I currently use a second SSD exclusively for a few Windows programs and three games that can’t run on Linux. I’ve been watching a lot of SomeOrdinaryGamers, and Mutta talks about building a Windows VM using a KVM with GPU passthrough. This setup lets him play games with anti-cheat while making Windows think it’s running on a physical machine.

It’s impressive how easy he makes it look—he could probably do it in his sleep! I’m just unsure if I want to go through with setting it up. It would be nice not to have to reboot and select my Windows machine every time I want to play those games, though.

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Using the latest consumer release of Pop_OS! and have had sporadic issues with games not launching. I had reached a point where I just assumed that Proton wasn't working for those games but I randomly decided to switch it from "Hybrid" to "Nvidia" (this is a laptop) and games launch fine but the system exclusively runs in Nvidia graphics now which isn't great for the battery life.

Wondering if I can do something to make the "Hybrid" approach properly switch between graphics mode automatically. I've tried adding exceptions in Nvidia Xserv which was annoying and time consuming to track down all the appropriate flags but it still didn't work. It also doesn't work if I right click an application and choose 'launch with discrete graphics'.

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Hello all,

I have a problem in a game and I suspect it's due to a special character in the joystick name. It's named "VKB-Sim © Alex Oz 2021 VKBsim Gladiator EVO R" and I suppose the " © " breaks saving in the game (project wingman).

I would like to know if anyone know a way to rename a joystick on Nobara 40.

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🔥 Hell Yes! X4Foundations added OpenTrack UDP support for native head tracking under Linux and I can finally talk about it 🤓 Yes! Yes! 🚀

🎥 I was to happy about it that I even did a demo recording while I had a bad cold and was hoarse just to show it off: https://makertube.net/w/wo4zAJiTFLeg8t2o93MLpL or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgOkGwMShT0

https://preview.redd.it/1twzjwbt4p4e1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41339704d5ce471789d857a501bba8a553982a6b

✍ Took a while but it's now in the open beta for 7.50 https://steamcommunity.com/games/392160/announcements/detail/4485117301459255318

It's great to see another company embracing open standards and care for their niche gamers too ❤️

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i recently got from gnome to xfce4 for more customisation and i have terrible issues with steam games, especially my favourite, Team Fortress 2. loading screen looks a bit odd and then when i reach the main menu the whole system crashes forcing me to force restart. i’ve literally tried EVERYTHING. reinstalling drivers, reinstalling system,… literally. i can provide you my specs:

CPU: Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G GPU: RX 580 2048SP Motherboard: ASUS PRIME A320M-K RAM: 16GB

i know they are not good. it was a prebuilt “gaming” pc that didn’t even come with the GPU (i bought it separately). i unfortunately didn’t know shit about pcs when buying this stupid prebuilt. i utterly regret it. thank God i’m getting a big upgrade this Christmas. i’d really appreciate help from y’all. see you around!

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A bit of a double-whammy this week from Intel. Not only did they announce that CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired, but they've also now properly revealed their new Arc B-Series GPUs.

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hi, considering moving from windows 11 to a lighter OS to try and speed up my laptop. the laptop is $200 with a 1.1 Ghz celaron and 4 Gb ram, so pretty weak. I don’t do anything on it but browse, watch videos, and play light games like minecraft. as a first-time linux user, what’s the fastest reliable and user-friendly distro i could upgrade from windows to?

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What is better for gaming, on desktop amd. Tt everybody

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The final Humble Choice Bundle is here for 2024 with the December selection a pretty nice well-rounded collection for you.

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Hello everyone,

I got myself an AMD GPU after I had some issues with my Nvidia GPU and after I go past the Grub menu I get a "no signal" from my monitor and it starts flickering (sometimes). I hear the "startup jingle" so I guess the system is booting completely just the video signal is missing.

the PC I am trying this on is running fedora 41 and I have tried everything from deleting/editing config files, uninstalling nvidia drivers, installing all firmware drivers there are etc.

Does anyone have an idea whats wrong here and how to fix it?

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So after 6 Months in my first real run on Linux i want to start over tomorrow, since i feel like i may have fcked up some dependencies and try to make everything just a little better this time around.

Since i want to make everything maybe just a smidge better: What should i use? BTRFS or EXT4? Its a gaming machine with some office.

Speccs:

7800X3D

7900XTX

ASRock X670E Pro RS

2x VP4300 Lite 2TB

1x 980 Pro 1TB

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Hello, I have a Lenovo laptop that has both nvidia and intel graphics card but I see that around 10 minutes on this game it starts to overheat and run poorly. Other games runs perfect like CS2 etc. I tried running only on nvidia, still runs bad and only intel, runs bad and hybrid, running bad. Here is my configuration

OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Host: 82NM Lenovo V14 G2 ITL Kernel: 6.12.1-arch1-1 Uptime: 10 mins Packages: 934 (pacman), 67 (flatpak) Shell: bash 5.2.37 Resolution: 3840x2160 DE: GNOME 47.2 WM: Mutter WM Theme: Adwaita Theme: Colloid-Dark [GTK2/3] Icons: Papirus-Dark [GTK2/3] Terminal: terminator CPU: 11th Gen Intel i7-1165G7 (8) @ 4. GPU: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe G GPU: NVIDIA GeForce MX350 Memory: 2809MiB / 11744MiB

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Mojang have today released Minecraft Java 1.21.4 'The Garden Awakens' update for everyone, bringing with it some fun new toys and a new biome to carefully explore.

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The Fanatical Build your own Play on the Go Bundle (BundleFestive Edition) is live for Steam Deck, as is another collection with the Build your own Special Editions Bundle (BundleFestive Edition).

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When I try to play a Steam game on MX Linux, it doesn't start. I'd like to know how to start it.

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

I installed the following drivers with reference to this page.

sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64 # "deb bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" add to /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt update sudo apt install nvidia-driverfirmware-misc-nonfree sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt update sudo apt install nvidia-driver-libs:i386http://deb.debian.org/debian/

Games with native Linux support were successfully launched. However, games that are not natively supported do not work. I tried several versions of Proton but they did not work. Hoyoplay via Lutris did not work too.

I entered PROTON_LOG=1 %command% in LAUNCH OPTION and output the log, but I got an error, but I don't know how to resolve it. I don't know if this error is the cause.

... err:kerberos:kerberos_LsaApInitializePackage no Kerberos support, expect problems ... err:ntlm:ntlm_LsaApInitializePackage no NTLM support, expect problems

environment

• OS: MX Linux 23
• DE: Xfce
• CPU: Intel Core i5 10400
• GPU: NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3050

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I am curios if anyone has gotten mods to work with SotF Steam version. I tried some mods that require the RedLoader and added

WINEDDLOVERRIDES="version=n, b" in the launch options but no luck.
Also tried to start it over Lutris and added the enviroment variable but still no luck (does the lutris start passes the env variables to steam?).

So has anyone any luck with that?

cheers

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Arcen Games creators of AI War, AI War 2, The Last Federation and other games have announced their new sci-fi 4X RPG Heart of the Machine will launch January 31st, 2025. There's also a new demo available that you can try right now.

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With integration coming in a future release of Proton-Sarek, designed for gamers that have older GPUs, the first release of DXVK-Sarek is out now.

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