Other News about gaming on Linux

Hytale arrives in Early Access in January 2026 after being revived

Gaming on Linux - 28. November 2025 - 17:52
After being cancelled by Riot Games and revived as an indie game again, Hytale is now set for an Early Access launch in January 2026.

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looking at 6800xt second hand

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 28. November 2025 - 17:50

with maintenance mode for rdna2 cards will the open source drivers be good enough to warrant the purchase of a used card in the next few years to come? I've daily Linux on my laptop but now I want to get into gaming on Linux.

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I can't launch the game on Arch Linux.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 28. November 2025 - 17:37

I recently switched to Linux, and when I tried to launch the game through Steam, I got an error: "Failed to initialize graphics. Make sure you have DirectX 11 installed, have up to date drivers for your graphics card and have not disabled 3D acceleration in display settings. InitializeEngineGraphics failed". How can I fix it? I have a laptop with an Intel Core i5-4300U processor.

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Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault has another patch for Steam Deck and to improve performance for all

Gaming on Linux - 28. November 2025 - 17:32
Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault from Digital Sun and 11 bit studios should run a whole lot smoother for everyone now, and feel better on Valve's Steam Deck.

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In need some distro suggestion and advice

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 28. November 2025 - 17:06

As Windows 11 23H2 approaches end of life I see myself forced to finally move on to Linux.

I've been a linux user for the past 7-8 years already, as I'm a software developer, but never used it in my gaming PC.

I have a Nvidia RTX 3080 and as far as I know, this can be a pain in the ass

So I ask for advice on which linux distros to take a look. I have heard good things about CachyOS, Nobara and Bazzite but I'm just starting looking at it.

Any advice?

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does tarkov pve work?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 28. November 2025 - 16:58

has anyone tried running pve mode and got it working? or the AC blocks that aswell?

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MangoHud performance overlay for Linux v0.8.2 released

Gaming on Linux - 28. November 2025 - 16:10
The excellent and incredibly useful Linux performance overlay MangoHud has released version 0.8.2 after being in testing for a few weeks with new features.

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Is there any hope for MCPELauncher to work again on Linux?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 28. November 2025 - 15:56

Hey guys, do you think it will be possible to play on realms and servers again that enforce the latest version of Minecraft Bedrock Edition with the MCPELauncher?

The only ways to play on realms currently, as far as I know, is to use a Windows VM, Waydroid or scrcpy to cast your phone's screen to your PC. Scrcpy works best for me but is not optimal and complicated to set it up every time and it has some delay.

On a Windows VM I got a really bad performance. Waydroid works too but just with approximately 15 FPS.

I got a NVIDIA GeForce GTX1060 with RPM non-free graphics drivers on Fedora Workstation 43 with an Intel i7-7700 with 8 Cores and 16 GB RAM.

So back to my question:
Do you think it will be possible again to play the latest version of Minecraft Bedrock Edition with MCPELauncher? Or do you got other ways to play it?

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MInecraft shader performance monstrously worse than on windows.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 28. November 2025 - 15:36

I used to get ~100 fps consistently on windows with shaders on medium settings, but on ubuntu I'm getting at most 50, with 45 as the average. I thought game performance was supposed to be better than windows

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Can you guys help me out with Minecraft Splitscreen?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 28. November 2025 - 15:29

Today I saw this post to see if the commands would solve my problem, but sadly not really, I even tried this but it also doesn't work, like not at all, can't even launch it because it can't find the .sh file and when I add the .sh file manually, it still won't work even with permission.

So if one of you guys know how to play minecraft splitscreen (preferably latest non-snapshot release) on arch, kde and wayland and also being able to add it to steam, please help me out.

I want to primarily use it for streaming to my TV using Apollo and recently I also saw this update for controlify for splitscreen support, but apparently it only works in windows and X11, but it's still work in progress.

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Should I switch to Linux on my ASUS VIVOBOOK PRO 15 M3500Q for gaming only?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 28. November 2025 - 14:33

I am getting the ASUS VIVOBOOK PRO 15 M3500Q as a handmeover from my brother. I have been hearing a lot about how windows is horrible for gaming. But I have no idea about linux either. So is it gonna make the laptop better for gaming if I switch to linux? If so, then which OS and why.

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Looking for a consistent MacOS look distro with latest Nvidia drivers.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 28. November 2025 - 13:56

Hello everyone,

I guess this might be considered as yet another "what distro should i choose" thread but hear me out.

I ran a few distros before and ended up with endeavourOS for 6+ months. Unfortunately on two seperate occasions after an update the operating system committed seppuku and died on me.
The first time i restored it via a live image but the second time i just gave up on it.
I was using BTRFS which made it more complicated than it should have for me.

Overall i liked my Linux experience but i cannot get over how anemic everything looked.
I was running KDE Plasma at the time and while it looked nice it felt a bit too flat for my liking.
It's hard to explain.
But what really bugged me is that while the desktop experience seems rather consistent the applications themselves do not.

So many times i ran a program only to see it pop up with a hideous interface clearly not made to look harmoneus with the rest of the desktop UI.
I never really was sure what version to install for a program, what does this QT6/5 etc. mean for the user ?

I since bought a Mac Mini that i use as a mini pc for work and study and really like the look of the OS itself (yes, even with the most recent TAHOE version.)
I would love to find a DE that replicates that look and feel.

But it should be in combination with a distro that is perhaps not a rolling release like endeavourOS but at least a perfectly up to date one concerning gaming and drivers, specifically for Nvidia.

Any names or suggestions ?

Thanks !

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Can I install the "SteamOS gamemode" on cachy os?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 28. November 2025 - 13:48

I recently jumped back to linux with cachyos, and the experience has never been this flawless... evrything works so good out of the box... I love it.

I also have bazzite on another drive just to test it, but I really would like to bring the "return to gamemode" feature to my cachy os installation.

Is there any script/way to install it on my system without relying to pre-made iso like bazzite or cachyos-handheld edition?

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Steam not adding my 4TB Hard drive to storage (NOT FLAK)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 28. November 2025 - 13:40

When i first installed steam, i had that issue with not connecting to X, after installing Nvidia drivers steam launches just fine. HOWEVER i bought this 4TB external Hard drive to put the games in it, but steam can't write on it bc it doesnt have the permission. After a while i figured how to lauch Steam with "sudo -E steam", but when i launch steam with sudo command, IT DOES NOT CONNECT TO X AGAIN. I'm running ArchLinux with Sway (yes i understand that sway is not recommend for Nvidia)

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Save on 2K games like XCOM, Risk of Rain Returns and Rollerdrome in a new Green Man Gaming bundle

Gaming on Linux - 28. November 2025 - 12:32
Another interesting bundle of games here for you that you may want to pick up with some really nice stuff from Green Man Gaming.

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