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I'm like, a noob in this matter to fix it myself, and just googling the problem didn't help (stuff is either outdated or looked too convoluted for me to even try it).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

I've wanted to try the game for a while and finally got to download it. I've watched videos and followed the guides for getting it to work, even scoured ProtonDB and reddit forums but the game won't launch at all.

With my specs: Nobara 42 OS, i5-9400, RTX3050, and 16GB Ram, I absolutely do not under any circumstances expect it to run at great performance or quality, but I expect it to at least launch.

(p.s. Yes I need to upgrade my CPU and Ram because yes the bottleneck is real and it's killing me, but I'm poor so I have to make due with what I got).

I got the game on steam and I've used all recent variations of Proton GE and tried old steamos=1 tricks but no dice. Is it still playable or are my specs really that shitty?

Hello there. I managed to buy new GPU and ditch my nvidia card, pretty much ready to switch into Linux on my gaming rig.

First major step would be choosing distro. I am not total rookie when it comes to linux. Been using debian on my personal servers forever running all kinda gameservers, LAMP and other sheningans.

Choises for my distro would be...

- Bazzite
- Arch based like EndevourOS, Garuda etc.
- Just Fedora
- Debian

Elite dangerous, Star citizen, X4 foundations, No Man's sky Satisfactory and Factorio. Those are my 99% most played games. If VR works that is a plus. ( Meta Quest 2 with link cable )
And some other Steam / Epic games that are not that relevant if they run or not.

I also use Discord alot.

My specs would be at this moment:

Amd Ryzen 5 5600x
Amd RX 7800TX 16Gb
32GB DDR4 ram
Windows 11 pro
2TB sata ssd ( Windows )
4TB sata ssd ( Storage )
2TB sata ssd for more storage
2TB nvme ssd for games
2TB nvme ssd for other games

Plan is to upgrade my CPU, mobo and ram next year with fresh set of ssd's. Just 2 x 4TB nvme's to get rig of hardware bloat.

Ultrawide 3440x1440 + 1080p gaming monitors. ( Dual monitor setup. Secondary is for discord, youtube etc I might need while sucking at some games.)
Turtle Beach Stealth 600 gen3 wireless headset.

Help me Obi-wan to choose distro, I don't want to endup distrohoping for eternitey.

ps: I prefer minimalistic desktop. Used alot of Mint Fluxbox edition when it was a thing.
pss: I dont' mind tinkering at all.

I have an 8bitdo Ultimate 2, Gamesir Cyclone 2 and Sony DS4 controllers. These controllers support gyro, but I could not get them to work. Steam is installed on GMKtec K11 with Debian 13 GNOME. I also installed Sunshine.

However, I am streaming (Moonlight) the from a Framework 12 laptop with Debian 13 GNOME. The controllers are paired to the laptop via bluetooth. All worked. I could also use them in Steam except for the gyro. In the Steam's Settings/Controller, I can only see the Joystick and no gyro.

I tried to hard wired the DS4 to the laptop, but no change in behavior.

Do I need to install additional packages to get the gyro to work?

The announced Steam Machine has support for HDMI with Freesync. I'm wondering if anyone knows more about this? How this is achieved, normally there is no support for freesync/vrr with AMD on linux because of the HDMI licensing issues.

I wonder if this means that they resolved this, meaning it's going to work for all AMD gpu's on linux (soonish?) or that valve has a custom hardware solution that only works for the Steam Machine.

I’ve seen countless posts of people who claim their games are running better on linux.

Besides the games that run natively (please disconsider them for this discussion) as I understand, for a windows game to run on linux it needs to be converted wine/box64 etc, and this process hits the perfomance, that was my experience running games on my arch-endeavor OS and on switch with kubuntu

Since people claim that they have a better fps rate on linux, my theory is that their windows is full of bloatware and are making an unfair comparison or something like it

Is there more to it / something different that was the key for this improvement on perfomance? I know that vulkan support is great, but does games really run better than on windows?

I want to run I pirated game with bottle without taking any risk what can I do?

Good morning, everyone.

I recently reinstalled Linux Mint on my laptop, fully expecting my Steam games to run smoothly (given my hardware). Unfortunately, I've hit a roadblock and need some help figuring out the cause.

Here's the situation:

• The Setup: I installed the Liquorix kernel before trying to launch any games.
• The Problem: All Windows-based games (running via Proton/WINE, e.g., Monkey Island 2) do not start at all.
• Working Games: Linux native games (like Slay the Spire) run perfectly fine.

These exact games run flawlessly on my other mini-PC also running Linux Mint (with the standard kernel).
They also ran without issues on this laptop before the reinstall (both on stock Mint and CachyOS).

I suspect Liquorix might be the culprit, but I can't confirm it. I tried reverting to the original kernel, but I'm not skilled enough to properly access the graphical kernel selection menu (GRUB), so I'm currently stuck on Liquorix.
I've tried different Proton version via Steam, but nothing changes.

Can someone give me some pointers on how to diagnose why Steam Windows games are failing to launch?

Specifically, where should I look for logs (Proton logs, Steam logs, etc.) or other diagnostic information that can pinpoint the issue?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Specifically, do they use a Box64 fork to run x86->ARM translation akin to how they forked Wine for Proton, or do they use a fully in-house solution?

Also, they call it an ARM PC, which probably means it runs regular Linux edition of SteamOS rather than something Android-based? Which means the APK support is probably from Waydroid, right?

It would be funny if a VR headset of all things helped push more accessible desktop-ish ARM devices... I'm really hopeful it of all things will come with some sort of UEFI support - given Valve's dedication to "you can install whatever OS you want on it" when it comes to hardware

I have a mini PC with a Ryzen 7640HS and 32 GB of DDR5 RAM. What OS would be best for my setup?

I need the mini PC to stay in a low-TDP mode most of the time and run Docker with Immich. Then, when I press the power button on my DualSense controller, it should turn on the TV via CEC (I think?) and either stop Docker or limit its resource usage — and at the same time, raise the TDP and switch the system into a “gaming mode.” Stability isn’t important. Ideally, I’d like to use a keyboard and mouse only rarely, just for configuration and maintenance. (Translated with chatgpt)