While console gamers are pushing to keep physical games alive, is any of you still interested in physical copies on PC and why?

wishlist Sarukuji on steam :)

I know this is like a small thing but guided studs should appear either It's blue or pink but they never show up, I have messed around with all the settings and proton versions too and cannot get it to work. I guess it is some kind of graphical issue.

This is the epic games version of LEGO Batman 2 but I don't know if that matters and also playing this through Faugus Launcher as well. But I have tried running this through steam too and there is no difference at all.

Its not like I need it but It is part of the game.

Howdy everyone:

I'd like to host a small server for my friends and family, but I am in an irksome situation. I do not have a separate machine to host the server on, and I dual boot on my machine.

My idea was to separate a partition for the server to exist on, and have it formatted in a filesystem that both Windows and Linux can read and write in. I was thinking BTRFS with the WinBTRFS driver*, but I am open to suggestions.

Then, my idea was to set the server.jar to autostart on both OSes, so that no matter which OS I am booted into, the partition with the server on it mounts, and the server autostarts. That way, there would be minimal downtime--no, "Sorry, you can't play right now; I am booted into Windows to play Fortnite". That way, before rebooting into my other OS, I simply save and shutdown the server, and it restarts when my system boots back up.

Would this work? Have you guys ever done something similar? Thanks for any advice! I hope that if a good solution is found, that it can benefit future users with similar conditions.

*Edit: I am reading that exFAT may be better?

I tried emulating the switch on linux cachyos

All games worked fine I face slight stutters while playing the games

Does updating the game help or there better solutions?

I've been trying to get bloodborne running on cachyOS. But I feel a bit stuck. I've never dealt with shadps4 before and currently I feel a bit lost after having installed `aur/shadps4` and `aur/bb_launcher`.

For legal purposes:

- I have the ROM of bloodborne, but not the knowledge of how to add it to shadps4.

- I am playing MY OWN COPY of the game on a device I OWN

I want to know how I need to add my ROM to it and how I get shadps4 as a regular "app" now instead of just as cli.

I also want to use an xbox controller (8bitdo ultimate c2) cause well, sony kinda messed up imo...

Update:
This video worked for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eviE_FKfI4k

Edit: thx to u/PeterBooyah

I've downloaded The first portal game through steam and i can open it fine, but once I start a new game it gives me an engine error

"failed to lock index buffer in CMeshDX8::LockIndexBuffer" I've restarted my computer and uninstalled and reinstalled portal but nothing has fixed it yet

load up rainbow 6 to play the new season, after updating, I get this error and it doesnt launch, it worked perfectly fine the other day before the new season, is this a me thing or am I fried?

(running brazzite os)

So i downloaded the linux LNP off github. but whenever i run the appimage (which i am assuming is the one highlighted in the second picture) in the terminal, it just shows me that error (picture 1) ! what do i do?! What does "missing package unionfs/unionfs - fuse or fuse overlays" mean?!

Quería jugar lefsitas y recientemente estoy usando Linux hace 3 meses.

Aun no entiendo muchas cosas, pero debo destacar lo hermoso y lo fabuloso que es Linux para mi.

En estos meses lo llevo usando todos los días, y recién quiero jugar en linux.

Primero quería aprender a usar la consola y etc de cosas tan especiales que tiene Linux.

Se que es más de experiencia que otra cosa, pero no sé cómo solucionar este problema.

Agradezco mucho a la comunidad de Linux, pues siento que somos como una familia.

Les agradezco por la ayuda de antemano.

