Hey. Sorry for all the noobish questions now, I'm new to Linux in general but very very willing to learn.

Been thinking about doing this forever, got a new NVME drive a while ago so i had to reinstall my OS and tried W11 which i absolutely hate.

Which made me think about, why not try Linux at the same time.

Decided to try out the flavor Mint since it seems to be very close looking to Windows, so it's not something that's completely unrecognizable.

My main use of my computer is mostly gaming, scrolling the web and video editing from time to time.

So i have installed Mint on a separate SSD instead of creating a partition on my main drive which i felt was easier to do, way easier to separate the OS'es.

Been setting some things up and i have to say, the overall user experience of Mint is actually amazing. For a complete beginner with this Distro, it's doing a great job at holding my hand to explain everything.

First thing i'm wondering about, i installed Steam and tried to do some gaming, but the only games i could get to run through steam was Dota and CS2, no other game even launched even though steam said it was launching the game. From a little reading, my understanding is that this happens because the drive i have these game on is a NTSF drive, and Linux doens't seem to like that filesystem if i understand it correctly, i however got Dota and CS to run so my question is, why does Valve games run fine like this, but other games don't (games i tried was Marvel Rivals, Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8 and Silent Hill 2, same issue with all games and all games are certified on Protondb). Does this mean i have to format this drive as a ext4 drive instead to be able to run the games on it? This is a drive that only contains games, games are already installed on them and i have been gaming on Windows with this.

Second thing i'm wondering about, i have some games that i have gotten from a friends GoG library, since it's DRM free i got to login to his account to download these installers to my PC. What is the easiest way to get these to work on Linux, since they're not connected to GoG galaxy, it's just folders with a .exe in it. Been looking into Wine and from what i understand, i need Wine to get this to work but exactly how?

The games here are Cyberpunk 2077 and Stalker 2.
Can i somehow install these games with the .exe files, i guess through wine somehow? and then launch them through steam with Proton or does that only work with games owned and installed directly through steam?

Third thing and this is something i really don't understand that well when it comes to Linux. GPU drivers, how do they actually work? From what i have gathered there's drivers baked into the Kernel when downloading it from the site and it's an out of the box experience but, how do i keep them updated? And how do i know i am up to date on the drivers? I have a AMD RX 7700 XT GPU.

Fourth thing, and maybe this isn't something i should ask here but, pirated games like fitgirl packs, can they work through Linux in a easy way?
Reason i am asking is because i do this sometimes to demo games basically. I don't want to spend $70 on something i'm not even sure i will like and 2 hours is not enough of time to know if i would like a game or not so i rather go this way to demo games.

Very very sorry for the noobish questions, but i really want to go away from Windows as much as possible since i absolutely don't like Windows 11 that much at all and it feels weird to go back to Windows 10 since the support for it will end anyways.

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https://www.youtube.com/live/8ZHEhVzWH4E?si=ncTGU6VzNDrKNTww

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Wine 10.4 is out now as the latest development release of the Windows compatibility layer, bringing new features and assorted bug fixes.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

After the game loads to 100%, it turns off, i tried multiple version of proton, nothing seems to work

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I visited protondb, but none of the fixes did much except going to proton 6,3-8, which allowed me to log in. I could then choose my character, but when trying to play, i get error "lettucebeard". Alternatively, if i go back to the latest proton, i get an error about a missing or corrupt file at ../../Athena/Content/Paks/Core_[some sort of hash or id or something]-Windows-Client_P47.pak, referencer : N/A, error code : P06. I also installed Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime, to no changes

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I am trying to update my Nvidia driver

Currently I have the 550 diver, but I would like to update.

If I open software properties qt the only option for 570 is "nvidia-driver-open-server". What does "server" means in this case?

I am running kubuntu 24.04.2 LTS with the kernel 6.8.0.55-generic

And a 4070 ti super

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It's seems that the reason this game doesn't work on linux because of the EA's anti-cheat.

I don't care about not being able to play online.

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Just got my 9070xt Pulse and using EndeavourOS. I dont seems to get custom fan curve working. I tried to make the fans spin by setting lower temp target. Like at 29C and the card is at 30C. But the fans dont start to spin.

Has anyone tried Lact with the 9070xt? Do i need to use lact-git perhaps?

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Anyone have a tool that can map one controller to another controller

in my case dinput with extra button trying to map them to a xinput
with multi buttons for the same xinput button

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First of all, I know I know. Why wouldn't you want to pay for game to not own it, etc. But, I see subscription more like rental. You going to return in either way at some point. Oversimplification, I know. It is not like I don't buy game that I actually want to own.

With that, what option I have that is not game streaming? So, similar to Microsoft gamepass?

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As we know, to use the full power of Gamescope,it needs to be run from a tty session in embedded mode. So me, being a fresh, full-time convert from Windows, wanted to try it out on my Fedora system (I know things like Bazzite exist, but I want my system to be as vanilla as possible). So I followed the guide here to configure a Gamescope session which can be selected from the login screen of GDM.

The drawback? Everytime I wanted to play a game, I had to logout and switch to the Gamescope Session and login with my credentials. This was somewhat tedious because everytime I had to login using my user account and since I had to log out of my usual desktop session, there seemed no way for me to run both in parallel i.e, desktop sesssion must continue in background, while I played games on the Gamescope session.

After trying different things, I came up with an approach which yeilded the following result: https://imgur.com/a/yHaXmgl

The switching between regular desktop and gamemode is done using Ctrl+Alt+F2 (for desktop mode) and Ctrl+Alt+F3 (for gamemode). Both can run in parallel if you switch to the other while the first one is still runing.

