Canonical announced they're working on architecture variants of Ubuntu, to hopefully result in better optimisation and performance on modern processors.

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Bazzite Linux has been upgraded with the Fedora 43 release, and it comes with many handheld gaming enhancements for those wanting to break away from Windows.

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A fresh Steam Beta is out for Desktop and Steam Deck / SteamOS which brings some important bug fixes, and one that was especially annoying for Linux systems.

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I was wondering whether this game would work on my i5-6600k, RX580 and 16 GB RAM, or I should wait until I upgrade my PC?

I am looking for stable framerate, hopefully as close to 60FPS as possible, with ok visuals at 1080p.

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ARC Raiders from Embark Studios has released today and even though it has anti-cheat, it still appears to run just fine on Desktop Linux.

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I would just like to share my journey to switching to Linux for gaming and maybe it could help someone else or even me in the future LOL

Been using Linux for the past 15 years or so but I've never played games on it, never even tried.
For the past few months, I bought an SSD, decided to check it out and distro hopped.

I first tried gaming on Ubuntu 24.04 which is my main OS and for the games I tried, it actually worked well. This is when I first discovered that gaming on Linux feels smoother because of the more consistent frametimes and less micro-stutters. But for various reasons, I decided not to game on it.

I then distro hopped between Bazzite, CachyOS and Nobara. I encountered a few issues in each of them which made me try other distros. For example, Bazzite automatically mounted my Windows Steam libraries which was a surprise but I didn't like it. In CachyOS, I encountered instabilities and crashes with the actual desktop. I also wasn't able to make my Xbox wireless adapter to work.

I was ready to try other distros like Omarchy and PopOS but luckily I was able to fix my major issues in Nobara HTPC.

• I got my Xbox wireless adapter to work after a couple of tries using Nobara's driver manager. Honestly, not sure how but it worked after reinstalling and physically wiggling it or plugging/unplugging the adapter it suddenly worked and paired 😅
• Games detecting my PC as Steam Deck was fixed by putting `SteamDeck=0 %command%` in the launch options.
• Washed out and weird color with HDR enabled on Heroic Launcher games was fixed by installing the gamescope flaptpak.
• Heroic launcher cloud saves were downloaded after launching the game at least once and reaching a point in the game where save files are generated. After this, save paths are properly detected and you can now force to download your save data. I haven't tried syncing though so not sure how well they work.
• I even had a weird issue with my 2 8Bitdo controllers where only one works properly. I fixed this by moving the wireless adapters to different USB ports. Not sure exactly how they should be but I think they shouldn't be plugged in 2 adjacent USB ports.

I was able to setup the games that my nieces and nephews play whenever they're here. I kinda wish there's an option to select a controller that can control the system UI though because I'm imagining chaos whenever we're in gaming mode UI LOL
I also got my games working including the next games I will play like Ori.

It's still not perfect though. For example, Guardians of the Galaxy for some reason gets really slow like single digit FPS. Seems like a VRAM memory leak or something. I was able to play this totally fine on Windows. Also, not sure if I'm just doubting Linux but I think HDR still looks a bit better on Windows?

Hopefully there will also be a way to play Microsoft store games because I discovered that I bought Forza Horizon 4 from Microsoft store for some reason, I really don't remember why LOL

Anyway, I think I'm staying on this distro unless I find something major that I can't live with.

Just an extra thing, it was cool that my phone has an app that helped me distro hop. It basically acts like a USB drive when connected to a PC and I can select any ISO I want 😄
It's available on Ubuntu Touch but I have no idea if such thing exists in Android or other Linux mobile distros.

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Hi all,

I haven't touched Linux in 20 years, but I recently realized that it's far more compatible with gaming than it used to be, and I'm getting fed up with Microsoft, so I intend to set up a dual boot and give it a go.

What versions should I be looking at for gaming?

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Get your latest Razer devices working nicely with all features on Linux with OpenRazer, a new release has expanded the supported devices list.

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The GOG Preservation Program expands once more and just in time for Halloween GOG now has Resident Evil HD REMASTER and Resident Evil 0.

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I installed Duet Night Abyss on my laptop, which runs CachyOS with Hyprland. I am using Heroic to install it via Epic Games, and it installs fine. When I tried running it the first time, with Proton-GE latest, it showed the login screen, albeit weirdly, it was like buggy. I tried Google sign-in, and then it was blank white screen, so I closed it and reopened. Now it says login failed every time I try logging in

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i downloaded a pirated game and want to install it, i've installed wine and lutris on my arch machine.

i watched some guides and on the 'install exe' option in lutris, i get this loop,

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some other guide told me to install il via terminal using wine by 'wine setup.exe' the installer is launched but it gets stuck while i get a recurring message in the terminal.

https://preview.redd.it/iv1e6gnk38yf1.png?width=1155&format=png&auto=webp&s=c515dbb4bde3d3c1504ead84990de10f6087d6f1

the install is stuck at 1.1% for several hours, restarting is not helping either.

any help is appreciated, i have a decent machine and not being able to play any game hurts, ty in advance

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So, I have been on Windows for all of my life (basically), yes I owned Mac, but I usually main'd Windows iteration of sort

I used to record gaming footage pretty regularly, and in past 5 years noticed how pixelation begun to creep up in my gaming footage, more and more.

I used to set my video recording setting to 50 Mb bitrate, but in past 5 years it just looks like I am recording in 20 Mb or something. I kept bumping up bitrate higher and higher, to the point that I was up to 75 or even 100 bitrate, but still pixelated in footage.

That footage of course would be progressively worse when uploaded to Youtube.

Recently I installed Linux, and was testing some games, and I was quite mind blown, as I started to notice artifacting on old Source Engine game was gone (nearly), but it still remained on Windows 11

What was rather interesting is that back when I was playing this game over 11 years ago, I was remembering the game with deep saturated colors, yes it was still older game, but the colors were pretty saturated. Then one day it begun to look washed out on Windows, but I only noticed when playing a slew of other games on PC.

I jumped back and forth between Windows and Linux to see if I am seeing it correctly, and indeed Linux was just a sharper version of the game how I remembered it on Windows back in 2014

The settings are all the same across two operating system

There is something really strange going on in Windows 11, and even Windows 10, that I can't understand. But, it's like some colors are slightly washed out on Windows, and they are fine (as I remember them) on Linux. Also, artifacting around the trees has become progressively worse on Windows, but I don't remember seeing it 10 years ago, and I had footage to examine it. I think I was on Windows 7 at that time.

Very strange stuff. Not sure if anyone else has been noticing this strange trend on their Windows systems.
But, it was super noticeable for me. As Windows 11/10 have slightly washed out colors in many titles now (even modern ones).

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The Mesa team has released version 25.2.6, a routine but important bugfix update in the 25.2 series. Announced by Eric Engestrom on October 29, 2025, the update refines driver stability, shader handling, and Vulkan compatibility across multiple backends. The next bugfix release is expected on November 12.

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