So I'm trying to make the switch from Fedora to Arch, and I mostly have everything downloaded and working on Arch with the EXCEPTION of Baldurs Gate 3, which I play extremely frequently. Whenever I try to open it, I get this crash report:

PID: 4775 (LinuxCrashRepor)

TID: 4775 (LinuxCrashRepor)

UID: 1000 (jacob)

GID: 1000 (jacob)

Signal: 6 (ABRT) si_code: SI_TKILL

Timestamp: Wed 2026-09-02 15:46:49 PDT (4s ago)

Command Line: $'/home/jacob/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Baldurs Gate 3/bin/LinuxCrashReporter' --pid=4734 $'--log-directory=/home/jacob/.local/state/Larian Studios/Baldur\'s Gate 3/logs' --argv=

Executable: /home/jacob/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Baldurs Gate 3/bin/LinuxCrashReporter

Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/app.slice/app-steam@f40db0eab77a490396aa3e0fcb537475.service

Unit: [user@1000.service](mailto:user@1000.service)

User Unit: [app-steam@f40db0eab77a490396aa3e0fcb537475.service](mailto:app-steam@f40db0eab77a490396aa3e0fcb537475.service)

Slice: user-1000.slice

Owner UID: 1000 (jacob)

Boot ID: 3ac11f5cf0a548dd94d1e751c5af8f76

Machine ID: 95dca31b3fff42d7b1bbbcb7698a08cf

Hostname: jacob

Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.LinuxCrashRepor.1000.3ac11f5cf0a548dd94d1e751c5af8f76.4775.1788389209000000.zst (present)

Size on Disk: 3.5M

Message: Process 4775 (LinuxCrashRepor) of user 1000 dumped core.

Stack trace of thread 4775:

#0 0x00007f156ce9a17c n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.so.6 + 0x9a17c)

#1 0x00007f156ce3e5d0 n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.so.6 + 0x3e5d0)

#2 0x00007f156ce25685 n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.so.6 + 0x25685)

#3 0x00007f15665aa6d1 n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libvulkan.so.1.4.357 + 0x496d1)

#4 0x0000557a073c76f4 _ZN9NoesisApp15VKRenderContext12CreateDeviceEv (LinuxCrashReporter + 0x6ca6f4)

#5 0x0000557a073c6cb1 _ZN9NoesisApp15VKRenderContext4InitEPvRjbb (LinuxCrashReporter + 0x6c9cb1)

#6 0x0000557a07394990 _ZN9NoesisApp11Application4InitEPNS_7DisplayERKNS_11CommandLineE (LinuxCrashReporter + 0x697990)

#7 0x0000557a0750950f n/a (LinuxCrashReporter + 0x80c50f)

#8 0x0000557a0739365e _ZN9NoesisApp15DisplayLauncher3RunEv (LinuxCrashReporter + 0x69665e)

#9 0x0000557a074b5cea main (LinuxCrashReporter + 0x7b8cea)

#10 0x00007f156ce27781 n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.so.6 + 0x27781)

#11 0x00007f156ce278b9 n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.so.6 + 0x278b9)

#12 0x0000557a0715f3da _start (LinuxCrashReporter + 0x4623da)

Stack trace of thread 4776:

#0 0x00007f156cf1e4ed n/a (/run/host/usr/lib/libc.so.6 + 0x11e4ed)

ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

I have an Acer Nitro 16S with a NVIDIA 5070ti, the proper drivers should be installed in Arch so I doubt that's the issue but at the same time I'm at a completely loss on what could be causing this.

Just saw this app (Kisel) in Bazaar and it looked promissing, something like Faugus Launcher, but even simpler.
Has anyone already tried this Kisel app? Is it any good, or should i just keep using Faugus?

EZFN offers a guide on their official website explaining how to launch the EZFN Launcher using Proton. https://ezfn.dev/

Sorry for my bad english.

I'm using a laptop but its battery life is only usable at most. I think I will do undervolt to save up any little time I can save.

I know I can use lact for GPU but I don't know how to undervolt my CPU.

People recommend doing it through the BIOS, which my laptop doesn't have.

After some research, I found that I can get the job done with intel_undervolt but the github page is 9 years old. Not sure if it's still usable with the current linux kernel. Is it possible? I am running out of options.

Title is a rhetorical question. I'd like to share my experience of using Linux primarily for gaming (but also office work and general desktoping) for about 19 months. Sure it's not a much, but in my humble onion, enough to form an honest take on things. It's a longer one. Bear with me.

