The Linux user share on Steam has been slowly but steadily trending upwards, with May 2025 showing the highest point in years.

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I am planning on getting myself a 4k OLED Monitor (specifically a GigaByte AORUS FO32U2) and I would love to switch over to linux for my gaming and daily driver needs, but I am thoroughly confused by what display technologies work in Linux.

I have an RTX 2080 (which I would like to upgrade later this year) and I would like to know if Linux supports 4k 120Hz with HDR and VRR (the 120Hz are mostly for the desktop environment, because I am aware that the 2080 won't have the power for much more)? Also, is the DSC a factor when connecting using the Display Port v1.4? (Or should I maybe even get the more expensive Monitor with DP v2.1 for when I upgrade later?)

Is there some table or list or something that details which technologies and especially technology combinations are supported in linux?

I know this is super specific and complex, but I would very grateful for some pointers.

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Hey, I love Linux, especially for its freedom of customization and its lightness, problem I play Fortnite a few times but no way to launch it, I had succeeded in the past but I can't reinstall it, do you have any advice?

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A friend recently reminded me about the weirdest bug ever: the inability to strafe when using an Intel CPU (yes, you read that right; the bug doesn't occur with AMD or ARM CPUs) with the Android APK.

I used to use a laptop with an AMD processor, but I recently switched to a new laptop with an Intel processor. Both of us use the Minecraft Bedrock Launcher Flatpak, which runs the Android APK on our Linux distributions. After my friend brought up the issue again, I finally got around to setting up Minecraft Bedrock on my new laptop and encountered the problem for myself. Luckily, I checked the mods section of the launcher and found a modder released a fix for it.

I created the video attached above to help those who are experiencing this issue.

Interestingly, the bug remains unresolved since 2023 on the official tracker: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE/issues/MCPE-170810

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specifically, I'm looking for programs where I can write the macro itself. I'm a big fan of autohotkey and I do look for a port or parallel.

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Hi. I just recently installed PikaOS as my distro for gaming. I made the switch to Linux recently with Linux Mint, where I played Hollow Knight and didn't have any of the problems I'm having now with Pika, but I think I wasn't using the same controller, and that controller didn't had analog triggers.

But well, almost everything works perfectly, but for some reason, the readings from the triggers work in a strange way now. It only detects the reading on a specific point of the trigger pulsation (using a gamepad tester I found out that it gets the reading when crossing the point 0 from the trigger coordinates, consulted in Gamepad Tester). In the game it controls strange, cause sometimes when I pulse the full trigger and then I realease it, it detects as if I started pulsing it but didn't stop, and only when I pulse it again, it detects as if I stopped pressing it (I realized it cause in Hollow Knight there's a skill where you need to charge it by pressing the Left Trigger for a few seconds and then you unleash it by releasing the trigger. Well, here if I pulse the trigger, it starts charging but doesn't unleash the skill until I push the trigger again). Again I checked with the gamepad tester online, and all my readings are perfect. Both triggers record the full travel. So I was thinking it was a software problem, maybe Steam related, since the tester doesn't have problems with the gamepad.

Btw, my controller is a 8bitdo Pro 2 and I'm connecting it by bluetooth. I installed the PikaOS Recommended Addititions, where it includes some gamepad configurations supposedly to make it work better (game-devices-udev).

Has anyone had a similar problem and was able to fix it?

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Hello guys, i really want to switch my MSI claw to linux and with the release of steamOS, I wanted to switch even more, do you guys recommend any other linux? and if yall can get a easy tutorial for someone thath dosen't has any experience on linux, that would be amazing

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Hi all,

So, I'm just starting out on my linux journey here. I started with Fedora but eventually my steam games wouldn't load for some reason, so I decided to ditch the whole thing and go with Bazzite instead. I just installed it but I think it still sees my old drives, so I'm currently shredding my storage drive I was using for my steam library. But while I'm doing that, I figured I'd reach out and ask why steam might not be seeing my other drives/allowing me to add them through settings. I do know enough to know that they're mounted drives, but with Bazzite that's about it. With Fedora I thought I got around it with using Flatseal, but that doesn't seem to be the solution here. I'll fill in more details as I keep trying things, but always happy to hear what worked for others.

