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Best bluetooth controller

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 20 Mar 2026 - 7:01pm

Hi there,

do you guys have some recommendations for a solid bluetooth controller that works out of the box on linux?

I just wanna use them for some casual gaming - nothing special is needed.

Thanks!

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The microphone is not working correctly.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 20 Mar 2026 - 6:54pm

My distro is 24.04, the microphone is built into the laptop, my microphone picks up every sound and makes me too loud, I tried reducing the amplifier, but nothing helped, still a piercing sound

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I've been having this obnoxious issue with xfinity router and maybe someone can explain it to me like I'm 5 please.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 20 Mar 2026 - 6:32pm

I've had issues with finding other computers through specific apps or programs like minecraft or through different containers on docker. Right now I'm trying to set up a steam link between my pi4 and my main computer. Both on linux. I cant seem to ever find a straight anwser but whenever i find my ip addresses for ssh or anything its always 10.0.0.xxx but i know thats obviously not my actual ip. But idk is it a CGNAT or just something im not understanding and why is it my computer (wired into my router) and my pi (on 5g) cant find eachother but when i use a code to connect them i get a warning of slow connection as if its connecting outside my network and back in? Please help me

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Skallierungs Problem bei WoW auf Fedora

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 20 Mar 2026 - 6:29pm

Servus liebe Gemeinde,

Ich hab ein Problem und zwar spielt meine Skalierung von World of Warcraft mal wieder verrückt. In WoW selber ist dadurch auf meiner Auflösung alles ziemlich groß, klar könnte ich die Skalierung auch selber einstellen aber ich will das es so funktioniert.

Benutzen tue ich den Faugus Launcher mit dem ich eigentlich ganz zufrieden bin.

Das Problem besteht mit jeder Proton Version: GE Proton sowie Proton EM, selbst mit UMU Proton.

Meine Linux Distro ist Fedora.

Kann mir jemand bezüglich meines Problems einen Tipp geben was ich dagegen tun kann?

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Pixelation, Graininess, and Ghosting in-game

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 20 Mar 2026 - 6:25pm

I have rx 6650xt

Ryzen 5 7500f

1080p 25inch monitor msi g255f

in some games like control I put everything on high and rt medium and I see ghosting and blurry image in game when I move like it's 720p resolution and the games look like crap I use proton ge

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Stray suddenly needs D3D11 compatible gpu even though it's present?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 20 Mar 2026 - 5:57pm

My work and travel laptop, a Getac V110 runs the latest Fedora distro, and I always liked to play Stray on it. Today I reinstalled the game because I'll soon have an 8hr flight. Now the game tells me I need a D3D11 compatible GPU. the laptop has an i5-4300U with HD Graphics 4400 which is listed as being compatible with DirectX 11. What gives? I tried a bunch of Proton versions but none seem to work. Other games start fine.

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PSA: infinity macro pedals work with input-remapper

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 20 Mar 2026 - 4:54pm

I didn't know exactly where to post this, but I wanted to share it somewhere so people searching can find it. If you're looking for a way to get an "Infinity IN-USB-2 USB Digital Foot Control Pedal" working on Linux, you can use https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper (it's in the Fedora repos).

I saw bunch of posts in other places about people jumping through all kinds of hoops to get them working, so I just decided to see if it'd show up in Input Remapper. And it does!

I personally use it for WoW, but you could use it for whatever you want. You can map controller/keyboard/mouse inputs to it. I think some speedrunners use them for their timers, or video editors use them for stuff too. These pedals are all over the place, used cheap as dirt, and made pretty well. I got mine for $5 USD on eBay lol.

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Swapping ssds?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 20 Mar 2026 - 4:38pm

I have tried dual booting on the same ssd between windows and various linux distros. However some problems with gaming has always popped up in weird ways. So as my gaming laptop has one m.2 drive; I have a secondary form a defunct previous laptop that I am thinking of swapping out and using instead. I worry about the connectors so I am asking the hive mind is this an ok idea?

