Hello everyone, I'm a relatively new Linux user.

I'm thinking about playing Diablo IV on Linux, but I really dislike anti-cheat software (especially kernel-level ones like Vanguard or Ricochet). That's why I avoid games that use anti-cheat software. However, even though I've wanted to experience Diablo IV for a long time, I'm undecided about whether to buy the game because of the anti-cheat issue.

From my limited research, I understand that Diablo IV uses Blizzard's “Warden” system. What are your thoughts on this? Is it “cleaner” than others because it doesn't run at the kernel level? Does it affect system performance or privacy in a way I should be concerned about? And just as importantly, is it as “sticky” as the others? If any anti-cheat software is installed on the system, what's the best way to remove it?

I'd like to hear the community's thoughts on this. Thanks!

I'm not trying to play any heavy recent games, just classics like portal, flower. Stray, world of goo.

I don't care about getting the bestest FPS or whatever, just have some fun.

But as far as I can tell none of these games are playable at all. They have smooth perfect animations for 30s or so and then start stuttering for 10-20s then suddenly play perfectly fine for a while again.

I assume this is the problem with "shaders" but... Surely nobody is satisfied playing games like this?

This is all games I've tried and didn't seem to be affected by resolution or anything else happening on the machine. My laptop isn't a gamer machine but as I said, I don't care about getting the highest FPS or lowest ping, just being basically playable.

Installed EndeavorOS. When I first installed Discord and steam, neither worked. For steam I would get a msg along the lines of "unable to open a connection to X" and discord simply would just not open. Then I was like "maybe I should just try a DE" (was on sway). I installed plasma, went to open it from the tty, realized I didnt know the command to open it, went back to sway to search it up, thought "Lets see if the plasma installation installed something necessary for steam", successfully opened steam then discord (didnt bother going back to plasma). Now neither steam or discord can be interacted with while their on my second monitor. They work on my second monitor and I can somehow still move them onto my main monitor, but I literally cannot click a thing on them while they are on my second monitor (just in case it wasnt clear, other applications work just fine, its just discord and steam). How fix?

Just installed Pop_OS with Nvidia drivers. I noticed that when I enable the Steam overlay, the range of motion I can move with the mouse is limited in certain games.

For example, when I run Control, the mouse does not move the character at all, but does work in the menus. In Talos Principle Awakened, I have about 270 degrees in the X axis. Again, menus work fine.

I did run a few native Linux games like Half Life 2 and Quake 2- no mouse issues at all while Steam overlay is running.

Has anyone else seen this, or have ideas what the issue could be?

I'm playing Total War: Warhammer 3 on Fedora Linux via Steam with Proton-GE 26. I've also tried Proton Experimental, various hotfixes, and Proton 9.0-4, but the issue persists.

Hardware: AMD GPU (latest Mesa drivers via sudo dnf update).

Using the Empire faction with Lady Elspeth von Draken (Thrones of Decay DLC). Specific units like Amethyst College units (e.g., Amethyst Ironsides, wizards) and Elector Counts (unique lords/heroes) do not recruit properly.

When I click to recruit them:

• They briefly appear in the army recruitment queue/panel with a yellowish/orange icon (indicating queued/limited).
• No upkeep deducted, no slot used, recruitment doesn't start.
• As soon as I deselect the army, enter another menu, or end turn, they disappear completely.

Normal units recruit fine. This only affects these special Amethyst and Elector Count units. Game fully updated, DLC owned, no mods, verified files.

https://preview.redd.it/66ibx6yttn8g1.png?width=1161&format=png&auto=webp&s=106f738f9af5520e133b20bdd237158bfb287138

https://reddit.com/link/1psn2f3/video/84adomqitn8g1/player

I installed the official driver and the best i can get it is this.

Hi everyone! I’m trying to play Arknights on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, but I haven't been able to get it working yet. Here is a breakdown of what I've tried so far:

• Genymotion: Created a Google Pixel 3 instance (Android 9.0, API 28) with 4GB RAM, 2/4 processors, and 256MB VM Heap. When I click "Run," the status stays on "Booting" for about 3 seconds and then immediately switches to "Off."
• GNOME Boxes: Tried both Bliss OS and Android-x86.
  • Bliss OS: Boots up, but "virtwifi" is missing and the Android-x86 specific settings are nowhere to be found in the settings app.
  • Android-x86: The Play Store crashes after being open for 5 seconds, or whenever I try to search for/click on an app.
• Android Studio: This was my first attempt. I don't recall the exact error, but the emulator simply failed to launch.
• Waydroid: Didn't work. It seemed to be a kernel-related issue, and since I didn't fully understand what I was doing, I ended up giving up on this method.

