wanting to try out and use linux on my main pc, I was looking into using steam os however have heard it's not quite stable and nvidia gpus don't really work on the software yet. I have heard of bazzite but don't know too much about that or how good that works on nvidia gpus or gaming functionability. is anyone able to help answer if any of those os's are worth it at the time being?

Hello people. I would like you to help me choose which distro I can use for everyday use (I currently use a dual boot with Windows and Pop_Os); I usually play online games, edit videos, stream. Pop_Os is slow on my PC even though I have no programs installed and every time I log in I have to update things. What recommendations do you give me? Thank you

I have a buddy who is very much a PC gamer but for some reason insists on using his XBox a lot of the time. Instead of using the Discord app on the XBox and using his existing Discord server or setting up a laptop to use his existing Teamspeak server, he also insists on using XBox Party Chat because....reasons. We can play cross platform games, but I am unable to voice chat with them because I have only Discord or Teamspeak.

Everything I can find about using the XBox Android app in Waydroid are at least a year old and from what I can tell they suggest that there is no microphone support as of the time of their posting.

Does anyone know what the current state of voice chat in the XBox app in Waydroid is? Does it work? Do I need an XBox specific account to use the app or does a regular Microsoft account as I would use to log into Windows work?

EDIT: Also, I keep finding references to being able to join Xbox parties in a browser, but I can't find a website to actually do this? Is this something XBox planned and never implemented? Something that was once a thing but has been discontinued? It's maddening.

I'm writing this post because I was having some trouble with cloud saves in Heroic, and I want to document it in case someone runs across the same issue.

I'm using Fedora with Heroic Games Launcher 2.18.1 installed as a flatpak. I've linked it to a GOG account where I have some pre-existing cloud saves that were created back when I was using GOG Galaxy on a Windows system.

If I access cloud saves by clicking on a game and then opening the game's settings from that screen, then cloud saves don't seem to work. So, for instance, clicking on Against the Storm in my Library:

https://preview.redd.it/1m8iwqqzbdxf1.png?width=1477&format=png&auto=webp&s=b8c6afbbbe07c64bb8a122f8491174d7117ebf47

The settings for this game can be accessed from the button in the top-right corner. The cloud sync screen does not work well when I do this. A "Trying to detect the correct save folder" message appears and sits there forever. Canceling that and trying to perform a sync pops up an empty box with no text, and nothing will ever appear here:

https://preview.redd.it/2ma8itzfcdxf1.png?width=1110&format=png&auto=webp&s=3ff23c3d25a33a3da5ba5f4ab5335f309e025ac7

The logs don't indicate that there's a problem. There seems to simply not be any attempt to perform a sync. I'd guess that this is a bug in the GUI.

But there is a workaround. I had noticed that the Library view also has a Settings button under each game, so I decided to try using that instead. So for example, here's my Library view, and you can see Against the Storm has a Settings button under it:

https://preview.redd.it/nlzyj6qrbdxf1.png?width=1477&format=png&auto=webp&s=d0f999bac5b590907f73af86dd7694a6c9c648b9

If I access the game's settings from this display, then cloud sync works! A path is instantly/automatically chosen, I hit sync, and everything seems to work perfectly.

I've observed this happening with all of my games. If I access a game's settings from the Library, then cloud saves sync works. If I access a game's settings from the game's page, then cloud sync does not work: but I can make it work again by just accessing the settings from the library page.

Also, once cloud sync has been enabled successfully for the first time (from the Library), then that seems to permanently fix it; I can then access the cloud sync page from that game's sub-page and everything continues to work for that game.

Pretty easy work-around, but it was a little frustrating since I used the broken method first! Hopefully this gets fixed, and hopefully this post is found by others encountering the same problem

basically the title. Running a game via proton on steam uses dedicated gpu, but running a native one makes it use my integrated one. I don't want to disable my integrated one as I want to use it for stuff like the desktop and basic apps.

I have an nvidia 3050 laptop gpu and run kubuntu. this issue happens with non-steam games as well such as sober, which technically isnt its own game but idc. I have the 580 propritetary driver installed and have the PRIME profiles thing set to preformance, but that did nothing. I installed the drivers via KDE's built-in driver manager

Hello everyone! 👋

I've posted a few times here before and I'm excited to announce that my new indie psychological horror/CLI simulator game's demo is out!

Me and a small team of indie creators have been working on this for a while. The demo is now fully polished though it may receive 1 more update.

🖥️It's mostly a CLI simulator and psychological/bodyhorror type of game though in the demo there won't be much bodyhorror.

The full game will include cutscenes too, all with original music,art assests & voice acting! (Even now most music and sounds you'll hear are original: minus the main menu music, the type beep, message notification and heartbeat sound. Those are pixabay assets).

💾You can download it on Itch.io!

📝I'm open to feedback (especially about the Itch.io page I'm not sure if it's captivating enough yet)

There will also be a proper trailer video but that requires a lot of art and voice acting to be done so that won't come anytime soon.

I have this issue where UE4 and UE5 games running under VKD3D will randomly freeze for 5-10 seconds and then continue running as normal. For example, Stellar blade does this after 1-1.5 hours of gameplay. The rest of the system does not freeze, and is completely responsive, only the game freezes and recovers after a few seconds. I have observed this behaviour in other games such as Witchfire( UE4) and Void/Breaker(UE5). Games that are not made in the UE and not DX12 do not exhibit this behaviour. I don't have this issue in DOOM The Dark Ages(VULKAN), Red Dead Redemption 2(VULKAN), and Dying Light(DX11), and my play sessions in those games are 4-5 hours long, so the issue is either UE or VKD3D.

