First of all, I know I know. Why wouldn't you want to pay for game to not own it, etc. But, I see subscription more like rental. You going to return in either way at some point. Oversimplification, I know. It is not like I don't buy game that I actually want to own.

With that, what option I have that is not game streaming? So, similar to Microsoft gamepass?

As we know, to use the full power of Gamescope,it needs to be run from a tty session in embedded mode. So me, being a fresh, full-time convert from Windows, wanted to try it out on my Fedora system (I know things like Bazzite exist, but I want my system to be as vanilla as possible). So I followed the guide here to configure a Gamescope session which can be selected from the login screen of GDM.

The drawback? Everytime I wanted to play a game, I had to logout and switch to the Gamescope Session and login with my credentials. This was somewhat tedious because everytime I had to login using my user account and since I had to log out of my usual desktop session, there seemed no way for me to run both in parallel i.e, desktop sesssion must continue in background, while I played games on the Gamescope session.

After trying different things, I came up with an approach which yeilded the following result: https://imgur.com/a/yHaXmgl

The switching between regular desktop and gamemode is done using Ctrl+Alt+F2 (for desktop mode) and Ctrl+Alt+F3 (for gamemode). Both can run in parallel if you switch to the other while the first one is still runing.

Here are the instructions to achieve the same:

1. Follow this guide to setup the Gamescope session. You may omit Step 7 if you don't want the optional functionality to select the Gamescope session from login screen.

2. Before proceeding to the next step, let's recap some info about TTY. TTYs are essentially terminal sessions which can run in parallel. You can switch between terminal sessions using the keyboard combination Ctrl+Alt+[F1-F6], where Ctrl+Alt+F1 will switch to TTY1, Ctr+Alt+F2 will switch to TTY2 and so on, upto TTY6. On GNOME (I don't know about other desktop environments, so if anyone can clarify in the comments, it will be helpful), TT1 corresponds to GDM, the login manager and TTY2 corresponds to the GNOME session itself, while TTY3-TTY6 are available for use. For the sake of an example, let's choose TTY3 as our Gamescope session target.

3. The next step is to setup autologin on TTY3. Open a terminal and execute the following command: sudo systemctl edit getty@tty3. Replace tty3 with any other tty3 which you want to use.

4. Insert the folling text where the cursor if pointed by default:

   [Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -o '-p -f -- \\u' --noclear --autologin <username> %I $TERM Restart=no

   Replace <username> with you user account's username.

5. Save the file and reboot you system (I'm pretty sure there was a way to just reload systemd, but I forgot lol).

6. Edit you .bashrc file and insert the following text at the end:

   alias gsteam="gamescope-session; chvt 2; exit"

   Here, I'm using chvt 2 since GNOME runs on TTY2. If you know for sure that your desktop environment runs on a different TTY instance, replace 2 with whatever instance number you desktop environment runs.

7. Save the file and exit.

8. Edit your .bash_profile file and insert the following text at the end:

   if [[ $(tty) == "/dev/tty3" ]]; then gsteam fi

   Here I'm using /dev/tty3. If your selected target TTY was anything else, replace tty3 with your selected target i.e, if you want to use tty5 for the Gamemode, replace /dev/tty3 with /dev/tty5.

9. Save the file and exit.

10. Log out and login again and test it out by switching to the selected TTY using the keyboard shortcut. Here, since I used TT3, I can test it by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F3, which should open Steam Gamemode. You can exit it by going into the menu and selecting Switch to Desktop, which should switch you back to your usual Desktop Environment and terminate the Steam Gamemode. To switch between the TTY sessions (including the one where your desktop environment is running, you can just use the keyboard shortcuts, and both the desktop environment and Steam Gamemode will run in parallel. Steam Gamemode will only terminate if you click Switch to Desktop in Steam.

This way, you can have things running in your usual desktop environment (maybe some downloads or perhaps discord, or maybe something else), while still being able to game on Gamemode, without having to terminate the process.

P.S: Discord voice chat running in Desktop Environment does work while you are gaming on Gamemode.

Let me know in the comments if you wanna ask something.

Cheers!

Hi, i've been playing AC shadows and tbh it runs MUCH better on Linux than Windows. My only problem is that the ground textures seem to be broken.

It looks like tiles with black lines. It's weird and pretty immersion breaking. However, weirdly this doesn't happen on my Steamdeck. Only on my PC.

I am using Bazzite OS with a Ryzen 5800X and a Radeon 9070xt.