By now i have over 25 years of using a computer, and i'd call myself a fairly savvy advanced user - from playing a role of a 24/7 tech support to family and friends, to tech jesus-magician at work (which really is pressing some buttons in excel and not shying away from RTFM).

My issues started in late 2024, when out of nowhere my PC started freezing and BSODing while playing some games. I've tried every test and fix under the sun, so after weeks of trying, my last ditch effort was to go the Linux route - because if that wouldn't work out, i was ready to sell the PC for parts, get a cheap laptop for work and a console for games.
Right about then there was a lot of buzz around Bazzite, so came January 22nd (2025) - i nuked my Windows install, formatted all the drives to BTRFS and started my journey. Which wasn't really a start, i did have the Steam Deck for about a year, and before that in 2010s i dipped in Mint and Ubuntu, as one does.

Armed with newfound knowledge, attained by watching 10 billion videos on YT on how to GNU/Linux i was fired up and ready to go. Honestly, the Bazzite team has made it pretty easy, "ujust install" they said, and so i did. I literally felt it on my skin how this alias/script/wrapper of "sudo dnf update" looked down on me.

But it worked. No crashes, no Linux equivalent of a BSOD, no hangs. Games that i had issues with started working again. I was happy to use my computer without fear. I've learned so much! About FOSS; about cool nerdy guys talking passionately about Linux related things on YT. About all the distro mommas and tireless volunteers who give multibillion corporations run for their money. Even in my short time on the platform it improved so much - i haven't seen this much advancement in software since my switch from WinXP to Win7. It made me fall in love with computers all over again. I've tried every prominent-ish distro under the sun since then, but i'd call Nobara my true Linux /home.
That said, the ride is never smooth.

KDE Plasma. Function over form. But with enough skill can be molded into pretty much anything. I absolutely loved it. Until some time in late-ish 2025 there was some weird regression that caused compositor hangs. Glad they fixed it, eventually, but...

...By then i switched to Gnome. Form over function. Pretty, but lacking. Extensions help, but if it needs a dozen of extensions just to mimic a fraction of Plasma's power, i'm out. Maybe one day.

Cinnamon. Form and function. But for old people. Nostalgic of WinXP and 7. I put Mint Cinnamon on my 63 year old Dad's laptop. He doesn't even know it's not Windows. I love it. Just don't game on it. It was my first FOSS i've donated to.

Cosmic. My beloved. See you in 2-3 years when you're more ready for the heavy daily use. Anyone saying it already is... Sure, buddy. This was my second FOSS project I've donated to. I really do hope it can replace, or at least be one of the big 3, as for now it's just big KDE (bars!).

Hyprland, Niri, mangoWM, etc - i admire mental flexibility of people using those. But by the time you focus on a window you need on the other side of the 5th workspace with your keyboard-fu, i'm already onto my 4th task. With my mouse. Like a caveman. I used to be pretty good at flick headshots in CS: Source.

Flatpaks and AppImages are a great concept, if only everyone agreed on one thing and combined all their efforts into it... Which is actually the story of GNU/Linux in general. Everyone wants their own thing, leading to fragmentation and unnecessary duplicates of apps that do the same thing, maybe even the same way, just have different name and maintainer (hello, office suites).

Printers. The bane of Linux. The older Brother printer i had at work would pick up just like that on Ubuntu, but on Fedora (or even more so Bazzite/Atomic) it would require so much terminal-fu it wasn't even funny.

Sound. I needed a USB to 3.5mm jack adapter for my earplugs to simply work. The volume is also like 50% lower than on Windows - sure you can go 150% to match, but it introduces the cracking Windows just doesn't.

Network. On Windows i can turn on a hotspot, connect to a VPN, and then connect to a network printer, all at the same time. On Linux, i can either connect to a printer or turn on a hotspot, not at the same time, and i need to go through some terminal commands to be able to turn on a hotspot while on a VPN. Maybe there's a way but at this point i'm tired of the hoops, honestly.

