More of an FYI than a PSA, but I pestered Valve using the "I have a question about this purchase" option - NOT the refund option, as they instantly declined this multiple times without a reply from support stating I had owned the games for more than 2 weeks

I bought the games at the end of 2023 in a sale and had 0 play time on both games. At the time, the store listed the games as playable on steam deck / linux, but of course since then EA has added / plans to add incompatible anti-cheat, and the store page has now silently changed to "Unsupported"

Considering my main OS is now linux, this renders these pieces of software essentially useless. My point to Valve was that I bought these games at a time when they were advertised to me as compatible with steam deck, and I effectively have no way to play these games any longer because Steam does not let you launch old versions of the software (for example to get into a single player mode). I did not agree to the software being fundamentally altered (broken) years after release / potential purchase.

Let's make it clear - I do not blame EA for their (dumb) decision to add incompatible anti-cheat to a game that is 6 years old. Valve are profiting off selling technically unsupported games to those of us on steam deck / linux. Yes I applaud what they have done for linux gaming in general, but at the end of the day this is about consumer rights - they said on the store page that it was compatible, and are now forcibly taking that compatibility away. If I wanted to play a game on linux I would not buy a game that did not work, so why should they keep the money after a game (that I never played remember) is forcibly broken AFTER the sale has occurred? How is that different to me buying a broken game?

I might be called an asshole for doing this, but Valve need to take some responsibility here. They're pushing people onto their platform with the promise of playing your games anywhere, many of which don't have official linux support and can be pulled at any moment just like in this example. If they are going to put labels on the store page, and directly advertise that games are working on steam deck / linux, then they should be held to account over it, or refund your purchase. I would hope that behind the scenes Valve tries to persuade publishers not to break linux compatibility, because it hurts sales for both parties, but really we need some official policy from Valve for situations like this... I realise we're the minority and this situation doesn't happen often enough, so this probably isn't going to get taken seriously

Oh yeah, I paid £3 for each of the games. It wasn't about the money for me - but the principle. I urge others to do the same.

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So i've wanted to play on my friend's bedrock realm, however i can't use MCPE launcher since it requires me to own the game on mobile, which i don't. I only own minecraft Windows 10 edition. Any way to play that on my linux PC?

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Counter-Strike 2 launch option:

gamemoderun xrandr --output DisplayPort-1 --mode "1400x1050_240.00"; %command% ; xrandr --output Display Port-1 --mode 1920x1080 --rate 240; %command % -novid +fps_max

This changes my resolution (currently using i3 window manager) to a custom 1400x1050@240hz res and when the game closes changes my res back to native..

My problem is why does adding a second command reopen the game again? Is there a way to prevent that from happening?..

I can't find anything online.. Seems adding a second %command% is very niche

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I like how it works and everything but theres this constant noise in the background

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I'm on Fedora, trying to use gamescope, but it keeps giving this error:

https://preview.redd.it/8479gza9lwmd1.png?width=1915&format=png&auto=webp&s=60450693491d1356ef7a013c30aabcce1c498a40

I am genuinely stumped, to the point that I have no idea how to google this error, so someone please help.

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I can't get lutris to recognize my steam games on the web browser version of lutris or on this and I do have my steam connected correctly.

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i am using arch linux , can someone tell me how to play cs :go and will it run on my i3 11gen processor with 12 gb ram? actually i downloaded counterstrike 2 full version but just opening it consumes my 100% cpu so i couldnt get it working properly , i heard that global offensive version is relatively light weight ,

also if there are any other good game suggestions i am open to it

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any idea whats going on or how i can fix this? im not sure whats going on

im on Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon, kernel 6.8.0-40-generic, steam client is up to date

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I'm trying to play the All in One Create modpack on Curseforge for Linux and am getting errors that I don't get when on Windows.

I tried looking up the "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.simibubi.create.AllBlocks" error and the "org.spongepoewred.asm.mixin.transformer.throwables.MixinTransformerError: An unexpected critical error was encountered" messages.

Looking at similar issues has suggested making sure that I'm using the correct version of mods (I am) for the Minecraft version and to disable Flywheel (another mod) and neither worked.

I'm using Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS and Forge 47.4.7

Included are pictures of the errors and the full crash log can be found here: https://pastebin.com/Mf3ZH2c2

I can run un-modded fine so it's not a Java version issue

https://preview.redd.it/sl21q2mpqvmd1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=a1d0f1a3df274ce0cfc7550d93c949c5c5e916ec

https://preview.redd.it/91pc11mpqvmd1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=31f6a6bdca6893c15e764abb205e5c70c3182fc6

https://preview.redd.it/ak0pf1mpqvmd1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=8fd650e2e16e44dd637132dacae9a9f9fb567f65

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So I'm looking into dual booting Windows 11 and Nobara. I have 2 drives, 1 512gb with Windows on it, and 1 1tb which I plan on partitioning and installing Linux on half of it. The other half of that drive will have all my steam games on it. Could I tell Steam in Linux to look at that to not have to download my games again or will there be issues doing that? I couldn't find any info about this online except that Linux is able to read and write to NTFS; couldn't find anything about something like what I'd like to setup. Any advice is welcome :)

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Hi fellow Penguins, Sony recently updated their Dualsense Firmware Updater Tool to become the “PlayStation Accessories” App. So far I’m successfully running the existing Firmware Updater on my Nobara System through Bottles - love it. The new PlayStation Accessories App, however, seems to crash. Does anyone have a clue how to get this running on Linux as well?

Would be awesome in order to keep my Controller Firmware up to date and probably interesting for many here.

Thanks a lot already!

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GE-Proton9-13 Released

Repository: GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom · Tag: GE-Proton9-13 · Commit: 156b36e · Released by: GloriousEggroll

Hotfix:

• Update vkd3d-proton to latest git to include World of Warcraft MSAA fix

proton:

• wine updated to latest bleeding edge
• dxvk updated to latest git -proton upstream fixes added

Additional:

• protonfixes updated to latest git

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Hi Guys,

I am quite new to gaming on Linux. Today I tried Star Wars The Force Unleashed on Fedora 40.
There is a small issue I ran into. Whenever the game is play a cutscene, I get the message: "steam_app_43410 is not responding". Its not gamebreakting but a bit annoying when trying to enjoy the story. Any ideas on how to fix it?

I installed steam via RPM-Fusion.

Best wishes!

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Hi guys I'm trying to install Overwolf and AlecaFrame, but I haven’t been able to find any up-to-date guides or resources. Most of the information I’ve found is outdated.

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Hi all,

I have taken ownership of a 12 year old Alienware X51 with an Nvidia GT545 graphics card on which I have installed Ubuntu 24.04 desktop due to the machine being incompatible with windows 11.

I intend to use this as a machine to test Linux versions of godot 4.3 game engine C++ extensions I am writing on Windows.

After installing linux, I found that it sees the graphics card (lspci detects it correctly) but it comes up with no drivers for it and every time I have tried to do this by hand through googled advice has ended up in having to re-install linux after completely losing the display.

It's currently in a state where it's using the intel 530 processor GPU which crashes godot and the GT545 is not active.

So it seems that I probably need a GPU upgrade that will work as a direct replacement... can anyone advise as to what card would A) physically fit, B) reliably work with Linux and C) be power draw compatible ?

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game is there, but no one know how is it on Linux?

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Ready for more games? After a pretty good Humble Choice for August 2024, there's a new Humble Summer Narrative Celebration Bundle also now live.

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