The recent discussion around the JayzTwoCentz gaming on Linux video got me thinking. What are some habits or practices that are common on Windows but shouldn't be used in Linux?

For example: I'm trying CachyOS. One of the first things I did was download Steam to play games. It didn't occur to me to go to the package manager to get Steam. So now I have 2 versions installed.

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Valve seem confident enough in how Assassin’s Creed Shadows runs on Steam Deck, that it's now again Steam Deck Verified.

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I am trying to launch GOG Quake 4 with Heroic. Doesn't work. Ran apt-update and upgrade, latest versions of everything. I am on Mint 22.1. Below error log is from trying to launch with GE-Proton-Latest, but I have tried several versions including Wine-default 10.

Any ideas?

ALSO: Did something happen in the past year to make Heroic generally crappier? I have been away from gaming on Linux for about a year due to life stuff. No hardware changes. Reinstalled Wine, Heroic and my games (all GOG). SO MANY that worked fine before now don't launch at all. Did they change something?

LOG BELOW:

Launching "Quake 4" (gog)

Native? No

Installed in: /home/[username]/Games/Heroic/Quake 4

System Info:

CPU: 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4430 CPU @ 3.00GHz

Memory: 16.62 GB (used: 2.18 GB)

GPUs:

GPU 0:

Name: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] IDs: D=1c03 V=10de SD=1438 SV=19da Driver: nvidia

GPU 1:

Name: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller IDs: D=0412 V=8086 SD=7df6 SV=1019 Driver: i915

OS: Linux Mint 22.1 (Xia) (linux)

The current system is not a Steam Deck

We are not running inside a Flatpak container

Software Versions:

Heroic: 2.17.0 Cutty Flam Franky

Legendary: 0.20.37 Exit 17 (Heroic)

gogdl: 1.1.2

comet: comet 0.2.0

Nile: 1.1.2 Will A. Zeppeli

Game Settings: {

"autoInstallDxvkNvapi": false, "preferSystemLibs": false, "enableEsync": true, "enableFsync": true, "launcherArgs": "", "nvidiaPrime": false, "enviromentOptions": [], "wrapperOptions": [], "showFps": false, "useGameMode": false, "battlEyeRuntime": true, "eacRuntime": true, "language": "", "beforeLaunchScriptPath": "", "afterLaunchScriptPath": "", "verboseLogs": true, "wineVersion": { "bin": "/home/[username]/.config/heroic/tools/proton/GE-Proton-latest/proton", "name": "Proton - GE-Proton-latest", "type": "proton" }, "winePrefix": "/home/[username]/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Quake 4", "disableUMU": false

}

Game launched at: Wed Aug 13 2025 22:14:18

Winetricks packages:

Launch Command: HEROIC_APP_NAME=1836059896 HEROIC_APP_RUNNER=gog GAMEID=umu-0 HEROIC_APP_SOURCE=gog STORE=gog STEAM_COMPAT_INSTALL_PATH="/home/[username]/Games/Heroic/Quake 4" LD_PRELOAD= STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH=/home/[username]/.steam/steam WINEPREFIX="/home/[username]/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Quake 4" STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="/home/[username]/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Quake 4" PROTONPATH=/home/[username]/.config/heroic/tools/proton/GE-Proton-latest WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=0 PROTON_DISABLE_NVAPI=1 PROTON_EAC_RUNTIME=/home/[username]/.config/heroic/tools/runtimes/eac_runtime PROTON_BATTLEYE_RUNTIME=/home/[username]/.config/heroic/tools/runtimes/battleye_runtime STEAM_COMPAT_APP_ID=0 SteamAppId=0 SteamGameId="heroic-Quake 4" PROTON_LOG_DIR=/home/[username] WINEDEBUG=+fixme DXVK_LOG_LEVEL=info VKD3D_DEBUG=fixme /opt/Heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/x64/linux/gogdl launch "/home/[username]/Games/Heroic/Quake 4" 1836059896 --no-wine --wrapper "/home/[username]/.config/heroic/tools/runtimes/umu/umu_run.py" --platform windows

Game Log:

INFO: umu-launcher version 1.2.9 (3.12.3 (main, Jun 18 2025, 17:59:45) [GCC 13.3.0])

INFO: steamrt3 is up to date

ProtonFixes[70067] WARN: [CONFIG]: Parent directory "/home/[username]/.config/protonfixes" does not exist. Abort.

ProtonFixes[70067] INFO: Running protonfixes on "GE-Proton10-10", build at 2025-07-19 04:57:28+00:00.

