I'm currently using Zorin OS on my old laptop and I'm very satisfied. What I'm worried about is whether I can use Debian on BC-250 for my first time with Fedora, or if I should just use Fedora-based.

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I am still a beginner to gaming on linux, so I still don't understand this perfectly. I downloaded Bioshock Remastered, installed it and tried running it with lutris but it wouldn't work for some reason. So I decided to manually create a wine prefix and run it myself with wine and it worked perfectly, played it for a few hours.
Now I like seeing my games nicely organized on lutris, so decided to add the game on lutris again. This is where I fucked up. I gave the path to the prefix I created manually. Lutris just overwrites over that, which also deleted all my saves !! Now when I open the game I can't find my saves. Don't make this mistake.

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Whenever I launch a game on steam it never launches the game first, it starts "Pre-loading vulkan shaders" and I'm just wondering if its ok for me to skip it?

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Had a friend asking about getting Windows and Linux to play nice without grub getting destroyed with all that and I couldn't help them because I realized I forgot how.

This isn't even a pain challenge or anything, I wasn't counting. Why? It stopped mattering. It's been a long while since I wanted to play a game badly enough, and it didn't work in Wine/Proton either out of the box or with minor hacks. So one time when it was time to set up a new Linux PC I just... didn't even bother with the windows partition, didn't see the need.

If it's an indie title, there's a decent chance it's either native already or runs in Proton easily enough.

If it's a POPULAR title and doesn't have kernel level anti-cheat/DRM (which is a no-buy sticking point for me anyway) then when it breaks due to expansions or updates, some vigilante coder will write the Wine patch themselves within the month. I've watched this happen more than once for World of Warcraft.

I don't play ranked competitive games these days, I was into them at one point but disliked the kind of person they were turning me into so I quit them as an entire genre of activity. These are the main culprits of going overboard with invasive anticheat and other nonsense and they basically don't apply to me for the most part.

In the DXVK era, the performance loss/overhead from having a compatibility layer is so negligible that I've stopped caring about it. Some Linux ports, especially ones that were done third party, actually run better running the Windows version in Proton now. And this is often a necessary step in multiplayer to avoid version mismatch errors anyway (looking at you, Total War franchise)

What does suck, is if you're after a title made by a small to medium size studio that isn't quite indie but isn't quite AAA either, so they kinda do things their own way and nobody understands it. Case in point the only game I think it kind of sucks I haven't been able to play without a Windows partition is the original Assetto Corsa and even that supposedly works I've just never managed to get the workaround working, it's one of the more complicated ones. That's the one stickler I've kind of given up on, but still couldn't be bothered to make a windows partition just to play this one game. And now the sequel is around the corner, anyway.

I am also into music production and have found that the LSP plugin suite along with a few others basically replaces most paid plugins and audio tools you would want to have, it's far from perfect but almost everything is doable and the few things that are crucially missing easily run in Wine or Yabridge. Melodyne runs just fine in stock system Wine for me, for example, it didn't even require any screwing with. I've taken online audio engineering classes and the course reviewer didn't even notice that my mixes were using 99% FOSS plugins instead of commercial ones so I'd say it passes the sniff test.

This shouldn't be taken as a humblebrag. I guess the point of this message is if not knowing how to set up a dual boot is one of the things keeping you from trying Linux as a daily driver, stop worrying about it, I'd hardly call it a required step these days. Yet I see people like my aforementioned friend going through the motions about it as if it's just another thing on the list of tasks you have to tick off before a computer is usable. Please chill on that.

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Hi all,

I'm attempting to migrate my games over to Faugus Launcher for reasons, but I also run some applications through Lutris that require certain versions of WINE, I notice I can't get WINE set up on Faugus, only Proton. Is there some kind of work around that I'm too stupid to see?

Thanks in advance.

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So im wanting to jump away from windows and get into Linux for gaming...I grabbed a kubuntu iso, and wrote it to a usb...wondering what is the preferred Linux distro for gaming.

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After three years of pop os gaming and fails it was time to try a different distro so I went with Garuda Dr46mized KDE gaming edition and didn't take long for to fall in love with the new interface. So Garuda is my new home for gaming on Linux. Garuda runs well on my hp 15" gaming laptop no issues with the install no issues with the games I've got on it every runs fine. If there is any recommendations for custom kernals for Garuda let me plz let me know

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I see that a lot of people have had this problem. I tried the suggestions I could find and.... nothing. All of this happened when I decided to try Lutris and installed it. Since then, I get this error and my Epic store games on Heroic Launcher won't run.

