I say this according to my experience with ubuntu snap. I have to say it's painfully horrible. The only game that worked is CS2 meanwhile others can't even work, even an indie game like Deltarune. I can't figure out how to get them to work on Steam snap. The only error I've seen in the output is

"pressure-vessel-wrap[32819]: W: Failed to load Vulkan ICD #0 from /var/lib/snapd/lib/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json: openat(/var/lib/snapd/lib/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json): No such file or directory"

There is no way for me to force it to use the mesa_vulkan, it's just straight up using the non existence Nvidia Vulkan. it's so frustrating

My hardware is
CPU: Intel I5 1135G7

GPU: Iris Xe

Ram: 16GB

SSD: 512GB

Linux distro: Ubuntu 24.04lts

Edit: I got 90% of my games working by switching from Proton Experimental to Proton 9.0 stable, but some game like Final Sentence and The Final still doesn't work

I'm desperate. I've been trying to install Bazzite for about 3 hours and I can't get it to install. I've booted from a USB drive, using Ventoy, Rufus, and even MintStick, and after selecting 'GRUB' from the menu, the screen goes black, but I can see the cursor. I can't proceed with the installation! I have CSM disabled. Obviously, I configured the boot process to start from UEFI, and I can't get past the black screen.

Hi, I wanna install EndeavourOS as a second boot option in my w11 desktop. But I want to keep secure boot enabled because some of the games requires secure boot to play online and I wanna keep w11 (some of my business related apps just works on Windows). I couldn't find a guide for a dual boot with secure boot. Is it possible?

Been using Lutris as my main launcher for retro gaming and loving it. I'm wondering if there is a way to tie Lutris to the Retro Achievements site to track progress or if thats only possible when launching from an emulator directly

Alright, we are trying this again. I am trying to get PKHeX up and running on Linux Mint 1.22.1.

I tried Lutris, and I tried Bottles. The program wouldn't go. I went to the PKHeX Discord, and asked them straight up if they were planning on adding Linux Support, since that's the hot new trend as of late. They directed me to a Wine Installation Guide on their main website, which would be great if I knew what the fuck I was doing!

I have Wine and Wine Tricks installed, and opened, but now I'm trying to get Wine Tricks to install Dotnetdesktop9, but it won't appear on the listings despite me having the damn file. I NEED that particular file in order to run PKHeX! I have the file!

What do I need to do? Please, help me understand what it is I am looking at. I have provided a link to the walkthrough here, but I cannot make heads or tails of it.

Please just help me understand. I want this to be done and over with so I never have to think about it again. I'm tired of running into dead ends and the last time I asked I was basically left floundering in the dark.

I (unfortunately) play WoW, and as such, need to have the battlenet client around so I can update it, and for the past week or so have been getting this error (BLZBNTBNA00000006) whenever I try to launch Bnet. I have been using Bottles and kron4ek-wine-10.6-staging to play the game, and while I can get into the game fine by just launching it directly and skipping the launcher, I'm going to need to update it eventually, which I currently can't since this error is currently sitting between me and the update button.

PC info:

CPU: Intel i9-9900K

GPU: Powercolor Hellhound 9070 XT

RAM: 32 GB

Kernel: 6.17.2-arch1-1 x86_64

Bottles 52.0

kron4ek-wine-10.6-staging

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So I made the switch to Linux Mint Cinnamon edition after Microsoft ended support for windows 10. Some growing pains but I've gotten most of everything set up.
But after scouring the internet and forums and some reddit post I can't find the answer I'm looking for.
So I'm on a older laptop developed in 2018 (according to my mother board bios) I understand completely that i wont be able to play a lot of games on this laptop but i cant afford to get a different PC ATM.
I play some older games IE Borderlands 2 Resident Evil games and a few select others.
When I was on windows in this games i was getting on average 30-45 fps now if i run the same games under proton I'm getting 12 - 25 fps.
Is this just a compatibly issue with the hardware in the laptop or a program issue i can potently fix? I'm not looking for a huge boost in performance i just want it to be playable. Most Linux games that have a port run surprisingly better than the windows version when i tried it on the same laptop.

Running off of steam. I have tried various different versions of proton. After inputting my microsoft password I am stuck on this screen.

On windows you have some saving on appdata, some on documents, and some on the "saved games" folder. so where would those be saved on linux?

hi all i wanna start learning Unity, but the UI is way to small is there a way to make it bigger?
i use ARCH hyperland and i am with a 4k display.

anyway i can get the UI scale option or the equivalent of this on unity Linux?

