Ever since Proton and the Steam Deck came around, Linux gaming’s gotten way better.

The funny thing is, anti-cheat systems like EAC and BattlEye already work on Linux through Proton — but a lot of developers don’t even realize that!

I’ve seen this firsthand. I use Linux as my main OS, and I’ve tried running games like CRSED: F.O.A.D. and CS2 through Proton. Both of them launch fine, but CS2 hits a VAC error even though everything else runs perfectly smooth. It’s frustrating, because you can feel the game is ready — it’s just the anti-cheat blocking it.

Many devs still think “adding Linux support” means a full port or tons of extra work, when in reality it’s just a few steps to enable anti-cheat compatibility.

I feel like a small awareness push from Valve could help a ton — maybe a short blog post or a Steamworks email just reminding devs that Linux users (and Deck players) are ready and waiting.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if more multiplayer games just worked on day one?

What do you guys think? Is this something Valve should do, or should we try to spread the word ourselves?

Note: This is my first post, and it's not fully AI-written. I just got a little help phrasing it better. Thanks for reading! :)

I have Fedora 43 Gnome and when I connect my Steam Controller, every time I press/touch anything on the controller a Remote Desktop settings window keeps appearing. Effectively the Steam Controller is unusable.

How do I resolve this?

this happents every time i try flatpak games but works with others games from appimages and wine

i use this command: gamescope --expose-wayland --backend sdl -- Sober

Edit: I removed OpenRGB and my controller started working in Steam again

My controller has suddenly stopped working in Steam games. This is the third time this has happened and it has happened across multiple distros including Bazzite, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 25.04. Steam still recognises my controller, it also works perfectly in RPCS3 but it will not work in Steam games.

I have never been able to find a solution for this without having to completely reinstall my OS. This has happened too frequently I can't be the only one who's experienced this, can anybody relate?

While I am playing a game and have Firefox running in the background I listen to podcasts. There is an audible popping sound and need to know how to fix it. I searched online for fixes to try and solve the issue and now I am stuck.

Using Cachy OS

So, I have this old HP G7 laptop with an old from 2012 AMD APU

On windows it's dogpile slow, but at least it ran some old games even GTA SA...

Now on linux it's faster to use, even youtube is better, but any game is slow AF, even Doom 1993 runs like 7-8 fps only!!

Any help??
on radeontop, youtube uses like 20-30%
when I open Doom or other old games even some new light games like HappyHills Homicide, it is zero or close to it... not using the igpu...

Any fix for it? I know it's old, I have a good PC but this one is a backup to use...

I'm hoping this expands use of SteamOS!

Hello people. I wanted to ask you a question, what distro do you use to stream or play video games? I currently use dual boot with Pop os but when I want to record a video game the recording does not work well. I leave you a sample image. In the middle of the arrows, You see a line as if it divides the screen. It happens to me with all the games and it records whenever I want. Does the same happen to anyone?

My journey so far is brief. I'm on Linux for almost a year and just a couple of weeks ago, maybe months, I started to venture into gaming around here.

I had issues. Many issues. I thought that by installing Lutris or Steam, for example, they would install all of the dependencies needed. They don't.

For example:
I had an issue where a game would launch with a black screen. I had sound, I would interact with the menu but couldn't see anything. It turns out I needed to do (Game: Jump King)

I had another issue, this time with Red Dead Redemption 2 where the game wouldn't launch. It turns out I had to: (or was it cyberpunk? I don't remember. Too many struggles to remember, lol) (or the game just runs like butt cheeks. It was the case for Cyberpunk. It ran WAY better once I installed the package below)

And just yesterday with The Last of Us. The game would not launch. I downloaded two versions to make sure (same with Red Dead. I even downloaded a version that was supposed to be for linux and it did not work). It turns out I had to:

Context given, my questions are:

• Why doesn't the dependencies needed are installed when you install Steam/Lutris, for example?
• How to troubleshoot when a game doesn't work? I know, the logs, but beyond that.
• Within the winetricks, how am I supposed to know what I need amongst those hundreds of things?

Some extra clarifications:

1. The results prior to the fixes found were true regardless of the prefix used or wine version, proton, etc. Although I mostly use wine. I just use proton when something doesn't work with wine.
2. I was able to find these fixes, often by accident. Either searching for questions on Reddit or really by accident while just browsing Reddit. Not the logs. Maybe I don't know how to read logs? I don't know.
3. I looked at proton db to see if there was instructions there. Some clue... I didn't find.

