Ethereal Odyssey is a hand-drawn 2D metroidvania where dreams twist, memories echo, and every step reveals a truth.

Available for Linux and Steam Deck.

If you'd like to try it, you can do so on Steam (click “Request Access”): Link

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Specs: 13700k and 3080

Id rather not use win11 but I’ve heard gaming on linux isn’t usually as good on nvidia gpu compared to amd. Is that still the case? I mostly play single player games. Usually smaller closer to indie then AAA type games.

My main experience with Linux is via steamdeck so I’ve used protondb a bit before but I think it’s mostly for steam deck?

What district do you recommend? I was considering either ubuntu or mint as I’ve heard that’s the most user friendly ones?

Any tips appreciated thanks

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Greetings,

short disclaimer: I'm not often on reddit and already switched back to windows, but still wanted an answer for this.

I installed Total Warhammer 3 through Steam a few months ago and it installed the dedicated Linux version. Unfortunately this version was about 2 major versions behind the Windows version and renders multiplayer with friends impossible. How would I have been able to force Steam to download the most recent/Windows version of the game? Does Steam even support this feature?

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Hello everyone. I have an old laptop with a nvidia geforce 610m

I installed cachy Os (btw i use arch!) and it is blazing fast and responsive. I wanted to use it for light gaming with gpu offload (i am a little proficient with linux and arch) and i found out that the right drivers are nvidia-390xx. But they are not supported in the latest kernel (6.17.5).
I read that the nvidia-390xx-utils contains a patch for the latest kernel but it is not working, when i compile the dkms module for my kernel it stops because the function fb_create has changed the signature in the newer kernels. Has anyone come to a solution or workaround to this?

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Tried Proton 9.0-4 and current Steam Experimental. Same result: freezing during logos, at slightly different points, doesn't go further than that. Verified files -- didn't help. There was some kind of weird message on first start via Steam UI, but it dissapeared in half a second. Red frame, seemed quite lenghty. Never seen anything like it before, and it didn't appear after the first launch.

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I hadn't played CS2 in a while, and the other day when I launched it my monitor was no longer displaying correctly.

For years I'd been playing at 3440x1440, 165hz, no problems whatsoever. And now I'm forced into 16:9 or 4:3, seemingly no support for my ultra-wide monitor, and a popup warning that my display is running at 0hz. If I suck it up and play at an incorrect resolution close to 3440x1440, everything is very annoyingly flickering.

I'm on Arch with an NVIDIA gpu and Wayland/KDE Plasma. No problems for the longest time until these past couple weeks. Is anyone else experiencing any problems with CS2 lately?

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I'm using LACT, and the 7900 GRE is supposed to have had its memory unlocked via a driver update eons ago. However, LACT still shows it as having an upper bound of 2316 MHz (it should max out at 3000). I am on Mint 22.2 Cinnamon. Here are the rest of my specs: https://termbin.com/88c6

Please help me solve this, thank you! :)

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Im brand new to Linux and just made a big switch to bazzite safe to say i fucking hate the OS I can't even install my vpn which I actually require to do just about anything so I was looking at these 2 to switch to next but I don't really know the differences between different distros so wanted some help. I do wanna try arch Linux on my laptop so im tempted to go with CachyOS which is based off of arch but im not sure how good the software support is as I know pop is based on Ubuntu which itself is based debian meaning it has insanely good support

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Cant have it run the game an be able to play on VAC servers. Heeelp, just wanna play cs with decent fps

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Switched to Linux as a complete and utter beginner about 2 months ago, and have loved every minute of it.

Any time I have had an issue thus far, there is nothing that hasn't been easily re-searchable. Whether through the wiki, reddit, google or even AI models (in more dire situations), eventually I have been able to tinker and find the fix.

However, there is this one issue I have with GPU usage that I just can't find an answer to. There doesn't seem to be much out there as far as any google or forum searches go either.

The problem is in the title, when I load games, I only ever seem to hover in the the 70-80% range for usage, leaving quite a bit of performance on the table. Ideally id want to float in the 90% range and could tamper with fans from there.

I've tried gamemode, different proton prefixes, custom kernels and updating drivers (and really everything else to ensure im up to date). But I cant seem to improve it. What might be causing this and how can i go about finding a fix?

Specs

OS: Arch Linux

KERNEL: 6.17.7-zen1-1-zen

CPU: Intel Core i9-14900K

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

GPU DRIVER: NVIDIA 580.105.08

RAM: 32 GB

Not sure if at all relevant, but im on KDE plasma 6.5.2 using Wayland

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Hello!
Last month after its EOL, I've switched my PC over from Windows 10 to Linux Mint Cinnamon.
In the time since, I've gradually been working on carrying the games over to the new OS, and have managed to get most of my non-Steam games working with Lutris.

