I am and always was a casual gamer, I like playing puzzles, strategy and builder games, sometimes I play with friends some 7 days to die or AoE2. I am on Linux Mint for more than a year now and was surprised how easy gaming was. From time to time I had problems with weird DirectX error messages, but all in all everything just worked.

My setup:

• AMD Ryzen 5 3600
• GeForce GTX 1660 Super
• 32 GB DDR4 RAM

So last week my girlfriend worked on my computer (we are not living together), she wrote some bills for customers and did some table stuff in calc. When I asked her at the end of the day how it was to work on Linux, she shrugged and said "Oh I didn't notice" lol (using Cinnamon as DE btw).

Today she bought Until Dawn the remake on Steam while she is here and because she really wanted to play she downloaded it to my PC. She just started to play and everything was great. I wondered again if I should say something like "you see how great you can game in Linux", but then it came to my mind - she doesn't care and she didn't even question it! The Linux Desktop got so mature, that non-tech people just don't notice!

I think the biggest "problem" with Linux adoption is that it does not come preinstalled on computers, and this kind of proves my point I guess.

Yeah that's all, I just wanted to share this with you guys.

P.S.: There were some bugs btw. but it turned out they have nothing to do with the OS.

I've been running Windows on my gaming desktop and am ready to make the switch to Linux (I run arch at work and cachyOS on my personal laptop). However, I've got some software that I want to use that's Windows-only, and I'd rather not replace them and re-learn from scratch. Does anyone know of any software or methods to take the currently installed Windows OS and move it into a VM image I could run on Linux?

Had a slow day yesterday so thought, why not wipe the gaming PC and put Linux on it.

I work with Linux every day for work so I wanted a debian-based distro as that's what I'm most familiar with. After a short impulsive-driven search, I picked pika-os. Never heard of it but thought I'd give it a go.

Picked KDE, installed the OS, booted first time and immediately regretted it. No network. I have a 2.5G Realtek 8125 nic and whilst it was detected, it was showing RX packets as "dropped". Couldn't install firmware-realtek as it conflicted with linux-firmware. Tried the Realtek website, what a mess that is, compiled a driver, couldn't get it to load. Ended up finding a git repo that created .deb packages for all realtek drivers.

Got network up and running and its all been great from there. Last time I tried this in 2021 I had loads of issues but so far, other than having to download a later version of Proton and select it in a game, or add some command-line arguments in Steam, its been great!

I'm so surprised that every app I normally use on Windows is either available as a Linux native app, works with emulation (bottles) or there is a decent alternative.

Definitely, 100%, the Linux desktop is ready.

I have a home built PC that I want to get off Windows 11.

Specs:

• Ryzen 3700X, upgrading to a 5800X3D soon
• RTX 2080 Super
• 500GB NVME for OS, 2TB SATA SSD for files, programs, etc.
• 1440p Ultrawide monitor
• an 8bitdo Ultimate controller

Usage:

• I usually play indie games, emulators, and occasional AAA games. Most of my library is on Steam, with some games on GOG, e.g. Cyberpunk.
• I have an original Steam Link in my living room, and I use it to play games from my PC on the couch. Does Steam on Linux even support this?
• I also write game mods, so I need a distro that is a good fit for software development (C++, Python, and Lisp).
• Random miscellany: I use mullvad VPN, stream movies from a friend's plex server, and use an SFTP client to back up photos and videos from my phone.

I've been an on/off Linux user in the past, so I know my way around basic/intermediate terminal usage and configuration. Buuuut every previous attempt to move to Linux ended in disaster, so I have little patience for asterisks, strings attached, etc. If you're offering a distro I've never heard of before, you're probably gonna be hard pressed to convince me.

Thanks for the help!

Hey everyone!

Has anyone come across any good Lemmy communities for BC-250 Linux gaming builds?

I got my board yesterday and need to sort out PSU, cooling and modding like unlocking the CUs. I don’t have a 3D printer, so I could do with a good place to ask for advice. I can check Reddit for some stuff, but I don’t have an account to post questions.

