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Hi Again PLAYERRS!

9 Jan 2026 - 4:47am

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Hi everyone,

I'm excited to share the latest update to Playerr, the self-hosted game library manager inspired by the *Arr stack (Radarr/Sonarr).

I honestly believe this project fills a significant gap in our self-hosted labs, bridging the world of local game files with rich metadata and automation. I've been listening closely to the community's feedback, and v0.3.3 brings the features you asked for.

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What's New & Key Features

  • I Listened to You: Hardlinks (Atomic Moves): By far the most requested feature. Playerr now supports atomic moves, keeping your library organized without duplicating data or wasting storage space.
  • Beyond Torrents: Usenet Support: We now have native support for the NZB protocol (compatible with SABnzbd & NZBGet), alongside our existing integration for Torrents (qBittorrent, Transmission, Prowlarr).
  • Playerr Goes Global: The UI is now available in 7 languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese.
  • Run It Anywhere: Whether you are on a server or a desktop, we've got you covered with official builds for Docker (amd64 & arm64), Windows, Linux, and macOS (Both Apple Silicon & Intel).

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Community & Support

I am deeply committed to this project and open to all feedback. Building a tool of this scale takes a tremendous amount of time and effort.

If you believe Playerr adds value to the community and want to see it grow, please consider supporting the development. Financial support allows me to dedicate the necessary hours to maintain the code, add new features (like the upcoming DBI/Lutris integrations), and keep the project alive.

Thank you for giving Playerr a try. I’ll be in the comments answering questions.

Cheers, Miguel

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what is the best quickshell for gaming?

9 Jan 2026 - 4:43am

i'm looking at dankmaterialshell versus noctalia. or is there a better one?

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AMD BC-250 having USB issue

9 Jan 2026 - 4:34am

Hey y'all. I am posting in hope that someone has had similar issues and may have a solution. I have 2 AMD BC-250s I bought from ebay. Neither seems to want its usb ports to work. I've plugged in multiple mice and keyboards and nothing gets power. I even tried my steam controller and it won't pair, meaning no power to the dongle. It boots into bios, which the seller sold with the cards. They display fine and I can get them into bios if I remove the SSD and boot it without it in.

Any ideas? I've tried the 450 watt Apevia power supply and a 750 watt EVGA power supply so I know its not an issue of lack of power.

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Counter-Strike 2 on Manjaro Linux

9 Jan 2026 - 3:21am

Not sure if this is the best place to post, but I'm hoping I can get some good suggestions for running CS2 on Manjaro Linux.

This is my second Manjaro Linux installation, and out of the box my first installation worked a lot better than it currently does. I get a lot of stuttering lag about every 3 seconds. A second issue, although this was also an issue on my original Manjaro linux installation as well, is every time I launch the game, it has to process the vulkan shaders which takes longer than I'd like.

   ~  mhwd -l  ✔
> 0000:02:00.0 (0300:10de:1b82) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime 2025.09.29 false PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime 2025.09.28 false PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee 2025.09.28 false PCI
video-nvidia 2025.09.29 false PCI
video-nvidia-575xx 2025.09.29 false PCI
video-nvidia-570xx 2025.09.29 false PCI
video-nvidia-470xx 2023.03.23 false PCI
video-nvidia-390xx 2023.03.23 false PCI
video-linux 2024.05.06 true PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-vesa 2017.03.12 true PCI

> 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:3e92) Display controller Intel Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime 2025.09.29 false PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime 2025.09.28 false PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee 2025.09.28 false PCI
video-linux 2024.05.06 true PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-vesa 2017.03.12 true PCI

Please let me know what other information would be relevant in this scenario to have on this thread, and I will update. There are some other threads I have looked at, but many seem to be outdated.

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hamachi

9 Jan 2026 - 3:00am

i been trying to figure out how to get hamachi to work even just to install it and i just cant. Could someone please give me a step by step guide on it, im using bazzite

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Resource for finding Linux-friendly laptops?

9 Jan 2026 - 2:14am

Is there a resource out there for finding laptops made within the last 1-2 years that have good to perfect support on Linux?

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PS5 Controller Touchpad Problems

9 Jan 2026 - 2:05am

I'm trying to play games with my PS5 controller on CachyOS. The controller works, but the touchpad gives incorrect inputs in each game, even ones that officially support DualSense natively.

Ex: In Rise of the Ronin the touchpad acts as if I've pressed one of the attack buttons. The same thing happens in Lies of P and all others I've tried.

Things I have tried: Completely disabling Steam Input for games when a using PS5 controller, disabling controller input for desktop mode and changing the touchpad to do 'nothing' when Steam input is enabled. Nothing has helped so far. Any suggestions welcome! Thanks!

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Flickering controller connectivity

9 Jan 2026 - 1:54am

My Xbox controller flickers the light when paired over bluetooth, also flickering being connected and not connected. I'm at a loss idk what to do, help would be very appreciated.

