For me, the frustration started around Windows 7, when it began to feel like the OS was being designed more for mobile than for desktop use. These days, I have to jump through hoops just to avoid signing in with a Microsoft account, and features like OneDrive feel forced. From what I have heard, Copilot is on the horizon and I'm sure there will be even more annoyances in the future. At this point, I am starting to feel like Windows is no longer designed with the user as the customer.

The main reason I have stayed on Windows is gaming. As a PC gamer, it has always been the default choice for compatibility. But lately I have been hearing that, largely thanks to Steam, that is no longer necessarily the case.

So I have a few questions. Is it safe to assume most of my Steam library will run fine on Linux? What about games outside of Steam, like Star Citizen, Escape from Tarkov, the DZSA launcher for DayZ, Vintage Story, or Red Dead Redemption 2 through the Rockstar launcher? How well do games that require their own launchers work? Is Minecraft fully playable on Linux? And can I stream my screen to friends on Discord smoothly, including using the in-game overlay?

Thanks in advance for any insight. As frustrated as I am with Windows, I do not want to end up with even more annoyances or troubleshooting when, at the end of the day, I just want to play.

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So, I spent pretty much all day today trying to troubleshoot why Helldivers 2 will not work on my system and I'm completely out of ideas.

The problem: trying to launch the game takes an ungodly amount of time, as for some reason, every single time I hit "Play", it takes 20+ minutes trying to download some sort of VC++ Redistributables and Dx11. And when that's finally done, the game is detected as "running" but I don't see any windows popping up. Eventually, after a few minutes, the game process is terminated, and I get a tab on my browser that leads to GameGuard's FAQ page, directing me to send them some log files.

I've tried a lot of things:

- Reinstalled the game like 2-3 times

- Restarted my PC several times

- Switched my DE session from Wayland to X11

- Tried several versions of proton. Specifically: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, Experimental, Experimental (bleeding edge)

- Downloaded 32bit drivers and libs after feeding the proton logs to Deepseek

- Manually deleted the GameGuard files in the install directory and let Steam redownload them

System info from fastfetch:

https://preview.redd.it/ehv7b17fvnpg1.png?width=840&format=png&auto=webp&s=e5e0e65bb109f40540a7813142aa4be9fda1425e

At this point the only thing left for me to try is GE Proton, and if that doesn't work, I can only assume Arrowhead hates me specifically and doesn't want me to play their game. I haven't been able to find anything like my case on the internet all day, so this is my last ditch attempt at getting some fresh ideas for troubleshooting before I give up.

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I've been thinking about switching over to Linux completely for a while now and have already done so quite successfully for my living room multimedia pc which has been running bazzite for some time now. There are a couple of things holding me back from making the switch on my desktop pc though.

I'm not exactly disabled but I have some problems with my hands so I use one of those kinesis advantage keyboards that have an unusual, ergonomic layout. Many games support remapping but some don't so on Windows I have been using AutoHotKey to remap my keyboard inputs and as useful to create complex macros for repetitive actions, sometimes involving screencapture and image search to detect certain UI elements. For some games I use voice control via VoiceBot.

Are there any reasonably polished options to replace AHK or VoiceBot on Linux? I'm not opposed to learning Python if I need to and I have some background in computer programming but I work enough hours to kill a horse so I want to spend as little time as possible on setting things up.

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Assuming I probably don't care about it being easily mountable from Windows. I just want to be able to distrohop without caring about where Steam is installed.

I'll still have to tell Steam where to find the steamapps folder, right?

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Hey, I’m trying to find a way to stay AFK in Roblox (so I don’t get kicked for inactivity), but I also want to be able to use my PC normally at the same time.

I’m on Linux using Wayland (Hyprland), and most solutions I’ve found either don’t work on Wayland or require focusing the Roblox window, which defeats the purpose.

Does anyone know:

• Any AFK tools, scripts, or methods that work on Wayland?
• Ways to simulate input (like small movements or clicks) without interrupting what I’m doing?
• Or any workaround specific to Roblox on Linux?

I’m not trying to exploit or anything, just avoid being kicked while grinding. Any help would be really appreciated 🙏

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Hello,

I have bought every FIFA game since 2021. However, in 2025, I switched to Linux, so now I can't play FIFA anymore. I only want to play Career Mode, but since Career Mode is offline, I had an idea theoretically, could I download a cracked version of an older FIFA from before they introduced anti-cheat (like FIFA 22) and then mod it to modern standards?

My plan is to run it through Bottles on Linux to try and get both the mod launcher and the game running somewhat reliably. I've been trying to find a good, reliable download link, but I can't seem to find a real one. Can anyone help?

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Did anyone face the same specific problem before ?

Note: Took Claude's help to compile a report.

System Details : - Laptop: Acer Nitro AN515-58 (board: Jimny_ADH) - CPU: i7-12650H (Alder Lake), GPU: RTX 3070Ti Laptop (GA104) - OS: Nobara 43 KDE, kernel 6.19.5-200.nobara.fc43.x86_64, Wayland - BIOS: V2.19 (December 2025, latest available) - Driver: dkms-nvidia 580.126.09 via RPMFusion, not the .run installer

The problem: nvidia-smi errors with "Unable to determine the device handle". DaVinci Resolve and Kdenlive can't access CUDA. Gaming has bad lag. glxinfo confirms the desktop is running entirely on Intel iGPU (Mesa Intel ADL GT2) — the 3070Ti is doing nothing.

