I finally acquired an original Lenovo Legion Go and of course I had to put Linux on it and get rid of Windows, so I finally got to see the fuss over Bazzite.

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Hey everyone, I’m having a hard time trying to install The Sims 4 on my Linux PC. ​I’ve already tried using Lutris and Bottles to get the EA App running, but no luck. I also tried Heroic and even Steam (Proton), but I just can't make it work. It either doesn't open or crashes. ​Does anyone know a way to actually make it run? I'm on Linux Mint btw

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I've tried looking for an answer to this on the forums, but keep coming across people who want to dual boot from one drive or some other unrelated goal, so I'm making a new thread and hoping someone can help. I appreciate your time in advance.

In addition to a NAS I have running with multiple 28TB HDDs (mostly for archiving, full-res video edit backups, books, movies, etc.), my main computer itself is currently running 2 4TB M.2 nVME drives. I'm adding a 3rd one today, but before I begin partitioning I want to be sure I'm setting everything up right. It will be used for storing Blender docs and Steam games.

Essentially, I want to know if I'm safe to just format the whole drive as NTFS and make one massive partition, or if I should make a Windows partition with half of the available space, and a separate partition on Linux for the other half.

Basically, I just don't want to overthink something that could be simple, but also don't want to assume it's simpler than I anticipate and end up risking corruption of files. Thank you so much for your help.

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Intel have done their CES 2026 presentation and if you're going to be in the market for CPU and GPU power together, they might have something for you.

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Hi everyone,

With the upcoming EOL of Windows 10 and the privacy/bloatware concerns surrounding Windows 11, it feels like more people are seriously considering the switch to Linux.

However, we know that the biggest barrier remains Kernel-level anti-cheat (like Vanguard, EA Anti-Cheat, Ricochet, etc.) which completely blocks Linux users.

My question is: Has anyone seen data or trends suggesting that these games are actually losing a noticeable number of players because users are prioritizing their OS choice (Linux) over the game? Or is the migration still too small to make a dent in the player base of giants like LoL, Valorant, or COD?

Personally, I'm curious if developers will ever see the "Linux refusal" as a metric worth worrying about, or if they think that we are just expected to dual-boot forever.

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I’ve been running KDE Fedora for about 2 years now, I keep it up to date and I’m on 43. I started with an Nvidia RTX 4090…it worked fine for the most part but every time I do sudo dnf update I say a pray. A couple times things went really bad and I had to reload the rpm Nvidia driver. I decided to buy an AMD 9070xt over Christmas. I cannot believe the difference, from install to my games just flat out running better/looking better. Anyone who is on the fence and loves Linux, go with AMD.

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So I've been trying to make the change to Nobara, after using Bazzite for my TV PC (rip my rams) on my main PC and I have some things that I need cleared since the research that I've done has not really made the deciding factor for me yet. So I figured I would ask myself.

- I have an Steelseries Arctis 7+ Wireless headphone which I had to adjust the EQ from its software Steelseries GG which I found to be not working on Linux. ( I do not use chatmix ) Would it be feasible and relatively easy for me to use the EasyEffects with it or as of now does the Steelseries GG works out of the box?

- From what I gather the digitally maintained 7.1 surround system they do on Windows does not work with Linux, which I'm happy to find a work around since I found a github repo for it, but what are the main solutions, if there are any, for this problem? And would they work with my headphones?

- I hear that logitechs shitty GHUB don't work on Linux either, I hear there is some software out there that allows you to rebind your mouse as an alternative. Since I use specific mouse binds and occasionally macros how comfortable is it would be for my G502X?

- And lastly, which this is going to be a bit specific, does Seamless Coop for Elden Ring and Convergence ER work? I understand that there would be a couple hoops to jump through in order to get it to work but all the posts I find are 4 years old. Perhaps many of the issues were fixed?

I just had a couple of questions before making the commitment on my main machine since I use it not only to game and stream but also code since after the backups it would be a full wipe. Thank you in advance and since I'm a software engineer and used many other Linux distros before, please don't refrain from getting technical. I'm not bothered by rgb since openRGB exists.

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Hey there! I want to play BloodStrike on Linux. I know that I can just download the steam version but because that I was playing BloodStrike MENA "the Middle East Version" I wanted to play with my MENA account and I couldn't on Steam version because it's global. But I figured out that I can play with it on MENA version using an exe but for MENA version. That was on Windows.

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I reverse engineered the protocol used by the Windows configuration utility for this mouse, and have made decent headway into recreating something similar for Linux. I hope this is useful to someone.

UTechSmart Venus Pro Linux Config Utility

It allows the rebinding of the side buttons, the fire button, RGB configuration, DPI, USB polling rate, and has basic macro support. Configuration is written to the mouse and persists even if used on another device. Just make sure the mouse is plugged in to USB to make changes to it, it won't work wireless, though you can use wireless after changes are applied.

https://github.com/Es00bac/UtechSmart-Venus-Pro-Linux-MMO-Mouse-Utility

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I am thinking about upgrading my Gpu, what should i chose when i switch to linux?

