There's a rumor that Microsoft is improving Windows for PC handhelds and plans to release an Xbox-branded device for later 2025 to compete in this growing market.

Do you think this could be bad for Linux gaming, Steam Deck and especially Proton, since Windows supports anti-cheat games while Linux doesn't? Or do you have a more optimistic view on this?

Added the ability to automatically download, mo2 latest file, extract it, and automatically add it as a non steam game. Not as big as the previous update but thought it would be a nice QoL as always more info can be found here: https://github.com/SulfurNitride/Linux-MO2-Helper

We already have FSR, gamescope, anything like Lossless Scaling's way of doing?

First time using Linux to any degree.

So I downloaded a game with Linux on my Chromebook. It loads up the game fine but when It seems like it is not registering the keys on my keyboard. I can type in the chat but I cant move and when I go to rebind them it says 'None' when I click a key to bind it.

Anyone have a idea of what could be the problem?

I heard Cashy OS was good for gameing so Installed it on separate drive on my computer. I wanted to compare gameing preformance between my current Distro Kubuntu 24.10 and Cashy. I Installed all the meta packages per the guide provided and installed the Monster Hunter wilds benchmark and began testing. Running the bench mark at any resolution result in a tank in frame rate starting in the 2nd part of the test. The benchmark runs just fine in Kubuntu. Before Running the test it does give me a low vram warning but my card has 16gb of vram so what could be takeing up the space? Any ideas what i could do to fix this?

Pc specs Cpu: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Gpu: 6950xt Ram:32 gb

Linux gaming has reached a state that the only thing limiting mass adoption is the anti-cheats preventing playing the most popular multiplayer games in the world.

We all agree that kernel-level anticheats that are used by games like Rainbow Six Siege, PUBG, etc are bad. It's like malware, it's invasive, it provides a possible opening for bad actors to exploit, etc etc.

However, it is true for some of these games that without an anti-cheat, these games would be unplayable. Not because of "Linux users cheating" (a ridiculous statement), but because of the availability of hardware specifically designed to cheat (research some of this stuff, it's crazy what's available and what lengths people will go to to cheat on an online video game).

The solution can come from Valve - because of their size and influence, they are in a perfect position to do this.

Anti-cheat relies on secure boot, and a locked down kernel that cannot be tampered with. Valve could create such a linux kernel. This kernel could be used as the target for these multiplayer game developers to support. Perhaps an anti-cheat kernel module could be used that only works with this tamper-proof kernel. The developers get assurances that the system is not modified, that their anti-cheat is fully functional. And the user can choose to boot into this kernel to play their games, and boot into a generic kernel when they don't want to play the games. This is, probably, technically possible to do.

If you refuse to play these games because you philosophically disagree with kernel-level anti-cheat - great!

If you say that the developers can "just check a box and get Battleye working" - sorry not a solution. Battleye without kernel access doesn't work effectively. Full stop.

If you think it's a bad idea to develop such a thing because it goes against FOSS...great! Don't use it. But what's your solution then? "Screw you all, we don't need these games" is not a solution.

I'm interested in discussing the technical feasibility of such a solution. Because face it - without anti cheat we will never get these games, and without these games, Linux and the Steam Deck will never be a fully viable platform to compete with Microsoft.

Today all games started randomly flickering, I think it's shaders issue, since in minecraft it stops when I'm disabling shaders. Here are examples of what's happening: https://imgur.com/a/2ccicI0

How can I fix this?

My system:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

OS: Arch Linux

WM: Mutter (Wayland)

Hello. I have a 8Bitdo Ultimate 2C controller (trying to make it work as wired not wireless) and while it's recognized by the system as a mouse+keyboard combo it's not recognized as a controller. I've tried some solutions (use xboxdrv/jstest-gtk but rightfully the controller doesn't appear so I can't do much, create config files...) but they didn't work. I use Debian 12 Stable (Kernel 6.1) with KDE and Xorg.

Here's the dmesg output when I plug the controller:

[ 958.535217] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=2dc8, idProduct=310a, bcdDevice= 1.14
[ 958.535231] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 958.535238] usb 1-4: Product: 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wired Controller
[ 958.535242] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: 8BitDo
[ 958.535245] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: EEEEE3770B
[ 958.577665] input: 8BitDo 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wired Controller Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.1/0003:2DC8:310A.0
00A/input/input37
[ 958.718537] input: 8BitDo 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wired Controller Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.1/0003:2DC8:310A.000A
/input/input38
[ 958.718738] hid-generic 0003:2DC8:310A.000A: input,hidraw3: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [8BitDo 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wired Controller] on usb-0000:
00:14.0-4/input1
[ 958.735581] hid-generic 0003:2DC8:310A.000B: hiddev1,hidraw4: USB HID v1.11 Device [8BitDo 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wired Controller] on usb-0000:
00:14.0-4/input2

Sorry if it's not enough info I'll gladly run other tests.

currently, im using fedora 41 with kde plasma... just with the fedora 6.13 kernel right now. but, i want the best performance and best usage of my pc possible using linux, is it really beneficial or an upgrade of a huge margin to use cachyos or at least get the cachyos kernel into your distro? if it is, then how much are we talking? does it boost fps, does it make wayland smoother, does it respond faster?

