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,

https://preview.redd.it/ftvt5fo638yf1.png?width=712&format=png&auto=webp&s=263d1ed2f22b84b74a0f3e7d2081fd481d4dddbc

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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Hi, ive recently installed bazzite and ill play games on it soon( in a couple of days). I've an nvidia rtx 4060 and ryzen 5 5600. I know the games i play would run fine but ive some questions. Can i customise how the menus look? Can i add widgets to see my ssd speed, gpu cpu temp.. etc? And does mod organiser 2 and vortex mod manager work on Linux? Right now i have it installed on 1 tb USB ssd, dual boot with windows 11 on my nvme ssd until i get used to the os and if everything works fine I'll completely ditch Windows.

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Hi,

I am buying a living room gaming PC tomorrow which is when the local computer shop will start building it.

I will connect the living room gaming PC to a TV and use a controller as well as a keyboard+mouse to control it

I already have Garuda Linux on my laptop which I bought this year and I was recently recommended Bazzite on the Garuda Linux forum.

Problem is the Bazzite website is down for me and I cannot access it either on DuckDuckGo browser or Firefox on my Android phone. It says 'a server with the specified host name could not be found'

is anyone else experiencing this?

also is it a good idea to use Bazzite for my living room gaming PC considering this eg. what if it can't access updates on the server?

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Hi everyone, I just wanted to share my experience. This is not AI written so bear with my bad english.

I did my test on Cyberpunk 2077.

So, I was wondering how can I cut down background processes to maximise gaming performance and my journey began with creating a build of DWM, which will do nothing but launching steam in bigpicture mode.

I plan to use this alongside my KDE Wayland session running on TTY2. So while my KDE session is running, I plan to switch to TTY4 (or similar) and use `startx` to start a session of steam bigpicture. Initially plan was to just launch gamescope from startx (.xinitrc method) and get on with my life, but the performance was identical to my KDE Wayland session with whatever optimisation I could find.

When I found that there is no significant performance gain, I switched over to my plan B of writing a minimal build of DWM, no extra keyboard shortcut nothing, just launch steam bigpicture and handle my multimonitors. To my wonder I was getting almost 20fps + with this method.

Keep in mind, TTY2 with KDE Wayland running and on TTY4 DWM+Steam+Game running has an average of 92 fps on my hardwar. On the other hand, any other combination: standalone gamescope + steam + game, or kde wayland + game performs worse than this --- Averaging with 72 fps.

Here comes the fun part: with even a basic compositor like comptop/picom, the average fps again drop to 72 fps. The average of 92 FPS with my lean dwm + steam bigpicture + Cyberpunk2077 is better than what I can achieve on Windows 11.

Yes I tried KDE X11 also, the average fps is 72 fps on cyberpunk2077 consistently.

I have no clue what the desktop environments are doing -- but I would love to investigate further.

Hardware:

- Intel core i7 - 12700h

- RTX 4060 - MAX-Q (laptop GPU)

- RAM: 32GB

TLDR: Lean non-compositing build of DWM on X11 can achieve +20fps and improved 1% lows --- roughly 15-20% increase in FPS, than any other desktop environment that I have tested [KDE Wayland, KDE X11, Raw Gamescope, Gnome Wayland]

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The game is stuttering for me, but when it stutters, the audio doesn't and it feels like it's skipping frames. Im playing SR2 Window's version on Linux using GE Proton, with Juiced patch, cutscene fixes, and cutscene shadows mods installed.

Here are my specs:

OS: Linux Mint Cinnamon

CPU: Intel Core I5-8300H

iGPU: Intel UHD Graphics 630 (128mb vRAM)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (4096mb vRAM)

RAM: 16GB DDR4

Two SSDs: 1.Linux Mint (447GB) and 2.Virtual Box (118GB).

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Hey linux_gaming folks! This is kinda long so I broke it into sections.

Preamble:

About two months ago I ordered a System76 desktop for gaming (see hardware details below). I wanted to give the pre-installed Pop_OS 22.04 a fair shake first. It worked pretty well though I encountered several problems:

• 6.16 kernel updates and no-longer-compatible nvidia drivers (solved several times)
• Distorted sound issues in games (solved)
• Atrocious artifacting with DLSS in Borderlands 4 (likely due to older nvidia drivers, so I swapped to the Epic-provided TSR in-game)
• Random game pauses lasting from 5-20 seconds while the system is otherwise responsive (never solved)

... and a few other odds and ends. I know Ubuntu 22.04 is pretty long in the tooth in the desktop linux world so I figured it was time to try other distros.

