Black Mesa is a re-make of the original Half-Life but using the matured Source engine and it is a Beautifully crafted game! It's so good that it is no longer a mod but a full game! I will never play the original Half-Life because Black Mesa is a thousand times better and more enjoyable!
As if that wasn't enough... HECU Collective team has been working on a remake of Blue Shift in the same manner... Dude this game is stunning and so very fun! Even without Gordon's suit there is a lot of...

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I've been using Bazzite for almost a year now and previously used Garuda for a few years before that. I've always dual-booted Windows for games that didn't work for me, but I'm happy to find that I rarely have to do that anymore!

While I love Bazzite and it's probably my go-to recommendation; I've struggled with a very specific networking problem since I began using it. Due to this, I'm considering switching to a new distro; any recommendations from people here? I'm honestly don't care too much about the facts of what works best, etc; I specifically want peoples opinions and what they like about it :)

The main ones I'm considering right now are Cachy, Pop, and back to Garuda.

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Hey I am a big gamer currently playing on windows 11. Im a bit of a minimalist and I hate all the clutter on windows. I have recently looked into linux and find it super interesting and I had a few questions. First of all, how do you go about choosing a distro? Any good videos I should watch? I liked the look of mint so far, how does that go with gaming? Also im a counter strike player so was wondering how it runs on linux (ive heard you cant use the 4:3 setting)? And my last question would be, how do i check what games in my library run on linux? Thanks for all the help.

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I know this is unpresented setup, but since I have the hardware I figure I give it a go. Technically I know I can use disable GPU for Steam, and it does "work", but it's kinda laggy. No, I am not held back by the licensing either.

First, I like to say I AM able to get flatpak sunshine to run. It wasn't easy. But I am a bit stuck on Steam.

I tried the direct depo as well as the flatpak steam.. Both doing exactly the same. Running it by default, it disables my gpu. Software mode is pretty laggy. If I force it I get a blank Steam, but the context menu shows up.

I tried toggling the GPU settings in Steam, that didn't do much. Big Picture is complete blank.

With Sunshine, I had to use 'usermod -aG render <user>' to get it to work.

Created nvidia_icd.json so it would prioritize 32bit.

Tried at least a dozen different ways to launch Steam:
flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam -no-cef-sandbox -disable-gpu-compositing -enable-gpu-rasterization -ignore-gpu-blocklist

flatpak override --user --device=all --device=shm com.valvesoftware.Steam

I feel like I am just missing one tiny little thing that is not directing Steam Web to the vGPU.

Any suggestions, let me know!

