While we're nowhere near done with 2025 yet, Valve have revealed the first lot of sales event for 2026 so here's what you need to know.

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i have been creating a device that has whatever linux distro, and is dualbooted with android (yk the smartphone) and i want genuine opinions, not calling it dumb, actual opinions.

on a deeper dive: it is fully modular, meaning the battery can change out with anything with usb-c, the storage is m.2 and can also upgrade to any desirable amount, alongside that, the motherboard can swap out in case of upgrade and modifying.

i am well aware pinephone is a thing, but this is much more modular and will have differences.

the hardware is much like a regular pc, so keyboards, controllers and mouses are fully supported through usb-c --- and in terms of the build and design, it is 3d printed (for now) and is just 3 screws away and a magnet from upgrading. --- dimensions (for now) are 16 mm thick and 6 inches in height--

the uses are: server hosting, gaming: regular android phone usage, regular pc usage (and literally anything a pc can do)

how is this actually different: ever heard of the steam deck? ever heard of the nokia 3310? lliterally any phone that has a removable battery? all of that in one compact design, where what you own is actually yours, any app or software can be yours natively. (no android or ios 'modularity' that they may or may not be lying about) it is literally yours, meaning you can literally put multiple of these phones in a server rack and it will do it natively.

pricing: no more than 400 usd probably 300 (hopefully)

please, give advice and opinions (or even ask a question) but don't call it dumb without summing it up on why. i probably do have an answer for whatever you may criticize or ask about.

-Thanks

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Valve released a new Steam Beta Client update for Desktop and SteamOS / Steam Deck, making customising your Steam games a bit easier.

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A fresh month is here so time to take a look at what has been popular over the last month on Steam Deck, and time for you to tell us what you've been playing.

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I am trying to migrate a Windows-based arcade cabinet that I had built to Linux, namely Bazzite. Due to limitations on the inputs on the control boards I used, I have each control stick plugged into the machine as a separate input device, and then the buttons as an additional input. On Windows, I used UCR to unify those inputs into two Xbox-style controllers. I have searched, but cannot seem to find a similar feature in the remapper options available on Linux. Has anyone come across a remapper with such a feature?

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Seems the main developer of the PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation is not happy with Linux packaging, threatening to remove Linux support.

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Just in case you were curious - no you will not be able to play Battlefield 6 on any Linux powered system including SteamOS.

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Every time i open cs2 on my pc, it jusr sits on the valve logo and freezes my pc somewhat completely. I dont know what to do

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Hello!

Please explain to me what the advantages of Gamescope are.

I use AMD CPU/GPU, CachyOS (GNOME), only Steam gaming, proton-cachyos/proton-ge (PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1).

I have heard many times that people use Gamescope, but I still don't understand what its advantages are.

Please advise.

(Text translated using a translator)

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First off, I'll just mention I'm a noob. I've tried to include every scrap of information that might be useful, but I had an LLM point me in the direction to relevant logs. I apologize if I've missed something because of that.

I'm trying to run Warframe on EndeavourOS, under Wayland. In the past the game has worked extremely well, but more recently I've been unable to play for more than ~20 minutes without a crash, sometimes a rather spectacular one where my entire DE flickers in and out and all my programs close. It started with an error box that read status && vkcreategraphicspipelines as an error, which led me down a troubleshooting rabbit hole of methodically changing one thing at a time to try and get a stable experience.

I've got:
GPU: RTX 3090
Driver: Nvidia 575.64.05
DE: KDE Plasma 6.4.3 + Wayland
Game: Warframe (via Steam)

I've tried:
- Proton Experimental, Proton GE 9-23, Proton GE 10-10
- Warframe with both DX11 and DX12
- Verified game files
- Reinstalled entirely
- Nuked Proton prefix and shader cache
- Tried PROTON_USE_WINE3D=1
- Tried PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 %command% (launcher just appears black)
- RAM tested with MemTest86
- Ran another game (Last Epoch) without problem

I snagged some logs with journalctl which points me in the direction of it being a driver issue maybe?

Jul 31 22:41:52 andrew-desktop kernel: traps: Z:/bin/warframe.x64.exe [189938] trap invalid opcode ip:7c98e2 sp:22b7d4e0 error:0 in libnvoptix.so.1[7c3000+15d7000] Jul 31 22:41:53 andrew-desktop kernel: NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 31, pid=189938, Ch 0000, intr 10000000. MMU Fault: ENTRY_NOT_PRESENT 0c0041c000 Jul 31 22:41:53 andrew-desktop kernel: traps: steamwebhelper[189558] trap int3 ip:7f8eeb3cb172 sp:7ffd00e63160 error:0 in libc-2.39.so[7f8eeb388000+177000]

Also ran dmesg which gave me: [Fri Aug 1 00:34:03 2025] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:0b:00): 31, pid=54202, Ch 0000, intr 10000000. MMU Fault: ENTRY_NOT_PRESENT 0c0041c000

I've browsed around on Protondb and Linux gaming and can't really find a solution. I'm not technical enough (still learning this whole 'linux' thing) to figure it out on my own, so I was hoping one of you might have a suggestion.

