Suddenly have this starting to show up, what is needed to be done? Weirdly re-opening steam is fine, but this comes up each time the OS is booted.

The odd part is here, I don't have any flatpaks installed. I do however have two steams, "Steam" and "Steam (Native)", assumably installed from the cachy OS gaming-meta package.

OS: CachyOS

As you can see I got this error while playing Genshin Impact on my Steam Deck this morning. 😭✌️

Is there a current fix for this. Its error code: 10010 - 4001.

For example if I look at wine, I don´t really see issue one can contribute on (on github at least). Can someone guide me on this?

Of course wine is an option but I am open to many other projects, essentially I want to help the community so that people are more encouraged to switch to linux for gaming as well. I have both knowledge of C/C++ but im also interested in kernel and drivers

Cannot play vr recently due to mesa and driver issues. Keep getting an error that it cant connect to window manager. How long till the issue is fixed?

Just so you know, I love Mint and kinda have been using for years, but then I started wanting to game on Linux (just because) and wanted to get rid of windows.

My video board is a RTX 4080 SUPER. All the rest I think it's irrelevant.

And I prefer a resolution of 4k (3840x2160)

Linux Mint:

PROS

• Everything works fine, I love the installer, I love how everything works and you don't have trouble with tweaks and shit.
• Easy to install anything
• You are in control to tweak here and there as nothing comes pre-configured.
• The Sleep or Screen shutting down are not a problem. The screen will turn on.

CONS

• Fractional Scaling is still terrible as some games won't coupe with it. My Red Dead Redemption 2 will use a resolution of 5k per 3k or something because I'm on a scale of 150% as I wanna use a 4k resolution in my monitor. This breaks the game btw.
• Streaming in Discord is still an issue for X11. Everything gets slower dropping frames when streaming.
• Screen tearing as I prefer 4k resolution. The solution is to enforce Full Composition by NVidia settings, but this will cost some games that use DXVK (e.g. Warcraft 3 Reforged). You need to disable the Full Composition by NVidia to make these games run.
• Sunshine Streaming will lose the mouse cursor in the remote screen when accessing it for the second time. (I found someone mentioning a fix for that here in reddit, but it didn't work for me. I think it's because of me using NVidia).

CachyOS

PROS

• Installer simpler as well.
• Easy to install anything (Except that I'm a bit scared of what "paru" is doing. I get scared of how much it does when I install "nordvpn-bin". So much script and shit).
• Games work super good on it. Only in CS2 I have to enable XWayland, so Steam overlay is able to work with it.
• Fractional Scaling works better. I don't see the same trouble as in Linux Mint.
• Discord streaming works fine as well. I don't notice dropped frames as in Linux Mint.
• Sunshine Streaming don't lose the mouse cursor as in Linux Mint.

CONS

• Screen tearing still happens on 4k resolution.
• Sleep or Screen shutdown still requires from you to type CTRL + ALT + F1 and then F2 to make the screen turn on again (which is opening terminal session and then back to graphical).
• Sometimes I don't like the much it's been done for me. I like to install and configure some stuff by myself.

Right now I'm sticking to CachyOS as I wanna still keep playing some repack games on my TV and sometimes join some Discord with my friends. Sometimes I stream on Discord too.

I want to Switch to Linux but i do Play a Lot of Unreal engine Games and Vrchat with virtual Desktop can anymore recommend me one distro? And Support

Greetings, as a Linux user I was experimenting to get Runelite to open on Linux through steam if you have a jagex Account / Launcher connected, while basically being able to choose which account I want to login (same as a Jagex Launcher), at least on Arch (CachyOS for me) I did it following steps:

Install Runescape on Steam (if not already)

Install Bolt Launcher

yay bolt-launcher

1. And set the Launch parameters for Runescape in steam as:

env -u LD_PRELOAD bolt-launcher %command%

1. Now clicking PLAY on Runescape (on Steam), should launch Bolt Launcher which in return basically lets you choose your account that's connected to your Jagex Account to play in and run Runelite, and also the time will be tracked as playing time on Steam.

Hello everyone, I am a big gamer and recently I got a small rig to play and discover older games (ps3 era and before) I want to use it as some sort of console that I could use as a PC whenever I want so I installed Windows 10 and Playnite to gather all my games. The thing is that I’m currently debating whether I should have installed Linux or not, it seems really interesting and powerful but I don’t know if it can run all the games that I want, I mainly get my games from GOG or any other website that would allow me to possess the game without DRM and not only have a key to use it, I think GOG already supports Linux but I don’t know about games that I got from other places (like Halo CE that I got from internet archive for example). So my question is : Is there a version of Linux that could allow me to play all my games or not ?

