Last year Apex decided to block Linux players from playing the game and unfortunately they saw a big decrease in the amount of cheaters.

https://esports.gg/news/apex-legends/respawn-reveal-linux-ban-reduced-number-of-apex-cheaters-by-33/

I think we can assume that Linux gamers are not more likely to cheat but people were using the openness of our platform to more easily cheat. This made me think, would creating a Native Linux version of the game rather than using the Proton translation layer to play, create the same amount of cheating? I don't have the necessary technical background to understand if that would create a difference, if any, in the amount of cheaters. What do you think would be the implications of such a change in the Linux gaming scene? Would it create any difference?

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I need help with install it and make it work. I tried bottles and faugus but didnt work. I think is because of my lack of knlowledge. Anyone?

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Was thinking about new Stream machine having only 8Gb of VRAM, googled up about how Steam Deck handles memory for APU, and suddenly realized Valve has theirs own memory management layer in SteamOS.

Whole graphical subsystem uses Vulkan plus Mesa3D and it should be absolutely possible using DMA Buffer zero copy to allocate some system RAM for GPU to use as VRAM in addition to dedicated VRAM. I have a strong feeling Valve did something like this on this new Steam machine, coupled with some smart management like leaving frequently used data in fast VRAM while moving rarely accessed data to RAM buffer allocated for VRAM data.

If that's the case then Steam machine might have absolutely zero issues running games which require up to 12, maybe even up to 16GB of VRAM as SteamOS on its own uses only around 1.5GB of RAM and the rest is available for user. Does anyone have any information on it, is it a plausible assumption?

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Lasciate ogne speranza voi ch’intrate

There's a rather baffling trend I've noticed in the wide world of normie tech YouTubers benchmarking and promoting Fedora derivatives like Bazzite and Nobara as of late. That kinda honks my chuff because I'm over here wondering "what, is Linux Mint not good enough for ya?" There's also something rather unnerving and crap about how Fedora is now being touted as a better base for home users than any given Ubuntu clone. Now, I doubt anyone reading this would be so unhinged as to take my word as gospel and begin admonishing the Bazzite and Nobara teams with jeremiad rants inspired by my gripes. Just to cover my bases, however, I do think Bazzite and Nobara (among others I might not be aware of) are perfectly fine projects that serve valuable roles to people whose needs align with said projects. It just so happens that my priorities, tendencies, and values are out-of-sync with what Bazzite and Nobara have to offer. Allow me to explain in less ludicrous English.

First and foremost: if Distro A exists and Distro B is basically "Distro A but with added conveniences," I generally err on the side of running Distro A directly.

• The only exceptions are derivative projects with a vastly different scope to the original. Debian -> Ubuntu -> Linux Mint or Arch -> Artix are prime examples of this in action.
• I fucking hate communities that exist exclusively on Reddit or Discord, which is the sordid state of affairs for most derivative projects (incl. Nobara).
• There ain't no Fedora forums running vBulletin, IP.Board, or XenForo anymore, but at least there are official channels to seek public-facing help (thank you Fedora home page on Firefox).

Secondly, and this is perhaps the most important thing I wanna stress here, Bazzite and Nobara have a hyper-specific focus on gaming, with multimedia and general usability being an ancillary concern.

• Believe it or not, people use their computers for more than just vidya.
• I have dual monitors, a USB Blu-ray/DVD-RW drive, and an assload of anime and movies I bought IRL over the years.
• I also have a huge trove of TV shows, movies, music, e-books, and comics in digital form that I've accumulated over time.
• Sometimes, I do need to fire up a word processor or print something for personal business (i.e. benefit forms at my job, stuff I need to get notarised, etc)
• Bazzite is built off Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite, which is great if you want something closer to a Steam Deck, but sucks if you're not trying to pigeonhole your PC into LARPing like a vidya console.
• Nobara isn't as narrowly focused on gaming, but there are tons of compile-time tweaks and patches made for obscure use cases that might not even apply to my hardware. If they do apply to my hardware, I'm 90% sure that it's negligible.
  • Side note: I'll only know once I set up a different portable drive and actually bother to test Nobara, but that would involve benchmarks and FPS tests that I presently lack the drive, let alone the motivation to properly test on both Fedora and Nobara.