Here are the instructions to achieve the same:

1. Follow this guide to setup the Gamescope session. You may omit Step 7 if you don't want the optional functionality to select the Gamescope session from login screen.

2. Before proceeding to the next step, let's recap some info about TTY. TTYs are essentially terminal sessions which can run in parallel. You can switch between terminal sessions using the keyboard combination Ctrl+Alt+[F1-F6], where Ctrl+Alt+F1 will switch to TTY1, Ctr+Alt+F2 will switch to TTY2 and so on, upto TTY6. On GNOME (I don't know about other desktop environments, so if anyone can clarify in the comments, it will be helpful), TT1 corresponds to GDM, the login manager and TTY2 corresponds to the GNOME session itself, while TTY3-TTY6 are available for use. For the sake of an example, let's choose TTY3 as our Gamescope session target.

3. The next step is to setup autologin on TTY3. Open a terminal and execute the following command: sudo systemctl edit getty@tty3. Replace tty3 with any other tty3 which you want to use.

4. Insert the folling text where the cursor if pointed by default:

   [Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -o '-p -f -- \\u' --noclear --autologin <username> %I $TERM Restart=no

   Replace <username> with you user account's username.

5. Save the file and reboot you system (I'm pretty sure there was a way to just reload systemd, but I forgot lol).

6. Edit you .bashrc file and insert the following text at the end:

   alias gsteam="gamescope-session; chvt 2; exit"

   Here, I'm using chvt 2 since GNOME runs on TTY2. If you know for sure that your desktop environment runs on a different TTY instance, replace 2 with whatever instance number you desktop environment runs.

7. Save the file and exit.

8. Edit your .bash_profile file and insert the following text at the end:

   if [[ $(tty) == "/dev/tty3" ]]; then gsteam fi

   Here I'm using /dev/tty3. If your selected target TTY was anything else, replace tty3 with your selected target i.e, if you want to use tty5 for the Gamemode, replace /dev/tty3 with /dev/tty5.

9. Save the file and exit.

10. Log out and login again and test it out by switching to the selected TTY using the keyboard shortcut. Here, since I used TT3, I can test it by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F3, which should open Steam Gamemode. You can exit it by going into the menu and selecting Switch to Desktop, which should switch you back to your usual Desktop Environment and terminate the Steam Gamemode. To switch between the TTY sessions (including the one where your desktop environment is running, you can just use the keyboard shortcuts, and both the desktop environment and Steam Gamemode will run in parallel. Steam Gamemode will only terminate if you click Switch to Desktop in Steam.

This way, you can have things running in your usual desktop environment (maybe some downloads or perhaps discord, or maybe something else), while still being able to game on Gamemode, without having to terminate the process.

P.S: Discord voice chat running in Desktop Environment does work while you are gaming on Gamemode.

Let me know in the comments if you wanna ask something.

Cheers!

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Hi, i've been playing AC shadows and tbh it runs MUCH better on Linux than Windows. My only problem is that the ground textures seem to be broken.

It looks like tiles with black lines. It's weird and pretty immersion breaking. However, weirdly this doesn't happen on my Steamdeck. Only on my PC.

I am using Bazzite OS with a Ryzen 5800X and a Radeon 9070xt.

Does anyone knowna potential fix?

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Specifically to kind of rival or outperform my steam deck. I was going to go with bazzite and have a console-like set up. I saw someone on YouTube recommended a beelink mini PC but I’m not too familiar with that world of products.

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I use the snap version of steam to run my only game marvel rivals. Each time I open it, steam tells me to run these three commands:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

sudo apt update

sudo apt install libnvidia-gl-535:i386
I tried to do this but the last command wasn't working so I got rid of the ":i386" after words, when I reopened steam I still got the prompt and now Marvel Rivals wasn't launching. I'm guessing I might have messed up the graphics card some way but I'm clueless. Any help would be appreciated.

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I recently switched back to Linux (MX linux incase youre curious) and this time around im trying to use all open source native applications but steam is a big hangup for me; the only FOSS clients ive found are github pages that either havent been updated in years or have 12 views. Is there a mainstream FOSS alternative Steam client?

If not, is Steam really bad to keep installed? They do not seem to have any undisclosed spyware or malicious features behind the curtain and, for a gaming company, have been pretty pro-consumer. I want to use open source for everything but i dont want to go full Richard Stallman, if the closed source software isnt malicious then its fine with me.

What do I do?

Maybe I could email gaben lol

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I know about only one website for cracking games on linux its freelinuxpcgames.com ---Can I find another site like this?

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Does anyone have the Linux version of Touhou Suika Combination Game since it was taken down? I know the Windows version is on Internet Archive but I'd like to be able to play the native Linux version. I used to have the game until, when rearranging desktop icons, I accidentally drag-and-dropped my home directory into the trash (no prizes for guessing in which directory trash is stored). Please help me re-add this game to my collection if you have it!

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Context- I'm running a ryzen 7 5800xt CPU, powercolor reaper Rx 9070 GPU, 32gb ram, 1tb nvme. I've been running fedora 41 for a little longer then 2 months and I really can't complain. But I've been hearing a LOT about pop_os and I was just wondering what you guys think? I mainly play the monster hunter titles and halo mcc or sometimes the new frakpunk. And what do you guys daily drive for gaming and productivity?

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Tried setting WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY=4:0,2,4,6 for FarCry 4 and nor the ubisoft launcher or FarCry 4 had its affinity set. Did they silently remove this from proton without telling anyone? Using PROTON_LOG=1 and searching through the log gives no reference to it.

And i cant use taskset since that only ends up setting it for the ubisoft launcher and not the game exe.

Using Fedora 41 with non flatpak steam if that even matters.

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I been thinking of moving to Linux and just wanna know if gta 5 or 4 works

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