Valve released a Steam Beta update for Steam Deck and Desktop that has some essential fixes, one of which was quite a nuisance bug on Steam Deck.

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A good chance to grab some Xbox Games Studios published titles on Steam here thanks to the latest Humble Bundle. Here's what you can get in it and what compatibility you'll see on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

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Hi, in the last few days my computer has started crashing at random times during gameplay.
At first I thought that it was a memory problem, but I ran memtest86+ for a few hours and found no errors. So after googling a bit I ran journalctl and got this. The crash seems to start at the line with amdgpu: [gfxhub] page fault (src_id:0 ring:24 vmid:5 pasid:32786), but I included other steam/kernel errors as they might be relevant.

I have an amd ryzen 5600, amd radeon rx6700 xt and 32 gb of ram.

Is there a solution besides changing gpu? I got it used like a year ago and had no problems until now.

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One last look at Doom Eternal running at 4K max settings on a 4090. Thanks to the game using Vulkan, this game runs amazing well on Linux and Nvidia. I can't wait to play Dark Ages. I will defiantly sharing footage of the new game once it is released.

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Hello community,

I am currently researching components to build a new Linux PC. I decided on a small form factor build using AMD Ryzen 9 9900X, 64 GB RAM, and no GPU for now (no plan of gaming and currently not enough value to get a GPU solely for local LLMs).

For the motherboard I thought of going for ASRock B650E PG-ITX WiFi BUT I randomly found a YT video showcasing a SFF build, which used Asus ROG Strix X870-I Gaming WiFi.
The build was very cool which made me think of going for the Asus instead of the ASRock now.

Do you guys have any insights into why choose one over the other, pros/cons, etc?

It seems to me that Asus is a bit more future proof with also more connectivity but maybe coil whine while the ASRock's fan seems to be loud but can be turned down in the BIOS.

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Windows 10 is close to being dead now, with support ending this year. So why not try out Linux? Instead of getting a whole new system and having to deal with the increasing amount of AI junk and adverts in Windows 11.

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I've noticed a lot of posts from people completely new to the world of Linux, which typically go along the lines of "hey I'm sick of Windows and I want to give Linux a try. I like gaming, where should I start?" All good so far

This will then usually get a dozen of the same type of response, "Anything is fine/Try anything you like the look of/Bounce around some distros see what works"

So this is true, fundamentally you won't go wrong with most distros, and there's something to be said for getting your hands dirty with something and truly seeing for yourself.

But man this does not account for human psychology at all

Imagine you want to buy a car, and know nothing about cars so you ask "hey what's a good car?", and people respond "oh they're all the same just pick one". Or you know nothing about laptops, and when asking which is a good buy people respond "oh they're all fine just pick one in your price range"

People are perpetually victims to decision paralysis, that's why they scroll Netflix endlessly or will struggle to pick a meal off a restaurant menu, there's too much choice. Conversely if you have an ice cream shop with literally 3 flavours people find it much easier to "just pick one".

Linux is overwhelming coming in fresh, people need some form of reference. Now this doesn't mean you have to be an evangelist for a specific distro, and it's good to ultimately mention that any distro is basically fine, but there needs to be some solid foundation for newbies to focus on

So, instead of "just pick what you like the look of", instead suggest say 3 specific distros *and* caveat with "...but ultimately anything you like the look of will work" if you need to. Newbies now have some kind of reference to work with and will gain some kind of consensus from the replies, but will still be aware that there's isn't a magic distro and it can be good to shop around

For example, I've had a great time with Fedora so that's one I suggest. I'm also aware that Bazzite and Linux Mint are well regarded and newbie friendly so I also recommend those too. So that's 3 solid suggestions I can recommend to a complete beginner, and they can still be told that other options are fine too. It doesn't make my answer magically right but it's far more helpful to a new guy, and ironically makes it much easier for them to "just pick one"

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Open Fortress is a mod for Valve's Team Fortress 2 and now it's getting a standalone release on Steam, thanks again to Valve adding the TF2 source code to the Source SDK.

