Just like the title says, i can't see an option in sources to create an application audio capture device. I found a thread on this subreddit from a year back where this issue was resolved, but after i followed all the steps i still don't see it.

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I'm using Pop!_OS 24.04

Hello! I have a question. I switched from Windows to Linux, I went with Zorin OS 18. I play mostly cs2, with locked 280fps vsync on. My computer is capable of this frames, has an rx 6800 16gb, r7 5800x3d and 32gb ram. On windows I rarely had drops from 280's, but on this linux distro I get below 280 a lot, like 275 and the game doesn t feel smooth, when that happens I see on graps a red line ( I will attach a photo), can I do something about this to fix it?

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Got howards legacy for free from epic over the w/e and installed it through heroic games.

On hitting play, was surprised to be hit with a great big EULA, and a pretty crazy privacy policy. TLSS it seems to indicate they collect data on browser, browser settings, locally stored media, keystrokes, apps, watched media, browser activity, etc.

Gave me the ick, so ended going 'alt f4' as there was no option to decline, only to accept, and uninstalling. Likely overkill, but considering reinstallin the os to remove all traces of it.

Got me curious how stuff like that and kernal level anticheat works on linux, through apps like heroic, steam and lutris. Are they stuck in the user or flatpak enviroments? Would the game install cookies or beacons for the browser content? Is uninstalling the game gona remove everything, including anti cheat/tamper? Is denuvo the party running the 'spyware' part of the code, or just the anti tamper section? Does running 'offline' in heroic stop data transmission, or is this likely running seperatly?

Curious from a privacy and technical standpoint. Anyone have answers or refrences or learning resources they can point me too?

newish to linux, 3ish months on mint. *I know a lot of my datas probably already out there, but privacy is important to me and i try to take control where i can, in spite of the inconviniences it sometimes brings. Ingrained in my upbringing.

CPU overhead, do non-Nvidia users also notice this?

# System Details Report

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## Report details

- **Date generated:** 2025-12-15 10:36:05

## Hardware Information:

- **Hardware Model:** INTEL X99-P4

- **Memory:** 16.0 GiB

- **Processor:** Intel® Xeon® E5-2630 v4 × 20

- **Graphics:** AMD Radeon™ RX 6600

- **Disk Capacity:** 752.2 GB

## Software Information:

- **Firmware Version:** 5.11

- **OS Name:** Fedora Linux 43.20251209.0 (Silverblue)

- **OS Build:** (null)

- **OS Type:** 64-bit

- **GNOME Version:** 49

- **Windowing System:** Wayland

- **Kernel Version:** Linux 6.17.10-300.fc43.x86_64

I'm taking my older PC after my new build and plan to turn it into a console-style setup. It will be hooked up to a tv.

Has anyone had any success doing this? I've never hooked an computer up to a tv.

It would probably be even better if the software experience was more like a console as well. (Bazzite, steamOS, jovian)

I personally use CachyOS on my new gaming setup.

Does anyone have any recommendations or concerns with doing a setup like this? It will mainly be for my fiancee's son. (Getting rid of YouTube and parental controls will be important).

Since idk what this is I couldn't search for a solution, this has only happened in 2 games i've played so far wukong and where winds meet, if you know what the problem here is please tell me so at least i can troubleshoot it.

So i have a 6 year old low end laptop ( 4 gb ram, intel 620 integrated gpu, i3 7th gen cpu) , with linux mint. I wanted to play some games (low end obviously). That's when i found this.

And it has been a game changer !! Installing and playing windows games is so easy using bottles. I have installed gta sa, far cry 3, nfs hot pursuit, and cod-mw3 so far. There was only a little bit problem with nfs though, where its repack installer showed some memory allocation error related to nmap ( since i have 4 gigs ram only). so i had to install that in other pc and transferred the folder to mine and then it easily ran using bottles.

There has been no problems with any of the games and they have been running smoothly at high quality.

I love my old laptop and linux mint. It wouldn't have survived even 2 years on windows, let alone doing these out of the box tasks.

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I can play Dayz on Fedora 43 just fine but the launcher is very difficult to use as the UI is tiny. Trying to search for servers is almost impossible.

I know there are a few third party linux launchers for Dayz but I don't want to trust some random script on the internet. I'd rather fix the built in launcher.

