I've been using Flatpak Steam for some time, but a few issues had me regretting my decision. I wanted to use my 8bitdo SN30 Pro with mGBA (also via Flatpak) but controller support in that application is not very robust, so I figured I'd use Steam Input to translate my buttons to keyboard keys. Unfortunately, adding a Flatpak as a non-Steam game in Flatpak Steam is not very straightforward...

This was the last straw; I uninstalled Flatpak Steam and reinstalled Steam via RPM Fusion as I'm using Fedora. I've now added the mGBA Flatpak as a non-Steam game, and used the controller configuration panel to map each button to the default keybinds configured in mGBA. While Steam recognizes my controller, and I've ensured that Steam Input is force-enabled for the mGBA entry in my library, none of my button presses are making it to mGBA.

To further troubleshoot this, I mapped some of my controller buttons to the Volume Up and Volume Down system actions. Curiously, nothing happens when I press these buttons, which leads me to believe that mGBA isn't at fault here- It seems like my controller's button presses aren't being translated to anything configured within Steam Input.

Any idea what's going on here? When I run Steam via the terminal, I don't see anything too crazy. I searched this subreddit for anyone encountering something similar, but I didn't find anything too helpful. I do still have the steam-devices package installed for my old Steam Flatpak installation- would that be causing me any trouble? I've restarted Steam, my PC, the controller... Steam Input seems to be working fine with this controller and Red Dead Redemption 2! Maybe mGBA is at fault after all? Let me know what you think.

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Why doesn't anyone ever recommend this distro? I kept trying CachyOS, but it just refused to install. Endeavour is just the same and it's also faster. What's the catch?

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Been running a 2080ti since 2020 and jumped to Linux about 9 months ago. Been loving the Linux experience, everything works and its fun playing with something new. Unfortunately as we all know Nvidia doesn't play nice with Linux. The stars aligned for me; end of the year, my birthday and stumbled on a sale for a 9070XT Nitro+ for less than any other budget variant. To add to that, with the current uncertainty in the PC gaming and hardware market I decided to jump on a GPU before prices skyrocket and availability dissapears.

Did a fresh install of CachyOS and everything is up and running perfectly. I am getting just over double the performance I was getting with my 2080ti which is a really nice experience.

So yeah. Now that I no longer have the Nvidia handicap I am staying on Linux for the foreseeable future.

Going to play with some undervolting/overclocking later and see what I can do.

Any tips/tricks or advice from other 9070xt and Linux users would be much appreciated.

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Problem: Opening games make them run at about 1FPM. All input commands are delayed. Alt tab puts the game in background and it runs fine.

I was able to fix this by installing the newest driver from Nvidia's website. However doing that caused my monitor configuration to fallback to 1080P at half refresh rate (140) So I went back on the supplied driver from kubuntu with the original issue.

What should I do now? Thanks.

Kubuntu LTS 24.04

Steam launcher

RTX4070Ti

Drivers: tested open 580 drivers given by driver manager.

LS49AG95 Samsung G9 Neo (5140x1440)

X11

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Me and a friend are looking to switch to another distro to get better performance, he has already tested Ubuntu and PopOS!, I tested both plus Kubuntu and Garuda for gaming.

I am very concern about CachyOS and Bazzite, Which one you consider would be the better option? We are looking the best performance possible but an stable system and I also do some coding in react native

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I’ve been using Bazzite for the past 6 months and just started getting back into ARK but whenever I attempt to use the Forest Titan’s grab attack my game freezes and crashes. I’ve tried just about everything to determine if it’s something to do with the game but even after completely wiping everything about the game it still crashes with this one attack. I think it has something to do with my distro but I can’t determine the cause.

My specs are a 9900X3D, 6700 XT, and 32 GB of RAM if this helps.

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My Laptop Specs:

• Intel i5-7200U - 2.50 GHz, Turbo - 3.10 GHz
• Intel HD 620 Integrated Graphics
• 12 GB RAM
• 250 GB WD Blue SN-580 SSD + 1TB HDD
• Debian 13 Trixie (KDE)

"Tomb Raider Game of the Year Edition" has Platinum rating in ProtonDB and "Rise of the Tomb Raider" has native linux support.

"Rise of the Tomb Raider" doesn't support Intel Graphics Cards, my laptop has integrated intel HD 620 graphics. will it support my system?

