Hello everyone,

I started to use Steam on my Ubuntu 24.04.3, it works fine but it has some little nuisances.

1. the window appearence (of wine I guess) looks every old, how could i fix that?
   
2. sometimes, when I close the game, the application gets closed but its still running in steam.
   
3. the icon in my taskbar is the typical "gear"-Icon can I easily change it in the .desktop file?

Steam Version: 1751405894
Proton Experimental, Steam Linux Runtime 3.0 (Sniper) -> auto downloaded from Steam

Picture for reference:

Wine Window

Thx

This is the desktop i showed a few days ago on a different subreddit and i went with mint. Im just wondering now that i have more detailed specs is this computer considered bad or low end? I plan on adding more hard drives and possibly upgrading the gpu one day?

Hello,

Now that Win11 is forcing copilot spyware its time to ditch windows. However, I've never used linux so I would like to ask for some advice on what would best fit my needs.

I use my PC for gaming, to edit astrophotography pictures I take (a hobby), internet browsing and running local LLM's for creative writing (koboldcpp/LM studio, SillyTavern) and learning AI skill stuff. I am not a programmer nor know coding.

My games are mostly on Steam. I only play elite dangerous and star citizen outside of steam.

My research leads me to Bazzite as a good newbie OS thats easy to install and impossible to screw up since its read-only. That sounds good to me but I've no clue if that will prevent me from running any of the stuff I listed above.

So, simply put, would installing Bazzite let me do all that I want/need? Im not trying to spark a 'this distro is better' debate .. this is my very first linux install so if bazzite works for what I need and its easy to install and I can't mess it up then that's what I want to use as I learn linux.

Also, another concern: Since I read that some games that use anti-cheat (like Star Citizen) wont work in linux... I wouldnt mind keeping a win11 dual boot option for when I play that game. But this has me wondering.. would copilot be able to mine my linux partition for data without me knowing if I boot into windows?

Like what is important?

Driver support and tools?

Optimization?

Community?

https://distrochooser.de/

Hey,

The demo for Anno 117 : Pax Romana released today and will be playable until the 26th.
I tried playing it on endeavour os and it just crashed at start up. Tried with Steam default Proton configuration and Proton 9.0-4.

Has anyone played it on Linux yet ? Is there a version of Proton that works.

I have to add, the game systematically runs via Ubisoft Connect ...

I have a Hp Omnibook Ultra with the intel core ultra 7 258v Lunar lake. Windows performance is actually pretty good, but Im so tired of windows, battery efficiency is not that good and Im so used to linux on my main PC.

The problem is that here on Linux, no matter the distro my GPU wont clock to its intended 1950mhz, I usually get between 1000-1600mhz. I Tried Bazzite, Ubuntu, Manjaro and mostly Arch since is the distro Im most familiar with. This results in 15-50% less performance in gaming and 3d apps. I tried different power profiles, intel_pstate on and of, intel xe experimental, latest kernel, mesa-git, different proton and protonGE versions, different cpu-power settings, etc, etc...

So long story short I just want to know what results are other lunar lake users getting. Do you have the same issue? Could be my unit although it works good on Windows?? Im on latest bios.

Thank you

Hello friends! I come here to ask for help and your opinions on what Distro i should use.

After a long time of thinking ive decided that i finally want to ditch Windows 10 and use Linux instead. But im not exactly sure what would be the best option for me.

I play a lot of games and I do a lot of software development so I would really need something that would allow me to do both without much trouble.

For those who are interested, the languages i use in software dev are C#, Typescript and C++

The games i play the most are Minecraft & Unturned, other than these 2 the rest are just random Unity Engine games.

Edit: For those of you who are wondering, im not new to Linux, ive used Fedora and Ubuntu Servers a lot in the past for self hosting.

Just wanted to share what I was working on recently, hopefully someone finds it useful.

simpleoverlay has basically no build-time dependencies, except for a C compiler and make (both GNU make and bmake works).

It works on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, but I'm planning on supporting more platforms.

https://github.com/tranarchy/simpleoverlay

https://preview.redd.it/gpmc8xp0trmf1.png?width=2517&format=png&auto=webp&s=710278ff7a60b6deb97efca26c0d4daad5ee630e

I currently use an Xbox One controller and honestly it’s been pretty good for me. Aside from a few connection drops that required reconnecting the dongle, I’ve got no complaints. After switching from Win10 to Bazzite, I’ve actually had fewer issues. I mostly just want to try something new.

I’m looking for an upgrade/alternative to the XB1 controller that checks the following boxes:

• Replaceable Batteries (either AA or easily accessible rechargeable). This is the top consideration because I have had much more luck with replaceable batteries than rechargeable lithiums for longevity.

• Hall Effect sticks and triggers (I just want to try them out)

• asymmetrical stick layout (like Xbox)

• Works OOTB wirelessly with Linux.

• low lag

Are there any options out there for this? I like 8bitDo for retro controllers (M30, NGCD) but never tried their models with analog sticks. I also hear great things about Gulikit but they do not seem to offer replaceable batteries.