Is there anything I can do to fix it?

Hey folks.

Now I’ve tried the usual avenues of solving this issue, but at this point I’ve tried so many things and there doesn’t seem to be any clear answers online that I can fine.

Long story short; I picked up all the Assassins creed games for ludicrously cheap in the steam sale, and already blasted through AC1 and 2, but now I’m on brotherhood.

It worked fine for the first hour or so of gameplay, but then I turned my computer off, and now it’s not launching.

I’ve deleted the compatdata directory for the game, regenerated it, uninstalled and reinstalled, used proton tricks to try to manually install the Ubisoft connect client…

And I get tantalising windows where the launcher actually launches - but then the game isn’t reading my controller input.

From what I can gather it’s that the Ubisoft connect client claims it can’t connect to Uplay servers when I look into its logs. But my internet is solid. I also tried using my tethered cellphone and using a wired connection - and it briefly worked first time I used it.

Basically it seems like it can’t see the internet or _*something*_

I’m at a loss.

Does anyone have any ideas?

This game was very popular in the last 2 decades in primary schools. Allowed students to practice arithmetic. I tried downloading it to teach my nephew mathematics and it didn't work. anyone who knows similar educational games? Bonus points if it's customisable and open source. I would want similar shooting mechanics in English and science.

I made termrex, a CLI terminal game inspired by the Google Chrome Dino offline game.

I’m looking for testing and feedback, especially from Linux and macOS users.

Any feedback on terminal compatibility, bugs, or gameplay is welcome.

GitHub:

https://github.com/SATYADAHAL/termrex

I saw Cable Matters VRR7100-based DP-to-HDMI2.1 and DP-to-HDMI2.1 female converter using Chrontel CH7218 chip that have working VRR in Linux (with some kernel patch).

I have Cable Matters VRR7100-based USB-C to HDMI2.1 cable, with this spyder_fw_usbc_cm_7-02-120_35th.fullrom firmware. The cable has working VRR in Windows, with 4K120Hz+10bitHDR, but no VRR in Linux.

I have enforced FreeSync activation by hard-coding the kernel DRM code, but it keeps flickering sometime when switching vertical frequency, or going out of sync.

I could not find any USB-C to HDMI2.1 cable (or female converter) that has working VRR in Linux. I use the cable for AMD iGPU which I use for the main display in Linux (dGPU is for Windows VM VFIO and Grahpics/Computation offload only). I have no idea whether USB-C (DP Alt.) to DP converter will work for the above DP-to-HDMI2.1 cables as the USB-C to DP conversion is not just wiring.

Can you guys recommend me a solution or product? Any suggestion would be greatly helpful. Thanks.

My audio works perfectly fine pretty much everywhere, however in Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R (steam), 3rd Strike, and Jojo HFTF (fightcade) I get nothing. I also tried DOA2 on fightcade and it worked?
arch, pipewire, pipewire pulse

Hey all I’m debating switching to pop os on my main desktop and I’m just wondering how much Performance you lose in direct x titles and is there any issues with nvidia on Linux as I’ve only recently started using Linux on my laptop.

I recently bought a used Valve Index, because I wanted to play No Man's Sky with it. Unfortunately, that doesn't work at all. I briefly get the small preview window indicating that the game is supposedly starting. I can see the GPU powering on initially. However, no program launches. After a few seconds, it sends me back to the home screen.

I really don't understand why the game won't start. I don't get any error message, not even it didn't work. I've already tried searching online for the reasons, but unfortunately I can't find a suitable answer.

I've already switched the Proton version to Experimental and made sure it's installed. I've also switched Steam to Beta. Neither of these things helped.

Gemini and ChatGPT seem to be delusional about this issue, and I keep noticing that nothing useful comes out of this question either.

The second problem is that I have no sound at all, and none of the tested distributions detect a speaker. Only the microphone is listed.

Does anyone have any ideas, or perhaps even some personal experience with this? Is there really no other solution besides buying Windows again?

So far I've tried it on Fedora 43, Bazzite and CachyOS.

My PC have a AMD Ryzen 9 7900 CPU and a RTX 5060 Ti GPU with 16GB VRAM.

Many thanks for help!