What diagnostics show: - Kernel modules are loaded fine: nvidia, nvidia_drm, nvidia_modeset, nvidia_uvm all present - GPU is visible via lspci at 01:00.0 - PCIe link is the core issue: LnkCap shows 16GT/s (Gen 4) capable but LnkSta reports 2.5GT/s (Gen 1) - DevSta/UESta/CESta all clear, no PCIe errors - ACPI reports: platform does not support AER - runtime_status: error, power/control: auto - No supergfxctl, no nvidia-specific kernel params currently set - BIOS firmware is locked, no updates available via fwupdmgr

What I've already tried: - Forcing power/control to "on" via sysfs — no change - PCIe link retrain via setpci on the root port — still 2.5GT/s - Previously purged and reinstalled drivers on GPT's advice — didn't help

Questions: 1. Has anyone with this exact board (Jimny_ADH / AN515-58 Alder Lake) gotten the PCIe link to negotiate at proper speed on Linux? 2. Is there a kernel parameter combo that forces PCIe retraining on Alder Lake + NVIDIA laptop setups? 3. Does this BIOS actually have an Optimus/Discrete GPU toggle? Haven't checked yet, going in blind. 4. Would switching to X11 help with the nvidia-smi error even at degraded PCIe speeds?

how do I fix this?

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I have rx 6650 xt with 180hz monitor I use arch + niri When I turn my oc on for the first time and launch a game it takes all my GPU full power and that's greet but after turning the game off and launch any other game or the same game vram clock stays at the idle speed and I need to logout from the session and login again so I can play another game I use grub as my bootloader Can some on explain why is that happening and give me a fix please

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Hey 🙂
I bought SCUM and installed the anti-cheat tools (BattlEye, etc.), but multiplayer still isn’t working. Do you have a solution please ?

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Despite the controversy, I’m interested in trying it out on some of my games on CachyOS that currently don’t have DLSS baked in.

I’m aware that on Windows, there are mods that add DLSS support to games. Can the same be done in Linux?

DLSS 5 hasn’t been released yet so I’m asking this as a hypothetical question.

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So, I'm just starting to use Cagebreak on my Arch Linux. I have a config setup, everything works just fine. Except Minecraft.
Now, after doing some research and seeing that Minecraft on Wayland is a challenge, I tried the few tips and trick to solve that issue, and most of them worked (like adding glfw libs, prism-launcher, etc...).
The issue now is that the movement I can do with my cursor is limited to my front. I can't spin around in 360, just locked in a 180° vision, no way around. Tried fullscreen, nothing.

Could anyone help me pls?

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I know this is a stupid question to ask but now that heroic stopped functioning properly (likely user error), I want to switch and I don't want to trust my data to things I don't fully trust. I know it's It's open source but I still would like to be 100% sure

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I recently installed Battle.net through Lutris, which I used to download WoW retail. The game itself runs fine, but the "connecting" and "retrieving server list" stage of launching it takes forever. Like, 5-10 minutes for each stage. I've never experienced this before. I also get "Lost connection to the voice chat service" on repeat in the chat, while in game. No latency issues in game; it runs as smooth as butter.

Has anyone else had these issues? I presume its some sort of network connection issue due to proton. I am using the cachyos proton layer in Lutris (also had the issue using proton GE) and I use the cachyos wine fork.

OS: Arch Linux
Kernel: Linux 6.19.8-1-cachyos-bore

GPU: RTX 5070

CPU: Ryze 7 9800x3d

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Hi,

I'm trying to play GOW 2018 through Steam, but when I launch the game, it runs for 2 or 3 seconds, then crashes. I tried to use different Proton versions, including proton-ge but nothing changed

I'm relative new on Linux, so if you need some information that I didn't give, just ask and tell how to get it

GPU: RX9070
CPU: R5 5600X
RAM: 16GB
System: CachyOS
Mesa: Mesa 25.3.5-arch1.1

I also tried change mesa version, I was on mesa 26.x.x. but saw on protondb that almost all comments were using 25.3.5, so I downgraded

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I just got Linux, Zorin OS to be specific, on a rather old computer that ran Windows 10 until then. It generally runs well, but Games just don't.

Hollow Knight, which ran perfectly fine on Virus 10, and should run natively on Linux, is, for example runs with around 30 FPS and a slight bit of input delay. (according to Steam: CPU: ~20%, 3-3.5/8gigs Ram)

Phasmophobia as well ran fine in Windows, but has just 10fps here, as well as huge input delay (CPU: ~20%, RAM ~4/8GB

Bloons TD 6 on Heroic Games Launcher (the others were on Steam) only has slight lag.

OS: Zorin 18 Core Wayland CPU: i5-2500K x 4 RAM: 8GB GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 (both HK and Phasmo say they have 0% GPU usage, that doesn't seem entirely right)(Zorin calls it NV136, but that is as far as I know not an issue, just a codename of some sort)

Changing the Proton Version did nothing.

The CPU and stuff don't seem to be an issue (the GPU might be doing something wrong, as per the 0% thing)

I added some Start options to Phasmo because someone online recommended it, but that didn't do anything (steamdeck=1 %command%)

I went through Steam Settings, but nothing there seems to be at all problematic, as far as I can tell.

My plan is to install Zorin on another PC, but I'd love to fix this issue beforehand

Edit: I installed an NVidia Driver, which should fix things. It didn't. The Drivers did seemingly apply properly, at least according to what help.zorin.com is saying, but the FPS have been halved.

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Im on linux mint but my ULTRAKILL game doesnt work it gets stuck at the loading screen after the skul warning and the game wont close or anything except for when i manually close my laptop from the power button by holding rather than pressing is it a specs problem or something in linux or steam i have in the configurations it could be the specs since my laptop is 15 yrs old and its toshiba

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