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I have an integrated GPU (amd) which I don't use, and my NVidia card on which the monitor is connected.

When launching a Steam game or glxgears (used the latter as a test), memory gets allocated on the iGPU (checked using nvtop) and things run slow, evidence that the applications are trying to run on the iGPU instead of my NVidia card.

More of a PSA than anything. I tried 01 and 02 of this branch, both had the same symptom. Fixed things by using a slightly older one. Couldn't be bothered to try and see if I could work around it by editing a config file.

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So, I have been a bad penguin and not run updates for nearly a month. I finally got around to it, mostly because Steam games started not launching due to the "too many clients" issue from X11 sessions (possibly steam-for-linux/issues/9561 on the github), so I installed updates and rebooted.

Anyway, after I rebooted, none of the games I tried playing would play any sound. I tried native, native added as non-steam game, native but from the steam store, non-native games through proton that I had played earlier in the day. There is no speaker icon on the program either. But Firefox and videos on store pages in Steam play audio no problem.

Lots of troubleshooting later, I find that if I set sound to "Analog Stereo Output" I get sound, albeit only on two speakers, as one would expect. If I switch back to "Analog Surround 5.1", I get nothing. In fact, I get nothing on any of the other "Analog Surround" settings. "Analog Surround 2.1" won't even work.

I unfortunately had about 635 packages update right before I rebooted, so I'm not sure which might be causing the issue. I tried the "fallback" kernel, as well as switching to lts, which had no change.

System info: Arch, KDE, Wayland (also tried X11), kernel 6.14.9-arch1-1 (was 6.14.5.arch1-1 before update/reboot), Radeon RX 7900 XT, AMD 5950x. I'm using the audio jacks on the back of my mobo, not spdif or USB. I haven't had a problem with sound in the ~2 years I've been running this installation. I'm not sure what to do or where to look since sound works in some places but not others, but it seems related to surround vs stereo.

Let me know if there are any logs I should check. Please help.

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this has starting happening recently where after a certain period of time (haven't measured it yet to see if it's consistent), my performance drops off a cliff. i will go from 100+ FPS to extremely choppy less than 30 fps at times. i have noticed that it coincides perfectly with the jagged GPU utilization graphs from mission center. the utilization remains somewhat constant for a while then suddenly starts spiking and dropping.

i am running the latest version of linux mint xia, with a 4070 ti. it doesn't matter if i'm playing a game on steam using proton, or heroic games launcher, or lutris. after a certain period of time the gpu just starts spazzing out. games it happens in: WoW, Squad, BG3. restarting the game fixes it for a while. i had this problem once before, and a full OS reinstallation and drive wipe fixed it for a while, but now it's back.

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It used to work before, but after an update gamescope simply started to give the SDL_Vulkan_CreateSurface failed error on any wayland session I try. Works fine on x11. On Gnome currently, but didn't work as well on Hyprland and Niri, so I believe it's more about Wayland than the DE. Does anyone know how to solve it?

ATTENTION: default value of option vk_khr_present_wait overridden by environment.

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: selecting physical device 'AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (RADV NAVI10)': queue family 1 (general queue family 0)

[gamescope] [Info] vulkan: physical device supports DRM format modifiers

[gamescope] [Info] wlserver: [backend/headless/backend.c:67] Creating headless backend

[gamescope] [Error] xdg_backend: Couldn't create Wayland input objects.

[gamescope] [Error] xdg_backend: Failed to initialize input thread

Failed to load plugin 'libdecor-gtk.so': failed to init

SDL_Vulkan_CreateSurface failed: VK_KHR_wayland_surface extension is not enabled in the Vulkan instance.terminate called without an active exception

fish: Job 1, 'gamescope -W 800 -H 600 -- vkcube' terminated by signal SIGABRT (Abort)

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Hello! I'm planning to upgrade my 6750XT to the 9060XT. Would it be a paper weight for a couple of months first before the mesa drivers catch up? how's amdgpu pro now a days? my distros: arch and fedora 42, occasionally boot into bazzite on a usb drive for some couch gaming too.