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I'm trying to overclock my gpu and would like to stress test my overclock stability without going to windows. Are there any good linux apps for this?

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Valve released two Proton updates just as the weekend hit, both containing some essential fixes for running Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck. So here's all that's new for Proton Experimental and the latest Proton 10 Beta.

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Yesterday I was playing Days Gone and I realized that my game would continuously crash during a cave section where many zombies would spawn in at once. I had to go back to stock memory clock in order to stop this from happening. On windows 11 the same cave section with the same overclock, does not crash. On windows I can run it at 2674mhz and on Fedora I can only run it at 2524mhz. Is this something to do with Proton? Or the way the linux AMD drivers work?

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Ahead of the release of DOOM: The Dark Ages on May 15th, Valve have released an update for SteamOS for Steam Deck to get it to actually run.

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Hi, I recently transferred from Windows to Linux, and I need advice on how to fix an issue I have been having with discord screen share. When I try to play a game (Expedition 33, please play it, it's peak) and try to screen share it on discord, it seems to make the game stuttery? I have no idea how to fix it and I'm not sure if installing other discord clients would be safe. I'm using X11, and Nvidia if that matters. Would love some possible pointers or ways to fix this.

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- Tried to reinstall it on a different Drive
- Deleted the entire compatdata/230410 folder
- Disabled Bulk download, Network caches and aggressive download

Nothing seems to be working.
I'm starting to think this isn't a me issue. Is anyone else experiencing this?

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Well, I've been wanting to upgrade from Windows 10 to some Linux distribution for a while now, but I don't know which one. Some say Mint, but I've been looking more and others say no because it's horrible for gaming. To a certain extent, I'm starting to go crazy trying to figure out which one I should use. I've thought about using Arch, but the installation is complicated and they say it's weird for gaming. I've also thought about SteamOS, but in the end, I'm not convinced. What do you recommend?

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Because I installed an official launcher on Bottles with internal SSD on my PC handheld under SteamOS but I do not want to install a game to an internal SSD but rather an external SSD. I don't know how to do

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Hi guys

I'm trying to get Counter Strike 2 to run on my fedora 42 laptop.

Steam is installed. It let me in and ran the tutorial / practice match stuff but when I tried to go into a regular match against other players I got the following:

Valve Anti-Cheat

Some of your game files have been detected to have no signatures or invalid signatures. You will not be allowed to join VAC secure servers. Please verify your launch options, check correctness of your game installation, restart the game and try again.

Without actually reading it, the first place I looked was ProtonDB and noticed most of the Fedora/Intel listings were - didn't work. Took it was a positive sign that mine at least is capable of running it.

Went back into the game and actually read the notification and realized I'd started in the wrong spot.

I start looking for a VAC program on the Steam store and find out there's not one.

Then looked through google searches and this sub and see a bunch of stuff about there not being a VAC and probably won't be one.

So how do you guys play CS2 on Steam from linux? Or do you?

I doubt it's relevant given the issue, but just in case here's my system specs:

OS: Fedora Linux 42 (Workstation) x86_64
Host: 82R8 (IdeaPad Flex 5 16IAU7)
Kernel: Linux 6.14.5-300.fc42.x86_64
Uptime: 2 hours, 23 mins
Packages: 2475 (rpm), 21 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.2.37
Display (Q2963): 2560x1080 @ 60 Hz in 63" [External] *
Display (BOE0A31): 1920x1200 @ 60 Hz in 16" [Built-in]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.3.5
WM: KWin (Wayland)
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze (Light) [Qt], Breeze [GTK3]
Icons: breeze [Qt], breeze [GTK3/4]
Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [Qt], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK3/4]
Cursor: breeze (24px)
Terminal: konsole 25.4.0
CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1255U (12) @ 4.70 GHz
GPU: Intel Iris Xe Graphics @ 1.25 GHz [Integrated]
Memory: 3.94 GiB / 7.31 GiB (54%)
Swap: 1.78 GiB / 7.31 GiB (24%)
Disk (/): 78.00 GiB / 475.35 GiB (16%) - btrfs

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