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just_another_person , in Games take forever to load in heroic

Listing which games you’re having issues with would be helpful. Also check ProtonDB for each game as there are lots of great comments and fixes there.

Doods OP ,

All 4 games that I have installed, and they used to work fine but then I switched from Debian 11 to Fedora 38 and this issue started.

Somewhere along the loading process a “wineboot.exe” blank windows appears depending on the wine version (Happens with Proton) and stays for a while. (I will add this to the post)

just_another_person ,

I’ve seen lots of issues mentioned with F38 and gaming for some reason. Maybe try Lutris as well so you can quickly switch wine profiles and try different things out. I believe Heroic also let’s you debug with different profiles as well.

Doods OP ,

I’ve seen lots of issues mentioned with F38 and gaming

As a TF2 player, I agree.

gunpachi , in I want to dual boot W11 with Arch on my Raid 0 setup

I used to dualboot windows and Void/Gentoo 2 years back. Windows screwed up something every now and then

So i got fed up with it and bought a new ssd and life has been so much easier.

Right now ssd prices are very low it seems. So if you can afford it - buying one is a no-brainer.

bear , in Radeon on Ubuntu?

AMD GPUs are fantastic on Linux. I’m running an MSI 6800XT and the only flaw is the the RGB lighting isn’t properly exposed so I can’t turn it off. Everything else just works and I’ve never had to give it a single thought since buying it. I just put it in and started playing my games.

just_another_person ,
just_another_person , in Chiaki not recognizing PS5 dual sense input

If Steam can recognize the input from the controller, but the other program cannot, it means the OS is getting the input, and this Chiaki program either doesn’t have permissions to read the input, or it’s looking in the wrong place. I’m not seeing much documentation for it unfortunately, but you can try starting it from a terminal to try and get some debug output when it runs and see if it’s throwing any errors.

just_another_person , in I want to dual boot W11 with Arch on my Raid 0 setup

The general steps to do this are:

  1. shrink your W11 partition and leave enough room for a Linux install plus games
  2. Boot a LiveCD to check if everything works and you can view your Raid Array
  3. Install Linux distro in new free space
hohoho , in I want to dual boot W11 with Arch on my Raid 0 setup
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I found this to be more or less impossible on my AM4 platform. The AMD RAID kernel module didn’t work under any distro. Fire up an Ubuntu live environment and see if you can detect and read the contents of your Windows environment. That should give you a good sense for what is possible. Otherwise I recommend installing to a separate NVME as I have.

donut4ever , in I want to dual boot W11 with Arch on my Raid 0 setup

I’m not sure if having a raid is related in this situation, but if you have two drives on the machine and one already has windows then all you needed to is boot into a distro live session and install it on the empty drive. That’s all. Also, I wouldn’t start with Arch Linux. Try something more user friendly to install if you’re new to Linux.

M_Reimer , in I want to dual boot W11 with Arch on my Raid 0 setup

Maybe you should have asked that in a regular Linux community. Not really game related.

I would, in general, not recommend to modify any existing operating systems. Better get yourself a small SSD exclusively for Linux. Much less risk of damaging anything.

Nilz ,

I agree with this sentiment. Dual boot on a single drive (or raid0 in this case) can be done but Windows has a tendency to rewrite the boot partition which makes you unable to boot into Linux. I’m sure there are workarounds, but having them seperate is just much easier.

If you install Linux in it’s entirety to a seperate SSD, you select to boot by default into that SSD which should give you the option to boot Windows instead. The other way round is more difficult and tends to break by reasons mentioned above.

owf , in Linux overtakes macOS users on Steam thanks to Steam Deck

NGL, I’m surprised macOS was even ahead of Linux given Apple’s deep-seated, cultural disinterest in gaming.

woelkchen ,
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No, you’re wrong! Apple is going all in on gaming. Again! First Myst, then Quake 3, then iPhone games on M1, and now a port of one game from 2019 using Wine. What a time to be a Mac gamer.

naeemthm ,

lol! Weirdly the upcoming release of MacOS actually will be the most they’ve tried in decades.

youtu.be/jTsc_UvlT3E

Their translation layer is basically a rip of Proton. Obviously this isn’t going to replace anyone’s Desktop or gaming laptop. But it’s nice to see Mac users are at least being thrown a bone.

woelkchen ,
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Their translation layer is basically a rip of Proton.

Of CodeWeavers’ Wine which I already mentioned. Proton is more than just Wine but Apple’s implementation does not use the Vulkan translation but their own Metal wrapper.

dejf , in Steam On Linux(1.96%) Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS(1.84%)

Even though this is mostly because of the Steam Deck, it's still great news. More people get to try out Linux and find out how good the support for gaming on Linux is nowadays. Some may even feel compelled to switch to it on their main machine, especially after Microsoft drops Windows 10 support and forces everyone to upgrade to Windows 11 (which, while certainly better now, still feels like a downgrade IMO).

salton ,

This probably isn’t the best place to discuss it and I often get hate for saying it but Windows 11 isn’t bad at all after you install a start menu replacement and one of the free apps that allow you to easily change a large number of things like explorer UI tweaks.

cyberpunk007 ,

Agreed, and as a side not the steam deck is actually fucking awesome.

kby , in Steam On Linux(1.96%) Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS(1.84%)

2021202220232024 is the year of the Linux desktop

m3adow ,
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When looking at the Steam Linux breakdown, the SteamOS Holo that powers the Steam Deck is now accounting for around 42% of all Linux gamers on Steam.

While the increase is great, it - sadly - doesn’t look like it.

Thaurin ,

Hey, I use the desktop on my Steam Deck all the time for normal computer use!

keenkoon ,

Nah, man. That’s not sad at all for me.

cyberpunk007 ,

2077

ghariksforge , in Steam On Linux(1.96%) Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS(1.84%)

Is there a breakdown of Steam Deck vs other Linux?

metaStatic ,

literally open the article

ghariksforge ,

I was hoping someone would be kind enough to tell me.

MyNameIsIgglePiggle ,

I come to the comments so I don’t have to read the article as well.

Then I’ll add extra comments using only the information in the comments section.

Grass ,

This is the way

Grass ,

It’s also the thumbnail for the link. I don’t know what the input is for other apps but on sync I could long press it to hover the image with the breakdown and one of the others I used just makes the previews fit to begin with.

But since I’m such a great servant to random people, deck: as in title, arch Linux and Ubuntu: 0.1 and change, Manjaro and mint(? I already forgot): 0.0something … I have 256kb of memory and most of it is reserved by bloatware.

nogrub , in What are you using for webcam and graphics card?

webcam i sadly can’t help you but on the gpu side i would try and search for a used one. i have an rtx 2080 super in my main system and an rtx 3050 ti in my laptop both seem to work fine under linux. i may have gotten lucky since i had no problems with the drivers. tldr in my experience 20 and 30 series rtx cards work.

ThirdNerd OP ,
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Great idea. Thanks!

Bishma , in Linux overtakes macOS users on Steam thanks to Steam Deck
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I’ve been gaming on Linux for a while now. The pace of improvement in Proton has been staggering since the steam deck was released. I noticed the other day that I’ve gotten so used to games just working now that I don’t even bother to check to protonDB before I purchase. I’m sure that won’t bite me any time soon -_-

vividspecter ,

I usually check PCGW first, because the issues with most games are usually cross-platform.

Auster , in Games take forever to load in heroic

If it's the same as Kbin Social, you can break line with either double enter, or double space at the end of a line.

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