Hi all! I'm sure this has been discussed here before but i haven't found a solution that worked for me. I just recently installed Arch on my laptop and have been trying to connect my 3rd party Switch Pro Controller through bluetooth. It connects properly through Bluetooth, but i don't get any input in Steam or an online gamepad tester. I installed Joycond and it didn't work. I saw that newer Kernels had hid-nintendo built in, but since my controller still wasn't working i tried installing it anyway. When I do sudo dkms build nintendo -v 3.2 I get this error: Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.17.6-arch1-1 (x86_64)

Consult /var/lib/dkms/nintendo/3.2/build/make.log for more information.

The output of /make.log:

DKMS (dkms-3.2.2) make.log for nintendo/3.2 for kernel 6.17.6-arch1-1 (x86_64)

Mon Nov 3 06:06:54 PM EST 2025

Building module(s)

# command: make -j16 KERNELRELEASE=6.17.6-arch1-1 -C /usr/lib/modules/6.17.6-arch1-1/build M=/var/lib/dkms/nintendo/3.2/build/src modules

make: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/6.17.6-arch1-1/build'

/usr/lib/modules/6.17.6-arch1-1/build/Makefile:5: *** Too many open files. Stop.

make: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/6.17.6-arch1-1/build'

# exit code: 2

# elapsed time: 00:00:01

-----------------------------

My controller connects through Bluetooth and even shows up as a Pro Controller, but I'm not getting any input anywhere. Please help!

So I am trying to find a frontend app where I can scan my ROMS and set the location of the emulators and just have a huge library of my ROMS instead of going through each different emulator to switch games. I use this thing called Steam ROM manager and it does that but for steam but I don't like using steam as a launcher due to it having no portability, customization, and online stuff, etc etc.

I'm having a problem with Borked3DS. OpenGL doesn't load games and gives me this error message and Vulkan just crashes the app. I dual boot with Windows and this only happens on linux. My specs are:

Nobara 42

Intel Core i5-14400F

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (obviously using proprietary drivers)

16GB RAM

https://preview.redd.it/byth1qhc14zf1.png?width=174&format=png&auto=webp&s=7687c1a7f04af15391d29bc6f0ea2564c35a5178

As a software dev i use linux all the time on servers and in containers, but only recently tried using it as a daily desktop at home.

I am pretty neurotic when it comes to my input devices, i've been buying the same mouse and keyboard for the last 10 years. My hand has molded itself after logitech m90.

On windows, i can look at a button, close my eyes and lead a cursor to the button's approximate position. On linux, its anyone's guess where it will end up. Mouse feels - different, twitchy, and different = wrong = bad. Even selecting text felt mightily unpleasant, in games mouse felt absolutely horrible.

Across several distros (Ubuntu, Mint, Debian) and several DE (gnome, kde plasma, cinnamon). From what i understand, they all use x11 so it wouldn't really matter. I tried different settings, like flat acceleration, "device default", "adaptive", none of them feel "right" to me personally. I even created a custom profile in xorg.conf.d trying to emulate window's acceleration curve, to no avail.

This is not the only thing that i was not comfortable with, coming from 20+ years of windows, but it was the absolute deal-breaker.

Just my feedback towards linux on desktop dream. Linux already looks as good as windows(kde plasma is beautiful), now i think it needs to feel how majority of computer users are used to. Maybe i will try again in a couple of years.

so I daily drive cachyos but unfortunately I have finally found a few games that I cannot play on it because of pesky KLAC I did not want to do boot because of the problems that can happen especially with windows over riding the boot loader so I looked into windows to go as a solution that would at the very least isolate the system. I installed that successfully and there's even a setting in Rufus that makes it so that it can't detect the internal drives so I should be fine in that department at least.

i'm making this thread because I'm wondering if anyone else has done this and what their experience has been, because so far it's been… Less than ideal I'm not that experience with hardware stuff so maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it tends to freeze up when I do more than a few data management things like moving more than a few files around. I'm using a 4 TB G Drive rugged SSD but I feel like maybe I'm using the wrong port. I have a Lenovo Legion Pro 10th Gen so I guess I should figure out what my fastest port in this machine is and make sure I'm using it... will be looking that up after I write this

Anyway, was wondering if anyone had trouble gaming with this kind of setup. When I first booted up a game that was I would say probably mid level of demand it seemed to run pretty well, stuttering a bit concerningly at first but as I played more and more it stopped altogether. I'm having some issues with some other games though, mainly with FiveM/GTA V where for some reason the rockstar launcher can't connect to the Internet even though the rockstar network is up and I actually made exceptions for it in my firewall. I'm hoping it doesn't have something to do with the fact that I am on this kind of set up I have no idea how the launcher would even be able to detect such a thing. assuming everything else goes well I think that this would be a viable setup.

I guess this is technically not linux gaming so sorry but I am primarily a linux gamer and was wondering if other linux gamers were doing this sort of non dual boot setup and how it was working out for them. I also feel like I wouldn't be able to make this kind of thread on a Windows sub without getting flamed lol