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Need some help getting my pc up and running (Bazzite)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 20 Mar 2026 - 4:28pm

Hey all! I recently bought my first gaming pc second hand, and have naturally encountered some problems.

The most concerning one is that my pc will randomly crash (Screen shuts off and fans go full blast until I turn the system off). What do i have to check for here?

Second of wifi is terribly slow. Was told that I needed to update the drivers, but cant seem to find a good tutorial for linux on YouTube... Bazzite seemingly downloaded some, but its slow as can possibly be. The adapter is an asus PCE-AC56

This is what im working with:

https://preview.redd.it/u6afy10sv7qg1.png?width=626&format=png&auto=webp&s=3e31d77fe3331153c23439557b2a919ce4022372

The system came without memory, and since im on a budget this comes from an ssd that i ripped out of my hp probook laptop, think its a 256GB (WDC PC SN520 SDAPNUW-256G-1006)

Im new to both the platform and the os, and find it frustratingly difficult to find info online these days, so any help would be greatly appreciated!!

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Installed Steam as flatpack - where do I find "files saved to desktop"?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 20 Mar 2026 - 4:22pm

Hey everyone,

I am fairly new to using linux for gaming (and as a desktop OS). I recently started playing a game that has nice animated GIFs of your own solutions (Opus Magnum), though those are "saved to my desktop". There are no files on my desktop, and I have no idea where I can find them. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

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CS2 crashing on loading screen since ~March 18th — RX 9070 XT / CachyOS / Native Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 20 Mar 2026 - 3:48pm

CS2 has been crashing consistently on the loading screen since around March 18th. Was working perfectly before that. Looking to see if anyone else is hitting this or has a fix.

System info:

- OS: CachyOS

- Kernel: 6.19.8-1-cachyos

- GPU: AMD RX 9070 XT

- Mesa: 26.0.3

- Launch method: Native Linux client with gamescope

What happens:

Game launches, gets to the loading screen, then crashes with SIGSEGV every time.

dmesg output:

cs2[6190]: segfault at ffffffff ip 00007f182a1de3a0 sp 00007ffe089da0e0 error 6 in libengine2.so

Stack trace from coredumpctl:

#0 _ZNKSt7codecvtIwc11__mbstate_tE10do_unshiftERS0_PcS3_RS3_ (libengine2.so)

#1 _ZNKSt7num_get...get() (libengine2.so)

#2 _ZNSirsERi std::istream::operator>>(int&) (libengine2.so)

#3-#12 n/a (libclient.so)

Things I've already tried:

- Downgrading vulkan-radeon and Mesa components to 26.0.2

- Deleting and redownloading Steam Linux Runtime 3.0 (sniper)

- Wiping shader cache (~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/730)

- Wiping Mesa shader cache (~/.cache/mesa_shader_cache)

- Deleting CS2 config and userdata

- RADV_DEBUG=nomeshshaders, noaco

- DISABLE_AMDVLK=1

- LC_ALL=C

- -novid -vulkan launch options

- Verifying game files

Nothing has worked. The timing lines up with a Steam update (1.0.0.85-3.1 → 1.0.0.85-5) and a Mesa update (26.0.2 → 26.0.3) both landing on March 18th, but downgrading either didn't help. The crash is in libengine2.so's locale/stream parsing code which makes me think it might be a CS2-side regression.

Anyone else seeing this on RDNA 4 / RX 9070 XT? Any ideas welcome.

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please help BattleNet

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 20 Mar 2026 - 3:46pm

Congratulations! I can't install BattleNet Launcher correctly. I either see an error or an endless loop to update Agent.exe. If I use Heroic Launcher, I get an extremely slow Battlenet update. It reaches 60% and the Agent.exe process. drops the download speed to 15 kbps. How do I install this launcher properly? I use Heroic Launcher (proton and wine ge). I tried through Bottles - the same thing

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Deadlock not launching at all (linux newbie)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 20 Mar 2026 - 3:23pm

I'm trying to play Deadlock on:
Linux Mint Cinnamon 22.3 "Zena"
GE-Proton10-33 and Experimental
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9600KF CPU @ 3.70GHz
H310M S2 2.0
16GB RAM

However, the game doesn’t launch nothing happens when I click "Play."

