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I am currently using a Lenovo Thinkpad E14 with Linux (Ubuntu) on it. I love it and it works great and I don't even want to go back to windows. But recently I've been getting back into gaming and honestly it's just a pain in the ass to set everything up. I did learn a bit how to operate Linux while setting up Virtual Boxes, Steam and Legendary (for Epic Games) and some games do run flawlessly now. But I just don't want to deal with the hassle anymore (plus my laptop is not exactly high end). I just want to buy a game, download it, and Lauch it without having to set up some weird obscure modules and files. Also it seems that playing games on Linux somehow requires way more disk space (??).

So I'm contemplating just building my own gaming PC using windows once I get out of college and start earning money. I would use it exclusively to play games and for everything else keep using a Linux laptop.

Is that worth it? Am I just too dumb to make it work on Linux? I barely made Anno 1800 work but am forced to use windows mode with a worse resolution and lower graphics setting.

Is it good enough to buy a gaming laptop? I've read for the same price range you'd get a PC with better specs.

Maybe you guys can give some advice or links or whatever. I know it's a beginner question but there is just too much information and I want to see what the majority here is gonna say. Since this is a costly endeavour I'm not going to take any chances. (Not trying to play flight simulator with Google Earth as my map, but having the option to upgrade is probably good, so maybe not a laptop?).

Thank you

Hey, I've ordered a Quest 3 and am planning to play some sim racing and flight sims on it using a link cable (low latency is vital). I want to know whether doing so is possible on Linux or whether I have to dual boot with Windows.

For specific cases you want to have a square deadzone shape / joystick layout in Rocket League. I have been looking into this problem for the last few days and cant get it to work so I ask the swarm intelligence.

I have a PS4 Dual Shock controller. I use Heroic Games Launcher but am willing to try different launchers if they work. I am using EndeavourOS (arch) with KDE Plasma / Wayland

The usual way to calibrate a square deadzone in Windows is to either use DS4Windows to emulate a virtual controller or run Epic Games Launcher through Steam with the controller layout configured in Steam.

The game is running fine on Heroic Games Launcher but there are no options. From what I've gathered the game uses SDL. Is there any way to calibrate the shape of the deadzone for PS4 Controller?

I found https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad and messed with jstest-gtk-git and evdev-joystick but had no luck getting it to work.

When registering Rocket League in Steam and launching it through Heroic Games Launcher I get stuck on the "Press Play" splash screen without the game accepting any input from gamepad or keyboard. How would I go about troubleshooting the Steam route?

I tried:

-combinations of Wine GE/Proton GE/Proton Experimental/Esync/Fsync
-enabling Steam Input for Desktop with the same gamepad template
-disabling Steam Input for Desktop

I'm still very new to gaming on Linux so please excuse any idiocy on my part.

Eyo pals, Quick question and bevor you answer: I know the answer is „it depends“.

I am a fairly experienced Linux user, most experienced with Kali and other Debian based distros and I switched my gaming rig to bazzite few weeks ago. Never had much to do with rpm-ostree, fedora or flatpaks so was a bit of a learning curve how bazzite works under the hood, but I invested some time and now everything is running to my liking.

Now I think about switching to cachyOS for gaming, cause of it being Arch based with an actually nice package manager included and all modular Linux benefits for when I might decide in the future to do anything other than gaming on this machine or for other gaming related tasks like modding, recording, etc. One more example provided would be, that I was not able to install VMWare Workstation Pro on bazzite cause the cli based installer failed. Might be relevant to me in the future sometime.

So question for you is, for the sole purpose of gaming, ist there a meaningful difference between cachyOS and bazzite in terms of performance and or maintenance needed between those two?

Hey folks,

I've noticed that in POE2, I'm seeing a ~30% performance hit when running Linux compared to Windows. In most other games, performance is on par or sometimes better in Linux.

I'm wondering:
Are others experiencing similar issues with POE2 on Linux?
Has anyone found a possible fix or workaround?

It’s not unplayable by any means, but it does bug me that I might be missing out on performance.

Here’s my setup:
Distro: Fedora 41 (I've also tried Nobara, CashyOS, PikaOS, and Bazzite—same results)
GPU: Nvidia 2080 (with 565.77 drivers)
Proton versions tried: Hotfix, Experimental, GE9-21 (no change across these)

Any tips, advice, or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated!

Hi everyone,

I got the game Red Dead Redemption 2 on Steam. I have installed it and the Rockstar Launcher, but when the game loads I get the Social Club Error Code 17.

I have tried to follow the official Rockstar guide for the error, but could not fix the issue. I have deleted steam and all steam files, reinstalled steam and the game, same issue.

OS: Fedora Linux 41
CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 5 1600 × 12
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
RAM: 16 GB
DE: GNOME 47
WS: Wayland
Kernel: Linux 6.12.5-200.fc41.x86_64
Proton: 9.0-4

I also got the Proton Log, but have no idea how to upload the .log file

Log:
Roblox installation is required, starting onboarding flow UI...

MESA-INTEL: warning: ../src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:782: FINISHME: support YUV colorspace with DRM format modifiers

MESA-INTEL: warning: ../src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:814: FINISHME: support more multi-planar formats with DRM modifiers

Gdk-Message: 13:54:30.345: Error 71 (Protocol error) dispatching to Wayland display.

Roblox installation was not completed. This may be an issue with the UI service.

Roblox installation was not completed.

FATAL: Could not set up application files.

https://preview.redd.it/4f901w0q278e1.png?width=561&format=png&auto=webp&s=74b0f80a87c23a82836c5c952f52ad540fc8e838

My target is Apex Legends which as you know has been blocking Linux gamers' access to it since 1st November if I remember correctly.

I have my things already prepared: PCIe passthrough, Windows 11 installed with QEMU/KVM, and all that things are working with almost if not full bare metal performance (Tested with The Witcher 3, and Cyberpunk 2077 inside that VM), and my linux installation working in the background just fine.

My biggest concern is the anti-cheat thing. It runs kernel-level if I'm correct, and I've found some answers already on the internet saying that this is not going to be a safe move as the anti-cheat is going to ban me sooner or later as well as I found info about it being no issue at all.

So I know I can hide the fact that I'm using a VM from everything I run in it, but is it still going to be safe to use? Is it safe at all to play competitive games like Apex Legends inside a VM?

I really want to avoid installing Windows bare metal as much as I can.

Lemme know your opinion guys. I appreciate it.

I usually use keyboard and mouse but my favorite thing to do is local coop (Stardew valley in this specific case) with my sister, and that usually requires a controller.

For Christmas I was thinking about getting a new controller for her as the PS4 one she has is quite old. Now in the past I've had a few issues trying to get it connected (using bottles) and the game seems to be expecting Xbox controllers.

I do prefer the PS4 style of controller but will the Xbox controllers be less of a pain?

(I was thinking about getting 2 is that a good idea for local coop ?)