• CPU: Ryzen 5 5600G (Integrated Graphics, no dedicated GPU).
• RAM: 16 GB.
• Additional Info: SVM is enabled in UEFI.

• BlissOS (Reddit guide BlissOS): I got stuck on steps 3 and 4 of the "Preparing to install Arknights" section.
• Waydroid (youtube waydroid and youtube waydroid updated): Followed a couple of guides, but it won't start. AI tools suggest it might be a kernel compatibility issue.

Any advice or workarounds would be greatly appreciated!

I simply don't know how to get mods to work in Monster Hunter World. Can anyone help me? I'm using Linux Mint; I don't know if that actually influences anything or if I'm just being silly.

simplesmente não sei como fazer para mods funcionarem no monster hunter world alguem pode me ajudar ? estou usando linux mint não sei se isso influencia de fato em algo ou se sou apenas idiotad

Having an issue i noticed where enabling frame gen breaks vrr with my monitor. Jumps from base hz to max, to inbetween. I believe vsync is not working correctly globally in KDE as typically vsync is needed to fix this. On w11 this was the fiz for the same problem. Any help? Cyberpunk in particular. Not NEEDED but really bugging me that this is broken seemingly. Playing on Steam via Wayland for HDR.

Operating System: CachyOS Linux

KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0

Qt Version: 6.10.1

Kernel Version: 6.18.2-3-cachyos (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor

Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.4 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT

Graphics Processor 2: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor

Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.

Product Name: MS-7D78

System Version: 1.0

I keep getting the error code 1.000.7 when trying to log into R* launcher on my Linux mint laptop (Cinnamon). Like I can sign into R* on a web browser perfectly but when it comes to logging into a game it will just give me the error code 1.000.7. I heard selecting Proton GE works but it hasnt done anything for me lately

Title. I am trying, but it seems dell is hostile to installing anything but windows on this thing. I have bazzite on a usb stick, and booted to it but my hard drive that has windows is not there when I try to install to it. Has anyone successfully installed Linux on one of these dells?

I tried proton cachyos, proton GE 10.26, steam proton hotfix and experimental. even different launcher like heroic, lutris and steam app. it just can't detect my hardware properly. stuck at 720p resolution and all graphics settings are locked. i tried many configurations on protondb page, still same. I doubt it is about the proton or graphics card detections. i tried many games and they're starting properly even on normal wine. what could be the issue?

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i can provide any necessary logs and infos if asked.

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I don't get it why I can't launch my game using external storage, i want launch it using steam deb package since flatpak version have some issue on it, i already make the external storage executable "drwxr-xr-x" i don't get it why i can't launch it from there want i try to launch it using my main storage it seems no issue with it did anyone know the problem?

Could using Windows 11 on an external SSD be a viable solution to the occasional game that works better on Windows? My concern is privacy, so I wouldn't want to dual boot.

If so, how could I prevent Windows from spying on the contents of other SSDs? That is, make it only access the contents of the SSD it's installed on.

I'm trying to play Stardew Valley with mods with a friend, but I keep running into the same error on Linux, whether on Cachyos or SteamOS. It’s related to Galaxy.api, where the game’s connection doesn’t work. Has anyone encountered this problem? Is there a solution?

Due to multiple reasons that lead me disliking Microsoft I decided that I would try switching to Linux and I did some research about it. I know what you can do and what you can't do like running certain softwares but I would like to actually ask about the user experiences from who game and work on their Linux desktop.

Also I'm really interested in Bazzite however I have not found anything about using it for work, and I know that's not the intended purpose but I'd like to have a SteamOS experience for gaming and a decent enough workspace for me to navigate through.

English is not my first language and I apologize, but what are your thoughts on this?

When in full screen for an application that does not render the entire monitor resolution is there a way to fill the extra space with black instead of background image?

Left side is background image, right is application window.

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Since the mangohud shows up on edge of my monitor and not within the output area of the for application I am assuming the gamescope window itself is full screen.

Hi, does anyone else have this problem when you shut down the pc and when you want to play again steam start downloading like 500-600mb again?? I thought it was a one time download but happens every time lmao what should i do.

I am dual-booting and I tried a few games on both OSes, and while my fps are technically the same, the 1% lows too, the smoothness of the game seems worse on CachyOS. I have a laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS cpu and Nvidia RTX 4050 GPU. Both have VRR turned on. I use KDE on Cachy, vrr is on always in the display settings. Gamemode is off on both OSes. I disabled the cpu's turbo boost on both. I am on the verge of thinking I am so conditioned to Windows, I amn becoming delusional and maybe there is not even a difference between the two operating systems in terms of fps and frametime.

What happened to everything is a file?

Why do modern linuxes not compile in the old joystick support that worked great?