TLDR: no I do not want to be told to use a mayflash or other way to convert a controller to Xinput. This causes in game issues for the games I want to play.

On Windows there is a driver called Zadig that is used to basically help GameCube controller adapters be recognized on Windows. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent or maybe there is but I've found no such thing.

Dolphin emulators website shows steps for changing code or something within the operating system (seriously? Is there not a simpler way of doing this)

The device I'm using is a simple unmodified Steam Deck that I'd like to just be capable to detecting the official adapter for games I host tournaments on and for my own pleasure when I emulate games.

I'd seriously appreciate any help on this simply because I'm sure there is a solution that doesn't require me to change code (that apparently also gets deleted every update to steam deck OS?!)

I'm not familiar with Linux so feel free to explain why what I'm asking for is not available or possible if it's simply just ignorance on my end.

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Has anyone managed to get Xbox One Controller to get recognised ny any browser?. It does on Firefox but it doesn't support Cloud Gaming, gaming sessions get interrupted almost immediately. It's a Catch-22 situation, Firefox recognises controllers but doesb't allow Cloud Gaming, Chromium based browsers support Cloud Gaming but doesn't recognise Controllers.

I tried Xbox Cloud Gaming from Lutris, Flatpak... None work. I'm on Fedora btw

Any help is appreciated

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Hello I Wana know if arm games for android are playable now in linux What soft do you recomand that give similar performance to bluestacks

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I had absolutely no problems with this controller (wired) on my laptop which has the same kernel version as this desktop. I did try various drivers to get bluetooth to work on my laptop, but after hours of failing to achieve that i just decided I'd use a usbc-usbc cord and forget about bluetooth. Now I've just done a fresh install of Ubuntu LTS on this system, updated the kernel/headers/c++compilers/dkms/whatever else, and it refuses to work. I even blacklisted xpad thinking it might have been creating conflict with the other drivers, but so far it's the only one that even registers the controller is connected - only without accepting any input. I thought AMD based things worked better on Linux, but somehow the intel-based mobo works out of the box with no problems, and this one doesn't? I'm so confused. I know this is a constant topic, but there is still no definitive answer to it. Anyone have any experience with the MOBO i'm using as well as Ubuntu LTS 24.04.2?

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Need Help: GRUB Boot Loop After Switching Back to Windows

I ran into a boot issue I can't figure out. A few days ago, I had installed Linux Mint because I liked the minimal setup and low bloat — it felt clean and smooth.

But later, I needed to switch back to Windows 10 since I use Adobe Premiere Pro for my editing classes, and also wanted to play GTA Online with my friend (my PC doesn’t support Windows 11, sadly).

Now here’s the problem: even after installing Windows 10, my PC boots straight into a broken GRUB shell, saying:

"Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported..."

I can’t boot directly into Windows unless I mess around with things. I think GRUB is still sitting on the bootloader and looking for a Linux install that doesn’t exist anymore.

Would really appreciate it if you could point me to a fix or video — or just any advice to completely wipe GRUB and restore the normal Windows boot.

Big thanks in advance,

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Do you also have VRR problem on Proton 10.0-1 (Beta)? I have it in every game on Linux Mint.

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Lossless scaling has given older GPUs new life by offering upscaling and framegen options for all games on windows. Is there any alternative on Linux that offers framegen for games?

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I do most of my gaming on a different steam account than my main one, however a handful of games (FFXIV for example) are tied to the steam account despite having their own logins.

So my idea is to write a simple shellscript that first checks to see what user is currently logged in, and then if necessary swap accounts and launch the game.

Script would execute something like this:

steamswap ${user} ${gameid}

Is something like this possible? I know it would require me to be able to get the current steam user info and also be able to change the account all without seeing a gui, I remember on windows you could do this by having a batch script kill steam, then execute a shortcut with the account credentials right there in the 'command' section of the shortcut, which wasn't the most secure but I was the only person using my pc so whatever lol...

I'm starting to think now that maybe I could check some file in the .steam directory to get the current userid but im not sure.

At any rate thanks for any advice/tips in advance

And yes I am aware that steam offers easy account swapping and have been using it, I'm just looking to automate this for QoL purposes

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A few things that stand out to me here:

A large chunk of the Linux Steam users are on Arch or Arch-based distros (even excl. SteamOS). Any chance "Arch Linux" 10.09% includes SteamOS as well? I struggle to see newcomers choosing Arch over Ubuntu or Mint on desktop.

Debian is way more popular than I expected. It is notoriously hard to find the ISO and the installation is far from straight-forward compared to most other popular options. I can only assume it includes LMDE and all other Debian-based distros.

There is no sign of Fedora-based distros. Given how popular Bazzite and Nobara are, it is very surprising. They both come pre-installed with Steam RPM ootb, so I don't think they are hidden behind the 7.42% flatpak version. Fedora 42 might be tho.

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I know someone already posted but that was over 2 years ago.

I just got Quest 3 and I would be fine using it as a standalone.

I was thinking that PCVR would be useful if I don't want to drain my quest's battery.

My boyfriend told me to just install Windows alongside Linux for VR which I refused because of my PTSD about Windows Update breaking Linux. I wanted to keep my machine Linux only.

How's PCVR progress so far? Is it getting better than 2 years ago?

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Alright, so. I've been going through all the other solutions people have found for Steam Disk Write Error and haven't figured out what's going on. I'm running Mint, no dual boot, here's what we know:
+ made sure permissions are set correctly and the owner isnt set to root

+ drive is mounted correctly, but also happening in two different drives (one internal one external) so it doesn't really matter where I put it.

