linux_gaming

I just noticed that the recently updated version of Battle.net cannot be installed correctly on PopOS anymore. I can still launch and play Overwatch 2 with a previously installed version. However, if I try to install it from scratch, it would get installed but won’t run in the foreground. There is a background process and...

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I’ve been blown away by being able to finally, at long last, game on my linux machine. Between emulators and Steam’s Proton, I’m rarely if every needing to boot into W$ just for games. That said,while I can play the gamepass web streaming thing, I don’t know if there is a way to use gamepass locally with Proton. Is that...

I’d like to play some games from my nintendo switch in higher resolution. Is the ecosystem for that sort of thing mature, or should I wait for the bugs to get ironed out, first?

The only thing keeping me pinned on Linux is my Flight Simulator setup, where I main MSFS2020 alongside several add-ons. Has anyone here been able to get a functioning setup off of windows with this game? Would love to finally ditch the windows partition once and for all.

As seen across many places in the Linux news (Phoronix, GamingOnLinux, other linux_gaming instances) is the new release from nVidia. For those not in the know, you most likely will want to wait for your distro’s packagers to release this for your distro instead of going out and trying this installation manually....

Does anyone here have experience with gaming on immutable distros like Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinote, OpenSUSE MicroOS or any other general desktop variants? I know SteamOS 3 and ChimeraOS are both immutable, but they come with all kernel mods and libraries baked in....

This is not really a thing yet....

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I know this is clutter but the music legit has some hypnotizing nature to it, lol