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Anyone else experiencing issues with portals/npcs not loading? Mostly i experience this when going into a delve, then completing it... going to dornogal and back to a delve...

Sometimes my HS or teleport wont load , but the cooldown on said hs/tp has kicked in.
Sometimes the NPCs in dornogal wont load up when just skyriding there
OR when going back to a delve the delve portal wont show.

Reloading doesnt help, an actual relog does.

I've tried turning all addons off, clearing cache, even a data clear/reinstall of WoW. Ingame Network options Optimize for speed on or off
Im using Nobara with Lutris, and tried Proton - Experimental / ProtonGE-Latest / Wine 10.6 staging... all with the same result.

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I guess I don't need a description , Is a VM -with the slight very small difference of performance considered- going to run games and bypass anti-cheat ? (for games like warzone , Fortnite , warthunder )

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In world sounds only play from left side, while ui sounds and radio works on both sides.

It has been happening on every patch since enhanced came out. It has never happened on legacy.

I use debian 12 btw.

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When i try playing minecraft it just craches after a minute or so. it says it needs more memory but i already gave it 20 gigs. do i need to give it more or is this something linux related?

https://preview.redd.it/l9gg3flvldgf1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d028a95560b561636113916d5a67956f07d095a

https://preview.redd.it/oj4laglvldgf1.png?width=829&format=png&auto=webp&s=1c6851d75fd2f0fe926befeeaaa8ab91069f7cca

https://preview.redd.it/793z5glvldgf1.png?width=922&format=png&auto=webp&s=4fe2d35f8a05efc6299126aca3bfe031978cae68

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I'm kinda new with Linux, I've been using it for a while now (like a couple months) but I'm very happy with it, but, I've seen some differences about the temperature of my laptop compared to Windows 11 and I'm wondering if these numbers on screen are my actual temperatures.

I know that a very noticeable Linux advantage over Windows is that it uses way less resources, specially compared to W11, and that Laptops get way more hot than usual desktop PCs, but while I was playing RDR2 I noticed that I was getting around 20 C° less or even more compared to Windows.

My laptop is not even close the best in the market and I know that (3050ti, i5-11400H, 16gb Ram), plus the usual problems with Nvidia graphics cards, but I can't stop thinking about this, are these temps real? Is this the "Linux advantage" I mentioned earlier? Am I going crazy because of a problem that is only in my head?

In the picture you can see that I'm getting about 66°, and the temp in the top right corner shows 71° (that's the Cpu). Usually when playing modern and very demanding games (at least for my graphics card) I used to get up to 87° easily on Windows, specially something like RDR2 which made my Laptop sound like it was about to fly thanks to the fans spinning so fast, and not only that, I was also streaming the game and playing it in my phone while in bed this time.

Please just clear my mind.

(By the way, I lowered the resolution for a moment and used borderless window just to take the screenshot, I was playing at 1080p 60fps Fullscreen, the transmission had the same settings)

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Hi

So I have just seen that BF6 requires kernel level anti-cheat.

This is expected but still irritating and sad.

My PC have 2 SSDS, the primary is Fedora KDE linux, and the second disc contains Windows 11 for games like BF1 and now the upcoming BF6

Now BF6 states that it need secure-boot.

I do not have secure-boot enable right now,

can I have secure-boot enabled with the separate disc dual-boot setup ?

Is there any downsides in having secure-boot enabled ?

and lastly, Does kernel level anti-cheat from the windows disc compromise the security of my Fedora disc install ?

thanks

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Games on new install of Hyprland with archinstall script hitch and stutter. (installation made today)

here is the pastebin of my hyprland.conf = https://pastebin.com/Lhp5CKDb

I have set up hyprland and read the wiki many times but cannot seem to get games, in this case, cyberpunk on update 2.3 from steam to run well, it keeps hitching and stuttering with very low 1% lows and single digit 01% lows.
Here are my specs:
R7 9800x3D
RTX 5090 Gamerock OC
64GB 6400MT/s CL32 ram
swap is set to 66GB
2x4TB 990 PRO
1x4TB SP XS70
1x4TB WD Black SN850x
OS and cyberpunk are installed on the WD black drive, which was purchased in June 2025.
Nvidia driver version is 575.64.05 checked with Nvidia-smi

Monitor is a G9 Oled 240hz connected via DP

I have not tried other games yet as things are still installing, I have tried to precache vulkan shaders on steam to no avail, the precaching freezes at 85% even after trying to force steam to use 10 threads whilst doing it in the steam_dev.cfg file I created.
Please help as I do not want to go back to windows.

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So i installed Lunar Client and when i press wasd it doesn't work but when it works the game sees that i'm still pressing it when i'm not.

Minecraft version 1.8.9 (tried both the forge and optifine versions in the appimage and flatpak version of Lunar)

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