Just use Heroic Games Launcher (which gives us the possibility to install a game either offline or with our account, so no connection requirement).

Why do Linux users complain about the lack of attention that GOG offers to Linux? Linux with Heroic Games Launcher does it all by itself.

PS: Insult me if you want but I think it makes no sense not to use GOG with Linux. The goal of Linux is to have control over our OS and the goal of GOG is to have control over our games. The goal of Valve is just to offer us a license to play games that do not belong to us when we bought them. Notwithstanding, I thank Valve very much for Proton. For me, using Linux without GOG is like wearing a beautiful suit but refusing to wear the pants that go with it.

As title says, when I try to install warframe on lutris I get a popup asking to select a folder, all goes well, the game starts downloading but never stops. It just restarts the download. Any fix?

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Hello everyone, I'm not sure where to open the topic, I'm using Ubuntu Linux as a system, as you can see in the screenshot of Saints Row The Third Remastered game, the windows of cars, helicopters etc. appear as faulty textures. is this a bug or is it caused by linux? I'm using an arch based linux operating system, the optimization is great, I don't have any problems except the texture of the car and helicopter windows. does anyone know how to solve this?

It's issue listed within wine wiki with broken nvidia randr detected falling back to RandR 1.0 It says to go to /etc/X11/xorg.conf which I don't have instead there is /etc/X11/xord.conf.d inside is 00-keyboard.conf. I have endevoros. Is there any other folder with file that can solve RandR issue?

I might have not looked enough, but i was wondering if it was possible to select exactly which cores we are allowing a game to run with?

For example, i have a laptop that have both performance and efficient cores, i want to launch a game and limit to let's imagine, P-Core 1, 2, 3 and 4 for that precise game. I personally want to do this for an old game that seems to handle poorly multicore tasks, and might have performance issue due to the P-Core E-Core differences.

But i don't know if that is possible, and i didn't find precise informations how to precisely give only a set of available cores for an application (i'm not talking about cpu affinity here)

Hey everyone, I'm asking her cause this hasn't just been with my current distro cachyOS. I've tried fedora WS, Linux mint and Garuda. Anytime I install a game and launch it, I get no sound through my focusrite 18i20 gen 3 interface, I get it on everything else in Linux except for games. Anyone have any possible ideas about how to force them all to run with the default sink aka my interface?

Im on Arch{AMD Ryzen 5500 and NVIDIA GTX 1650 Mobile} and I was able to install nvidia-utills and nvidia-settings but for some reason I am not able to install the mentioned package(tried it with University wifi and Mobile data hotspot) Im also pretty new to Linux so Would appreciate the help!

Hello everyone, I have issue with "HITMAN"
I installed the game and when I launch it I get this error and a black screen:

“Read Error. Please Verify Game Cache”

I'm running Fedora 40 KDE spin and using Heroic Game launcher, I have the game on Epic Games Store.
any Help? I tried it with different wine versions and tried verifying the game files also deleted the game.exe file and verified the game to download it again but didn't work.

I have I5- 11400 with the IGPU and 16 GB Ram.Hello everyone,
I installed the game and when I launch it I get this error and a black screen:I'm running Fedora 40 KDE spin and using Heroic Game launcher, I have the game on Epic Games Store.
any Help? I tried it with different wine versions and tried verifying the game files also deleted the game.exe file and verified the game to download it again but didn't work.I have I5- 11400 with the IGPU and 16 GB Ram.

Idk why, but I always expect any kind of strange bug averytime I use windows on another's pc.

Yesterday I had to make a presentation, which I had on my USB to use in the TV, the TV read the USB, but Windows not, and tried to fix it, but nothing. Isn't Fat32 the universally accepted partition format?

Also, I simply can't unsee the border message of Windows activation. It's annoying.

So, I'm trying to get Trackmania(2020) working through Steam. When I first install it, it expectedly says that it lacks Ubisoft Connect, but when I try and install it in the prefix through Protontricks, Trackmania just refuses to launch, not showing any error box or anything. The only thing I could get out is this Proton log. Any help appreciated

Greetings,

I'm using Nobara 39 KDE (based on Fedora), but I'm still a newbie. I have some questions regarding security, especially considering my somewhat precarious activities. Any help, even answering a single question, is welcome. I hope this post will also help educate others in the future.

My risky usage primarily involves using closed-source software, playing on illegitimate private servers of old games that have shut down, and using questionable third-party programs for games that were found on shady forums. These programs are the non-toxic kind that don't affect other players but make life easier or used to troll with friends on our LAN parties.

