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No matter what I do Proton Tricks won’t work

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23. Juli 2025 - 13:38

Please help. It’s driving me mad. I’m using my steam deck, it was working fine and then one day it just kept giving me errors. No matter how many times I reinstalled or restarted the Deck. It stink gives this error. I know next to nothing about Linux so I’m only reliant on tutorials…

Protontricks was closed due to the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/cli/util.py", line 175, in wrapper return cli_func(self, args, *kwargs) File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 292, in main prompt_filesystem_access( File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/gui.py", line 427, in prompt_filesystem_access inaccessible_paths = get_inaccessible_paths(paths)

File "/app/lib/python3.12/site-packages/protontricks/flatpak.py", line 150, in get_inaccessible_paths re.split(r'(?<!\);', config["Context"]["filesystems"]) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^ File "/usr/lib/python3.12/configparser.py", line 1225, in getitem return self._parser.get(self._name, key) File "/usr/lib/python3.12/configparser.py", line 777, in get return self._interpolation.before_get(self, section, option, value,

File "/usr/lib/python3.12/configparser.py", line 367, in before_get self._interpolate_some(parser, option, L, value, section, defaults, 1) File "/usr/lib/python3.12/configparser.py", line 414, in _interpolate_some raise InterpolationSyntaxError( configparser.InterpolationSyntaxError: '%' must be followed by '%' or '(', found: '%231;/run/media/deck/emu#1;xdg-pictures;xdg-documents;xdg-videos;host;~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam;~/.local/share/Steam;xdg-desktop;~/.steam;xdg-download;'

Please include this entire error message when making a bug report. Environment:

Protontricks version: 1.12.1 Is Flatpak sandbox: True Is Steam Deck: True

Log messages:

Running inside Flatpak sandbox, version 1.15.91. Found Steam directory at /home/deck/.local/share/Steam Using default Steam Runtime at /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime WINETRICKS environment variable is not available. Searching from $PATH. Found 3 Steam library folders

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Making a SFF PC for Linux and am in need of advice

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23. Juli 2025 - 12:49

Hi guys,

I want to daily drive a Linux PC for 90% gaming and 10% productivity work. Willing to wait more for money so I am able to buy better components. I made a list of components and have started buying them. Here it is:

https://preview.redd.it/be75wnx5plef1.png?width=1065&format=png&auto=webp&s=e68c4f540ce1f7d2c36828e25286217fa395b661

I'm looking mostly for 1080p gaming with maxed settings and not necessarily needing ray-tracing or other fancy stuff. Maybe some 1440p. Don't care much about fake FPS.

My main concern would be productivity I'd like to edit with stuff like kdenlive or Davinci Resolve and maybe do some Blender in the future, but AMD GPUs are quite slow compared to nvidia when it comes to productivity, although they play a lot nicer with games.

So is this build alright for productivity? Can I do work in a decent amount of time with a 9060XT or do I need to get, say, a 5060 Ti? I can do some tinkering so I'm alright with that as long as it possible for the software and hardware to get together. I don't need it to be uber-fast, just ok will do.

A youtuber compared these 2 GPUs on Linux here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77LBtP3nZwY

Besides the GPU conundrum, do you guys have other tips for my build?

Thanks

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Lego Star Wars : Skywalker Saga / Epic Games

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23. Juli 2025 - 12:12

Hello there,

I'm trying to run Lego Star Wars : Skywalker Saga on my Linux Laptop. I got the game via the Epic Games Store and tried to play it via Heroic Games Launcher. It launches into Blackscreen and then just quits.

I'm new to Linux and have no idea what to do.

Thanks in advance

Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700HQ

Memory: 16GB

GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M

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Distribution options for GTX960

Reddit Linux_Gaming - 23. Juli 2025 - 11:49

Hello everyone. I have an old desktop with an i5‑4570 and a GTX 960.

I’d like to turn it into a “living‑room PC‑console” with as little tinkering as possible. I no longer have the time to spend on managing installations, updates, etc.

Also, I don’t want to try any Windows 11 hacks since the motherboard doesn’t have TPM. I had considered ChimeraOS, but it only supports AMD GPUs.

What solution or distribution would you all recommend?

Thanks :)

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