Hi guys. I've been gaming on Linux for 3 years now, started with PopOS the first year then moved to EndeavourOS and stayed there until now.

During my time, I've always ran full-blown DEs: GNOME with PopOS (cosmic wasn't a thing back then) and KDE now on Endeavour.

I've grown some interest lately on Waybar compositors (Hyprland, Niri ...) and Quickshell configs and ricing them. My experience with DEs has been 99% perfect, but I'm worried that switching to those options might bring some gaming related headaches along the way. So

To the ones using them, have you had any problems with gaming?
Could I use my current KDE installation, install Niri for example and change between sessions within SDDM if I have any problems?
Do I have to consider anything while using them?

My rig is full AMD, if that matters

Nothing special was really needed. All I had to do was mount the ISO, setup a Bottle for it (Just the default gaming one) and away I went.

This isn't using any wrappers or workarounds. I can also run it fullscreen perfectly too but I ran it in a Wine Virtual desktop here to show you it with all the info.

The only thing that does not work is MIDI music sadly, but the sounds work perfectly.

No glitches, no slowdowns, no weird colours. It runs beautifully.

Yes this is the original Doom95, one of the first ever Doom source ports made back in 1995 by ID Software themselves!

Yes I am aware that I can use the hundreds of other Linux native source ports, and I do... but I was curious and wanted to try out exactly how compatible Wine is compared to modern Windows... and Wine wins again! This usually has great trouble running in modern windows without using DirectX wrappers.

Hello good! I'm looking for an ambidextrous or left-handed mouse with 4 accessible buttons since I mainly play Deadlock and find it very convenient to use mouse skills. I currently have the Razer Nega Left Handed Edition mouse and it's not that I don't like it but it feels too heavy. I've been thinking about the Logitech G903 but it doesn't seem like the 4 side buttons are as accessible as on the G300s. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance!

Any ideas on how to solve this? Manjaro, tried reinstalling, settings changes, steam run commands. Other games run fine

hello, after last update overwatch crashes when i enter chat (using any proton), do you maybe know why? Running on Omarchy (arch distro)

Je suis entrain d'essayer d'installer un "demake" pour Helldivers 2.

Pour cela, il faut utiliser Reshade. J'ai donc chercher a l'installer.

Mais, quand je fait la commande d'éxécution (./reshade-linux.sh), le programme cherche des mises à jours (jusqu'à la, rien d'anormal) et il se stop, en disant "Error: Could not download version 6.6.2 of ReShade. Exiting." Puis le programme s'arrête net. Je ne peux pas donc l'installer sur mon jeu.

Et je n'ai trouvé aucunes infos sur quelqu'un qui aurais eu le même problème.

(je suis sous Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS)

Hi r/linux_gaming!

I'm the dev behind Austraoxe. I posted a screenshot yesterday, but I wanted to show the actual 3D environment for the main menu.

Important Note: There is no UI yet (buttons/text). I am just showcasing the geometry and the lighting mood.

Since my daily driver is Ubuntu, I'm building this natively in Unreal Engine for Linux from day one. No DirectX wrappers here—this is pure Vulkan. Let me know what you think of the aesthetic!

Hello everyone!

I have the following laptop:

Ryzer 5 6600

RTX 3050Ti 4GB

RAM 16GB

I'm thinking to change Windows on my laptop because twice after windows update, windows became corrupted and puts me on a bit locker recovery loop and i lost a lot of docs etc.

So i want any advice that can help me! Which distro should to choose for gaming? (LoL, HS) I read about the LoL that cuz of vanguard its not support on linux, its not a real problem for me tbh so i',m ok with that!

But i dont know the difference between distros!

Mint? Nobara? Bazzite? Pop!_OS? Manjaro?

I know Mint is more close to windows, but it will be enough or shoud go to another distro?

Thank you!

I've recently installed guli kit joysticks and they need to be calibrated, is there a way to do so? I've tried using thumstick_cal but it doesn't seem to work, I've also looked at evdev calibration tool but couldn't see anybody try it on Arch

Is there anyone that is playing Overwatch 2 without issues right now?
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/proton-support-is-broken-game-crashes-on-esc-chats-etc/992546/20

I have been trying for weeks now and I cant get anything working properly. I am trying to run Arma 3 but it is laggy and sometimes crashes. Games dont work if I use another monitor. I want to use skydive for drone sim, but it cant detect my controller unless its already plugged in. It has deadzones and throttle starts from the middle. I have 8 hours of time on these games but I havent got to playing yet. The issue should be somewhere in steam or games themselves, bc I have the correct drivers and popOS should work decently with nvidia.

I used all the options websites, forums, tutorials, AI but I still cant figure it out.

A new season of Overwatch 2 starts today, which comes via an update. I booted it up (on GE-Proton10-21, on Fedora 42, on an AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT), went into the battle pass, clicked on something, and it crashed.

Started up, did it again, it crashed again. Switched to GE-Proton10-26, cleared out the cached data in compatdata and shadercache, started up - and it crashed on startup. Switched back to GE-Proton10-21, and it crashed on startup again! I've tried with and without gamemoderun, both versions of Proton-GE, after a reboot and software update, and it consistently crashes on boot.

Anyone else getting this?

Any thoughts on what i could try?

Why is it that every single time I install an application, it stops my all of my controllers (Xbox 360, PS4 and Xbox Series controller) working in Steam games? What am I doing wrong?

This has happened with OpenRGB, now it's happened after installing Davinci Resolve (I already uninstalled OpenRGB a while ago so that's no longer the problem.) I have no intention of uninstalling Resolve after fighting to get it to install on my system in the first place.

It's so frustrating, I don't want to have to use 2 completely separate OS installs to avoid conflicts between completely unrelated applications.

FYI I'm running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, but this issue has also occured on Bazzite 42 and Ubuntu 24.10 in the past.

its been. 24 hours. of complete trying. to xfce4. maybe to cinnamon? weird patches. random crap. try proton expiremental. doesnt work. do anything. and it will just freeze as soon as it trys to move around. wayland or X11 same result. please. i really want this,

I've tried updating the system, trying different proton versions and trying different drivers but none have yielded any changes.

Specs:

Kernel: 6.14.0-36-generic

CPU: Intel Xeon CPU E5-2689

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

How do I get it to appear in game settings on CachyOs?

I’ve only had this PC for two or three months (AMD Ryzen 7 7700 CPU and 9070 XT GPU), and Windows has been a real headache. Between AI features, AMD drivers, and Windows updates, it just keeps getting worse. I’ve heard that the new Windows update fixes the issue with AMD cards, but if it doesn’t work, I’ll most likely switch to Linux. And here’s my question.

I’m completely clueless when it comes to using Linux I’ve never used it beyond the times I’ve put my Steam Deck into desktop mode. I mainly use my PC for gaming, and I rely heavily on mods for the games I play, with MO2 being the mod manager I use the most, as well as various Bethesda games like Fallout. I know there are ways to make it compatible with Wine. Is it difficult? Can you really use almost all mods to play your games?

https://preview.redd.it/w3sedav1b86g1.png?width=872&format=png&auto=webp&s=2b0f69877e0ca50b1e2cd227459f45254a7a3581

(First post ever on reddit, ahoy)

Hello, I joined the Bazzite rush today and it is really exciting! SO I of course jumped right into it.

I am using LACT to cap power usage of my 3080 to 250w. I ran Helldivers 2 with default graphics settings.

Without jumping into a planet, 2 minutes later roughly, these were the thermals that I got.

This can't be normal, can it?