I’m not super knowledgeable on gaming stuff, but I like cozy games. I have a switch and a MacBook. I really want to play an early access game called Go Go Town, but it’s only available for windows on steam. Is there any way I could play it on a MacBook?

I’ve considered getting a steam deck, but I don’t want to drop that much money if I don’t need to. I’ve also seen that the game is supposed to come to the switch eventually, but it doesn’t sound like that’ll be happening anytime in the near future.

Edit: would I potentially be able to load asahi Linux onto my Mac and then use wine/proton to run windows games?

I'm on CachyOS and I've been noticing really bad, system-stopping bad, slowdowns when Steam is download/patching games. I have noticed it with Helldivers 2, Jump Ship, and others. It can take a really long time for the patching to work (I have gigabit download speed and even the downloads are affected), and it can almost halt my system so I can't even use Firefox (which might be related)

Reading the threads here about it seems like it could be an issue with Steam client, or with the developers not arranging their game files in a certain way...

But I have also seen posts that certain NVME drives might contribute. Currently my OS is installed on a Crucial P2, but I also have a Samsung 970 Evo Plus that I can use.

I'm wondering if these drives could be contributing, or would another drive (perhaps with more/better DRAM) help matters?

I'd really like to stick on Linux at this stage.

Thanks!

Is this true should I try to stop setting up a game environment on Linux or is this dude just talking 🧐

hey everyone, im trying to install openrgb on ubuntu 25.04 and keep getting halted at the actual install, just getting the error dependency not resolved, doesnt say which one but the install failes every time,

i have an msi gs6 5 stealth, with kubuntu 25,04

i was previously following these instructions

https://idroot.us/install-openrgb-ubuntu-24-04/

i was told these should work for 25 but idk

Hello there! Today I want to let you guys know that after 10 months of work, I was finally able to release my game demo for Wail, it can be found here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3792180/Wail_Demo/I want to know if the game works on Linux without any issues, if yes, please, a play and a review would help me a lot, thank you so much!

Hey y'all. As title states, I've been struggling getting 2K25 to work on my PC with a 4070 Super. It starts normally, then within 5-15 minutes it freezes with the audio continuing to play in the background. This seems like a common problem, and on the ProtonDB page for 2k25 it seems like the common issue is with NVidia cards, the AMD cards seem to be working fine.

Are Nvidia cards just a bad match for Linux gaming? Has anyone experienced this and found a solution for this? Currently I just play my games on a Windows dual boot on another SSD treating it like a console basically.

Things I've tried are switch Nvidia drivers (570 and 575), switch Steam clients (native deb, ubuntu repo, snap, flatpak), switched between x11 and Wayland, tried different distros (Kubuntu, Nobara, Bazzite), and tried different Proton and Proton-GE versions. My PC specs are Ryzen 7 7700 and 4070 Super, 32 gb RAM.

I’ve recently seen this post https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/pGi2vbdmr3 it details that AMD is switching to mesa RADV soon, does this mean that on LTS based Ubuntu distros and Debian it’ll make mesa installation easier for gaming instead of having to use ppa such as kisak-mesa or resorting to using mesa-git?

The only drawback that I see from using Debian and Ubuntu LTS is the mesa version, I’d much prefer a newer mesa version since I play some games on release or shortly after release, will this change in the amd software make this easier? Is this a game changer for LTS Ubuntu and Debian gaming?

Images from Resident Evil 2 and Stellar Blade, but I have this issue in other games as well. Reflections, hair and usually foliage or leaves always flicker and it's really bugging me. Is this a common issue, is it on my end?

Using OpenSuse Tumbleweed, AMD Radeon RX 6600, Proton GE 9-27 in both games. Pretty sure I have the standard graphics drivers.

Thinking about finally switching to Linux. From a work aspect i seems like the project should be easy enough. But from a gaming aspect there are still a few things missing like having access to Game Pass, to play whatever random game my mates find on there.

So as a backup Windows gaming solution would you recommend Dual boot or a Vm with GPU pass through. Obviously Dual boot is more guaranteed to work but VM seems way more convenient.

