Hello everyone, I decided to start using Linux as my main system not only for work (for games too) and I'm having a problem playing counter strike with VAC, can someone help me? In English the mensage say: "Some of your game files are missing or have invalid signatures. You will not be able to join VAC-protected servers. Check your launch options, make sure the game is installed correctly, restart the game and try again"

How i can do a 0 on a laptop

I constantly have seen this being said and I just don't understand it. What are people expecting "Official" SteamOS to bring to the table?

Nvidia support? It is the only thing I can think of that they think "Offiical SteamOS" is going to solve. It is not like Valvle or anyone else can make Nvidia care about this issue. I also think people don't realize how bad Nvidia gaming on linux really is. Games run slower on Linux with nvidia than they do on Windows, a lot of game specific bugs, Wayland issues still, GameScope issues still. Nvidia proprietary drivers are not going to be good on Linux for years yet if ever while they remain proprietary. The main issue is we have to wait for Nvidia to do anything. The driver is a black box, half the time we can't even decide if the bug we found is an Nvidida driver issue or a proton issue, because you just can't debug properly.

Are people expecting a full blow super polished desktop replacement for Windows? "Official" SteamOS is probably just going to be a deck sytle image. Not a boot to desktop style image.

Or do people just not understand open source and think Valve has some special sauce that Bazzite doesn't have?

I have been using Bazzite on my Framework 16, Desktop Gaming PC, and HTPC for well over a year now and everything these "Official SteamOS" waiters want seems to already exists. Yet even when some YouTuber makes a Bazzite video I still see people in the comments declaring they can't wait for it to be "Official".

I'm new to Linux ( Linux Mint to be more precise) , and I'm trying run the recompiler, but to no avail. I can provide more details if needed.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

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Since Friday, I haven't been able to use my graphics card for display. When I boot the machine I can see the splash screen and I can enter UEFI, but briefly after the OS loads it stops displaying video through the GPU ports.

I tried a fresh install of the OS (upgrading Kubuntu from 24.04 to 25.04) and video output worked when using the live environment and after the initial install/reboot. But after the first update the problem returned and I can no longer use the GPU ports to display video, though I am able to use the CPU's integrated graphics.

Any ideas about what's causing this? I've tried using the display port connection and a few different monitors to no avail. 'lspci' shows the graphics card, and I can't find any indications that the machine is failing to find it. I think my next step is trying a different distro, but I'm not sure if that will make a difference and would like to avoid if possible. If any other info is needed please let me know.

Thanks in advance!

System info:
Operating System: Kubuntu 25.04
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.8.3
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-22-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 20 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Memory: 31.1 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor 1: Intel® UHD Graphics 770
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7E06
System Version: 2.0

If you're using ProtonGE 10-X and GNOME, and you're having issues with Forza Horizon 4 (no sound and no input when in fullscreen mode) try switching the game to windowed mode.

Everything works fine in windowed mode – input and audio return as expected.

This issue seems to happen specifically in fullscreen with this setup. At least until it's fixed, using windowed mode is a good workaround.

Hope this helps someone!

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I was just about to switch to Bazzite because of Windows 10 ending, but I'm reading about it maybe shutting down? I don't want to have to reinstall everything again if Bazzite dies. How real is this risk? Is it a good distro in the first place?

Thanks y'all <3 🙏🥹

I recently got a steam deck and have been playing with it. Although I'm not a huge modder, I did notice that if I were to mod, I'd need to either struggle in desktop mode with touch controls or plugin a mouse and keyboard.

So is there any good alternative out there? Otherwise I'll just start coding one myself.

Just bought a wireless SteelSeries mouse and experiencing an issue I have not experienced before - whenever my laptop is doing something somewhat resource-intensive (running a game), the mouse movement occasionally stutters in bursts, sometimes outright disconnecting the mouse (the mouse's LED indicator flashes for 1-2 seconds as if it is not attempting to (re)connect).

I've used two different wireless mice with the same system before (all 2.4 GHz as well) and have not experienced this issue. I reduced the new mouse's polling rate to 125 and to 500 Hz and the issue seemed to occur less frequently, but still happens regularly.

This only occurs on my KDE Plasma (NixOS) system - on Windows (with the proprietary SteelSeries software installed, have not tested without), no matter how much I have running on the system, the mouse moves smoothly.

Any ideas on what the cause might be and if this may be fixable on Linux or if I might need to buy a different mouse?

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I think clearly a overhaul is needed to the rating system.

Recently, I switched my MSI Raider GE68 HX 13V to Fedora Linux. For several reasons (mainly due to my RGB keyboard not functioning without secure boot and the extra security secure boot provides), I want to keep secure boot enabled. However, this prevents the Proprietary NVIDIA Drivers I downloaded using RPM Fusion from working. How do I get the drivers running while secure boot is on? I do not know much about linux, so I am hoping to find a simple, safe solution.

Anyone had any luck installing and launching EVE Frontier on Linux? Specifically Debian. Tried bottles, tried wine-staging, lutris, and proton. Closest I got was with wine-staging, I was able to install the launcher and download the client, but the client just crashes immediately on launch. Anyone had any luck?

Proton GE, Linux Mint 22.1

When I run OBS Studio on Manjaro (KDE, xWayland), Pipewire always asks me which windows to share - it doesn't remember my choices, even though I select the option to have it do just that. It's not a total disaster, but it's quite annoying. Do you know of a solution for this?

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Finally gaming in HDR is possible in gnome/amd without gamescope. I got gnome HDR running in games, with Proton-GE 10.4 and the following steam run command:

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1 %command%

However my. box controller does not work if steam input is enabled. Any idea what the problem could be?

I've been running arch with my 9070xt for about a month now, and haven't gone in to windows for essentially anything. But the frequent crashes in the amdgpu driver for the 9070XT are absolutely soul crushing. I have crashed 4 times this morning (full system lock, tty to reboot) and lost progress in expedition 33 every single time.

This amdgpu driver instability is the thing that's going to force me to go back to windows temporarily even though I have no desire to. I'm following the open bugs about this, and have provided dmesg logs etc to the open bugs, but to date there isn't a resolution that I'm aware of.

I should say, this isn't exclusive to expedition 33, it's most games using the gpu (sometimes it crashes just using desktop applications). I really hope this gets sorted soon!

So I just wanted to share the experience I had with gaming on linux. Im very pleased and it was smoother than previous attempts.

Background: Ive been able to get my games running in the past, wine to get StarCraft running. So I have that as experience. At some point I had tried SteamOS but found the compatibility wasn’t there.

Yesterday, I installed fedora 42, opened software and installed steam. Noticed that the install button was grayed out, so I went to preferences and enabled compatibility (cant remember if steam restarted or my desktop) either way, then it came back on, I now saw the install button, great! After the smooth install, I ran the game but noticed 14 fps, so I immediately knew it was running off the iGPU. I opened software again and installed nvidia drivers. Ran the game again and got 100 fps.

Great experience overall! Almost getting to excellent!

I think Im ready to completely ditch windows.

Thank you to all the developers that made this dream possible. Let me know how I can buy you a beer or coffee or tea.

Decided to switch Linux mint. So far this is good. I hope one day anticheat systems can run on Linux as well. For instance faceit anticheat.

Why not the anticheats are not running on Linux?? Can someone explain me?

Enough of Windows