As the title says, my PC freezes, mostly when launching a game or during gameplay. I'm on Arch Linux, KDE Plasma, Wayland, using Proton-CachyOS. I have a full AMD system (5700X3D, 9079XT). I'm checking the logs and frequently seeing error: Pageflip timed out.

I tried everything: disabling lact, reverting back to regular mesa, and some other things that I don't remember.

It's kind of annoying and problematic. I need to hard power down my PC, which I don't enjoy doing. Honestly, I like Linux better, mostly because of the customizable nature of it, but if this is the cost, it's not worth it. At least on Windows when the driver crashes, it can reset itself. The screen may flash, but I don't need to restart the PC...

Anyone else experience anything like this?

Hey everyone

If you grab a lot of Linux games from sites like freelinuxpcgames.com, you know how annoying it is to download a .tar.gz or .zip, extract it, hunt for the real executable, fix permissions, and then make a shortcut 😩

So I built a small CLI tool called Spawn to automate all that. With one command, it:

• extracts the archive
• finds the game binary
• sets permissions
• creates a desktop entry
• links the icon

It’s super simple and saves a bunch of time.

This was my first Rust project, so I’d love to hear what you think — especially if you also download games from places where everything comes in .tar.gz files.

Check it out on GitHub:
https://github.com/Anayo-Anyafulu/Spawn

Any feedback or improvement ideas are welcome! 🚀

My YouTube is full of recent videos making claims of people abandoning windows in droves - mostly gamers reaching for gaming distros, there are also reports of daily Linux users now exceeding 3%.

Is this really it? Are we finally breaking the ice?

I, uh, have an nvidia card but my laptop doesn't have a mux switch so it routes the GPU signal through the igpu. Like how well would it work? It's a 4050/i5. I played like 500 sessions of overwatch and 100 sessions of marvel rivals.

I have been banging my head against this for about 2 hours.

In CS2, the menus work fine. However, I can't aim passed where my cursor is hitting the border of the screen.

I just installed Fedora KDE Plasma earlier today, and CS2 is the first thing I'm trying to get going. Drivers are all installed and the game itself is seeming to run great (other than not having a true fullscreen mode in game no matter what I do?)

This is my first time touching Linux since Ubuntu 15 years ago, so I'm feeling pretty noobish :)

I have tried to google it any way I can think to word it, but I just keep finding 1-2 year old reddit posts with no relevant information. I've also bounced the idea off of a few LLMs with no luck. There's gotta be a way right haha right?

I'm using gamescope to stretch 16:9 to my 21:9 monitor if that matters.

Edit: It seems running the game at native 21:9 solves this issue. Is there some other way to achieve the stretch, or anyone know a fix to this issue? I gotta have my stretchhhh

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About Distro

I'd recommend trying gaming-focused distributions like Nobara Linux. I gave Nobara a shot and it worked brilliantly! However, over time I ran into some issues with dnf updates and package conflicts. That's why I switched to CachyOS, which I'm currently using. But hey, if you'd rather stick with your current distro, that's totally fine – this is just my personal take!

Installation Methods

You can try using Lutris to install Genshin Impact. If you encounter errors during setup and don't want to dive too deep into troubleshooting, PortProton on Flathub is worth checking out as an alternative.

Cloud Gaming Option

If you want to jump right in without dealing with complicated setup steps, GeForce Now might be your best bet.

Troubleshooting

Anti-Cheat Issues

One common problem when playing Genshin Impact on Linux involves anti-cheat detection, since Wine environments aren't identical to native Windows. You'll notice this when clicking "Start Game" in HoyoPlay – it closes but doesn't launch Genshin Impact, and HoyoPlay just reappears. The simplest workaround right now is to temporarily disconnect from the internet. While you're in HoyoPlay, disable all your device's internet connections (WiFi, Ethernet, etc.), then hit "Start Game." Once the game loads, you can reconnect to the internet. You'll need to repeat this process each time you launch the game.

HoyoPlay Won't Start

There are various possible causes, but first, if you're using a power-saving mode, try switching to Balanced or Performance mode. I'm not entirely sure, but on my system, HoyoPlay won't launch when Gnome's Power Saving mode is enabled.

A Quick Note

These are just my personal experiences and observations, so there might be some gaps or inaccuracies. Also, since English isn't my strong suit, I've used AI to help with the translation – please forgive any shortcomings! I hope you find this helpful!