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I just downloaded Linux and dont know anything its easier than i thought but still have some bumps

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Linux gaming is great, I am on omarchy archlinux and I've been having a blast, most of the games are working due to proton layer but I just can't shrug it off when I think about Apex, league of legeds, valorant or other BS games on the market.

Apex especially removed support due to "cheaters" and now they have more hackers than ever, can't believe they're thinking this is good business.

Well, EA being EA

Even Diablo 4 is working like a dream, how can blizzard do it and they cannot.

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About me, and what I did:

I am illiterate on anything with PCs outside Windows (been using XP, 8, and 10 for 20 years, and my tech literacy level on it is just enough to game and send emails)

I then did a "leap of faith" after seeing Windows AI enshittification, and after being reassured by at least three people that Linux Mint is good for gaming, and downloaded and installed Mint on my second-hand workstation PC (therefore I barely know the insides of it). Therefore, what we're working with is basically a fresh Linux Mint Cinnamon install.

After I successfully Steam with Proton, got Schedule 1 and Arma 3 "running" at 2 frames per second, Arma 2 not able to start due to DirectX issues

Starting off, I just want to play Arma 3 on Steam. I'll return if problems persist on other games.

I was able to play everything on my Steam library back when my PC ran on Windows 10.

Specs (of that I know):

- GPU: NVIDIA P1000

- CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700

- OS: Linux Mint Cinnamon

One thing I know I do not know is if my PC has an up-to-date graphics driver, and the huge wall of command lines and to-do-lists of what to download confuse me. What should I do regarding that?

If you advise that I am too nooby for Mint, should I take one friend's advice and switch to pop_os, and then try to start anew there? And/or, should I just revert back to windows 10, which I've overwritten (which means basically sending my PC to a shop and getting them to install it for me, throwing in the towel with DIY PC UI work)?

EDIT 0: I am running Proton 10.0-3 on Steam for the games.

EDIT 1: I typed lshw in the command prompt terminal and got the now updated info for the CPU.

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I switched to Linux on my main PC recently. Not sure how Microsoft managed to make Windows 11 worse than 10, but here we are.

I wanted to switch for some time but I had some online games that I was not sure if they work or not.

Hell Let Loose was one of them and I'm happy to report that it works great with my specs in 1080p: Ryzen 5 3500x (6 cores/6 threads), 16 GB RAM, Intel Arc 750 8GB.

Fps: 70-85. No stutter like I got sometimes on Windows.

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Hi everyone, I wanted to know if anyone had tested various wireless peripherals on SteamOS, such as keyboards and mouse. My dilemma was system compatibility, since I wanted an RGB keyboard and mouse with 2.4 GHz USB for data transmission (no Bluetooth). I'd like to know if you have any wireless RGB keyboards (preferably all-black) or mouse you'd recommend. Thanks in advance.

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Keeps closing on launch, i believe this is a global issue but im unsure, if anyone knows the reason why or a fix that would help a lot.

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So, it's the third Linux distro I try. The first one was Nobara, then Bazzite, now Cachy OS.

In all of them the audio comes desynchronized with a huge delay in respect to the video. It isn't a hardware problem because everything works fine in Windows, so what could it be? The Nvidia drivers?

But if they are, why I'm not seeing people talking about it? I'm starting to think that this problem affects every single Linux distribution.

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Hi,

Sober does not open on my system.
When I click the icon or run it from the terminal, it prints some logs and then exits. No window appears.

System info:

• Distro: CachyOS Linux
• Desktop: GNOME (Wayland)
• CPU: Intel i7-3770
• GPU: Intel (integrated)

Logs from launch are attached below:

