As already mentioned in the title, is there a way to use one game installation with different launchers?
E.g. I have battle.net and WoW installed via Lutris and want to give Faugus launcher a try. To not download the hole WoW package again and then having the game installed twice, I'd like to just direct Faugus to the installation done by Lutris.

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This is happening right now with Battlefield 6 posts but affects other super popular games like Fortnite, Roblox, League of Legends, EA Sports FC, GTA Online, Call of Duty, Destiny, PUBG, R6 Siege and more.

Not everything is for you. We get it. You don't need to spell it out every time.

But these are super popular games that most of us want to be able to play. By publicly expressing negative interest for such games on Linux you are harming us. If I was a market researcher scoping for Battlefield brand sentiment online, the message from the Linux gamers would be clear to me.

Personally I am against invasive kernel space anti cheat solutions. Ideally I would like to see these games available on Linux without introducing such shitty measures into kernel.

But most of us don't care about technicalities and just want to play the super popular game.

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I tried multiple shaders, but all of them are broken (OpenGL 1282 error I think), and my hands are broken. When I turn off shaders, everything is ok. Is there a way to play with shaders?

Distro: Arch Linux

GPU: RTX 4060 Max-Q Mobile

Driver Version: 575.64.05

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I hate python I hate it, I never get errors like this as an end user of software in a compiled language. It crashed as soon as I picked a game

protontricks --gui

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/bin/protontricks", line 8, in <module>

sys.exit(cli())

^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 32, in cli

main(args)

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/cli/util.py", line 149, in wrapper

return cli_func(self, *args, **kwargs)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/cli/main.py", line 274, in main

proton_app = find_proton_app(

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 821, in find_proton_app

tool_app = find_steam_compat_tool_app(

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 610, in find_steam_compat_tool_app

appinfo_sections = [

^

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/protontricks/steam.py", line 540, in iter_appinfo_sections

raise SyntaxError("Invalid file magic number")

SyntaxError: Invalid file magic number

Phil@GamingPC:~/Desktop$

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😫

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as of 02/08 update of cs2 that brought bhop fixes after animegraph2 updates, looks like linux version also has antilag 2.0, I just saw it in game options, and it felt like game was a bit more responsive, I'd be interested to hear other peoples experiences with the performance and latency

I am on cachyos, running mesa-git in case stable releases of mesa doesn't have antilag 2.0 support

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How are 50 series drivers on linux as compared to windows? Is there a performance uplift or lost on average in most games?

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Hi, I am running Fedora 42 Workstation with gnome. I am playing minecraft using Prism launcher installed via flat hub. Latest version of nvidia drivers is installed (575.xx) My avg fps is around 150-200fps but my 1% lows are in 40s causing stuttery gameplay. I am running on dedicated Nvidia gpu and I have tried enabling Zink which does not help the situation.

Laptop specs: R5 3550h GTX 1650 16gb DDR4 2400mhz

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www.youtube.com/@linuxgamerGT4

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I heard people saying that they switch default support from x11 to wayland for linux, but I just checked the cs2.sh file and I found this comment.

# There is Wayland support in SDL but a recent (7/30/2025) attempt at # allowing SDL to default to Wayland caused a number of customer issues so # keep the default at X11 for now. Don't override any user setting so # people can easily use Wayland if they want.# There is Wayland support in SDL but a recent (7/30/2025) attempt at # allowing SDL to default to Wayland caused a number of customer issues so # keep the default at X11 for now. Don't override any user setting so # people can easily use Wayland if they want.

witht the shell script under it defaulting to x11.

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TLDR: Using input-remapper I was able to use all the 4 back paddles and the C and Z buttons (On D-Input mode), running the games on Wayland (PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1), without relying on Steam Input (it's broken on games running on Wayland).

I want to share a little bit of my discoveries in case someone else is in the same situation as me. I have a Flydigi Vader 4 Pro and I was happy Steam announced that they will be adding support for it on the beta client to use with Steam Input. Sadly, after trying it, it didn't work (GitHub issue). According to a user on the GitHub issue, using InputPlumber and putting the controller on D-Input mode would solve the issue temporarily, which it did eventually. Just installing it made my controller be recognized as a Steam Deck Controller, and I could use Steam Input to rebind the back paddles and the C and Z buttons. So, for those who need that information, you can stop right there and everything will work.

I mainly play Trackmania and I was having some issues minimizing the game or switching desktops and then going back to it, etc. I tried running the game in Wayland (using PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 on some proton versions), and all the issues I had with that were gone. Then I realized Steam Input didn't work on games running on Wayland, so all the setup I did wouldn't work anymore. I had to sacrifice using all the extra buttons and keep running the game on Wayland or keep the solution I had before. I tried creating profiles on InputPlumber to remap keys there, without success.

Searching more through the internet, I stumbled upon input-remapper, and I decided to try it. I thought I could remap the buttons coming from InputPlumber using that tool. I was wrong. It didn't detect any inputs and I didn't understand why. I finally uninstalled InputPlumber, tried with input-remapper again, and I could remap everything, and it worked immediately. Now I can run my games on Wayland while being able to remap my back paddles and the C and Z buttons to anything I want.

I hope this helps more people that are in my same situation. Maybe more people know other pieces of software that can achieve this, but at least what I found worked and I'm happy with that!

Thanks for reading!

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Whenever i startup GD with megahack installed, it acts like my mouse doesn't exist, and i can't open the megahack menu overlay thing. pls help (also i installed megahack w/ geode and with wow64 mode on wine(i cannot turn wow64 off) and geode worked fine)

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So no support for Linux/SteamDeck

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I have been trying to play The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, after fixing it the game will boot up fine on Proton and is generally playable, but I have an issue with my mouse. The camera, mainly vertically, will have a problem updating and feel like it's snapping. I already installed TCoR fix and changed my mouse polling rate to 125hz via Polychromatic. The easiest option is likely just using a controller, but I wanted to see if anyone had an idea on how to fix this. I am using ProtonGE-10.

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With all the work done in the past couple years and work from Valve, is the PC gaming market the group that makes it a more viable 3rd OS in the landscape?

Especially with a lot of large YouTube and social coverage on the topic makes it feel like this year is different.

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Pessoal instalei o Linux mint em um note Dell antigo, com processador n7000, mas com SSD. Está demorando uns 5 min para inicializar. A máquina é muito ruim para essa distro ?

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I'm trying to oc my gamecube controller adapter to something above the default 125hz using https://github.com/hannesmann/gcadapter-oc-kmod, but it's not working regardless of how I install it.

I've tried using the aur dkms file, but my controller still had its default 125hz polling rate. Building it locally and inserting the module with insmod gcadapter_oc.ko rate=1 didn't work either. Switching the adapter to PC mode makes it show up in the kde settings, but there isn't a way to configure its polling rate there.

I'm using the 6.15.7 cachyos kernel, and the adapter I'm using is labeled as "Old Skool gamecube controller adapter" (although the system sees it as ShanWan WUP-028)

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My arc a750 graphics card gets 80-90 fps on Windows 11, but only 25 fps on Linux. How can I fix this? I'm using Bazzite OS.

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I’m not entirely sure that unity is the problem but I’ll give it a shot

I got two games, wavetale and dungeons of hinter burg it says its launching for like 5 seconds, then a small window with a loading bar pops up, then nothing

I am on Arch Linux I have i5-9600K Geforce 1070 16GB of DDR4 memory ROG z390-h strix

I can play other games I have reinstalled and verified

Any help I’d greatly appreciated

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