Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a small indie horror project I’ve been working on that runs natively on Linux.

The Taco is a short PSX style psychological horror game inspired by PS1 era graphics. It’s a story driven, atmospheric horror experience focused on tension, sound design, and slow psychological buildup rather than constant jumpscares.

The game takes place during a late night shift at a street taco stand, where the environment slowly becomes unsettling.

The demo is around 20–30 minutes long and includes two possible endings.

(native build, no Proton required).

If anyone here plays indie or horror games on Linux, I’d really appreciate feedback — especially regarding performance or compatibility.

Playable on itch.io: https://toprak-dev.itch.io/the-taco

submitted by /u/Psikoz-
[link] [comments]

Back in early 2024, Valve put up new rules for game developers on Steam to pull in some information about generative AI, and they now seem to have tweaked it.

.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Launch options: PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 %command%
compatibility: proton 7.0-6

I can play fine with the ocassional slight performance issue, but cut scenes get weird. They don't crash the game, but are unwatchable.

submitted by /u/Aromatic_File_5256
[link] [comments]

submitted by /u/Beer2401
[link] [comments]

Oi galera, eu começei a usar Linux faz pouco tempo e estou tendo problemas com o bottles.Ele não está abrindo os arquivos .exe, nem o que você pode instalar diretamente nele. Ele reconhece o arquivo, ele fica no aplicativo, mas se vc tenta executar-los fica uns segundos tentando abrir e não acontece nada. Alguém tem alguma ideia do que pode ser? ( Obs: eu instalei o bottles em flatpak e a distro que estou usando é mint, se isso ajuda)

submitted by /u/PianoOptimal5168
[link] [comments]

Hi folks, I'm planning to buy a good laptop in this republic sale.

My requirements are: 1). Game Development 2). Android App Development 3). Cyber security tools usage.

My budget is around 90K.

Can someone recommend me best laptop which I can buy in this sale?

submitted by /u/ikigai_js
[link] [comments]

Valve launched a new update for Proton Experimental for January 16th to improve various games and launchers working on SteamOS / Linux.

.

Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

Sometimes (let's say, once every hour), the game freezes for 5 seconds~ or so.

On my screen everything is freezed, on the death replay (assuming I die during these freezes), I can see that the game client continues sending the command that was being sent during the freeze (such as walking forward etc).

I play OW for a long time on Linux, I had never faced this. Anyone else? Any tips?

• 5090
• 9950x3d
• 64gb ram
• manjaro
• GE-Proton10-10 (I don't remember if this also happens on Proton 9/10/Experimental)

submitted by /u/lukinhasb
[link] [comments]

not sure if this is the best place to ask but i just switched to Linux mint and everything is going fine so far and most of my steam games play fine... but i went to play blue prince and i tried every proton compatibility layer available and no matter which i use the game will not launch. i have tried reinstalling it and verify installed files integrity but nothing has worked yet, any advice will be welcomed. it plays fine on my steamdeck so i know its not a Linux problem necessarily.

submitted by /u/bobsausage93
[link] [comments]

submitted by /u/chazy10
[link] [comments]

Any help appreciated! It seems that it registered the two three way switches incorrectly. One of the positions for the second is for example only possible with the correct position of the first switch?

submitted by /u/OutrageousRope88
[link] [comments]

submitted by /u/bananahbeeph
[link] [comments]

I would like to know if i can use FSR4 on Monster Hunter Wilds for example on a older RDNA1 GPU.

submitted by /u/Snoo_73218
[link] [comments]

Hello!

I've recently wanted to try Gnome once again because, honestly, I prefer the defaults all around but I'm having a huge blocker right now due performance regressions under Gnome.

I'll use Fallout 76 as a reference point, since its a DX11 game and it should not present the performance penalty of DX12 with Nvidia.

9800X3D

4K Display with HDR @ 120fps and VRR

RTX5800

Overall, under KDE, I report a pretty smooth experience (having disabled the vars on the game to allow me achieve unlocked framerate), and mostly, with the correct settings I have 110-120 fps locked most of the time and very stable frametimes.

Once I changed to Gnome session, under the exact same conditions, area, and settings, I have a lot more stuttering, the frames drop from 110-120 to 80-90, and I see the frametime showing a behavior most of the time, that feels like some tripple buffering or some other sort of attempting to vsync.

PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

PROTON_ENABLE_HDR=1

ENABLE_HDR_WSI=1

Gnome right now has VRR, and I'm always below the max framerate of my monitor, this should not happen at all.

Has the community ever found performance differences under Gnome compared to KDE? Did I find an edge case bug somewhere?

Look at that frametime go! It should be flat like it was on KDE

submitted by /u/felixwraith
[link] [comments]

submitted by /u/mlynioo
[link] [comments]

I switched over to linux to improve my pc's performance but now I can't play games as well as I used to. I am new to linux. I downloaded Wine so I could continue to play Windows games but it looks like my performance went down

submitted by /u/chrisyoutoo
[link] [comments]

I've tried several versions of Proton, display settings, and the problem persists. I'm using the exact same game settings on Windows and Bazzite.

Appears to be type Anti-aliasing I thought it was a problem, but I've already tried cinematic and low settings and it's still the same.

I'm not that much of a "noob" when it comes to Linux. I know what I'm doing most of the time, but I can't find anything about the problem online.

If anyone can help, I would appreciate it.

I haven't tested if I have the same problem with other games.

submitted by /u/magnumelasticdong
[link] [comments]

When playing some games like cs2. my cpu and gpu is at ~40% I have ran commands for my cpu and gpu to get them in performance mode but only helps a little bit. With that I have very low fps. Especially on cs2 on the first couple of rounds the fps is normal and then drops. I have checked and the system is using the correct gpu.

I run the following launch options: LD_PRELOAD="" PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 gamemoderun %command% -high -threads 16 -vulkan -novid -nojoy +fps_max 0 -refresh 144 -forcenovsync +mat_queue_mode 2

System specs:Operating System: Fedora Linux 42

KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4

KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0

Qt Version: 6.9.3

Kernel Version: 6.18.4-100.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)

Graphics Platform: Wayland

Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics

Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)

Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Manufacturer: LENOVO

Product Name: 82GN

System Version: Lenovo Legion 5 17ARH05H

submitted by /u/D3tect1v3
[link] [comments]

submitted by /u/Schizo_Crybb
[link] [comments]

I've tried several versions of Proton, display settings, and the problem persists. I'm using the exact same game settings on Windows and Bazzite.

Appears to be type Anti-aliasing I thought it was a problem, but I've already tried cinematic and low settings and it's still the same.

I'm not that much of a "noob" when it comes to Linux. I know what I'm doing most of the time, but I can't find anything about the problem online.

If anyone can help, I would appreciate it.

I haven't tested if I have the same problem with other games.

submitted by /u/magnumelasticdong
[link] [comments]