I’m also open to any tutorials (web/video) or even Discord communities etc. If anyone here has built one or has prior knowledge, I’d love to get your input.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48949710

I played Arc Raiders again for the first time for a couple of months and I was kicked out because I used "Prohibited software" with the error code ARAV1011. Earlier I have never had any issues.

It turned out that it is a problem with Denuvo anti-cheat. The solution is to change to Proton Experimental.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArcRaiders/comments/1u79sw5/comment/orz4o1v/?solution=a622f32d689fd7dea622f32d689fd7de&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9ec728d9e614aa9b40a3b07ea3415b0378c&jsc_orig_r=

Windows: Linux:

https://www.metapcs.com/products/steamroller

I finally gave up my Nvidia 2070 Super and rejoined Team red with a 9070 XT. And it's like this is the way everything was always meant to be.

HDR works without breaking font rendering. Sleep states just work. No more random border flickering in fullscreen or borderless windows. And the fans never even spin up.

I did have to unwind a couple Nvidia workarounds to swap over successfully (like /etc/environment needed cleaning up for sddm-greeter-qt to not core dump).

No ragrets.

No regerts.

Team red 4lyfe (again).

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/47762187

When I first installed CachyOS, my mind was blown away by how quickly and conveniently I could start playing my Windows games with it. With its proton-cachyos-slr wine executable, it was only a matter of setting the game executable and runtime locations in Lutris and I could start playing the game immediately.

However, ever since I updated my system with sudo pacman -Syu in the beginning of May, almost every game stopped opening like it used to. Of those games, almost half of them would simply not open at all with any tweaking. The rest of the games eventually started to run but some of them were hit by performance degradation severe enough to not be playable.

I tried to search for the cause on the CachyOS forums and wiki. I managed to find some posts somewhat discussing this issue, citing issues with the new kernel or the proton-cachyos-slr package. Unfortunately following their proposed solutions like downgrading proton-cachyos-slr or tweaking runtime settings in Lutris didn't fix the problem.

Eventually I moved on to the CachyOS documentation, mentioning an option of using an alternative wine executable wine-cachyos. It wasn't available as a regular executable option and had to be called manually, but eventually it allowed me to play most of my games like before.

I don't feel comfortable with this setup since the entire implementation feels like a hack instead of being an in-built feature, requires additional configuration process for every new game added and still doesn't allow me to run some of my games that I have spent most of my playing hours on. I have been experiencing this for almost 2 months and I have been contemplating my decision to update my system.

Is there a way to go back to how my system was before without resorting to snapshots or a fresh installation? I don't expect solutions as you would do in support forums; I am just in need of advice on where to start looking to solve my concern. If you need debug info or context, I'll happily provide them.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3029110

IIRC it showed up once before when the app ID was first added, but it had no associated store or news page.

Despite the rammagedon steam machine and probably inevitable steam frame prices, I think this is probably the coolest development Valve has invested into since its basically Waydroid + FEX which removes the dependency on libhoudini/libndk which would make a lot of mobile games playable on PC using ARM translation.

One such proven example being fortnite lol: https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid/issues/2115

Heads up! This release used AI to rebase the video playback pipeline.

EDIT: I have added the release notes as a spoiler for easier readability as requested in the comments

Whenever I open the third party Runescape launcher Bolt, it requests KDE wallet access. I don't give it access, and everyone says it's a reliable app. Is it just behaving oddly?

https://www.epicgames.com/site/careers/jobs/6019148004

I can't launch games on Steam for some reason, at least Windows games using Proton. I even reinstalled Steam several times, but nothing has changed. My distro is Pop OS. Here's what happens when I try launching Vanquish for example:

