Hey, Sort of new to linux, so sorry if this is a stupid or already well discussed question, but, security concerns aside, would it be possible to implement support into the linux kernel?

additionally, if it WAS possible/feasible to implement, what effects could it have on the linux gaming space in general? would we see more developers openly accept linux as a platform, or would they still be too stuck in their ways to change?

if not possible, what's so different about the Linux kernel?

thanks to everyone who answers, and again sorry if this is a stupid question.

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So building a new PC for gaming.

I have two nvme coming soon.

A pcie gen 4 500g and a pcie gen 3 1T.

How should I setup the drives? Should I install in raid 0? Should I put the OS on gen 4 or 3? How about / vs /home? Should I pool the drives but that or raid 0 would lower the speed to gen 3 I think. What is the optimal way to set things? Where would my Minecraft install go ( for my son )? Where should steam point to?

File system will have to be ext4 because the distro will be Endless OS ( it’s a gaming system for the kids )

Thanks!!

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Me and my friend finally decided we had enough of windows 11 and it’s bullshit and plan to switch to Linux when windows 10 loses support. I’m doing the research for both of our builds (I’ll update the post with specs later)

For distros I’m considering between Mint, Pop!_os, and Endevour

I know most of my library is Linux friendly, Here are the things I want to make compatible with my build at least:

Bluetooth (I know they probably all do but with the problems of had with win 11 I want to be sure)

VR compatibility

Quest 2+air link compatibility

Modding compatibility specifically for Fallout, Cyberpunk, Doom 2, and red dead. Preferably be able to use vortex

Some YouTube downloader

The apps for tuning and customizing my keyboard and mouse like razer synapse, Logitech, and Corsair

I’m not entirely sure where to start looking for that or other necessary stuff for a Linux build

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I'm running Spiritfarer using Wine. The DS4 controller is connected, but only the touchpad works (for moving the cursor)

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After upgrading from 550 to the 560 drivers, the laptop fans runs more often and harder during idle. Any explanation for this and any way to adjust it?

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Has anyone come across a DP 2.1 UHBR13.5 to HDMI 2.1 adapter in the wild? This would be great for Linux users, since we could push high resolutions/refresh rates over HDMI without needing Display Stream Compression (DSC). VRR support would be a bonus, but not essential.

Google searches have been useless as usual nowadays – mostly turning up older DP 1.4 adapters or unrelated products.

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As we know, EA dropped linux support for apex. Yes, fuck them, but i see this as opportunity to show (even if you never played the game) by write review about it. It is harder to make statement and begging for support for games that was never supported, but here is opportunity to show people how many of us are playing games on this os. And we are not irrelevant. We have 300k users here, this would be massive impact for all games seeing that in stats of any game.

Tldr - write review on steam about linux ban in apex legends to show how many of us are here.

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So first, I played my Steam games on Linux Mint. My controller simply just worked flawlessly on my games.

But then I changed my distro to Zorin OS coz I like the visual of it. The Steam itself could detect my controller, but when I launched my games my controller wasn't doing anything.

What's missing? What I should fix?

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Trying to troubleshoot an odd issue... I have NFS Heat and it runs perfectly after I install the game, using Proton Experimental, and can be closed and started again, so long as I don't log off the user profile or shut down my system.

Once I do that, the launch sequence is different, with a small black box appearing momentarily after vulkan shaders step, and then it doesn't launch and goes back to offering me the "Play" button.

I figure this might have to do with the EA app launcher, but that seems to be alright, since it is keeping me logged in, even when I am uninstalling and reinstalling the game. I got the EA app running in bottles and it recognized two versions running and worked only after I closed the manual version in bottles.

I'm hoping that if I can figure out why it runs reliably after a fresh install I can find a shortcut to downloading 30gb+ by deleting a folder or files. I tried all of the tricks on the protondb site that people have with launching but nothing changed the situation. I've also tried running 8, 7, and 5, but no change.

Any ideas?

Running 22.04.05 and can provide more technical details if necessary.

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I dont know anything about this, i just restarted my steam deck and its not booting anymore, is my steam deck done for😭😭 pls helppp meee.

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I was an on and off Apex Legends player up until they removed support. I get that there are plenty of games that don't need kernel level anticheat, but I do enjoy playing competitive shooters. I'm wondering what the easiest path is to enable that

Currently I have a Linux box with a fairly beefy GPU that I really only use for gaming. I'd like to be able to run games without having to restart my machine. I'm thinking that maybe I should get a second, wimpy GPU and boot linux into that, and then play all of my games in a VM with VFIO passthrough on my existing GPU

Is this a reasonable strategy? Do anticheat engines accept VMs?

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As fractional scaling under XWayland in GNOME43.9 (zorin17 based on ub22.04), on my 14’’ 1080p laptop works really bad, I could just embrace the deblurred 100% scaling X11 apps, but not blurry 125% stuffs. Is there a way to just disable scaling for XWayland, or use some randr tricks to force it run under 1080p?