MY VENOM IS NEUROTOXIC, NOT HAEMOTOXIC

"Atomic," "immutable," they all mean the same thing: normies stay out

I'd also like to veer off on a little personal tangent against "atomic" Fedora desktops, and the idea of a "gaming" distro built off Fedora more broadly. Conceptually, I think Fedora's "atomic" desktops are great. In all practical terms? They (and all derivatives, including Bazzite) are abject rubbish. SteamOS is the only "atomic" OS that's worth using, and it's hamstrung by the fact that it's not yet publicly available for all x86_64 computers. Why do I have such venom and vitriol for "atomic" Fedora spins? There are four huge problems that greatly hinder its usability (package management with rpm-ostree in lieu of dnf in particular):

1. Flatpaks are meant to be your sole channel for desktop software. Technically, you have Distrobox too, but it's much fiddlier than installing a Flatpak.
2. You're only supposed to layer local software packages through rpm-ostree for base system updates. You're not supposed to layer third-party software with rpm-ostree.
3. Unfortunately, tons of software on Linux don't have Flatpaks and can only be installed by layering it with rpm-ostree.
4. If you have a new Fedora release you wanna migrate to, tough tits. You need to reset the packages you layered before upgrading (all the more troublesome on an X+2 support cycle where no given release is supported for more than a year, and new releases come out every 6 months).

Now, technically, there is a workaround where you can make a custom image and host it on GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Codeberg etc. After you make the update/upgrade, you can then rebase your system to that custom image so your layered packages don't go bye-bye. There's just one massive problem with this approach: normies ain't tryna speedrun amateur distro maintainer any%. The "atomic" approach that Fedora offers is far better suited for large-scale enterprise deployments than single-user home/semi-professional deployments. If I have to resort to using git to assist with basic OS maintenance, there's something fundamentally fucking wrong with the picture here.

I MAY HAVE OVERSTATED THAT A BIT... BUT ONLY A BIT

It's not all doom and gloom; it's mostly just gloom

To be clear: Bazzite isn't rubbish because of anything the Bazzite team themselves are doing. They, at least according to my cursory Brave Search results, seem to be upstanding people who are trying to fill the void left by SteamOS's absence from desktop Linux more broadly. Bazzite is, unfortunately, worthless in my book precisely because they're trying to make a normie-friendly Linux distro meant for vidya out of a Linux subproject explicitly tailored for enterprise use cases. Fedora, as Bazzite and Nobara's upstream, is a literal testbed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux meant for the "Linux hobbyist." It's a far cry from a general-purpose distribution like Debian, or a normie-friendly derivative like Ubuntu/Mint. There's also the added question of "what if Fedora (re: Red Hat)'s priorities deviate from normie use cases?" Case in point: PROPOSED changes to drop 32-bit multilib support by the time Fedora 44 releases.

Thankfully the Fedora engineering committee hasn't yet approved such a proposal, and the blowback to this proposal was enough to make them say "okay, okay, we won't do it by F44. We still wanna do it, but we'll do it at a later time... so basically whenever y'all will stop bitching about it." Do you see the problem here? Debian and its downstream teams have not even remotely considered dropping 32-bit multilib support. Ponder this for a moment: "modern" games like Dark Souls 3, The Witcher 3, Persona 4 Golden, Master Duel, they're (presumably; I haven't checked) 64-bit games. If Fedora goes full 64-bit only, I certainly won't be out of luck. Most emulators nowadays have x64 builds too, so I'd still get my retro vidya fix one way or the other.

But what if I wanna play a 32-bit game like Deus Ex GOTY, The Witcher 1+2, Oblivion, Morrowind, or whatever else? Valve and co did an exceptional job with Proton, GloriousEggRoll does fantastic work with GE-Proton, and (at least on Linux Mint) I'm able to play literally everything I want that isn't bottlenecked by my aging-yet-still-capable hardware. However, does any of that progress really matter if the distro developers are itching to nuke i686 libraries altogether?

