I was a bit frustrated that not every games on steam automatically creates a .desktop file. Those files allows easy way to lunch games on steam from wofi/rofi.

Today I fixed it with a quick and dirty script, thought I could share it.

So here's my dumb script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash STEAM_APPS="$HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps" DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/.local/share/applications" mkdir -p "$DESKTOP_DIR" for manifest in "$STEAM_APPS"/appmanifest_*.acf; do appid=$(grep -m1 '"appid"' "$manifest" | awk -F'"' '{print $4}') name=$(grep -m1 '"name"' "$manifest" | awk -F'"' '{print $4}') file_name="${name// /-}" # replace spaces with - file_name="${file_name//./}" # remove dots cat > "$DESKTOP_DIR/steam-$file_name.desktop" <<EOF [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=$name Exec=steam steam://rungameid/$appid Icon=steam Terminal=false Categories=Game; StartupNotify=true EOF chmod +x "$DESKTOP_DIR/steam-$file_name.desktop" done rm ~/.local/share/applications/steam-Proton* rm ~/.local/share/applications/steam-Steam* update-desktop-database "$DESKTOP_DIR" submitted by /u/TheBigJizzle
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I want to use a microSD card to store steam games since my Chromebook only has 32 GB of storage. Whenever I install a game directly to the SD card, the play button will show and it’ll launch the game, but the game will never open and then it’ll eventually just quit the game and the play button will come back. I have tried to play the game that I want to install off of the internal storage and it worked perfectly fine. I am able to add the drive inside of steam, but I’m just never able to launch the game. Is there something I’m doing wrong?

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Since I moved to cachyOS and to my new laptop, I am looking the temps to see which angle is bettler to airflow (printing in 3d some samples).

I noticed a big difference between down and up on the fps arrow, sometimes being 200 down and 700 on up.

My specs are:
Ryzen 9 270
16gb
RTX 5060 Max-Q

Deadlock is the game btw.

https://preview.redd.it/8o3na3cj0dkg1.png?width=2544&format=png&auto=webp&s=4c8f836a49c99838283fcc6ad59118e544df4e00

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The first time I installed, nothing happened. The second time, the Windows-style installation went through, but the game didn't launch. I clicked change installation, then "Play" from the disc autoplay, then it worked finally. Now the game runs every time I click it.

The only problem I have is the sound. A lot of the people speaking, and background sounds seem a bit echo-ey. I wouldn't even mind that too much, but certain background noises are obnoxiously loud in my headphones to the point it hurts my ears. Is there any way of configuring Wine sound output against this somehow?

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So as the title says. I m using arch linux and today I added a game to my heroic launcher and it didn t work, but it was supposed to work.

Everything went dowhill from there. I uninstalled heroic, reinstalled it again and now it wasn t even loading the launcher, wtf.

I made it work eventually and now I ll make this huide for everyone wondering why it doesn t work for them in case you happen to have the same error.

Causes, arch now doesn t have in it s main repository a dependency that it was needed for heroic launcher to work and another bug with python 3.14.

1. Install from yay umu-launcher, this is the umu-launcher slightly modified by the community to resolve this bug with this version of python
2. Delete the instance of umu from heroic so it fets the new umu : rm -rf ~/.config/heroic/tools/runtimes/umu
3. Install the needed dependency: yay http-parser

And that s it guys. I hope somebody will find this helpful

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Hello,

I'm a new linux user, I just fresh installed CachyOS. I bought a Focusrite Vocaster One and have it plugged in. The interface picks up sound, OBS picks up sound but games do not however receive any input.

Please save my audio so I can resume flaming er... communicating with my team in Deadlock

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Despite being based on a not-so-good movie, the video-game tie-in is actually pretty good (at least the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC versions). However, I'm not sure where I can find a download and how exactly I am to install the PC port for Linux.

Any advice? I'd be grateful. :)

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After updating Lutris from version 5.19 to version 5.20, no game will start me anymore, so I would be looking for equally good new launchers. What do you recommend?

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I have Linux Mint and Windows installed on two separate drives, not dual booting, and I have a separate m.2 nvme drive where I have all my games installed which I created on Windows. When I go on Linux there is no option to mount the nvme drive at least through conventional means, but Linux does detect the separate drive under Disks yet I don't see any option to mount it, just an option to edit the partition. Steam on Linux also does not detect my separate drive filled with my Steam games, which I installed Steam via command line. When I go to edit the nvme drive I see that part of is windows reserved.