sober: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by sober) /proc/self/exe: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /proc/self/exe) info: app: lifecycle: app_start delta=4.299997817724943e-05ms info: app: using C.UTF-8 locale info: app: lifecycle: logging_started delta=144.93219400002272ms info: app: app tag: s085-1964-x86_64-gnu info: app: cpu model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz info: app: os release: CachyOS Linux info: app: desktop: GNOME (on wayland) info: app: lifecycle: update_flags_from_remote_manifest delta=0.26718999998411164ms info: state: using manifest object: {"app_settings":{"FFlagRenderUseTextureManager224":false},"r1":1,"u":1} info: app: lifecycle: runtime_handler delta=61.05872500000987ms info: app: lifecycle: fs_init delta=0.04735700000310317ms info: app: lifecycle: check_security delta=979.8861789999937ms info: app$json: {"product_name":"To be filled by O.E.M.","product_version":"To be filled by O.E.M.","type":"device_product_info"} info: app: lifecycle: core_runtime delta=0.13117899998906069ms info: app: lifecycle: app_core delta=622.4317530000117ms info: app: lifecycle: sdl_init delta=2240.312130999984ms info: app: trying video backend preference: wayland,x11 info: app: using video backend: wayland info: app: trying audio subsystem pulseaudio info: app: using audio subsystem pulseaudio info: app: lifecycle: global_window_init delta=218.49642599999788ms info: app: lifecycle: gamemode_init delta=257.85066100000404ms info: app: lifecycle: interface_init delta=2.1065640000160784ms debug: JNIMain: TelemetryProtocol::setProcessTimeOverride: 4827 info: rbx.JNIRobloxSettings: Setting default app policy file: content/guac/defaultConfigs/GuacDefaultPolicy-GlobalDist.json info: state: Applying remote app settings override: FFlagRenderUseTextureManager224=false info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.629Z,2.629082,46c91080,6 [FLog::AndroidGLView] nativeInitClientSettings info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.670Z,2.670724,46c91080,6 [FLog::AndroidGLView] nativePostClientSettingsLoadedInitialization3 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.671Z,2.671043,46c91080,6 [FLog::ClientRunInfo] RobloxGitHash: d66b28fdd95c457d1ed983fd2ab357bca70fcd6f info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.671Z,2.671137,46c91080,6 [FLog::ClientRunInfo] The base url is https://www.roblox.com/ info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.671Z,2.671201,46c91080,6 [FLog::ClientRunInfo] The channel is production info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.671Z,2.671633,e740e6c0,6,Info [DFLog::FlagCache] [FlagCache] writeSettingsCache: Writing flags to : /home/rdcws/.var/app/org.vinegarhq.Sober/cache/sober/cache/flag_cache.dat info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672102,e740e6c0,6,Info [DFLog::FlagCache] [FlagCache] writeSettingsCache: Successfully wrote 961570 bytes to file: /home/rdcws/.var/app/org.vinegarhq.Sober/cache/sober/cache/flag_cache.dat, time: 0.47540600000006705ms info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672258,e740e6c0,6,Info [FLog::TombstoneCache] [FlagCache] Tombstone -1 read from file: /home/rdcws/.var/app/org.vinegarhq.Sober/cache/sober/cache/tombstone.dat info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672296,46c91080,6,Critical [DFLog::Mimalloc] Mimalloc integration detected, settings: info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672354,46c91080,6,Critical [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_show_errors=1 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672409,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_show_stats=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672446,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_verbose=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672426,e740e6c0,6,Error [FLog::TombstoneCache] [FlagCache] Tombstone in holdout experiment state. Writing -1 instead of 1 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672473,46c91080,6,Critical [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_eager_commit=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672488,e740e6c0,6,Info [FLog::TombstoneCache] [FlagCache] Tombstone 1 written to file: /home/rdcws/.var/app/org.vinegarhq.Sober/cache/sober/cache/tombstone.dat info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672510,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_arena_eager_commit=2 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672549,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_purge_decommits=1 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672583,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_allow_large_os_pages=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672615,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_reserve_huge_os_pages=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672648,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_reserve_huge_os_pages_at=-1 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672679,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_reserve_os_memory=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672710,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_deprecated_segment_cache=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672743,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_deprecated_page_reset=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672784,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_abandoned_page_purge=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672816,46c91080,6,Critical [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_purge_delay=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672846,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_deprecated_segment_reset=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672877,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_eager_commit_delay=1 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672907,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_use_numa_nodes=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672936,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_disallow_os_alloc=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672967,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_os_tag=100 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.672Z,2.672997,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_max_errors=32 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673042,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_max_warnings=32 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673088,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_deprecated_max_segment_reclaim=10 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673134,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_destroy_on_exit=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673177,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_arena_reserve=1048576 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673222,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_arena_purge_mult=1 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673265,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_deprecated_purge_extend_delay=1 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673318,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_disallow_arena_alloc=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673362,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_retry_on_oom=400 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673406,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_visit_abandoned=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673450,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_guarded_min=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673495,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_guarded_max=1073741824 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673525,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_guarded_precise=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673555,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_guarded_sample_rate=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673584,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_guarded_sample_seed=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673614,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_page_reclaim_on_free=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673644,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_page_full_retain=2 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673674,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_page_max_candidates=4 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673703,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_max_vabits=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673733,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_pagemap_commit=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673762,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_page_commit_on_demand=0 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673802,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_page_max_reclaim=-1 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.673Z,2.673835,46c91080,6,Info [DFLog::Mimalloc] mi_option_page_cross_thread_max_reclaim=32 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.674Z,2.674936,46c91080,6,Info [FLog::AppMemUsageStatus] 923286370 info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.675Z,2.675188,e3e1f6c0,6,Critical [DFLog::RbxStorage] RbxStorage::init [INIT] user: flagLoaded, availableDiskSpace: 413456822272 bytes, elapsed: 0.017 ms info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.676Z,2.676000,46c91080,6,Warning [FLog::IxpStorageManager] Failed to open cache file for reading info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.676Z,2.676085,46c91080,6,Info [FLog::TombstoneCache] [FlagCache] Setting holdout experiment state to: true info: Roblox: 2026-01-05T19:51:59.676Z,2.676117,46c91080,6,Warning [FLog::LocalStorageHandler] Not available on the current platform. info: device_params_impls$json: {"device_memory_class_mib":4096,"device_memory_mib":14926,"is_low_ram_device":false,"type":"memory_params"} info: rbx.AppBridgeV2: nativeAppBridgeAppStart_original: debug: rbx.AppBridgeV2: nativeAppBridgeV2Init:

Any help would be appreciated

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