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LinuxPlay, open-source ultra-low-latency remote desktop for Linux (now with GitHub Sponsors!)
Hey everyone, after about a year of development, I’m happy to share an update on LinuxPlay, an open-source, ultra-low-latency remote desktop and game-streaming stack built specifically for Linux.
LinuxPlay has grown a lot this year, with smoother latency, new input features, and better hardware support, and it’s now live on GitHub Sponsors for anyone who wants to help push it even further.
It’s built for performance, privacy, and complete control.
Key Features:
- Sub-frame latency with hardware-accelerated encoding (VAAPI, NVENC, AMF)
- LAN-aware “Ultra Mode” that auto-adjusts buffers for near-zero delay
- Clipboard sync and drag-and-drop file upload
- Full controller support (Xbox, DualShock and any other generic controllers)
- Certificate-based authentication for secure pairing after initial PIN login
- Multi-monitor streaming with intelligent fallback systems
--- Host automatically switches between kmsgrab > x11grab
--- Client supports layered fallback for kmsdrm > Vulkan > OpenGL rendering
What’s new
Recent updates added:
- Smarter network adaptation for Wi-Fi vs LAN
- Better frame-timing stability at 120–144 Hz
- Clipboard and file-transfer reliability improvements
- Certificate auto-detection on client start
Support & Community
I’m the solo developer behind LinuxPlay, and I’ve just opened GitHub Sponsors to help sustain and expand development, especially for hardware testing, feature work, and future mobile clients.
GitHub: [https://github.com/Techlm77/LinuxPlay](https://github.com/Techlm77/LinuxPlay))
Sponsor: [https://github.com/sponsors/Techlm77](https://github.com/sponsors/Techlm77))
Your feedback, testing, and sponsorships make a huge difference, every bit helps make LinuxPlay faster, more stable, and available across more Linux distros.
Thanks for all the support so far, and I’d love to hear how it performs on your setup!
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Proton issues.
So I made the switch to Linux Mint Cinnamon edition after Microsoft ended support for windows 10. Some growing pains but I've gotten most of everything set up.
But after scouring the internet and forums and some reddit post I can't find the answer I'm looking for.
So I'm on a older laptop developed in 2018 (according to my mother board bios) I understand completely that i wont be able to play a lot of games on this laptop but i cant afford to get a different PC ATM.
I play some older games IE Borderlands 2 Resident Evil games and a few select others.
When I was on windows in this games i was getting on average 30-45 fps now if i run the same games under proton I'm getting 12 - 25 fps.
Is this just a compatibly issue with the hardware in the laptop or a program issue i can potently fix? I'm not looking for a huge boost in performance i just want it to be playable. Most Linux games that have a port run surprisingly better than the windows version when i tried it on the same laptop.
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Linux Mint - Halo MCC unable to get passed microsoft sign in
Running off of steam. I have tried various different versions of proton. After inputting my microsoft password I am stuck on this screen.
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Where are save files stored?
On windows you have some saving on appdata, some on documents, and some on the "saved games" folder. so where would those be saved on linux?
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Help Unity UI is super small
hi all i wanna start learning Unity, but the UI is way to small is there a way to make it bigger?
i use ARCH hyperland and i am with a 4k display.
anyway i can get the UI scale option or the equivalent of this on unity Linux?
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I need help with my pro controller!
Hi all! I'm sure this has been discussed here before but i haven't found a solution that worked for me. I just recently installed Arch on my laptop and have been trying to connect my 3rd party Switch Pro Controller through bluetooth. It connects properly through Bluetooth, but i don't get any input in Steam or an online gamepad tester. I installed Joycond and it didn't work. I saw that newer Kernels had hid-nintendo built in, but since my controller still wasn't working i tried installing it anyway. When I do sudo dkms build nintendo -v 3.2 I get this error: Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.17.6-arch1-1 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/nintendo/3.2/build/make.log for more information.
