Hey!

Long-time lurker, first time poster. I hope this post doesn't break any rules...

I wrote my own cross-platform game launcher (I know, what a unique project /s).

Since I am a Linux user and according to Steam did 90% of my gaming in 2024 under Linux, I have naturally been developing this with Linux as a focus, and not only Windows. It is currently in what I would call a proof-of-concept state. There will some weird and broken behavior, but I hope you can find some value in it while it's being developed.

The video is a showcase of the launcher running what would be a fresh installation.

Some of the main selling points are:

• Light weight: Low resource usage
• Quick: Launches practically instantly compared to "competition"
• Cross-platform: Compiles for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Currently only developing features for Windows and Linux.
• Working on supporting games across multiple stores.
• Open Source
• Attempts to be privacy preserving and secure
• Community driven: You can get your voice heard and let me know what you want to see more of in the future.

I'm going to keep this brief so that I don't bore anyone to sleep. I'm currently looking for help in developing this project. Anyone who is interested in contributing in any way, shape, or form is welcome to DM me.

What I specifically need the most help with is web development (I am not a web developer). The launcher is written with a Rust backend but a (partially vibe-coded) React UI using Tauri. But anyone who would like to help with docs, Rust, UI/UX, infrastructure, security, you name it... is of course welcome.

If you don't want to or know how to contribute you can simply use it if you want to and let me know what you think :)

Link to website: https://monarch-launcher.com/

Link to project on GitHub: https://github.com/Monarch-Launcher/Monarch

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I was able to play Free Fire on Linux using Waydroid. The only problem was that the mouse cursor was leaking outside the game window on GNOME. To work around this, I hid the top panel using the Just Perfection extension and also turned off the hot corners. The game ran fine on Pop!_OS 24.04. There were no anti-cheat problems on Android, so I hope games like Call of Duty Mobile, Rainbow Six Mobile (coming soon), and PUBG can also be played in the future.

To play, you need an APK built for the x86 architecture; otherwise, the game will crash. I got the Free Fire x86 APK from APKMirror. x86 APKs are also used by the Google Play Games app for Windows.

Free Fire on the Google Play Games app for Windows has a built-in keymap for keyboard and mouse. Games that have been added to the Google Play Games app for Windows can also be played on Linux.

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My question is, is it possible for my Steam account to be deleted for running .EXE files of legal or illegal games?

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I have no idea what has happened. Tha game was working so well till yesterday. Now i gotta shash those keys to even jump. This problem is only with wuwa and other apps and games are working fine. I tried binding to another key but that didnt help either

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Can anybody please explain why i have to process this vulkan thing everytime i open up the game. It takes so much time to process. And if i skip i feel like something isnt right in- game.

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The mouse movement in Linux feels like absolute horseshit diarrhea, even with acceleration profile set to "Flat" and sensitivity (or acceleration as Linux likes to call it?) set to minimum.
I have a Logitech Pro X Superlight 2 and I use it at 44000 DPI (yes... I know..), but it's totally usable in Windows with the sensitivity set to minimum. the minimum sensitivity in Linux is actually lower/slower than the minimum sensitivity in Windows, but in Linux it just feels super inaccurate, twitchy, I really don't know how to describe it.

First problem, dropdown boxes:

I click on a dropdown box and it closes immediately, does not remain open/dropped, I have confirmed that the mouse pointer visually does not move even by a single pixel between pressing the mouse button and releasing the mouse button.
Later I found out that dropdown boxes do remain open/dropped if I hold my mouse in the air before clicking on the dropdown box. This leads me to believe that despite the cursor not moving visually, it is in fact moving by less than a single pixel, which makes something assume that I've moved my mouse after clicking on the dropdown box, therefore closing it.
Some rare applications are immune to this stupid bug.

Second problem, movement:

It just feels like absolute horseshit diarrhea, there's no other way to describe it. I can move the cursor much more accurately in Windows despite having an overall higher/faster sensitivity than in Linux.
Sometimes I can't even double-click without moving the cursor in Linux.

Third problem, no way to change DPI on Superlight 2 (not really a Linux problem):

I have tried Solaar and piper, and neither of them can change DPI on the Superlight 2. But at least Solaar is able to show the battery level. If I ever boot into Linux with the wrong DPI settings, I have to boot back into Windows just to change it in "Onboard Memory Manager".

The dropdown boxes and mouse movement are driving me insane. How can I fix these stupid issues?
If it matters, I am currently on Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS but I will be moving to Kubuntu 24.04.2 LTS in the next days due to Gnome being fucking horrendous.

