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Are you sure you really need 1048576 open files? It seems like a lot. But you'll probably want to set "soft" as well as "hard" limits. Then you need to log in again for the change to take effect.
Also, it did not change. I added "* hard nofile 1048576" "* soft nofile 1048576" to /etc/security/limits.conf and everything else is commented. but ulimit -Hn still outputs 4096 after a reboot.
Huh, weird. The only thing I can think of is to check /etc/security/limits.d to see if there's another conf file in there setting it to 4096.
There's just /etc/security/limits.d/25-pw-rlimits.conf and it's just a bunch of pipewire stuff, I didn't even know I had pipewire until now honestly.
Oh right. Also I just did that since it's what lutris and documents linked say so idk.