I was thinking about solution to the anticheat problem on linux, and was thinking about kernal module anticheat. What if valve and the comunity made anticheat and exposed some userspace api for games to use. Would game developers agree to use such anticheat? Would linux users allow such module on their systems? Benefit i see here is that it would be open source anticheat with well defined userspace api.

Hello. I recently bought on sale The Last of Us Part 1 and 2, beat P1 without any issues but when playing P2 especially after entering Seattle game crashes sometimes after a minute of playing sometimes after an hour with error code in dmesg NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:27:00): 109, pid=97863, name=tlou-ii.exe, channel 0x00000083, errorString CTX SWITCH TIMEOUT, Info 0x5ac083. Some people has the same problem but even after few driver updates same problem persists.

OS: Fedora 42 (kernel 6.16.10)

GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4070

CPU: Ryzen 9 3900x

Every time I play World of Warcraft, amdgpu crashes with a ring gfx timeout error. This can happen after a 5 minutes or 5 hours. Monitor turns off and on. Steam and wow closed. Firefox youtube video still playing. Tested with my old rx6600/7600xt and no crashes.

So im using a GoXLR, so i have System, Music, Chat, and Game outputs. And i cant get it to work with all of them, it only works when i select 1. Any idea how i can fix this?

distro: steam os

Hey Community,

I'm pretty fed up with my Windows lately.
I tried to switch before, but I was, lets say, too optimistic, and I'm the somewhat "proud" owner of an Intel Arc A770. Experience back than was suboptimal.

I know this question pops up every few months here, but also the state of the drivers change relatively quickly - at least on windows.

So, how is it in October 2025?
Which distro do I choose? What should I be aware of?

The system consists of an 5800X on a Gigabyte B550 MB with an A770LE.
I primarily play WOW and a few other games spread over Steam and Epic Games Store. (last few ones: Anno, Halo, Satisfactory, It Takes Two, Kerbal Space Program...)

Please help me (get away from Microsoft)!

Thx guys!

Everytime that i try i get this error. Already tried this comand:

It changed nothing. But i don't know if i put the command on the right place, i am just starting at linux.

My specs are:

4 × Intel® Core™ i3-3110M CPU @ 2.40GHz

Intel® HD Graphics 4000 (Integrated)

4 GiB de RAM

Observations:

1- I put the command above first on the terminal without steam open, and them when i opened steam i tried to use it again;

2- When i tried to run Bioshock (the only game with graphics similar to DS1 that i tested) it doesnt even start now, but when i was using Windows 10 on the same notebook, i could run it;

3- Already tried to change the version of Proton;

What brand/model do you recommend? I want to but a modern small Laptop to install linux on it and do some light mostly indie gaming. I don't need it to be too much powerfull because I mostly play indie games. Maybe I'd like to try something like Elden Ring or Baldur's Gate 3 with medium graphics. But I definitely don't play anything highly demanding like shooters or any first person games. (So it should have an AMD chip better than the steam deck one, but not necessarily that much better?)

Also, I don't want it to have RGB keyboard, just a normal one (a good one, but nothing mechanical gaming stuff, because I will use always a gamepad for gaming), and a good trackpad because I will use it too for some web browsing and school stuff.

The screen doesn't have to be anything great, because I will do most of the gaming in a big TV using an HDMI cable. Thats another important thing: I need it to have great driver support for HDMI ports and Bluetooh. I tried linux on and old pc that I have, but I never manage to make the hdmi or bluetooth to work.

And the price, well not too expensive, but neither necessarily too cheap. Mid range budget I'd say. And I don't live in the US, preferably a brand with big worldwide presence or at least that ships worldwide.

So that's it (Im sorry for the long post). I wanted to ask it here because some of you have a lot of knowledge about the current state of the market. Im a bit lost right now, but I read that Asus was involved in some scandals due to the poor quality of some of their laptops and the guarantee it offered.

I'm using Bazzite on a Gigabyte G5, i5-10500h RTX3060 and have tried using LACT to control my fan speeds but it can't detect any fans.

Is there something I can do to try and have them detected or is there an alternative service I could make use of?

This is mainly frustrating because Bazzite actually enables me to finally fully switch over to Linux, but if I can't keep my fans from maxing out on every game it's unfortunately a deal breaker.

Just like the title says. All other audio works fine (sfx, menu noised, etc.) but there is zero music. I checked my settings, tried some different proton versions, nothing so far. Any help would be appreciated, the music is so good in this game! I'm running Bazzite.

Windows 10 dies in less than 48 hours, I have a weak pc (DDR3 weak) and can't afford any upgrade, any Linux operating systems that have good protection and gaming capabilities that aren't too intensive? I'd also love a user friendly option that is easier to configure and work with.

Just bought space marine 2 and my sound is delayed by 1-2 seconds both in game and in cutscenes. Using ProtonGE 10-17

Originally created to address the lack of native GeForce NOW support on Linux, this app also provides functionality for macOS and Windows users. Our goal is to refine the user interface and offer custom features for an improved experience.

I've been trying to run the game on Bazzite on Rog Ally X. protonDb website lists this game as playable but I get this error and I don't know how to resolve it. I tried trying different versions of official and community build proton versions. Battleye is also installed through Steam and Ubisoft connect also seems to be launching properly and signing in properly as I see it flash and I see game start, and then this error pops up. Game audio plays by the way (the same audio when game is first installed and started)

Just recently switched to linux after being a long time Microsoft user just to find out apex doesn’t work ): is there anyway to make it work