I have 8BitDo Ultimate 2C and i want to play on geforce now, but when i trying to play in chromium, gfn just doesn't see my controller, however in hardwaretester it works ideally. In firefox works everything except triggers (LT and RT). I tried asking chatgpt, but it was just "try downloading steam-devices" and "try reloading it". How can i fix that? I'm using Arch.

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Hi, I'm starting to switch over to Linux Mint but am having problems setting up my gaming mouse. I have a Corsair Scimitar that I used iCUE to configure my mouse buttons while on windows.

I've tried various FOSS alternatives but have found nothing that works. Piper doesn't support it, and neither does ckb-next.. I want something with a UI and Profiles to swap through.

After much grief, I've decided to set up a VM to run iCUE and switch my profiles from there, no big deal. However, the software in my VM doesn't detect that I have a Corsair mouse plugged in, unless I enable the device as a USB device. At which point, the iCUE software recognizes it but now I'm unable to move my cursor at all! Neither on the VM nor my host machine. The only way to escape is to use host key shortcuts to close the VM, and sometimes it locks up completely and i have to restart my whole system to try again.

What am I missing with this passthrough?? I can get my keyboard to pass through easily, but not once have I been able to get the mouse to move after enabling it as a USB device.

I've tried adding guest additions and the ext-pack with no luck. Please help before I lose all will to continue.

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Hello,

I have an issue with my RX 6600 XT eGPU crashing randomly (sometimes immediately) on LMDE 6. This Thunderbolt dock works fine on windows but it doesn't work on linux (I had the same issue on Ubuntu).

While looking online for solutions, upgraded my kernel to 6.12 and upgraded Mesa to 25 but I still get the freezing problem. I even tried switching from Xorg to Wayland but it didn't change anything.

The weird thing is that my mouse doesn't freeze only the rest of the desktop.

I am fairly new to linux and completely new to this subreddit.

Output of 'inxi -Gxxx': in the image (I didn't even have time to copy it into reddit that linux crashed)

Thank you for taking your time reading this.

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Shoutouts to this post that inspired me to do this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1ljykcg/latest_vkd3dproton_massively_improves_fsr4/

Might follow up with some detailed benchmark numbers later.

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Greeting,

I installed Turtle WoW using the Lutris script, and the game works fine when launched via WoW.exe (or using Vanillatweaks). However, the current client used by turtle wow is ancient, has a few bugs and bad performance, so I would like to mod it. There are 4 mods I want to load, but 2 of them do not work for me.

I must run the game through flatpak, but I talked to many players who use native proton-ge/Heroic launcher etc, and mods work for them. If you have modded the game successfully, but you don't use flatpak, then you may not be able to help. I assume that it may be a sandbox issue, but I don't know how to test that.

The mods for Turtle wow are dll's injected by the launcher (WoW.exe). There is a dll.txt file that you can use to list which dlls to load.

I made a post on r/turtlewow, if you need more info, but I will add some context below.

The two modds that I can't figure out how to install are:

• https://github.com/balakethelock/SuperWoW
• https://github.com/pepopo978/nampower

Is there anyone who has made it work (through flatpak)? Have you had any similar issues in other games? I'm not sure how to even troubleshoot it.

From the original post, I quote the following:

If I add nampower.dll or SuperWoWhook.dll (alone or with the others), the game does not launch. With the latter, I get a small window titled "error" with the message "Fail writing at 4367186", then another window, "Fail writing at 8438712", then another... until I stop the game.

From someone claiming to be a Turtle wow dev (maybe true, but didn't verify):

Also please don't use any other dll injectors like SuperWoWLauncher or VanillaFixes launcher because our modified WoW.exe already has the dll loading from dll.txt built in. If you use other dll launchers the mods will get double loaded.

My dll file contains the following:

nampower.dll # game won't start. SuperWoWhook.dll # game won't start, but the small error window appears. twdiscord.dll # game starts UnitXP_SP3.dll # game starts VfPatcher.dll # game starts submitted by /u/Yiannis97s
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Hello all,

With the end of Windows 10 coming up, I figured now would be a good time to move their desktops over to Linux; their PCs have 7700s and do not have TPMs.

Currently with Windows 10 they are managed via group policy, our parental control app suite and firewall/hosts file changes. Their mobile devices (phone, laptop, ipad) are managed in a similar way.

Seeing as they have docks for their laptops, their is no need for the desktop to be a full fledged usable PC, so I am looking to install linux and steam and pretty much lock it down to only run Steam. Is there a distro like this? Or what would be the best way to implement this?

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Hi, and today I am looking at The Alters. It is a sci-fi game with elements of adventure, survival and base-building.

The graphics and sound design is excellent and the game runs really well. Hard to believe games are still optimised in 2025. The story is engaging and the voice acting is really good. 11 Bit once again delivers a masterclass in story telling and character development.

The game mechanics are well thought out and the time based elements enforce the urgency that the story is trying to convey and with each alter you get dragged deeper into it.

I am about 6 hours in and from what i have read the main gameplay loop takes about 30 hours, and I can say that it has been an engaging 6 hours so far. It is a great game at a great price and for that I need to commend the developers, this could have been priced higher in my opinion.

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When playing games on Steam, the game randomly freezes. Sometimes it is every few minutes, sometimes it can go an hour or two without freezing. It's unpredictable. I've noticed this on both Expedition 33 and Split Fiction. I haven't tested this on other games. If you wait a bit (20 seconds to a couple minutes) it will either unfreeze itself or crash. If you press a key to say, open the app menu and force the game window out of focus, the game will resume as if nothing happened.

