I'm switching from Windows to Linux, but when going through videos and tutorials, I noticed that I had to wipe my PC completely. I want to keep all of my data and simply transfer it to the new OS without wiping anything except all traces of Windows. How can I go about doing that if I can at all?

Hi everyone. Today i tried to play on cs 1.6 gaming server by meat74[.]com (this she can be fishing!!!) project and i can say:

Admins don't understand what does it mean "linux". They banned me without reason (of course by reason, but this reason sounds like: " bro, you don't use core.dll, is that because you are f$#king cheater, isn't it? You shouldn't laughing with us. We are really serious project!"

Cs 1.6 officially playable on linux (i can play on servers with vac). This guys think that "if we have our own shit-anticheating-system, nobody can play with chests" but they don't understand that this anti cheat parody bans legitimate gamers...

They think: we are always right, you can always be found fault with

I currently have openMW, OpenRCT2, OpenTTD, Ship of Harkanian 1 and 2 installed. Looking for any good open source games or source ports for Linux. Thanks in advance.

I keep getting this message: "could not find all required packages: [names of all of the packages]". I'm new to arch so I don't know exactly what might have happened to the package (I see they didn't get updated in a long time) or if I'm doing something wrong. Is there anyway to bypass this problem, or is it there any alternatives for this?
I'm using arch with cachyos-repos and kernel (cachyos-v3/linux-cachyos 6.15.3-3 stable) for gaming optimization right now, and I know there's the cachyos-gaming-meta package but this just sends me to dependencies hell ("The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: cachyos-gaming-meta").

Does anyone knows what to do?

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/development-q-a-orangepi-neo-01/156450/108

Gardiner Bryant had conversation with Manjaros lead, Phillip Muller and was told that Valve has the Orange Pi Neo in-hand and they’re testing it, probably to bring SteamOS support for the handheld

https://gardinerbryant.com/manjaro-announces-orange-pi-neo-pricing-its-shockingly-affordable/

Saw a post a few days ago stating that there are some games listed as borked on protondb for Linux but if you use the Linux runtime proton option then it works.

What is Linux runtime and how does it doffer from "proton v9-5" for examole?

What is a good atomic/immutable distro geared towards gaming, that is NOT Fedora based like Nobara and Bazzite?

I've been using popos for years and haven't had issues, but due to the incessant push for Bazzite here, I'm tempted to try it. But due to the 32 bit fedora news I won't touch fedora distros on my gaming PC.

I'm running dolphin on kubuntu 24.04 through lutris. Trying to get sengoku basara 3 to run but the game gets to the save file loading screen and reports 'an application error has occured'. I havent done anything to dolphin other than install it through lustris. According to the dolphin wiki the game has no issues and ive been emulating it on windows for years with no issues.

I can't find anything about this issue online, any suggested ideas?

Can I play offline/no anticheat games on a VM?

theres this game called project x im playing its a roblox clone typa thing so it needs to be launched from google but it gives this error what do i do

https://preview.redd.it/f493fwuxmf9f1.png?width=573&format=png&auto=webp&s=d653d83954dd700c884df3f0bc3be17ea244e7d4

So just today my son came to me asking about getting him Minecraft working. Turns out, yet again, some data corruption and maybe some random viruses on his PC. So I said we needed to wipe it again. We seem to have issues that need a reinstall of windows maybe every 6 months or so, some are his doing and some aren't. I made a comment off the cuff how I should force him to install Arch and then he can figure out how to be his own tech support, real quick.

To my utter astonishment, he said he would try it out if it weren't so hard. Well, me being me, I started a rundown of why I use Arch and how it was my first ever desktop distro and how it for Ed me to either learn how things work or have a broken system. He mentioned how he likes how my computer looks but wouldn't want to be forced into the terminal for just basic updates. I hit back with he could go with Kubuntu or Fedora KDE, they use the same DE I use and that it's the DE that makes the look and feel and not as much the distro.

Before I knew it, we were sitting side by side deciding on a distro that uses KDE for him. Since Kubuntu is still on Plasma 5 I said Fedora may be a good choice, or then even bazzite because it's like having a steam deck on his desk. Well, sure as my name isn't Princess Butt Stallion he picked Bazzite and I let him guide himself through the whole install process.

