I'm a intermediate-level Linux user and would prefer to use it over Windows whenever possible. Currently my gaming PC is running Windows 11 and connected to a 4K TV that for the most part I can completely control with a controller. Overall, it works but there's a lot of jank. For example, I like the Xbox Gaming overlay, but it can be very glitchy. On some games it just doesn't work, other games it works but doesn't disable the game input, etc. Also why can't I connect to Bluetooth (headphones) using it? Besides that, I have pretty frequent glitches, like Windows UI elements stuck on the screen or my controller randomly disconnecting.

It seems pretty obvious that Windows was never intended to be used like this, so there's issues. On the other hand, Bazzite mentions that it can be used on TV-based setups like what I have. If I can operate everything with a controller through a front-end, that would be perfect. What I have now isn't terrible but if it's better on Linux I'm willing to switch.

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So I just got my new RTX 5060ti but Ubuntu doesnt seem to load past the Grub boot screen. Im sure it's got something to do with the right drivers but I can't seem to install them since I can't get into the OS. I looked up a few posts and all of them say get into recovery mode to install the new drivers after purging the old ones. But I tried booting in recovery mode and still nothing happens, the screen just goes blank.

I also tried using my old GPU to get into Ubuntu and purge the old drivers to see if that works, but nothing :(

I'm out of options right now so any help would be highly appreciated.

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I recently installed mint on a new PC build (9700x, 9060xt). I've been playing Silksong and have been enjoying a smooth 144Hz frame rate. I was playing yesterday at this framerate with no issues.

I boot my PC this morning and I'm barely getting 60. Lows down to 50. MangoHud says my GPU and CPU are at 4% utiliation each. My PC display settings are still at 144 Hz, and Silksong does not have framerate cap enabled. I'm not running any other programs. I get 144 while in menu but as soon as the game starts the FPS tanks down to sub-60.

When I reduce SS graphics settings to minimum I get between 100-122 frames. But again, was rock solid at 144 with no problems 8 hours ago.

Windows partition has no issues, but I'm trying to use the Mint side as much as possible to determine whether I can switch 100%.

What gives? How can I debug this issue? I don't see anything in top besides steam, silksong, cinnamon, and Xorg.

$ uname -a Linux illusion 6.14.0-35-generic #35~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Oct 14 13:55:17 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/issue Linux Mint 22.2 Zara \n \l submitted by /u/RPBiohazard
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I have tested various Proton versions. I have tried installing the flatpak verison of steam, I have tried reinstalling BTD6 on my ext4 drive instead of my ntfs drive. Nothing seems to work right now, I have tried some troubleshooting with ChatGPT and got the game to actually start but only a black screen shows up for a split second. Now it's just bringing me down a rabbit hole, making me test lots of different settings, installing vulkan and so on. I thought that Linux Mint 22.2 gaming would just work out of the box with my AMD only setup.

I have a 9800X3D, 9070 XT, 64 GB RAM, and 2TB ssd and so on.

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i keep getting this line of text trying to run an APK on waydroid

"OSError: Binder node "binder" for waydroid not found

Interrupted

Waiting for waydroid container service...

Failed to load binder driver

modprobe: FATAL: Module binder_linux not found in directory /lib/modules/6.17.4-76061704-generic

Exception during init

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/waydroid/tools/actions/initializer.py", line 256, in init_proc

init(args)

File "/usr/lib/waydroid/tools/actions/initializer.py", line 123, in init

if not setup_config(args):

File "/usr/lib/waydroid/tools/actions/initializer.py", line 44, in setup_config

helpers.drivers.setupBinderNodes(args)

File "/usr/lib/waydroid/tools/helpers/drivers.py", line 134, in setupBinderNodes

raise OSError('Binder node "binder" for waydroid not found')

OSError: Binder node "binder" for waydroid not found

Interrupted"

is anyone able to assist me with this?

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After much trial and tribulation, I was able to update Ubuntu to 25.04 from 24.xx (literally took me a week). Now I have an HDR toggle!