Setup:

Arch Linux

Hyprland

Ryzen 7 7800 X3D

32GB DDR5 6000MHz

RTX 5090

nvidia-open-dkms 580.95.05-1 driver

Proton experimental and GE 10-15, GE 10-20

Any idea what is causing this/how to fix it?

Hello! I've been having this inquiry for a while now, and is, will achievements work if I use MO2? I remember installing mods for Oblivion remastered (OBSE64 specifically) and since its a new executable, Steam does not recognize as you playing the original game, so the saves, play time and achievements wont count on the original unmodified game.

I've been feeling like a 5th fallout 4 playtrhough, but without mods is not the same; any input would be greatly appreaciated :D

Cyberpunk 2077. Don't think it happens in other games.

NVidia 2080ti. KDE Plasma, Arch Linux
Proton 9 (Also tried Experimental, same thing)
Happens both on X11 and Wayland session

Everytime I launch the game, it starts with lower FPS than expected. Then, after I alt+tab one time, and tab back in, I get a permanent 20+fps boost for the rest of the session.

Why is this happening?

I spent almost half an hour uninstalling and reinstalling wine and vinegar, restarting my laptop, nothing worked. Genuinely what am I missing? btw the open log button just closes the window, it doesnt do anything else.

Hi linux_gaming!

I'm trying to run Far Cry 5 that I've bought on Steam on my CachyOS install. The game is purchased through Steam, I'm not trying to run this via Lutris or anything like that.

When I boot the game, the button changes from Play to Stop and acts as if the game has booted, but nothing shows. I never see a Ubisoft Connect login prompt, or any sign that Ubisoft Connect has booted at all. I've tried reinstalling Ubisoft Connect with Protontricks into Far Cry 5s prefix and that doesn't work. I've tried Proton Experimental, the latest Cachy Proton, the latest Proton GE and nothing will work to get this game booting.

Is there currently a bug with Ubisoft Connect on CachyOS/Linux? I've checked the Proton Issues page for both Ubisoft Connect and Far Cry 5 and I can't see anyone reporting anything.

Any help would be much appreciated!

I know the performance wasn't that great on launch day with Mesa. And I know it has improved over time.

I'm curious If they've improved in the last few months since I haven't read any news on this lately. And how do they compare with Windows at the moment.

Sooo... HDR was going well at least with gamescope enabled... without I already had the same problem.

- Desktop HDR works fine (for example MPV HDR via `vo=gpu-next` + `waylandvk` looks perfect).

- Proton games appear **grey/washed** (SDR tone-mapped as HDR).

- Untilast week, running them with **Gamescope** fixed it; now after Plasma 6.5 update, it’s broken.

- Tried `DXVK_HDR=1 ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1`, Proton-GE latest, Gamescope `--hdr-enabled` with/without `--hdr-itm-enable`, no joy.

- VRR toggle / fullscreen modes → no change.

Anyone else on NVIDIA Wayland seeing this after Plasma 6.5? Any combo (Gamescope build, Proton-GE, driver branch) restoring HDR? I can share `vulkaninfo`, DXVK logs, or KWin traces if needed.

I am not too knowledgeable on Steam on Linux, just a few games in a couple years sometimes.

I am on Arch Linux, audio device is Focusrite, and other games (I tested Thimbleweed) still sound fine.

I am running Easy Effects always, pipewire, Sway, fully updated everything on Arch. It feels like it's not reaching the right channel but this is beyond me. Anyone?

I am trying to use sober on my dell latitude e6410. It's old but there shouldn't be any problems running Roblox. Im using Linux mint and I just installed it. I'm getting this weird glitch, can anyone explain and help?

hi all

i know this has been brought up a few times already before but i cannot get this to work for the life of me.

i tried gamescope and the game just doesnt start

im on lmde and x11, gpu is 3070ti

(yes, i like 4:3)

I've a laptop with Nvidia GPU (T1000), which I'm using with Kubuntu 25.04. For background, I'm well experienced with Linux and this laptop+Kubuntu has been my general non-gaming daily-driver for many years now. I want create a low overhead, near-zero tinkering, couch+TV gaming setup. Mainly because if I've to tinker I'm too lazy or tired and just end up watching TV instead of gaming (been many years since gaming).

I've a bunch of games on Steam and EGS, few indie titles and few AAA of 5-10yrs ago; same games that worked on this laptop+Windows 4 yrs ago. I tried Steam and Heroic Games Launcher from flathub, and they were working but with lots of perf issues -- some games worked, some didn't. And Steam's own UI was very laggy. I do have the proprietary Nvidia driver installed.

If I setup Bazzite on a different partition, can I expect a significantly improved / seamless experience, or should I just spend more time debugging/tuning my Kubuntu setup? Or is this just perf overhead of Wine/Proton translation and I need to upgrade hardware?

If yes to Bazzite -- is there a pointer to setting up Bazzite on a 2nd partition alongside some other Linux distro? I found a bunch of Windows+Bazzite dual boot tutorials, but no Ubuntu+Bazzite tutorials and few articles/posts mentioning this is complex -- needs 2 EFI partitions or manual grub modifications etc.

I tried the commands SteamDeck=1 %command% using proton db experimental, still no luck. Any solution for this?

PC Specs:

CPU : i7 13700k

GPU: RTX 4080

RAM: 32DB 5800MT/s

OS : Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS