Hey everyone, I just launched the demo of my horror visual novel on Steam! The game also has adventure elements in the gameplay, and of course dating sim routes with your chosen girl.

NO MORE WORK FOR ITO takes place in an office after hours. You’re dealing with the stress of overwork, and your mind is kind of… slipping away...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4038260/NO_MORE_WORK_FOR_ITO_Demo/

I really hope you guys enjoy it! The demo is available for Linux on both Steam and Itch.io!

Thanks everyone,

Poética Software HQ

I have only really used Linux once before, through a virtual machine like a decade ago (Ubuntu), and just generally don't have a lot of experience with it. The level of bloat and bad design in Windows (let's be honest, Windows peaked at XP) has kind of started to reach a breaking point for me, but I am not really sure what to do, as I play a fairly wide range of games, and compatibility is a concern. The fact is, I just don't really know what I am looking at here and am basically totally new at this, so I don't know if I am best off waiting for steam to release their OS, get something else, or just stick with Windows despite the many problems. I run basically all my games through Steam, and other than using the internet, Discord, and occasionally LibreOffice, I don't use my computer for much else. I do have a fairly large number of games, so compatibility is my primary concern. I don't really know what other information I need to provide to make this easier, so I will edit my post if I need to with new information if it's needed.

I'm trying to help my partner get off of Win10 and they wanted to move to Linux. They're already fairly familiar with it (having run Mint as their primary OS several years ago) and even bought a Linux gaming laptop recently to support the move.

One problem - there is a particular game they want to play (Hidden City) that has foiled most of my attempts at making it work in Linux. The game has both an Android and a Windows version of the game (along with iOS, I suppose, but probably not relevant here). I've had more success with the former than the latter.

It doesn't take much to run - a basic iGPU runs it on a Windows box and mid-ranged phones run it at full speed with no issues on Android. Thing is, my partner has multiple user profiles to run the game with multiple accounts. I haven't been able to figure out how to handle multiple user profiles with any "solution" that can actually run the game.

Under Windows it is a UWP application that is only installable from the Windows Store.

• As far as I can tell, UWP apps like this can't run via Wine/Proton; simple ones can and this isn't simple enough. Plus updating would be a nightmare and the game updates frequently.
• Performance in a Windows VM has been pretty atrocious for the solutions I've tried so far - we're talking sub-10fps for NoVNC-based access and more like 11-12fps for FreeRDP-based solutions. This is pretty common for any UWP application with animations, so I'm not too surprised.
• WinBoat uses FreeRDP, so it performs similarly (not that it wants to launch the game directly anyway - UWP strikes again).

Under Android it is a normal Play store application.

• It can install and run via Waydroid (and it even works at a normal speed!), but Waydroid doesn't have any simple way of switching between user accounts.
  • The best idea I had here was to run a script to shut down the game, move the storage for Android, swap it with another deployment of Waydroid, then boot it back up again; you'd essentially run two different Android installs. That is hella clunky and time consuming to do.
• I briefly tried an Android emulator (whose name I don't remember now - this was several months ago), but that didn't work since this is a Play store application with lots of GooPlay dependencies; you pretty much need full GooPlay store access for the game to even run.

Any ideas for some creative solution that would work without being onerous to maintain? To be clear, the multi-user bit doesn't need to be simultaneous or anything; think like switching what user account you're logged in as on a desktop. I'm happy to put in time/effort but I don't want to spend several hours on this every time the game updates.

i installed cs2 today and after launching it compiling vulcan shaders freezes on 0% and if i move the mouse the entire pc freezes, if i skip the compilation nothing happens and the same when i move the mouse

cpu: ryzen 5 5500

gpu: radeon rx 6600

mobo: asus tuf gaming b550 wifi II

I don't know if this is the right thread for this problem, but whatever. I recently installed Arch Linux on my Dell laptop. Everything works flawlessly except for Deltarune and Undertale. I've tried everything, including updating the system, changing 5 Protons, GE Proton, installing Vulkan and Mesa, but none of these things worked. Has anyone had this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it?

I'm at my wit's end and this problem had been occurring since Kernel v6.14.

This first appeared on Linux Mint when I upgraded to 22.2 (a few days ago). I'm currently on Fedora 42 and I thought changing distros would fix the problem.

