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Most of my games are on GoG.
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2025
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Heroic game launcher on both PC and steamdeck.
Also I use https://github.com/korcankaraokcu/Pince (PINCE is not Cheat Engine) for cheats.
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+1 for Lutris! It's not only good for games, but also for regular Windows software like FL Studio. Another "tool" I use a lot is ssh. I use Gamescope on my PC with Steam Big Picture mode. Gamescope gains a few more fps, than a regular de. Also HDR works just fine with it. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope However. Sometimes I need an desktop environment. So I created a Home Assistant automation, that allows me to switch to desktop. Now I have 2 buttons on my smartwatch. One to boot the PC and turn on the tv, avr, etc. The other for the desktop mode. I also have some nfc cards for my favorite games. Same thing here: When scanned they trigger a ha automation, which starts the games over ssh 😎
The ssh wizardry is impressive lol, I'm still learning the basics for now but I'll keep this in mind.
Do you know of any tricks / command line entries for stubborn games that won't use HDR correctly like Lego Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga? Gets wrong colors with HDR toggled on in Heroic and in-game. I'm stumped as to why.
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- MangoHUD
- Optiscaler with INT8 FSR4
- LACT
- ProtonGE
Nice, I was just reading about using Optiscaler 's fakenvapi for spoofing DLSS support to inject FSR4 for Expedition 33 on my Radeon card. Extremely useful.
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https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode
From the README:
GameMode is a daemon/lib combo for Linux that allows games to request a set of optimisations be temporarily applied to the host OS and/or a game process.
GameMode was designed primarily as a stop-gap solution to problems with the Intel and AMD CPU powersave or ondemand governors, but is now host to a range of optimisation features and configurations.
Currently GameMode includes support for optimisations including:
-CPU governor -I/O priority -Process niceness -Kernel scheduler (SCHED_ISO) -Screensaver inhibiting -GPU performance mode (NVIDIA and AMD), GPU overclocking (NVIDIA) -CPU core pinning or parking -Custom scripts
GameMode packages are available for Ubuntu, Debian, Solus, Arch, Gentoo, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mageia and possibly more.
I like using RetroArch with the XMB menu theme
What about non-gaming software? I do some video editing for work occasionally and am often handed projects started in Premiere. They want it back in Premiere, so I can’t switch my main desktop over because of this.
I'd still consider myself new to Linux keep in mind, but from what I understand Premiere won't work (well enough) with WINE. Adobe does a lot of undocumented Windows GUI fuckery was the tl;dr that I recall.
Winboat with GPU passthrough (it's QEMU under the hood) I guess but at that point it's so much effort to get working under a virtual machine that you'd have to consider dual booting instead. I mean either way, you're still using Windows :(
Hmmm interesting.
What about the Mac version? And Mac software in general? I’m also new to Linux (and not a programmer), but wouldn’t that be easier to get running considering Mac OS is Unix based?
Sorry I kind of feel like I’m high-jacking your post, but it got me thinking and I’m probably too lazy to ever post about it myself.
One idea but it's paid software and the compatibility list doesn't give me a lot of confidence: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/?name=adobe%3BcurPos%3D100
Instead I think you'd be using QEMU/KVM still and then Virt Manager for a macOS VM. Longer process, have not attempted myself. Same issue with needing GPU acceleration: Need to set up a GPU Passthrough. Similar problem sans dual booting being viable.
high-jacking your post
I don't care, this thread is to vacuum up scattered knowledge pretty much. There's no complete guide to any of this anywhere that I know of so I'm already learning of a bunch of new programs to use here to make my life easier.