Hello! I just got Bazzite the other day and I can't seem to get Left 4 Dead 2 working. I can launch the game just fine but when I try to play singleplayer or try to join my friend, it just freezes on the loading screen and I have to restart to fix it. I have a pretty low-end laptop (intel core i3 6006u with integrated graphics and 4gb ram) but on windows l4d2 works just fine, it's just on linux that does this 🤷🏻‍♀️

So I've applied a few more fixes, and was able to reduce the appimage size with this new gui. And I was able to readd back vortex support! Changelog below in lol:

So, after a while I have decided to readd vortex. There is a popup at the end of the vortex setting that you **MUST** follow, it is fine to make your own folders in replacement of the {game} portion but I have only found vortex to work inside of that folder when adding it via steam and it can basically be setup almost how it is on windows. When you setup vortex it will also automatically apply the nxm handler.

I have added some fixes/dependencies into the appimage for people on kubuntu and mint. Also a few fixes for the heroic finding system as well.

One last thing is that I have created an experimental save symlinker. It will auto populate the prefixes documents folder and put only bethesda games saves there, and it will generate a folder in the MO2 or Vortex folder called "Save Games Folder" and it will show you symlink to each bethesda game. Feedback would be appreciated on this as its a work in progress.

Simple Games Modding has also been added. This will show you prefixes for games and will load the dependencies directly to them, this is if you wanted to load optiscaler, reshade, enb, or a few other things directly into the application itself. This means you wouldn't need to fiddle with launch options for winedlloverides at all. And I'm willing to add other dependencies or other dlls to the list if requested!

One thing I need to work on is logging for the terminal, and the log files to help diagnose any issues.

Hey guys! Im new to linux, switched over from windows 10 to linux mint about 2 weeks ago, I had so much fun tinkering with everything that I never really tested my proper gaming setup (which is running an hdmi cable to my tv to play steam games on big picture mode from the couch), I only tested just playing on my normal monitor which ran fine, perfectly. until now, when ive finished tinkering, ready to actually play some games, and im realizing that when i setup my tv (tested both as a second and single monitor) it runs terribly, it makes my performance horrible, both in game and out of game. I have pretty good specs, a GTX 4060, Ryzen 5 3600, 16gbs ddr4, etc, etc. Didn't have a single problem with this setup on windows, Ive tried just about everything I could find to try but nothing has made the tv not slow down my pc. please help out if anyone has any suggestions, thanks!

im using arch (btw) and randomly sometimes when i open overwatch and go into a game i get like 30fps with 99% gpu usage, then when i reboot it fixes itself. i have tried restarting my display manager, and mesa but it didnt fix anything. wondering if this is an overwatch issue, proton issue or smth else.
idk if it happens in any other games because i havent rly been playing any other games recently.
anyone else found the same issue?

i have an rx 6650 xt btw.

Hello everyone,

Made a post in the dota thread, making one here to seek support as well, please check this out and help if possible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/s/nUriCJEcMz

Hi, was getting the usual exec permissions error message when trying to make a steam library on a different drive, fucked around, no longer getting that error message, instead I go to tell steam to make a library on my NVME (OS and default library are on a SATA SSD) and it just poofs like my brain right now because it's almost midnight as I'm writing this and I'm sorry this is probably completely incomprehensible I'll edit in the morning to be coherent if someone doesn't understand what I'm saying z.z

Games are often around 30% slower on Nvidia with Linux, now some people don't care. But GPUs are expensive, so just as many people care and spend hundreds of bucks for a few percent more performance.

Personally I fucking hate Microsoft. And would 100% switch to Linux if it was just click on the exe (I don't support Steam or DRM) with no major performance difference for games.

Hey guys, I recently switched from Windows to Linux on my gaming laptop and it's been a headache due to hybrid graphics. I'm currently on Pop_Os and have had 2 common issues across all distros.

1. For some reason, the Steam client always runs on my dGPU, even if I force the iGPU. This raises temperatures and causes the fans to spin more, making noise and wasting energy

2. Fan control in Linux is flawed for some reason. Often, without doing anything, the system starts the fans running faster than normal. The only exception to this is The last one was cachyOs, but it's not viable for me since the hybrid graphics crash for some reason.