I want to buy one of them and confused on which one to choose. Help me guys !!!

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I’m experiencing an issue with Steam storage management on Pop!_OS 24.04 involving an external SSD drive.

I have an external SSD configured as a Steam Library drive. It works correctly once added, but every time I reboot my desktop, Steam no longer detects that drive. I have to manually re-add the same drive through Steam’s storage settings after each startup.

The games on the external SSD are still fully intact. Once the drive is re-added, Steam immediately recognizes the installed games, so there’s no need to re-download anything. It’s just tedious to repeat this process after every restart.

Has anyone else encountered this on Pop!_OS 24.04?
Could this be related to drive mount timing at boot, auto-mount configuration, permissions, or how the external SSD is initialized by the OS?

Any advice or permanent fix would be appreciated.

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I use Linux Mint 22.2 cinnamon, and my kernel is 6.14.0-37-generic. Earlier this month I started playing the GOG version of hollow knight, through Heroic launcher. The game played fine, but when I close the game after a long gaming session, all of my desktop's GUI elements start flickering, and the keyboard does not respond. The only way to make the computer normal again is by shutting down the laptop using the power button. Eventually, my save file became corrupted. I started playing the steam version, but today I got the same GUI glitch again, and I'm afraid of my save file corrupting again. What should I do? This is the only game I have that glitches out the screen like that.

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I set up my PC to use lightdm to autologin into a gamescope session running steam, sometimes it'll do this at boot (or monitor reconnect?). I'm guessing this is Nvidia compatability issues but damn 😭

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I'm on CachyOS.

It says vkBasalt is missing, yet, i can see the effects and stuff in the vkBasalt tab. I have since installed vkbasalt from AUR, and goverlay now says "All dependencies OK." But that still leaves the question how to use the thing in game.

Optiscaler is installed as well, but i can't open anything in game.

It says at the bottom to use "fgmod %command%" variable, but how do i use that variable in Heroic? Is that a "wrapper" or an "environment variable"? I don't have anything in Steam righ now that can use optiscaler, nor do i have anything in Faugus Launcher that can use it, but i assume "fgmod %command%" enables Goverlay in game there?

I tried putting it in the environment variable (since Heroic says this is where the %command% stuff goes), but i can't just put "fgmod" there, it insists on an = sign and a value after it. I tried putting 1 (so it reads fgmod=1 %command%), but when i press insert in game, it doesn't open the Optiscaler interface. didn't try for vkBasalt since i didn't put any effects in the right column, but i assume it's just not working, otherwise i'd at least see the Optiscaler interface i guess.

EDIT: Heroic is the CachyOS repo version, not Flatpak.

But also, it says it's missing vkbasalt... So i assumed it wouldn't work anyway since i didn't have it installed...

I know how to manually install optiscaler in a game folder, and run the script, that works, but if this is an easier way to use it, i'd like to do that instead (so i don't have to install it separately for each game). Or am i wrong in how this all works and i still need to manually install it regardless?

I looked at both the Goverlay and fgmod github, and there's no mention on what to actually do with it, other than how to install or build the program. That's all well and good, but, what about using it?

Any help appreciated! Thanks!

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It's giving error 10010 - 4001 and when I looked it up, it instantly referred me to a post made a year ago, also on steam deck. I don't know if it's to do with anti-cheat but hopefully it's resolved soon..

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I need games that i can turn off my brain if my too tired but i still want to play something. Stardew Valley is too adictive to me, so I'm giving a goooood break (i would go to sleep waaay past mid night playing that game hehehe).

I usually like games like the Kingdom Hearts franchise, DMC franchise, Soulsborne games, Uncharted, SW Jedi games, and i also like some retro games, like Chrono Trigger, Duck Tales, some Metroidvanias and some single player shooters too, but all those are either mentally demanding on the story aspect, or mechanically demanding. Lately i've been playing those and dieing a lot or getting completely lost in the story. Stardew Valley got me really addicted for a cozy game, so any recommendations?

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Has anyone actually run like-for-like tests comparing the three or even two of them for a gaming environment? I know the "gaming" distros are typically forks of Arch or Fedora, but is it due to Debian being that much worse, or is it for more up to date hardware/ software compatibility?