Hardware specs:

GPU RTX 5080 Asus Prime

CPU: Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Motherboard: Asrock B650i Lightning Wifi (BIOS 3.25)

Power Supply: Corsair SF1000

Drives: Samsung 990 Pro 4TB, Samsung Evo Plus 2TB

Case: Fractal Era 2

Cooler: Fractal Lumen S24 V2

OS specs:

CachyOS (problem is also persistent on fresh Bazzite gnome install) KDE (KDE version 6.4.1)

Nvidia drivers 575.64-3

cachyos-gaming-meta and cachyos-gaming-applications meta packages are installed.

The weird thing is that I have two CachyOS installation: one on each drive. The one on the 2TB drive does not seem to have these issues so far (knock on wood), but the one on the 4TB drive does. The biggest difference in the two installations that I can see is that the 4TB install is newer and has KDE plasma 6.4.1 whereas the 2TB installation has KDE Plasma 6.3.x. I don't necessarily think this is a plasma issue since I experienced this same issue on Bazzite gnome. I also don't experience this on my other desktop with a Ryzen 7950X and AMD RX 7900XT running Fedora 41, so this is very likely related to some interaction between the nvidia drivers and some other aspect of the system. I could just use the 2TB drive, but I would really like to get to the bottom of what is causing this so I know how to avoid it in the future.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Finally, only about 7 months after the release, Stalker 2 actually now has the A-Life AI system hooked up properly.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

So, for a while, my SSD was acting up, and I'm pretty sure it's done for. Since I have to reinstall Windows anyway, I figured this might be a good time to just switch and be done with Windows entirely.

I've heard good things about Bazzite and Linux Mint, but I honestly have no idea how these work differently or how hard they are to use. What I’m looking for is an OS that lets me play my Steam games, run some emulators, use Epic Games, and run typical apps like Discord.

I also have some Xbox Game Pass games, but it’s not a huge deal if I can’t play those anymore.

I don’t want any bloat like Windows has, and I’d prefer something that doesn’t eat a lot of system resources. Just a clean, lightweight OS that lets me jump in and start using it without a bunch of extra junk.

Also, since I won’t have Windows Defender anymore, I’d like to know what a good alternative is for whatever OS I end up using.

Lastly, what should I look out for before installing a new OS and transferring my stuff over?

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My specs:

4060

ryzen 5 5600x

32gb ram

So if i play on 1440p ultra, i get an average of 80 fps (on windows) but on linux i get around 103 fps on average, the 1% low is around the same at 65 fps. I am missing something, i checked to see if i had the drivers installed on windows, i even reinstalled, but still the same, and even on some others game, linux is better, especially at the 1% low.

I am on cachyos, which seems to be the distro that brought me the most fps, the thing that bothers me is that, a month ago the difference wasn't so big, it has been a driver or smth on linux that improved it so fast in such short time?

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Hiya everybody,

I am just about ready to buy a new gaming PC after years of holding on to my old stuff. While I've always been a Windows user, I'm more often considering moving on. Having worked for a while on an Ubuntu laptop now, I'm quite content with what Linux OS'es have to offer. However, for a fully fledged gaming PC I need to make more considerations than just choosing Ubuntu. I plan on using my PC mainly for gaming, and also some hobby programming on the side (C++, game (engine) development, that sorta stuff). While I do have sufficient tech savvyness as a programmer, I'm moreso looking for a solution that works (more-or-less) out of the box.
 
 
I have a few questions I hope some of you could answer for me, or at least provide some insight:
 
First: The OS. I have been looking around this sub for general opinions. They mainly seem to point to three contenders: Bazzite, Nobara, and CachyOS. I've read that Bazzite's "immutability" might be a hindrance for people who wish to delve deeper into customizing their system, which I might wish to do. The other two seem fine for out-of-the-box choices, but I haven't read too much on them quite yet. DE-wise I'm not so picky, so if it can use KDE Plasma then I'm content.
 
 
Second: The GPU. The site I'm using to build my PC only lists NVidia GPU's, but looking around it seems to generally be a bad choice for Linux systems. People seem to suggest using AMD cards over NVidia cards. Is this true? Why prefer one over the other? I get the general gist, and will thus probably look for AMD cards, but I was wondering why specifically I should prefer AMD.
 
 
Third: Do you have any other tips in general? I'm planning on playing some graphically intensive games (RDR2, Oblivion Remastered, Talos Principle 2, Minecraft with Distant Horizons and shaders, etc.) mostly coming from my Steam library. I play basically no online-competitive games, so I doubt I'll run into too many anti-cheat ridden games. I also plan to do some hobby work on my PC, which mainly involved programming, and which might involve music production etc. Any tips for other things to look out for when it comes to PC components are welcome too, I only know about the GPU situation, but not about the rest.
 
 
Thanks in advance! I hope that my first step into owning a Linux PC as my main rig will go smoothly.

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I just installed this game on my linux mint after completing it on windows on the same pc. On windows it was running at 70-80 fps constantly but on linux there are too much framedrops. Very inconsistent framerates. Is anyone else experiencing such issues? (My pc has a RX 6600 and R5 7600)

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A huge update for Palworld has arrived with the Tides of Terraria crossover. It's a lot more than just adding bits of Terraria though.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

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