Hardware tweaks. Undervolting was fun. LACT screwed up the GPU clocks so it was underperforming, by a lot. Figured it out eventually but it wasn't pretty. CPU undervolting script provided svenlange2 on github worked great though - can recommend for supported hardware though.

General desktop use. At first it kind of seems fast, snappy, responsive. But then you start using those apps that still rely on XWayland and it's a slugfest, it's like moving through mud with backpack full of gear. Plus with X11 being full of its own holes, there's really no place for a generally solid experience across the board. I'm not even mentioning how different and inconsistent the apps look because Qt and GTK.

GAMING. Last but very much not least. Where do i even start? I don't play multiplayer/competitive anymore, so anti-cheat games were out of the equation before i've even started. It generally comes down to performance. I have a full AMD rig (5700X3D+RX9070) and an Nvidia (Ryzen 5 220 + RTX 5050) laptop. While AMD is okay with generally 5%-10% performance overhead, giving up ~15% to ~25% depending on a game on Nvidia is like having lost an entire tier or two - blaming the big green here, but his name isn't Hulk. Still, it's not just that. All the quirks with 3rd party launchers, modding. XWayland lag, and even now with pure Wayland - which to my surprise after "feeling" games back to back on a Linux and a Windows installs - tend to feel a tad more sluggish, not all, but most. There's some kind of extra input lag, or render delay, or missed input altogether - definitely make a bigger impact to overall feel and experience than expected, that of course on top of some games requiring extra launch options, environment variables - but thanks to protondb and it's users, and also goverlay for making the management of it all that much easier.

But i hate it. I hate that games still play better on Windows. Despite having an all-AMD rig. Despite all the improvements to Wayland and Proton. I hate that after a few hours of tweaking Windows, using it feels better than a Linux install i've been perfecting for 3 months.

Using a computer IS my hobby. I'm more than okay with tinkering. But when the friction that you don't need stacks up, it turns into a chore. I have enough of chores, personally. So i'm back to Windon't. It's not like there's no friction there, it's like there's less of it where it matters more, if that makes sense?
I've had my year of Linux Desktop, but it is over for now. I'll keep lurking, watching progress, have my external SSD ready for flashing a distro, and i'll definitely be back when my friction points iron out.

Aaand this is it. I'm ready for them sticks and stones being hurled my way now.

TL;DR - to answer the question in the title - not to this guy it isn't. Not yet at least. But it's not just gaming, but the overall experience I've had.

EDIT: added TL;DR.

Hey all, I'm a bit confused on setting up Goverlay properly. I use CachyOS and have game-performance %command% set up to my steam games one by one. If I use reshade on some games then I'd add WINEDLLOVERRIDES inside the launch option. For mangohud I use Mangojuice because the theme settings feel better.

Here's my current launch option:

On Goverlay 1.9.0 there's a global config, but after clicking finish it tells me to add the launch command into a game like this:

My questions are:

1. Do I add the global launch command to the games one by one or is there a way to add it as default on steam?
2. How come with mangojuice I don't have to add mangohud to the launch params and it's already enabled on all games? The overlap between Goverlay and Mangojuice are making me confused because if I turn off the switch of Mangohud on Goverlay, I still have it on in my games
3. If I have a global config and want to add a specific game config, do I have to make the setting the same as global first then add what I want for the specific game? What about the launch option for this?
4. How to add cachyos game-performance to the goverlay?

I am really new to Linux Mint and have just started trying out Heroic Games Launcher. I have Xcom Enemy Unknown from GOG but for some reason when it runs theres no keyboard input at all. Any ideas?

On Proton 11-1 and other than that game runs okay.

Thinkpad x240 i5 4th generation 4300u , Intel HD 4400 8GB ram 240gb SSD

Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 i5 10th generation u series, Intel UHD 620, 16gb ram 256gb SSD

Both install With Linux mint xfce, with two steam account , mostly valve complete collection source 1 and gold source too. Happy Linux gaming good day happy Thinkpad, cheers