I have a few issues with steam and steam games.
I'll start with my laptop's specs:
Acer-Aspire-E5-722G

  • Operating system : Kubuntu 26.04
  • Kernel: 7.0.0-29 generic
  • CPU: AMD A8-7410 APU with 4 cores
  • Memory : 6.72GB DDR3 (supposed to be 8)
  • Storage: WD HDD with 931.51GB
  • Graphics device 1 : AMD Radeon(TM) R5 M335
  • Graphics device 2 : AMD Radeon(TM) R5 Graphics (iGPU)

Issue 1: I have installed steam and it ran once but now it crashes if i try to open it (I can share the crash logs) and it works fine if I run it in terminal (I just type steam in Konsole and hit enter).

Issue 2: I installed Car Mechanic Simulator 2018 on my laptop and I ran it once and I had to turn the settings way down for decent frames but I got it playable, when I try to open it it doesn't crash it just take forever (I waited foor 20 minutes and it didn't open). Here is what I have tried:

  • I switched Poton version form experimental to the latest stable version (9.0-4)

  • I added ```-nointro -novid


Here is a picture of where it gets stuck 
![Corj5g4pgE5QpOm.png](https://media.piefed.social/posts/Co/rj/Corj5g4pgE5QpOm.png)  


Issue 3 (I don't know if this one is solvable): I used to have Windows 10 on this laptop and I could play American Truck Simulator on it with low settings, but on Kubuntu it doesn't launch.  

Thanks in advance.  
If you need more information just ask and i'll try to provide it.  

UPDATE: All of the issues have been solved (mostly)  
Issue 1: I disabled "GPU acceleration" and “smooth scrolling in web views” 

Issue 2: I used this fix from ProtonDB: Set launch options to  `PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%`  

Issue 3: I used this fix from ProtonDB: Set launch options to  `PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%` however my laptop doesn't have enough RAM and steam was closed by the kernel
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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Besides that some games need tinkering (or at least profit from it), I never had such problems as crashing or not starting. And I game A LOT.

Was steam a flatpak? Better don't.

Also, why kubuntu? It's not really aimed at gamers. What about cachyos (my fav) or bazzite (simpler, couch-gaming)? I don't know how "fresh" kubintu is with steam, proton and such.

Got a way more shitty laptop than yours and got some games working in opensuse tumbleweed, so even ancient things can still do.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I downloaded steam from the website (.deb file)

    I am new to linux so I haven't really decided what distro I want to use, I wanted KDE and something that was preferrably based off of debian/ubuntu so I chose Kubuntu

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    .deb way was probably right. Not that flatpak ISS Bad, It's just sandboxed.

    KDE rocks for sure, I totally love it. Beats win in every way. Dunno what bazzite has, cachyos does have it and it's lovely. Maybe not overly noob-friendly (I am one too, at least with desktop-linux), but great. Might quench the last bit outta your laptop as it's optimized for gaming performance foremost. Instead of apt you have pacman. And also paru that is like an automated version of "compile the shit yourself, bleeding edge".

    Just can say everything worked fine out of the box. And I have thousands of games on steam and tried maaaaany since going Linux. The tinkering is only needed for mods, getting a bit better performance or HDR or such. But that is probably needed on all distros.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    And I have thousands of games on steam I wish I could say the same lol

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I boycotted it for a long time though. Due to it killing physical games and 2nd-hand-games for those less fortunate. But, as always, resistence is futile and i caved in when left4dead2 came out. And then i kinda lost track lol. But still modest. Friend of mine is at 22k games he would probably never touch :-) Many crap-games though, probably around 30-40% actually played or to be played.

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