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Trying to play minecraft on fabric client

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 14:16

Trying to play minecraft on fabric client and getting the error above.

DISTRO: Kubuntu
LAUNCHER: Snap minecraft launcher
MC VERSION: 1.21.11
FABRIC VER: fabric-loader-0.18.4-1.21.11

Running minecraft out of the snap folder in the home directory and installed it through the term properly. native versions of minecraft run just find I just cant fetch anything when trying to get fabric working.

If anyone has run into a similar issue please let me know how I can fix this

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Prey 2017 doesn't launch

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 13:47

Exactly as the title says. I try to run the game from Steam, but it just doesn't start. I couldn't find anything about this issue through Google, so I'd really appreciate some help

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How to Play MInecraft Bedrock on Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 13:27

I have seen a minecraft bedrock launcher at flathub https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.mrarm.mcpelauncher, but it requires that minecraft was bought via playstore. But I bought minecraft via the minecraft website https://www.minecraft.net/en-us, is there any other launcher that can do that?

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World of Warcraft TBC (Anniversary) - Mods unable to read content packs (BigWigs, BtWQuests, etc)?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 13:25

I've been playing World of Warcraft TBC (Anniversary) since the pre-patch dropped 4 weeks ago. It's been working amazingly smooth on Bazzite, launched through Faugus. The Linux native Curse client is also surprisingly robust.

The only thing I can't seem to figure out is that some mods require "content packs", for example BigWigs requires the base addon, then BigWigs_TheBurningCrusade as well. Another example is BtWQuests as base, and "BtwQuests: The Burning Crusade".

But it seems that these addons are unable to read the content packs, they simply complain that I don't have them installed at all. The permissions are 755 on all folders and 744 on all items inside the folders.

Has anyone noticed the same issue, and hopefully found a solution to this? :)

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Something about the performance with Windows and Linux

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 13:19

This post isn't about promoting Linux and neither about disparaging Windows. No, but simply sharing the findings.

When in Linux environment, everything apparently works and opens quick and snappy. Application launch times like File Manager and Web Browser are very much instantaneous with just a button click and it snaps right away. Unlike Windows, even launching and navigating Explorer doesn't seem as snappy. It is fast, but still isn't quite as quick. Linux reminds more of back in the days of Windows XP where there is no clutter and annoyances and not a lot of complications and bloatware around.

Now here is the interesting thing (maybe)... Linux still feels just as snappy even with processor boost frequencies disabled!!! That's right, only the base clocks. That's a lot of power saved and less heat. Now that is something isn't it?

Just what's going on with Windows? Isn't it supposed get better through its upgraded iterations? Is there somewhat downgraded with its scheduler or something?

Let's keep aside the slopware/bloatware, but for the performance side of things... Something doesn't seem to be okay with Windows especially considering how fast modern processors have gotten. Even what is considered as a "modern day's slowest CPU" should be fast enough for OSes today no?. The launch times of basic programs like Explorer, Notepad, Paint, Settings app seems like they need a couple of seconds. Linux utilizes the same hardware and yet almost everything feels snappier there (Again, this is not at all about promoting Linux).

Apparently, Windows 11 requires "pre-loading" programs on start-up and memory so they will "launch quicker". Microsoft Edge web browser by default does that. The recent news indicate that they might do the same with "Explorer" too. And, Linux do not do any preloading and yet, it's quick.

Now, this may read like exaggeration, but isn't it what it is that Windows is getting downgraded by update over update? (Of course, not an OS engineer or anything like that).

Now what is just a bit surprising is that, not only for the launch times, but on AMD Ryzen (Zen 3 Mobile) 6 Core CPU with Integrated Graphics, games like Prototype runs around ~24-45 FPS on Windows 11 and... the same game runs around 60-90 FPS on Linux! That game can possibly run at a consistent 60 frames on Linux! That's just one of the examples. That is in fact a significant difference isn't it? That is not even a native Linux port. Yeah ... yeah... it depends on the hardware and drivers but still...

Now that Windows is (or has to) focus on the AI stuff, may be it isn't of the priority to certainly "fix" or improve performance on the current or coming newer iterations of Windows.

How does Windows / Linux perform on your machines? Well, unless comparing side-by-side, one may not know the difference anyway.