I am running a 5800x3D, and RX 7900 XT, currently using Windows 10 LTSC. I want to make the switch to Linux, with the xfce versions of MX Linux and Linux Mint being most appealing. I primarily use my machine for gaming and have tried Bazzite but hit some walls, mainly when it came to uninstalling software and, more importantly, controlling my fans (GPU was not able to be controlled and CPU had to be handled in bios but it was finicky at best).

So will I be good to go on a Debian based distro, or should I look to Fedora or Arch?

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Wir begrüßen Euch recht herzlich zum 19. 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 Jump’n’Run-Spiel unter Linux gefällt dir besonders?

Was gibt es zu gewinnen?

Im heutigen Adventskalender-Türchen versteckt sich diesmal:

• Türchen: Oddworld: New’n’Tasty, gesponsert von comrad im Originalwert von €15,99.

Auflösung

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

So, I've an old and shitty Dell laptop that I'm using for travel. i7, integrated GPU, 8gigs of ram. It was chugging with Windows 11, so I figured Linux (Bazzite) might provide better performance. And so far, so good. I have most of the "major" things I need on a laptop up and running. But the games aren't really working.

My sample size is small here, but I've tried couple Steam games, and tried to get couple non-steam games going.
For Steam, Vampire Survivors started just fine. But Ball x Pit did not.
Non Steam Games, I tried to get Hearthstone going through Faugus, managed to download the Battle.Net launcher, but aside from Faugus saying "everything is up to date", nothing actually launches when I try to launch it.
And I tried getting ZZZ on this, found some Sleepy Launcher that is supposed to be a workaround. It did download ZZZ on here, I can find the .exe, but when I run it, nothing really happens.

So no idea how to troubleshoot this, or where the problem might be. Is it the same issue across the board? Is it different thing in each case?

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Not sure what's the deal, I tried everything I saw on the internet but nothing worked. I reinstalled my os entirely but still nothing improved. My /var/cache drive works just fine but this one just does not want to. any ideas why that might be?

Sometimes when i try to add a drive somewhere else it just doesnt detect it at all, not even "external drive" appears

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TL;DR

If you are playing Baldur’s Gate 3 on native Linux and want mods + Steam achievements, BG3 Script Extender will not help, based on my testing.
This LD_PRELOAD-based native Linux patcher works, does not require Proton, and does not require Script Extender.

All credit goes to ahungry for this project:
https://github.com/ahungry/bg3-linux-ae

What i tried:

Proton + BG3 Script Extender + DWrite.dll overrides.
>Mods loaded
>Script Extender console showed up when launching the game via steam
I used:
"WINEDLLOVERRIDES="DWrite.dll=n,b" in the launch option
>Script Extender never created log files on my system, even though the console worked
>Achievements still did not trigger with mods active
(Tested with Homebrewer and Prison Escape)

Bottom line: I couldn’t get achievements working through Proton + Script Extender, so I switched to a native Linux solution that actually patches the “modded” achievement check at runtime.

Step-by-step guide:

Before we start make sure:
Force the use of a compatibility tool: OFF
Deleted previous scriptextender file/s
Deleted DWrite.dll
Remove any launch option

As with any mod or runtime patch, use at your own discretion.

1) Download

From:
(I recommend reading the link)
https://github.com/ahungry/bg3-linux-ae/releases

Download:

bg3-linux-ae.tar.gz 2) Extract to home directory

Extract to your home folder, as recommended by the project:

tar xzvf bg3-linux-ae.tar.gz

This creates:

~/bg3-linux-ae/

Containing:

• bg3-linux-ae.sh
• bg3_linux_ae.so

3) Steam Launch Options (exact)

Steam > BG3 > Properties > Launch Options

Paste exactly:

~/bg3-linux-ae/bg3-linux-ae.sh %command% >/tmp/bg3.log 2>&1 4) Launch the game

Start BG3 normally from Steam.

5) Confirm it’s working

After launch (or after quitting), run:

cat /tmp/bg3.log

If you see:

Patch 1 match Successfully patched memory

Achievements are now enabled.

Mods location (native Linux) ~/.local/share/Larian Studios/Baldur's Gate 3

That's it. DONE. Test it on an easy achievement, for me that was "Homebrewer" as still in Act 3 i haven't touched any alchemy but hey now I know how to brew potions. Anyways i spent some time debugging before i understood that achievements (for me at-least) just didn't want to work. I tried scouting online for many solutions (none worked) as nobody had a definitive answer... until I came across this GitHub project. Anyways HF!

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