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Hello everyone!

I'm working on a plugin for something I really hoped Valve would make, but hasn't yet.

My desktop Steam account has some collections that transform into something like a game shelf in the PC Steam library interface. I wanted something similar in Deck's game mode, so…

Hope you like it

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The performance on Linux (CachyOS) is impressive, showing strong results with MESA 26.0.3.

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i predict that most Dwarf Fortress players will use Debian, or Debian based distro's.

(sorry other distro's)

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Hello Linux community, I need support from all over the world, stars and contribution that we build the next revolution of gaming on linux.

I built Phantom — play any Android mobile game on Linux with keyboard and mouse, like BlueStacks but native and open source. Here's PUBG running.

For years, the answer to "can you actually play mobile games on Waydroid?" has been "kind of, if you have a touchscreen." I got tired of that answer.

What Phantom does:

• Captures your keyboard and mouse on the Linux host via evdev

• Translates every input through a deterministic profile engine into real Android MotionEvents

• Injects those touch events inside the Waydroid container through an Android-side server running via app_process — no fake uinput hacks, real touch events that games cannot distinguish from a finger

• Ships with a GUI for live profile editing and push

• Supports joysticks (fixed and floating), aim/camera, drag, macros, hold-tap, toggle-tap, layer shifts, and more

Games with shipped profiles already:

• PUBG Mobile

• Genshin Impact

• Asphalt 8 & 9

• Temple Run

• Subway Surfers

• eFootball

Built entirely in Rust.. The whole stack — daemon, profile engine, IPC protocol, Android socket protocol, and GUI.

How to get it:

```

git clone https://github.com/oliviermugishak/phantom

cd phantom

./install.sh

```

You need Waydroid running first. Then:

```

waydroid session start

waydroid show-full-ui

sudo phantom --daemon

phantom load ~/.config/phantom/profiles/pubg.json

phantom enter-capture

```

Press F8 to toggle capture, F1 to switch between aim and menu touch, F2 to shut down. For some devices its essential for fn lock to be on.

Requirements:

• Linux with Waydroid installed and working

• Rust toolchain (cargo) for building

• A Wayland compositor (works on Hyprland, GNOME, and others)

• sudo for evdev grab

Why not just use Waydroid as-is?

Waydroid gives you Android on Linux. It does not give you a way to play games that expect touch input. Phantom is the missing layer between your hardware and the game.

Why not uinput?

The uinput path exists as a fallback but most games reject or mishandle synthetic uinput touch. The Android-side injection path through InputManager.injectInputEvent() is what actually works reliably across games.

I have been building this alone. The code is MIT licensed, fully documented, and I want the Linux gaming community to use it, break it, and help make it better.

GitHub: https://github.com/oliviermugishak/phantom

AMA.

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Warzone 2100: Version 4.7.0 released https://playingtux.com/articles/warzone-2100-version-470-released?lang=en #Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming

Hello.

I use the Bibata Modern Classic (24px) cursor on Linux Mint 22.3 but whenever I run a game via proton, the cursor becomes what looks like a generic mouse pointer (see the image, on the "Play" button) which is also very small, making some games very hard to play.

How to make my proton games use my cursor theme and size?

• Distro: Linux Mint 22.3
• DE: Cinnamon 6.6.7 (X11)
• Steam installation: .deb (steam-installer) 1:1.0.0.79~ds-2
• Tested Proton versions: Experimental, GE-Latest, 9.0

I also tried using XCUSOR_SIZE=48 %command% as launch option without success.

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alt tabbed to Show its the Game Not the monitor

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Since there is a lot of Android exclusive smups is there a way to get them running on linux?

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Hi,

So a few days ago I was totally fed up with Microslop and decided it was time to ditch the AI infested, account only OS and switched to CachyOS. The only thing I miss is being able to play a few games that has kernel level anti cheat but even that is a feature nowadays that I don't have to play them.

I was actually so FED UP that I decided to incorporate which games are playable on Linux on my own website https://whatalaunch.com/game/hogwarts-legacy

I will look back at this moment with gratitude and happiness that I don't get to be in that awful OS.

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I just realized that fuck ass rockstar made it insanely hard to play public lobbies if you are on linux, even through a patched qemu vm (which i previously used to play)

and the only current way to play apparently is to use DNS blocking to bypass BattleEye but youll only be able to play with others who are doing the same stuff, soo any lobbies that are here in the community to play in and have fun?

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Managed to get battle.net working in PikaOS, with Niri and Nvidia drivers, decided to go with Faugus since I had Faugus working on Omarchy earlier. This is a fresh install as of 7th of April 2026 PikaOS-Nest-NVIDIA-Niri-4.0-amd64-v3-26.04.04-1.

I have three problems:

1. There is a window that is white, and there is a window with the actual battle.net application. Battle.net is working and so does world of warcraft, however I have this white window. I did search for a solution. Changing wine config (api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0 and ucrtbase), changing proton version and there was a suggestion to delete a cfg file in battle.net, there was no such file.

2. The Battle.net application generates popups that are completely unresponsive to clicks. I have to Alt+Tab to a different window and then back again to make them interactable.

3. The Faugus launcher stays centered on the screen and renders on top of my browser. I cannot minimize it or force it behind other windows. Being new to the Niri window manager, I suspect this is a configuration or compositor rule issue.

I didn't go down the Steam route as I only play wow.

I am on day one with PikaOS, choose it because it's based on Debian and has Falcond vs NixOS and GameMode. The choice of distro is pretty vast.

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I just accidentally found a fix for my biggest issue with the game. I have been getting bad stutter during gameplay. I run two monitors and decided to just disconnect my secondary, and the stutter is completely gone now.

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Hello, I can't seem to get my DS5 controller to work when playing Elden ring specifically. I looked up quite a few things and can't seem to get it working.

I actually had gotten it working yesterday by using the DS4 controller layout in Elden Ring's steam properties, but woke up today, having changed nothing, and it suddenly doesn't work anymore.

I've got proton enabled, tried proton 9 and experimental (experimental is what I used yesterday when it worked). I've tried all manner of controller settings inside steam enabling and disabling steam input. I've tried it in big picture mode. Im sure the controller is connected and properly charged cause when in steam big picture I can use it to navigate the menus.

Not sure what changed between yesterday and now, but any ideas or advice would be appreciated.

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I have been messing around with Linux mint on my gaming pc recently. I have 3 drives (m.2 256gb, 1TB SSD and a 1TB HDD) I first did an erase disk install which worked great. After a few days I did a reinstall of the OS with separate partitions for root m.2 and home on HDD thinking I could just add the SSD as storage for my games. It doesn’t seem to have gone the way I was hoping though as the drive is recognized by steam and even accepts the SSD as my default drive but when I install games it install the proton and steam works etc on my HDD still but the game appears on SSD. Long story short even if I have to reinstall freshly is there any way to have it so my computer boots OS and programs from m.2 but have it install all my steam games/ proton packs on my 1tb SSD while having my home folder such as documents, music and pictures on my HDD ? Any help would be greatly appreciated and apologies if I asked this question terribly or if this isn’t the right sub to ask this question.

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