If you want to try the demo, here is a link to the game. Support us by adding it to your wishlist. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3146120?utm_source=reddit

It always annoyed me, when using a Service like ShadowPC, that I couldn't alt+tab inside of the VM without tabbing around in ubuntu - or randomly getting the "This program doesn't respond"-Window, even though everything worked fine.

So I created a little tool, which works (currently only for Ubuntu and Gnome, or maybe anything and Gnome? I have only tested it on my system) called the Ubuntu Gaming Buddy:

https://github.com/MichaelPoutanen/UbuntuGamingBuddy
(There is a .AppImage there under releases)

Its basically a wrapper around a few scripts that disable some shortcuts (like alt+tab) while "gaming" mode is active and resets them to default after being done, which allows alt+tab and similar to be caught inside of the VM instead of your current OS yourself.

Warning: If you use non-default keybinds it would reset them to default after toggling gaming mode off, I will create the next version with that in mind, so it will store your keybinds and restore to exactly them.

So, why an annoying GUI? Because I haven't done anything with Avalonia in a long time and I really wanted to write a GUI application again. I also have some more ideas to add to this, but if anybody here has some ideas I'd be happy to hear them :)
(Plus you can just use the Tray icon, if you dont want to click the buttons)

https://www.eurogamer.net/will-battlefield-6-work-on-steam-machine-valve-hopes-its-new-hardware-will-prompt-a-fresh-discussion-with-developers-over-kernel-level-anti-cheat

To preface, I have driven Linux (specifically Bazzite) daily before, but felt the need to switch off due to a few reasons, and wanting to use the fancy vibration of my Dualsense is among them. I have seen that Proton Experimental has mostly made Haptic Feedback function identically to Windows. However, a slightly newer post talks about trying to get it working with Insomniac Spider-Man, and failing. So, to the Dualsense owners in the subreddit - how functional is Haptic Feedback actually, at this point in time?

The game just freezes and stops responding. The laptop itself keeps working just fine.
The game usually runs smoothly without even getting the machine warm.
Sometimes it even freezes on the login screen.

I'm like, a noob in this matter to fix it myself, and just googling the problem didn't help (stuff is either outdated or looked too convoluted for me to even try it).

This is the list of what I've been randomly throwing at the wall or I think might be useful to know:
* I run minimal settings, all fancy nvdia stuff and v-sync is turned off.
* Switching back and forth between DirectX 11 and 12 didn't help.
* My current GPU is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile with nvidia-driver-580-open drivers.
* I'm using Proton Hotfix.
* Switching screen resolutions and from borderless to full screen didn't help.

My neofetch:
OS: Linux Mint 22.1 x86_64
Host: OMEN by HP Gaming Laptop 16-n0xxx
Kernel: 6.8.0-87-generic
Uptime: 22 hours, 16 mins
Packages: 3000 (dpkg), 49 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.2.21
Resolution: 1920x1080
DE: Cinnamon 6.4.8
Terminal: flatpak-session
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 6800H with Radeon Graphics (16) @ 4.785GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon 680M
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile / Max-Q
Memory: 5570MiB / 15188MiB

When steam release their new console/PC, I am sure they know it will be used much more for competitive multiplayer games than the steam deck, its a kind of the Crux all consoles land on. Once they announced the steam machine, two of my mates text me who wanted to get one, they have never had a PC only ps5.

I told them to hold out as they are pretty hardcore multiplayer lads, they play the likes of fortnite, fc25, battlefield etc.

But with Steam deck these games don't hold as much value or have as big of an audience, but when you build that console like experience and release the steam machine, I think the audience starts to shift a bit.

Just wondering if anyone heard anything regarding them addressing this as I told my mates to hold off until it's addressed.

EDIT: I have no idea what I am talking about from a Tech point of view, and I love my Steam Deck and Steam OS to bits, I just noticed my friends have a lot more interest in the Steam Machine because it looks much more console like but they are hardcore in the competitive multiplayer scene. Just wondering if there will be a place for this audience in SteamOS if more and more major titles adopt the Kernel AntiCheat System.