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GE-Proton10-31 Released

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 13:18
GE-Proton10-31 Released

Repository: GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom · Tag: GE-Proton10-31 · Commit: 83d8f9f · Released by: GloriousEggroll

HOTFIX:

  • reverted/disabled winewayland systray icon patch introduced in 10-30 (it caused a lot of breakage in multiple games, as well as breaking in gamescope session on steam deck. no bueno.)
  • fixed video playback regression introduced in 10-29 (fixes video playback in Nioh 3 and a few other games)
  • fixed Warhammer 40k Darktide crashing on opening (issue introduced in 10-29)

Fixes:

  • fixed Arknights Endfield anti-cheat triggering if wayland wasn't enabled
  • fixed Duet Night Abyss launch crash & login window not showing on new install
  • fixed Akiba's trip cutscenes + audio + voice audio (game fully works now)
  • fixed Warhammer 40k Vermintide 2 EAC failing file validation when running the game from the launcher (holy butts 6+ year old bug)
  • added protonfix for Warhammer 40k Darktide to skip the launcher -- this prevents a bug where sometimes the game would launch as an audio-only background process when run from the launcher.

This release has 4 assets:

  • GE-Proton10-31.sha512sum
  • GE-Proton10-31.tar.gz
  • Source code (zip)
  • Source code (tar.gz)

Visit the release page to download them.

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Getting Proton to work with non-steam games?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 12:45

I recently switched to Kubuntu from Windows after the AI push and I've been trying to get my games to work again. Had gotten Crosscode off of Itch.io in a bundle and I tried adding it to Steam to launch it from there but it keeps bringing me to the store page and prompting me to purchase it again when I try to launch it. Does anyone know a way around this?

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how can i force a game to run in d3d11 mode on linux?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 12:40

so i wanted to play helldivers 2 at a playable framerate, and i used a tutorial that basically told me to delete the shader cache in %AppData%, and use the --use-d3d11 launch option flag (here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9CzGVKp4zg ) and now the game doesn't work at all, it is just a black screen when i try to run it. can someone help?

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Help with recovering game save files in bottles

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 12:39

I use bottles to play persona 5 royal on fedora 43.Recently the bottle just crashed into a black screen. I decided to delete the bottle and remade a fresh bottle. The game launches but my dumbass didnt realise that unlike windows save files are associated with the previous bottle. I went into

~/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/

This path only contains my newest bottle.

I use the flatpak version of bottles with flatseal giving it full access to my drive.

Pls help I lost a good amount of progress.....

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It's driving me insane to see how fast Linux update is

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 12:38

You can do whatever you have in background while Linux is updating the system with no loss performance. Beside on Windows side, Windows Update uses too more resources and take too much time to update the system.

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Kubunutu 24.04 slow steam download and slowing down the whole Network

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 12:16

Hi all,

I have recently switched to Kubuntu and so far everything works fine, except the download speed in steam.

Here are the symptoms:
My internet connection is 1000mbit/s up and 250mbit/s down. I can confirm that doing various speedtests, the connection works fine on linux and on windows.
When I try to download a game from steam, I only get 20mbit/s at best.
The most interesting part is, that as soon as I start downloading something on steam, my whole internet becomes slow and sluggish. And not just on my PC but also on my wifes PC and on my Phone and so on. So everything becomes very slow. When I ping 8.8.8.8 during a download I get a ping of 1-2s.
As soon as I stop/pause the download, it takes a few seconds, then the internet is fine again.
I am dualbooting windows on the PC (for now) and when I go into Windows I can download stuff from steam with 800-900mbit/s and even then, the internet connection is fine, so it is a Linux related issue.

What have I tried so far to fix it:
Ofc I have searched the internet for solutions and there are a bunch out there, but so far, none have worked for me. Here is what I already tried:

Unfortunately nothing helps so far. It is a bit frustrating, since everything else that I need seems to work on Kubuntu. I managed to install some games by transferring them from my wifes PC and I can play those without any issues. Any other download on the PC also works without any issues.

I would appreciate if anybody can point me to other things to try since I am running out of options myself and I would really like to switch to linux but this is quite the dealbreaker since I do game a lot on my PC.

Any help is appreciated and thx in advance

EDIT: formatting

EDIT2: I found a "solution", if I switch to WIFI (same Router) everything works fine I can download stuff (6000-700mbit/s with wifi) from steam. So the Problem only exists with my wired connection and on steam downloads, everything else works fine and my pings are fine during downloads on steam.