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Got into pc gaming 1.5 years with a steam deck added a gaming pc running windows. In last year and a half I went from knowing almost nothing about anything computer to building my first pc and now running a full home sever starting with Ubuntu server then moving to promox. Moving my gaming setup to Linux only made sense. Went with Manjaro Gnome ( a major selling point being AUR) Any tips of tricks for a Linux desktop noob?Quality of life settings? Must have repos? I'm decent with Linux at this point but ease of use on my daily driver while maintaining privacy is a pretty big thing for me. Ryzen 7500f cpu and 7800xt gpu.

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Friend of mine is trying to launch Palworld on Linux Mint, experiences a complete OS crash every time, and only on this game. Have tried different Proton versions including GE as well as launch options like DXVK_FILTER_DEVICE_NAME, etc.

DX11 or DX12 both cause these full OS crashes, launching with -vulkan in the launch options causes an Unreal Engine crash instead. Any solutions or suggestions?

There are no crash reports generated anywhere when this happens. The only exception is launching with -vulkan which returns:

Unable to launch with RHI 'VulkanRHI' since the project is not configured to support it

We have followed several online guides and other similar issues including using ProtonDB. Interestingly nobody else is reporting the OS crash/restart issue. Additionally, another user in our group also installed Linux Mint and was able to get the game to run, albeit slightly different hardware. This is the only game on friend's computer that suffers from this crash, there are no obvious hardware issues that would result in this on launch as far as we can tell. There is about a 10 second gap during which the game appears as a black screen, Steam Overlay starts, and the OS dies.

Cinnamon 6.4.8 Mint 22.2

CPU = Ryzen 5600

GPU = AMD 6900 XT

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I have a brand new system with a new Linux Mint 22 install. I had Steam tinker launcher installed on my previous system but am trying to get it set up again. I am trying to compile yad following the myriad of instructions I used previously, and found all over reddit and the internet at large. However this time I'm recieving and error I have not been able to pinpoint.

When I run autoreconf -ivf && intltoolize
I get ERROR: 'IT_PROG_INTLTOOL' must appear in configure.ac for intltool to work.

Itltool is installed, and reinstalled. Perhaps my google-fu is weak, but I've not been able to find a solution. Any suggestions?

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Just thought I should share this. Got the annoying GUI crash dialog pop up everyone else has gotten. Entered the code below and it worked. No more pop ups.

How do I disable the GUI crash dialog?

Wine includes a GUI crash dialog that is turned on by default. Users of apps that work despite a background crash may find the GUI dialog annoying, and in some cases the dialog itself has been reported to prevent an app from working.

The easiest way to disable the crash dialog is with winetricks:

sh winetricks nocrashdialog

If you prefer to do it manually, copy the following key to a text editor:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine\WineDbg] "ShowCrashDialog"=dword:00000000

Save the file with a .reg extension (e.g. crashdialog.reg), then apply it with regedit:

wine regedit crashdialog.reg

(You may need to specify the full path to the file, depending on where you saved it.)

To turn the GUI crash dialog back on, change 00000000 to 00000001 and reapply.

These changes can also be made by simply running regedit and adding/changing the appropriate key the point-and-click way.

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Hi guys. I've been gaming on Linux for 3 years now, started with PopOS the first year then moved to EndeavourOS and stayed there until now.

During my time, I've always ran full-blown DEs: GNOME with PopOS (cosmic wasn't a thing back then) and KDE now on Endeavour.

I've grown some interest lately on Waybar compositors (Hyprland, Niri ...) and Quickshell configs and ricing them. My experience with DEs has been 99% perfect, but I'm worried that switching to those options might bring some gaming related headaches along the way. So

To the ones using them, have you had any problems with gaming?
Could I use my current KDE installation, install Niri for example and change between sessions within SDDM if I have any problems?
Do I have to consider anything while using them?

My rig is full AMD, if that matters

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Nothing special was really needed. All I had to do was mount the ISO, setup a Bottle for it (Just the default gaming one) and away I went.

This isn't using any wrappers or workarounds. I can also run it fullscreen perfectly too but I ran it in a Wine Virtual desktop here to show you it with all the info.

The only thing that does not work is MIDI music sadly, but the sounds work perfectly.

No glitches, no slowdowns, no weird colours. It runs beautifully.

Yes this is the original Doom95, one of the first ever Doom source ports made back in 1995 by ID Software themselves!

Yes I am aware that I can use the hundreds of other Linux native source ports, and I do... but I was curious and wanted to try out exactly how compatible Wine is compared to modern Windows... and Wine wins again! This usually has great trouble running in modern windows without using DirectX wrappers.

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Hello good! I'm looking for an ambidextrous or left-handed mouse with 4 accessible buttons since I mainly play Deadlock and find it very convenient to use mouse skills. I currently have the Razer Nega Left Handed Edition mouse and it's not that I don't like it but it feels too heavy. I've been thinking about the Logitech G903 but it doesn't seem like the 4 side buttons are as accessible as on the G300s. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance!

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