ProtonFixes[70067] INFO: Running checks

ProtonFixes[70067] INFO: All checks successful

ProtonFixes[70067] WARN: Game title not found in CSV

ProtonFixes[70067] INFO: Non-steam game UNKNOWN (umu-0)

ProtonFixes[70067] INFO: GOG store specified, using GOG database

ProtonFixes[70067] INFO: No global defaults found for UNKNOWN (umu-0)

ProtonFixes[70067] INFO: Non-steam game UNKNOWN (umu-0)

ProtonFixes[70067] INFO: GOG store specified, using GOG database

ProtonFixes[70067] INFO: No global protonfix found for UNKNOWN (umu-0)

Proton: /home/[username]/Games/Heroic/Quake 4/Quake4.exe

Proton: Executable a unix path, launching with /unix option.

fsync: up and running.

002c:fixme:winediag:loader_init wine-staging 10.0 is a testing version containing experimental patches.

002c:fixme:winediag:loader_init Please mention your exact version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.

MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete

MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete

00b4:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\Registry\Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\winebth": c0000142

003c:fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"winebth" failed to start: 1114

008c:fixme:file:GetLongPathNameW UNC pathname L"\\?\X:\.config\heroic\tools\proton\GE-Proton-latest\files\share\wine/../xalia/xalia.exe"

008c:fixme:file:GetLongPathNameW UNC pathname L"\\?\X:\.config\heroic\tools\proton\GE-Proton-latest\files\share\wine/../xalia/xalia.exe"

008c:fixme:file:GetLongPathNameW UNC pathname L"\\?\X:\.config\heroic\tools\proton\GE-Proton-latest\files\share\wine/../xalia/xalia.exe"

008c:fixme:file:GetLongPathNameW UNC pathname L"\\?\X:\.config\heroic\tools\proton\GE-Proton-latest\files\share\wine/../xalia/xalia.exe"

0128:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769"

0128:fixme:uiautomation:uia_get_providers_for_hwnd Override provider callback currently unimplemented.

0128:fixme:uiautomation:default_uia_provider_callback Default ProviderType_NonClientArea provider unimplemented.

0128:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769"

0128:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_fragment_get_FragmentRoot 000000000081ABD8, 000000000021F9D0: stub!

0128:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_fragment_GetEmbeddedFragmentRoots 000000000081ABD8, 000000000021F9E0: stub!

0130:fixme:mscoree:parse_supported_runtime sku=L".NETFramework,Version=v4.8" not implemented

0130:fixme:mscoree:parse_supported_runtime sku=L".NETFramework,Version=v4.8" not implemented

0130:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION

0130:fixme:combase:RoGetActivationFactory (L"Windows.Gaming.Input.RawGameController", {eb8d0792-e95a-4b19-afc7-0a59f8bf759e}, 00006FFFFDA48960): semi-stub

00e8:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module

00e8:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION

00e8:fixme:wbemprox:client_security_SetBlanket 7A1F28C0, 028E05C8, 10, 0, (null), 3, 3, 00000000, 0

00e8:fixme:wbemprox:client_security_Release 7A1F28C0

00e8:fixme:wbemprox:wbem_services_CreateInstanceEnum unsupported flags 0x1

info: Game: Quake4.exe

info: DXVK: v2.7-5-g35aa75e68af0927

info: Build: x86 gcc 10.3.0

info: Vulkan: Found vkGetInstanceProcAddr in winevulkan.dll @ 0x79e321a0

info: Extension providers:

info: Platform WSI

info: OpenVR

info: OpenVR: could not open registry key, status 2

info: OpenVR: Failed to locate module

info: OpenXR

info: Enabled instance extensions:

info: VK_EXT_surface_maintenance1

info: VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2

info: VK_KHR_surface

info: VK_KHR_win32_surface

MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete

info: Found device: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (NVIDIA 535.247.1)

info: Skipping: Device does not support required feature 'maintenance5' (extension: VK_KHR_maintenance5)

info: Found device: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) ( 0.0.0)

info: Skipping: Device does not support Vulkan 1.3

info: Found device: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.1, 256 bits) (llvmpipe 0.0.1)

info: Skipping: Software driver

warn: DXVK: No adapters found. Please check your device filter settings

warn: and Vulkan drivers. A Vulkan 1.3 capable setup is required.

err: Failed to initialize DXVK.

00e8:fixme:wbemprox:enum_class_object_Next timeout not supported

00e8:fixme:wbemprox:client_security_SetBlanket 7A1F28C0, 028E05C8, 10, 0, (null), 3, 3, 00000000, 0

00e8:fixme:wbemprox:client_security_Release 7A1F28C0

00e8:fixme:wbemprox:wbem_services_CreateInstanceEnum unsupported flags 0x1

016c:fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module

014c:err:service:device_notify_proc failed to get event, error 1726

Launch command: ['/home/[username]/.config/heroic/tools/runtimes/umu/umu_run.py', '/home/[username]/Games/Heroic/Quake 4/Quake4.exe']

All processes exited

============= End of log =============

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So I've installed RBR/RSF as a non-steam game, but for some reason I'm only able to launch it from the game's folder with Protontricks-launch and selecting the prefix from there… When I click play in steam I just says "running" and closes after a while.

Any ideas why this happens? I'm on PopOs and my system is up to date and all my other games work fine.