My machine has a mini-LED display that goes to a claimed 1100 nits, and only when gaming in Windows on HDR compatible games do I believe that figure. The problem is on this display, HDR looks terrible in windows. The highlights are bright enough that I believe its 1000+ nits, but they are completely washed out (just like this laptop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zQTB9Evmfc)

When HDR is enabled in Ubuntu, things do look better, but I can't really tell if its true HDR, even trying youtube HDR videos (I compare it to my HDR TV and macbook pro, both of which look brighter than HDR linux). So I thought I'd boot up Horizon Forbidden West, which looks amazing in HDR on my screen and my HDR TV.

The problem is the HDR toggle is disabled, so the game doesn't recognize it.

I've tried launching steam with `gamescope -r [monitor refresh rate] --mangoapp -e -- steam` but that also doesn't work. ChatGPT hallucinated a bunch of nonsense that I need gamescope 3.18.xx, but as far as I can tell the latest version is 3.16.xx.

Any suggestions?

https://preview.redd.it/q79hdjfd8g1g1.png?width=772&format=png&auto=webp&s=7f646757bdd863f93448b43facd0c3df1b85a481

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Hey all I found a really good & recent guide online to configure a virtual display on x11 on Ubuntu for use with Sunshine. I wanted to share here because it actually worked and the author is incredibly responsive.

Good luck and have fun gaming!

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__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia __VK_LAYER_NV_optimus=NVIDIA_only gamemoderun mangohud %command% -gl -nojoy -high -forcenovsync -refresh 240

i am using these but it still doesn't run on my Gtx 1650. instead it runs on ryzen 5600H's APU. i have all the drivers installed. i am on EndeavourOS and when i type nvidia-smi it shows my gpu and says its running Driver Version: 580.105.08 CUDA Version: 13.0
but still CS2 is opening with my APU.

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Hi,
We got some Issuies with Anno 117 on Ubi Connect.

First the Game runs, but today we got on every launch a black Window.

So we try different Proton Versions and now get a failure at Startup:

"This Product cannot be activated right now, please try again later"

When i'm searching for it soneone told we have to wait 24h, can somebody assign that?

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Since the Steam Frame was introduced, there’s been some hubbub about gaming on Linux ARM. It’s not an impossible task, and this summer I tinkered around with my laptop to test it out.

It’s my honour and shame to introduce my Pinebook Pro, a laptop I purchased mid-COVID as a cheap laptop with long battery life, and relatively solid build quality. Seriously, the promise of a linux-powered thin laptop with 10,000mAH battery and a nice, 14-inch 1080p IPS display seemed like a pretty solid deal at $199 at the time. I basically wanted a Chromebook that wasn’t locked to ChromeOS...

One day, after what seemed to be a routine Manjaro ARM update, I lost my ability to connect to WiFi. (and not in the weird only after reboots way that the Pinebook Pro works now, just a stupid update that messed with wpa_supplicant) I’d troubleshoot that, but every so often something similar would happen. Lost wifi, no audio, awful performance, limited video playback. It all led me to put the Pinebook Pro down for good.

I realized that Manjaro ARM and the Pinebook Pro just weren’t really ready for prime time, or even daytime. It was shelved for a future that didn’t really come along.

But eventually I pined for the PBP’s lovely keyboard screen, and sleek metallic build. I booted it back up, found out about Armbian and started enjoying it again. So much so that I wondered if it's possible to do more on this thing than just occasional browsing.

I’m here to say, yes, definitely it can be used for more, and my recent addiction to Balatro and other indie games have pushed me towards figuring out how to do potentially unholy or at least, unadvised things with my PBP.

Here’s how its going: I’ve been able to install Steam and can play an assortment of games on it. Things like Balatro, Lumines Remastered, Stardew Valley, Counter-Strike (1.6) and World of Goo. Some of these games don’t have ARM builds or even Linux builds, so it was quite a journey. It’s also worth pointing out that the games all don’t run particularly well, and require lowering options or resolution to get decent frame rates. They’re playable though!

I loathed the sluggishness of Steam though, so I found gaming refuge elsewhere. Lutris gave me a decent experience with my GOG library, and Legendary worked really well for all those Epic Games Store freebies I’ve been collecting over the years.