I switched to the Pop_OS 24.04 beta a couple of days ago and am a bit happier with it. I still have audio and DLSS issues in Borderlands 4. It generally takes 3-4 hours to have one of those long pauses and I haven't had enough time to test for it yet. It is definitely harder to find solutions to issues on a beta OS and I am not experienced enough with Linux on destktop machines yet (though I am learning -- I use ubuntu VMs regularly for work, but they are an entirely different animal).

The Question:

Because of the issues above, I am looking to try other distros and then stick with 1 or 2.

So far, I am looking at Bazzite and CatchyOS. Are there others I should consider?

What I am looking for in a linux distro:

• Reasonably easy setup (finding and installing a few drivers is fine, but I really don't want to do it for all of them)
• Easy package/driver rollback
• Solid Nvidia GPU support, particularly an ability to upgrade nvidia drivers as stable ones are relased since I often play newer games
• Stability once configured (though this is less of an issue with good rollback support)
• Solid game performance
• Ability to alt-tab to check a browser or chat app if needed
• Good documentation
• At least WiFi 6 support (preferably 7)

My hardware:

• System76 Thelio Mira R4
  • AMD 9800X3D
  • 64 GB RAM
  • Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti
  • 4 TB PCIe5 M.2 SSD, 4 TB PCIe4 M.2 SSD
  • Built-in WiFi 7 + Bluetooth 5.4
• Asus VG279QL3A 180 Hz 1080p monitor (connected via DisplayPort, currently using monitor's speakers) - I will likely swap to a 1440p monitor once I find a large enough one that I like
• Razer Naga 2014 Left-Handed
• Razer Huntsman v2 Analog
• XBox One controller (via USB, for FH5)

A few notes on the Razer Naga mouse -- it is key to my gaming layout due to physical limitations, to the point where I have a spare 2020 edition still in the box in case the current one dies on me). I can use it without OpenRazer support if needed since that is mostly for the RGB settings.

My currently most-played games:

• Dune Awakening
• Borderlands 4
• Space Marine 2
• Helldivers 2
• Forza Horizon 5

I expect to play the following in a few months:

• Dying Light: The Beast
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Path of Exile II
• Remnant / Remnant II
• ... probably some other cool games I find
• ... and the dark gods help me if I get back into WoW, but I am feeling the pull a little

The other applications I tend to use on my gaming rigs are pretty standard:

• Firefox
• Brave (for sites that MUST use chromium browsers like Homebrewery)
• 1password
• Discord
• Signal

If I am doing anything other than light browsing or gaming, I will use a different computer.

I don't have enough info/experience to pick a desktop environment yet (virtually ANYTHING is better than Windows 10/11 and I am usually using the CLI if I am not gaming or web browsing). The default Pop_OS Gnome and Cosmic layouts were fine with a few minor tweaks.

Bonus related question:

Does this look like a sane partition / mount setup?

• Expand current EFI partition from 1 GB to 4 GB
• Leave 4 GB recovery partition for PopOS
• 100 GB - PopOS (mounts as / only in PopOS)
• 100 GB - Bazzite (mount as / only in Bazzite)
• 100 GB - CatchyOS (mounts as / only in CatchyOS)
• 100 GB - AnotherDistro? (TBD)
• 1 TB - Shared Home Folder (be sure to use different usernames for each distro; mounts as /home)
• ~2.5 TB - Shared Games Library (mount as ~/Games; approx size, use remaining free space)
• 4 TB - Second drive that stores media, alternate Steam library for less-used games, backups, etc)

Thanks for reading and any suggestions you have!

Edit: fixed a typo

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Maybe it's the year of Linux haha 😂

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I'll be using it for 1440p gaming, web browsing, and nothing else. My PC has 32gigs of ram, a 3060ti, and an i7-11700k 3.6ghz. I don't really play much multiplayer so I'm not worried about anti cheat compatibility. I appreciate any advice as I've never used Linux before although I am pretty tech savvy and not afraid of using CLI for some things. I'm just sick of windows BS and am ready for something better.

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quiero enpezar en linux recomendaciones?