chdir "/home/quentin/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Vanquish"
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/quentin/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Game Recording - would start recording game 460810, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 63931 for gameID 460810
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/quentin/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/quentin/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/quentin/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/quentin/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Adding process 63932 for gameID 460810
Adding process 63933 for gameID 460810
Adding process 63934 for gameID 460810
setlocale "fi_FI.UTF-8": No such file or directory
pv-locale-gen: Missing locale fi_FI.UTF-8 (found in $LC_ADDRESS)
pv-locale-gen: Generating locale fi_FI.UTF-8...
pv-locale-gen: Generated locale fi_FI.UTF-8 successfully
pv-locale-gen: Generating locale en_US.UTF-8...
pv-locale-gen: Generated locale en_US.UTF-8 successfully
pv-adverb[64004]: W: Container startup will be faster if missing locales are created at OS level
Adding process 64042 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64045 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64046 for gameID 460810
fsync: up and running.
Adding process 64047 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64050 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64052 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64056 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64068 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64074 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64081 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64113 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64122 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64125 for gameID 460810
Adding process 64132 for gameID 460810
Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/home/quentin/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/shadercache/460810/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
pid 64048 != 64047, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=460810]
Removing process 64132 for gameID 460810

This has something to do with Steam's overlay, even though I have disabled it. Help is welcome.

I came across some articles about how people are upcycling a specific cryptocurrency mining single-board computer and decided to pick one up myself and put together a rig. The board is the AMD BC-250 which is similar to the APU in the PS5.

I've been out of the gaming scene since the Xbox 360 and never could justify the expense of building a gaming rig, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to build something decent for under $200. This thing rocks and can play my entire catalog of Steam games, many of which I bought on sale and worried later about having a PC that could actually run them.

Specs

• CPU: 6x AMD Zen 2 cores @ ~3.5GHz (actually has 8 cores/16 threads, but I haven't yet unlocked the other 2)
• GPU: 24 RDNA2 Compute Units with 1536 shaders. Actually has 40 compute units, and you can unlock the remaining ones pretty easily. The PS5 has, I believe, 36 CUs active.
• Memory: 16GB GDDR6 shared memory
• TDP: 220W (50W idle - 235W max load)
• OS Support: Linux only (no Windows GPU drivers)

I/O

• 2x USB 3.0 (A only)
• 2x USB 2.0
• 1x RJ-45 gigabit ethernet
• 1x DisplayPort output
• 2x buttons. One is power and the other seems to be reset

Cost and Parts

• BC-250 APU - $125 (sadly they've jumped in price again and are now $165)
• 300W 12v PSU - $35
• 500 GB NVMe SSD - $0 since I already had a few spare ones on hand
• 120mm Fan - $17 for a 3-pack
• 8-pin PCIe power cable - $3 (to connect from the PSU to the APU)

Total cost: $180 though would have been closer to $250 if didn't already have an SSD on hand. Price also doesn't include the filament I used to print the case as I already had that as well. I didn't check the exact usage, but expect to use the better part of a 1 kg roll on the print. It used about half a roll of red and half a roll of black in my case.

A few optional components added to the build that I already had in my parts bin:

• Game controller (you can use a Xbox or PS4 controller if you add a USB bluetooth adapter)
• USB Hub
• USB Wifi adapter (it's only got wired ethernet onboard)
• Passive DP to HDMI cable (to connect to my HDMI-only TV)

Depending on the parts you have on hand, you could still potentially build this for $200 or less even after the price hike of the boards.

I'm running Bazzite on it and booting directly into Steam Big Picture. Works great!

Resources

• Building a Budget Steam Machine with the ASRock BC-250, a Variant of the PS5 APU
• AMD BC-250 Documentation
• GPU Governor Guidance
• Modified BIOS to Enable GPU Memory Split
• Case Model
• Power Supply - Any decent 300+ watt one will do, but this is what I bought to fit the case I found
• AMD BC-250 eBay Listings - I paid $125 but they're sadly $165 and up now

View of the Guts

Note: These aren't mine and are from the Printables model page as I neglected to take photos as I went, and it's kind of a pain to disassemble this because of the way it goes together. I also modded the heatsink and cut off the little ridges since it was originally made for rack cooling and didn't cool well with just a fan on top.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47988648

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/hanoi

Hanoi is a simple terminal version of the known classical game Tower of Hanoi, written in Bash.

During the game, the user can move left and right, pick disks and drop them in other stacks.

The aim is to move all the disks from the ORIGIN pile to the DESTINATION pile, in as little moves as possible