+ not getting disk write errors when saving other types of files to the same location (can save random text files there just fine)

+ not using flatpak version

+ uninstalled and reinstalled Steam, it allowed *some* games to install and others are still getting the error. I have tried installing from both the downloaded .deb file and from terminal at this point.

+ only certain games doing it with no recognizable pattern: Deltarune, FNAF: Secret of the Mimic, and all demos fail. Death and Taxes and the Binding of Isaac installed without issue.

+ For some reason it also stopped letting me stream games from my Steam Deck to my computer at some point in all this. It *really* doesn't wanna let me stream Deltarune. :V

I opened Steam using the terminal and tried to see if anything logged when the downloads failed, but it's like nothing is happening at all back there. I get Disk Write Error and the terminal says nothing happened at all, no feedback, nothing.

I'm at my wit's end, i just wanna stream my dumb games for my dumb friends. What do i do from here? Thank you.

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Hi. I've been gaming on Windows since Windows 98. We use Microsoft infrastructure at work. Recently I've been growing more and more frustrated at Microsoft and the fact that Windows, as accessible as it is, keeps suggesting and asking all sorts of stuff from me. What pisses me off is when I boot up my PC after a few days of not playing and what awaits me is some bullshit such as "Just a few steps left until you've set up your PC". It doesn't happen all the time but every now and then I feel like they're asking for more and more of my data and my consent for all sorts of things. There's so much shit all over windows and they've dumbed the OS a lot so it takes more steps to get to the same point compared to older versions of Windows. I always remember Sheldon from TBBT who said that Vista was the best OS because it was the least user friendly Windows.

So a few months ago I gave Linux a shot and I installed Nobara. I've owned a Steam Deck for quite some time now but I never really understood what it is. I started doing some research on Proton and Linux and I ended up installing Nobara on separate drive. Since then, I've felt like a master of my machine. All the games I've tried on Steam so far have worked with proton support. I'm really impressed. Also, Linux uses a lot less of my resources compared to windows.

What worries me is that here and there I'll encounter a problem I can't solve quickly. But the problem is not that of Linux, but in me not having experience with it and not exactly knowing what I'm doing. As I said, Windows is accessible and there's not as much work as there is on Linux. To be honest, playing around with Linux is actually fun. I feel good after solving a problem I have but what worries me is that I'll encounter problems during times when I just want to turn on my PC and play to relax. I wouldn't want to encounter problems at those times.

I'm about to buy a completely new PC which I will build for myself and I'm thinking should I stick with Windows or just try Linux. The fact that I'll probably have to make a Microsoft account is very repulsive to me. So, taking in consideration this general overview of my situation, would you suggest I take a chance at Linux on my new PC or should I just continue with Windows and try to swallow it's downsides? Do you think that after some time and after a couple of standardized types of problems I'll get the hang of it and feel comfortable using Linux?

Also, are you guys able to play games from Epic launcher on Linux and how do they work?

Curious to hear different perspectives and experiences.

Peace ✌️

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Mojang have given an update on the upcoming Vibrant Visuals update, that brings many visual enhancements to Minecraft.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

https://preview.redd.it/dl2z8gckxa7f1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=d929f4a7c6f5c5e2117d87f7c590b32eb3425e3f

Hello, I'm using Ubuntu 25.04 with a 3070ti.
I reinstalled mangohud and the nvidia drivers but it's not showing the gpu info in any game.

Also I've tried mangohud vkcube and it shows me an error but I don't know if it's related.

Selected WSI platform: xcb

Selected GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, type: DiscreteGpu

[2025-06-16 11:42:42.395] [MANGOHUD] [error] [nvctrl.cpp:56] XNVCtrl didn't find the correct display

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Robin "Dark0ne" Scott has announced that Nexus Mods is going through a change with new owners.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

TL;DR: Acts of Blood demo runs great on Linux (CachyOS) with Proton-CachyOS. Smooth 1080p performance on medium preset with TSR Balanced.

Hardware: Minisforum Ai X1 Pro

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BALL x PIT was a recent announcement from Kenny Sun and Devolver Digital that took only a few minutes to completely hook me in.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

https://preview.redd.it/th1u00xlma7f1.png?width=1512&format=png&auto=webp&s=df3051d862834fbe18ba1c12c1dec25882f8d22e

Discord screensharing on wayland is pretty good so far. Audio works and all. But the resolution and bitrate does start to deteoriorate and it makes the stream looks so much worse after just a few minutes.
OS: CachyOS
DE: KDE Plasma 6.3.5
WM: KWin (Wayland)
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790
GPU: RX580 2048SP 8GB

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We’re a small team working on a hand-drawn Metroidvania called Ashen Daughter.

It’s being developed on Linux (Manjaro, but we’ll make sure it works smoothly across other distros too), and we plan to support native Linux builds. Honestly, Linux is the platform that gets the most love from us throughout development.

We just released our Steam page and first trailer. It’s still a bit rough around the edges, but we’d love your feedback so we can keep improving as we polish and finalize the game.

Steam page

Trailer on YouTube

We’re especially curious what impressions you get from our page and trailer, what (if anything) makes it stand out, and what kinds of unique mechanics you expect it might have. But honestly, we’re grateful for any and all feedback.

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If anyone plays, or know how to try to fix this, I will be glad, but I guess it is on the devs side.

https://preview.redd.it/kmqd0vi2fa7f1.png?width=1679&format=png&auto=webp&s=799a86cf98712a5ca104d9a4f3640e268ed84fa1

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