The most recent issue I've run into has been with Steam. I managed to set it up successfully (system package) and get it to recognize the games I had stored.
I have three drives:
- /sda/, my 200GB SSD containing my 100GB Mint boot partition, containing very few games,
- /sdb/, my 1TB HDD containing more games,
- /sdc/, my 2TB HDD containing the majority of my games.
Both sdb and sdc are still NTFS from when they were used by Windows, as unfortunately, I have no means of safely formatting them as of right now, seeing as I do not have enough space to back up or store the contents of either drive.
Steam does, however, recognize both drives, the libraries within, and their games, after adding them.

10/21 of these games launch properly, largely simpler ones, while another 11/21 all experience the same issue; upon trying to launch the game, nothing visibly opens, and the game stops itself after a few seconds - the same result with all games leading me to believe it to be a shared cause, perhaps something related to missing redistributables or something similar. Additionally, all 11 of these games are Platinum or Gold on ProtonDB, so they should be able to function - I'm not sure what criteria causes some games to work, and some to fail.
Below is the list of games in question, and their location.

Working:
- Terraria (sda)
- Duck Game (sda)
- Deltarune Ch1&2 Demo (sda)
- Team Fortress 2 (sdb)
- Portal 2 (sdb)
- Factorio (sdb)
- Rimworld (sdc)
- Celeste (sdc)
- The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (sdc)
- Bitburner

Failing:
- Yakuza 0 (sdb)
- Skyrim Special Edition (sdb)
- ULTRAKILL (sdb)
- Oblivion Remastered (sdc)
- GTA V Legacy (sdc)
- Cyberpunk 2077 (sdc)
- Fallout 4 (sdc)
- Blue Archive (sdc)
- Fallout: New Vegas (sdc)
- FPS Chess (sdc)
- Holocure (sdc)

I've been using Ultrakill to test out a solution. Switching to Proton 9.0-4, which users report to work with the game, doesn't work. Uninstalling and reinstalling the game doesn't solve it either, so it isn't an issue tied to the installation itself. I've placed a Proton log of attempting to launch the game below; however, it hasn't provided any insight on the problem as far as I can tell.

My question, then, is the following; What might be causing these games to fail to launch, and how could I remedy it? If there is any other information I should add, or other kinds of logs I could check, please do let me know so I may attach it as needed.

====================== Proton: 1762451175 experimental-10.0-20251106b SteamGameId: 1229490 Command: ['/media/user/06F2D4C4F2D4B8DF/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/ULTRAKILL/ULTRAKILL.exe'] Options: {'forcelgadd'} depot: 3.0.20250826.159138 pressure-vessel: 0.20250820.0 scout scripts: 0.20250820.0 sniper: 3.0.20250826.159138 sniper 3.0.20250826.159138 Kernel: Linux 6.14.0-35-generic #35~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Oct 14 13:55:17 UTC 2 x86_64 Language: LC_ALL None, LC_MESSAGES None, LC_CTYPE None PATH: /media/user/6A563B8B563B56D3/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Proton - Experimental/files/bin/:/usr/bin:/bin Effective WINEDEBUG: +timestamp,+pid,+tid,+seh,+unwind,+threadname,+debugstr,+loaddll,+mscoree ====================== submitted by /u/MartinCreep44
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On the game first week I could chat normally and hear other people talking on VC, but someday I booted up my game and got the mute sign of death. Since then I can't hear or talk in VC.

Already tried restarting pipewire, changing audio inputs/outputs and the outcome is always the same.

Voice chat disabled as soon as the game is joined

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So ive used windows my entire life... and the bloatware is getting crazy, ads, pop ups, AI etc. Im hoping to switch to linux since it's fully customisable, most likely linux mint or any already made windows style distro. My main concern is playing counter strike 2. Ive heard faceit anti-cheat doesnt work, cs2 in general is slower and things like audio setup for discord / streaming, video editing (davinci resolve) has problems.

Are there work around for all these issues to get them working just as well as they would on windows or should I just stick to windows? I really want to move to linux but these things important in my decision making... thanks EDIT: Or just any info about faceit working on linux at some point...

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Hi, I am wondering about my graphics settings in Minecraft and wanted to see my system stats in an overlay. I have a Nobara installation and use Mangohud with Steam.

I can’t set it up to run with a Flatpak Modrinth and it’s launched Minecraft instance.

If I start Modrinth with gamescope I have the overlay but the Video settings and controls are messed up.

Can anybody help?

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Running Steam Big Picture mode in an exclusive gamescope session like the Steam Deck game mode. Works great. However, the performance overlay switch in big picture to turn on fps counting does not turn it on. Is this a bug or am I missing a setting/package? FPS count works fine in the standard steam client/desktop mode.

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