My favorite gaming distro gets updated

He only stuff that does exite me a bit is KDE 6

So i want to change to Linux SO BAD! I want to learn more about coding and also have an open source OS to personalize and modify all parameters. I love tinkering with gears and bolts. The thing is that i play a ton of videogames from Steam, Xbox gamepass, Epic Games etc etc... I also have a youtube channel so i use OBS and Filmora. I want to know if there's a Linux based OS that has full compatibility with everything like Windows does. I would also love to have one of those gaming OS that has a console-like UI to manage my games but that's just a plus if available.

I am sure many have asked and answered but I download a .exe and try to use "wine [exe file]" and receive the following:

0130:err:ole:CoGetContextToken apartment not initialised

wine: Unhandled exception 0xe0434352 in thread 128 at address 00006FFFFF483F07 (thread 0128), starting debugger...

Thanks in advance for any help and tips

Edit: For context I am trying to play R.E.P.O. with some mods through Overwolf

First time i have it happen. Is it something to worry about?

A new gaming laptop and four months of work later... Rust works!

Laptop specs:

ASUS Rog Zephyrus G16

Intel Core Ultra 9 w/ Integrated Arc Graphics

NVIDIA RTX 4070 Mobile

16GB RAM

1TB SSD

My favorite game Rust can finally be ran on a Windows Kernel Virtual Machine with Qemu. Here is a list of problems that I had that I solved:

1. GPU Passthrough would crash Gnome (3 month problem)
2. Rust would crash in Windows VM every time I tried to load into a server (1 week)
3. No audio (still a problem for now)

This doesn't include time spent learning how to set up a virtual machine in the first place.

I learned that GPU passthrough can sometimes not work or crash my system if Gnome was able to attach itself to the GPU before being bound to VFIO.

One of the workarounds I did for this was doing "sudo systemctl stop gdm," booting into TTY2 and then running "startx," which is runs an older version of Gnome on X11 (I think). Once I did that the system was able to unbind Gnome from my GPU and allow me to start my KVM through Qemu without any crashes. Luckily I only needed to do this on Ubuntu 24.10. When upgrading to the newest version of Ubuntu 25, I also upgraded to Gnome 48 on Wayland and for some reason I have not needed the workaround since because Gnome it runs on my iGPU now automatically, although I am not sure why.

I wish Gnome would have some sort of startup option where I can set the process to run on the iGPU, because if I could then I would not have had so many problems getting this to work.

Rust also crashed a toooon! I fixed this by increasing my PageFile size on Windows, so that way when I ran out of RAM it would use PageFile as backup "RAM," kind of like swap memory on Linux -- and Voila!

You can increase your PageFile size on your Windows VM by hitting the Windows key, going to "Run," typing in "SystemPropertiesAdvanced," and going to PageFile size and increasing it to 16GB. You can follow this guide for more help: https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/how-to-manage-virtual-memory-on-windows-11

I hope I'll get to see more success stories in the future :)

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P.S. I am not exaggerating when I say this, but I reinstalled Ubuntu over 20 times until I got this right. I changed so many settings to get this to work I bricked the OS at least twice a week until I finally got it!

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How are you guys modding skyrim SE in 2025? I really wanna play this again with mods, last time I did it was in windows in 2017. I think I tried previously but nothing worked for me. If anyone has a straightforward way to mod skyrim SE on linux please let me know. I am using cachyos if that matters.

Here is the guide I used last time, forgot which step i got stuck in https://github.com/rockerbacon/modorganizer2-linux-installer. Do i try this again or is there another better way to do this?

I posted earlier about Fallout New Vegas failing to render after months of working without a hitch and I think I've found the root cause of the problem. For some reason the game is pointing to a graphics card that I don't have, as shown below:

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My actual graphics card is an Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 that comes built-in with my HP Envy. I suspect this is also messing with some other games that I have installed on my computer. My question is how can I get my system to point to the right graphics card and fix this particular problem?

Using proton ge for this, using a thing called "solario" that lets me play old roblox and I spent the past few hours trying to get it work on linux, but it keeps crashing

Loading screen, a few frames of gameplay, crash

Here is my log file incase anything useful is here

https://www.mediafire.com/file/zls16eb78wbooic/message+(8).txt/file.txt/file)

If anybody knows how I could fix this let me know.