Hey guys, I've been experiencing a lot of issues with Nvidia Optimus recently. Basically, if I open another program or minimize the screen of a program or game that renders my Nvidia GPU,The program freezes and I have no choice but to close it or restart my laptop. Does anyone know how to fix it?

• System Lenovo Legion laptop
• CPU: i7-12700H
• GPU: RTX 3070Ti
• RAM: 32GB
• Storage: 1x4TB SSD
• OS: Kubuntu 25.10 (I wanted Plasma 6)
• nVidia Drivers: 580.95.05
• Kernel: 6.17

I have been having shit luck getting any games to work on Linux unless they have native Linux clients. My latest issue has to do with Guild Wars 2.

Doesn't seem to matter what version of Proton I use with Steam, the installer either crashes almost immediately or about the time it hits the "ready to play" point in the download, all of a sudden something starts eating RAM like crazy. The first time I was just letting it run in the background until all of a sudden my system locked up. I look down at the little memory usage widget and it's at 99.9%. I had to force reboot the system.

After that instance, I started watching things as the installer runs, and things start off pretty stable, but then as I said about the time it gets to the "ready to play" mark the amount of RAM used just starts going up quickly. It'll go from maybe 50% utilization (normal baseline) to 70%+ in a couple of minutes. At the same time, the fans on my system start kicking into high gear despite the fact that the game isn't even running, it's just the launcher downloading the game files.

If I use Bottles I can get the installer to stabilize using their built-in settings for that specific launcher, but since I need Steam for the controller support (keyboard and mouse isn't an option for reasons I don't want to get into) in the game, that doesn't really help me much. Skimming the ProtonDB site, I don't really see anything that jumps out at me as being specific to getting the installer to work correctly.

Is there something obvious that I am missing or is this just an effort doomed to fail on Linux?

hi guys i was just wondering in 2025 is it possible to run steam os a long side Ubuntu been thinking about running steam os for games like elite dangerous and no mans sky then switch back Ubuntu for retro gaming

TItle. Recently been experimenting with Linux distros and settled on CachyOS since I didn't like that the kernel on Bazzite was immutable. I am using an NVIDIA RTX 5070TI and after following all the instructions on the CachyOS documentation website, everything works flawlessly for the most part.

Question regarding Steam and Lutris. Should I stick to using Steam for Steam games and Lutris for anything else? Also, are launch arguments on Steam and Lutris different if you launch from each respective platform? Currently still doing research on how to configure my 5070Ti to be as optimally used as possible (latest DLSS version, enabling Reflex when available, etc). Thank you for reading!

Hello Hopefully I can ask this here I'm looking to move from windows to Linux on my PC and was wondering if it's hard to setup also what games support it

I'm trying to play Tekken 8 on a fresh install of endeavourOS. I'm on a PC with a Ryzen 9 9900X and a Radeon 7900XTX. I tried a fix that I saw by switching to Proton hotfix, but that still doesn't fix my issue. Tekken 8 used to work fine for me on Linux Mint before I upgraded my PC.

Game is on deep discount and seems to run on steam deck with the english patch, BUT there's absolutely no music playing.

https://www.protondb.com/app/628060?device=pc

I followed this guide, but it doesn't seem to work.

OS: CachyOS w/ KDE plasma

I have two 8BitDo Ultimate 2 wireless controllers connected with the 2.4 ghz hub connected to the PC via USB-A in the back IO. For some reason the OS is detecting these as being mice, as evidence by the fact that there is often a mouse cursor on the screen when the hubs are plugged in. It otherwise acts as a controller. The mouse cursor often (but not always) goes away when pressing one of the controller buttons or moving the joysticks when in the steam big picture mode app. The cursor reappears in game loading screens, then goes away when you again press a button or move the joysticks in the game menu.

I know this isn't a hugely important bug, but it does irk me somewhat. I have gone into the KDE mouse settings and noticed that both of the controllers are listed as mice. I have unchecked the box that says "enable device" for both of the controllers. This did seem to work back when I had only one of these controllers. Now that I have two of them, for some reason the issue persists even though I have checked multiple times that this device is not enabled as a mouse in the KDE settings.

Many thanks in advance.