Attack of the clones! Well, sort of anyway. We have Bazzite, ChimeraOS, HoloISO and now SteamFork as well. There's so much choice to get Linux on your handhelds.

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I am trying to run the press Steam version of Space Marine 2 - NDA should be gone in about 6 hours, so there might be more input. But so far - it turns on, you can access the menu, this part works out of the box, but the first level fails to start (the game goes into some locked state due to "network problem"), might be some pre-release networking error or just anti-cheat issue.

I am playing single-player mode, tried steam offline, all of the possible proton configurations - etc. Nothing helped - always the same place.

The game also has unskippable, long (and boring after the 10th time) intro cinematics - which make testing pretty annoying.

Sounds like some easy fix would make it playable after the release.

Nvidia 4080 with latest drivers, Arch with Plasma. Haven't tried it on the Steam Deck.

PS

For those who care - keep in mind it is a 100% russian game.

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Remember the classic game Snake? Well this is ART for Snakes, a "snake-ish" game about eating the most expensive paintings you can before the time runs out.

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Hello everyone,

a very important question.

I have a PC that mounts a Ryzen 5700G + 16 GB RAM + 512 SSD and it uses the integrated graphics card ( iGPU Vega8)

I have always used Windows 10 and then switched to 11 with an update, obviously I definitely preferred 10, cleaner as an interface and also in terms of ease of use.

Now with the arrival of the 24H2 release of Windows 11 I am really starting to get fed up, they are constantly changing the interface and the introduction of functions such as Recall and inserting CoPilot everywhere is really disgusting to me.

Far from innovation, Microsoft is only trying to extract even more data like Google already does and the intent is to train CoPilot using our data, I may be paranoid but that is exactly the story, let's not beat around the bush.

Now I have dedicated a laptop for a stand-alone installation of Linux Mint and in dual boot with Ubuntu 24.04 (to test what i prefer) and I must say that I can do everything I did with Windows.

Let's start with an established fact:

• I've only used Libreoffice as an office suite for years, so I don't have any major problems on this point
• I've used Firefox as a browser since it was born
• I use Spotify and there's also a version for Linux
• I don't have Adobe programs, as they are too expensive and I never wanted to start spending money on software whose functions I wouldn't use
• I play games every now and then, but everything is purchased on Steam
• I like to dabble as a DJ every now and then and MIXXX should probably be the solution to my problems
• perhaps the most complex part is developing the RAW files of my Reflex, I don't know if there is a truly valid software in a Linux environment (in my case I use the native Canon program to develop the RAWs)

I'm just perplexed by the lack of native software for Linux to update, for example, the firmware of SSDs or those of reflex cameras.

In your opinion, is permanently deleting Windows 10/11 perfectly feasible in my case?

Some acquaintances have indicated an alternative to me:

• as long as the Windows 10 LTSC version works well, use that as the operating system, trying to migrate all the software to versions natively available for Linux
• in a few years, make the switch when Windows 11 and later will be mandatory

What do you think? Or is it time to make the switch and close the chapter with Microsoft here?

I know that I will always be in the minority and probably the available software will always be inferior to the commercial one, see Adobe and see Microsoft Office, but honestly I have no intention of subscribing to Adobe or Office.

Thanks

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Y0! i have been playing baldurs gate 3 on my linux mint machine via steam for a while and it used to work fine. i didn't need any special launch options or anything, and the launcher would just start up and i could click play.
However, recently it just... stopped working. i don't know if it has to do with wine being installed besides steam, or .net6 & .net8 sdk's being installed on my system but i now get the dreaded 'Install .NET Desktop Runtime to run this application' error.
https://imgur.com/DntIXWq

current settings :
* no launch options
* forced to proton experimental

things ive tried :
* remove compat folder of the game
* reinstall game
* set launchoptions to --skip-launcher which didn't do anything and still showed the error
* changed the launchscript to install .net desktop runtime 6.0.18 instead of 6.0.11 (downloaded the exe and changed the names in the launchscript).

kinda at a loss at the moment why it would suddenly break...
anyone have an idea?

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CosmicDev recently put up a demo for Cosmic Call, a very scribbly-styled retro boomer shooter that sees you fight through small arena levels as you keep powering up.

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I love watching Thrive continue to grow. A free and open source evolution sim where you start off life as a single microbe. The latest release version 0.7.0 is out now adding new gameplay features.

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Every time I try to install Linux something doesn't work like counter strike 2 or some weird driver stops working then the whole OS just doesn't want to work.

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When playing Apex Legends with mangohud OFF, I see about 90fps average just standing in one spot(center of firing range). With mangohud ON, I see 130-144 in the same spot(better than it did on windows btw). What does mangohud do to where it boosts performance? gamemoderun doesn't give me the same results.

