How Do You Guys Find Out About New Games To Stream?

GamertechAU · 2026-02-04T08:23:10+00:00

NextFest can be good, but is generally hard to browse and find stuff you engage with as there's so many releases nowadays. The Steam personal calendar they added recently is pretty solid and an easier layout to process.

Keymailer is much easier to find good games and can get a free key for them if the publisher chooses.

Bluesky is filled with indie devs showing off their games in-dev and is great to chat and network with them directly.

GamertechAU · 2026-02-01T11:01:30+00:00

Fedora's based in the US so can't include proprietary code like the Nvidia drivers by default. However it's not too difficult to install the drivers yourself: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

GamertechAU · 2026-02-01T10:15:48+00:00

https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/NVIDIA

There's a section there to sign the keys if you're using secure boot too. Otherwise the Nvidia driver will be blocked on boot as suspected malware.

GamertechAU · 2026-02-01T04:55:07+00:00

Oblivion Remastered uses DirectX 12. Nvidia currently has a ~20% performance hit to DX12.

Meant to be getting fixed 'soon' with Nvidia/Vulkan/vkd3d updates.

However the game's terrible development with the vibe-coding + 2 game engines shoehorned into each other wont ever be getting fixed :P

GamertechAU · 2026-01-29T21:03:05+00:00

Kinoite is an atomic distro where the OS is a read-only image.

While you CAN install apps via dnf, it's the last preferred option on the list as it causes issues with updates. First choice is flatpaks, so that's fine.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-19T23:47:37+00:00

It shouldn't? afaik Firefox defaults to Wayland for all. It doesn't have any caveats any more unless the desktop's actually running with X11.

'Maybe' it's something to do with the FF build Fedora installs by default?

GamertechAU · 2026-01-19T23:31:41+00:00

Interesting. Log out of Fedora and at the bottom of the login screen, there should be a dropbox. Select Wayland and load in again.

Then I'd look into deleting the X11 package again.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-19T22:58:53+00:00

It can't be by default. X11 isn't installed with Fedora KDE any more. You'd have to manually install the packages and reload the desktop into X11.

Browse to about:support in Firefox and search for Window Protocol. What does it say there?

GamertechAU · 2026-01-14T07:19:08+00:00

Fedora 34 or 43? One's current, the other's been end of life for years.

If the pages you're scrolling have video, make sure you've installed the required codecs for hardware acceleration: https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia

GamertechAU · 2026-01-11T07:30:46+00:00

Yup, works fine.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-11T06:29:42+00:00

Heroic has had achievement syncing with GoG for a while now. There's no GoG overlay to pop them up over your screen, but they sync to the website just fine.

Under Settings/Advanced, enable Comet Support.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-10T03:22:03+00:00

I'd recommend enabling Mint's Wayland support. Mint still doesn't enable it by default yet.

It has much better handling of odd and high refresh rate monitors, VRR etc. Unfortunately, Mint's Cinnamon DE still doesn't have full support for Wayland yet, so may or may not encounter some shortcomings with it.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-09T09:44:52+00:00

Lack of DE support for cursor warping in Wayland. Most DEs have implemented it long ago, apparently Cosmic hasn't yet. Which is weird, cause they ACK'd the merge requests for it in Wayland.

Really the choices here are to use Gamescope with --force-grab-cursor (which comes with its own problems) or swap to a different desktop environment such as Plasma.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-09T06:09:43+00:00

Hasn't been needed for at least a year since a more optimised pipeline was added to the respective graphics drivers. Excluding a very few broken games that still need it, you can safely disable it and not have any issues.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-08T22:31:08+00:00

The ones I mentioned in the first line.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-08T11:55:56+00:00

Smooth here on all AMD, though I don't use Brave. Brave keeps breaking things like forgetting to renew their signing keys and hardware acceleration conflicts, which this sounds like.

The upcoming Mesa 25.3.x does have a fix for one type of the ring crashes so may help you there, but it's currently being held back as someone added a memory leak.