The output of /make.log:
DKMS (dkms-3.2.2) make.log for nintendo/3.2 for kernel 6.17.6-arch1-1 (x86_64)
Mon Nov 3 06:06:54 PM EST 2025
Building module(s)
# command: make -j16 KERNELRELEASE=6.17.6-arch1-1 -C /usr/lib/modules/6.17.6-arch1-1/build M=/var/lib/dkms/nintendo/3.2/build/src modules
make: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/6.17.6-arch1-1/build'
/usr/lib/modules/6.17.6-arch1-1/build/Makefile:5: *** Too many open files. Stop.
make: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/6.17.6-arch1-1/build'
# exit code: 2
# elapsed time: 00:00:01
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My controller connects through Bluetooth and even shows up as a Pro Controller, but I'm not getting any input anywhere. Please help!
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Trying to find a ROM frontend!
So I am trying to find a frontend app where I can scan my ROMS and set the location of the emulators and just have a huge library of my ROMS instead of going through each different emulator to switch games. I use this thing called Steam ROM manager and it does that but for steam but I don't like using steam as a launcher due to it having no portability, customization, and online stuff, etc etc.
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3ds emulator problem
I'm having a problem with Borked3DS. OpenGL doesn't load games and gives me this error message and Vulkan just crashes the app. I dual boot with Windows and this only happens on linux. My specs are:
Nobara 42
Intel Core i5-14400F
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (obviously using proprietary drivers)
16GB RAM
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this little thing made me crawl back to windows
As a software dev i use linux all the time on servers and in containers, but only recently tried using it as a daily desktop at home.
I am pretty neurotic when it comes to my input devices, i've been buying the same mouse and keyboard for the last 10 years. My hand has molded itself after logitech m90.
On windows, i can look at a button, close my eyes and lead a cursor to the button's approximate position. On linux, its anyone's guess where it will end up. Mouse feels - different, twitchy, and different = wrong = bad. Even selecting text felt mightily unpleasant, in games mouse felt absolutely horrible.
Across several distros (Ubuntu, Mint, Debian) and several DE (gnome, kde plasma, cinnamon). From what i understand, they all use x11 so it wouldn't really matter. I tried different settings, like flat acceleration, "device default", "adaptive", none of them feel "right" to me personally. I even created a custom profile in xorg.conf.d trying to emulate window's acceleration curve, to no avail.
This is not the only thing that i was not comfortable with, coming from 20+ years of windows, but it was the absolute deal-breaker.
Just my feedback towards linux on desktop dream. Linux already looks as good as windows(kde plasma is beautiful), now i think it needs to feel how majority of computer users are used to. Maybe i will try again in a couple of years.
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anyone here use Windows to go?
so I daily drive cachyos but unfortunately I have finally found a few games that I cannot play on it because of pesky KLAC I did not want to do boot because of the problems that can happen especially with windows over riding the boot loader so I looked into windows to go as a solution that would at the very least isolate the system. I installed that successfully and there's even a setting in Rufus that makes it so that it can't detect the internal drives so I should be fine in that department at least.
i'm making this thread because I'm wondering if anyone else has done this and what their experience has been, because so far it's been… Less than ideal I'm not that experience with hardware stuff so maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it tends to freeze up when I do more than a few data management things like moving more than a few files around. I'm using a 4 TB G Drive rugged SSD but I feel like maybe I'm using the wrong port. I have a Lenovo Legion Pro 10th Gen so I guess I should figure out what my fastest port in this machine is and make sure I'm using it... will be looking that up after I write this
Anyway, was wondering if anyone had trouble gaming with this kind of setup. When I first booted up a game that was I would say probably mid level of demand it seemed to run pretty well, stuttering a bit concerningly at first but as I played more and more it stopped altogether. I'm having some issues with some other games though, mainly with FiveM/GTA V where for some reason the rockstar launcher can't connect to the Internet even though the rockstar network is up and I actually made exceptions for it in my firewall. I'm hoping it doesn't have something to do with the fact that I am on this kind of set up I have no idea how the launcher would even be able to detect such a thing. assuming everything else goes well I think that this would be a viable setup.
I guess this is technically not linux gaming so sorry but I am primarily a linux gamer and was wondering if other linux gamers were doing this sort of non dual boot setup and how it was working out for them. I also feel like I wouldn't be able to make this kind of thread on a Windows sub without getting flamed lol
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Can anyone help me?
