Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3%
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 weeks agoI don’t think I know what gamemode is. Is it github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode ?
I’ll do some searching for crackling next time I’m at the desktop
ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
That’s the thing. It’s most likely in your distro’s package manager, unless you are using CachyOS, which uses different app for the same thing. Remember to add your user to the gamemode group or it won’t do much for you.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Are those instructions current? I don’t see it on the readme on the git project, and installing it from Kubuntu’s package manager didn’t create a gamemode group (it also doesn’t come with a manual page).
ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
You can just create the gamemode group and then add your user to it.
Use
gamemoded -tto test that it’s configured and working correctly. Andgamemoded -stells if gamemode is currently active. Steam doesn’t support gamemode, so you have to addgamemoderun %command%to every game’s launch options.ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Would that same command also work through Heroic, or do they handle that kind of thing differently? Sorry, sometimes things are so abstracted from us that we don’t have to think about what it’s doing under the hood.