I’ve already tried:

  • using different versions of Proton or Steam Linux Runtime (SLR)
  • addings these into the launch options:
    • -vulkan
    • -dx11
    • gamemoderun %command%
    • STEAM_RUNTIME=0 %command%
    • __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia %command%
    • PROTON_USE_WINED3D=0 %command%
  • reinstalling and updating Linux, drivers, Steam, and the game itself

These are the logs that appear after i click on "Play" inside terminal through steam:

fsync: up and running. System.PlatformNotSupportedException: Video driver not supported at Xalia.Sdl.WindowingSystem.Create () [0x0003e] in <743e8bdcd9c54484ad89463ed4e626f6>:0 at Xalia.Sdl.WindowingSystem.get_Instance () [0x00007] in <743e8bdcd9c54484ad89463ed4e626f6>:0 at Xalia.Ui.UiMain..ctor () [0x00027] in <743e8bdcd9c54484ad89463ed4e626f6>:0 at Xalia.MainClass.Init (Xalia.Gudl.GudlStatement[] config) [0x0001b] in <743e8bdcd9c54484ad89463ed4e626f6>:0 chdir "/home/ilias33/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Deadlock" ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ilias33/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. Game Recording - would start recording game 1422450, but recording for this game is disabled Adding process 17473 for gameID 1422450 ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ilias33/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ilias33/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ilias33/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ilias33/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored. Adding process 17474 for gameID 1422450 Adding process 17475 for gameID 1422450 Adding process 17476 for gameID 1422450 Adding process 17562 for gameID 1422450 fsync: up and running. Adding process 17563 for gameID 1422450 Adding process 17564 for gameID 1422450 Adding process 17565 for gameID 1422450 Adding process 17568 for gameID 1422450 Adding process 17570 for gameID 1422450 Adding process 17573 for gameID 1422450 Adding process 17582 for gameID 1422450 Adding process 17587 for gameID 1422450 Adding process 17594 for gameID 1422450 Adding process 17615 for gameID 1422450 Adding process 17634 for gameID 1422450 System.PlatformNotSupportedException: Video driver not supported at Xalia.Sdl.WindowingSystem.Create () [0x0003e] in <743e8bdcd9c54484ad89463ed4e626f6>:0 at Xalia.Sdl.WindowingSystem.get_Instance () [0x00007] in <743e8bdcd9c54484ad89463ed4e626f6>:0 at Xalia.Ui.UiMain..ctor () [0x00027] in <743e8bdcd9c54484ad89463ed4e626f6>:0 at Xalia.MainClass.Init (Xalia.Gudl.GudlStatement[] config) [0x0001b] in <743e8bdcd9c54484ad89463ed4e626f6>:0 pid 17566 != 17565, skipping destruction (fork without exec?) Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1422450] Removing process 17634 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17615 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17594 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17587 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17582 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17573 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17570 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17568 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17565 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17564 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17563 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17562 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17476 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17475 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17474 for gameID 1422450 Removing process 17473 for gameID 1422450 submitted by /u/Papi-NoPapi6769
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World of Warcraft - launching with Wine now starts on dialog box

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 20 Mar 2026 - 3:18pm

I've been running WoW fine for weeks from the directory as wine wow.exe. I tried to create a desktop shortcut to launch with Wine and it launched normally but I hit escape to exit and a weird resolution dialog box popped up. I can't click on anything, escape, or tab to hit anything. I have to ctrl-alt-del and log out to get back to desktop. Now I always launch to this weirdly cropped dialog. Can I change the starting resolution or maybe delete any saved config to get back to normal?

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