Hi everyone,

I’m in the process of switching from Windows 11 to Linux Mint. I’ve already installed Steam and Heroic. However, I also have a few free games on EA App, Ubisoft Connect (Uplay), and Battle.net, and I’d like to know the best way to run them on Linux Mint.

Also, it is better to install it with Flatpaks or system packages (.deb)? Thanks in advance!

It seems the latest and greatest update is forcing me to use a compatibility tool and I do not see an option to disable it. There are a few games that I play that run absolutely fine OTB and the use of compatibility tools degrade their performance.

I tried searching for a solution in the steam settings and it seems I’m stuck with having a tool of some kind always on.

Are there any workarounds for this??

Thanks in advance.

Edit: thanks to those who contributed and shared their knowledge. As for getting downvoted for asking a legitimate question, I’ll be sure to never post here again. Thanks. I’ll leave this up in case it helps someone in the future. Reply notes are off.

I've recently gotten a g502 for free but I dont see a good way to manage it's settings on linux. I had to change the settings on my windows laptop before plugging the mouse into my Linux pc

There's a new preview update. It's pretty good. There's some minor jank still but it seems pretty complete now. The store page renders now too.

(Glad to see you guys are incapable of being normal for five seconds.)

In before Rito bans that latest workaround because that's how it is with this company. Just like it happened with old hyperv workaround. Peps need to understand Rito wants to have their rootkit in your box, direct access to your kernel and they won't allow any potential security holes.

I don't know why it is not working . I've used fedora and cachyos and this game was working before. I use lutris to run games.

I've been able to run UE games such as Marvel Rivals + Dragonwilds with no issue using Steam ever since the Proton Hotfix Steam patch in June. Randomly as of 4 days ago (around 10/14/26 5:00 UTC) after an update, it has crashed every single time I've run it after a certain period of time.

What ends up happening is that the graphics freeze but the audio still continues. Using Shift + Tab to bring up the Steam Overlay I can almost always cause the game to get past the first freeze, but on the second freeze the game stays frozen until it crashes. UE process crashes first, and then Proton. These freezes almost always occur to the same triggers, but not every time when these triggers pop up will it cause a freeze. This usually occurs after about 15-30min, but the longest period of time I was able to run one of these games was 42 minutes.

Triggers:
Map opening in Dragonwilds
Loading splash art screen in Rivals
Chat opening in Rivals
Card selection in the Infinity War mode in Rivals

Things I've tried:
Uninstalling + Reinstalling Marvel Rivals
Switching between Proton Hotfix, Experimental, and Stable
Uninstalling Proton Hotfix + Experimental + reinstalling them
Clearing caches
Using bare minimum settings
Making sure my system is up to date
Disabling Screen Tearing

I'm able to run other applications using Proton on Steam without issue, it's just UE games.

EDIT: Disable Steam overlay. Fixes the issue entirely.

Cheers! I built my PC a year ago and am now getting weird flickers and checkerboards across my screen. I was about to send my monitor back to acer thinking it was it due to some testing and hopeful denial. But using a TV it finally did the same shit. Did some more testing, doesn't show up on my switch 2 at all. So its unfortunately the something with the GPU, but whether that's drivers or hardware I have no idea.

It started a while ago when I updated my drivers to the latest Kisak Mesa Fresh, I chalked it up to the games being poorly optimized again. Lately its gotten so bad to were it appears outside of games on my desktop. I can legit open steam and have it look like it was on a LSD trip. I have tried uninstalling the drivers with

sudo apt install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:kisak/kisak-mesa

But they're still occurring despite better performance in games ironically.

I have no idea what to do, frankly

My distro of choice is Kubuntu with KDE

OS: Kubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) x86_64
 Host: A620AI WiFi
 Kernel: Linux 7.0.0-38-generic
Uptime: 20 mins
Packages: 3227 (dpkg), 46 (flatpak-system), 16 (flatpak-user), 30 (snap)
Shell: bash 5.3.9
Display (KG251Q X3): 1920x1080 in 24", 120 Hz [External]
DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.6
WM: KWin (Wayland)
Terminal: konsole 25.12.3
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X (12) @ 5.46 GHz
GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT [Discrete]
GPU 2: AMD Raphael [Integrated]
Memory: 5.05 GiB / 61.89 GiB (8%)
Swap: 0 B / 8.00 GiB (0%)

Edit: The artifacts do not appear in screenshots.

no matter what i do the fps stays locked and yes before anyone says anything vsync is off and fps is set at unlimited, the only time the fps change is when i take it out of full screen ( the fps stays the same in border less too )
distro: cachyos
de: niri
quickshell: serpantinum

As title implies my experience coming back to LMU has not been successful while the old custom GE-Proton profile continues to work to launch and even run the game in offline I can no longer join any public sessions I will click on a race/practice and when trying to join the lobby the game just shows the spinner as if it were trying to load but doesn’t do anything after that doesn’t even display the loading screen where it would say I’m actually join if I leave the menu and try again it will just continue to show the spinner. Trying to see if anybody has been experiencing this as well or if someone found a workaround I am aware the game doesn’t natively support Linux just find it odd I’ve seen mixed responses on other threads discussing similar issue as well as the game has been known to run using the custom profile & am trying to see if I should pull the trigger on the new Daytona and Laguna Seca DLC I could still offline but it’d be fun to do online again.