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Back on Mint after having to leave.

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 09:41

In June last year I got a new PC with a newly released AMD RX 9060XT GPU. I couldn't use Mint because the Kernel was too old, I attempted to install Mint with the aim of modifying the Kernel, but I couldn't even get Mint installed.

So I had to move to Fedora KDE which had a newer Kernel version. It was fine, but it didn't feel like home the way Mint does. As soon as I heard the news that Mint ships newer Kernels with their releases now, I installed it.

A concern I had was whether I'd have screen tearing issues with my AMD GPU, thankfully I came across this post, which contains a very simple fix for that. It worked perfectly.

The only other concern I had was, if Mint /Cinnamon/X11 would negatively impact gaming performance, I'm pleased to say it absolutely hasn't, if anything I seem to be getting slightly better performance with modern 2023-2025 games on Mint (no idea why).

So, all that's left to say is, I'm so pleased to be back home on Mint.

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How would a 5060 perform on linux (Specifily a distro of SteamOS)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 09:19

I recently upgraded from steam deck gaming to a desktop, the specs are intel i5-14400F an RTX 5060 8gb, 16gb of ddr5 and I've heard about all the issues linux has with Nvida, if i had a amd gpu i wouldn't be asking this question.

I do use arch on a old thinkpad (because I couldn't install any version of SteamOS on it, and i know Steam OS is a distro of arch) so I am very familiar with the OS, but I want to play games that use an anti-cheat (Rust, VRChat, etc...) Should I dual boot then?

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Using wrong graphic card ....

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 07:25

After installing the game and loaded the game it felt laggy and set the graphic card to dgpu but when i try nvtop in termianl it still uses igpu... What should i do???

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Overwatch 2 wont open (NOBARA 43)

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 07:10

https://preview.redd.it/gq79ekg1oljg1.png?width=1106&format=png&auto=webp&s=6bedd3fd13580e882ae4a1f4ed664ac39243351f

i recently updated the game, it worked flawlessly, but after the update the game just won't open, i changed the Proton version, but nothing happens, idk if i have to change the driver, or is just an OW thing

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How do I attach RenderDoc to a proton steam game?

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 07:08

In my spare time lately I've been trying to make an animated desktop wallpaper based off a location in Expedition 33. I need a couple of the textures from this location, as I am not skilled or well-equipped enough to make them myself nor have I found them elsewhere. So, I've spent all morning trying to rip them using RenderDoc, with limited success. From various other reddit posts I've tried the following things:

- Launching Lutris with RenderDoc and then launching the game from there

- Adding the "ENABLE_VULKAN_RENDERDOC_CAPTURE=1" environment variable to both the launch of Lutris and the game

- Enabling "capture child processes" in RenderDoc (this looked like it was doing something for a second, a few processes popped up in a panel in RenderDoc but I couldn't figure out how to capture them, and pressing the capture hotkey in the game (which is f12, right) did nothing.

I have yet to see the RenderDoc overlay that should pop up in the top left trying any of these methods. I don't need to see the overlay, I hear it doesn't show sometimes, I just need to make a couple captures to get textures out of. Various system details provided below, will provide more if needed:

OS: Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon (26.04) (development branch) x86_64

Host: B550M DS3H

Kernel: Linux 6.19.0-3-generic

DE: KDE Plasma 6.5.5

WM: KWin (Wayland)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (24) @ 4.67 GHz

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 [Discrete]

RAM: enough

Cheers!

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World of Warcraft on Linux Mint

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 06:57

I got everything running using Steam as a bottle. My problem is setting up a shortcut to the game itself. Where does Linux install the game files so I can point Steam to launch the game instead of the Bnet launcher? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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problemas con Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 15. Februar 2026 - 06:26

tengo la ultimate edition en mi biblioteca de steam y el juego corre de maravilla, pero el unico problema es que en algunas zonas del juego el fondo no carga y se mantiene en un espacio ya sea en negro o uno que combine en algun fondo, ya probe cambiando algunas versiones de proton y nada

estoy usando Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon y mi pc es una blackview mp 80 con un CPU Intel N95

https://preview.redd.it/meivfmzffljg1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=39d1672dbe83a3fb376c48fb115173db1e373a31

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