Hi. After switching to Linux I got into the habit of storing and organizing a proper game library, buying more stuff on GOG (rather than Steam) and always trying to keep ALMOST "ready to play" for whenever I need them.

Right now here's my system:

For steam games, they are located on the SteamLibrary folder, as it seems to be impossible to change that. Not much to do here besides some simple notes:

1- Whenever the game features mods and I need to run a specific launch parameter, I attach a .txt file to the game folder with clear instructions for future me.

2- I also always install nocd fixes for games that require third party launchers (aka Ubisoft).

Now, for Lutris games (whatever game not on steam, even emulators)... here comes the fun part.

First, I make the game work through lutris. This might require more or less steps depending on the game. Sometimes we need specific DLL overrides, other times we need to install a ton of programs with wineprefix (looking at you No One Lives Forever) and ocasionally, we don't have much to do. Here are some notes:

1- I always set the wineprefix folder of the specific to the root game folder. (E.G: for "Mirror's Edge" my wineprefix folder is on Mirror's Edge/wineprefix. This way, I can reutilize this existing folder on another PC
(hopefully).

2-Same as steam, whenever a game needs special attention, I create a .txt file with clear instructions for future me on its install folder.

Some might suggest me retroarch, but the problem is I already think its sort of a hassle having to manage 2 entirely different gaming libraries (steam and lutris), that's why I always add emulator games through Lutris itself.

Still, I am aware this needs LOTS of improvements, and that's why I'm here. What are your thoughts? What am I missing and how would you improve this system?

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Just got Arch up and running using GNOME/Wayland. I have a GTX 3070 and I went with nvidia-open drivers as suggested by the arch wiki. I'm generally thoroughly enjoying the desktop experience and it's not my first time using linux. What I did notice while playing night reign is the graphics look noticeably worst while playing via proton. Is this just how it is? Are there any tips to get some of that fidelity back?

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So heres the thing. I have a shit pc, and i use it as a media/cloud gaming platform with a giant screen. Windows 10 kinda makes things slow down by a lot, and i need to constantly get a clean install to make it work smoothly. Hence after a lot of thinking, id like to step into linux in hopes to stop constantly reinstalling the damn os on this pc and prolly learn a thing or 2 about linux.

When it comes to media, im talking videos, netflix and stuff, discord i guess for screenshares and stuff.
When im talking games, im talking old games like gta sanandreas or similar, and ofcourse, geforce now for cloud gaming for the high end games. Thats really all i need and do on this pc, and if possible, some variant of ms office for smol office work if i dont have my laptop around.

The specs on this pc would be:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
Installed RAM 8.00 GB
Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600
70gb on disk c (for the OS), its a single partitioned disk.

Planning to completely get rid of windows, but im still unsure of what os to go for.
Ive been suggested Bazzite, since i do still play smol games on steam like gta sa and such.. and other games out of steam from gog and such. Id still like a few recommendations since i basically know nothing about linux.

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Sorry i am new to linux .So im downloaded killing floor 2 it works fine but i cant open nvidia flex idk why can someone help (I am using lastest nvida driver 580.7)

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Hey guys,

I am unsure whether to post this here or in the linux subreddit, so I'll try it here. I want to take screenshots with my xbox controller when gaming using the share button. This doesn't seem to work right out of the gate like on windows. I have installed both xpadneo and xone for the drivers, mainly using xone with the wireless adapter. I can set it up in steam with no massive issues using steam inputs, but i have issues doing the same on heroics, which i want to keep using for the cloud saves.

Any tips? I don't care if I just remap the button to printscreen so it just does it even when not gaming, but I was unable to figure that out too.

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Ive tried everything I could think of, nothing will let me have either fullscreen, or a mouse that can move beyond the small screen, with all the buttons being scaled down to the smaller screen. it is permanently stuck to this small area of the window.

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I moved Dead By Daylight from my SSD to a HDD today and started getting this error again. I previously managed to fix it by removing %MANGOHUD% from launch arguments on Steam, but now the error shows up without any launch arguments.

I'm rather new to Linux, so it's probably something I overlooked. I could use any help with this. Thank you for your time if you decide to look at this post.

Here's what the error says -

"Assertion failed!

Program Z:\media\username\Hard Drive Disk\Steam Games\steamapps\common\Dead by Daylight\DeadByDaylight\Binaries\Win64\DeadByDaylight-Win64-Shipping.exe

File: ../src-wine/dlls/winevulkan/loader_thunks.c

Line: 3046

Expression: "!status && "vkCreateComputePipelines""

Press OK to exit the program, or Cancel to start the Wine debugger."

