I have installed Fedora KDE, and have World of Tanks running via Steam. Unfortunately, the cursor appears very small. I suspect this is related to using a 4K display - I have it running at 4k resolution but at 200% scale so it looks like 4k. Everything else seems to scale correctly in the game, just not the cursor. I found a possible solution that said to add "XCURSOR_SIZE=32 %command%" in the launch options (although I used 64 instead of 32 as I had a similar issue in World of Warcraft and 64 looked to be right for that) but it doesn't seem to affect the cursor at all. I had the same issue a couple of months ago when I tried using Mint but didn't get a resolution there either.

Does anyone have any suggestions for what I could try to fix this?

Thanks.

My Dad and I own EA's Star Wars Battlefront II on Steam and plan to move to Linux Mint from Windows 10. He is already on Mint(22.2) with the latest working drivers(I am still on Windows 10 for now) and can't launch the game at all(opens EA app loading window then closes/fails). It's also a problem with Titanfall 2 and likely other EA games. While it is easier to launch EA games on other platforms like Epic I don't want to buy the game again 2 more times(No I'm not gonna pirate it). So if someone could tell me how to get EA games to work on Mint without buying the game again that'd be great. Whether it's Proton, GE-Proton, Lutris, Bottles, WinBoat; I don't care. Please help!

Extra details:
Dad's PC:
....CPU: Intel ??
....GPU: Nvidia RTX 3060 TI
....RAM: 64gb ddr4
My PC:
....CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
....GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080 10gb
....RAM: 128gb ddr4

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share our upcoming game Astro Protocol, a turn-based 4X space strategy game that runs natively on Linux. We’re developing it using open source engine Godot 4 and Linux. Linux has also been one of our main target platforms since the start.

Here’s what you can do in the game:

• Terraform and colonize planets to expand your empire’s network.
• Construct stations near asteroid fields, gas giants, and stars to harvest resources.
• Optimize production by connecting refineries and specialized planets for maximum efficiency.
• Research randomized tech trees and unlock new ships, stations, and terraforming upgrades.
• Build and command fleets in one-unit-per-tile tactical combat where positioning matters.
• Investigate anomalies for randomized events and powerful rewards.

We’ll be part of Steam Next Fest with an updated demo that adds the new Myrmidon Horde faction, available only during the event.

If you play on Linux and enjoy strategy games, we’d love your feedback on performance, compatibility or any topic really.

Steam page and demo: Astro Protocol on Steam

Yeah... We know most games qork with Steam's Proton layer, but what other games don't work or are really hard to play on Linux (specifically Arch)? Heard about Fortnite and GTA Online, but those are no big deal.

I bought Battlefield 3 and tried to run it on my Linux Mint, but it displayed a window that says I need to install PunkBuster. What is it and should I do it? I'm fine with just not playing if it's risky on Linux or whatever.

I have exactly those problems in VRChat on lower performing maps and permanent when I open the Steam Overlay in VR:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ValveIndex/comments/1ili75u/index_display_errors_and_consistent_stutter_ingame/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ValveIndex/comments/1ib0zu8/index_work_on_120_and_144_hz_but_has/

The recommended driver version is 24.10.1 but since linux has mesa ... I don't know which version that equates to. also I have to run VRChat on Proton9, the problem is even worse on Proton-10-GE

I'm on CachyOS with up-to-date everything. 9070xt, 5800x3d

Hello guys, I recently acquired a Lenovo LOQ for studying, gaming, and basic Python programming. I'm looking for a Linux distro that works well on my hardware and allows me to get the best possible performance when gaming. I previously used Arch on my desktop PC with a Quadro p1000, the experience was good but I would like to try something else since I currently don't have enough free time to install and configure Arch as I would like (I guess if I don't find something that suits me I'll have to take the time). For now I have tried pikaOs (I liked its interface and community, but for some reason the dGPU ran by itself when opening certain apps, I didn't like it since I plan to take maximum care of the temperature and my computer's battery. Also, I have to say I'm quite a control freak; I don't like the system to do something if I don't understand it or haven't asked for it.), I also tried cachyOs but I had problems with proton and the window manager, for some reason proton generated black shadows that made me have to reinstall Steam, proton and other apps, also for some reason I had a problem with the windows, when I put them in full screen the system froze and I had to restart.

I'm planning to try Pop OS today, although I don't really like Cosmic.

I have among my options, Nobara, Opensuse tumbleweed or any recommendation you can give me.