ENSHITTIFICATION EXISTS ON LINUX TOO, Y'KNOW!

Because FOSS developers love breaking legacy support for their own convenience

I've gone through great pains to explain why gaming is way out-of-sync with Red Hat's priorities, and they're locked-in on the enterprise market. They haven't cared about home users (i.e. the overwhelming majority of normies) ever since shitcanning Red Hat Linux 9 for Fedora Core in 2003. RHEL7 was the final version of RHEL that supported 32-bit anything, and it went EOL in 2024. From RHEL8-onward, you're limited to a much narrower pool of software, even when factoring in EPEL and RPM Fusion. RHEL 7 also had a native build of Steam whilst RHEL8-onward doesn't.

Let me reiterate: there is no native version of Steam capable of running on RHEL clones built off anything from RHEL8-onward. You need to resort to Flatpaks, and even Flatpak runtimes are liable to go EOL (case-in-point: Witcher 2's native Linux build requiring GTK2, which no longer exists as a Flatpak runtime as of 2024). Sure, Fedora itself does stuff upstream that Red Hat doesn't inherit (i.e. BTRFS as the default filesystem, retaining 32-bit libraries as of now, some other odds and ends I'm not entirely aware of). That doesn't eliminate how these are looming concerns one wouldn't necessarily have if they're running a Debian-based distribution.

EDGE CASES & WHY THEY MATTER

CatherineFullBodyEDGE.mp3

To cap off this screed: this all sounds like bitching about edge cases, but I'll gleefully die on the hill that says the edge cases define the true usability of your system. If the edge cases can't be met, even with hackish workarounds you cobble together from LLMs like ChatGPT and Perplexity, old forum posts, Reddit threads, the ArchWiki, among other such sources, then the project as a whole is woefully inadequate. Fedora, as of version 43, does meet my edge cases at the time of writing... but how much longer will it be capable of addressing my edge cases?

Bazzite, flawed to hell though it may be, is still a worthwhile consideration if you're trying to get that Steam Deck fix on a computer you're fine with treating as a console more often than not. Nobara, despite its narrow focus on gaming, is about the closest thing we have to Linux Mint in the Fedora/RHEL ecosystem, and I desperately wish they'd broaden the scope of the project to focus more on general usability and convenience for normies instead of focusing so narrowly on GAMERS(tm).

To that end? I seriously doubt these distributions will still exist by the end of the decade unless RPM Fusion's willing to take on the burden of providing 32-bit multilib support in the absolute worst case scenario. If the time comes where the Fedora team decides to maintain 32-bit multilib support in perpetuity, I'll gladly bite my tongue and consider this rant moot, null, and void. Anyway, I feel the vein in my forehead throbbing right now so that's my cue to cut myself off.

Make like an apostle from Berserk and do as thou wilt. I'm just one terminally online jack-off ranting about Linux like anyone else. Don't take my word as authoritative. Form your own opinions after reading another jack-off's opinions and all that stuff.

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quando coloco o monitor na vertical as cores ficam desse forma tem alguma configuração para melhorar isso?

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i have been trying to make it work for a few days now with no success. should i just buy the steam version at this point?

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I've done a bit of research since I made a post 2 years ago on the pop_os sub, but I can't understand why AMD Mesa driver are stricter about GLSL shaders than NVIDIA that accepts, as some sites say, "broken" or non-standard as non-conformant coding shader. I'm at loss and can't wrap up my head around.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/13vwa3p/openfldisplayshader_error_error_compiling/

Test done on Laptop with:
- AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

Distro Installed : Bazzite

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Does anyone else have all kinds of problems with this? The last post I see on the issue was like 9 months ago, and it was a celebration of 'yay we have audio now' which is nice, and it does seem to output audio now. In fact it sure looks and sounds like if I stream on Linux, I get pretty much the full experience.

There's just one problem now which is I am getting bizarre black artifacting. I'm on Arch Wayland with an NVIDIA GPU, so I don't know, maybe that's the problem, but I dunno. Obviously, everything is fine when on Windows. Anyway, so it does work, but it's just not good enough to stream, not really. The 'artifacting' basically takes the form of a weird black bar that flashes on the screen for a microsecond.

Anyone else get this? Anyone else fix it?

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Hi,

It could be the fact that I am on mobile, but I was hoping I could find a Linux install for dummies.

Specifically for Mint/Pop/whatever the actual best OS for a lifetime windows user and someone who only has minor Ubuntu experience should install.

If I missed a completely obvious pinned post I apologize.

Best, BHN

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Is there a website or tool to check what version drivers, proton, other translators, to use with spesific games? I think i stumbled upon something like this some time ago, but I cant remember it's name or if it's still maintained. If not, is this something that is wanted?

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Hello guys. I have no background in programming, CS, anything like that. I am a law student in a Central European country. I am not significantly more tech literate than the average person, as I only know several bash commands, plus I google more if need be.

However, my computer has had Linux (more precisely, Ubuntu) installed for the past 3,5 years. I used to dualboot Windows for precisely one game - Counter-Strike 2. However, after I got rid of my addiction to that game, I discarded Windows.

I play all of my video games on Linux, I am writing my graduation thesis using LibreOffice on Linux, and so forth.

Would you even consider me to be a Linux user, even without deep programming background?

Thoughts?

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So I've been trying out Linux gaming on an older gaming laptop with Bazzite for awhile and been having a good time. My main gaming PC (on Windows 11) chose to completely die last week, and I just ordered an all-AMD build with the intent to switch to Linux primarily. However there will be a few games that just won't be viable in Linux because of anti-cheat, so I'm going to maintain a separate m.2 drive with a small Windows 11 install on it for the few games that I can't easily do in Linux.

My question: is there any kind of elegant tool for managing dual-booting in this scenario? My last experience with dual-booting OS's for gaming purposes was back in the Intel Macbook Pro days when I had a Windows 7 install for gaming, and managing it at the time was super easy (in terms of getting it set up, easily choosing which OS to boot into when turning on the PC, etc.).

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Hello

I've become stumped. On every game I try the game starts with proton without ever opening the steamtinkerlaunch window. i've set the forced compatibility to open with steamtinkerlaunch so the window should open. When i forcibly try to open the window in terminal this error comes up:

/home/xxx/stl/prefix/steamtinkerlaunch: line 5808: : command not found

i went out and checked what the line 5808 was and its this

"$YAD" --f1-action="$F1ACTION" --image "$SHOWPIC" --image-on-top --scroll --center --window-icon="$STLICON" --form --center "$WINDECO" --title="$TITLE" \"$YAD" --f1-action="$F1ACTION" --image "$SHOWPIC" --image-on-top --scroll --center --window-icon="$STLICON" --form --center "$WINDECO" --title="$TITLE" \

something to do with yad, but i have it up to date (9.3). not sure what else to do anymore.

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Hello,

I'm trying to get Naruto Online running without much success (link to game website). It's a Flash game, but since its deprecation it moved to a downloadable game client in the form of .exe. I tried running it in Bottles 52.1 with different runners and dependencies, as well as through Steam as a non steam game on different proton versions. The furthest I got is, the game installs fine and the login window pops up as intended, but it is black and non-interactive apart from moving its position on the screen and X button for closing.

As for flash, I tried using Ruffle, the loading screen appears and even loading screen animation starts playing, but it gets stuck at 0% with the message "[flash/core/LoginConfig.xml] loading failed!" (the message is in the place where it says what's currently happening, like checking version, loading assets...).

I've been stuck at this for a while; whether it's for wine, flash or something else, any help is very appreciated.

inxi -Fxz

console output when bottles is started with terminal, launch the game, minimize the game window, restore it, move it, and close with X button (from line 531 to the end is printed once the window is interacted with)

System summary:

Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon v.6.4.8
Linux Kernel 6.14.0-35-generic
Laptop HP ProBook 430 G3
CPU Intel Core i3-6100U
GPU Intel Skylake GT2

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