So I'm just wondering if its possible for Linux and Windows to share a storage drive for games and how I might be able to go about doing so.

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here's how you can fix this issue if you're like me and had this problem suddenly happen to you a few days ago:

go to the settings for the game and disable umu. simply right-click on ghe game's cover, click settings, click on the advanced settings tab, and then tick the box for disabling umu. this should make your game work.

if you dont want to do this for every game you have you can also switch the compatibility layer to wine, but i recommend doing the disable umu route since wine can have problems with running certain games.

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Hello everyone, I made this helper utility for myself, mostly since I got fed up with the lack of Ubuntu support from asusctl. I personally find it usefull since I can toggle CPU power modes, RGB, etc. In the tests I did on my machine, it behaves exactly as G-helper does on Windows

Its a direct port of the G-helper from windows, It currently lacks the Led Matrix thing since my laptop does not have it, if there is interest, I may add it in the future. A direct port in the sense it has most of the logic that G-helper has around specific device oddities, but alas, I cannot test what I don't own.

https://g-helper-linux.elevatech.xyz/screenshot.png

Down to the updates :)

Source code at https://github.com/utajum/g-helper-linux

Opening PRs and issues is welcome by all.

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To start with, I'll list my specs:

• Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS.
• Gigabyte A320M-S2H
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
• AMD Ryzen 5 2600X x 12
• 32GB of DDR4 Ram
• 1TB SSD

This is my old PC which I installed ubuntu on to both bring it new life and try to learn linux. I'm mainly using it when hosting a minecraft server or letting someone else play on my main PC. I am still fairly new to linux. Overall ubuntu seems to work fine on my pc, however I've had nothing but issues when trying to play steam games.

Several months ago I was experiencing an issue where source games wouldnt launch when I pressed play in steam library. Eventually I got TF2 to launch by executing it in the terminal, though I could never get it working from the play button. when ingame it performaed completley fine.

When I tried CS2 (on very low graphics) the only issue I experienced other than performance issues was the audio fully cutting out after like 20 minutes of gameplay. forcing me to restart it.

I was running both of these with the default proton, though they both have native linux support, which makes me more suprised as to why Im experiencing issues with them. When I had windows running on this pc, all three worked fine (on low graphics) after I had updated my drivers.

That was all several months ago now. When I tried launching steam on that PC today, I was met with an error telling me steam couldnt launch because the following packages were missing. "libpipewire-0.3.so.0" and "Libxcb-res.so.0". I immediatly did sudo apt update then upgrade and rebooted my PC. This didnt change anything.

I tried manually installing both packages, but nothing changed as they were already installed. Eventually I just removed steam and manually reinstalled it, which fixed it. now I have two steam clients in my apps list. I have no idea what I did wrong for that to happen lol.

Now when I try to launch TF2 it loads past the cutscene but the screen starts to jitter and it crashes. Afterwards my whole desktop is constantly jittering and im forced to restart to fix it.

CS2 still launches fine and performs same as before.

Troubleshooting ive tried so far (None have fixed the issue):

• sudo apt update / upgrade
• A suggested fix I found online - "sudo apt install nvidia-driver-580 + sudo apt-mark hold nvidia-driver-580" followed by a restart.
• Another suggested fix I found on youtube. Opening a specific file with "- sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf" then adding the line "- vm.max_map_count=2147483642"

Could this be an issue with drivers? I've become aware there are some compatability issues with proton / vulkan on 900 / 1000 series NVIDIA cards. Apperently they arent fully supported anymore. I discoveed this when checking if steam OS could run on my system, as I was curious if that might resolve some of the issues ive been having. Has anyone here actually used steam OS and can confirm if what i just said is even true?

Would it be worth just wiping the system and reinstalling ubuntu, or jsut installing a new linux distro? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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I developed the game on Manjaro using Godot, LMMS, and Aseprite.

I started my career at Ubisoft as a Game Designer. At first, it felt like the dream. But over time, it wasn’t what I’d imagined and I started feeling miserable (COVID and full WFH probably didn’t help).

I decided to leave and go indie, with about two years of savings and no real plan.

After working on massive teams, I needed to work alone for a while. And after being focused on very specific tasks in AAA, I wanted to be a generalist (programming, art, design, everything). Solo indie dev is so different from AAA that I had to learn everything again.

I made a few prototypes (you guys supported me previously for Last In Space) and eventually settled on Dawnfolk, a minimalist puzzly city-builder set in a fantasy world. Making it alone was brutal. There were days where I was convinced I had made the biggest mistake of my life. More than once. But I kept going and eventually shipped it.

