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at the beginning it required a dll file , i downloaded it and it came up with another error , i googled it and faced a complicated fixes as i'm new to linux

Most likely a recurring topic within many subredits that are about gaming on linux, but I still haven't found an answer to this from whatever source I look at. Long story short: just installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, went through whatever crap I had to go through installing, finally got on and installed the essentials (Discord, Steam, etc.) and upon launching steam I'm getting a steamwebhelper error. Any advice?

Apologies for the awkward video but it is the only way I can show it.

A couple days ago I wanted to play warframe witch a couple of friends, so I install it and make it full screen. Now almost every game I try to play has the issue shown in the video. It seems quite inconsistent but generally will either freeze my main monitor when I full screen a game or freeze whenever I am not in a menu. OBS still picks it up like normal and if I have my taskbar or another window over the game it seems to run fine.

I tried playing games on my windows install and they work fine there, so it's a linux issue, I just don't know what could be causing it. I think it could be warframe, but I've uninstalled that and from what I can find no one else has ran into this issue so it could be something that was going on for longer that I just noticed or made worse somehow. Only other cause I can think of is layering a VPN and the associate browser (When I rebooted after layering the browser all that loaded after logging in was my wallpaper, though everything else loaded after a couple minutes and I ran into no other issues.) but I don't know why that would be causing this and the issue persists after uninstalling. If there's a better place to find a solution for this issue feel free to send me there.

Specs:

Bazzite Fedora 42
Ryzen 7 5800x3d
RX 7900XT
32gb ram

Setting a Linux system for a friend who has used Mint for years, but still I'd consider him a newbie. He's into general productivity apps (ranging from astronomy, to music, to ancient Greek studies) but would also like to play Witcher 3...

Which Linux distros would you recommend based on his setup (subject)?

I was leaning towards either something general purpose (Fedora KDE) or something more gaming oriented (bazzite, cachyos, endeavour). Not sure if the latter ones have a solid package base for other stuff besides games though.

I am switching to Gurada Linux (Arch Based)

Currently have 2 drives, one with Win11 and the other with my Steam library (both NTFS obviously)

I want to try Linux again but ideally would like to avoid downloading game files again. If I overwrite my Windows drive with Linux, could I point Steam to use the library on the NTFS drive?

Would prefer to keep this drive intact incase I go back to Windows.

Hello everyone,

I have both the MangoHud system package and the Flatpak version installed, which is a runtime and not a specific app. Both versions work fine; I tested MangoHud (system) with Yuzu, and it works great. I also tested MangoHud (Flatpak) with DuckStation, PCSX2, and other Flatpak applications, and they work well too. However, it is not working with Lutris (Flatpak).

I have tried all methods, such as setting the environment variable to MANGOHUD=1, and I also set it in Flatseal. I even ran it with MANGOHUD=1 in the terminal, but nothing seems to work.

Please let me know how to make MangoHud work with Lutris (Flatpak).

Hello. I've been battling this for a few months now. I cant get EA app to connect to EA's services to actually activate my games (BF4, BF3), it always ends on a 'Servers couldn't do their server thing, connect to internet' notice.
My specs:
* Archlinux, `linux` kernel 6.16.3, KDE Plasma (Wayland)
* Ryzen 5 3600X
* AMD Radeon RX5700 XT
* 32 GBs of RAM
Things I've tried sofar:
* different proton versions (exp, hotfix, 10.0 beta, 9.0, 3.16-9, GE)
* deleting the compat data folder for BF4, all game data and then reinstalling the game
* 2 different computers - my desktop and my laptop
* installing the EA app through lutris and using both my system wine version as well as GE
* installing Origin (that one does not connect either although that could also be cause it has been dead for a while ig?
* switching DNS (normally I use quad9 but I added google and cf as fallback)
Any suggestions on what more to try? Anybody who's faced this issue and found an actual solution? Is the EA app just dead on purpose? Thanks in advance for answers.