I was just reflecting on the state of Linux gaming and it's honestly wild how much has changed in such a short time. For years, it felt like we were fighting an uphill battle, but lately, it seems like we've crested the hill and are starting to pick up serious momentum It's not just one thing, but a combination of factors that feel different this time. The level of compatibility we have now is insane. With Proton reportedly hitting ~85% compatibility, the default assumption has flipped. Most games in my library just work out of the box, which was unthinkable a few years ago. More than that, we're seeing consistent reports and benchmarks showing major AAA titles—like Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring—not just running, but running with better and more stable framerates on Linux than on their native Windows. The performance argument is becoming a real, measurable advantage. Obviously, the Steam Deck is the catalyst for much of this. Its success has been massive, but I think the real story is the ripple effect it created. It gave developers a clear financial incentive to care about Linux, pushing major studios to test and support the platform. It also spurred the growth of fantastic gaming-focused distros like Nobara, ChimeraOS, and others that make a desktop Linux gaming setup more accessible than ever. All of this seems to be reflected in the numbers, with the Steam Hardware Survey showing Linux market share climbing past the 8% mark—a huge leap from the ~1% we were stuck at for so long. Anyway, I was reading a blog post today that tied all these threads together really nicely and made a strong case that the old "Year of Linux Gaming" meme is officially dead and buried. It's a good, optimistic read. I'm curious to hear what you all think. Is this just another peak before a dip, or does this momentum feel more permanent this time? Are you seeing the shift in your own gaming habits or in the attitudes of your friends who use Windows?

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Hi guys, I've been trying to mod ZZZ on SteamOS and now I'm finding an error that won't let me use the app to be able to do it, does anyone know how to solve this issue in linux??

Says that the D3D11.DLL is missing an entry point

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First sorry about my english, it is not my native language, second I'm in mobile, so autocorrection might mess up formatting.

So, I was charging my Steam Deck and decided to the daily tasks. Which is where I noticed the fans not going completly mad and my framerate was stable at 45 FPS. Plus the CPU load (?) was mostly between 43 and 48%. And the game wasn't closing when exiting. Basically it behaved like in offline start.

No error message or any other issues.

Can anyone confirm that? Has anyone tried to play while charging the SD?

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you know, most mac games are not playable at new macs because of lack of 32 bit support. For example I didnt play half life because arm macs don't have 32 bit support. also, steam needs i386 libraries

so, if 32 bit support ends, will change anything about steam?

(i remember some of old valve games optimized for 64 bit btw)

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I'm a developer working with front-end/mobile technologies and gaming as a hobby. Can you tell me if I can use Linux both as a hobby and at work consistently?

I've only used Linux for a short time, so I can't say for sure.

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I have to upgrade my CPU (and mainboard and RAM) and was thinking of buying something that would be Linux compatible. With my current setup (which needs to be replaced anyways) I had quite some issues with Linux crashing already on installation of various distros (Bazzite, Fedora, Nobara, Kubuntu,...).

Mainboards often only list various Windows versions as compatible, but not Linux. Is there any good way to find nicely supported mainboards? Could there be any issue with CPU (thinking of 7800X3D or 9800X3D) or RAM?

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I was playing Rivals of Aether, a very low resource game, and sometimes in the middle of a match, the application will minimize with zero input. I'm on a controller so no accidental keybinds could have been pressed, can anyone tell me why the fuck linux is built like a potato. I already had to enter some 'terminal magic' to fix the stupid fucking audio popping because of the driver for power saving being forced on that hasn't been fixed in years, frankly, if I have to open terminal the least you can do is just give me the full command instead of me having to scour the necronomicon in the deepest depths to disable some shit feature that should'nt even exist to begin with.

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Should I use windows and test temperature how to that with which programm.

And for Nobara Linux is Hdr easily supported on Linux with 180hz.?

