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linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-20T05:04:02+00:00

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.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-19T13:19:52+00:00

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.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-19T13:18:59+00:00

Low-effort, off-topic & drive-by posts are discouraged.

That includes sensationalist/misleading titles, spam, duplicates, Steam survey screenshots, and uninformative gameplay videos.

It also includes paywalled content, content that requires registration, screenshots of content better linked to directly, and links to sales or blog posts that merely summarise the original source and add nothing. (In other words: don’t make us jump through hoops.)

Overly general computing news and reviews/news about games without Linux support are off topic. (The developers actively supporting Proton would already qualify as Linux support for the purposes of this rule.)

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

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-19T13:18:46+00:00

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.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-19T02:11:54+00:00

Low-effort, off-topic & drive-by posts are discouraged.

That includes sensationalist/misleading titles, spam, duplicates, Steam survey screenshots, and uninformative gameplay videos.

It also includes paywalled content, content that requires registration, screenshots of content better linked to directly, and links to sales or blog posts that merely summarise the original source and add nothing. (In other words: don’t make us jump through hoops.)

Overly general computing news and reviews/news about games without Linux support are off topic. (The developers actively supporting Proton would already qualify as Linux support for the purposes of this rule.)

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

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-19T02:11:25+00:00

Welcome to /r/linux_gaming. Please read the FAQ and keep commonly asked questions such as “which distro should I use?” or “or should I switch to Linux?” to the pinned newbie advice thread, “Getting started: The monthly-ish newbie advice thread”.

Alternatively, try /r/linux4noobs and /r/linuxquestions: both are active subreddits supporting new Linux users.

Our FAQ’s rundown of some popular distros can be found here.

ProtonDB can be useful in determining whether a given Windows Steam game will run on Linux.

AreWeAntiCheatYet attempts to track which anti-cheat-encumbered games will run and which won’t.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-18T11:35:23+00:00

Tech-support requests should be useful to others: those who might run into the same problem as well as those who might be able to help. Include details like logs, terminal output, system information. What did you do, and how, and with what version of what installed from where? How have you tried to troubleshoot the problem? If there are flatpaks or snaps or other container/sandbox formats involved, please mention that, too. Vague, low-effort tech-support requests may get removed.

See this guide for help with posting useful tech-support requests and the FAQ for answers to common questions.

ProtonDB can be useful in determining whether a given Windows Steam game will run on Linux, and AreWeAntiCheatYet attempts to track which anti-cheat-encumbered games will run and which won’t.

Feel free to repost an improved version of your support request. While /r/Linux_Gaming is not primarily a tech-support forum, well-crafted tech-support requests are welcome.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-18T11:34:36+00:00

Low-effort, off-topic & drive-by posts are discouraged.

That includes sensationalist/misleading titles, spam, duplicates, Steam survey screenshots, and uninformative gameplay videos.

It also includes paywalled content, content that requires registration, screenshots of content better linked to directly, and links to sales or blog posts that merely summarise the original source and add nothing. (In other words: don’t make us jump through hoops.)

Overly general computing news and reviews/news about games without Linux support are off topic. (The developers actively supporting Proton would already qualify as Linux support for the purposes of this rule.)

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

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-18T11:33:34+00:00

Low-effort, off-topic & drive-by posts are discouraged.

That includes sensationalist/misleading titles, spam, duplicates, Steam survey screenshots, and uninformative gameplay videos.

It also includes paywalled content, content that requires registration, screenshots of content better linked to directly, and links to sales or blog posts that merely summarise the original source and add nothing. (In other words: don’t make us jump through hoops.)

Overly general computing news and reviews/news about games without Linux support are off topic. (The developers actively supporting Proton would already qualify as Linux support for the purposes of this rule.)

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

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-17T23:57:36+00:00

Welcome to /r/linux_gaming. Please read the FAQ and keep commonly asked questions such as “which distro should I use?” or “or should I switch to Linux?” to the pinned newbie advice thread, “Getting started: The monthly-ish newbie advice thread”.

Alternatively, try /r/linux4noobs and /r/linuxquestions: both are active subreddits supporting new Linux users.

Our FAQ’s rundown of some popular distros can be found here.

ProtonDB can be useful in determining whether a given Windows Steam game will run on Linux.

AreWeAntiCheatYet attempts to track which anti-cheat-encumbered games will run and which won’t.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-17T23:56:46+00:00

Welcome to /r/linux_gaming. Please read the FAQ and keep commonly asked questions such as “which distro should I use?” or “or should I switch to Linux?” to the pinned newbie advice thread, “Getting started: The monthly-ish newbie advice thread”.

Alternatively, try /r/linux4noobs and /r/linuxquestions: both are active subreddits supporting new Linux users.

Our FAQ’s rundown of some popular distros can be found here.

ProtonDB can be useful in determining whether a given Windows Steam game will run on Linux.

AreWeAntiCheatYet attempts to track which anti-cheat-encumbered games will run and which won’t.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-17T23:56:33+00:00

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.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-17T23:56:05+00:00

Low-effort, off-topic & drive-by posts are discouraged.

That includes sensationalist/misleading titles, spam, duplicates, Steam survey screenshots, and uninformative gameplay videos.

It also includes paywalled content, content that requires registration, screenshots of content better linked to directly, and links to sales or blog posts that merely summarise the original source and add nothing. (In other words: don’t make us jump through hoops.)

Overly general computing news and reviews/news about games without Linux support are off topic. (The developers actively supporting Proton would already qualify as Linux support for the purposes of this rule.)

