Hi Linuxers )

i a m developer of the Ecliptica Game, some time ago my from the team leave 3d designer,

Unfortunately, he can no longer help me with the game. But 3d work is here to stay, and I fundamentally don't want to buy or take ready-made assets; that usually makes games extremely unappealing. So maybe someone would like to participate. The project is a solo-developing and isn't making any money yet, so I'm looking for someone who would just like to contribute.

Maybe someone is interested in this?

In the latest Minecraft Update Mojang changed Bedrock to be a GDK game instead of UWP. Does this mean I can now just have it on my steamdeck instead of needing an launcher launcher like the PE one?

Well, this is my second post on Reddit. I have been looking for something new on my life and I'm thinking about to migrate Linux. I'm user Windows my whole life xD. I don't know how to start but people usually recommends in my case that use Bazzite, Nobara, Fedora or PopOs! But I would use my laptop for make videos, edition, geography programs (Google Earth Pro, Qgis, ArcGis, etc) and gamming. I'm not sure how start. Please help, I would be grateful. Sorry for my bad English, I talk Spanish xD.

The rockstar launcher is failing and doesnt let me play the game, i tried using proton ge but it doesnt work, any tips?

Edit: also, is there a wiki or anything that catalogs which runners, which dependencies, settings are needed for each game?

Basically, It seems like some games work best with proton, some with wine. Some dont work at all with wine but will launch with proton.

Part of the problem is that some games will launch fine with wine, and some will only launch using proton

Switching between these puts save games in wildly different locations, and each game has its own prefix meaning its own save location, and sometimes this is different (within the windows tree) game-to-game, ie some will save in appdata, or Saved Games, or elsewhere.

I guess what I'm asking is what is the best way to manage all of this. I would like to use something like Vorta or Borg to do backups on saves, or maybe I should just set a default directory for prefixes and back up the whole thing? But then proton saves are elsewhere, is it even possible to set a default prefix for proton or are they perpetually suck in the steam directories?

I have way more games than harddrive space, and tend to move installed games between my NAS and gaming computer, it would be really nice to easily backup and move saves around if I want to go back to a game... Any ideas? Does anyone have a system for this?

I’m super proud to announce my next solo project, Lexispell! It's a cozy roguelike word game with a physics twist. You merge letters, pick cool upgrades and spell long words.

The main loop is you going through levels where you need to score enough points to continue. In between you visit the shop where you can buy upgrades (like Balatro jokers) and consumables (energy, reveal a word, transform letters, etc..).

I'm also working on different mode for different players as I want to make something approachable and challenging for more "hardcore" gamers. So if you don't like roguelikes, don't worry, there will probably be something for you too!

I'm developing the game on Linux (Mint) and I own a Steam Deck so support for Linux is there from the beginning! I still love to get other people to test the game to make sure it's smooth. If it's something you're interested in, you can register to the public playtest directly on the game.

Steam link

Geometry Dash doesn't run well natively on linux but i saw a thread that said that proton 6.3 and only 6.3 can make it run well. Unfortunately anything except experimental and 9.0 just crashes the game instantly(I press launch, says running for a minute then it just stops the running state)
I've managed to get the logs, however i'm not very experienced with these kinds of things

Thank you!

So, i saw a lot of videos talking about FydeOS and how it runs android.
I was looking into how it does it, and looks like it ports the Android subsystem into the distro.
My question is: How is the performance compared to waydroid?
I currently use arch and wanted to know how different it was. Have anyone tested both?

I played ARK on windows before switching to linux, and I've seen comments on protondb that it's playable in single player (my preferred play style), but I'm having issues with the downloading process.

It keeps trying to install 1.3Gb then open, but obviously fails. I tried clearing the download cache and even went to properties to force it to download via proton experimental. It starts to download the proper 63ish Gb, but then switches to 1.3Gb again less than a minute later.

Has anyone else had encountered and had success with this?

Title. to me, it seems weird that they don't. If the concern is disk space, I would argue most people can acquire a 16GB USB that can hold a little more storage. It gives Nvidia users a smooth out of the box experience in a live environment instead of nouveau which is often buggy and outright crashes on my own hardware.

I remember Pop OS doing this when I tried it once and it streamlined a part of setup. Despite this, many distros still expect you to go out of your way to install Nvidia drivers after running their installer. Most drivers on Linux don't need to be actively installed with DKMS or anything, so why not go the extra mile and make things easier for a large segment of desktop users?

I'm curious if there's technical limitations preventing this from becoming reality.

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Hey guys, I'm new to Linux. Sorry. to make a long story short: I wanted to undervolt my 3070 GPU, so I searched online and found this app: LACT

My undervolt on the OC tab seems to be working, but for some reason, here on fan curve, my GPU fans are still spinning even under low load. As you can see on the pict, the GPU temperature is 40°C, but the fans are running at 1192 RPM.

Does anyone know why this might be happening or how I can fix it? Any help would be appreciated.

