Post #586127

2026-03-08 11:23 UTC

I have no idea what was up with the multiple steam windows, it did feel like he was actually cursed when that happened. But the “weird control” issue in l4d2 which was then solved by using a custom launch command found on protondb… thats super real. Eventually you learn to check protondb as a habit the second you encounter any kind of game issue but for a newcomer thats another hurdle.

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@Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 2026-03-08 11:32

Normally when I encounter a game issue I just put the game at the bottom of my MAAAAAAAASIVE backlog.

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@nobody_1677@lemmy.world 2026-03-08 11:59

That was a combination of the Steam client being a piece of trash (incredible complexity and technical debt*) and COSMIC. COSMIC is quite buggy when it comes to Xwayland. I’ve had plenty of issues where I close a Xwayland window, but a ghost of the window remains. the Steam Client runs on a combination of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Debian 12 libraries. It has a combination of their old VGUI code and newer Chromium GUI. It remains 32-bit and only supports X11.

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@trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-03-08 15:02

That is 100% COSMIC jank. He chose Pop!_OS again and System76 has been annoyingly shipping a beta desktop environment on their stable distro. I like COSMIC and System76, but this is an annoying decision by them and Linus does shitty research so he doesn’t know he’s running beta software and he’ll associate this with Linux being janky again 🙄

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@kieron115@startrek.website 2026-03-08 17:09

I'm wondering if the HD2 mouse issue was bc he had a controller plugged in as well.

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