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What are some steam games that do not need vulkan shaders to run?

9 Jan 2026 - 1:52am

I have a laptop with a second gen i5 not capable of running vulkan graphics. It cannot fit a GPU. Running the games themselves shouldn't be an issue, it has 16 GB RAM (DDR3) and essentially zero background processes running. I just would like some that it can run. (AntiX is the distro)

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How does AMD Master Utility work? (Windows->Linux)

9 Jan 2026 - 1:25am

Specifically, are the settings applied to the CPU/MB/BIOS directly? Or is on the OS/application layer?

Reasoning - I had high temps (~95c) on my 7900x. After some research, this is normal but can be kept lower using Eco mode via Ryzen Master Utility (in turn prolonging life) without much performance drop which I’m okay with loosing.

This works in Windows as expected, but my main boot is Linux (arch). So if I apply this on Windows partition, would it effectively work in Eco mode on Linux, or should I somehow manage that separately? I see that Ryzen MU doesn’t run on Linux, so if so I’d need a separate solution, maybe similar controls in my bios directly?

Any insight is appreciate as I’m new to AMD, and new to gaming on Linux (but not Linux itself)! <3

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Anyone used a Dual Mode monitor in linux? if so what has your experience been?

9 Jan 2026 - 1:13am

As per the title. Anyone used a dual mode monitor in linux? Has there been any issues? Or does it just work normally? I'm considering getting one in a few months but i wanna make sure theres no funny business with wayland or anything else that could get in the way before purchasing. Currently eyeing off the 5K/1440p Dual mode monitors being announced at CES at the moment.

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Anyone sell their RTX 4080 for a 9070 XT? How's it been?

9 Jan 2026 - 12:52am

Just looking for experiences! My desktop is still on windows, I don't touch multiplayer for anything other than fighting games and FPS that aren't things like Battlefield 4. And I dunno, Nvidia funding Palantir is disgusting to me.

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steam conflicting with graphic drivers

9 Jan 2026 - 12:47am

so... while installing steam, it tries to install nvidia-utils-590.48.01-1, while i have the -580xx- version because of this (not using this driver specifically makes the background blank and the system to run at what feels like 10 fps) and they conflict:

sknq@arch ~> yay -S steam [...] :: nvidia-utils-590.48.01-1 and nvidia-580xx-utils-580.119.02-2 are in conflict (nvidia-libgl). Remove nvidia-580xx-utils? [y/N] n error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: nvidia-utils-590.48.01-1 and nvidia-580xx-utils-580.119.02-2 are in conflict -> error installing repo packages sknq@arch ~ [1]>

any solutions for making steam run on these drivers?

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Assetto corsa pop-up utility greyed out?

9 Jan 2026 - 12:41am

I have assetto corsa running fairly well, but a mod window that pops up in game is grey (I cant see anything, not meaning i see settings but cant use them)

I'm Playing A/C with content manager and custom shaders patch with advanced game pad assist installed. everything seems to be "working" however I cannot adjust the sliders in the popup window as I cannot see them. (I'm thinking wayland thing) I can tell the advanced game pad assist is working, control is much better than with stock adjusters.

Any ideas or direction I might go to find a fix/workaround for this would be awesome. FWIW before on a previous installation the setting sliders did show up.

I'm running Arch-Hyprland setup. . . . maybe this dropbox link will work.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/955w1brqlko00zolld5th/screenshot_08012026_184821.jpg?rlkey=pxyblu6rlfs15k9kzs5jg68tw&st=ydnr8sbn&dl=0

Thx for any tips/direction

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Does this issue have a name

9 Jan 2026 - 12:25am

Not sure what to call this What would be step one in trouble shooting logs ? Is this even fixable ? This is Pop Os, (I know, why don’t you use something more mainstream and supported) it’s the only junk that works for my shitbox alright, but i think this is an issue beyond the OS or just Wayland as from what I can tell cause a load of other issues.

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I'm stuck installing a game, apparently it's supposed to run through Wine, but it won't let me get to that point.

8 Jan 2026 - 11:55pm

Well I'm running Mint 22.2, and I'm trying to install GTA III, as Rockstar won't let me buy the game on steam anymore, I'm trying to install it directly from a disk, but there's where the problem starts, it won't let me install it, just gives me an error "Your OS is not supported" when I start the setup.exe.

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Having issues with Overwatch2

8 Jan 2026 - 11:36pm

First of all sorry for my english. I've been using linux for 2 years, but only for programming and daily tasks. A week ago I installed POP_OS on mybdesktop computer for gaming, everything okey, most games like dbd or re works great and overwatch too, but tw o days ago after an update the game was unplayable. I searched on internet and tryied most known proton versions, settings but didn't work. I'm new to linux for gaming so any help will work for me.

Btw: I have a 2060, intel processor i5, 16gb ram and using X11 not wayland

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