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After a little while (on the order of 10-20 minutes) my controller (8bitdo m30 or xbox controller, same issue with both, wired or bluetooth) will disconnect from my game. The controller will still be registered as connected - the lights stay on, no disconnect noise, other programs are able to receive controller inputs - but my game will completely ignore the controller. This is not an issue native to one game, this has happened to me with TUNIC, Pizza Tower, and ZeroRanger (the only games I have tested this with, doubtless there are more).

I've looked this issue up and not been able to find anyone else having it. In reality I probably am just not searching for it correctly, but the result is the same - I'm left not knowing what to do.

When launching steam through the terminal, I noticed something that was logged at exactly the time that my controller disconnected - two extra lines for "Adding process [number] for gameID [game I'm playing]". The process IDs appeared to be just sequential - there were earlier instances of process IDs which were lower, and these were always sequential. When steam dropped input, an online gamepad tester did not drop input - even though it had been started before steam.

I am using Fedora 41 KDE. I recently switched from the flatpak version of steam to the rpm version, but that made no difference. Any ideas what could be the cause of or solution to this issue?

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I was playing swtor and is was not going above 10fps what should I do I have an intel core i5 8400T 16gb ram and an Intel arc a380 4gb swap

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Basically, I'm running Nobara with some nice hardware and GPU and it works really well but it's still a PC and I spend all day working at a PC, so when I game I just want to sit on my couch or lay in my bed, pick up the controller and hit the power button and have it launch into Steam or something like that.

Is there a package or software I can install to mimic this behavior, so I don't have to get into my desktop first with the mouse/keyboard to launch my game? I just wanna plop my lazy ass down and fire up some games like it was a PS5.

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I'm wanting to get into tinkering with 3d software and games as a hobby and I thought tux racers maps were pretty simple to get started.

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I use the Minecraft bedrock launcher (that uses mcpe) to play on my PC (ubuntu 24.04) and it works well (they even fixed the controller drift issue mojang has ignored for 7y now) but there is one pretty big problem.

Something weird happens while I'm typing that makes special characters (§) not get recognized, makes the backspace erase 2 characters instead of one and creates invisible spaces that cause syntax errors whenever I use commands making it unusable. I made sure my keyboard was set to US-en, did restarts and all, but it's a persistent issue that happens every time. Is there anyway to get this fixed?? Please, it's been months and I haven't manged to get anything fully functional on this money pit of a pc

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The title says everything. After recent update which added Sagat my performance got absolutely horrendous. In main menu my fps doesn't go higher than 30 and in match fps are stuck between 40-50. I tried everything I could thought: played with graphics settings, recompiled shaders, updated drivers. The only thing that kind of worked was reinstalling the game, but as soon as I went to settings the performance went downhill again. Could someone help me?

CPU: Intel Core i5-12400f
GPU: RTX 3060

I use Arch with Hyprland

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I'm trying to run Warcraft III Reforged on Lutris in Wayland and I'm running into a really weird issue. When I set the game up Battle.net loads just fine and I can install/start the game. But the game then goes into a permanent black screen. That's not the weird part. The weird part is that when I set it to Steam as a shortcut and set that shortcut to run under Steam's version of Proton Experimental then it works just fine.

That's all fine and dandy, hell the game actually runs better on Linux than it does Windows because Proton eliminates a game killing glitch. But I'm wondering why the hell it works when I use Steam but not Lutris despite Steam just being the shortcut to Lutris running under Proton Experimental. And, yes, this happens even when Lutris runs it's own Proton Experimental.

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Hi everyone. I get this set of antenna and wireless controllers. I tried them together in my xbox360 and work perfectly but I want to use them to play on Linux. It seems that's not as simple as connect and play. Do you guys have an idea about how to make it works on Linux? I'm using Pop_os btw

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incredibly annoying to have to raise it for literally every single prefix. im on a 4k display and it seems it just defaults to a 1080p scale

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I'm trying to play Rounds with my brother but when he tries to enter the game it just appears "Please hold. Input is temporary disable while the host is busy" I do I do to solve this? I'm on the game, so it should let him play with me

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I was playing Isle as usual and my sober client just froze for good minute then closed. I thought nothing of it but when I tried to play again no matter how many times I tried I got this message:

NO matter what this keeps happening. Im on Linux MInt.

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theres also other odd issues such as vesktop being invisible after 570 driver.

does anyone share this experience? im on a rtx a2000 but i saw 2 months ago when i posted about the issues with the 575 driver a few others shared this issue but we couldnt figure out how to fix it aside from downgrading.

im on arch linux kernel 6.15 on wayland but this issue persists on x11 as well.

any brainstorming or ideas is greaty appreciated!

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