Still windows user for some games but right now i'm using ubuntu for my older laptop; Decided to install x-plane 11 and it's running FABULOUS which i was not expecting,it's almost running better than the windows version i got on a newer pc.

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There was a couple games I wanted to get on Steam to play on my Ubuntu machine until I saw they use kernel level anti-cheat:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1268750/Starship_Troopers_Extermination/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/553850/HELLDIVERS_2/

However, someone told me that the anticheat is only kernel-level on Windows... not Linux. Does anyone know if that's true?

Should I still avoid them? They have good ratings on ProtonDB

I've heard kernel-level anticheat creates vulnerabilities in your PC, invades your privacy, etc... things I don't want.

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A small update to Proton Experimental landed with a few fixes for some nuisances for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. Here's what's changed.

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PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant really rolls off the tongue doesn't it? Is it basically Dome Keeper in 3D? Well, sort-of but not quite.

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Nightdive Studios announced they're doing Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster, reviving the 1997 classic from LucasArts.

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It's so frustrating how little effort NVIDIA puts into supporting Linux. Drivers are unstable, sub-optimally tuned, and far behind their Windows counterparts. For a company that dominates the GPU market, it feels like Linux users get left out. Open-source solutions like Nouveau are worse because they don't even have good support from NVIDIA directly. If NVIDIA really cared about its community, it would take time and effort to make Linux drivers first-class and not an afterthought.

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I can't claim to have found most of this out on my own, but I wanted to compile it for any others who might have issues with it down the line, since ProtonDB is often unreliable.

All of my time spent playing MHWilds has been on Linux. And it's been... a bit of a shitshow.

Notable (solvable) issues I wanted to address:

- "Vertex explosions" on Nvidia hardware

- Sometimes forcing a full shader recompilation when you crash.

- Massive stutters relating to the shader cache not loading properly on relaunches.

My current launch options to remedy these are:

PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=1 - This prevents the vertex explosions. I have... no idea why. AFAICT, something about how the game uses Nvidia cards is not how Proton expects it.

VKD3D_DISABLE_EXTENSIONS=VK_NV_low_latency2 - Supposed to prevent a Wine crash. I have no experience with this crash in particular, but it doesn't seem to hurt... so... omit if you want to test?

__GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 - This prevents the cleanup of the Proton's cached shaders. Relevant to the next two options.

__GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH=/home/<USERNAME>/.cache/games/mhwilds/ - This allows you to specify a path for Proton's shader cache. You can point this anywhere you want (within reason), but MAKE SURE TO CREATE THE FOLDER IT IS POINTED AT. IT DOES NOT CREATE THE PATH AUTOMATICALLY.

__GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SIZE=10737418240 - specifies the maximum size of the shader cache on disk, so your disk doesn't get filled up. The value must be in bytes. The value shown is 10 gigabytes, which is probably more than enough for Wilds.

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" - [OPTIONAL] If you have installed REFramework, this is necessary. Otherwise, ignore this.

%command% - This will be replaced with the launch command for the game. It needs to be here for the game to launch. Duh.

&& rm -f shader.cache2 - This deletes the games' shader cache when the game closes. This means that the game will load to the shader build screen on every boot, **BUT** it should be pretty fast (<20 seconds) after the first one because Proton already has them cached. This should also properly "warm" your shaders on each launch, and shouldn't require actual lengthy rebuilds unless there's an update to the game, your graphics driver, or your Proton version. I recommend using a stable version of Proton, i.e. Proton 9, so you're not getting forced to rebuild from updates to Proton Experimental or Proton Hotfix.

A copyable version of these launch options: `PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=1 VKD3D_DISABLE_EXTENSIONS=VK_NV_low_latency2 __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH=/home/<USERNAME>/.cache/games/mhwilds/ __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1 __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SIZE=10737418240 WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" %command% && rm -f shader.cache2 - REMEMBER TO EDIT __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH TO POINT WHEREVER YOU WANT IT.

Shoutout to Drovolon and KALUNA on ProtonDB for sharing their cache solution, and the many posters on the Proton GitHub and this subreddit for the others.

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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition released recently and it works great on Linux, even better now the online works properly too.

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iRacing have announced iRacing Arcade made in partnership with Original Fire Games the developers of Circuit Superstars.

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Ive tried a few different ways of dowloading it with steam and wine and others, but when ever I launch it and it asks to log in, it sais "request can't be granted right now" or allong the lines of that. Any help appreciated, running cinnamon if that helps at all

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MicroProse Software are on a bit of a roll lately for their publishing, now they've announced Death By Scrolling from Ron Gilbert of Terrible Toybox.

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Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is a new strategy game from Dotemu and developer Alt Shift releasing in Q1 2026.

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A competitive multiplayer game announced with Steam Deck support right away? Not something we see often! World of Tanks: HEAT has me cautiously interested.

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When you think of a trucking sim you probably think American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 but here comes some big competition with Road Kings.

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Hello, I have tried to install bazzite several times with dual boot Windows 11 on my laptop, it always ends up installing, but when I restart the system to start with bazzite I get this error. Does anyone know what the problem is?

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 from Paradox finally has a release date with October 21, but it gets expensive if you want all the content.

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Europa Universalis V from Paradox Interactive now has a confirmed release date for November 4.

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Gimme! I know a good few people who will be terribly excited for the announced Woolhaven expansion for Cult of the Lamb.

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