This is the snippet from "fstab" that I'm using to mount my game partition.

# Games

UUID=7AE7-DC01 /media/Games exfat defaults,user,exec,umask=000,fmask=000,dmask=000 0 0

Setting the mount point to /home/User_Name/Games didn't fix the problem either.

"Fsck" didn't find any problems at all.

Is there any way to fix this issue by modifying the mount options?

This never happened up to Kernel v6.8 back when I was on Mint.

Some months ago i ran ZorinOS just checking linux out and it was a pretty good experience, but i built a new PC and after first failure to install linux i just stayed with Windows 10 for a while.

Now that Windows 10 support is ending, i checked out PopOS and my experience has been a bit worse than Zorin, and for gaming it is pretty terrible. Games not only run worse (with games like Hell Let Loose being unplayable, which were very playable on Zorin), but also look worse (except Arma 3, which actually looks a bit better imo).

With that said, was this just an issue with the OS and included AMD drivers? I am not sure whether i should try out some other OS and see if its better or just switch to Windows 11 (with removed teleometry). My primary focus on my PC is gaming and while i like linux when it comes to basic tasks, it annoys me to look around for tutorials for an hour just to play a game. Need some help & advice

hey! i got a new monitor recently and now Minecraft Java keeps trolling me. when it’s in windowed mode, it stays on my main display. when i fullscreen it, the thing moves to the secondary one and i can’t drag it to my main. it happens in both vanilla and modded. i use Nobara GNOME (Fedora based). that also only happened to Minecraft so far

I am quite new to Linux, I use Ubuntu, and I noticed that when I want to play some youtube video in picture in picture mode (on brave browser), it is like a new window, and does not remain on top when I use other windows.
How can I fix it?

Well, now that the game is apparently dying, do y'all think Epic Games will change their minds and allow Linux support just to get more players?

Hey Guys!

I started to "publicly show" my game about a month ago and I am very happy to announce that my game Paddle Together crossed 5000 wishlists!

The demo is also out, we launched it this Friday and had very critical issues on the weekend (server was constantly crashing so we changed the whole structure) but now everything is fine and I started get positive reviews! (I still have one "lobby" bug, I've been working on it for like 3-4 hours, pretty close to solve it)

If you want to check the demo out:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3997230/Paddle_Together_Demo/

Gonna wait for your feedbacks!

Thanks,

Hi, I am a new linux user (begin with steam OS on my deck) and now I have my laptop with Rtx 3060 with bazzite. First days was fantastic but now suddendly in random times the screen begin to turn total black, the strange thing about it is that is not the screen itself, because for example if I have chrome opened, the lower bar with bazzite symbol, chrome, volume etc.. began to disappear and reappear every 2 second and then crash. Leaving me on chrome that is still functional but if I close It I have the entire screen black with only the mouse.
any tips?

I am using Debian 12 with i3wm. I installed Steam, ProtonGE, ProtonTricks, ProtonQT-Up through flatpak. And i installed the MangoHUD and Gamescope also from Flatpak but the runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.<MangoHud/gamescope>/x86_64/25.08 version. Now in steam i installed Cube Escape.Paradox to test it out and in the properties general i put the following command

env MANGOHUD_CONFIG="fsr,fps_value,gamemode" gamemoderun gamescope --mangoapp -w 640 -h 380 -W 1920 -H 1080 -F fsr -f %command%

But then the game is not openning. Even removing the part before gamemoderun still facing the same problem. What to do.

I love my Steam Deck but not crazy about Steam OS. Thinking about putting Fedora on it since that's what I use on desktop and I think it would click better with me since it's what I'm comfortable with/learning on. Has anyone had any particular issues with it? In an idea scenario I'd basically run Fedora on all of my devices, but I want to make sure everything works first. I haven't seen any reports of any issues doing it.

So i installed bazzite, was playing aoe2 de via steam, and uupd pops up saying i haven't updated in a month. which i will do after the game. i try to press the [x]: nope. can't interact with it.

i hit alt+enter. still can't interact with it.

what to do?

Currently bg3 is cheaper on gog but the new port seems worth it paying more so I could get it through steam

Pretty much the title, I have a 4060Ti with CachyOS and want to have the tools to tweak my hardware,or do you recommend any other software?