Hi! We have an Xbox as well as a gaming PC that my son uses (with windows 11). My son and I started the new Gears coop together (I'm on xbox, he's on the PC). But I would LOVE to redo the PC so it uses linux instead of windows.

The only problem is, I can't figure out after some searching, if it's possible to install Gears of War: Reloaded from our gamepass account so he can still play coop with me.

Does anyone know?

• Fixed a bugregression introduced in 580.65.06 that could cause Vulkan applications to hang on Wayland.
• Added support for NVIDIA Smooth Motion on GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs.
• Fixed a bug that caused /sys/class/drm/.../enabled to always report "disabled" for NVIDIA GPU connectors.

Does it run well?

Just gave my GPU to the shop to be RMA'd, and it'll be a while til i get word of what's next, probably a month, and i don't have an integrated graphics on my computer so i'm stuck with a potato laptop for the time being.

It's a Lenovo G500 (ancient, i know), with Linux Mint Cinnamon on it. Runs great for internet and youtube, but i wanna game til i wait as well.

Post your game recommendations that you think would run on this laptop, something pixelated, easy to run, no matter the genre, just so i can fire up a game and unwind for a while while i wait for them to either fix my GPU or give me a new one.

I'm not sure about the actual specs of this. Neofetch says "Intel Pentium 2020M @ 2.400 with Intel 3rd Gen Core Processor graphics" but the online specs from googling say "Intel Core i5 3120M (3rd Gen) with AMD Radeon HD8750", but in any case, it's enough to run pixelart or very light potato games.

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

So I managed to get vrchat working with alvr to my quest 3s, everything works great, and I even got the video player to work. However, whenever a video starts playing, my vision starts to wobble uncontrollably! When I stop the video, it stops happening!

It seems like it may be network related. Perhaps when the video is streaming, it's bottlenecking something.. I've already had to switch my DNS to couldflare for everything else to respond without taking 30 seconds to complete a network request such as joining an instance, etc.

My ALVR bitrate is set at 50MB/s. I have a dedicated router just for connecting my headset to my PC, so no problem there.

I am currently running:

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System:

Kernel: 6.8.0-79-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 Linux Mint 22.1 Xia base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

MB:

TMPG B550 GAMING PLUS (MS-7C56) v: 1.0

CPU:

Ryzen 7 5800X

Graphics:

Radeon RX 6700

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For Vrchat, I am using ge-proton-rtsp.

I have tried switching to hotfix, experimental, beta, and the latest version of proton, nothing changes anything noticeable.

Happy to give any more info if necessary, this is really driving me nuts. I just want to be free of the stupid 100GB windows partition just for vrchat.

Video attached shows it happening. Obviously, it's not as noticeable watching in non-vr, but you can see it. It's absolutely nauseating in vr.

https://reddit.com/link/1n6l594/video/w5c95mqfirmf1/player

On Windows the general advice seems to be globally enabling v-sync via the nvidia control panel, leaving v-sync disabled in game and then capping fps a few frames below your refresh rate with RTSS or reflex.

I'm aware I can just cap the game framerate with mangohud or other launch options but how should I be configuring v-sync? Do I enable it in game or disable it and attempt to enforce something like FIFO or Immediate through mangohud launch options?

I've watched Ancient Gameplays' Windows vs Linux Gaming Benchmark Retest he said he didn't do extra optimization/tricks after clean OS installs and I saw that Bazzite losing more performance than others when it comes to ray tracing. All linux distros was using Mesa Git 25.2 (Probably 25.2.0) during the production of the video. You can find it in video's comments.
But the bazzite image i am on has Mesa Git 25.2.1-4 so do you think performance difference in ray tracing is still the same?

Keep in mind i am completely newbie in linux. Should I do the switch and find out myself? I can't decide whether I should commit to it or not.

I am on 4K resolution and 9070 XT. (He doesn't feature 4K tests in the video)

Thank you for your answers.

Hey Linux Gamers, I’m stuck getting the "Walking Man" music player mod (Nexus Mods ID 93, Windows-only with dxgi.dll and walkingman.ini) to work on Death Stranding Director’s Cut on Fedora 42. The game runs, but the mod doesn’t show up. Need a Linux workaround! Here’s what I’ve tried:

• Setup: Running via Steam, thought it was native but Proton was auto-used (compatdata/1850570/ exists).
• Mod Install: Extracted Walking Man-93-1-0-5-1754405662.zip, added dxgi.dll and walkingman.ini to ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Death Stranding/.
• Proton Attempts: Used Proton Experimental with --use-dxgi launch option, got a Windows 10 1809 error. Removed mod, game ran without forcing compatibility.
• Wine Attempts: Set up a 32-bit Wine prefix (~/.wine-deathstranding), tried vcrun2019 with winetricks, but it hung at wineserver -w. Reset by deleting prefix and ~/.cache/winetricks/.
• Current State: Game launches with --use-dxgi, no crashes, but no music player. Folder has dxgi.dll, walkingman.ini.

Any workaround to make this Windows mod work on Linux? Tried Proton/Wine tweaks but hit walls. Thanks!

No one seems to have an up to date answer, I would appreciate it if I had some assistance thanks

I have 2, 21" Phillips 120hz Monitors at 1920 * 1080