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Portal: Revolution drops Native Linux support to focus on Proton
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Protesting
Warning this is kind of a rant
I've seen many posts on here advocating for dual booting. Let me start by saying that if you need to dual boot because there is not a Linux version of the product or wine can't translate it either, go right ahead I have no issues with that. What I do have an issue with is for people that bend the knee to major corporations destroying products or invading people's privacy, then the same people put down others that advocate for Linux.
Microsoft has a monopoly of the tech industry, we all know this, all their products are legal spyware, this is known to tech users. Nearly all software nowadays is spyware. We know this. But the average person does not. This is a major issue because normal people. Many do not know any of these issues that windows have, some know and simply do not care because they live under the impression of "if you have nothing to hide then your fine" train of thought.
Now for gaming, kernel level anti-cheats should be abolished. It is legal spyware, again when people are on windows the same issues prevail they don't know this stuff they only care that the game runs and plays! They scroll past the teams and conditions. When they do learn about it it's the same mentality if you have nothing to hide your fine, and just ignore it. When people are advocating for dual booting you are giving up the whole purpose of Linux, to have a competitor to the monopoly that is windows. Linux as we all know stands for privacy as well so if you think it's okay to just play games or go over to windows you are saying it's okay to be spied on. As for the gaming industry. I see people advocating dool booting to windows to play games that have anti cheats. There is kernel level anti-cheat now in nearly every game. I personally am protesting all of this, I do not buy any game that has kernel level anti-cheats, I only purchase indi games now. This is something I believe all of us should be doing is supporting more indi devs. Now I will not be playing or supporting any game with anticheats because kernel level anti-cheats DO NOT work. Cheaters are always 3 steps ahead when it comes to cheating and they always will be. Cheats have gotten so good that they are impossible to detect anymore. Seriously there are full documentaries you can look up and watch showcasing how far cheating has come. Companies have gotten away with this crap because people just allow it, people don't have the backbone to just not buy a game to boycott said game or such companies that introduce legal spyware into their games.
Now for work applications I think people that say using alternative open source tools like gimp or libre office are not good or difficult are not trying to use them, these tools work just fine I've been using them myself and they get the job done well. These tools also understand that they are getting people to migrate over so they literally make it easy for people by changing their schemes so that people recognize all the tools necessary, take this with a grain of salt because I only use these tools for school, not for corporate work.
In conclusion I find it so confusing that seeing so many people bend the knee to Microsofts death grip on the industries and stop fighting for or advocating for Linux.
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Dying Light: The Beast looks absolutely brutal in the new trailer
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NVIDIA are working on a "general optimization" for VKD3D / DirectX12 games on Linux
Installed SteamOS on PC. Now stuck on motherboard flash screen!
Hi all, looking for some help. Installed SteamOS on one of my pcs. Installation went ok. But after the reboot its now stuck on the motherboard flash screen. I have tried to reinstall it multiple times and always gets stuck here. I already tried disabling secure boot. Tried to flash the usb drive with both rufus and balena etcher. Using an AMD GPU. Not sure what else can I do to fix this.
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Oblivion remade in the Skyrim engine, Skyblivion is on the final stretch to release
Fixing anti cheating issues by playing on Windows?
I do it like this. I only have a Windows install for anti cheat games, and no personal data whatsoever on the said PC. When i want, I just plug that SSD. Whats the point if this you ask? Well, on Windows PC there is no personal data to data mine from, since there is only games now.
But, I wonder if I should unplug my Linux disks too? Can those anticheat malware software stuff probe my Linux disks? They are btrfs. I highly suspect that windows can read btrfs and maybe ext4 without letting us know. How would we know if they did anyway? The windows is closed source.
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[I3WM/Arch] Steam games window freezing when not focused
So i just started to try gaming on linux (my arch was more to work and i had a win dualboot just to play)
everything is smooth and i had no issue at all, but a small detail annoy me
I have a dual screen with I3WM and when i defocus my game (to check firefox or else) the game freeze until i focus it again
is there a way to prevent it ?
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Linux destroys Windows in native gaming performance.
I was wondering how much better is ZorinOS (the Linux distro i'm daily driving) than Windows 11 in terms of native Gaming performance, so i downloaded Minecraft on both, the game is natively supported on both Systems. downloaded a Modpack and tested both.