[gamer@gaas ~]$ flatpak override --user --filesystem=/home/gamer/.local/share/Steam:ro com.valvesoftware.Steam [gamer@gaas ~]$ flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam INFO:root:https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/wiki INFO:root:Will set XDG dirs prefix to /home/gamer/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam DEBUG:root:Checking input devices permissions INFO:root:Overriding TZ to America/Chicago steam.sh[2]: Running Steam on org.freedesktop.platform 25.08 64-bit steam.sh[2]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically setup.sh[54]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date! steam.sh[2]: Log already open steam.sh[2]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables. [2026-04-10 18:41:59] Startup - updater built Mar 13 2026 01:52:12 [2026-04-10 18:41:59] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/gamer/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened' '-no-cef-sandbox' 04/10 18:41:59 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps 04/10 18:41:59 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1773426488)/tid(97) CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables. [2026-04-10 18:41:59] Process started with command-line: '/home/gamer/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-child-update-ui' '-child-update-ui-socket' '8' '-srt-logger-opened' '-no-cef-sandbox' 04/10 18:41:59 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps [2026-04-10 18:41:59] Using update UI: console 04/10 18:41:59 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(98) [2026-04-10 18:41:59] Create window [2026-04-10 18:41:59] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/gamer/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin) [2026-04-10 18:41:59] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal [2026-04-10 18:41:59] 1. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 400, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' [2026-04-10 18:41:59] 2. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 900, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' [2026-04-10 18:41:59] 3. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in' [2026-04-10 18:41:59] Verifying installation... [2026-04-10 18:41:59] Verifying file sizes only [2026-04-10 18:41:59] Set percent complete: 0 [2026-04-10 18:41:59] Set percent complete: -1 [2026-04-10 18:41:59] Set status message: Verifying installation... [----] Verifying installation... [2026-04-10 18:42:00] Verification complete UpdateUI: skip show logo [2026-04-10 18:42:00] Destroy window Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/gamer/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/logs [2026-04-10 18:42:00] ProcessNextMessage: socket disconnected [2026-04-10 18:42:00] No more messages are expected - exiting XOpenIM() failed, LANG = en_US.UTF-8 XOpenIM() failed, LANG = en_US.UTF-8XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf63be7b0 XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf63bd020 04/10 18:42:01 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps 04/10 18:42:01 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamsysinfo)/version(1773426488)/tid(103) Running query: 1 - GpuTopology Response: gpu_topology { gpus { id: 1 name: "NVIDIA A2-4Q" vram_size_bytes: 4552916992 driver_id: k_EGpuDriverId_NvidiaProprietary driver_version_major: 580 driver_version_minor: 126 driver_version_patch: 9 luid: 0 } gpus { id: 2 name: "NVIDIA A2-4Q" vram_size_bytes: 4552916992 driver_id: k_EGpuDriverId_NvidiaProprietary driver_version_major: 580 driver_version_minor: 126 driver_version_patch: 9 luid: 0 } gpus { id: 3 name: "NVIDIA A2-4Q" vram_size_bytes: 4552916992 driver_id: k_EGpuDriverId_NvidiaProprietary driver_version_major: 580 driver_version_minor: 126 driver_version_patch: 9 luid: 0 } gpus { id: 4 name: "llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.8, 256 bits)" vram_size_bytes: 3221225472 driver_id: k_EGpuDriverId_MesaLLVMPipe driver_version_major: 25 driver_version_minor: 3 driver_version_patch: 5 luid: 0 } default_gpu_id: 1 } Exit code: 0 Saving response to: /tmp/steamHaEdJK - 164 bytes steamwebhelper.sh[107]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap steamrt steam runtime via: /home/gamer/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64/pv-runtime/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point steamwebhelper.sh[107]: CEF sandbox already disabled steamwebhelper.sh[107]: Starting steamwebhelper with steamrt steam runtime at /home/gamer/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64/pv-runtime/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 158 bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam exec ./steamwebhelper -nocrashdialog -lang=en_US -cachedir=/home/gamer/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache -steampid=97 -buildid=1773426488 -steamid=0 -logdir=/home/gamer/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/logs -uimode=7 -startcount=0 -steamuniverse=Public -realm=Global -clientui=/home/gamer/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/clientui -steampath=/home/gamer/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -launcher=0 -use_xcomposite_workaround --valve-enable-site-isolation --enable-smooth-scrolling --disable-gpu-compositing --disable-gpu --no-sandbox --password-store=basic --log-file=/home/gamer/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --disable-quick-menu --disable-component-update --gaia-url=http://disabled.invalid --disable-features=WinRetrieveSuggestionsOnlyOnDemand,SpareRendererForSitePerProcess,DcheckIsFatal,BlockPromptsIfIgnoredOften,ValveFFmpegAllowLowDelayHEVC reaping pid: 98 -- steam Desktop state changed: desktop: { pos: 0, 0 size: 1920,1080 } primary: { pos: 0, 0 size: 1920,1080 } Caching cursor image for ibeam, size 32x32, serial 158, cache size = 0 sh: line 1: lsb_release: command not found sh: line 1: lsb_release: command not found submitted by /u/mbze430
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Hi! I'm trying to play CS2 on Arch, I'm ~3 days into linux, and I've heard that the linux gaming scene is pretty darn good. And I'd like to believe that, but I'm having trouble running CS2, (which is one of the games I heard works very well on linux.)

My system specs:

GPU: Radeon RX 5600XT

CPU: Ryzen 5 7600

RAM: 32gb 6000

Kernel Version: Linux 6.19.11-arch1-1

As far as troubleshooting goes, I've tried validating the game files, reinstalling the game, and switching the Compatibility setting around on Steam. The latter seeming to be the one thing that seems to actually affect the outcome of every test I've done. Below will be the list of Proton versions and the issues I encounter with them on.

GE-Proton10-34/Proton Experimental/Hotfix/10.0-4/

Upon clicking "GO" in Matchmaking, it shows an error that says "Some of your game files have been detected to have no signatures or invalid signatures. You will not be allowed to join VAC secure servers. Please verify your launch options, check correctness of your game installation, restart the game and try again."

Proton 9.0-4/8.0-5

FATAL ERROR: Failed to initialize the Steamworks SDK.
No SteamClient023

Proton 7.0-6/6.3-8/5.13-6/5.0-10/4.2-9/4.11-13/3.7-8/3.16-9

Upon clicking "Play" on the game's library page, it goes through the process of starting the game, doesn't open anything and then goes from "Close" back to "Play"

Game Version: (1.41.4.1) April 3, 2026 submitted by /u/hakichoi
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I installed arch and using Sober to play Roblox. It is unbearably slow compared to Windows and I have no clue why. I dont think vulkan is working, which seems to be the issue but i have no clue what this means since im a real newbie.

ERROR at /usr/src/debug/vulkan-tools/Vulkan-Tools/vulkaninfo/./vulkaninfo.h:249:vkGetPhysicalDeviceDisplayPlanePropertiesKHR failed with ERROR_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY

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I’ve just switched from windows to pop os i like it so far and i want to dive deeper and like try more gaming distros any of you have any recommendation? ( i have an nvida gpu)

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I saw you cant host on parsec on linux, so, I was wondering if theres anything like it so I can keep playing my retro games (stuff like gamceube, ps2, etc) with others.