My hardware is: -Intel core i5 12450HX -24 GB de ram -RTX3050

Please excuse my poor English and the long text.

i am running linux on another machine i own, i know that because of several anticheats most competitive online games are not supported on linux idk how much this game has changed over the years, so i have no clue what kind of anticheat it has (if any) but does any of you have any experience trying to run ow2 on linux? is it possible?

I added an old game to Steam via the "Add A Game" > "Add A Non-Steam Game" on the bottom left of Steam. It isn't listed in Bottles, nor is it found when I wrote a script to assess app manifests. How can I find this information?

In the spirit of recent events (like win10 being no longer supported & windows enshitification in general) I will tell you my story on how I migrated to Linux successfully and not planning to go back. Hopefully I encourage you to do the same.

First, my hardware: nvidia 4080, Ryzen 9 7900X3D, Asus Prime X870-P Wifi (with mediatek mt7925e wifi+bluetooth board, this will be relevant later) and a dual monitor setup (primary monitor is 1440p high refresh rate HDR capable monitor, secondary monitor is a 1080p from 7-ish years ago).

As a background, I had used windows ever since I can remember but with the latest developments in win11, like copilot everywhere, ads in the start menu, windows search being terrible, bing, teams, OneDrive and the horrible update experience I had enough and decided to show MS the middle finger and move.

Around point in time, some of the news around hand-held gaming, steam os, pewdiepie linux transition caught my attention and I started to consume some Linux-related content on YouTube (one of the channels was Michael Tunnell https://www.youtube.com/@michael_tunnell, amazing guy btw, worth checking him out) and I felt ready to jump ship.

After some very quick research I decided to just go with Pop_OS! (yes, despite the famous Linus incident), the only reasons being that is not based on arch (as many people don't recommend it for beginners) and it comes with all the nvidia drivers pre-installed. My plan was to dual boot it for a while and as I was afraid of messing up the partitions I got myself an extra SSD, installed it in my computer and I was ready. I created a bootable USB with the pop_os ISO and finished the installation.

Right as I finished the installation I was pleasantly surprised because my wifi just worked. As a comparison when I installed windows on the same machine wifi was not working because of the lack of drivers, so I had to connect my phone for internet pass-through in order to get the drivers....silly.....

About the things I liked about Pop_os:

• Blazingly fast OS installation
• No "Hey we want to spy on you" steps during installation
• No bloatware
• I was able to log into my google account and the events from my google calendar were showing in the desktop calendar. Not sure if this is a Pop_os thing or a Gnome thing, but it was such a quality of life
• Stacking windows was nice
• I could easily switch between a tiling or a floating window experience

About the things I disliked:

• For non-trivial customization you need to install some other apps (can't remember the name precisely, I think it was gnome extensions (?))
• It was hard to adapt to it coming from windows (not blaming Gnome here, I understand that not everything must appeal to everyone, but if you are coming from windows *things* might no be easy)

Things were looking good enough, but sadly, soon some problems appeared. My secondary monitor randomly froze at times. After days of troubleshooting the only workaround I found was to use the "xrandr" command and reset my monitors, but doing this felt more and more annoying each time. At this point I remembered something that Michael mentioned in one of the streams, namely that Pop_os 22 was quite old at the time and it might not work that well with newer hardware, so I started to look elsewhere in terms of distro.

My goals at the time were to find something non-arch, a bit more recent than pop_os 22 and preferably without Gnome. This is when I came across Kubuntu 25.04. At this point I was so determined to make Linux work that when I installed Kubuntu I decided to also get rid of the Windows partition.

The Kubuntu installation felt even faster than the already fast Pop_os one and again after install I was pleasantly surprised to find the wifi working (spoiler: somewhat working).

Again some issue appeared shortly, this time it wasn't the monitor, but the wifi was for some reason loosing all the traffic (going to literally 0.00 kb/s) for like ~5 seconds every 10 or 20 minutes. I troubleshooted for few days trying all sort of commands and bios settings and nothing worked, I was feeling defeated at this point.

Right when I was about to start looking for a new distro something clicked in my head: "The wifi card is detected and somewhat works out of the box, there must be drivers somewhere....ah they are in the kernel... what if I just move to a newer kernel". I installed the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer and moved to a newer kernel (6.16) and IT WORKED and man I felt soooooo good when I realize I fixed it.

