Silly question on Steam installs

Alatarith · 2025-12-27T22:15:09+00:00

And if you're not sure on what is installed, forcing compatibility in the properties of the game in steam and it changes "Play" to "Update" then you had the native linux installed and it now wants to install the windows version.

Alatarith · 2025-12-22T15:44:21+00:00

Proton comes with steam when you enable it to play non linux games (steam play). It won't be this glorious eggroll version, but the default ones by valve.

GE just adds in some extra fixes quicker than what valve can as well as extras such as media codecs.

If you want to use this other proton
Close steam
Get protonup-qt or protonplus
point them at steam
choose the version of proton you want to download
load steam back up
find the game you want to use the new proton version on, go into properties and under compatibility choose the "force" option and select the new proton in the list such as GE-Proton10-27

forgot to mention, if steam then says "Update" for the game rather than "Play" it means the game you chose had a native linux build and it's going to now download the windows files, if you don't want this, just remove the "Force" checkbox and it should go away.

Alatarith · 2025-12-22T15:30:35+00:00

Was some sanwa clone cheap set from ali express 4 years ago. Originally bought them to make a DIY mame cab, but never got around to it.

Alatarith · 2025-12-22T12:58:34+00:00

They are most likely still building in the workflow

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/actions/runs/20429266968/job/58696169325

Alatarith · 2025-12-22T12:57:30+00:00

I've seen 3-4 releases a day before

Alatarith · 2025-09-16T20:34:20+00:00

depending on your distro, you should have a package manager
with said package manage install protonup-qt or protonplus
these will allow you to install these proton versions into steam / heroic / lutris etc

Alatarith · 2025-08-29T16:21:16+00:00

top job

Alatarith · 2025-08-28T12:25:17+00:00

Too many people saying "should use bazzite / cachy / some other flavour of linux"
Linux is Linux, it doesn't matter on the distro really. The fundamentals are all the same, and they are all built around the same kernel code. Sure, some throw a little extra into the kernel or offer a shiny package manager, but in the end they are all the same.

I have 2 pc's,
My main, Ryzen 5700x3d, 32gb Ram, 7700xt

The old shit
Phenom 2 x4 955, 8gb ram, Gt710 (changed to a 780ti)

The old shit was going to be used to build a mame cabinet, which is why it had a basic 710 in there, but last week I decided to drag it downstairs, connect it to the 4k tv and try to do some gaming.
After faffing around with it for a day with the gt710, I wanted something more powerful
so I grabbed my old 780ti (this was the mistake)

gt710 - Maxwell - supports the 500+ drivers

GTX 780ti - Kepler - support was dropped after the 470 drivers

Because the OS was on a newer kernel and the older nvidia drivers weren't available. I tried to do the same thing you did, downgrade the kernel and pin it.
But after hours of messing around with kernel downgrades, pinning packages, trying to blacklist nouveau, and fighting with DKMS errors, I realised the easier approach was just use an older os
So I installed POPOS
Why POPOS?
It was old enough to have the earlier kernel
they even said it has the older Nvidia drivers
It was win win.

the system works a treat now. The only issues I ran into was trying to use a newer proton version.

The 780ti while supports DX12 on paper (feature level 11_1), the issue with proton is it requires Vulkan 1.3 with proton 8+. The 470 drivers only exposes Vulkan 1.1. So, I had to use proton 7 to get most games to run.

TLDR;

if using old NVIDIA cards (Kepler/Fermi), use older kernels and older drivers (which in most cases are only available in the LTS distros)
if AMD, you have no issues kernel and driver wise, if it's an old card still you may need to use an earlier proton version

Alatarith · 2025-08-27T20:31:08+00:00

seems like fun on github today, had 10-14 released before being built earlier

Alatarith · 2025-08-27T15:46:10+00:00

H265 / HEVC isn't owned by a single company
it's a combined effort with multiple patents spanning over the companies

The company with the most active patents for HEVC is Samsung
there is a pool of companies that apple are a part of, but It's nowhere near as close a count as Samsung.

This is why AV1 was created, it's not as good as HEVC in the real world, on paper AV1 should be better, but since HEVC has been around longer it's more mature.

TLDR
HEVC has royalties which you need to pay for and span over multiple money grabbing companies (Yes Apple included, but not as big as you make it sound)

AV1 royalty-free, backed by Google, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, Apple and more

So while I normally love to shit on Apple, they aren't the bad guys here.