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Hi, I switched to CachyOS recently and haven't had much issue playing games, except when it comes to The Sims 4, I can't seem to install a specific mod manager to handle my mods, because every time it tries to install, either through Lutris or through Steam using the latest version of Proton, or Proton Experimental, or the CachyOS variant, the OS will terminate the application and pull out a "Memory Shortage Avoided" notification.

For the record, this mod manager has never given me issues on Windows and never affected the memory so much. A much more resource heavy-game such as Elden Ring doesn't even use up that much memory in comparison either. Why is this one using up so much in a short time, just to load up an app?

My memory seems to rest at about 5 GB out of 16 GB at base, which seems like a bit much, and there are background services running that seem to hog a lot of it (though Firefox uses even more)...Why is that? Do I have a memory leak somewhere? Has any other Sims user tried running this app and making it work?

Additionally I checked my processes in the system monitor, turned "Show All Processes", and see that besides my usual apps, there is Windows showing up as the largest at 1.1 gb. I don't know if this is from Wine or something else.

Running CachyOS Kernel: 6.17.5-2-cachyos, KDE Plasma and KWin/Wayland.

Specs

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900HX (32) @ 5.80 GHz GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile [Discrete] GPU 2: Intel Raptor Lake-S UHD Graphics @ 1.65 GHz [Integrated] Memory: 5.82 GiB / 15.34 GiB (38%) Swap: 5.07 GiB / 15.33 GiB (33%) System: Host: cachyos-x8664 Kernel: 6.17.5-2-cachyos arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: clang v: 21.1.3 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.1 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM Distro: CachyOS base: Arch Linux CPU: Info: 24-core (8-mt/16-st) model: Intel Core i9-14900HX bits: 64 type: MST AMCP arch: Raptor Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 2.1 MiB L2: 32 MiB L3: 36 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 826 min/max: 800/5600:5800:4100 cores: 1: 826 2: 826 3: 826 4: 826 5: 826 6: 826 7: 826 8: 826 9: 826 10: 826 11: 826 12: 826 13: 826 14: 826 15: 826 16: 826 17: 826 18: 826 19: 826 20: 826 21: 826 22: 826 23: 826 24: 826 25: 826 26: 826 27: 826 28: 826 29: 826 30: 826 31: 826 32: 826 bogomips: 154828 Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx Graphics: Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S UHD Graphics vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Xe ports: active: eDP-2 empty: none bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:a788 Device-2: NVIDIA AD107M [GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile] vendor: Lenovo driver: nvidia v: 580.95.05 arch: Lovelace pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none empty: DP-1, DP-2, HDMI-A-1, eDP-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:28e0

Is there anything I can do here? I would like to use this mod manager whether through Steam or Lutris, but for some reason my memory gets filled up so quickly when this never happened in Windows 11. And this might be a risky question but is it possible to disable killing the memory shortage thing entirely and just let it run through?

I can provide more information, I just wasn't sure what else to put, I apologize.

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1. I am using two NVMe SSDs for the new pc, one is a new one I am buying, but the other one is the one I am currently using on Win10, its not my boot drive but it is the one I install pretty much any game on, and its my main storage drive I use for things like images and videos, so I am just wondering if there will be any complications with those installed games when switching from Win10 to Linux, and I assume the images and videos will be fine but I thought I would mention it just in case

2. is installing mods or making mods any different for most games on Linux over Windows?

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I just bought Escape from Duckov, which is developed and distributed by Chinese. How to make sure that this game has no internet connection and not shipping any data to somewhere else?

I tried using firejail and add it to the launch option like this `firejail --net=none %command%`, but any game will just crash. I even tried `firejail --net=none steam steam://rungameid/[game id]` but that game will just crash.

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Hey so, any recomendations in "alternative" versions of a Xbox controller to play Yakuza Kiwami on Linux mint?
I was trying to plug in my bootleg xbox one controller from "Shanwan" which the PC recognizes as a "controller device" but neither of the steam games, or the input log recognizes so I'm highly considering to buy a new controller, unless someone has an Idea on what else I could try to check out if my PC with Linux Mint actually recognizes the inputs of my controller

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As per the title, what are some must have launch options to use in steam for performance and stability, as well as any nvidia must haves?

I know these can tend to be more critical on a per game basis or per issue basis but what have you all discovered that can give a general boost?

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