I'm after a wireless Mechanical keyboard with backlit keys, prefer 60-75% boards and something like a mx brown switch. At this point, I just want something that is going to work well and be less than $300CAD.

I have two Keychrons already that struggle to get along with Linux.

Thank you for any suggestions!!

XP 11 Running

My Bluetooth GUI

Hey all, I was just wondering if I could connect my DS4 controller to XP11 (On Arch), as I cannot afford a joystick, and I want to have a joystick instead of a mouse,. I am running XP11 on steam and my Controller is connected via Bluetooth and even USB, signified by KDE telling me Bluetooth is connected. I am pretty new to the XP11 community so this is why i am reaching out here :). (Steam Input is off, as i have heard it can cause issues, and even with it on the controller is not detected.)

(P.S. I am new to Reddit so i placed this question where i thought it wold fit, please re-direct me to another sub-reddit if required :)

Why do people use Linux for gaming? Windows usually gets better FPS, has broader game support, and often provides much better tech support. I’m not a Linux hater at all—in fact, I really like the freedom, customization, and how much deeper you can go into coding and system control. It gives me something interesting to learn and mess around with. But when it comes to gaming, especially for the titles I mostly play like Roblox, Cyberpunk 2077, Isle, and BeamNG.drive, Windows just seems more stable and optimized. So even though Linux is fun to explore and powerful in its own way, I’m still not fully convinced it’s the better option for gaming—at least not for the average player.

Why can't the big companies just enable anti-cheat software for Linux? (Battleye, etc.) That's the only reason I can't use Linux 100% yet. As far as I know, it's just a "switch" they have to flip to make it compatible.

Thanks

I can't launch any windows games on Linux. Vulkan Sgader compulation doesn't even start. Was it Valve or something else is up?

Hi there, I have a problem with my Radeon 9060XT. I have an LG 120 Hz LED TV connected via DP to HDMI 2.1 adapter.

The problem is, I can only choose 4k 120Hz if I disconnect and reconnect the TV at a different DP port while the PC is running.

If I reboot the PC, I only get refresh rates up to 60Hz. 120Hz is not available in KDE display settings.

As soon as I reconnect the cable again and use a different port, the 120Hz option shows up.

I'm on arch Linux with kernel 6.15, KDE Plasma 6.4 Wayland session, mesa 1:25.1.5-1.

Any ideas?

I have a Meta Quest 2 and I am trying to connect it to my PC (ZorinOS 17.3). I have the latest version of Steam and SteamVR on my PC yet when checking Steam Link on my Quest I get "Streaming VR is not available from this computer" as an error message. I also went and tried ALVR. I have the latest version of ALVR on my Headset and on my PC. On my headset i just get a black screen and it disconnects after a couple seconds. In VR view on my PC however it picks up my headset movement but doesnt recognize the controllers connected to the headset. Has anyone had similar issues and managed to fix it? If yes, how? I'm kinda new to linux and stuff and I really want to get this working. I thank anyone trying to help me in advance.

My gamemode version is "1.8.1" and the latest is "1.8.2" so, there's a way to upgrade? I'm using Ubuntu LTS "noble".

Saving response to: /tmp/steamlbHggH - 111 bytes

steamwebhelper.sh[4045]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap steamrt steam runtime via: /home/meta/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point

steamwebhelper.sh[4045]: Starting steamwebhelper with steamrt steam runtime at /home/meta/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point

Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service

Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 4142

bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam

exec ./steamwebhelper -nocrashdialog -lang=en_US -cachedir=/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache -steampid=4011 -buildid=1751405894 -steamid=0 -logdir=/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/logs -uimode=7 -startcount=0 -steamuniverse=Public -realm=Global -clientui=/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/clientui -steampath=/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -launcher=0 --valve-enable-site-isolation --enable-smooth-scrolling --password-store=basic --log-file=/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --disable-quick-menu --disable-component-update --enable-features=PlatformHEVCDecoderSupport --disable-features=SpareRendererForSitePerProcess,DcheckIsFatal,BlockPromptsIfIgnoredOften,ValveFFmpegAllowLowDelayHEVC

MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete

MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete

steamwebhelper.sh[4365]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap steamrt steam runtime via: /home/meta/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point

steamwebhelper.sh[4365]: Starting steamwebhelper with steamrt steam runtime at /home/meta/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point

exec ./steamwebhelper -nocrashdialog -lang=en_US -cachedir=/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache -steampid=4011 -buildid=1751405894 -steamid=0 -logdir=/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/logs -uimode=7 -startcount=1 -steamuniverse=Public -realm=Global -clientui=/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/clientui -steampath=/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -launcher=0 --valve-enable-site-isolation --enable-smooth-scrolling --password-store=basic --log-file=/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --disable-quick-menu --disable-component-update --enable-features=PlatformHEVCDecoderSupport --disable-features=SpareRendererForSitePerProcess,DcheckIsFatal,BlockPromptsIfIgnoredOften,ValveFFmpegAllowLowDelayHEVC

/usr/share/themes/Breeze-Dark/gtk-2.0/widgets/entry:70: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'

/usr/share/themes/Breeze-Dark/gtk-2.0/widgets/styles:36: error: invalid string constant "combobox_entry", expected valid string constant

Desktop state changed: desktop: { pos: 0, 0 size: 1366, 768 } primary: { pos: 0, 0 size: 1366, 768 }

Caching cursor image for , size 24x24, serial 11, cache size = 0

reaping pid: 4012 -- sh

chdir "/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Counter-Strike Source"

Game Recording - would start recording game 240, but recording for this game is disabled

Adding process 4747 for gameID 240

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

Adding process 4748 for gameID 240

Adding process 4749 for gameID 240

Adding process 4750 for gameID 240

Adding process 4850 for gameID 240

pid 4852 != 4850, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

Adding process 4851 for gameID 240

Adding process 4853 for gameID 240

Adding process 4854 for gameID 240

Adding process 4855 for gameID 240

SDL video target is 'x11'

SDL video target is 'x11'

Using shader api: shaderapivk

info: Game: cstrike_linux64

info: DXVK: v2.3

info: Vulkan: Found vkGetInstanceProcAddr in libvulkan.so.1 @ 0x7f2ce95bb180

info: Built-in extension providers:

info: SDL2 WSI

info: Enabled instance extensions:

info: VK_EXT_surface_maintenance1

info: VK_KHR_get_surface_capabilities2

info: VK_KHR_surface

info: VK_KHR_xlib_surface

MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete

warn: Skipping Vulkan 1.2 adapter: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2)

warn: Skipping CPU adapter: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7, 256 bits)

warn: DXVK: No adapters found. Please check your device filter settings and Vulkan setup. A Vulkan 1.3 capable driver is required.

Convar sdl_displayindex has multiple different change callbacks

Using Breakpad minidump system. Version: 9540945 AppID: 240

Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 240

Using breakpad crash handler

[S_API] SteamAPI_Init(): Loaded '/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/linux64/steamclient.so' OK.

Forcing breakpad minidump interfaces to load

Looking up breakpad interfaces from steamclient

Calling BreakpadMiniDumpSystemInit

07/04 22:07:04 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps

07/04 22:07:04 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(240)/version(9540945)/tid(4855)

Looking up breakpad interfaces from steamclient

Calling BreakpadMiniDumpSystemInit

SteamInternal_SetMinidumpSteamID: Caching Steam ID: 76561199025790664 [API loaded yes]

SteamInternal_SetMinidumpSteamID: Setting Steam ID: 76561199025790664

Did not detect any valid joysticks.

