Hello, a buddy and I recently installed Pop!_OS and we wanted to play Arma. We found some launch options that seemed to work, which I'll put below here at the end. For him, his microphone works just fine, but for me I'll press the talk/radio buttons and nothing. My microphone works for other steam games, but I know that's probably apples to oranges. The speaker icon will show up and various programs like helvum, pavucontrol, etc all say Arma is listening to my microphone, but nothing comes through.

It's probably a long shot, but is anyone else here running the game and experiencing a similar issue?

My mic is a Rode NT1 connected to a Focusrite Scarlett Solo 4th gen, using the alsa-scarlett-gui settings on direct. I'm thinking the interface might be the issue, but it works fine for other apps and games.

I'm currently using GE-Proton10-7, but experimental and hotfix both worked too with the same microphone issue.

Launch options are env LD_PRELOAD="" __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 __GL_13ebad=0X1 %command% -noSplash -forceUpdate -maxVRAM=11264 -noborder

It's great to see Linux gaming (and generally) starting to see a bit of real traction of late, with the variety of 'out-of-the-box' distros available, continued improvements with Wine and Proton and Valve's support with the Steam deck etc, but it's important to be mindful of the reactions this will draw from Microsoft.

We might not be there yet, but they don't want to lose marketshare, even though the corporate space is still heavily MS invested and they maintain ownership of the desktop space with 'AI convenience' and ads.

It's worth keeping a critical eye on things that downplay the successes of Linux, promote issues with particular (and especially popular) Linux distros and spikes in news about Linux performance lacking behind Windows. And also to see what things the algorithms promote vs demote...

Linux lets us play, be curious, learn, experiment and own our environment, for free. Microsoft let us consume, for a price.

Title explains it, ill be on Bazzite

Hello,

I am on arch linux, with pipewire and wireplumber.

There is no sound neither in steam in general nor void stranger

I tried many version of proton on steam (9.0-4 ; 10.0-1 beta ; 8.0-5 ; hotfix) but none of them seem to work... I already had a problem to launch the game but solved with this setting " PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command% ".

plz help

Hello everyone, as the title says i couldn't manage to install proton experimental (i couldn't download any version of proton in general) on my system (Linux Mint 22.1 xia). When I tried to download the package from Steam it just seemed to download some files but in the end it always gave me a "Disk write error".

Here's an example of error I receive when trying to launch a game (fallout 4): "Disk write error - /media/myusername/myssd/SteamLibrary/steamapps/downloading/1493710/files/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdav1d.so

If someone is willing to help me I would really appreciate that. Thank you in advice.

Hi!

I wanted to test which games that would boot better on different DE's. I started No man's sky on cosmic (wayland) and it processed vulkan shaders for like 3 seconds. Then I tried on gnome Xorg and it seems to process 1%/minute. So... will switching DE result in this or is there another explanation? (other games have processed really slow on cosmic so I'm not advocating that cosmic is better at this)

I'm wondering if there is something similar or what lossless has for Linux, which helped me make the gameplay of certain games playable.

Hello everyone,

As the title suggests I've been having this issue for the past few weeks now where I install ubisoft connect trash launcher through (tried heroic, lutris, bottles and non steam game) and it always takes 10-15 minutes to launch while looking at the splash screen. I tried a lot of things like changing a shit ton of distributions, re-installing my Nvidia drivers, proton ge, wine ge etc etc nothing seems to work. Is there any hero here who has managed to fix this issue? Ubisoft support won't be able to help with this since this game is not supported on Linux.

Any hero here that could be able to help me?

After what happened with CrowdStrike, it seems Microsoft is determined to close its kernel to antivirus software, although it doesn't mention anything about anti-cheat software. That's why I'm wondering: Do you think it's possible that something like macOS could happen, where they won't allow any kernel-level installations?

If this happen, I imagine that video game companies would have to do away with these anti-cheats, and these games could be played on Linux. I was overjoyed just thinking I could uninstall Windows forever. What do you think?

Hi,

I've always been dual booting on my laptops, one Linux drive for personal activities, and one windows drive for gaming.

I could see, the past few years, Linux getting more and more on par with windows, even better at times.

A couple of times a year I would make a fresh install of my favorite desktop distro (fedora) and see how close it's getting to my windows install.

