Greetings! I'm nearing the end (successful, I hope) of my PC-building, and one thing is left to decide -- Linux distro. For a moment I am trying my hand with Ubuntu (heard the name, heard that it is noob-friendly, so -- it felt like an obvious choice), and things... work, mostly. So far, so good. Yet -- as I started browsing more, Mint seems to be more popular option (and a nagging feeling that Ubuntu has something of a skeleton in a closet...). And for gaming purposes I hear all-new names, such as "G...

the reason why steam shader cache is so bloated https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/why-some-games-on-linux-steamos-steam-deck-have-broken-videos-and-what-you-can-do/ Shader Pre-Caching Valve do actually work around it in a lot of cases, where they re-encode the videos into something Proton supports. To actually get those videos downloaded with the game, you need to ensure you have the Shader Pre-Caching system enabled, as it contains game shaders to improve performance and the re-encoded vid...

just installed ubuntu, latest version. installed steam, logged in, and now I can't open it at all. it says it's running, but no windows open.

I lack the knowledge to gather information but I was wondering if anyone else has the same issue. I will download a game and it will just hang. it goes to the top in the queue but there's no network or disk activity. If I restart steam it downloads the game but the next game suffers the same issue, hanging and not downloading. I've personally reinstalled my operating system at least 3 times, disabled ipv6, swapped from btrfs to ext4 and even changed from nvidia to amd. My setup is pretty minimal so idk if...

I'm on Pop!OS with GNOME environment. There are a few steam games that want to just run in the foreground while you go about your day. One of the more popular ones is Rusty's Retirement. The problem is, on Linux they just give a black background. At least, if it's not an already native Linux game. Does anyone have a solution for non-native games? Anything that would make the window transparent and let you interact with everything like you would on on Windows?...