Or should I just move to ub24.10 for GNOME47? But it may be a lot time for re-producing the current setup.

Thanks a lot.

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hello.. recently my computer desk crashed and i can`t use it by now, then i back to old laptop, but that lap can be formated to linux sistem.. thne i am testing if someprograms can work with that by now... Then i tested second life version for linyx, but not can`t installed.. I was reading that not many version and need some libraries 32 bits ( my version is 64)... i use manjaro

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Whenever I try to run big head mode, it is super laggy as if I'm using a potato pc! I enabled both hardware acceleration and disabled GPU block, both options seem to do absolutely nothing! What is going on?! Is this a a wayland issue?! Any help is appreciated.

Specs:

Distro: Fedora 41 (Gnome)

GPU: Nvidia RTX 3060ti

CPU: Intel i5 11400F

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About a month or so ago I jumped ships to try and get a good grasp of linux while avoiding windows with my best efforts. Before jumping ships I had a double boot with pop os so I could play games on windows and all the other stuff on linux.

Now that I am only on pop os (I really don't want to go back to windows hell). I am finding a lot of trouble in regards to gaming. I can boot every game I want (currently been trying to play dayz and csgo) but I always find a problem that I can't ignore: mouse stuttering.

It is horrendous, I can be having the greatest frame rate (120-200 fps) and suddenly when moving my camera there are lapses of time when my whole game stutters tremendously. I am relatively new here so I don't know how to troubleshoot this problem but it is really making me go nuts.

The problem is happening with a wireless mouse (GLab Kult Xenon) and on my laptop with the following specs:

OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS x86_64
Host: 82K2 IdeaPad Gaming 3 15ACH6
Kernel: 6.9.3-76060903-generic
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics (12) @ 4.280GHz
GPU: AMD ATI 05:00.0 Cezanne
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile

All help is appreciated! Thank you very much for reading me

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So I've being toying with VR and linux and so far ALVR and Wivrn with envision to set it up have given me a really good experience. Especially Wivrn for games like SkyrimVr, Lethal company and beatsaber.

I just wanted to let people that might not think is posible know that as of today the process of setting VR with quest on linux is much simpler than before. For both ALVR and Envision/Wivrn I used the appimages they provide. (ALVR has a launcher now that makes life really easy)

I'm very new to all of this so I might get things wrong but fo future reference I also wanted to give a few tips that I learned along the way.

First I only use an USB cable because I don't mind it and prefer the visual clarity and stability it provides.

Setting in both software H.264 with 500mb/s and a resolution of 4288 and 72Hz works really good for 99% of the games I tested on and 6700xt and a 7600x (Remember to use the Virtual Reality Power profile using something like coreCtrl)

For Alvr setting Maximum buffering to 1 frame and prediction to 1.75 helped in my case for the perceived latency specially the controller tracking. Note that as far as I know lowering this settings that much for a non wired connection might be a bad experience but I think that just changing prediction to 2 frames should work really well on tracking the controllers.

For Envision/Wivrn I was a bit confused on how the encoder works given that you could use multiples encoders at the same time. On the Linux VR Adventures Discord they kindly explained to me how it worked and I hope I got it right. The thing is that although they provide two presets by default that you can use It's possible to select it manually and select one or many encoders. Using multiple encoders reduce total latency. In my case just for testing I used a single H.264 encoder with the same 500mb/s and it feels really good especially for beatsaber.

A few notes that Wivrn uses OpenXR and can give a little boost in performance and as on my experience is more stable. On the other hand there is a few games that refuses to work or have controller issues like HLAlyx or Xplane11.

Last thing I wanted to mention is that in the case of xplane11 steamvr version 2.8.6 broke it and crash upon start that I could solve just by selecting the previous version of steamVr in the beta branchs. And that If using ALVR after using Wivrn SteamVR will show a popup saying something like Openxr is not set, just click in the option to add it and it works again.

Sorry for the long post but I'm really exited that this solutions are evolving as fast as they are and that I can enjoy VR on linux.

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Had been using this for a long time installed as a Flatpak from Flathub... went to update something today and it just won't open at all. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling, no change. When run from the terminal it shows this and just hangs until CTRL-C

acejavelin@BlazingIcicle:~> flatpak run net.davidotek.pupgui2
bwrap: Can't get type of source /.gvfs: Permission denied

I am guessing this is a permissions error, but gvfs is Gnome's userspace virtual filesystem and I am using KDE Plasma... This worked fine before ( a month or two ago I guess) but I am guessing this had something to do with Flatpak update complaining about old, deprecated flatpak Gnome and KDE dependencies and removing them because they don't show up in my Flatpak list anymore.

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Everytime i launch it it starts loading and then starts lagging and goes to the white screen. My gpu is embarrassing i have the gtx 650 ti

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