Maybe I could read on some old "roblox on linux" forums from the era

I'm a big hockey fan and found this cool free to play physics based hockey game called Puck on steam. I'm a long time rocket league player and this game really gives me the same vibes as that mechanics wise.

Only problem is it seems to be just invisible when I launch it using any Proton version, gamescope, or turning off compatibility. I see only one report on ProtonDB that it is running great on Linux. The game's not crashing and steam claims it is running which is really confusing.

I was able to get it running on my Windows secondary boot, but I'm not using that install for much right now so I'd love to get it working on Linux.

My setup is as follows: 7800X3D 7900 XT Arch + Plasma 6 Mesa driver from the standard repository

If anyone has any ideas lemme know. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2994020/Puck/

Like many others, I'm looking at making at least a semi-permanent jump to Linux from Windows 10 (dual boot for now until I can make sure the games I play work in Linux).

For the past few weeks, I've been testing both CachyOS (Arch) and Nobara (Fedora) with my 3090, and both have the same exact issue in KDE: graphical issues when dragging windows around the desktop. It will leave lines from the edge of the window scattered across the desktop, and they will sit there and flicker until I do something to clear them out. When I log out and switch to X11, those graphical issues are not present.

I've also tried Gnome and Wayland, and don't recall those graphical issues being present in Wayland using the Gnome DE, but I'm not really a fan of Gnome coming from Windows. KDE is more at home. I've tried a couple fixes around the net for KDE/Wayland, but nothing.

With that said, where can I keep up with the latest Wayland/nVidia news to see when Wayland has better nVidia support to try out Wayland again?

Whenever i try to stream either a window or the entire the screen, from my friend's POV the stream is really choppy and low fps. Running amd 7600x and rtx4070.

It's basically unplayable for me at this point from both x11 and wayland. Any chance someone has a solution? I played this game for a little part before this and it was identical to its windows counterpart but never tried Lostwing on windows, is is the same both ways?

I posted earlier this week about audio problems. I did eventually get the audio out over HDMI to the TV. I rebooted and it still worked. But today it is back to not working, updating, rebooting and trying the same settings didn't fix it. This is a CachyOS on an AMD laptop. Oddly I have similar problems on my steam deck. Audio will work fine sometimes and then won't work at all a good portion of the time over HDMI. Any ideas? Usually this is to an LG OLED TV.

With Windows 10 hitting EOL I am strongly considering of going back to Linux (after a long, on again off again relation). However seeing a few benchmarks for Nvidia I am really concerned seeing a double digit performance drop. I am running a 3070 and on Windows it does struggle sometimes with some of my games (for example modded Cyberpunk 2077 on 1440p with RT&DLSS for example) I understand its very specific for Nvidia and their driver support in Linux and it isn't really a problem in AMD graphics cards but I am not ready to buy a new GPU just for the move.

I was wondering are these unsolvable issues or are they somehow solvable with some tweaking of DXVK? is moving to the closed driver support going to help anyway?

tryna download a game but it doesnt recognize my internal drive on steam deck and only my sd card says internal drive "doesnt exist" or is "unaccessible" and im not sure how to give it access since it's running on lutris and i tried all the settings in that (tried proton too) and it still doesnt work

Hi there! Detailed PC info first: https://pastebin.com/2FdML6qs (ran ujust device-info command from bazzite, really handy)

Symptoms: When running Riven Remake under GEProton9-7 (the only version I got to run without random crashes, IDK the reason to be honest) Wayland access to other apps is broken.

For those who don't know, this is a puzzle game where you're expected to take notes, so I wanted to do screenshots and paste them on an online whiteboard. Bazzite (actually KDE Plasma) included tool is Spectacle, which I configured to select a region when pressing Meta+Shift+PtScr and then copy it to my clipboard.

However, when I press that, the app opens and crashes. This is the log from journalctl: https://pastebin.com/ZtKYuxnx

Mozilla Firefox also crashes with a lot of "connecting to compositor" lines (it's fixed when game is closed), Steam UI gets stuck and I need to restart it... My system gets weird.

Do anyone know anything about this behavior or what could be causing it? Maybe it's Unreal Engine related? Other games do not show this problem, but I've yet to try more UE games tbh.

A1RM4X, French Canadian Youtuber, shows that Bazzite is install counting in one of his youtube videos. Video link ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zkUrdQATSI

Install counting is a form of spyware activity. No distro maintainer, corporate entity, or government entity needs to know the number of active installs that are out in the field. None of them need this information. If there is any type of spyware/data collection happening in Linux, on the desktop, then the user may as well just run Win 10/11.