Two hours later he had not just an installed system but also had all the software he would normally use, 99% of it at least, and was on a discord call to his friends playing games and seemed genuinely excited.

He told me that it was actually fun installing something new and figuring out how it all worked. This is why I Love Linux so much. So yeah, my boy has Bazzite installed on his PC now and I'm just smiling to myself at the idea. Wasn't very long ago he was making fun of me for having to "make hacker code just to use your computer" so this makes me chuckle on the inside.

So yeah, as long as you can play games and use a web browser, you don't need much else.

I just figured I would share. It's not strictly gaming related but it was gaming that made this 12 year old boy finally decide enough is enough and that he had it with Windows. Bazzite was what threw me for a loop but I let him make that decision himself and since gaming was his primary concern, it seemed like that was a good place to start to him.

So yeah, fun times! 👍

Hey there I’m pretty new to Linux gaming . I use the newest nobora os ( games work but I don’t like design of it) and I can’t connect my Xbox controller with the Microsoft dongle. I installed xone ( I think that’s the name) but if I hit „pair „ on controller and stick it won’t connect only flash. I would love to get help

Hey folks, been on Linux for 3+ years (Arch btw). Honestly never considered gaming on Linux until about a week ago. Tried some ASCII games like ninvaders, snake and pacman4console but got bored quick.

Any good games you’d recommend to try on my machine? Native, open-source, weird indie stuff, anything that runs clean.

So I’m running death stranding on heroics game launcher in Epic games and I just got the directors cut upgrade. I went into the base game, exported my current save file, and went into the directors cut edition, but it said no exported files were detected. How can I fix this?

why is this sub way more relaxed than /r/linux, where are nowadays mostly bitter fought flame wars and "I have used Linux for xx time"?

Hi everyone,

I recently purchased a Gigabyte G6 KF laptop (originally with Windows) and installed Arch Linux. The installation went smoothly, but I’m facing recurring boot issues:

First boot after install worked fine. I was able to log in and use the system.

Subsequent boots often get stuck. The system reaches the graphical target (SDDM), but then hangs indefinitely.

System logs show:

ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve symbol [_SB.PC00.MHBRI, AE_NOT_FOUND (and similar)

INFO: task (udev-worker): ... blocked for more than 122 seconds (and up to 368 seconds)

Tainted: P DE 6.12.34-1-lts #1

Integrity: Problem loading X.509 certificate -22

SMART disk check passes. No hardware errors detected.

I’ve tried:

Updating system and drivers

Different kernel versions (mainline and LTS)

Checking graphics drivers (NVIDIA)

Checking SDDM and Xorg logs

The system sometimes boots, but often hangs at the graphical interface or during early boot. The issue seems to be related to blocked tasks and ACPI errors, but I’m not sure how to resolve it.

Question: Has anyone else experienced similar issues with Gigabyte laptops and Arch Linux? Are there known workarounds for these ACPI/blocked task errors? Should I try a different distro, or is there a way to make Arch work reliably on this hardware?

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Let me know if you want to add more details or logs!

Ive looked online but can only find answers for slightly different models. Is there any way to get an elgato hd60 to work with Linux if I for instance wanted to record an Xbox 360 output and use my Fedora Linux PC as the display and storage for the recording?

For context, this morning I decided to set up dual-booting with Kubuntu, and I decided to test how modded Minecraft runs, however, it wouldn’t run 1.7.10, but it would run the latest version

Upon some investigation, anything before 1.17 (vanilla) crashes with error code 6 IMMEDIATELY before Minecraft can even launch anything past launches fine

All the debug terminal says is “Library initialization failed - unable to allocate file descriptor table - out of memory”

latest.log doesn’t show any errors, it’s setting up texture atlas’ and then Minecraft stops

(Sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m very new to Linux/gaming on Linux)

Thanks in advance!

Edit: forgot to mention that I’ve looked around on Google, apparently it’s an issue on windows too, but I can’t find a fix.