It didn’t go viral.

But over time:

• 26,000+ copies sold (500+ from Linux players)
• “Overwhelmingly Positive” reviews on Steam
• 110k+ wishlists
• I ported it to Nintendo Switch myself
• It still generates enough revenue for me to work full-time on my next game

It’s not a viral success story, but I’m incredibly proud of it. Making a sustainable living from games is brutally difficult, and the fact that this one lets me keep creating feels like a win.

I’ve shared a few devlogs if anyone’s interested in more context about the game, including how I approached finding a publisher and the overall journey.

There's a free demo if you want to check it out. To celebrate the 1-year anniversary, I’m discounting the game today. If you have questions, I’ll try to answer when I can over the next few days.

Take care!

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i followed the installation guide on github and launched the lsfg-vk-ui

put the path manually for Lossless.dll /home/user/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Lossless Scaling/LosslessScaling.dll

and when i want to add a game on the Active in

https://preview.redd.it/d6p8qbiacbkg1.png?width=1004&format=png&auto=webp&s=8484036355d1187e17d8ec2ec742df5936a994b4

i should see a list of the games running correct? but no matter how i launch it i don't get the .exe to appear on the list to add it

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Good day, gentleman,

I've came here for an advice, if there's anyone out there, who knows how to get OW to work flawlessly, because on my 4070super/7800x3d/32RAM the Overwatch's shaders just fuck up the joy that I've had when hopping in back after years.

Every god damn time I press play and play whatever mode it is, my game just goes from 400fps to 0fps for 2 seconds, when something new in the game happens, so my bet is that it's because of the shaders. I've been checking protondb and I've found no success with any commands or advice from there, nothing is helping and it makes me... ehm... little bit Bloatwaresoft fan, lowkey. I'm so jealous, that Bloatwareboys and girls can play without a problem and I have to check whole Google just to play this nice game again.

Man, please. I'm even ready to pay you, if you've got fix for these sHaDeRs... it makes me little bit crazy, yeah, not gonna lie.

Save me, good souls, please, save my evening, so I can waste time in a colorful videogame and shoot sons of some nasty parents on the line.

Pray for CachyOS.

My actual commands on Steam look like this:

DXVK_HUD=compiler __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SIZE=10737418240 __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia obs-gamecapture RADV_PERFTEST=aco %command% submitted by /u/Demonic696969
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Hey! I have an LG monitor and noticed that when I enable adaptive sync, my monitor starts to flicker on KDE Plasma with an NVIDIA graphics card. I know that it is due to fast brightness change but as it does not appear on Windows I keep wondering if there is a fix to this issue.

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I keep getting this error and I can’t launch the game, I tried ai and actually searching but can’t fix it, I’ve tried deleting r5apexdx12.exe, couldn’t find r5apex.exe tho, and I verified files but I still get the same error

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Using the create files in mod instead of overwrite should now function as intended.

Plugins and INI files will attempt to go to the correct location regardless weather or not the folders exist or not. Fallout New Vegas specifically was fixed as well with this. On top of this running fluorine in the terminal should now also report the location of where they are going:

[2026-02-18 06:16:09.115 I] Wine prefix paths: AppData/Local plugins dir='/home/USERNAME/.var/app/com.fluorine.manager/Prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/FalloutNV', Documents/My Games INI dir='/home/USERNAME/.var/app/com.fluorine.manager/Prefix/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Documents/My Games/FalloutNV' [2026-02-18 06:16:09.141 I] Using Wine prefix: /home/USERNAME/.var/app/com.fluorine.manager/Prefix/pfx [2026-02-18 06:16:09.153 I] UMU launch: '/home/USERNAME/.var/app/com.fluorine.manager/umu-run' '/home/USERNAME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Fallout New Vegas/FalloutNV.exe' (game id: umu-22380, steam: '/home/USERNAME/.steam/steam') [2026-02-18 06:16:09.160 I] Process helper: started 111188

Timestamp fix, wine calling SetFileTime() should fix the timestamps and allowing them to update.

FOMOD Images will now be displayed if they have them in the bundle.

fomod-plus-settings.ini will now go to the config folder of the flatpak instead of the home folder. ~/.var/app/com.fluorine.manager/config/

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How to fix GTA 5 enhanced edition crashing after adding xinput1_4 as override? tried everything to get it to work:(

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