From my GOG library I’ve played: Quake 2 and 3, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, Freedom Force, Bastion and Martial Law. Lutris and GOG is a nice experience because of all the scripts that can install mods or open-source versions especially for the id engine games. I struggled with Unreal engine games, Deus Ex would run well until I faced water and it would tank to 1 fps and become unplayable.

On Legendary, I tested out Wilmots Warehouse, Horizon Chase Turbo and Vampire Survivors. Overall, my experience suggested that 3D games that are 20-25 years old and indie 2D games work decently.

My secret weapons for all this are Box86 and Box64, along with Proton, Proton-GE and Proton-Sarek.

The path I took to get here to get here is a windy one, as I’m a relative newbie to Linux.

I started with a build of Armbian that I built - it was nothing special, just a Generic UEFI one with Gnome.

I removed Zram, and replaced it with a swapfile because the lack of ram meant the whole computer would crash and freeze when both ram and zram were full, which happened with launching steam.

sudo nano /etc/default/armbian-zram-config sudo fallocate -l 8G /swapfile sudo chmod 600 /swapfile sudo mkswap /swapfile sudo swapon /swapfile sudo nano /etc/fstab Add /swapfile none swap sw 0 0

I would install mesa-utils and vulkan-tools

I’d install something called Pi-Apps, which did a good job of automating the install of Box86, Box64 and Steam.

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash

I also put

PAN_MESA_DEBUG="gl3, gofaster"

in etc/environment

and eventually I added

PAN_I_WANT_A_BROKEN_VULKAN_DRIVER=1

too (I think there is SOME Vulkan support on the Pinebook Pro/RK3399, and this would be the way to run it...)

It’s encouraged to reboot after installing box86, box64 and Steam so I did. Don’t want to jinx anything!

After reboot, I’d run and log into steam, set it up and download a default proton version.

I set up Steam to use an external drive, a microSD card in this case, where it downloaded the proton versions.

I had to tinker around in Steam to make it as lightweight as possible. The Pinebook Pro is limited with just 4 GB of RAM.

Afterwards, with patience, I could install and play some Steam games.

I used the PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% variable to use OpenGL renderer instead of DXVK

However, due to how slow Steam was, I wasn’t satisfied, and went on to Legendary.

I downloaded the standalone Binary, chmod+x, and installed it in my %PATH

After logging in and installing a game, I'd set up Legendary's config.ini to point to proton

Something like this:

[default] #gameid wrapper = "/media/user/SDCard/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Proton 8.0/proton" run no_wine = true [default.env] STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH=~/.local/share/Steam/ STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH =/media/user/SDCard/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata

That allowed me to play a few games from Legendary.

I tried using Heroic Game Launcher and Lutris’ Epic Games Store, but both were finicky, and wouldn’t display properly.

Finally, I installed Lutris from Github. It picks up the Protons I installed from steam automatically, and there should be a way to install Proton-GE too in the wine section.

And thats it. However, not everything is perfect.

For whatever reason, the generic Armbian UEFI image doesn’t come with sound out of the box. I needed to mess with alsamixer to get audio, and even then, it doesn’t work properly with headphones or headphone detection. Other typical issues, like no external monitors apply here too.

I THINK I want newer Mesa drivers with better Panfrost support and features, but I just can’t do it. I tried backporting it, and it broke everything. So I’m wary of dealing with that again.

I also wish this thing had HW accelerated video decode. Then I could use Moonlight to stream from my desktop with confidence, and maybe use Kodi for media playback. That'd be great.

Obviously, performance isn’t top notch. I’m open to ideas on improving it. Some things worth mentioning: using a Pinebook Pro-specific Armbian image doesn’t work very well.

I’ve also looked into installing different armbian-bsp-cli and armbian-bsp-desktop versions for the pinebook-pro via Synaptic rather than the generic uefi ones, and I don’t think that made a significant difference. I’d love feedback on that.