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Hello. I have a ext4 formatted drive X, which has all the steam games installed on it. I have mounted this drive on boot into a specified path on 2 seperate distros on the machne, one is Arch and the other is Bazzite. Can I share the same installed games from this storage between the Steam client on both the distros?

I know we cannot share the storage across Linux and Windows. Just wanted to check if it is safe to share across Linux distros on the same machine.

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I am using Fedora and when ever I try to run GTA V in any way, it either doesn't launch or gives me this error

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https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

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I'm trying to use Steam on Arch Linux, and everything works except loading games from the store page and playing games that require an internet connection. It keeps giving me error 105, my internet connection is good, and I downloaded a game with no issues and when I play that game it doesnt connect to the internet.

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As per the title. Has anyone successfully done this? I keep running into road blocks when i try to use linux on my LG C4 42". I just can't seem to get a flawless experience with this like i can on windows.

I've been using Fedora 42 w/ Gnome 48 as i'd REALLY like to stick to this distro. I quite enjoy it a lot. I'm running an nvidia RTX 4090 as well. AMD 7800X3D for the processor.

But i keep having issues such as the following.

Fractional Scaling: If i set the scaling on the desktop to 125% it breaks the location of where games open and they open on the incorrect monitor, or they do open on the correct monitor but do not lock the mouse to the game. I've tried this in KDE and it seems generally fine. If i gotta run things at 100% i can live with it mostly. But i'd love to run it at 125%

Multi Monitors: I've found some games just ignore the primary entirely and open on my side vertical monitors. When using Gamescope Arguments, for example hogwarts legacy opens on my left most monitor which is vertical and will not allow it self to be moved to my middle monitor. And if i do manage to move it, it keeps the vertical sizing. Also i've found that sometimes Linux just ignores monitor placements entirely and will forcefully just open up whatever is the left most display. I understand this is due to the 0x0 pixel placement and so it defaults to that, but surely it should just open on the primary display instead?

HDR: This is a big one. SDR on the LG C4 42" Is pretty crap and you need HDR on to make it remotely usable. I've found its perfectly fine in the desktop but when opening games its simply not enabled or when using gamescope to push it through, it either doesn't launch the game or it does but the game opens on the wrong monitor and won't let me move it. Or in some rare cases it does open the game and i can enable HDR. Gamescope when using nvidia just isn't really a long term viable solution right now.

I really really want to make the switch to linux but i just cant seem to fix these issues all together? Does anyone have any Distro's they suggest that could fix all of these with minimal effort? I tried Nobara which had nothing but issues for me. CachyOS seemed ok but im not sure if i want to use an Arch based distro due to its complexity. Kubuntu didn't seem to have issues with multi monitors or fractional scaling but i didn't get HDR going through to the games properly. I'm willing to go back and try these distro's again if it was something i was doing wrong however.

I'd love to use a gnome based distro and everything about fedora i really do enjoy. For all my other PC work, it ticks all the boxes. But for gaming its still quite difficult.

Has anyone else had similar issues? And realistically would switching to AMD for my GPU fix these? I am considering it when AMD finally come out with a XX90 or XX80 class competitor that beats the 4090.

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There are still some bugs with Wine Wayland driver, like the window sometimes getting lost when using multiple monitors, the Warframe launcher showing a black screen with extremely sensitive mouse input, EA App only updates when running via XWayland, and window resizing sometimes gets misaligned on the screen (this happened with Cyberpunk). MangoHUD looks overly saturated when running through Steam.

The recording wasn’t done in HDR because the capture card doesn’t support it. The conversion from Kdenlive along with YouTube slightly desaturates the colors and reduces the quality compared to the original. This video is just to show some games run fine with HDR on Linux — it’s not a demo of HDR quality itself

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