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(intel i5-12450HX, RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU with proprietary 580.126.18 drivers with DRM kernel mode setting on, my OS is Arch and kernel is 6.19.11 with secure boot off)

(only relevant launch option is -vulkan)

when I try to launch any Linux-native Valve game (portal, half-life 2, L4D2, etc.) while specifically setting the graphics API to Vulkan, it refuses to launch and only warns me that hl2_linux failed to launch. the logs showed an error with DXVK and some failed to load driver: nvidia-drm. afterwards, the crash occurred.

the crash message showed the following error:

systemd-coredump Process 9608 (hl2_linux) of user 1000 dumped core. Stack trace of thread 9608: #0 0x00000000f7ef5579 __kernel_vsyscall (linux-gate.so.1 + 0x579) #1 0x00000000f7cb39bf n/a (/run/host/usr/lib32/libc.so.6 + 0x969bf) ELF object binary architecture: Intel 80386

on the other hand, I tried using OpenGL (which already was the default API) only to receive performance that never got past 30FPS. this happened even when I had even only my dedicated GPU activated.

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Hi! My brother and I developed our first Boomer Shooter (and 9th game), we focused on fast movement and brutal combat! So the enemies will scream when you kill them, and their pieces will be spread all over the arena!

Challenge & Skill

Our game is all about gameplay, challenge, and skill! So we came up with two challenges in which depending on how much you master Akuma's last level, you can actually earn one or two of our other games. Curious if that's a solid extra motivation to pass through the game's challenge, what do you think?

Playing

If you get the chance to play it, we would love to receive some feedback. It's available on Steam already and it even has a free Demo:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3692360/Akumas_Bloodrain/

Feedback

Feedback is really critical now, because although that's our 9th game, it's our first FPS game, and we loved developing it, so we want to stay in that genre. Any feedback that can help us improve Akuma or head us toward an even better next FPS game would be awesome.

Thank you very much for the attention, I hope you all have fun!

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I want to be clear that I'm not hating on Linux, it's very likely that I don't know what I'm doing and I'm not patient enough but I guess Linux just isn't for me. I'm sorry for the rambling but I just want to vent my frustration.

let me preface by saying that I own a full AMD system:

Ryzen 7 5700x

Rx 6700 xt

and I also own a OLED steam deck

it's my first time posting here after lurking for a while, and while I hate that my first (and probably last) post is about me giving up on Linux, for at least a month ive been using Linux mint since I really only use my PC to play games and browse the internet, I don't do any type of dev work or programming, and sadly, the gaming performance on Linux (at least for me) is fucking atrocious. For example on windows 11 on resident evil 4 remake I get a stable 100 fps across the board whilst on Linux i get half as much and with some insane drops and stutters, and not just on that game, but others like lethal company runs terrible also with massive drops in interiors and a lot of stuttering and micro stuttering, and I just can't seem to find any solution to my predicament no matter what I do: changing graphics settings, performance mode, kernel updates, different versions of proton and ge-proton, fresh Linux installations on different drives. Gaming on the Steam deck oled has been nothing short of great for me with no issues, which also helped me decide to try out using linux on my desktop pc.

given the fact that Linux mint is sold as working out of the box (no GPU drivers installs needed or messing with the terminal), that gaming on Linux with a full AMD system is the equivalent of the second coming of Christ, and after hours of reinstalling games (since my internet is so shit) I've just grown tired and this point and I'm giving up.

I'm not looking for any tech support either, like I said I just wanted to vent my frustration.

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what is the deal with "processing Vulkan shaders"?

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Anyone else having anti-cheat issues after hotfix 0.4.0.3 came out yesterday?

Verifying gets me into a game but I’m getting kicked after a random amount of time. I had the read-only fix applied before this and was having no issues.

On Arch with KDE. Updated my system today and also started having various other issues so it might be on my end. (I update 1-2 times a week)

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• Fedora 43 Gnome, AMD 5700 XT
• The issue started occuring around 3-9 days ago. It worked on F43 before
• I always keep all packages updated. I update every day.
• The issue ONLY occurs when the mouse is IN the window that's being streamed. If I hover my mouse over discord everything is fine
• The issue only occurs with streaming windows, not the entire desktop
• I have no custom stuff in discord or gnome or something, I have experimental drivers or something. I changes nothing that could have affected this. It just started some day.

Anyone know what could be happening here?

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Title says it all. I know there's VirusTotal but that has a file upload limit.

Using software like bwrap or Flatpaks will only limit the threat surface.

In fact, there are many well known Flatpaks which will by default will allow access to your entire home directory along with /mnt which seems entirely pointless.

ClamAV from what I've read has a terrible detection rate.

People will often point out that most viruses only target Windows installations but thanks to Wine we're now emulating a Windows filesystem with Z: effectively allowing access to your entire system including any mounted devices.

The virus doesn't necessarily need to disrupt your work.

It could technically just steal some data without the user being made aware.

How do people normally approach this problem?

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https://preview.redd.it/dazulr7gseug1.png?width=1253&format=png&auto=webp&s=8d6b88d79030f56c977b8226ecf40d8c58126a54

https://preview.redd.it/4m7mtr7gseug1.png?width=1246&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee18697c04f063258f8ce559a7c5d50b43ae5f35

I only have one monitor and it's a little annoying to alt tab to check Psensor. I haven't seen any way to see my junction temperature while I am in games.

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These are for sddm and quickshell!! Enjoyy

Dotfiles: Qylock

kofi: Darkkal

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