I saw Mutaha do it in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYrTajuYhCk

Title, basically. I watched muta's video on how to switch over to Mint because I HATE windows 11 since its so slow and bloated, did all the installing on mint, downloaded the last drivers for my GPU using the driver manager, and so far 3 days later, it's been great in everything that doesn't involve gaming.

Gaming has sucked really bad for some reason that I attribute to my noob status on the matter lol.

I have a GTX 1080, a Ryzen 5 2600x and 32GB of ram. I mean, its not the best setup in the world, but it worked kinda decent (pretty big * in kinda) on windows 11, but now on Mint, a lot of things feel... "choppy", almost like my PC is skipping frames constantly.

e.g, I love F.E.A.R 1 right? So I tried it last night on some of my free time, and although the game itself runs at like 300 FPS at all moments, it feels and looks INSANELY choppy. I said "ok, maybe its the game itself because it also has its issues on windows, let's try Halo CE", and it turned out to feel the same, really choppy, almost with input lag, I feel like I'm skipping frames all the time and games even freeze lol.

My attempts with basically all the other games I've tried so far end up the same so far. Oh magic linux gaming oracles, please help this noob out:( where can we start?

Since I see more and more cases of sequels (Borderlands, Deltarune) or new DLCs (Isaac) dropping Linux support I wanted to appreciate devs that continue to support Linux, especially for such long time. RimWorld got Linux and macOS builds in 2014, and every DLC since then has a Linux build. And it also doesn't store configs in $HOME/ <3

So when I run a game through steam, it seems to have no problem when i hit the super key and drag the screen from my laptop monitor to my external monitor. But when I am using other sources of wine (bottles, HGL, etc) for non-Steam games, you drag them to the other monitor and they just snap back to the laptop screen.

I am currently using a Dell Latitude laptop running on the most current version of Ubuntu, using the Sniper Runtime tool on TF2 and Proton 9 on Cookie Clicker. (I play no other Steam games or have any others installed currently.) Any time I play either of those games and leave my laptop on, sometimes hours later, my computer will start crashing with my cursor unable to load and the "restart" power option stalling out indefinitely until I do a hard reset. This is a fairly new computer and I still have a very generous warranty on parts for it that extends for about 3 more years. Keep in mind that the crashing happens regardless of whether or not my WiFi is on, which I always turn off immediately after using Steam. I have also explicitly disallowed it from running as often in the background using in-app settings. I don't want to have to restart my computer every single time I go offline and I don't want to lose documents because of my computer crashing. If anyone needs specs, I can tell you the pertinent details to help solve this issue faster. After browsing this sub under this flair unfruitfully several times, I am a bit desparate for solutions here.

I'm trying to play games like mafia 3 or max payne and when a cutscene starts I always have a completely white screen I tried everything using proton GE to find fixes but nothing worked

Hi people! So I have gotten steam in my arch installation, but the problem is I have a low RAM laptop (7gb useable). Booting steam client uses about 1.5gb of that ram, and the actual steam game itself with the interfacing layer for proton uses less memory than the client (which is just sitting in the background too lol). As far as I can tell, all of the memory reduction options steam used to have (that I had used for a different arch install back in 2023, where i got the client usage down to like 200-400mb ram), are all gone and no longer working. like disabling the browser, running the old steam ui, etc. Is there anything that is currently functional to reduce the overall ram usage, or is it cooked.

Thanks!

I've recently built a new PC and as part of that, am switching to Bazzite Linux as a first time user. I'm looking for a way to play HSR, and though I accept there are some risks, am looking to minimize those while having the game actually run.

From my research so far, I shouldn't use a VM of Windows, and I have basically 4 options: Adding the game into Steam and using Proton through that, using Lutris, using the Heroic Games Launcher, or using Honkers Railway. My questions are these: which of these is going to have it run the best, and also which of these is the least sketchy with the ToS?

I've seen conflicting things so far as to which I should use, and appreciate any guidance. Thank you.