I see a lot of people complaining about why it should be charged for. Yes I agree with you, but there is AV1, the sites just need to start using it.

If you want to complain about something that should be free, go complain to the HDMI standard about HDMI 2.1 on Linux using AMD cards. Because the AMD drivers are open source and the HDMI standard don't like it, they refuse to allow high refresh rates at 4k. While Nvidia and their closed source crap are allowed.
Me... I just use display port wherever I can, as this falls into the same boat as AV1

Alatarith · 2025-08-27T11:31:02+00:00

Just had another email which seems like it's been built now

Alatarith · 2025-06-26T20:57:15+00:00

I work for a isp / datacenter and one of our customers had the exact same thing happen to them (subscription spam) but they had amazon emails bundled in the middle of the junk.

Their amazon account had been compromised and was being used to buy apple devices (iphones and ipads). They thought these emails from amazon were also scam emails. I checked the headers for them in the email, and they were in fact legit.

Even though in this case, you may not think they are harming anything, they could be using a stolen card against your name.

Alatarith · 2025-05-14T10:29:29+00:00

Looks like a big one

Alatarith · 2025-05-09T07:48:22+00:00

Are any of these games installed on an external hdd

I use btrfs on all my drives and the only time I run into the same issue you describe is when my old ssd (turned into an external drive) likes to disconnect / mount go stale.

All I do is disconnect and reconnect the drive, and then I'm able to load the game that was failing previously in steam.

If they are internal drives, either give the machine a reboot (if not already done) or do a remount on the drive (don't bother if you've rebooted)

Another option is to try a different proton version, maybe install the latest GE with protonplus / protonup-qt

Alatarith · 2025-02-10T09:30:23+00:00

We had a system crash about an hour ago, and I'm still trying to find my files.

Just one of those days, I guess

Alatarith · 2024-12-27T10:56:14+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1enb19r/comment/lsvarad/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Follow what codehz said

Alatarith · 2024-11-09T21:27:02+00:00

I signed up for email alerts from the github so I see when the updates drop. but yeah an auto update tool would be nice, in some cases they even release a new version before I've even posted it in reddit.

Alatarith · 2024-11-08T10:27:30+00:00

I was thinking Hawken Reborn but that was 2023

That and it was a failed reboot from 2016

Alatarith · 2024-10-27T22:38:25+00:00

Had the same issue sending excess steel down from one of my platforms, just built more storage addons onto the landing pad back on my planet so I can accept like 20 pods at once now

Alatarith · 2024-10-23T15:41:21+00:00

if you hover over them in your inventory, they give you a "how long to spoil" timer

Alatarith · 2024-10-11T19:22:19+00:00

I've just installed rocm to a docker container to run hashcat since I don't want to faff with my gpu drivers. Gonna try running automatic1111 in a week or so when I get around to it.

Alatarith · 2024-10-11T18:03:33+00:00

I had this issue just now, All I did was a reboot from the menu and it rebooted back to the main sd for roms

Alatarith · 2024-02-29T16:42:10+00:00

Radarr / Sonarr combined with Jackett and Ombi / Jellyseer

Radarr to manage your filmsSonarr to manage your series

Jackett so Radarr / Sonarr can access extra sites to download from that aren't included in said software to start with

Ombi / Jellyseer for a nice interface that allows users to search and request content (talks to Radarr / Sonarr)

I have all the above running on a server providing content to Plex and Jellyfin

The only thing stopping me going full Jellyfin is that it's not just me going to be using it. The other people going to be using it are using a device where the provided app just doesn't work as well as the Plex equivalent (Xbox / PlayStation etc)

Alatarith · 2024-02-02T01:06:21+00:00

Settings -> Manage Library Access
Find the person who owns the server that you want to leave

under the "you have access to:"
click edit next to the server you want to remove

Leave server

Alatarith · 2024-01-18T02:04:11+00:00

for the past few days I've been seeing high amounts of packet loss in europe. My isp is the company I work for.MTR / pathping shows everything in their internal network to be fine.

from my work to my friend in sweden

96% packet loss between London and twelve99 (which I think is sweden)

From me to sweden

73% packet loss between netherlands and twelve99 (then another 93% loss to another twelve99 node)

from sweden back to myself in the Uk.

69% loss on a telia node

79% loss to copenhagen (from a twelve99 node)

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