The Fedora managment team held a large discussion, last yeat, on the idea of how to implement extensive and robust telemetry integration into the distro. Install counting would be one of the telemetry data collection points. Corporations and some greedy distro maintainers (ex: Canonical) want access to your activity data. They want to know things like: * what apps you install * what apps you run and how often you run those apps * the uptime of your install * what apps you uninstall * what apps you install but rarely run * PC stats (RAM, CPU, GPU, disks, storage amount used, storage amount free, etc) * security details * how long since your last update * how long since your last upgrade

The list is very long. Last year someone at Fedora wrote up a telemetry data collection proposal explaining what they wanted to do (data collection, spying) and why they wanted to do it. This prompted the discussion because the Fedora management team were seriously considering the proposal. Fedora backed away from the telemetry project because the Fedora user community balked and vigorously pushed back against the proposal. Let's be clear, there is a difference between repo servers counting the number of connections per hour/day/week/month/year that are engaging in grabbing updates. The counting is happening at the repo. servers. This is different from determining if an install is active, by some criteria, and then tracking a count of active installs. There must be a unique ID per install in order to have an accurate install count.

Why is the install counting bad and why does it matter?

Fast forward through the last 8 months. There has a concerted effort to grow the user base of Bazzite (CachyOS and Chimera OS as well). The video shows a 5x increase in active installs. The effort to promote Bazzite is on reddit, youtube, twitch, discord, and other social media platforms. Bazzite is based on Fedora. Bazzite install counting is a way to get around the community saying "NO!" to Fedora management and since Bazzite is a separate entity the Fedora management don't have to deal with blow back. Once an entity gets a community to accept a small amount of telemetry data collection, the entity will then grow and expand the amount of telemetry data gathering. Telemetry data gathering is like crack. It is dependency inducing. Once one entity gets away with implementing telemetry other entities will copy and implement telemetry. This is the "me too... I can do it too" effect. In a handful of years there will be various forms and amounts of data gathering and it will be way too late to stop it. Every distro maintainer that wants to do data collection always says that it is for harmless reasons, no personally identifiable data will be collected, and that it is not to make a profit. Money is the root of the data collection. If M$ or Elon Musk offers your favorite distro a few million $$$ US for data collected, does you really think that they are going to turn it down? Most won't turn down the money.

Lastly, look at who Bazzite is promoted towards: newbie Linux gamers coming from Windows, who don't have a clue about how Linux works, and has no idea that the distro is involved in data collection through install counting.

I don't recommend Bazzite or any other specialty distros to newbies unless it is needed to address a hardware issue. I recommend the tried and true newbie friendly distros such as Linux Mint, Pop_OS, and Tuxedo OS. I wrote a guide for newbie Linux users/gamers that makes the recommendations above and explains why. Guide link ==> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/189rian/newbies_looking_for_distro_advice_andor_gaming/

Please steer newbies toward safe starting distros that are not going to take advantage of their ignorance. Many of them are coming to Linux from Windows to get away from data collection schemes.

For those who like Bazzite, CachyOS, Chimera OS, PikaOS and the other specialty and gaming focus distros., you should continue to enjoy it. No one is saying that you can't enjoy it. If you've read this post and watched the video, then using/enjoying the specialty and gaming focused distros would be based on an informed decision. Just please don't promote/recommend those distros, especially Bazzite, to newbies without warning them. You can point them to this thread which will make it super easy to educate them.

Hi,

This is going to be a very extreme edge case; I use Fedora 41, and back on Windows (before I moved) I would use Lossless Scaling to force 60FPS+ on an old 2004 MMO (Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst). This game is old, it does not have DLSS, DLSS cannot be modded in, there is no DLSS. So I used Lossless scaling to add interpolation to this and it worked well. When I migrated to Linux, while I could still install and setup PSOBB, it would be capped to the original FPS without this program.

Is there anyway to get the same result on Linux? While I can setup PSOBB with wine via Lutris and all that fun stuff, I want my 60FPS+ PSOBB on Linux before I go back to PSO, and I refuse to go back to Windows.

Can anyone help provide an alternative that actually works with this 2004 game? Obviously running a VM isnt viable, even for this old video game. Tried that, performance is terrible. I dont want to dual boot either.

EDIT: Typos.