Can I play on a private session with my friend that uses Windows and I use Linux? Will Anticheat detect that?

Is it true that you can only play on private sessions and not public on Linux?

Thanks!

Hello! I'm inexperienced with trying to run games off of Linux, but I've become dissatisfied with Windows so I'm trying to switch over.

I've gotten Battlenet to work through a Steam launcher, and it's able to launch WoW, but it doesn't work properly once it launches.

I have game audio, and my cursor changes to the armored hand from WoW, but my screen only shows the applications I had open before launching the game. If I try to click, it becomes apparent I am interacting with the game window I just can't see it.

I've tried searching online, and I found similar (but not the same) issues were resolved by updating drivers. That didn't seem to change anything for me, though.

If anyone has a tip or help, I'd appreciate it.

I've attempted launching through Lutris and Faugus rather than Steam to see if any changes came, but there were no improvements.

OMG this is so annoying. this error is thrown at my face every time I try to install Spiderman. I tried steam and bottles for installation but no luck
what am I supposed to do? I really don't wanna go back to W11

Hi All,

As the title says, i will be buying a gaming laptop soon and it will be most likely a Lenovo Legion Pro 5 with a RTX 5070Ti GPU.

My experience with Linux is extensive, but gaming on Linux is relatively new for me. Are there any hardware compatibility concerns i should be aware of? Lenovo allows for some swapping of components (e.g. AMD vs Intel CPU) so I would love to know what you guys think about this.

Thanks!

Why WuWa pre-caching consumes 44GB? Since I moved to Linux, I haven't played too many games, so I want to know if this is normal (I don't think so).

Also, pre-caching really makes a big difference with stutters, or can I keep it disabled without major losses?

Hello, I am running Fedora 44 and use an xbox 360 wireless controller with the usb reciever. Steam can see and play with my controller just fine, but for some reason cloudplay does not see my controller at all!

I am using Waterfox as my browser if that helps!

Are there any autoclicker for pvp minecraft for linux mint?​​​​

After a year long stall on the proper implementation of Wayland in Chromium Embedded Framework (Used by many apps such as Steam and Spotify), a different developer has expressed their intention on moving ahead with it.

" I'd like to help get Wayland support landed. Joel, are you still able to drive this, or would you be okay with me picking up the remaining review comments and pushing new patchsets? "

Hopefully Steam can leave X11/Xwayland behind in the near future.

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/angle/angle/+/6164683/3#message-4d79f29ec049b50d29d8a6e14fad26d448b7debc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK02VOGWEv0

Have been thinking about this for a little while, I know the hypervisor is pretty deep in the OS/security terms but I'm not super knowledgeable on that stuff.

Hello everyone. I’m trying to set up my tv to get the best possible image quality from it but I’m having some issues with color banding (I believe). Here’s an a photo I took from Crimson Desert (look at the sky). This is a screenshot taken directly from the game (no issues). This is another photo I took with the result of the troubleshooting process I went through with the tv. Let me know if you want me to share more details in case you need to see more. I’m running the latest version of the the tv and also the latest version of SteamOS. In terms of hardware, I’m using a AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D with a AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT. Are there any specific settings I should change in SteamOS (already in HDR mode) or make sure that are properly set up in the tv? I would really, really, really appreciate it if someone could help me out. Thank you very much in advance!

I'm just curious

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OK, I apologize in advance if this question was covered somewhere else in a pinned post or something. I used to be a big Linux user, and actually ran it as my primary operating system from 2006 until like 2012… I even managed to run Adobe creative suite on my Linux computer back before the days of subscription software and all of that BS. I even ran some MMORPG’s.

In the interim, I’ve had all of my computers issued to me by my employer. They gave me a MacBook to use for the bulk of my job and a very nice gaming laptop to use for coaching Esports.

I have another employer now, and they don’t issue me anything. OK, they issued me a crappy Windows laptop with not great specs that I can’t add anything to anyway.

So, I want to get myself a computer this summer. My wife has the Mac thing covered, and I would like something I can game on. Windows has been doing some really shady shit, and I have no desire to get a Windows workstation. Apparently gaming is very possible nowadays on Linux. I have my eyes set on Nobara. The question I have is hardware. This video https://youtu.be/noaYSy-vKOo?si=udX-tHpopYUL6rFU has me thinking that if I just buy a Windows 11 gaming PC or laptop and put Nobara on it, that I’m going to end up being locked out of a hard drive that Windows 11 turned into a paperweight on me.

I looked at System76 and Tuxedo, and holy crap! Talk about premium prices. There were some more realistic PC’s available at Juno and Slimbook. Still, I can get very nearly or the the same specs from PCs on Sale on Amazon but pre-loaded with Windows 11 for hundreds of dollars less. This video https://youtu.be/BqtN0vsSnLQ?si=sFAw0df52zmuoeqV would have me believe that I can get hardware with a great discount if it doesn’t have Windows on it, but when I go to HP’s website, anything but the budget crap hardware laptops aren’t available without Windows, and Acer, Dell, and Lenovo’s Linux / FreeDOS options are all like $800 - $1,000 more than comparable windows models.

So, apart from building my own, which I don’t really want to do (and I would prefer a laptop for various reasons), where do I get decent hardware that’s not sold at a premium? …OR is it not a big deal if Windows is on it?

I didn't know there were native penguin mmorpgs out there, but this one does seem to run natively. The Hammers End is the name of it. I've been playing a few days now. It's nice to see the Penguin come first!