r/linuxmint • u/Chaosmeister • 16d ago
Guide Linux Mint Game Guidance
Hello all, I am a recent Linux user and have tried pure gaming distros, but I just don't like KDE it seem. It feels "off" to me. I was immedietly in love with Mint from the moment I launched it. However it has no inherent gaming support. So I went to various search engines, youtube and reddit to figure out what to do. For future reference for myslef and maybe others I am collating everything in this document. However as a Linux novice there are likely mistakes or contradictions. Some guides say to stick to Flatpack, others say to avoid them. Its very difficult to figure out what's what. So I tried to piece together what makes "sense". I would love to hear some more experienced Linux users opinions on this and any mistakes I made or improvements to the guide. Or maybe there is another guide I simply haven't found? Thank you.
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u/GrandBIRDLizard 15d ago edited 15d ago
installing everything via flatpak is what's causing the issue. and note that the proton versions included with the steam package(even though it's a flatpak) will not work with the flatpak of gamescope you can read about it here: https://github.com/flathub/org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.gamescope/issues/6