Linux Gaming

I like community builders and games that I can keep a world for years and grow, watch it evolve. I enjoy Rimworld. ARK evolved series is good.

Greetings everyone,

My wife has a windows 10 laptop that works very well (hardware). However it seems that it won’t support win11. Rather than trying to tinker and make it install Win11 without the TPM support, etc., I want to install Linux Mint.

Hello, i was wondering if there are any good indie games on steam to try out. Can be free or paid, i don’t mind if there’s no native linux build either (i play stuff with wine/proton anyways lol) and i don’t mind the genre. I’ve been thinking of trying something new as of recent so i thought i might ask it here.

Any wireless headphones people would recommend?

This is the stand alone version of the game from the Elder Scrolls Online website, not steam. Using Kubuntu 24.04

I made the mistake of believing some dumb guide online that recommended the Razer BlackShark v2 Pro for Linux. Literally the volume control is broken out of the box lol.

I’m currently on PopOS 22 and I’m in the mood to try something different. I mostly game but I do need my system to have support for the everyday tasks I sometimes need to do, so I fell bazzite is a no go.

Anyone know how to get Flatout 2 Lan gaming to work? It used to work earlier (1;5years ago), but now I don’t find any of my Windows-friends when searching for LAN games.

no idea if this is a recent development, but stumbled upon the info. you can run wine games on wayland directly, as opposed to the default, running it through Xwayland translation.

Hello fellow Linux gamers! I have the mentioned problem while using a Lutris fullscreen game (Sims 2). This problem is when i use Lutris’ WineGE 8.26 but not when i use the systems Wine 9.0. Sadly my game runs like shit with 9.0. I can’t find anything on the internet regarding this problem, except a 3 year old Reddit post that has no comments. Does anybody know how I can possibly fix this?

Hi, I’ve got a weird issue and figured I’d see if anybody knows how to fix it. I’ve noticed that most of my steam games that have linux native support just crash immediately when I try to run them. Running with Proton works just fine, but I was wondering if my system might be missing something obvious I need to run linux native games?

I am basically looking for a bulk download utility to back up my GOG library and keep it in sync. Something like Rsync for GOG. Any suggestions?

I have a fedora server running sway and sunshine. I’m having a problem where this rule (https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/blob/8765bbf050a18dcaf441851e5e52505a6c709c48/src_assets/linux/misc/60-sunshine.rules) isn’t firing, so the controller stays with root permissions instead of belonging to the input group and it messes things up. I’m not sure why it wont fire that rule.

Running Kubuntu atm but looking to see if I can get more out of my hardware. I booted up Cachy last night from ISO and it took barely any of my ram, 3gb I think, for the test I was going to install Steam and link to my existing game library mounting my kubuntu drive. My VR experience is quite acceptable at the moment, but it could be better. I get occasional stutters and sometimes I am put into the steamVR environment for a second if I turn too fast, I am hoping a more up to date kernel could help. Using the steam system monitor shows that when this happens my CPU/GPU/RAM are never close to being at 100% often at or less than 75% usage each, though the FPS is often around 40 - 60 (og vive headset, on windows rarely went above 50fps often down to 30). Hardware is Ryzen9 9950X and Radeon RX 9070XT OC. So the questions are:

Since a few weeks my Unity games are not working anymore on Steam (not flatpak) on Linux Mint.

I want to do a fedora install of sunshine using WLR as the capture method so I can have a headless zero-copy pipeline on the server. It looks like everyone is using hyprland as the compositor for this but I’m not familiar with it.

Ok, so I have Kubuntu installed running wayland and setup steamvr. The first few times it gave me the screen sharing portal, but through NOT reading carefully I accidentally setup all screens as the same one instead of the 2 different displays and 1 mirror display. OBS has this wonderful little button to trigger this to open to change which screen is shared, does anyone know how to do this for steamvr? (if you need info plz supply the command to retrieve it) I will say that wayland is working great for me so far except for my error, out of the 6 vr games I have tested (they ran badly on my previous system) only Into the Radius 2 has a slight flashing/flickering issue the other games that were almost or completely unplayable under my last system (RTX 4070ti super) are smooth as butter now.

Switched off windows last month to POP OS, though they just recently came out with a new OS featuring cosmic instead of gnome. Has anyone here used it for gaming? How is it? I’ve read people having issues with it when it was in beta.

OS: CachyOS GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Board: MPG B550 GAMING PLUS CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (16) @ 4.43 GHz Memory: 31.26 GiB

Hello lemmings, I’ve once again come for your advice. I’ve built a sff system with a dual boot bazzite os. This will be mostly for my kids playing games and media serving from Big picture in the living room. I’m trying to figure out the best way to set up the accounts. Ideally it would be as close to a console experience as possible but I want to make sure each kid can save their own progress. What’s my best option here? Does everyone need their own os account that signs them into steam properly? I’ve never set up a system for multiple users before.

Hey, back in the old days unfortunately, I used to use windows, a fit beautiful girl gave me the game. I would appreciate if there’s any tricks to get game to work on linux

Posting here because I don’t know any other decent communities to ask.

I want to go curved ideally. I really like the LG 45 inch models the oleds their 240hz. I can shop online or local. I think larger is better but I also cannot afford something outrageous . I won’t post a budget as I’m very deal focused and can make moves to get the right purchase. I won’t spend over 1000 USD and I will likely score the item half price or hunt until I get a unicorn deal.

Ive not had a PC or gaming PC in 15 years. I want to get back into it now.

I recently bought Diablo 1 via GoG and wanted to install it on my Dell Latitude for couch sessions. I installed it via Heroic and everything seemed fine, but after the Blizzard splash, the game stays black. Sometimes, when I tab out, some menu texts appear in the tab switcher thumbnail, but thats about it. I fumbled around with the graphics settings in the pre-game settings window (which is really tiny) and tries window mode, different resolutions etc. but nothing changed.

I know, stupid AF that I can’t get it to work. For the life of me, I’m not able to play the game on the pc. Of course I can just play in the browser, but I wanted to install it on my Linux machine and fire it up whenever I wanted to. I haven’t tried for a while, but I remember trying a couple of months earlier and there was an app that installed and launched but my controller wouldn’t work with it. I know about super tux, but I wanted Mario. There is only snapcraft app to install called mari0, but I don’t use snaps. Could someone please help me get it installed without going through the whole retro arch thing? Thank you

I’ve been hearing some good things about WinBoat, so I am wondering if anyone has tried to use it with game mod loaders. Like the windows version of Satisfactory Mod Manager (I know there is a linux one that works perfectly and exactly like the windows version but as this is a very popular game maybe someone did it this route) or, the one I am really interested in right now, Raft Mod Loader. Raft Mod Loader page suggests 1. Bottles and less recommended 2. straight wine. I would like to use a single solution for most of my windows carry overs, ie; steam is one stop for ~90% of my games flat and VR, lutris is one stop for 2 non steam games atm, but I am uncovering more as I go.

I’m not and never was a fan of Windows 10, i’m moving to Linux Mint when i have time, and i was wondering whether is it possible or not for Linux to play multiplayer games cross platform with Windows using Zero Tier, but it’s not possible, is it?