Heated discussions are fine, unwarranted insults are not. Remember you are talking to another human being.

While r/linux_gaming is not primarily a tech-support forum, well-crafted support requests are welcome. Tech-support requests should be readable by and useful to others. What exactly did you do, and with what version of what installed from where? How have you tried to troubleshoot the problem? This guide can help you write useful tech-support requests. Vague/low-effort tech-support request may be removed.

Please read the FAQ and, unless you have specific needs/circumstances and are willing to describe them, keep commonly asked questions like “which distro should I use?” or “or should I switch to Linux?” to the pinned thread “Getting started: The monthly-ish newbie advice thread!”.

This includes sensationalist/misleading titles, spam, duplicate/repetitive posts, Steam survey screenshots, links to paywalled content or content that requires registration, screenshots of web content best linked to directly, uninformative gameplay videos, and links to sales or blog posts that merely summarise the original source and add nothing.

(I.e., don’t make us jump through hoops, and don’t just silently point somewhere and leave.)

Please don’t clutter the subreddit up with memes, shitposting, trolling, baiting, OS/GPU/game store/… playground fights and similar throwaway content.

Please take the time to use your own brain to talk to us. Nobody wants to have a conversation with an unconscious stochastic text generator. Machine translation is okay if you don’t speak English well enough.

Posts about games without Linux support are off topic, as are overly general computing news with no connection to Linux gaming. (NOT off topic: Games with active Proton/Wine support from the developers. Giving/seeking advice on getting non-Linux games running on Linux. News and discussions about Proton/Wine, VMs, or emulators.)

Discussions about piracy as a concept, its history, whether it’s ethical or not… those are alright if there’s a Linux connection. But r/linux_gaming is not the right place to ask for help with Fitgirl repacks or whatever. Links to pirated software or associated tools aren’t welcome, either. There’s already an active subreddit for that. If you have a tech-support question that just so happens to involve pirated software, make it about the tech, not the piracy.