[CFontManager] Forcing freetype2 for GorDIN

[CFontManager] Forcing freetype2 for GorDIN-Black

[CFontManager] Forcing freetype2 for GorDIN-Bold

[CFontManager] Forcing freetype2 for GorDIN-Light

[CFontManager] Forcing freetype2 for GorDIN-Regular

[CFontManager] Forcing freetype2 for GorDIN-Semibold

[CFontManager] Forcing freetype2 for GorDIN Black

[CFontManager] Forcing freetype2 for GorDIN Bold

[CFontManager] Forcing freetype2 for GorDIN Light

[CFontManager] Forcing freetype2 for GorDIN Regular

[CFontManager] Forcing freetype2 for GorDIN Semibold

Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file: No such file: (null)

crash_20250704220707_2.dmp[4890]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)

/tmp/dumps/crash_20250704220707_2.dmp

Adding process 4889 for gameID 240

/home/meta/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Counter-Strike Source/cstrike.sh: line 113: 4855 Segmentation fault ${GAME_DEBUGGER} "${GAMEROOT}"/${GAMEEXE} "$@"

crash_20250704220707_2.dmp[4890]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes

crash_20250704220707_2.dmp[4890]: response: Discarded=1

crash_20250704220707_2.dmp[4890]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20250704220707_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''Discarded=1''

pid 4890 != 4889, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)

Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=240]

Removing process 4889 for gameID 240

Removing process 4855 for gameID 240

Removing process 4854 for gameID 240

Removing process 4853 for gameID 240

Removing process 4851 for gameID 240

Removing process 4850 for gameID 240

Removing process 4750 for gameID 240

Removing process 4749 for gameID 240

Removing process 4748 for gameID 240

Removing process 4747 for gameID 240

i was recently bought cs source and garrys mod on steam, garrys mod works fine but cs source isnt works, when i click the play button it waits and turns to stop icon like game is already open and it shutdowns the game, i cant even see anything about cs source.

my terminal steam output is above

Like the title says, the Gentoo wiki still states it is required, but some people say it is not. I recently installed a new distro and I can't seem to launch Nightreign because EAC just quits. I currently have glibc 2.41+r48+g5cb575ca9a3d-1.

Edit- No, it is not. :)

Since we periodically get posts asking whether lossless scaling is available for linux, I thought I'd post to show something I ran across. I haven't had time to mess with it personally, so I have no idea how well it works or if it works at all. Has anyone expiremented with and had good results ?

Project: https://github.com/PancakeTAS/lsfg-vk

...or still huge performance losses on nVidia GPUs?

Hi everyone,

I’ve installed God of War: Ragnarok on CachyOS, but I'm experiencing very low FPS (7–15), as shown in the attached video. When I first installed the game, I was getting around 25 FPS, but after trying a few online tweaks to improve performance, the FPS dropped further — and I’m not sure why.

I also noticed in the top-right overlay that CPU 0 usage is stuck at 0%, which I believe might be part of the issue.

Can anyone please guide me on how to improve my game’s FPS? According to ChatGPT, I should be getting 45–55 FPS based on my laptop's configuration.

Here’s my system spec:

Laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15IHU

CPU: 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-11300H

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile

GPU 2: Intel Iris Xe Graphics @ 1.30 GHz

RAM: 23.25 GB (1.89 GB currently used)

Any help or tips from fellow Linux gamers would be highly appreciated!

Yes I know what subreddit I'm in, but I figured it would still be the best place to ask. I really just need Davinci Resolve and FL studio to work. Thanks in advance for all your advice.

I got rejected by other subs and really need help identifying these parts

I just finally grabbed Red Dead Redemption 2 on Steam Sale, I had it when I had Stadia (RIP) and thought I could play it on Geforce Now (where I play the majority of my games) but alas I couldn't, so I am playing it on PopOS 22.

Here are my specs, I definitely didn't expect it to eat up so much CPU, and am curious if it's causing the issues I'm seeing in the video linked as well where after just a few minutes in (sometimes I can play 20-30 minutes before it starts happening, sometimes it's 2 minutes) actions just stop working.

Specs:

-Computer-

Processor : 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700F

Memory : 65647MB (17781MB used)

Machine Type : Desktop

Operating System : Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

-Display-

Resolution : 1920x1080 pixels

OpenGL Renderer : NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060/PCIe/SSE2

X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation

-Audio Devices-

Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH

Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

Proton version: 10.8 [Also have tried Proton Experimental, Proton Hotfix, Proton 10.1-beta, Proton 9.25]

Video of Problem: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L9xcs50KUILVRiPiDbCNjHYC0e6sbesh/view?usp=sharing

Any thoughts (also I apologize if I missed any details I'd need for more debugging, if I'm missing anything please let me know).?