Sure enough, I got about 50-70% more FPS on ZorinOS than on windows 11 (as you can see on the top left corner) with the game on Zorin reaching a maximum of 460FPS and on Windows 11 a maximum of 250FPS (Couldn't get more accurate avg results, sorry).
These numbers aren't the most accurate, since i didn't use MSI afterburner or MangoHUD to get Avgs. but it gives a very good idea about how inefficient windows is. and by the way, The game seemed to consume more ram and GPU power on Windows as you can see on the right and left top corners.
Something that confused me tho, was that when i tried the game with Shaders, i got the exact same FPS on both systems, a maximum of 36FPS (bad i know, its an R 5600g).
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What effects do you use for mic
can you post a picture of your mic settings ? I am trying to figure out the best settings for my mic to cancel the background noise and i need help with that
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Migrating to linux
The last 15 days i was thinking about migrationg to windows and i dont know witch destro i should use i want something plug and play and preferably not redownloading my hole game library (my internet sucks) i think i should dual boot it to try it before fully migrating with my new rig im getting soon
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Performance worse on external monitors? (NVIDIA Laptop user BTW)
I'm aware of the performance hit you take when using NVIDIA GPUs and also that -generally- 1440p perfomance is worse than 1080p on Linux vs. Windows, but has anyone else noticed that your FPS drops massively when you game on an external monitor as opposed to your laptop's display?
FYI, I know powering two displays slightly affects performance and if you turn the laptop's screen off you get a little boost, however, even then performance on an external monitor on Linux is worse than laptop screen only (minus 10-20% maybe).
I know NVIDIA is far from perfect, I'm not really complaining, this is more of "has anyone else noticed this?" kinda post.
Hardware specs: 2021 ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 w/ RTX 3070 (FreeSync panel) + Gigabyte M27Q external monitor (also FreeSync) [monitor connected straight to GPU via DisplayPort > USB-C] running Nobara 42
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Guide: Rockstar Games Launcher on Linux 2025
So i have been trying to get Rockstar Games Launcher to work on my Linux Mint for some time using Lutris how a website instructed me, it didnt work. I just found out you can do this very easy. Here is how:
- Download the latest installer for the Rockstar Games Launcher from their website.
- Open up steam and add it as a non-steam game, go to properties/compatibility and choose a wine version, i tested with proton10.9
- Launch it and go through the installer. Dont Launch the Launcher at end.
- Now open up your file manager and go to home/.steam/steam/steamapps/compactdata/, here find which folder is for your non steam game(it shoult be the last modified.
- Open it up and go to pfx/drive_c/ProgramFiles/Rockstar Games/Launcher
- Copy the currect directory and go back to steam. Select the non steam game you used for the installer and go to properties, change Start In to the dir you copied, and change target to the dir you copied + /Launcher.exe(Dont remove the " at the start and end)
- You are done, just launch it again and log in and download your games!
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How do I run Proton without steam?
I would love to be able to use proton just like wine. I would like to have a "run using proton" option when I run a .exe file. I would like to have a ~/.proton directory with all my apps in there. Is there any way to do so?
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Steam Linux Native compactiblity issue.
For native games like Tooth and Tail, newer distros like Kubuntu 25 and Manjaro 25 seem to have a problem with supporting. Older distros like Linux Mint 22 seem to support it just fine. There seems to be dependency issue causing unplanned obsolescence with such natives. Is there a software that brings backwards compatibility? If not there should be. Proton can work, but that seems too ironic. Dependance on Windows should be limited.
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How can I play dunk city dynasty on Linux (Ubuntu)
Hi! I tried to emulate the game using way droid (as it is a mobile game) but it is not compatible and says that the app won’t work on that device. Is there anything I can do? Or any other emulator that works? I would be nice to have controller mapping too
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Frustrated due to a really stupid problem.
Not new to Linux, but new to daily driving it, if that makes sense. I've run into this problem on EVERY distro I've tried: I live in an area with shit internet, and as a result, have a few game drives so I'm not constantly having to uninstall and redownload. my games. I have Disks set up to automount everything on boot. I have verified my drives are mounted at boot. Yet, each and every time I reboot my PC, I have to redirect Steam and Heroic to where the games are installed.
Just posting here to as a last resort to see if anybody has any suggestions?
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