Does anyone knowna potential fix?

Specifically to kind of rival or outperform my steam deck. I was going to go with bazzite and have a console-like set up. I saw someone on YouTube recommended a beelink mini PC but I’m not too familiar with that world of products.

I use the snap version of steam to run my only game marvel rivals. Each time I open it, steam tells me to run these three commands:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

sudo apt update

sudo apt install libnvidia-gl-535:i386
I tried to do this but the last command wasn't working so I got rid of the ":i386" after words, when I reopened steam I still got the prompt and now Marvel Rivals wasn't launching. I'm guessing I might have messed up the graphics card some way but I'm clueless. Any help would be appreciated.

I recently switched back to Linux (MX linux incase youre curious) and this time around im trying to use all open source native applications but steam is a big hangup for me; the only FOSS clients ive found are github pages that either havent been updated in years or have 12 views. Is there a mainstream FOSS alternative Steam client?

If not, is Steam really bad to keep installed? They do not seem to have any undisclosed spyware or malicious features behind the curtain and, for a gaming company, have been pretty pro-consumer. I want to use open source for everything but i dont want to go full Richard Stallman, if the closed source software isnt malicious then its fine with me.

What do I do?

Maybe I could email gaben lol

I know about only one website for cracking games on linux its freelinuxpcgames.com ---Can I find another site like this?

Does anyone have the Linux version of Touhou Suika Combination Game since it was taken down? I know the Windows version is on Internet Archive but I'd like to be able to play the native Linux version. I used to have the game until, when rearranging desktop icons, I accidentally drag-and-dropped my home directory into the trash (no prizes for guessing in which directory trash is stored). Please help me re-add this game to my collection if you have it!

Context- I'm running a ryzen 7 5800xt CPU, powercolor reaper Rx 9070 GPU, 32gb ram, 1tb nvme. I've been running fedora 41 for a little longer then 2 months and I really can't complain. But I've been hearing a LOT about pop_os and I was just wondering what you guys think? I mainly play the monster hunter titles and halo mcc or sometimes the new frakpunk. And what do you guys daily drive for gaming and productivity?

Tried setting WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY=4:0,2,4,6 for FarCry 4 and nor the ubisoft launcher or FarCry 4 had its affinity set. Did they silently remove this from proton without telling anyone? Using PROTON_LOG=1 and searching through the log gives no reference to it.

And i cant use taskset since that only ends up setting it for the ubisoft launcher and not the game exe.

Using Fedora 41 with non flatpak steam if that even matters.

I been thinking of moving to Linux and just wanna know if gta 5 or 4 works

I'm baby new to linux but I've only had a few problems, one of those if minecraft seemingly having the same framerate regardless of the gpu I use.
On windows with the Igpu I had the same frames I get now, but with the dedicated gpu I achieved 300-400.

https://preview.redd.it/i75uly87n5qe1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=de8193b42c5d04509a10514dac0e06f55115a782

https://preview.redd.it/gaqeemkan5qe1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=18f4cf86557d6c8a8e2091e31a625b658374af8c

Any fix? the load times are faster and better but the performance itself (specially because I want to use mods and shaders) is a bit lacking.

EDIT: Linux Mint

very few games have native linux support, but most emulators have native linux support. anyone know why?

Coulda swore this worked before. Cant get past the EA launcher install. Tried Proton cachyos, Proton experimental, Proton hotfix.

I have a Linux laptop Any games the you recommend me playing???

So I'm wanting to install SteamOS onto my ROG Ally X, but it always hangs forever (longest I've waited is 1 hour) on the last line there, which says "Started wireless service".

I'm not sure what to do from here; I haven't seen anyone else post about this problem, and I have followed the instructions from Steam on how to install this (which can be found here: SteamOS). The only modification I made to the installation was that I formatted the drive with the SteamOS installation via Rufus, because I cannot unzip an 8GB file onto a Fat32 drive, like how the guide says to do. Plus, everyone else I've seen set this up used some sort of software for this.

Some context about my setup: I am using an ROG Ally X, and I am booting from a USB device that has been formatted with the MBR partition scheme & Fat32, using Rufus. I will be trying to install the OS onto a large partition I made for it. I've tried disabling fast boot & secure boot, and I have all compatibility settings for UEFI turned on. I have also tried connecting it to my network via Ethernet in a vain attempt to get past this step (which didn't work). There's probably other stuff I have tried that I've forgotten. I've been stuck on this for way too long.

