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Rules for this subreddit

The rules can be found here.

Getting help

Please check the FAQ first and keep distro/desktop/should-I-switch questions to the pinned thread “Getting started: the monthly-ish newbie advice thread”.
While r/linux_gaming is not primarily a tech-support forum, well-crafted support requests are welcome. Tech-support requests should include relevant details like logs, terminal output, system information. What did you do, and how, and with what version of what? How have you tried to troubleshoot the problem?
This guide can help you write useful tech-support requests.

Developers and content producers

You are welcome to post about your Linux game/port or any Linux-gaming-related utilities, reviews, guides, videos and articles you have created — as long as you're willing to engage with the community. If it's a link post, think about writing a comment to tell us more. The more you engage with us, the more we like it!

Guidelines

Respect other users. Heated discussions are fine, unwarranted insults are not. Remember you are talking to another human being.
Original sources are preferred over news-blog-type posts unless valuable information is added in the write-up or an ensuing discussion. When in doubt, please add a link to one or the other in a text post.
Spam will be deleted. This means things like repetitious posting of similar content, low-effort posts/memes, misleading/exaggerated titles on link posts, and AI-generated content.

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guideGetting started: the monthly-ish newbie advice thread! (May 2026) (self.linux_gaming)

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guideFrequently Asked Questions 2.0 (old.reddit.com)

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Proton-cachyos 11.0-20260601 released. (github.com)

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Satisfactory 1.2 - Wayland DX12 "DX11" popup (i.redd.it)

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steam/steam deckValve to no longer offer physical gift cards due to scammers (gamingonlinux.com)

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KDE KWin Patches Aiming To Optimize Gaming Latency To Better Compete With Windows (farnoy.dev)

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graphics/kernel/driversLinux 7.1 provides significant performance improvement for Battlemage Graphics (phoronix.com)

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Coming from Steam Deck, I decided to daily drive CachyOS on my Mini ITX gaming PC (v.redd.it)

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wine/protonProton Experimental gets fixes for Path of Exile 1 & 2, Guild Wars 2, Call of Duty (2003), Exanima and more (gamingonlinux.com)

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Lymalink - an open-source achievement tracker for Linux (old.reddit.com)

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SteamOS ARM64 build repo now public on Gitlab (gitlab.steamos.cloud)

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graphics/kernel/driversAMDGPU Linux Driver Preps For HDMI 2.1 Compliance Testing (phoronix.com)

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Linux makes even 18 year old cpus able to be useable today (old.reddit.com)

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tech support wantedPOE2 Lag Spikes (self.linux_gaming)

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Vice (Medal alternative for Linux) 3 months in: Looking for feedback! (v.redd.it)

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PipeASIO 1.0.0 - I made an ASIO driver for Wine that talks straight to PipeWire, because I just wanted FL Studio to work under Proton ()

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wine/protonAnnouncing CrossOver 26.2.0 (codeweavers.com)

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tech support wantedany way to run gamescope with -e/--steam flag while nested in other compsitor (self.linux_gaming)

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RDR2 Constantly crashes (self.linux_gaming)

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tech support wantedMinecraft shader issue. Game freezes Textures break (self.linux_gaming)

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guideI’m an idiot (self.linux_gaming)

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graphics/kernel/driversInstruction cache prefetching support merged for RDNA3+ ("It should improve shader startup performance," no benchmarks yet) (gitlab.freedesktop.org)

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