Like many others my partners and my PCs are not good enough for W11, and we really don't want what Microsoft is pushing on its users these days. So I am looking into potentially swapping us over to Linux.

We mainly play WoW together, and my partner is very tech illiterate. Combined with us being apart for sometimes months means I need to set it up, but then it needs to "just work" from then on. They know how to turn on their computer, click on the Battle.net, Steam and Discord icon on the desktop and select what game they want to play. If I tell them to open the Terminal they'd probably break up with me lol.

So I am testing Bazzite on an old laptop at the moment, and Battle.net through Lutris doesn't connect, which I have since learned can be avoided if adding it as a non-steam game and selecting a certain Proton version, but does something like that just keep working without needing further intervention?

We can't really afford especially Battle.net spontaneously not working, as worst case if we're both affected 38 people won't have 2 of their main tanks. If things like their Satisfactory don't work that's annoying but it's not as urgent, as long as it'll eventually fix itself.

So to come back to my original question, does gaming on Linux just worn these days, for people like us that play non-steam games and never interact with the Terminal, or should we stay on W10 even when security updates stop?

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Hi,

I am trying to script a launch to play multiple instances of Idle Clans

The first instance is from Steam, and I have no issue with this one. However, the second two need to be launched directly from Proton. I conducted several tests, so the variables are a bit messy.

steam_path="$HOME/.steam/steam"

compat="$steam_path/steamapps/compatdata/2103530"

client="$steam_path/steamapps/compatdata"

proton="$steam_path/compatibilitytools.d/GE-Proton10-4/proton"

game="$steam_path/steamapps/common/Idle Clans/Idle Clans.exe"

export STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=$compat

export STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH=$client

export STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH="$compat"

export STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH="$client"

export STEAM_COMPAT_TOOL_PATHS="$steam_path/compatibilitytools.d/"

export STEAM_RUNTIME=1

export STEAM_RUNTIME_LIBRARY_PATH="$steam_path/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/"

export STEAM_RUNTIME_VERSION=0

export PROTON_NO_ESYNC=0

export PROTON_NO_FSYNC=0

export PROTONFIXES_NO_LOG=0

export PROTON_USE_WINED3D=0

export WINEDEBUG=-all

export PYTHONINSPECT=0

export DISABLE_PROTONFIXES_UNITTEST=1

If I copy and paste the following line in a terminal, I can launch an instance of the game.

echo STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=$compat STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH=$client $proton run $game

If I try to execute the following from the script

STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=$compat STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH=$client $proton run $game

or

$proton run $game

I get the error message:
ProtonFixes[658920] WARN: Skipping fix execution. We are probably running an unit test.

Do you know what I am doing wrong?

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The first proper Hellraiser game has just been revealed with Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival.

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PEAK is another in the list of quality co-op chaos games to add to your collection.

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I'm on Bazzite modding the Witcher 3 (I even got the mod manager and Script Merger working). I want to install a mod called Random Encounters Reworked, but rather than simply drop the contents in folders, I have to drop it in the game's main directory and run a powershell program. On Windows, I could do this real easily. However, I'm not sure how to do this on Bazzite.

Any idea what program or method I can use? I'd be grateful.

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I've been applying tweaks and such to my VR gaming experience since I moved over to Linux, and for the most part I've got things in a pretty acceptable place, but I figured I'd compile my remaining issues here, just in case anyone with the talent or contacts to get these things fixed might see them, or if anyone out there knows even more workarounds.

1. Starting SteamVR does not turn on the headset first try, ever. I need to start VR, right click on the headset and restart it. It's like it doesn't get initialized at all when my PC starts and I need to force it.

2. Using the open source AMD Vulcan drivers works best.

3. Some VR games don't seem to know how to use your PC's resources properly on Linux by default. The two I've noticed this the most with is H3VR and Vrchat. They both have extreme ghosting and stuttering if I try to play them with no tweaks. Using the wine CPU topology launch parameters though, I can at least get H3VR working like normal.

4. The SteamVR overlay is weirdly proportioned, for some reason. It's like the top is wider and farther away from the bottom. Kinda disorienting to look at. And the desktop view mode is just blacked out.

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I can't run a game. I get this error:

https://ibb.co/JWJkVTkp

I run the Winetrick option. It gives me the message:

Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module

How to fix this?

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I am installing a game but i get this error as soon as i run the installer on lutris

internal error failed to expand shell folder constant "autopf"

can someone please help me

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i am struggling to find a solution to remove background noise while talking , i tried noise reduction 95% in easyeffects it is working very well but the problem is the moment i speak it catch every noise in the background, is there a way to get steelseries or nvidia broadcast working on linux ? i also tried to mix noisetorch and easyeffects together and it didn't go very well .

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In bottles, I had issues where the client would freeze during login using the Ge-Proton 10 runner. I found a workaround by turning off use browser hardware accelerator.

Within the bottle directory locate: drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Roaming/Battle.net/Battle.net.config

open the config, locate and change: "HardwareAcceleration": "false"

Client and game works like a charm now. Just leaving this here just in case someone else is having the same issue as I couldn't find any post about this issue

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All signs are pointing to the fact that gaming on Linux is a viable and possibly better alternative to Windows as far as gaming goes, in terms of performance, general bloat, and not to mention privacy. Windows has become a rubbish operating system and users are waking up to that fact. But the fact remains that even though Proton is becoming better and better every day and most games run perfectly fine on the Linux platform, it's still a compatibility layer, anti-cheat is still an issue, and getting all studios and developers on board to make the shift is going to be difficult in the long run as long as the business opportunity for those companies are still greater when Windows is the native platform.

Now, Microsoft being the multi billion dollar corporate money grabbers they are, are not going to sit idly by as a large part of their product demographic switches to a different platform. If Linux get's anywhere from 10 to 20 percent market share, they are going to have to come up with a "solution". And I think that will be a gaming edition of Windows, especially now that they're losing out on the console market as well.

So, they will probably use a debloated edition of Windows like the IoT edition, and customise it along the lines of the famous marketing line, "By gamers, for gamers". No bloat, reduced (but certainly not eliminated) telemetry, gaming related ads, etc. If they can compete with Linux on performance, they'll probably be successful in maintaining market share.

What do you all think?

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So I am increasingly thinking of taking the plunge into Linux gaming. My current gaming PC is has windows installed on one drive and my games all installed on other drives.

If I format my windows drive to set up Linux, would all the game files on the other drive need to be redownloaded from steam to be the Linux compatible version? I am assuming that would be the case.

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Townseek is a colourful casual exploration and trading adventure game from developer Whales And Games, with a brand new big upgrade for the demo available.

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I can't wait to see what the community cooks up for Dwarf Fortress, with the latest update bringing much more advanced modding capabilities to the game.

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Is it possible to play games on Linux on a laptop with an i5-13420H and integrated Intel UHD graphics?

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After recently receiving a DMCA takedown notice, Old School Rally had its Steam store page removed. Valve have now restored it and work on it continues.

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Penny for Your Potion looks like a nice one for fans of casual crafting and management, with you running your own shop and brewing potions for customers.

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I'm considering buying an HP 15 ryzen laptop for lite gaming and movie watching in linux.

Has any of you try it? Does it have good linux compatibility?

Thanks!

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