IVE TRIED THE FOLLOWING;
-Reinstalling the game
-Installing the newer LMU-HID_fixes Proton 10-34
-Using the Old Profile
-Removing files mention in previous threads such as user info
-Changing timezone from universal to designated region time zone
-Tinker with connection type in general settings

Ive been experimenting with cs2 a little bit, the results are suprising, the normal native linux support for cs2 just simply refuses to load me into a game, wheter its a private practice game, or a public server. Ive tried using other protons like the 10.0-4, its just way too laggy to be considered as playable. The pre-loading shaders (such as the pre-loading vulkan shaders for example) takes too long to load. So the big problem with CS2 on linux is the shader loading. On windows, it loads much faster, but windows 11 is taken over by ai, and eats half of your ram, windows 10 is the best option, but it still takes half of you ram (or 15%). And i wasnt talking about the Steam Deck or the Steam os. What do you think?

It's not working as smoothly as Windows. The main interface is not properly working. The main game is really really lagging a lot.

Tried some proton versions. Wined3d is on.

Using nouveau only because the GPU is very old. Fermi model, Geforce GT 730.

Proton 11.0 and Proton 10.0 both are lagging a lot. Proton Experimental too. No idea what's happening.

The game itself can run, and i know it for sure, but it Requires the EA launcher and that always just fails to install...
Using Northstar i can skip EA i think, however then i would play on Northstar servers.

Is there a way to either use normal servers thru the Northstar launcher, or just skip the EA launcher on the normal steam install?

Is there a solution to this problem? It only happens with the second installment of the game; when I play any other game, it starts up normally, and the Vulkan process does reach 100%, so I can play without any issues.

i have a 5070 ti and use cachy os with proton cachy os on steam. I would like to know if anybody knows how to use dlss 5, i mean if its just activating dlss in game or if i have to use something external or anything. I checked and i have the latest drivers installed.

For those who don't know, drag clicking doesn't work on Linux by default. However, there is a way to enable it for distros that use libinput for mouse input (which most do). I have written a concise guide to enable it. If you want to enable drag clicking (especially minecrafters) you can check it out. (pls star)

https://github.com/MeantPlace279/drag-click-linux

Minecraft is suddenly not playing sound on Void Linux, i've tried on both ATLauncher and Prism Launcher (installed from flatpak on both cases) and on versions ranging from 1.7.10 to 26.3.

Weirdly, narrator's voice is working (even though there is no UI or in-game sound), as well as audio from every other program, either installed from flatpak or elsewhere.

This is the log when i tried launching vanilla 1.7.10 from ATLauncher:

https://pastebin.com/r9XLk3Ej

inxi -xxACGS gives this output (I don't think this is a hardware issue since audio works fine elsewhere and narrator's voice is working):

https://pastebin.com/TZ1cgwSV

So it works great when it's plugged in. The Controler was updated on pc. It connects to the Bluetooth fine, but steam can't then see it.

I've tried to connect manually through the terminals Bluetooth controls.

It says its connected. I installed the steam device thong.

Honestly I'm wondering if it would be easier to connect with a dongle rather then through Bluetooth, but I don't know which one to buy. If someone could point me in the right direction if appreciate it.

Whichever one of these is the least work. I just wanna play games im sick of messing around trying to get basic stuff to work if it costs me $20 to get a dongle and that's easier then whatever nonsense please tell me that. I really just wanna play my games.

I was looking at MMO mice as I've picked up Aion 2 and i have been enjoying it a lot... however, I don't want to be doing finger gymnastics just to hit all my skills, so I've been looking at "MMO mice" I've found a good deal on an asus ROG Spatha X however I've seen mixed reviews on compatibility and mapping the side buttons within linux, I was hoping somebody out there has experience with this mouse on linux and could shed some light on how well it works. I have also been looking at the Razer naga v3 pro but that mouse cost almost 3x the ROG Spatha X which is hard to justify. If you have any other recommendations I'd be happy to hear them, personally I want a mouse with at least 12 buttons, and I like having a wireless mouse with a charging dock.