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After following this Guide, my game manages to boot, but with the main menu screen being fully white. I can join a game with the plutonium menu key (F8) but that's all the navigating I can do. The menu plays sound effects when my cursor hovers it, but its basically impossible to do anything. Is there a known fix for this? I have tried many different runtimes as well.

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Hi everyone, hope you are all doing well. I wanted to start a discussion about the current state of Linux gaming. With recent news like GeForce NOW being available on Linux and GOG showing more interest in the platform, Linux is becoming more attractive as a gaming option.

One of the main things still holding it back is kernel level anti cheat support, especially Easy Anti Cheat, which is still a blocker for many multiplayer games.

I would love to hear your opinions on this. How long do you realistically think it will take for Easy Anti Cheat kernel support to be available on Linux, if it ever happens at all?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

I know most people with Vulkan encounter the problem of not being able to set it to 4:3, whether on Windows or Linux. Well, I managed to do it on Bazzite. You just have to put the game in windowed mode and then add this to the Steam executable's properties: -w 1280 -h 960. Then switch to windowed fullscreen mode and exit. After that, change the result to this: -w 1440 -h 1050. The game will then automatically interpret it as 1440x1080p.

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I know most people with Vulkan encounter the problem of not being able to set it to 4:3, whether on Windows or Linux. Well, I managed to do it on Bazzite. You just have to put the game in windowed mode and then add this to the Steam executable's properties: -w 1280 -h 960. Then switch to windowed fullscreen mode and exit. After that, change the result to this: -w 1440 -h 1050. The game will then automatically interpret it as 1440x1080p.

I used to use protondb to see how a game would run on steam deck, but now the site is basically unusable because every review is just thumbs up, perfect 40 FPS with LSFG, 1 hour on record.

My bc250 is on the way and i want to buy psu for it can anyone tell any of these work and if not what do I need to search and also how to connect the psu to bc250 like the pcie 8 connector.thankya

I am currently dualbooting CachyOS and Windows 10. I haven't booted into Windows 10 almost at all since installing CachyOS on my other SSD, but I keep it because I have friends that like to play games like Valorant or Apex.

I've got 3 other drives in my system, one is an NVMe SSD for games that need faster speeds, one for videos that I like to edit, and another game drive. Is there a file system I could put them on or is it fine to keep them on NTFS? I've been extremely worried about this because I know my drives could get corrupted and thats not a risk I wanna take with how much stuff I have built up other the years.

Anyone tried these on Linux for gaming? They sell an add-on cable to add a mic, but it uses a 3.5mm splitter and the just time I tried to use one of those it failed spectacularly on Linux mint.

Is there a common issue with controller not working in this game? Playing on Cachy os if that makes a difference. Controller works in any other game. Playing on Steam.

Okay, actually given it was in 2004, most of you probably weren't born then, or at least not old enough to game. But with the current love for Valve and the anger at the UK government for suing them, I feel it's worth remembering what Valve actually did, and that it in fact became what it is today, by doing the exact kind of evil thing we hate so many others for.

Back in 2004, Half Life 2 was of course one of the most anticipated games ever made. And Valve knew that. So what did they do? Just before the game was released, they announced that to play the game you would be REQUIRED to install their new digital distribution service, Steam.

Even if you bought the DVD edition, it wouldn't matter, you'd need to sign up, sign in and even download most of the files again anyway for a day 1 patch. And there would be no offline activation, for a single player game.

No one wanted a digital games store, and the idea that digital game were going to be the SAME price as physical games was an affront to all gamers globally.

Yet we all wanted Half Life 2, and so like a backdoor, a trojan piece of malware, millions were forced to install Steam against their will, just to play the DVD version of Half Life 2 they bought in a store.

We loved the game, it was amazing, but we HATED Valve and we HATED Steam. And it only got worse when they betrayed us all by again lying, claim they will make a three part episodic expansion for Half Life 2, the first two parts of which were awesome... and then they left it on a cliffhanger, never finishing it, no longer caring about games, because their digital distribution scam (as most gamers saw it) was taking over and more profitable than actually making a good game.

So after everything, we paid for two game DLCs on the promise of a full story, and never even got that.

I get that Valve has done great things for Linux since, but lets not forget, they are still an evil big tech company, who started becoming valuable, through the usual evil tactics of big tech companies. And now, people forget that we never got a discount for digital games vs physical copies. Or any of the rest.

So while I am normally against EVERYTHING the UK government do. Do I really care if valve loses countless billions? No at all.

Steam wiped some hard drives back in the day with accidental rm -rf /*, more than 10 years now, here's a video about it too. More recently there is this open issue that steam sets every single file's executable bit in its root path for anyone (u,g,o). You can check this by going to your steam install path e.g., ~/.local/share/Steam and running:

find . -type f -executable | wc -l

You will likely see a big number, depending on how many games you have installed in that directory. This doesn't have to be a big "security risk" or whatever but it just makes me wonder about the native vs flatpak question. If I can sandbox steam itself, don't lose any performance over it too, why go for the native version?

Whenever I fullscreen (f11) a game, I tend to alt tab to another application. But when I do, it kind of stops responding to mouse clicks. I can't right click, left click, scroll, etc., but the game still works perfectly fine. How do I solve this?

With GOG working on a native client and Steam Deck's massive success, it feels like the barrier between Windows and Linux for gamers is finally disappearing. Which game are you most excited to play natively on Linux this year?