The original Pillars of Eternity is getting a turn-based mode Beta on November 5
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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Been quite some time since the last Steam Survey. Adding one more AMD Linux Desktop to the tally.
Open source evolution sim Thrive adds graphics improvements and more planet customization
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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
I made a guide on setting up NTFS drives for Linux gaming
Finally took the Leap!
Despite using Linux on every other device I own (except an old iPad from my Apple days), and distro hopping for decades, I have never done so on my gaming rig. But after getting a persistent virus (and who the heck knows where from, the only thing I recently installed was the RSI Launcher) and all the bs with Windows 11, I nuked Windows today, and I am now gaming perfectly fine using CachyOS. No issues running X-Plane 12 or Start Citizen so far. Feels great!
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Anti-grav racer BallisticNG brings new tracks, enhanced online play and more for the final update
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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
Rockstar Games Launcher Issue
I've been playing rdr2 for about 3 days now, no troubles so far, until today.
Out of nowhere, the game does not work anymore, because of the launcher. When I click to open the game on steam the process "install script ()" starts running, and after it's done, it reloads and ask me to install the launcher all over again;
Tried Bottles and Lutris to solve this new problem, the Launcher works properly, but it does not recognize my steam games and asks me to buy the games again
Tried also with proton-GE-10-17 ; 9 ; and the HotFix one via steam
previously, i was playing with proton-cachy-os native package, which was odd to work out
Anyone knows any workaround?
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Guide: Using alternative game stores on Linux (EA App, Ubisoft Connect...)
Hello everyone,
I noticed that I could not find any clear tutorial on how to use alternative game stores (other than Steam, Epic Games, GOG), other than with Lutris. So I decided to explain to you how I do it with Heroic Games Launcher, which I think is the most efficient, user-friendly and modern app to play on Linux for non-Steam games.
In this tutorial, we will be installing and playing games from EA App, but this is absolutely applicable to any other game store such as Ubisoft Connect.
First, you will need Heroic Games Launcher.
Once installed, download Windows EA App installer from the official page.
Then, in Heroic Launcher library section, click "Add game"
Select "Run installer" first.
Then select the installer executable.
Now just go through the whole installation and connect to your EA account.
Here we are! EA App is installed. Now right click on the EA App in the system tray, and exit. Then, back on the Heroic Games Launcher Windows, click on "Select Executable" and select drive_c/Program Files/Electronic Arts/EA Desktop/EA Desktop/EALauncher.exe.
Now you may run the EA App from the Heroic Games Launcher. Run the app to install any game. I will install Need For Speed Rivals as an example.
I could run the game by just running it from EA App after it has finished downloading. However, doing like this has limitations: this means that the parameters I choose for EA App are the same that I use for all games installed in EA App, and I don't want that. I want to be able to use alternative Proton versions, enable gamemode, add arguments to my game (e.g, to unlock 144 fps instead of 30 for NFS Rivals).
To do so, after the game is downloaded, I will right-click on the EA App logo in the system tray and select exit.
Then getting back to Heroic Games Launcher, let's add a new game.
This time, I will click "Show Wine Settings", and modify WinePrefix, so it runs in the same prefix as the EA App, so both EA App and my game are installed in the same environment.
E.g, I will modify:
/home/<my-username>/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Need For Speed Rivals
to:
/home/<my-username>/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/EA App
Then I click "Select Executable" and find my game onto the C drive, e.g for this game,
/home/<my-username>/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/EA App/drive_c/Program Files/EA Games/Need for Speed(TM) Rivals/NFS14.exe
Finally, I can just setup my game with the setup I want, changing Proton version, adding environment variables, adding arguments, and run it from Heroic Games Launcher or even from Steam if the option is activated.
Warning: after leaving your game, you will still need to close EA App manually by right-clicking on the icon in the system tray, or it will remain open and the game will be considered as still running.
To install a new game, just run EA App again just for downloading and apply the same process.
To any other game launcher, apply the same process (tested with Ubisoft Connect).
Have a good gaming session on Linux!
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