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The demonic lovechild of Balatro and Buckshot Roulette, apparently. CloverPit looks like it will suck away all your time.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

I'm using ALVR and so far games are running great at 120fps with good bitrate wired or wireless, that's no issue. When running a non-vr game using theater mode in SteamVR the headset displays like 15 fps but the game runs fine on my monitor, it happens for simple 2D or AAA games.

Is this a SteamVR known issue? Any alternatives apps I can use to share my monitor to my oculus quest 3?

I'm using CachyOS with KDE wayland and the GPU is a 3070.
Additional info: If I try sharing my monitor instead of a game I get a black screen, I can see the cursor moving at low fps tho.

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My son recently switched back to Windows, for various reasons, but partially because processing those Vulkan shaders always took way too long. It always takes a couple of seconds for me. No big deal, I think.

I just installed X4 (there's a nice discount at the moment), installed it, and this time Processing Vulkan shaders took forever. Extremely slow progress. Is that something that varies dramatically per game? Does X4 use way more of these shaders than other games? (In which case, the games my son plays probably do too.)

I did eventually find this sollution: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam under heading 5.11:

~/.steam/steam/steam_dev.cfg unShaderBackgroundProcessingThreads 8

(Adjust for however many threads your CPU can handle; if I understand correctly, it's 16 for my 8-core 7800X3D.)

That file didn't exist yet, so I first spent some time looking if it might be in a different place. I've seen suggestions that it might also be in ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steam/steam/steam_dev.cfg or possibly even in ~/? Turns out it's okay to just make a new file.

Processing those shaders is a bit faster now. Still not as fast as I'm used to (because of the game, I guess?), and I notice that on reloading, it doesn't have to do it again! I thought previously it always had to reprocess them every time I start the game.

So I guess this solves my problem. But why is this not the default? Why doesn't Steam automatically handle this correctly?

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Heya, so this one is something that im curious to know about, if its even possible or not possible or if it really depends.

I own an Attack Shark R1 which comes with a software for adjusting things for it. Now, the mouse gets detected in the software inside Windows, not inside Linux when the program is ran through Wine. Now, this isnt that much of a big issue for me at all, as I see these softwares as bloatware, but actually, it is purely out of curiosity. My main question is, why is it essentially capable of getting detected in Windows perfectly, yet not at all in Linux? I've also seen it happen with some other things, like headphones and their own software especially with Logitech.

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You've never played a farming sim like this before. Blending a few genres together where Stardew Valley collides with a Cuphead like style.

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Hardware Information:

• Hardware Model: Acer Nitro ANV15-51
• Memory: 16.0 GiB
• Processor: 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13620H × 16
• Graphics: Intel® Graphics (RPL-P)
• Graphics 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 4060 Laptop GPU
• Disk Capacity: 512.1 GB

Software Information:

• Firmware Version: V1.16
• OS Name: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
• OS Build: (null)
• OS Type: 64-bit
• GNOME Version: 46
• Windowing System: Wayland
• Kernel Version: Linux 6.14.0-27-generic

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I just trying to install sunshine (specs at the end of the post), so i try to install it from AUR but no lucky, and finally i follow the wiki (https://docs.lizardbyte.dev/projects/sunshine/latest/md_docs_2getting__started.html#archlinux) and installed it with makepkg, it connect for a moment without showing anything and after 15 secs it pauses and says it's not avilable, i try to run it from systemctl --user start and like a normal process but no luck, and i try the sudo setcap -r $(readlink -f $(which sunshine)) from the trubleshooting part of the wiki (https://docs.lizardbyte.dev/projects/sunshine/latest/md_docs_2troubleshooting.html#kms-streaming-fails-on-nvidia-gpus), and i have the nvidia_drm.modeset=1 parameter set on kernel options, i just forgot to mention that i have the default settings on sunshine i don't touch anything.

The error i was talking about: [2025-08-13 16:12:03.800]: Error: Frame capture failed

PD: It's the only error that it's shown on terminal, and the audio and the input tracking so far are working.

So i don't know what i am missing, any help appreciated :D

SPECS: OS: Arch Linux 6.15.9-zen1-1-zen x86_64 WM: Sway (Wayland)

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