hi everyone,

recently i tried to use wine to no avail since my GPU is too old, so i tried to go back to steam, and play some games i know i could run.
trying rain world the same error that came out with some of those applications i tried to use with wine appeared:

Failed to initialize graphics.
Make sure you have DirectX 11 installed, have up to date
drivers for your graphics card and have not disabled
3D acceleration in display settings.
InitializeEngineGraphics failed

i know jack shit about it, i already lost 2 days trying to fix it to use wine to no avail, now it ruins the plain steam experience? i'm furious but powerless hence my presence here.

using arch, specs:
Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
Intel i5-3320M (4) @ 3.300GHz
4gb of ram

if anyone know anything, it would be much appreciated of you to share it with me.
thanks in advance

I've recently tried to set up Steam on a pretty fresh install of Fedora 41. It runs games fine if I'm using a keyboard and mouse, but I can't get my PS5 Dualsense controller to work inside games (so far have pretty much just tried Dead Cells and Windblown). It definitely seems to register the controller, it works fine in big picture mode and at any time I can use the touchpad as a mouse (including in game), but the buttons and sticks become non-responsive once I'm in game. I've been trying to dig through old reddit posts, steam forum discussions, etc. and haven't found anything that fixed it yet:
- One suggested that the controller was being read as both a desktop input device and as a controller, and games couldn't parse which one it was actually supposed to be. Seems legitimate and matches my symptoms, but even after disabling all steam inputs controller is still non-responsive in game.
- One suggested that udev rules aren't in place, but I both confirmed that steam-devices is installed and that /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-steam-input.rules and /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-steam-vr.rules exist.
- I've installed steam directly from DNF, not via flatpak.

Has anyone dealt with these issues and have an idea of what I'm missing?

Counter strike 2 issues on Linux

Hello, i have issues with cs2 which are big ping, losing framerates and randomly freezes im on nobara Linux (tbh just because i had problems with downloading windows) i dont know nothing about Linux and how to use it and my head have headache from all those codes and everything i think my laptop is good enough its msi katana 15 with intel i7 13th gen, nvidia rtx 4060 8gb, 16gb ddr5 rams, so i dont know what to do with it i will appreciate any hele bcs idk what to do

After following a Redditors post, was able to get it to run using Bottles, latest wine-ge runner. It basically works by having Steam Client installed in a wine prefix. Then installing “Source SDK Base 2006” tool within Steam, under that prefix. Finally, the “GHSI.exe” mod (it’s just an installer for The Hidden) is installed on top of that wine prefix.

The GHSI installer won’t work on Linux by default since the script was designed around windows. All the script really does is ensure the SDK is installed, then extracts the mod files in “sourcemods” folder in Steam root folder.

I basically recreated those steps in an effort to just use Steam regularly on the Steam Deck. Basically I installed the 2006 SDK, exracted the mod where the script wanted it, restarted Steam and there it was in my Steam Library.

The thing is, the mod doesn’t launch itself. Rather it uses the SDK to launch, kind of like a parameter if you will. So I set the compatability layer on the SDK to Proton Experimental and launched The Hidden in Steam. It actually worked and brought me to the main menu.

The only issue I’m having is the game seems to just close when I try to play a match. Now compared to the to whole bottle method, that one actually worked fully.

I would much rather have it just normally installed on Steam but I believe Proton may be the culprit. Although I’m not sure as the game will launch each time. It just won’t go launch a match.

Any ideas what could be causing this issue? Appreciate any advice thank you.

So, Steam download precompiled shaders or however they are called. Only for Street Fighter 6 are these shaders broken and show distracting and weird colors on some stages and effects.

Is there any way to disable them for a single game? I had to disable them for every game but I do want to have them for almost every other game.

is there a guide for gaming and to transition to linux?

what are good photo editing programs to be used on linux and are there gpu driver issues?

im not a heavy gamer by a gamers standard but if im going to make the transition away from windows then its something im curious about.

Every time i try to open a game it just instantly closes without opening, and this happens to all of the games.

i dont know if its a graphics, distro, or even a storage problem.

My linux Distrobution is Freespire.

My GPU is a AMD Radeon RX 7600 (with internal graphics being AMD Raphael)

My graphic Drivers are amdgpu

My CPU is a AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Memory: 7.45 GiB / 14.84 GiB (50)

Kernel: Linux 6.8.0-52-generic

Swap: 1.25 MiB / 9.42 GiB (0%)

Also heres some of the Errors i've been getting in the terminal in a game i just installed. But like i said its been happening to all of my games

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/meowixen/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/meowixen/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/meowixen/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/meowixen/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/meowixen/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

Here's the Error i think is the problem

pressure-vessel-wrap[40641]: E: Unable to create symlink "./share/steam/compatibilitytools.d" in "/media/meowixen/My Book/Games/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier/var/tmp-601U32/usr": Operation not permitted

If you need any more info feel free to ask

I have been using Windows for many years. I have an old gaming computer with a CPU and ddr3 ram from 2014. Now the new Windows is starting to slow down and I'm tired of it. I have used debian based linux distributions before (not for gaming)

But now I think it's time to switch to Linux completely. As someone with some Linux experience, what should I pay attention to?

My system features; İ5 4790 16 gb ddr3 ram Msi gtx 970 4G OC gaming 240gb sata ssd 2tb hdd