Which brings us to a couple weeks ago. Fresh install of Fedora Silvervlue, steam, proton-ge and begin comparison.

Underwhelming. I mean I expected near native performances from all the videos / articles you can find googling around, or maybe a 5/10% loss. Not 30% less frames per seconds...

For reference on windows I would get 60-80fps average on games like masseffect legendary modded, battlefront 2, tomb raider 2013, etc... On Linux 30-50fps average...

To see if it was a software issue I've spent the last few days distro-hopping: plain Debian, fedora silverblue, nobara, bazzite, manjaro. No changes...

Is my hardware at fault? I thought all AMD system should play nice with Linux.

If anyone have a idea, or if I'm not alone, please chime in!

Thanks,

Specs:

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-42
Ryzen 5 2500u
AMD RX 560X 4GB
16GB ram
2 1to ssd
Screen oc'd at 100hz
Graphics oc at 1352/1550

Last of Us Part 2

The pixelation around the campfire

Hello, I was wondering if theirs any way to increase saturation/vibrance on Linux just like how it’s possible in windows using AMD control panel (amd gpu). I know nvibrant exists for Nvidia on Wayland but not sure if theirs one for AMD too.

Finally Ditched Windows for Arch and couldn't be happier! i also have many games working flawlessly and its amazing how so much faster it is. I have an Intel 14900k with 128gb ram with 2tb ssd and 30TB for games and music I just upgraded to an RTX 5080. Even the oldest of my games run great

https://preview.redd.it/f8bpgn8puz9f1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=92582016e9c9794b754f7947f73c4474544dd286

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I'm using GNOME but KDE is the same afaik. I have a standard desktop keyboard (no Fn key) and most of my F keys are taken up by DE (F5-F6 are brightness, F10 is mute, etc) so games don't recognize them. How do I fix this?

Years ago there used to be some distros that came bundled with free open source games and it was just ready to go right away. There was one that had like 100 games. I don’t know if anyone still makes such distros or if anyone can point me to the old one?

Im new to linux aside from Steamdeck. I wanted a steamos for my pc as its used like a console. But wtf is bazzite? Its installed, can’t open steam & doesn’t do anything when i click go to game mode

Its also slow af to boot into

Is bazzite just trash?

(9800x3d, 4070super, 32gb ram, 850psu BRAND NEW BUILD) previously ran windows 11 no probs

Hey everyone.

I’m a long time user of all operating since- like aged 9 windows 95 or so, I have always had mac linux and windows.

I’m just wondering about general tracking- for example I love world of Warcraft when I play this on MacOS it’s obvious to the developer because they have an official client.

However I use Bottles on my PopOS desktop gaming PC does Blizzard know this is Linux?

Like is there a better way to represent Linux gamers numbers?

Want to do my best to ensure developers know accurate numbers because we do exist!

Thanks everyone :)

So after I stopped playing destiny 2 one of the only things keeping me from going full Linux for my gaming PC is Xbox game pass. As it stands, I don't believe there is a way to use the Xbox PC app on Linux or games it provides correct? Wine wouldn't even make it work I don't think would it?

Have there been any whispers about Microsoft bringing Xbox PC games over to Linux? All of my steam games work great and I read there are even methods to get epic store games running (just Alan wake 2 for me).

For some inexplicable reason, whenever I try to launch an online game as of today 06/29/2025 at 03:00, all outgoing network requests die. This is immediately noticeable when I tried to install and play FFXIV at that hour of the morning, and it was unable to connect to the data center. I noticed that attempting to go to google in firefox while the window was open, and webpages would only load after the client crashed to desktop consistently. I thought it was just an issue with final fantasy, so I went to go play Forever Skies with friends in a discord VC and whenever I launched the game, everything was fine. when I clicked co-op, discord RTC disconnected until the game timed out. Bloons TD6 kills discord RTC the minute it opens until it closes. I've rebooted, updated, uninstalled and reinstalled, changed firewall zones, reset the network settings, changed to my mobile hotspot on my phone, nothing is working.
I'm running Nobara KDE pasma, here's details:
OS: Nobara Linux 42 (KDE Plasma Desktop Edition) x86_64
Host: AORUS 15G XB Laptop
Kernel: Linux 6.15.4-200.nobara.fc42.x86_64