1. I heard that any executable, script, or binary can be a virus. How true is that? How does it work, and what kinds of viruses are we talking about? Malware, rootkits, etc. How can I identify the type of virus I have or the type I'm about to execute?
2. Is scanning a file/folder with VirusTotal or ClamAV sufficient? How does an antivirus typically determine that a file is a virus? How can I know if it is not a false positive? Are there file formats or states where an AV might miss the detection of a virus? How does it remove it? Since data on an SSD is never truly deleted unless using specific programs from the manufacturers, wouldn't deleting a virus still be dangerous?
3. How do I get rid of a virus? Does a virus only keep working if its process is still running? If that's the case, would deleting the original file and closing the process with Task Manager/System Monitor be enough? I'm concerned about two things, what if I can't track down all the processes? Here I thought about opening the executable with a launcher like Lutris, which should close down every related process for me. Also, I'm worried that the virus might stealthily leave Backdoors by infecting other files. For example, I have a questionable program that needs to track down the original online-game to work. I'm afraid it might try to infect the game itself.
4. How do I safely sandbox or contain an executable in Linux? Is it sufficient to use Lutris with GE-Proton and Firejail or Sandwine? What are some good ways to securely run software, non-legit online game, and questionable programs that need to track down the online game's folders to work?
5. Can a virus be hidden in a video or picture? I'm not referring to a virus that renames itself as video.mp4.exe.
6. Does opening an HTML file really risk the browser executing a malicious script? I think we can find such files pretty much anywhere in software, games, torrents, etc.
7. In my OS, I have the app Firewall-Config by Red Hat, which is honestly very different and confusing compared to all firewalls I've used on Windows. Even compared to Linux's Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) that I was using on other Distros, which I'm afraid to use now for fear of messing up the inherent Firewall-Config by Red Hat. In Windows, I used to set the default to decline all internet connections of a process unless given specific authorization. How do I achieve that now in Linux?
8. Is there no antivirus on Linux that continuously scans processes or unusual internet usage?
9. Can anyone suggest good, easy-to-understand resources to learn more about these security topics?

Thank you in advance for your help!

I build my First new PC and i m interrest If using this graphic card IS a good Idea.

I'm like that one Redditors in their late 20s who start to not find the game enjoyable anymore. I remember my view on video games changed when I first got my Steam Deck last year. I've played a lot of title on it.

Unfortunately, I sold it for Ally for performance reasons and then went for a gaming laptop to find out that I stopped playing games again as soon as I was on Windows. The thing is that I already had a beefy Windows desktop with 3070ti that I mainly use for YouTube and Reddit lol.

Since I change workplace, I need to hand back the laptop which means I need a Linux machine and that the reason I switch back to Linux on my laptop.

One funny thing is that I start finding myself playing all my backlogged again. I'm curious if anyone have had the same experience as me lol

Maybe the challenge get a certain game to work makes the game more worth it to play?!

I have an 8bitdo Ultimate controller. It has 3 connection modes; 2.4G via dongle, Bluetooth, Wired. None of these methods are detected by my Fedora 40 installation. Steam recognizes controller for a brief moment but losts it again. I also tested it on live environment and it works with all 3 modes on there.

journalctl -f on dongle connection

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journalctl -f on wired connection

https://pastebin.com/AT3y3csf

hello all, I've been struggling to open elden ring on my arch desktop. whenever I press play in steam (from repo), I'm greeted with an easy anti cheat launch error that reads "failed to initialize the game launcher." I'm pretty new to linux gaming (and linux in general) and have exhausted all potential solutions I can think of (reinstalling drivers, trying different proton versions, running it offline, scouring forums) but I've had no success.

output log from one of the failed attempts: here

if it's relevant pc specs are ryzen 7 7700x and rtx 4080

any help would be appreciated, thanks :)

Hi, I am trying to migrate to peripherals that are full funcitonality on linux, my keyboard is the wooting 60HE, however for mouse and headset I'm still using razer, they work ine and there is the Open-Razer project which helps a little bit but without synapse they just are not really configurable on Linux, so I want a mouse similar to a viper or g pro superlight that has software for linux or that is conigured via the web, and the same for a wireless headset.

Looking forwards to reading your recommendations!

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Currently my drive look like this and i just wonder if theres any changes i need to do to install warframe in steam

so ive been trying to make linux run terraria, but it only uses the cpu. im really new to linux and when windows started talking about being spyware i switched. so now im learning the quarks of linux. like how games wont use my gpu for reasons. so how do i fix this issue. i have an nvidia 1060 on the pc im trying to run it on.