Hey Guys - I am completely new to the whole Linux but I want to get started - right now I have real big Desktop-PC but I want to keep it Windows (at least until I know how to interact with Linux). For that Reason - I want to buy a MiniPC. On Amazon, there are different Mini-PCs from 200-400€.
Do you think one can get started on those with Linux -how can a I find out about that? And if so - could I try bazzite and make a small gaming station for simpler games (retro and 2D)?

Thanks in Advance!

Many said that my protonDB+ project doesn't make sense since there is winehq, so I wanted to separate some points about winehq that I don't like about those who disagree with my points that I have here at your disposal.

• winehq is complicated to add games: games on winehq ask for a lot of information to add and describe problems since from what I saw it would be focused more on applications and protonDB+ is focused more on games like portonDB. winehq is more for wine developers so needs specific information, but protonDB is for gamers for gamers and not wine programmers
• have active winehq users: I see very little content and updates from appDB, many people said "you're also not helping appdb with reports and create another website" I created it for the ease of reporting and adding games if you liked using appDB, congratulations to you. As Linux has several options for several people, my goal is to help several people and not a specific group of people.

I appreciate the comments that helped me improve my site and my perspectives on winehq

Last time I used a 1060 on Linux, it was one of the worst gaming experiences I had. But that was before the famous 555 driver that brought Wayland support and all the other upgrades.

But when I tried installing Fedora on a PC with a 1060 later, I couldn't even boot into the desktop. It barely showed GDM and was unusable. I couldn't even try to install the proprietary drivers.

Is this the same on all Wayland only distros?

Before 555 driver I was forced to use xorg, and only gnome kinda worked for that, I also tried XFCE but had massive issues with games.

And I think I heard somewhere that anything below the RTX series is no longer supported...

Can someone share their experiences with 10 series, Nvidia drivers and Wayland?

Hello,

TL;DR : With the same hardware and BIOS config, I have random crashes during GPU-intensive games on Linux, not on Windows, without overheat, and I'm looking for ideas on where to find more logs to solve this crashes.

I'm trying to move from W11 to Linux for my gaming computer (I choosed Ubuntu 24.04). I'm quite experienced on linux servers, but not at all for linux desktop/gaming computer.

Overall it works well, but I had two complete system crash (unexpected reboot), which I never had on Windows (really never ever). So I'm wondering if I really should switch to Linux (I don't want to be scared of a crash every time I run a game). Before cancelling this idea, I'd like to have informations from you on how to diagnostic what could happend;

As it's a hard crash/reboot, logs are mostly inexistant, so I don't know where to search. One user on reddit mentionned UEFI logs, but it seems that my motherboard don't log these.

Here are my thoughts:

• Reminder : for the same games, I never had any crash on Windows. The only change I did is install Ubuntu, no hardware/BIOS change.
• The two crashes happened on different games : one on Two Point Museum, one on CS2. Both are native linux (I think, I'm still not a proton expert)
  • I played 10 hours to "Roottrees are dead" (also native linux), very less GPU-intensive, without a single crash, so it might be related to GPU usage
• While gaming, the CPU stays at ~65°C, GPU ~50°c, no thermal throttling.
• not a single crash outside of these two games (but I used only 4 games)
• I ran intensive tests with OCCT (GPU and CPU at 100%) for 30minutes without a crash/overheat

The main problem is the lack of useful logs. kern.log/dmesg tells nothing, journalctl -b -1 -e is filled with appArmor denied access and nothing is related to hardware except for this block I hade one time, but minutes before the crash, and maybe not relevant because it's a "corrected error" (and again, same hardware on windows without a crash):

kernel: [Hardware Error]: L3 Cache Ext. Error Code: 4 kernel: [Hardware Error]: cache level: L3/GEN, tx: GEN, mem-tx: GEN kernel: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged kernel: [Hardware Error]: Corrected error, no action required.

Harware: I use a RTX 4070SUPER + Ryzen 7 5800X3D on a X470 Gaming Plus with 32GB RAM. The PSU is 1 year OLD and is a Gold Corsair 850W. Nvidia drivers are the one installed by Ubuntu at installation (the propietary one) v580.95.05. Ubuntun 24.04 is up-to-date, with Gnome on X11.

Thanks for your help!

EDIT : sorry for the mispelling in title, I can't change it / Moved TLDR to top / spelling

Hey everyone! I'm wondering which system performs better in regular games like Minecraft and other mid-range titles I want to know where I’ll get better FPS and smoother performance

My laptop specs: Intel Core i7-1165G7 Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 8GB DDR4 RAM NVMe SSD 128GB Has anyone compared Fedora or Arch to Windows 10 LTSC 21H2 for gaming? How’s the performance and overall experience?

And it’s only the .dll file for any version of DSfix that does this. Every other mod with a .dll file I have to point to in Properties immediately works the second I put it in launch options. This one just crashes the game immediately, no questions asked. I get the white screen, so it is starting, and then it closes a second later. I’ve given up on figuring this out, but maybe someone will be able to troubleshoot it.

Oh yeah, I did get an error message when I lowered my Proton to 5.0 instead of an immediate crash. ‘Loading of specified dinput wrapper failed with error 127: Procedure not found.’ It does this with every version of the mod.