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In the ongoing saga of payment processors locking down payments, Steam has been hit by PayPal limiting purchases to only a select few currencies.

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I recently installed Ubuntu on my desktop, and plan to move over to it completely once Windows 10 supports officially ends. I play a lot of CS2, and on Windows I get >200 fps consistently. I have installed the game on Linux, but it seems to be stuck at 11-12 fps on the main menu for some reason. I have tried searching on Reddit and protondb for any fixes, but none seem to work. I have tried both the native version and proton 9, but they both result in the low fps. I have tried updating graphics drivers, but I am already on NVIDIA version 575.64.03.

My current Launch Options are:

gamemoderun %command% SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER=wayland -high -fullscreen -nojoy -novid -freq 144

And my specs:

Ryzen 5 5600x

RTX 3060

32 gb RAM

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I keep having one issue with it (aside from getting hit with the BRTFS bug and having to reinstall, was only a few hours in so I lost nothing but 15min to reinstall). I just CANNOT get CachyOS to read my Xbox wireless adapter v2 or my 8bit duo ultimate 2 (the newer Xbox one) wireless. Just not showing up at all.

I've followed every guide, the wiki, GitHub articles, downloaded from the AUR, everything. I cannot get these to run at all. I get close and pairing fails. Meanwhile Bazzite I can run these with my eyes closed by doing nothing.

Not a Linux noob, I manage servers daily that use Linux, building custom iso's, handling maintenance, scripting various things. I'm not expert but this is blowing my mind why I cannot get these controllers working.

Neither are Bluetooth, I don't like using BT for anything if possible for gaming.

If anyone has a solution here to get these two to work, I would be happy to give it a try.

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I got tired of worrying of system going to sleep during big updates for Steam games that I usually leave unattended at night or while I'm awake, so I decided to finally fix that. Now the obvious question is «Why not just do "Manual Block"?» that's annoying, and it's much nicer when the system resets the lock by itself when the update is finished.

I didn't make a systemd service yet, so I start it with a .dekstop file in ~/.config/autostart/: [Desktop Entry] Exec=steam-update-inhibit-sleep # if the executable is not in /bin or /usr/bin, it must be the full path to the executable Icon= Name=steam-update-inhibit-sleep Path= Terminal=True Type=Application

Feel free to shame me for my coding skills on GitHub: https://github.com/Damglador/steam-update-inhibit-sleep\ I've also made an AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/steam-update-inhibit-sleep-git On other distros you can use pip to install it on user level (the executable should be in ~/.local/bin/)

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Hello guys.

I've been trying to install ONI from the original cd through Lutris and when i start the game, it shows me the whole introduction videos and after that it goes black screen with the message "ONI.exe is not responding".

I tried click repeatedly on the "Wait" button but nothing.

Also i've been trying to change some settings in Lutris and not a single positive result.

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It was unfortunate what happened with Old School Rally when it was hit with a DMCA takedown, but thankfully the situation is solved now.

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My favorite experiences are cachyos on my Nvidia laptop and steamos on my steam deck but lutris, wine, proton, gnome, cachyos, arch aaaaah man it's just so nice.. this is could break and I would bust my ass to learn it or fix it cause it just feels so NICEEEE.

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In a world overrun by craft beer enthusiasts and their endless creative brews, one grumpy guy is still on a quest to find one thing: a regular, basic pilsner.

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The Nexus Mods team just put out a new version of their in-development cross-platform mod manager, the Nexus Mods app v0.15.2 is now available to test.

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As is tradition, a recent GE-Proton update had some issues so a hotfix version has released to fix up Windows games on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.

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Normally a new upstream version is released every two weeks, but it's been more than a month since 10.12 and my RSS feed shows more than 300 commits since 10.12.

I'm hoping the devs are on vacation, which is well deserved of course. If so, that's fine. There isn't any news I missed, right? Nothing bad is happening with the Wine project hopefully.

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I've been pulling my hair out on this for several days now. I tried every runner - Wine, Proton, GE versions, soda, different versions, different dependencies (DirectX, the Vulkan implementation, etc), checking the various guides on protondb but NOTHING will make Oblivion play.

The issue starts immediately as soon as you launch the game, whether from the launcher or the exe. The Bethesda logo appears for anywhere between half a second and several seconds and the game just crashes.

I've tried every recommendation I could find, deleting ini files, installing fixes with MO2, everything — the game refuses to play.

I've seen someone say that it's because the exe comes with a bad DirectX 9c installation but I have no clue how to fix that since I already tried to install DirectX 9 dlls via winetricks.

I'll appreciate any help on the matter, I just wanna play the funny Todd Howard game.

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Home page game

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I just recently started gaming on my fedora 42 and its been great so far. Ive been planning to buy 8bitdo Ultimate 2 controller but Im not sure if its compatible with Linux or macOS when I wanna play on my Ipad. Does anyone have the experience with it?

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