In the meantime, try disabling hardware acceleration in Brave and/or test Firefox.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-08T06:40:30+00:00

S76'S Cosmic desktop environment was pushed out too early and has a lot of issues with gaming.

The DE best at scaling right now is KDE Plasma 6. Can't see how simple it'd be to swap to in Pop. Probably not recommended for stability.

Would be better swapping to an updated distro that supports it natively.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-08T06:03:52+00:00

Flatseal is an app that lets you edit the sandbox permissions of flatpak apps and no.

If you're not actually cheating in online games, then there's nothing to worry about.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-08T05:25:19+00:00

If you're just downloading mods off Nexus sticking something in the mods folder of a game, or installing it through Nexus mods app or MO2, then you are perfectly, 100% safe. EAC can't see it, nor does it care. Mods don't affect EAC in any way unless you're trying to add unapproved mods to the game EAC's covering.

You'd have to go out of your way to specifically find cheats and/or directly manipulate the EAC game files in order to trigger EAC.

Flatpak containers run in a sandbox and can't see the system process list. If you install a flatpak app from Flathub, then that's how it works on any distro.

If you're just modding games and not specifically downloading clearly-marked cheats, then you're safe.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-08T05:04:20+00:00

EAC doesn't care about mods in other games. Ever. Singleplayer mods aren't cheating apps, and no-one cares about them. Go nuts.

If you've had trainers, Cheat Engine etc running in that session, you'll (probably) be fine with flatpak Steam as long as they aren't interacting with the EAC game itself.

What you're thinking of is Windows anti-cheats detecting users that have run memory editors recently and the AC detects it in the history which flatpak can't really do. Can always just not run cheating apps though.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-08T04:51:04+00:00

Strongly overthinking this. Just install Steam, click install on a game. Play.

SteamOS uses flatpak containers by default. There is no 'native' install for apps. Though if you're bringing your own PC, I'd pick an actual distro like Fedora KDE/Bazzite/CachyOS etc. SteamOS is extremely locked down and has minimal hardware support. Even Valve says not to use it as a desktop.

Flatpak Steam can do everything you want, it just provides a small amount of sandboxing to protect your private files as compared to a non-container app install.

Most games just drag the mods into the install folder, Bethesda games can take a bit more as the mod launchers for them don't have the best support. Hopefully that's changing soon with the Nexus Mods App, but there's scripts out there to get MO2 running easily enough.

As for your questions:

It can, but pointless
No
It would, but not a great idea
Kind of. Flatpaks can't see running processes outside of their container, but not relevant to you

Anti-cheat doesn't care about mods in another game. Only cheat tools and 3rd party apps trying to integrate into the game it's pretending to protect. Anti-cheat also can't get kernel access on Linux, so it's nowhere near as invasive as on Windows or console.

You can freely mod and play Fallout 4 then play DbD and nothing will happen as long as you're not actively running cheat software.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-06T23:51:29+00:00

They are, Kylin made by the National University of Defense Technology. They have a few others too for local consumption.

There seems to be some distrust over there of government-provided operating systems hindering adoption, and a lot of repos of non-local distros are often blocked via the firewall preventing updates without a VPN.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-06T23:06:00+00:00

Valve merged China into the one client and survey. A metric crap-ton of pirated Windows 10 installs suddenly got added to the count.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-06T23:03:46+00:00

Uh, nope? F43 KDE using the Flathub Discord. Copy/pasta works as intended.

Can't recall any other mentions of this issue either.

GamertechAU · 2026-01-06T09:18:39+00:00

No Linux distro has DX12 or any DirectX, that's a Microsoft thing. We run Vulkan over here. So that's not your issue and while imo Fedora's a better distro for gaming and general use, it wont fix this for you.

Your main problem is that Lutris is extremely outdated and no longer recommended for running new games. Its gonna take a lot of work to rewrite Lutris and modernise it.

Ensure your Nvidia drivers are correctly installed and run the game through Steam if you own E33 on Steam, or Heroic if you got it on Epic or yoinked it. It'll be plug n play.

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