After a quick while another problem happened, when I was turning on the computer, after the "ASUS" splash screen my computer would hang for ~2 minutes displaying the typing indicator "_". I noticed that bluetooth also didn't worked (classic "Bluetooth adapter not found") and after many attempts I started to think maybe there is some driver initialization at boot time which times out. After further research someone mentioned to power-cycle the computer (turn it off and press the power button 30 seconds) and after IT WORKED and I felt just as good as when I fixed the wifi.

At this point there was only one small issue which annoyed me: When I was using Windows, I had my mouse's (Razer Cobra Pro wireless) receiver plugged into the main monitor's USB and the monitor plugged into a usb hub and this worked find on Windows. On Linux this will sometimes work, sometimes don't, meaning sometimes when I booted the computer the mouse won't work and I would have to plug in directly into the computer. This time instead of troubleshooting for days I decided to as an AI bot (Gemini) what should I do and the suggestion was to turn off the "CPU PCIE ASPM Mode Control" setting in the bios and this worked. I still can't explain it as the information about this setting is somewhat vague online but I was happy.

The above issues took in total like a week to sort out but after this I was ready to enjoy my working Kubuntu-powered computer.

After a few months of using Kubuntu 25.04 here are my toughs:

The good:

• KDE. Man.... it is simply amazing, I like it in almost every aspect more than Gnome. The customization, the shortcuts, the virtual desktops, the screen edges, the fact I can drag a window with Super+Left Click or resize it with Super+Right Click. There are also other subtle quality of life features, like zooming in with Super+"+", annotating with Super+Left Shift, it just feels incredible. Also KDE connect works amazing with Android.
• Both HDR & the high refresh rate work
• Again no massive bloatware (besides some KMahjongg and KPatience games) and no spyware, the telemetry is opt and and is off by default during the
• Installing Nvidia drivers it was way easier than I assumed
• Stability, not a single "blue screen" linux-equivalent
• Performance & Computer resource utilization (I had 2.8 GiB of RAM in idle)
  • Low Idle RAM usage (2.8gb)
  • Fans spin less often and are quieter
• Gaming just works, I can easily play my steam games (Dota2, Cities Skylines2, Dying Light The Beast, Manor Lords, Magabonk).
  • For non steam games I just add them as non steam games (I did this for the battlenet launcher in order to play WoW and Diablo IV, and it works wonderful)
• I have a Choice to if/ when I update my system
• Offline account
• Running programming related tasks is easy
  • Docker containers, Go, CurL, Vs Code (yeah, I still can't VIM yet)

The not so good:

• Package formats: flatpak | snap | deb. It feels confusing to have so many options and as a beginner I don't fully understand them, but as a rule of thumb I use snap/ flatpak as from my basic understanding they do a better job at sandboxing (for security security) and self contained dependencies (as they work similarly like a docker container)
• The google account - to - system calendar integration does not exists in KDE, or not out of the box at least. I heard about merkuro but it looks like ass. It is a bit off-putting that it would required another app.

My advice is if you feel tempted just try it out, dual boot if you want for a while. Things in the Linux space are getting better and better and there is a good change that any problem you face, someone faced already.

My desktop, the good 'ol classic KDE nordic theme:

https://preview.redd.it/who344lw74vf1.png?width=4480&format=png&auto=webp&s=e27c0d114ee86dea757e94f4aa9eae91c87ee172

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Hi, is there a way to have fake Fullscreen on the bottom half of the monitor? I can use any wm or de. I just thought that I could get a big monitor and play on the bottom half and multitask on the top

In Vulkan with VK_EXT_memory_budget - seems Nvidia create copy of entire VRAM in RAM.
If my assumption correct - in game case on system with just 16GB ram - and game use 90% of RAM - Nvidia tries to copy 8GB(VRAM) to RAM - goes to swap - huge slowdown or crash.

On tests - just 41MB over VRAM - drop to 30FPS - 1Gb over VRAM - drop to 4FPS.

Only game i had issues with was Sonic Frontiers when shaders was disabled so i uninstalled it enabled both shader options and launched a different Sonic game with Denuvo and it worked perfectly definitely happy with this

I did move all my VHS rips to a USB drive before i formatted my other hdd to work in Linux

I'd like to pull in the FPS for games I play to a Grafana dashboard to track performance issues/frame drops. Is there any easy way to do this?

Edit: To be more specific, I want to pull these stats in via CLI/API call to an InfluxDB measure to chart against other metrics. I already have the Steam overlay enabled.

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