Is there something obvious I've missed? Is this even the right place to ask for help?

I want to switch to linux but my problem is that some games like R6 and GTAV aren’t available on linux. I thought of dual booting like I am but giving windows a smaller partition but the problem is how will I access all the games on my linux partitions.

Bazzite on the TV for game mode, Bazzite on the laptop for stability, and Endeavour on the desktop for flexibility. I still have a windows partition on the desktop just in case I want to play something unsupported, but for the most part today marks my first day as a full time Linux user :)

Ignore my barren walls, you know where my priorities are

i have no clue what the problem ist. I got a Proton Log where it just stops at a step until i force close it.

I have played the Game bevor last year on my laptop also with Debian and the official Nvidia driver and there it worked just fine. What the hell am i missing here ?

Log:

3459.040:0130:0250:warn:threadname:NtSetInformationThread Thread renamed to L"audio_client_main"

3459.042:0130:0254:warn:threadname:NtSetInformationThread Thread renamed to L"FAudio_AudioClientThread"

3459.044:0130:0258:warn:threadname:NtSetInformationThread Thread renamed to L"audio_client_timer"

3459.046:0130:025c:warn:threadname:NtSetInformationThread Thread renamed to L"AudioMixerRenderThread(1)"

3459.046:0130:025c:trace:seh:dispatch_exception code=406d1388 flags=0 addr=00006FFFFFC1CF97 ip=6fffffc1cf97

3459.046:0130:025c:trace:seh:dispatch_exception info[0]=0000000000001000

3459.046:0130:025c:trace:seh:dispatch_exception info[1]=000000004170fe80

3459.046:0130:025c:trace:seh:dispatch_exception info[2]=000000000000025c

3459.046:0130:025c:warn:threadname:dispatch_exception Thread renamed to "AudioMixerRenderThread(1)"

3459.046:0130:025c:trace:seh:call_vectored_handlers calling handler at 00006FFFF7BEB1F0 code=406d1388 flags=0

3459.046:0130:025c:trace:seh:call_vectored_handlers handler at 00006FFFF7BEB1F0 returned ffffffff

3459.047:0130:0260:warn:threadname:NtSetInformationThread Thread renamed to L"AudioThread"

3459.047:0130:0260:trace:seh:dispatch_exception code=406d1388 flags=0 addr=00006FFFFFC1CF97 ip=6fffffc1cf97

3459.047:0130:0260:trace:seh:dispatch_exception info[0]=0000000000001000

3459.047:0130:0260:trace:seh:dispatch_exception info[1]=000000004228fe80

3459.047:0130:0260:trace:seh:dispatch_exception info[2]=0000000000000260

3459.047:0130:0260:warn:threadname:dispatch_exception Thread renamed to "AudioThread"

3459.048:0130:0260:trace:seh:call_vectored_handlers calling handler at 00006FFFF7BEB1F0 code=406d1388 flags=0

3459.048:0130:0260:trace:seh:call_vectored_handlers handler at 00006FFFF7BEB1F0 returned ffffffff

3459.083:0130:0208:info:nvapi64:<-NvAPI_D3D_GetObjectHandleForResource: OK

3459.083:0130:0208:info:nvapi64:<-NvAPI_D3D_SetResourceHint: No implementation

3459.369:0108:011c:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002

3459.369:0108:011c:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000126A040, 10002, 000000000193F8A0: stub

3459.544:0130:026c:warn:threadname:NtSetInformationThread Thread renamed to L"AchievementThread"

3459.544:0130:026c:trace:seh:dispatch_exception code=406d1388 flags=0 addr=00006FFFFFC1CF97 ip=6fffffc1cf97

3459.544:0130:026c:trace:seh:dispatch_exception info[0]=0000000000001000

3459.544:0130:026c:trace:seh:dispatch_exception info[1]=00000000431cfe80

3459.544:0130:026c:trace:seh:dispatch_exception info[2]=000000000000026c

3459.544:0130:026c:warn:threadname:dispatch_exception Thread renamed to "AchievementThread"

3459.544:0130:026c:trace:seh:call_vectored_handlers calling handler at 00006FFFF7BEB1F0 code=406d1388 flags=0

3459.544:0130:026c:trace:seh:call_vectored_handlers handler at 00006FFFF7BEB1F0 returned ffffffff

3459.567:0130:0134:fixme:gdi:D3DKMTEnumAdapters2 NumOfSources and bPrecisePresentRegionsPreferred not set, need implementation.