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I hope this is the correct place to post.

I'm building an unorthodox Gaming rig. It's a poweredge R730. It was running Ubuntu 24.04 but I had some issues and went to Windows..

However. I now want to also run UnRAID on this for my home media.

Now, what is the best combination for my best experience..

Should I bare metal UnRaid? And run Linux in a VM to game from?

Run ProxMox and run UnRaid in a VM and Linux in a VM?

I have 128Gb ram so VMs are not going to be too hard on me I don't believe...

But what would your thoughts be? Or even better, is there already a thread on this?

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While i was playing nioh 2, and the game suddenly crashed. I just started playing it and it keeps happening in the first mission and I'm keep losing my save. My pc just freezes and every program just begin closing. I tried cachyos proton, ge proton, and hotfix proton but nothing worked.

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Hello, Ubuntu Budgie user here. I like it, but it looks like Bazzite seems more fit for my gaming needs, since that’s the main reason I use my laptop for. Now, here’s the thing, I have an Asus ROG Strix 2 (from around 2018) and on the Bazzite website, when choosing the distro version it would say “steam gaming mode it’s not currently supported for your laptop, desktop version is still available”, that because my laptop mounts an Nvidia GTX 1070. What would you suggest? Aside maybe changing my laptop and such, i’d like to work with this one that I have

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Hey everyone! 👋 I’m giving away Steam keys to spread some positivity and make someone’s day. I use my own money to buy these games, so all I ask in return is a little support on my YouTube channel ❤️

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Good luck and happy gaming! 🎮✨

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Hey guys,

Could you please guide me on how to set up a dual boot linux for steam gaming? (elden ring nightreign). I have stutters on windows on my 9800x3d and 5070ti build and i need to rule out hardware issue.

I know there are few linux versions and i need the one that will work the best with nightreign :)

Thanks!

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anyone know if it's possible to play the 2xko beta on Linux? A friend can give me a code for the game but idk if I'll be able to run it or not. I know I can use lutris or add it to steam if I have the exe file but since it's a closed beta idk how well it'd run if at all

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I'm relatively new to Linux Gaming and ran a benchmark on Cyberpunk to see which OS ran the game better. Was disappointed that Windows 11 outperformed Kubuntu. Anybody have any idea why?

More info: Currently running it on Linux through Proton Experimental. I have the latest drivers installed. I also noticed that I had screen tearing with VSync off with Linux but not on Windows.

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I'm having a rather bizarre issue which I'm hoping you can help me at least begin to diagnose, because I'm at a loss as to where to even start.

When I boot up the PC, if the first thing I do is start Steam, and then start game using proton, it runs fine. Let's say Game A runs at 100+ FPS. Everything dandy.

But sometimes, usually if I do something else before gaming, nothing fancy just normal stuff like a little light browsing, maybe watch a youtube video or something, if I now start steam after that, start game, that game will now run at maybe 30 FPS instead of 100.

This happens with multiple games, so it's not game specific. If another one might normally run at say 50 fps, it will crawl at 10-15ish in the second case.

Nothing ever crashes, everything always still works with no warnings or errors, it just works very visibly WAAAY worse. If I reboot it and go straight into steam everything is again just dandy.

There's nothing custom or going on on the side in the system(literally the only other thing except Steam that's not from the default ubuntu installation is VLC media player), this is a super basic PC with a Ryzen 5 3600 and Radeon RX 6600, clean Ubuntu 25.04 install, everything updated, only used for browsing and steam games.

What could possibly be causing this sort of behaviour?

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Everything works completely fine in Genshin except for this weird shadow glitch. Sometimes shadows look okay from some angles (like on this video), sometimes they look like squares from any angle.

9800X3D + RTX 5080

Bazzite (Fedora 42)
KDE Plasma 6.4.4
Linux 6.16.4
Nvidia drivers 580.82.07

Tried this with Proton-GE 10-15 and with Proton Experimental and with Proton 10-2, same thing everywhere. Tried both Wayland and XWayland.

I just wonder if that's something other people experience too, or if it's something on my system.

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I created a script helps you setup your Linux for gaming. I already made a post about the script a while ago but back then it only had support for Arch. I have changed the script pretty massively aswell.

Id love some feedback. It would really help me if someone could test the ubuntu nvidia section because i dont have an nvidia card so i cant test it myself.

Installation:

(if you want you can check the script on github: https://github.com/magikarq/fishscript

git clone https://github.com/magikarq/fishscript.git cd fishscript chmod +x setup.sh ./setup.sh submitted by /u/magikarq69
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