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OpenRCT2: v0.4.14 "You mother was a hamster" released https://playingtux.com/articles/openrct2-v0414-you-mother-was-hamster-released?lang=en #Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming

I've googled my brains out and can't find any answers, though it's just as likely I've overlooked something.

For a while, it just worked, but now I'm once again unable to use my wiiu gamecube controller adapter with any games, native or wine. gamepadtool does not detect it, and adding mappings from gamecontrollerdb.txt does not work. Works for every other controller I have, but not the gamecube controllers.
They do work just fine in Dolphin using its native support, but that's all. sdl2 just seems averse to using rawhid again and I have absolutely zero idea of how to fix it. I don't even remember if I found a fix for it the first time or if it just randomly started working one day.

It's the official adapter, so there's no PC mode.

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I truly have no idea what caused this. Looking at the wine prefixes the games should be fine. When I try to run a game, it gets stuck at "launching". The logs are empty. I've restarted, tried to update, etc.

The only game that doesn't say missing is FFXIV, which I manually configured to try to get it to recognize. Seemingly it recognizes the prefix and game data because it doesn't say "missing," however the game still doesn't launch and behaves exactly like the others.

I'm on Pop!_OS 22.04. Thanks for any help, I'll try to answer any questions.

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Good evening.

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I downloaded the "HOLOISO" Linux Distribution with the intent of installing it as a Virtual Machine. My computer is getting too old to run many of my favorite games, so I decided to try a Virtual Machine. I used the "Rufus" USB Flash Drive kit to make an USB flash drive that accepts UEFI booting procedures, and loaded it into "VM Ware". I booted from the flash drive that I used the "Rufus" to program, as instructed. The installation completed successfully, but now, whenever I start the "HOLOISO" Linux Distribution operating system, I get a black screen. For a brief second, a line of code flashes across the screen, and then it remains black from then on. Restarting it does not help. This is the screen I see in the OS: https://archive.is/6zkcm . I have not been able to get anything else to work. These are the specifics of my machine (the host): MAKE/MODEL: Dell Optiplex 9020 Mini-Tower, sixty-four bit RAM: Thirty-two gigabytes of RAM OS: "Windows VII Professional" CPU: Intel Core I7-4770 CPU, Eight Cores, 3.40 Gigahertz GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX-1660 What am I doing wrong? -TURTLESHROOM submitted by /u/Advanced_Friend4348
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Hi y'all, I've been playing terraria recently and I wanted to rebind the quick heal / mana buttons to my side mouse so I don't have to stretch across my keyboard to heal in a tense fight, but it doesn't work. I can bind it to my other mice buttons and keys but not the side mouse buttons. I am using a Razer Naga on KDE Wayland if that helps determine the solution. I've checked it with firefox and other apps and surely enough it's just fine, maybe it's something to do with key shortcuts, idk. Any tips are appreciated :D

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I just swapped from using the flatpak version of steam to the one provided my my package manager, and now any game that requires Proton to run either crashes immediately or never shows up, for example, I was previously able to play The Witcher Enchanted Edition no problem, but now it will not launch.

I'm not very proficient at Linux, but I understand I should at least try and look at the logs to find out what's going on here.

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On my home desktop I'm running a 2TB NVME drive, and I had a partition with windows (~1.5TB)that I haven't touched since march or so when I migrated to fedora (~0.5TB), and I've now ran out of space on my fedora partition where I mostly game.

I deleted my windows partition earlier today, but I held back on extending the fedora partition because I was considering making a new partition and move all my games there (roughly 250GB atm, I need ~80GB more for Cyberpunk2077). Another thing that crossed my mind is installing arch on it (make it a 1TB partition for example and keep the other ~0.5TB for an emergency), and daily drive it for a while and maybe remain there until I decide to hop.

Generally what is recommended in this situations, should I just extend the fedora one, and isntall arch on a 0.5TB and play around with it and see what's what?

Another factor to trying arch is that I haven't tried it (technically I tried to, but I bricked it mid install), and also for whatever reason my VR headset (OG HTC vive) doesn't work on fedora, never managed to figure out why.

Also another question, is there any reason for not having games on a different partition? Can steam give me problems with that?

Open to discussion/advice/ideas.

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I've searched everywhere and it seems there is no information regarding monitor overclocking with NVIDIA graphics under Wayland. And I have even tried overclocking my modest 60hz monitor on X11 with xrandr with no success whatsoever, maybe it's because I'm using the property drivers? IDK, and to be honest it's not like I can even use the open source alternatives like Nouveau because I have a Pascal GTX 1060, and they're not very supported when it comes to open source....

If you have any way to overclock monitors under Wayland with NVIDIA Graphics I'd be so grateful for the help. Otherwise if you have any information about this, feel free to tell me about it. :D

And yeah, i know it's not recommended to do this, but I already overclocked my monitor to 79hz on Windows with total success and i love the smoothness, and I can't live without it :'(

I have a BENQ GW2265 if you're asking.

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