest SteamOS 3.7.13 stable update, further enhancing how it runs on more handheld gaming PCs.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Valve just launched the latest main stable update for Steam Desktop and the SteamOS Steam Client / Steam Deck. Here's all that's changed.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Here’s a raw gameplay recording captured with OBS using HDR and VAAPI.
If your browser doesn’t support HDR (Firefox is broken for me right now), use a player like mpv to watch it:

flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv https://youtu.be/oSHDTVRvKYc?si=9rpeAiP41vQ10-bU

When using mpv, you should see something like this in the terminal:

VO: [gpu] 3840x2160 yuv420p10

That confirms it's being rendered in 10-bit HDR properly.
Let me know if the video plays correctly for you, and what setup you’re using on Linux (browser/player, OS, GPU, etc).

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Hi, i am new to linux and want to make a switch.

before i want to make the switch, i want to ask if i can copy the files of my steam games into a separate hard drive and copy them back so i don't have to re-download my games.

also if there anything i need to know about linux gaming, please tell me.

thank you for your time.

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I have 3 fps when I try to play Halo CE in campaign (single player and multiplayer). Even if you stay and hope that the zone charges, nothing happens... I've been using Linux for a very short time (Mint) and I may have missed things but in any case: I launch from Steam I tried Proton Hotflix, experimental and 9. I put the graphics settings in performance mode. I have an NVIDIA GTX graphics card (I can't remember the exact model), an Intel I7 7600 processor and 16GB of RAM. My PC has always run fine so I don't understand.

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I am trying to run Red Dead Redemption 2 on a fresh installation of Pop OS. They game was initially on a second NTFS drive and after some research I moved it to the main drive where the OS is. The issue that I have is that the game is not launching at all. The process is Play > Launching on steam> Play button again.

I did run the game with Proton Log on and it shows nothing. It is just the initialization of proton with no stack of errors or anything. I also did try top reinstall the game and nothing has changed. I followed multiple tinkering launch option with different combinations of Proton but there is no difference.

My GPU is AMD and other games run fine like BG3

Has anyone encountered this issue before?

UPDATE: with Proton 6.3.8 the game does open but the Rockstar Launcher throws a "An error has occured. Please make sure all instances of the Rockstar Games Launcher have been cloosed and try again".

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I’m unsure about which distribution to switch to, as I’ve only used Windows and want to leave it.

• I’m interested in learning programming.
• I want to play games.
• I need support for ASUS and NVIDIA drivers.
• For studying: using multiple open tabs with stability, avoiding file corruption.

Which one should I choose? I’ve already seen Garuda, Zorin, and Arch.

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I just can't seem to get battle.net to work, I've tried multiple ways, multiple distros, bottles/lutris/steam ect.

At this point theres obviously something I am doing wrong, and I can't seem to find the correct way to set this up, a couple years ago I had no problems running bnet on mint.

I am currently on cachy and it installs, I can open the store page, but it will not connect to the home/games tabs, not really sure where to go from here, anyone have any ideas to why I am having all these problems.

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I am on a fresh install of Cachyos, I've tried the game in gamescope and none-gamescope. Both when launched just has the menu stuck at "Disabled" on trying to enable HDR.

gamescope --force-grab-cursor -f -w 3840 -h 2160 -r 240 --hdr-enabled -- %command%

and

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command%

Second I tried using with proton-ge, cachyos native. Running steam native, because all bunded into cachyos.

7900XTX/AMD 9950X3D.

Not too sure why its being picky.

[gamescope] [Info] xdg_backend: HDR INFO

[gamescope] [Info] cv_hdr_enabled: true

[gamescope] [Info] uTF: ST2084_PQ

[gamescope] [Info] bExposeHDRSupport: true

...

[Gamescope WSI] Surface state:

server hdr output enabled: true

hdr formats exposed to client: true

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Alright, to begin, I'm poor, and currently I can't afford a controller.. in Windows, there used to be an app know as "Pc Remote Control" which used to let me use my android phone as a controller to play games over the laptop. Yeah, even Steam can do it, but I don't find it much usable, and as far as I tried , It's doesn't work when I try to run games from Lutris. So, my plan to make a program, which can connect my android phone to connect with my arch setup, probably using python to send inputs that can emulate xinput. Call me dumb, if I sound like one, I'm completely new to all these. Ofc, I will host the whole thing on GitHub, making it open source. I haven't started it yet, but I just started learning flutter for ui on Android and also, about sockets for servers ig. Note, I have never made anything like this nor have much of programming knowledge for this, it is also a learning exercise for me . But I would love to get some of suggestions?! Maybe on where do I start?

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