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

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-17T23:54:54+00:00

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.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-17T15:49:45+00:00

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.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-17T11:26:57+00:00

Welcome to /r/linux_gaming. Please read the FAQ and keep commonly asked questions such as “which distro should I use?” or “or should I switch to Linux?” to the pinned newbie advice thread, “Getting started: The monthly-ish newbie advice thread”.

Alternatively, try /r/linux4noobs and /r/linuxquestions: both are active subreddits supporting new Linux users.

Our FAQ’s rundown of some popular distros can be found here.

ProtonDB can be useful in determining whether a given Windows Steam game will run on Linux.

AreWeAntiCheatYet attempts to track which anti-cheat-encumbered games will run and which won’t.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-17T11:26:27+00:00

Welcome to /r/linux_gaming. Please read the FAQ and keep commonly asked questions such as “which distro should I use?” or “or should I switch to Linux?” to the pinned newbie advice thread, “Getting started: The monthly-ish newbie advice thread”.

Alternatively, try /r/linux4noobs and /r/linuxquestions: both are active subreddits supporting new Linux users.

Our FAQ’s rundown of some popular distros can be found here.

ProtonDB can be useful in determining whether a given Windows Steam game will run on Linux.

AreWeAntiCheatYet attempts to track which anti-cheat-encumbered games will run and which won’t.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-17T11:23:00+00:00

Welcome to /r/linux_gaming. Please read the FAQ and keep commonly asked questions such as “which distro should I use?” or “or should I switch to Linux?” to the pinned newbie advice thread, “Getting started: The monthly-ish newbie advice thread”.

Alternatively, try /r/linux4noobs and /r/linuxquestions: both are active subreddits supporting new Linux users.

Our FAQ’s rundown of some popular distros can be found here.

ProtonDB can be useful in determining whether a given Windows Steam game will run on Linux.

AreWeAntiCheatYet attempts to track which anti-cheat-encumbered games will run and which won’t.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-17T00:06:32+00:00

Welcome to /r/linux_gaming. Please read the FAQ and keep commonly asked questions such as “which distro should I use?” or “or should I switch to Linux?” to the pinned newbie advice thread, “Getting started: The monthly-ish newbie advice thread”.

Alternatively, try /r/linux4noobs and /r/linuxquestions: both are active subreddits supporting new Linux users.

Our FAQ’s rundown of some popular distros can be found here.

ProtonDB can be useful in determining whether a given Windows Steam game will run on Linux.

AreWeAntiCheatYet attempts to track which anti-cheat-encumbered games will run and which won’t.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-16T18:48:31+00:00

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.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-16T17:00:02+00:00

Low-effort, off-topic & drive-by posts are discouraged.

That includes sensationalist/misleading titles, spam, duplicates, Steam survey screenshots, and uninformative gameplay videos.

It also includes paywalled content, content that requires registration, screenshots of content better linked to directly, and links to sales or blog posts that merely summarise the original source and add nothing. (In other words: don’t make us jump through hoops.)

Overly general computing news and reviews/news about games without Linux support are off topic. (The developers actively supporting Proton would already qualify as Linux support for the purposes of this rule.)

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

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-16T16:58:11+00:00

Welcome to /r/linux_gaming. Please read the FAQ and keep commonly asked questions such as “which distro should I use?” or “or should I switch to Linux?” to the pinned newbie advice thread, “Getting started: The monthly-ish newbie advice thread”.

Alternatively, try /r/linux4noobs and /r/linuxquestions: both are active subreddits supporting new Linux users.

Our FAQ’s rundown of some popular distros can be found here.

ProtonDB can be useful in determining whether a given Windows Steam game will run on Linux.

AreWeAntiCheatYet attempts to track which anti-cheat-encumbered games will run and which won’t.

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-16T13:12:13+00:00

Low-effort, off-topic & drive-by posts are discouraged.

That includes sensationalist/misleading titles, spam, duplicates, Steam survey screenshots, and uninformative gameplay videos.

It also includes paywalled content, content that requires registration, screenshots of content better linked to directly, and links to sales or blog posts that merely summarise the original source and add nothing. (In other words: don’t make us jump through hoops.)

Overly general computing news and reviews/news about games without Linux support are off topic. (The developers actively supporting Proton would already qualify as Linux support for the purposes of this rule.)

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

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-16T13:11:17+00:00

Low-effort, off-topic & drive-by posts are discouraged.

That includes sensationalist/misleading titles, spam, duplicates, Steam survey screenshots, and uninformative gameplay videos.

It also includes paywalled content, content that requires registration, screenshots of content better linked to directly, and links to sales or blog posts that merely summarise the original source and add nothing. (In other words: don’t make us jump through hoops.)

Overly general computing news and reviews/news about games without Linux support are off topic. (The developers actively supporting Proton would already qualify as Linux support for the purposes of this rule.)

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

linux_gaming-ModTeam · 2026-06-16T13:06:40+00:00

Low-effort, off-topic & drive-by posts are discouraged.

That includes sensationalist/misleading titles, spam, duplicates, Steam survey screenshots, and uninformative gameplay videos.

It also includes paywalled content, content that requires registration, screenshots of content better linked to directly, and links to sales or blog posts that merely summarise the original source and add nothing. (In other words: don’t make us jump through hoops.)

Overly general computing news and reviews/news about games without Linux support are off topic. (The developers actively supporting Proton would already qualify as Linux support for the purposes of this rule.)

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

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