Anyways, I present this post as evidence of my craziness. Indeed I was so preoccupied with whether I could, I didn’t think if I should.

Video evidence can be found here:

https://youtu.be/IDTFKdbz74k

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I'm running Ubuntu on a Samsung Book. I can install Steam and use my Nacon Revolution X controller absolutely fine via USB. But if I want to use Xbox Cloud Gaming in a browser, specifically Chrome or Edge, it won't detect the controller. It doesn't matter if the browser is installed via a .deb or Flatpak or Snap.

The controller is detected in Firefox, but Xbox Cloud Gaming is not a great experience in that browser and I have regular freezing.

I've used the gamepad tester website in Chrome and Edge and my controller and its inputs are detected correctly.

Does anybody have any ideas how to get Xbox Cloud Gaming working on Ubuntu in Edge/Chrome?

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Of course, ProtonDB itself is helpful, because if it runs on the Deck, chances are it'll run smoothly on the LeGo S, but the opposite isn't necessarily true. And each handheld have its own differences, like the lack of trackpads and community controller layouts for instance.

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I am using Bazzite with latest updates. Proton-GE with launch options "PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1" in game recognize HDR is enabled but my monitor does not. If I enable HDR on KDE display settings it works, my monitor goes to HDR mode but I don't want to use HDR on my desktop. Also with Steam Proton games recognize HDR with launch options "SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1", yet again not my monitor.

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Warp jump to hauling offload location :D

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Hi I’m new to Linux and I have installed bazzite on my old spare desktop pc but I’m having a issue, I have installed 3 games, Skyrim, fallout New Vegas and Red Dead Redemption 1. I can run the games from steam on desktop mode but as soon as I go in game mode I just get a black screen then I get the bazzite startup screen again then back to steam home page. I have tried messing with the different version of proton including proton experimental and proton GE latest I’m guessing it has something to do with the fact these 3 games have some kind of separate launcher but I’m just stumped at this point I spent all night last night and most of today trying to sort it out but I’m at the point now where google wont give me the answers.

If it helps here is my pc hardware: Intel i5 3470 16gb ddr3 ram AMD Radeon RX 580 8gb I also have the os installed a 1TB HDD I dunno if I should have it installed on a SSD or not but I doubt that will stop the games from running.

Any help would be much appreciated

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When I play either Age of Wonders 4 or Monster Hunter Wilds, sometimes the audio is gone. And this audio lost persist outside the game. I can't hear any sound when watching YouTube or listening to music. The only way to fix it is to restart my PC.

Do you know why this problem happen and how to prevent it?

My specs:

OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

Processor: AMD® Ryzen 7 5700g with radeon graphics × 16

Graphic Card: AMD® Radeon rx 6700 xt

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​I recently migrated to Linux (Bazzite) and have been able to configure Steam for each user session, one for each member of the family, with Steam booting into the corresponding Steam family account.

​I've been able to change the language for each account, except for one: my youngest kid's. The only one who absolutely doesn't speak English.

​I tried restarting Steam, Bazzite, and the computer itself. I also tried to see if it was something age-related that I could tweak from my account via family settings, but no. ​And I didn't have any issue with my other child's account.

​Here, I cannot even click the button. It's not grayed out or anything, it just does nothing. ​Normally, there's a button with "English" on it and if you click it, a drop-down menu appears. ​Here the button's there but it's unresponsive.

​If it's of any help, the language I'm trying to set up is the same as the OS one (French).

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First, some technical details out of the way:

• OS: Bazzite, should be latest version.
• CPU: Ryzen 5600x
• GPU: Intel Arc A770 16 GB
• RAM: 32 GB DDR 4
• MESA: 25.2.7

When attempting to launch an Unreal Engine game with Proton version above 9.0-4, or Proton Experimental, or above GE-Proton 10-1 I get this crash and error:

!status && "vkQueuePresentKHR"

I've searched for this error and only found some old threads pointing to Steam Overlay being a problem. However, disabling Steam Overlay does not stop this issue.

Some of the UE games I play function on lower versions of Proton, others refuse to launch at all.

What could be causing this issue? What would I do to fix it?

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